cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
voiceprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voiceprints
Etymology: From voice + print, analogous to fingerprint.
Senses: glosses: A digitally recorded sample of a person's voice to be used as a means of identification.
steamboatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steamboatmen
Etymology: From steamboat + -man.
Senses: examples: text: When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.
ref: 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi:
glosses: A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
voidage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voidages
Etymology: From void + -age.
Senses: examples: Institutt for fysikk of teknologi
Experimental values for the voidage fraction of binary mixtures of differently shaped particles have been extracted from literature.
glosses: The relative amount of space left between objects that are packed together; gap.
VOS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: SVO
SOV
OSV
VSO
glosses: Initialism of verb–object–subject: a language is VOS if a typical sentence starts with the verb, followed by the object, followed by the subject.
Related terms: sense: verb-object-subject
word: anastrophe
VOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Object System.
vote bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vote banks
form: votebank
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A section of an electorate that will vote for a particular party or formation, come what may.
Related terms: english: group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
translation: group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
word: base
voxelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voxelates
form: voxelating
form: voxelated
form: voxelated
Etymology: From voxel + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To represent something as an array of voxels.
Related terms: voxelization
voxelize
Vunjo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
one-trick pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-trick ponies
form: one trick pony
Senses: glosses: A performing animal (especially a pony) that knows only one trick.
examples: text: He's a one-trick pony / One trick is all that horse can do / He does one trick only / It's the principal source of his revenue
ref: 1980, Paul Simon, “One-Trick Pony”:
glosses: A person or group noteworthy for only a single achievement, skill, or characteristic.
Derived terms: one-trick-ponyism
Related terms: one-hit wonder
one-horse lawyer
one weird trick
work in progress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: works in progress
form: work-in-progress
Senses: examples: text: All the efforts to make a New Man are still work in progress.
text: A group of seven close friends and lovers happened to be gay and writers with books either recently published or about to be published, and who lived in Manhattan, decided it might be fun and useful to have get-togethers to read work-in-progress to each other for feedback.
ref: 1987 April 25, Felice Picano, “The Truth About "Violet Quill"”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Work that has been started, but is not complete.
examples: text: Reorganizing my office is a work in progress.
text: Refurbishing Okehampton station, kept basically sound under ownership by Devon Council, remains a work in progress and scheduled for completion next spring.
ref: 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:
glosses: A project that has been started but is not complete.
examples: text: They remain a work in progress but in a match many felt would see the new Arsenal's flaws exposed, Emery and his players can regard this as a highly satisfactory result and performance.
ref: 2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Something that is in the process of improving.
examples: text: Work in progress has dramatically declined due to reduced production cycle times.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods, work in process.
Synonyms: work in process
Hypernyms: work
Related terms: beta
under construction
WIP
wheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wheelers
Etymology: From Middle English whelere, equivalent to wheel + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).
Senses: glosses: A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
glosses: Someone who operates a wheel.
examples: text: How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.”
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
examples: text: "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Greek Interpreter:
glosses: A vehicle having the specified number or type of wheels.
examples: text: These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]
ref: 1894, Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, page 109:
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: A sett in a stoneway.
Related terms: eighteen-wheeler
four-wheeler
4-wheeler
high-wheeler
one-wheeler
paddlewheeler
sidewheeler
single-wheeler
six-wheeler
sternwheeler
ten-wheeler
three-wheeler
two-wheeler
wheeler-dealer
wheeler-dealing
semi-trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-trailers
form: semitrailer
Etymology: From semi- + trailer.
Senses: glosses: A trailer without front axle and with wheels only at the trailing end, designed to be pulled via a pivoting arrangement which also partially supports its weight.
synonyms: word: articulated lorry
word: artic
word: 18-wheeler
word: juggernaut
word: truck and trailer
glosses: Ellipsis of semi-trailer truck (“a tractor-trailer or big rig, consisting of a semi-trailer and a semitruck pulling it”).
Related terms: fifth wheel
kingpin
18-wheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 18-wheelers
form: eighteen-wheeler
Etymology: From the total number of wheels: two front steering wheels on the tractor, plus dual wheels on each end of two axles (total of 8) at the rear of the tractor and supporting the front of the trailer, plus dual wheels on two axles at the rear of the trailer.
Senses: synonyms: semi-trailer truck
semi truck
semi
articulated lorry
artic
big rig
juggernaut
tractor-trailer
truck and trailer
glosses: A big rig truck: a semi-trailer plus the truck or tractor pulling it.
articulated lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articulated lorries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tractor-trailer.
synonyms: word: tractor-trailer
wagonload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonloads
form: wagon load
form: wagon-load
form: waggonload
Etymology: From wagon + load.
Senses: examples: text: Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily wagons[-]load of salt to season the pot, they kindled the crackling mass, and as it flamed up five galleys, every one of which carried its five banks of rowers complete, cruised round the margin of the caldron sea, and as it bubbled up from below, issued prompt directions to the crowd not to overboil the contents.
ref: 1853 December, “Finis of the Fins”, in Fraser’s Magazine (Fishing Excerpts; volume II), volume XLVIII, number CCLXXXVIII, page 702:
text: The countryside through which the line passes grows some beet, too. Ten wagonloads a day are despatched from Fethard and smaller quantities from Farranaleen, Laffan's Bridge and Horse & Jockey.
ref: 1957 May 24, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
synonyms: wagonful
coordinate_terms: carload
cartload
drayload
less than truckload
trailerload
truckload
glosses: The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.
glosses: The load of a wagon.
examples: text: This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations.
ref: 1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 359:
text: Tinsley Yard in Sheffield was once one of the largest and most advanced 'hump' marshalling yards in the world. But a decline in wagonload freight led to its swift demise and much of the site has lain derelict since the 1980s. MICHAEL RHODES examines this rise and fall in Tinsley's fortunes, and the new lease of life it has been offered by rising container traffic
ref: 2021 June 2, “Tinsley reborn...”, in RAIL, number 932, page 33:
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A very large amount.
water-shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-sheds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watershed.
washed-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more washed-up
form: most washed-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of washed up.
wattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.
ref: 1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34:
glosses: Having a wattle.
Derived terms: blue-wattled crow
chocolate wattled bat
wattled crane
wattled jacana
wattled ploughbill
wattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wattle
waza-ari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waza-ari
Etymology: From Japanese 技有り (waza-ari).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: a throw in which the opponent is thrown with control and accuracy, but not to the extent of an ippon, or held on the back for between 20 and 25 seconds on the mat; the score of half a point awarded for this throw
Related terms: ippon
ippon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ippons
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 一本 (“one full point”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The highest score in judo, awarded for a throw that places the opponent on their back with impetus or for holding the opponent on their back for a number of seconds.
Related terms: waza-ari
yuko
weazened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weazened
form: most weazened
Etymology: A variant of wizened.
Senses: examples: text: Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not understand.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 34:
text: You are very friendly with these barbarians. Perhaps that is why I was not to be permitted to attend your conversation. Perhaps your little weazened soul is plotting to turn against my father.
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 6, page 151, ¶ 6
glosses: Withered and wrinkled.
weekender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weekenders
Etymology: From weekend + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who visits a place for a weekend break.
examples: text: There are the regulars who come five or six nights a week; they become bored or impatient with the same sounds night after night. Then there are the weekenders who like the familiar sounds and become quickly impatient with the unfamiliar, newest releases.
ref: 1976 August 28, Val Bernasconi, “The Trials and Tribulations of a Music Programmer”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 8:
glosses: Someone who takes part in a sport or similar event at weekends.
glosses: Ellipsis of weekender bag.
examples: text: We have a nice little weekender up in the mountains.
glosses: A place used primarily for weekends away.
examples: text: I can't remember who else played – it was a weekender and all sorts of local bands were on – but we were the only 'punk' band […]
ref: 2014, Ian Glasper, Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984, page 38:
glosses: An event that takes place over a weekend.
glosses: A small liveaboard boat, suitable for short-term accommodation but not a permanent residence.
well-rounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌwɛlˈɹaʊndɪd/
Forms: form: more well-rounded
form: most well-rounded
form: well rounded
Senses: examples: text: “It’s a problem if anyone isn’t taking advantage of an incredible artistic medium,” he said. “It’s hurtful not to be well-rounded.”
ref: 2025 June 25, Joseph Bernstein, “Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2025:
glosses: Of a person's development or education, having a balanced variety of attributes.
examples: text: In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine, reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVIII, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of a person's body shape, being plump, shapely or curvaceous.
examples: text: Afterward, in his small room, Nikky composed a neat, well-rounded speech, in which he expressed his loyalty, gratitude, and undying devotion to the Crown Prince. It was an elegant little speech. Unluckily, the occasion for it had gone by two hours.
ref: 1917, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Long Live the King!:
glosses: Of language, using words which have been carefully chosen.
Wembawemba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Wembawemba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
whipsawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whipsaw
whipsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipsaws
Etymology: From whip + saw.
Senses: glosses: A rip saw often operated by two people.
whipsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whipsaws
form: whipsawing
form: whipsawed
form: whipsawn
Etymology: From whip + saw.
Senses: glosses: To operate a whipsaw.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises.
examples: text: Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he governs.
ref: 2014 November 1, Peter Baker, Michael D. Shear, “Braced for a shift in Congress, Obama is setting a new agenda [print version: Obama plots a route for compromise after election, International New York Times, 3 November 2014, p. 1]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To defeat someone in two different ways at once.
glosses: Of a trade union: to coerce employers into capitulating by bringing them the news that other (more easily convinced) employers have already done so.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.
whipsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From whip + saw.
Senses: examples: text: During the Porter crisis, Kelly found himself under intense scrutiny for the veracity of his whipsaw statements. He publicly praised Porter and privately urged him to stay.
ref: 2018, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker, “When you lose that power’: How John Kelly faded as White House disciplinarian”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Having the characteristic of arguing two sides at once.
whistle-blowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle-blowings
Senses: glosses: The action of a whistleblower.
whorled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːld/
note: without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ʍɜːld/
enpr: wôrld
enpr: wûrld
ipa: /woɹld/
ipa: /wɝld/
homophone: whirled (UK)
homophone: world (UK, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Forms: form: more whorled
form: most whorled
Etymology: From whorl + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [A]cross the gannet’s bath,
over the broad sea, whorled prows will bring
presents and tokens.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 60:
glosses: Formed from whorls; having whorls.
Wik-Mungkan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk-ˈmʊŋkən/
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Aurukun, Queensland.
Wild West
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly.
examples: text: In the wild west of the Internet, states have been reluctant to work together for this common purpose. One example of closer state coordination came in 2011 at the London Conference on Cyberspace […]
ref: 2012, Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, page 229:
text: In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
ref: 2018 November 16, Taylor Lorenz, “How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 29 May 2023:
glosses: A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
Related terms: Old West
Winnebago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnɪˌbeɪ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪnəˌbeɪ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Winnebagos
form: Winnebagoes
Etymology: From Ojibwe Wiinibiigoo (“Winnebago person”), from wiinibiig (“murky water”) (of Lake Winnipeg), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), plus nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a Native American people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, now called Ho-Chunk.
glosses: Alternative form of winnebago (“recreational vehicle”).
Winnebago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnɪˌbeɪ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪnəˌbeɪ.ɡoʊ/
Etymology: From Ojibwe Wiinibiigoo (“Winnebago person”), from wiinibiig (“murky water”) (of Lake Winnipeg), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), plus nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).
Senses: glosses: The Siouan language of this people.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A small city in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Winnebago County
Vaughn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vɔːn/
Forms: form: Vaughns
Etymology: A variant of Vaughan, from Welsh bychan (“small”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana, named after Robert Vaughn (Montana rancher).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, named after civil engineer George W. Vaughn.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, probably named after Roland Vaughn.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, named after settler W. D. Vaughn.
panch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pæntʃ/
/pɑːntʃ/
Forms: form: panches
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of paunch.
Related terms: panch phoron
kaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːkə/
rhymes: -ɑːkə
homophone: carker
Forms: form: kakas
form: kākā
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kākā.
Senses: glosses: Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.
Synonyms: Nestor
Derived terms: word: Chatham Islands kaka
word: Nestor sp
word: kakabeak
word: mountain kaka
word: night kaka
word: Norfolk Island kaka
word: Nestor productus
word: North Island kaka
word: Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis
word: South Island kaka
word: Nestor meridionalis meridionalis
Kabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kabels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kabel, metonymic occupational surname for a rope maker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Socratic
form: most Socratic
Etymology: From Latin Sōcraticus, from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”), equivalent to Socrates + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.
ref: 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
synonyms: Socratean
Socratian
glosses: Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.
Derived terms: Socratic irony
Socratic method
Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Socratics
Etymology: From Latin Sōcraticus, from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”), equivalent to Socrates + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Socrates.
Kakadu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaagudju.
Kakadu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaagudju.
wirra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɹə/
rhymes: -ɪɹə
Forms: form: whirra
Etymology: From Irish a Mhuire (“oh Mary”).
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of dismay.
Presocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Presocratics
form: Pre-Socratic
form: pre-Socratic
Etymology: From pre- + Socratic.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
glosses: Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
Presocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Pre-Socratic
form: pre-Socratic
Etymology: From pre- + Socratic.
Senses: glosses: of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.
four-wheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: four-wheelers
form: 4-wheeler
Senses: examples: text: At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula:
text: In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:
text: "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter:
glosses: A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .
examples: text: Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.
ref: 2023 November 29, “Former officer resigns after ATV crash in Greenwood leads to endangering the welfare of a minor charge”, in 5NEWS:
glosses: A four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle; a quad bike.
examples: text: The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.
ref: 1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 741:
glosses: Any vehicle with four wheels.
windbitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windbitten
form: most windbitten
Etymology: From wind + bitten.
Senses: glosses: blown out of shape by the prevailing winds
raw_tags: of trees etc
windflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windflowers
Etymology: From wind + flower.
Senses: examples: text: Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, encreaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes.
ref: 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London, London: Peter Cole, page 40:
text: “When windflowers blossom on the sea
And fishes skim along the plain,
Then we who part this weary day,
Then you and I shall meet again.”
ref: 1881, Christina Rossetti, “One Foot on the Sea, and One on Shore”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 95:
text: The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VIII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 101:
text: “[…] We spent an hour in a hazel copse, picking primroses and looking at the little white windflowers. One doesn’t pick the windflowers,” he explained, “because in an hour they’re withered. […]”
ref: 1963, Aldous Huxley, chapter 7, in Island, New York: Bantam, page 101:
text: Here is spring were celandine, marsh marigold, wind-flower, primrose, cowslip and dog's violet.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).
synonyms: word: wood anemone
extra: Anemone nemorosa
Derived terms: snowdrop windflower
wonted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊntɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɔntɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɑntɪd/
ipa: /ˈwoʊntɪd/
Forms: form: more wonted
form: most wonted
Etymology: From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), alteration of wone (“custom, habit, practice”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual, wonted”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom”), Old High German giwona (“custom”). More at wont, wone.
Senses: examples: text: They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
text: Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
text: But the oath is alterable; and in the wonted fluctuations of parties not improbably it will undergo alteration, assuming such a form, perhaps, as not to bar the admission into the National Legislature of men who represent the populations lately in revolt.
ref: 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
ref: 1889, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
text: 2008 (tr.?), Lodovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved …
glosses: Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
Related terms: wont
wontedly
wone
wood mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood mouse
wood mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood mice
Senses: glosses: A European rodent, Apodemus sylvaticus, that tends to live in hedgerows.
glosses: The white-footed mouse of America.
Derived terms: Formosan wood mouse
worshipful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːʃɪpfl̩/
ipa: /ˈwɔː-/
ipa: /ˈwɝʃɪpfl̩/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹ-/
Forms: form: worshipfuls
Etymology: From Middle English worshipful; equivalent to worship + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I was attended to the Guild-hall by the mayor, the chamberlain and ſome more worſhipfuls; but when I entered the grand magazine of imposition, I was prejudiced in favour of their modeſty in concealing of it—the floor being ſtrewed with fragments of obſolete records, cobwebs and ſpiders in all quarters, […]
ref: 1776, [Thomas Roch], Charters Destructive to Liberty and Property: Demonstrated by the Principles and Practices of Corporation Patriots, London: Sold by S. Crowder in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 19–20:
text: Damn the worshipful lady, and all other worshipfuls! There’ll be no more worshipfuls here! I’ll give way to no one before my own shop!
ref: 1889 June, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, “The Begum’s Daughter”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXIII, number CCCLXXX, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, chapter V, page 832, column 2:
text: Again there are too many lawyers and doctors and priests and elders and bishops and cardinals and worshipfuls, and we shall now proclaim that the time has come for the wise to cast these idols to the moles and bats, […]
ref: 1892, James Brighouse, “The Unfolding of the Scroll of Time. The Third Year of God.”, in The Voice of the Seventh Angel, Proclaiming the End of Time! the Resurrection of the Dead! the Day of Final Judgment! and the Rule of Righteousness and Peace!, volume I (Five Parts), South Cottonwood, Ut.: [s.n.], →OCLC, part IV, page 10:
glosses: One who is respected or distinguished.
glosses: A magistrate (specifically).
livery companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of livery company
rescinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescind
wrong-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wrongfooted.
wrong-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrong-foot
wrongfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrongfoot
wrongfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrongfoots
form: wrongfooting
form: wrongfooted
form: wrongfooted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrong-foot.
subproject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprojects
Etymology: From sub- + project.
Senses: examples: Holonym: project
coordinate_terms: subprocess
subroutine
subtask
glosses: A project within a larger project.
Related terms: job
task
Aberystwyth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪst.wɪθ/
ipa: /ˌab.ɛɹˈəst.wɪθ/
Etymology: From the Welsh aber (“mouth”) + Ystwyth (“Ystwyth”).
Senses: synonyms: Aber
glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN5881).
first chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first chairs
Senses: glosses: The premier of several musicians playing a particular instrument in an orchestra: seated closest to the audience, taking the lead for that instrument's movements, and playing any solos.
footsore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more footsore
form: most footsore
Etymology: From foot + sore.
Senses: examples: text: One yoke of cattle became so foot sore that they were unserviceable, and we were obliged to drive them behind the wagon.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 31:
text: A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219:
glosses: Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.
Derived terms: footsoreness
apparate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparates
Etymology: From Latin apparātus.
Senses: glosses: apparatus
apparate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apparates
form: apparating
form: apparated
form: apparated
Etymology: From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.
Senses: examples: text: "Reivers!" he bellowed. His valet appeared — or really, it seemed rather more like he apparated — in the doorway.
ref: 2004, Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked, page 105:
text: What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit.
ref: 2005, Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow, page 115:
text: if it is an emergency, I will be able to apparate directly to wherever you are and help you.
ref: 2008, P. L. Lansdon, Dreams of Dragons and Fantasies of Fairy Flight and Light: Book One, page 254:
topics: fantasy
glosses: To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.
Derived terms: disapparate
reapparate
awaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: examples: text: Just what awaked me I cannot yet say, but that I did indeed awake at this given point I feel very certain.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: simple past and past participle of awake
Synonyms: awoken
Derived terms: awakedness
unawaked
gazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazers
Etymology: From gaze + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 38:
text: Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
text: I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 86–7:
text: Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.
ref: 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, chapter V, in M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, transl., The Art of Spiritual Harmony, page 49:
glosses: One who gazes.
Derived terms: crystal-gazer
moongazer
shadow gazer
shoegazer
skygazer
stargazer
sungazer
winepress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winepresses
form: wine-press
Etymology: From Middle English wyne-presse, equivalent to wine + press.
Senses: examples: text: Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepreſſes, and ſuffer thirſt.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:11:
text: And the Angel thruſt in his ſickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, & cast it into the great winepreſſe of the wrath of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:19:
glosses: A press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.
Hyponyms: english: device
translation: device
word: winetrough
english: site of pressing grapes by foot
translation: site of pressing grapes by foot
word: calcatory
rock on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The circus is coming to town? Rock on, dude!
glosses: An expression of celebration.
rock on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rocks on
form: rocking on
form: rocked on
form: rocked on
Senses: glosses: To party to music, especially rock, or to continue to perform any such music; to maintain a lifestyle in keeping with, or inspired by, youth rock culture.
headgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headgates
form: head gate
Etymology: From head + gate.
Senses: glosses: A primary gate or valve at an aqueduct or other source that can be opened or closed to regulate the flow of water entering an irrigation system (of lesser gated canals and irrigation ditches).
glosses: A moveable framework designed to hold still the heads of cattle for various procedures.
that's life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: [T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?"
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:
synonyms: word: c'est la vie
word: life's a bitch
word: shit happens
word: such is life
glosses: Expressing an acceptance of misfortune.
Synonyms: word: c'est la vie
word: it is as it is
word: it is how it is
word: it is what it is
word: life's a bitch
word: shit happens
word: so be it
word: so is life
word: so it goes
word: such is life
word: that's that and this is this
word: that's the way it goes
word: that’s the way it plays
word: that's the way life is
word: that's the way the ball bounces
word: that's the way the cookie crumbles
word: that's the way the mop flops
word: them's the breaks
Hypernyms: word: woe is me
Coordinate terms: word: what a pity
Related terms: word: this is the life
word: ah well
word: che sara sara
word: it can't be helped
word: oh well
word: que sera sera
word: what can you do
word: whatever happens
word: happens
word: whatever will be
word: will be
word: tough shit
so what
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I lost my red shoes. – So what? Get a new pair.
text: So what if you never win at anything. You can have a great time enjoying, at your own level, the physical activity, the movement, the sensual feeling of the cold, the water, the air, the sun.
ref: 1977 February 12, John Atteridg, “Who's A Good Sport Anyhow?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 10:
text: I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.
ref: 2023 May 12, Lia Mappoura, “I tried Glossier's brand new G Suit lip crèmes so you don't have to – you're welcome”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: big deal
meh
whatever
who cares
whoopee do
what of it
glosses: Used to indicate indifference, often as a reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement.
walk the walk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks the walk
form: walking the walk
form: walked the walk
form: walked the walk
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he can walk the walk.
text: "The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."
ref: 2023 June 28, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 18:
glosses: To act consistently in line with one's claims; to follow through.
Related terms: word: talk the talk
word: walk out
english: something
translation: something
word: walk out
word: walk the talk
word: money talks, bullshit walks
boatload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊtˌləʊd/
ipa: /ˈboʊtˌloʊd/
Forms: form: boatloads
Etymology: From boat + load. Notionally, because the commodity in question might have constituted the entire load of a cargo ship or boat.
Senses: examples: text: a boatload of ferry passengers
text: Just then two boats[-]load of natives appeared, and our owner having agreed with them to tow us into harbour, they tried to do so, assisted by our own boat, but could make no way. […] Those who live on the coast have plenty of fish; but when inland, as we are here, they only go to the sea occasionally, and then bring home cockles and other shell-fish by the boatload.
ref: 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature., volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., pages 173 and 229:
glosses: Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
examples: text: He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
text: What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.
ref: 2006 December 10, Rob Pegoraro, “Waiting for the Winner of a High-Definition High Noon”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large quantity.
Related terms: containerload
dig deep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs deep
form: digging deep
form: dug deep
form: dug deep
Senses: examples: text: If you want to join the marines, there's no room for laziness. You really have to dig deep.
text: Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.
ref: 2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2-1 Everton”, in BBC:
glosses: To make a lot of effort with all one's resources.
deathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθləs/
Forms: form: more deathless
form: most deathless
Etymology: From death + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.
ref: 2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film:
text: “Hey, how do I kill this guy anyway?” “Finn, you can't kill my Dad!” “Oh, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean --” “No, you literally can't kill my Dad. He's deathless.” “Oh.”
ref: 2010 October 11, Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar, “It Came from the Nightosphere” (3:15 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson):
glosses: Undying or immortal.
examples: text: Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.
text: "We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).
ref: 2000, Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 516:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.
raw_tags: of a work of art
Derived terms: deathlessly
deathlessness