cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
faineant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪniənt/
Forms: form: faineants
form: fainéant
Etymology: From Old French fay neant, alteration of feignant (“idler”), present participle of feindre, modelled on fait (“does”) + neant (“nothing”).
Senses: synonyms: word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: An irresponsible or lazy person.
Derived terms: faineant deity
faineantism
musky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: muskier
form: muskiest
Etymology: From musk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “You got to do something about your yard.” “My yard? We've been over this, Wayne. Why would I allow a seasonal skunk orgy on my land, huh? They ruined my papasan chair with their musky lovemaking. No, no no. These skunks are your problem, Wayne.”
ref: 2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:52 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of musk, especially in scent.
Derived terms: muskily
muskiness
musky rat-kangaroo
musky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: muskies
Etymology: Shortening of muskellunge.
Senses: glosses: muskellunge
muskier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of musky: more musky
muskiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of musky: most musky
relentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relentments
Etymology: From relent + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it moſt equall to ſubmit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moiſt relentment.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: The act of relenting, softening.
huskier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of husky: more husky
lustier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lusty: more lusty
lustiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lusty: most lusty
oversimplified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversimplified
form: most oversimplified
Etymology: From over- + simplified.
Senses: glosses: Having been simplified to the point where important information is not conveyed.
oversimplified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + simplified.
Senses: glosses: past participle of oversimplify
commixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commixtures
Etymology: From com- + mixture.
Senses: examples: text: Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the Æthereall particles so deeply immersed in it.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 4:
text: Of these gases the former become less and less noxious in proportion to their commixture with atmospheric air; the latter more and more dangerous, and liable to explosion, in proportion to the same commixture, in quantities limited to six parts and 12 parts of atmospheric air. No commixture of these different noxious gases will explode.
ref: 1816, “On Lighting Coal Mines”, in Thomas Thomson, editor, Annals of Philosophy, Volume 7: January-June 1816, page 118:
text: They are the various forms of narrative, the forms in which a story may be told; and while they are many, they are not indeed so very many, though their modifications and their commixtures are infinite.
ref: 2007, Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction, page 20:
glosses: The act or state of being mixed together; a union or mingling of constituents; commixtion.
oversimplify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversimplifies
form: oversimplifying
form: oversimplified
form: oversimplified
Etymology: From over- + simplify.
Senses: examples: text: But the report stresses that this comparison, based purely on the total transport performed, oversimplifies the picture. The kinds of work performed by rail and rail transport are not identical.
ref: 1964 June, “News and Comment: Only 26 per cent of freight on rail”, in Modern Railways, page 369:
glosses: To explain or present something in a way that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
Derived terms: oversimplification
oversimplifier
depositure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depositures
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin deponere.
Senses: examples: text: The Ægyptians […] by precious Embalments, depositure in dry earths, or handsome inclosure in glasses, contrived the notablest wayes of integrall conservation.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 5:
glosses: The act of depositing.
NIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of network intrusion detection system.
unblushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blushing.
Senses: glosses: not blushing
glosses: shameless
unblushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unblush
urnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urnal
form: most urnal
Etymology: From urn + -al.
Senses: examples: text: And the Chinois without cremation or urnall interrment of their bodies, make use of trees and much burning [...].
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 6:
glosses: Pertaining to urns.
state of affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: states of affairs
Senses: examples: text: His uncooperative attitude creates a difficult state of affairs for all of us.
text: Now this doubtness is an unhappy state of affairs to the lover of the steam locomotive, but we cannot, like the proverbial ostrich, bury our heads in the sand and refuse to face facts.
ref: 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
text: An independent oversight body is just setting up, but at full strength it will have a core team of just five. This is a state of affairs that cossets and enriches bailiffs at the expense of families who’ve fallen into debt.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A specific situation; a set of circumstances.
unconfined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + confined.
Senses: glosses: Not confined; free from physical restraint.
stage whisper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ ˈwɪs.pə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ ˈwɪs.pɚ/
Forms: form: stage whispers
form: stage-whisper
Etymology: stage + whisper
Senses: examples: text: '[…]When the division was announced, he chuckled exceedingly, and in a stage whisper exclaimed, "Grey is check-mated !" '
ref: 1869, “Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume CXXIX, pages 568–569:
text: Near to the audience the stage whisper was not much louder, although more distinct, than an ordinary whisper in private life.
ref: 1887, Sir Frederick Pollock, Personal Remembrances of Sir Frederick Pollock, page 248:
text: Perhaps because of this, the convention of the 'stage whisper' came into being. All that distinguishes it from the true whisper is that a very little amount of voice in introduced and so what you end up with is extremely breathy voice production[…]
ref: 1998, Michael McCallion, The Voice Book, page 189:
text: "Pretty legs," said Rebo in a stage whisper as Peter slowed down.
ref: 2001, Shelley Freydont, High Seas Murder, page 326:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A line that is performed on stage as if it were whispered, but is spoken loud enough for the audience to hear.
glosses: Any loud whisper intended to be heard.
stage whisper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ ˈwɪs.pə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ ˈwɪs.pɚ/
Forms: form: stage whispers
form: stage whispering
form: stage whispered
form: stage whispered
form: stage-whisper
Etymology: stage + whisper
Senses: examples: text: The duet was embellished with stage-whispered solos [...]
ref: 1878, Things in General, volume 2, p. 132:
text: “The captain's voice, by G–!” said the stage-whispering ruffian, and both robbers fled by the way of the back door, shutting off their bull's-eye as they ran.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, chapter 31 "A Thumb-print and What Came of It"
text: [...] Bobbie sprang at me like a leopardess. “What on earth are you fooling about for like this, Bertie?” she stage-whispered.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Into this melodrama stepped the American defence secretary, Leon Panetta. He stopped in both countries, urged both sides to get along better and affirmed America’s pledge of mutual defence with Japan—though an unnamed senior American military official stage-whispered to the Washington Post that America wouldn’t go to war “over a rock”.
ref: 2012 September 22, “East Asian rivalry: protesting too much”, in The Economist:
text: There is some evidence to suggest that in whispered speech, particularly stage whispered speech, the larynx is raised appreciably.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To perform a stage whisper.
stage whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage whisper
stage whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stage whisper Alternative spelling of stage-whispers.
goober pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goober peas
Etymology: From goober + pea.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peanut.
synonyms: word: peanut
penannular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin paene (“almost”) + annular.
Senses: glosses: Forming an almost complete ring, but with a break or opening.
Derived terms: pseudo-penannular
concentrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concentrators
Etymology: From concentrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student […]
ref: 1960, Dissertation Abstracts, volume 20, page 4007:
glosses: One who concentrates.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A hub.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose.
Derived terms: haemoconcentrator
hemoconcentrator
microconcentrator
preconcentrator
superconcentrator
fluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːvi.əl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) + -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: ...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store.
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
Synonyms: sense: of a river
word: fluviatile
sense: of a river
word: riverine
Coordinate terms: alluvial
Derived terms: adfluvial
fluvialist
fluviality
fluvially
fluviatic
glaciofluvial
interfluvial
orthofluvial
paleofluvial
parafluvial
subfluvial
transfluvial
peak hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peak hours
Senses: glosses: Rush hour.
examples: text: It will be noted that on this service, in contradistinction to that from and to Bristol, extra trains are provided to cope with peak-hour conditions; [...].
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 591:
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: Relating to peak periods in traffic and transportation.
the one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the ones
Senses: examples: text: I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.
text: That car's the one — I'll buy it.
text: I, I got a new life / You would hardly recognize me, I'm so glad / How could a person like me care for you / Why do I bother / When you're not the one for me / Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh, is enough, enough
ref: 1993, Jonas Berggren, “The Sign”, in The Sign, performed by Ace of Base:
text: When you love a woman then tell her / That she's really wanted / When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one / 'Cause she needs somebody to tell her / That it's gonna last forever
ref: 1995, Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?”, in Don Juan DeMarco: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, performed by Bryan Adams:
text: Got a girl with California eyes / And I thought that she could really be the one this time / But I never got the chance to make her mine / Because she fell in love with little thin white lines
ref: 2017, Halsey, Ricky Reed, Justin Tranter, Rogét Chahayed, “Bad at Love”, in Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, performed by Halsey:
glosses: A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
examples: text: Jesus Christ is the One, the savior.
text: He (Neo) is the One.
text: They, like me, believe him (Anakin Skywalker) to be The One.
glosses: A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
A particular person destined to save the universe or world; the chosen one.
the one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: the ones
Senses: examples: text: Here is the one I want to buy.
text: In formal contexts, we can use 'that' and 'those' as substitutes meaning ‘the one(s)’.
glosses: The person or thing.
Related terms: this one
this way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: This entry is a translation hub.
glosses: In the indicated direction or manner.
this way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In the way indicated; as follows; thus
examples: text: It's good that he's gone. This way we don't have to argue with him all the time.
glosses: As a consequence.
fasciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fæsɪˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: fasciations
Etymology: Borrowed from French fasciation.
Senses: glosses: The binding-up of a limb, etc., with bandages.
examples: text: […] able to break the fasciations and bands of death […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 7:
glosses: A bandage.
glosses: The process or state of being fasciated.
examples: text: These odd-looking shoots are not diseased but are the result of a fairly common condition known as "fasciation" that affects shoots on all sorts of plants quite randomly and for no apparent reason, but presumed by plant experts to be the result of damage to buds just as the shoots were starting to form. There is therefore nothing to be alarmed about and you should simply cut off the shoots that are unsightly. […] Fasciation can also affect, with somewhat more visually catastrophic results, various spire-forming herbaceous plants such as delphiniums and hollyhocks.
ref: 2015 March 28, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: what should I do about the invasion of the spanish slug?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G9:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The process or state of being fasciated.
Abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip) becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue.
evaluated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evaluate
exequy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɪkwi/
Forms: form: exequies
form: exsequy
Etymology: A back-formation from exequies, from Middle English exequies, from Old French exequies, from Latin exsequiās, accusative of exsequiae (“a funeral, seeing-off procession”).
Senses: examples: text: But yet, before we go, let’s not forget
The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
But see his exequies fulfill’d in Rouen:
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First 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 III, scene ii]:
text: EDWARD. Whether goes my Lord of Couentrie so fast?
 BISHOP. To celebrate your fathers exequies,
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Exequies of Saul obſerued with mourning weeping and faſting.
ref: 1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, Old Testament, volume I (1635 reprint), “The Second Book of Samuel, which we cal the Second of Kings.”, chapter i, marginal note b, page 573
text: More ſerious conjectures finde ſome examples of ſepulture in Elephants, Cranes, the Sepulchrall Cells of Piſmires and practice of Bees; which civill ſociety carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interrments.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: We were accelerating along the Perth Road at a speed much faster than is normally associated with exequies.
ref: 2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird, Black Swan (2001), page 191:
glosses: Funeral rites.
Derived terms: exequious
exequies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exequy (“funeral rites”)
short fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short fuses
Senses: examples: text: to be on a short fuse
text: Be careful of what you say; he has a short fuse.
text: In a few short years, she has sent two fiancés and various managers and flacks packing and earned a reputation as one of L.A.'s shortest fuses.
ref: 1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: The personality trait of being quick to anger.
Synonyms: short temper
Related terms: blow a fuse
powder keg
short temper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short tempers
Senses: examples: text: Be careful of what you say; he has a short temper.
glosses: The personality trait of being quick to anger.
Synonyms: short fuse
Derived terms: short-tempered
by one's own hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Like too many deeply depressed people, she died by her own hand.
text: He gained all his wealth by his own hand.
text: Since his death by his own hand in France, in 2018, there’s been a steady drip of books and documentaries and television specials and magazine one-offs about his life and career.
ref: 2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times:
glosses: As a result of one's own actions, especially with reference to death by suicide.
Related terms: at the hand of
at hand
put the feedbag on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the feedbag on
form: putting the feedbag on
form: put the feedbag on
form: put the feedbag on
Senses: examples: text: Well, gang, it's time to gather around the table and put the feedbag on.
synonyms: strap on the feedbag
glosses: To dine; to eat.
risograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risographs
Etymology: After the Riso Kagaku Corporation, + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A high-speed printing machine used for high-volume photocopying by means of an internal stencil.
glosses: A print produced by such a machine.
show window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show windows
Senses: glosses: A windowed, street-facing compartment in which a selection of a store's merchandise is displayed.
Synonyms: display window
shop window
gin pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin poles
Senses: glosses: A long, supporting pole used during the erection of a mast or pylon.
take a whizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a whizz
form: taking a whizz
form: took a whizz
form: taken a whizz
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a whiz: to urinate.
colony collapse disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As many as a quarter of the nation's commercially kept bees went missing last year, presumed dead, in a phenomenon now called colony collapse disorder.
ref: 2007 May 12, “Mysterious Honeybee Deaths”, in Houston Chronicle:
text: Interaction among multiple pathogens and parasites is the proposed cause for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a syndrome characterized by worker bees abandoning the hive. Here we provide the first documentation that the phorid fly Apocephalus borealis, previously known to parasitize bumble bees, also infects and eventually kills honey bees and may pose an emerging threat to North American apiculture.
ref: 2012 January 3, Andrew Core, Charles Runckel, Jonathan Ivers, Christopher Quock, Travis Siapno, Seraphina DeNault, Brian Brown, Joseph DeRisi, Christopher D. Smith, John Hafernik, “A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis”, in PLOS, →DOI:
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
biology
business
entomology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
hill of beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hills of beans
Senses: examples: text: not worth a hill of beans
text: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
ref: 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart):
synonyms: row of pins
;
jack
jack shit
jack squat
squat
glosses: Something of no importance.
raw_tags: in the negative
glomping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 2006 Dec: Jeffrey Reeves (translator), Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase, Volume 5, TOKYOPOP English version
Luna, would you please quit glomping me like that?
glosses: present participle and gerund of glomp
pitchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchmen
Etymology: From pitch + man.
Senses: examples: text: The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 377:
glosses: A salesman, especially one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act.
Related terms: huckster
spruiker
side show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sideshow.
aiglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡlɛt/
Forms: form: aiglets
form: aglet
form: aiguillette
form: aygulet
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French aiguillette (“needle”), diminutive of aiguille.
Senses: examples: text: Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, ſhall race his bowe, a thinge both euill for the fight, & perillous for freatinge.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, “The Seconde Booke”, in Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions of Shooting […], [new] edition, London: […] Thomas Marshe, published 1571, →OCLC, folio 38, recto:
glosses: A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
examples: text: a silken Camus […] Which all aboue besprinckled was throughout, / With golden aygulets, that glistred bright
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
candlelight vigil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlelight vigils
Etymology: From candlelight + vigil.
Senses: glosses: An event that includes lighting candles, used to remember the victims of a tragedy.
embarrassment of riches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embarrassments of riches
Etymology: Calque of French embarras des richesses, from John Ozell's 1738 translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726) by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval.
Senses: examples: text: Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.
ref: 1908, Myrtle Reed, chapter 23, in Flower of the Dusk:
text: What might be an embarrassment of riches—a city with three independent and artistically distinct opera companies—may become a lose-lose-lose situation.
ref: 2006 January 8, Daniel Ginsberg, “Opera in Berlin: A Staat of Flux”, in Washington Post, page N06:
glosses: An abundance or overabundance of something; too much of a good thing.
lienholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lienholders
Etymology: From lien + holder.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Used in instances of title of property (such as a vehicle) to refer to the person who has right of property, as opposed to the party that merely has right of possession. The party that only has right of possession is referred to as a registered owner, and in the event the registered owner fails to pay off the lien according to the agreed-to terms, the lienholder has the right to invoke repossession of the property (vehicle).
Related terms: lienholding
emblema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emblemata
Etymology: From Latin emblēma. Doublet of emblem.
Senses: glosses: An inlaid ornament.
nondualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + dualism, to translate the Sanskrit term अद्बैत (advaita, “not two”).
Senses: glosses: The belief that dualism and dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
Derived terms: nondualist
nondualistic
flapdoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/
Forms: form: flapdoodles
form: flapdoodling
form: flapdoodled
form: flapdoodled
form: flamdoodle
form: flap-doodle
form: flap doodle
form: doodleflap
form: flipdoodle
Senses: examples: text: Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived.
ref: 1911, The Conservator - Volumes 22-24, page 28:
text: Whilst acknowledging the accolade and honour, I wasn't happy and 'flapdoodled' to try and get out of it.
ref: 1988, British Homing World - Volume 61, page 35:
text: This Vok, or Cole, undoubtedly flapdoodled the witnesses into thinking he was skinny then flipped open his false hump and let the demoniacal pixie out to do its fell business.
ref: 2014, Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy:
glosses: To con; to deceive with nonsense.
Related terms: fadoodle
nontheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontheisms
Etymology: From non- + theism. Intended as a generalization of atheism, non-theist was coined in the 1850s. Nontheism is not recorded in notable dictionaries as of 2024.
Senses: examples: text: It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice. The theist must enter the arena with a positive and comprehensive case of his own.
ref: 2003, Norman L. Geisler, Winfried Corduan, Philosophy of Religion: Second Edition, page 9:
glosses: Any of a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity in the form of a theistic god or gods.
Derived terms: nontheist
nontheistic
stabilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stabilises
form: stabilising
form: stabilised
form: stabilised
Etymology: From stable + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.
ref: 2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2019:
text: Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilize.
Derived terms: stabiliser
stabilisation
seacock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seacocks
Etymology: From sea + cock.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A valve in the hull of a vessel used to let in water, either to clean the bilges, flood a ballast tank, or scuttle the vessel
Hypernyms: cock
Coordinate terms: bibcock
petcock
sillcock
stopcock
etalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etalons
Etymology: From French étalon (“measuring gauge, standard”).
Senses: examples: text: It will be shown that the simple theory outlined in the preceding paragraph, which is applicable to single-plate etalons, can be used to predict the main features of the spectral curve of a multi element etalon.
ref: 2004, S. C. Gupta, Textbook On Optical Fiber Communication And Its Applications, page 153:
text: The laser output will be composed of longitudinal modes that fall inside the transmission band of the etalon, hence a narrowing of the laser line width is observed.
ref: 2006, Walter Koechner, Solid-State Laser Engineering, page 264:
text: The next step of this experiment is to compare the etalon m₁m₂ (shortest length) with the etalon m₃m₄ (the next one). For this two etalons are arranged side by side as shown in Fig. 7.13a.
ref: 2009, V. Rajendran, Engineering Physics, page 7.15:
glosses: An optical device containing parallel mirrors, used as a narrow band filter, often in laser design.
Synonyms: Fabry-Pérot interferometer
Derived terms: etaloning
Related terms: étalon language
epigeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίγειος (epígeios, “on the earth”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Living near the surface of the ground
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Emerging above the surface of the ground after being germinated
raw_tags: of a cotyledon
Coordinate terms: hypogeal
Related terms: epigean
epigeic
epigeous
survival sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many programs have clients who engage in prostitution or "survival sex" to support their drug use.
ref: 1994, Anna Marsh, Combining Substance Abuse Treatment With Intermediate Sancations for Adults in the Criminal:
text: Need for structural response to build capacity and livelihoods, to prevent survival sex and exploitative power relations.
ref: 2005, Stuart Gillespie, Suneetha Kadiyala, HIV/AIDS, And Food And Nutrition Security:
glosses: Prostitution of oneself in order to acquire funds for food, shelter or drugs.
San Melchor Betaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, from Zapotec.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
excentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
homophone: eccentric
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more excentric
form: most excentric
Etymology: From ex- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eccentric.
examples: text: excentric nucleus
text: excentric stalk
text: excentric extremities
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
excentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
homophone: eccentric
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: excentrics
Etymology: From ex- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eccentric (disk or wheel with off-centre axis)
give stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives stick
form: giving stick
form: gave stick
form: given stick
Etymology: From the literal sense of beating someone or something with a stick (especially a hockey stick).
Senses: glosses: To abuse, insult, or denigrate.
populosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French populosité, from Latin populositas, from populosus (“populous”), or from populous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In what bulk or populosity it stood in the old East-angle Monarchy, tradition and history are silent.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 12:
text: When we read of the great populosity of ancient Ireland, in so much that she was obliged from time to time, to throw off part of this plethora by foreign invasions, we must naturally explore the causes of this amazing decay of inhabitants, in our own days!
ref: 1803, Sylvester O'Halloran, An Introduction to and an History of Ireland, volume 1, page 407:
text: The populosity algorithm1 [32] selects the n most frequent colors in the image as the representative set of color vectors C. Being very easy to implement, this procedure is quite popular.
ref: 2010, Wilhelm Burger, Mark J. Burge, Principles of Digital Image Processing: Core Algorithms, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:
text: 6.7.1. Quantization by Direct Selection. An example of the quantization by direct selection method is the populosity algorithm.
Populosity algorithm. This method initially constructs the frequency histogram of the image and then chooses, for the K quantization levels, the K colors appearing more frequently in the image gamut (i.e., the most populous colors).
ref: 2012, Jonas Gomes, Luiz Velho, Mario Costa Sousa, Computer Graphics: Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Populousness.
antimafia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimafia
form: most antimafia
Etymology: From anti- + mafia.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or combating the mafia.
credit note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit notes
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: debit note
glosses: A commercial document issued by a seller to adjust downwards the amount of an invoice already issued, i.e. to cancel part or all of it.
Synonyms: credit memo
C/N
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C/Ns
Senses: glosses: Initialism of credit note.
glosses: construction number (aircraft construction).
precautionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precautionary
form: most precautionary
Etymology: From precaution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The port cities were quarantined as a precautionary measure, though no cases of the disease had been found.
text: Fearing attack on the northern ports by the English, he even took precautionary measures by strengthening the defense of Shan-hai-kuan 山海關 and Ch‘in-huang-tao 秦皇島.
ref: 1941, Huang Yen-yü, “Viceroy Yeh Ming-ch‘ên and the Canton Episode (1856-1861)”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 6, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 46–47:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.
precautionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precautionaries
Etymology: From precaution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Thou seest, Belford, by the above precautionaries, that I forget nothing.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A precaution.
necessarie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necessarie
form: most necessarie
Senses: examples: text: The which is more neceſſarie in that this ſicknes is not painfull to the Patient, but inſenſible, like the lethargic ordead palſie.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of necessary.
came back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come back
comes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come on
coming on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I do scouting for record companies. I've been doing that for coming on three years now.
ref: a. 2003, Jack Osbourne, in Ozzy Osbourne et al., Ordinary People: Our Story, Simon and Schuster (2003), page 285
glosses: Almost, nearly, nigh on.
coming on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come on
came on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come on
comes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come out
coming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌ.mɪŋ ˈaʊt/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come out
came out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come out
came through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come through
comes through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come through
coming through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come through
coming through
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to order someone to give clear passage.
Synonyms: sense: used to order someone to give clear passage
word: out of my way
sense: used to order someone to give clear passage
word: make way
comes true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come true
coming true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come true
came true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come true
comes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come up
came up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come up
ethicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethicisms
Etymology: From ethic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They focused on ethicism in their advertising to appeal to the growing green market.
glosses: The application of ethics.
befalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befall
befalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of befall
befalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: befallings
Etymology: From Middle English bifallinge, equivalent to befall + -ing. Cognate with Dutch bevalling (“delivery, labour”), Swedish befallning (“command, behest, charge”).
Senses: synonyms: word: affair
word: befalling
word: episode
word: event
word: goings-on
word: happening
word: hap
word: incident
word: occasion
word: occurrence
word: proceeding
word: accident
word: befalling
word: chance
word: contingency
word: casualty
glosses: A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
befalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bifallinge, equivalent to befall + -ing. Cognate with Dutch bevalling (“delivery, labour”), Swedish befallning (“command, behest, charge”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befall
befalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befalling
form: most befalling
Etymology: From Middle English bifallinge, equivalent to befall + -ing. Cognate with Dutch bevalling (“delivery, labour”), Swedish befallning (“command, behest, charge”).
Senses: examples: text: Bountie & largeſſe is befalling for kynges.
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Antigonus the Firste Kyng of the Macedonians”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 155, recto, paragraph 11, marginal note:
glosses: Appertaining; appropriate; fitting.
indeterminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeterminisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French indéterminisme, equivalent to in- + determinism.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.
examples: text: The classic examples in physics involve relativity theory and quantum theory and the recognition of the indeterminisms underlying those required the genius of Einstein and of Heisenberg.
ref: 1975, Carleton Mathematical Lecture Notes:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.
examples: text: There is a whole gradation of more or less rigid determinisms and more or less free indeterminisms, as they have been given in various theories.
ref: 1937, Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics:
glosses: Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.
examples: text: In detail, an inference strategy has to deal with the following three kinds of indeterminisms: 1. the selection of the initial path, 2. the selection of the next branch B to be expanded, 3. the selection of the next linking step to be performed on B.
ref: 2003, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Andrei Voronkov, Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning:
text: These indeterminisms confuse a regular bus arbiter in deciding whether a transaction should be aborted or resumed.
ref: 2008, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Behrooz Parhami, Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering:
text: This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.
ref: 2014, M.B. Zaremba, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.
Synonyms: sense: doctrine
word: free will
sense: doctrine
word: libertarianism
Derived terms: indeterminist
indeterministic
Related terms: non-determinism
compatibilism
incompatibilism
sullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sully
sullies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sully
exempts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exempt
exempts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exempt
exempted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exempt
exempting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exempt
bespeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespeak
bespeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespeak
durant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French durant, present participle of durer (“to last”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durance
glosses: A strong cloth in imitation of buff leather.
drops off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop off
dropping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop off
dropped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop off
skullfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skullfucks
form: skullfucking
form: skullfucked
form: skullfucked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skull-fuck.
skull fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skull fucks
form: skull fucking
form: skull fucked
form: skull fucked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skull-fuck.
Salat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Salat.
Senses: glosses: A right tributary of the Garonne in Occitania, France.
Related terms: Mazères-sur-Salat
Salies-du-Salat
dual mandate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual mandates
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A situation in which a person has been elected to two different bodies with different competencies, for example being a member of both a national legislature, and of a local authority.
Related terms: poobah
fiestas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiesta
fiestas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fiesta
press agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press agents
Senses: glosses: A person who organizes the publicity for a firm or organization, and acts as an intermediary with the press and other media
Related terms: public relations
necessaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necessarium