cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rechristen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechristens
form: rechristening
form: rechristened
form: rechristened
Etymology: From re- + christen.
Senses: glosses: To christen or baptize again.
examples: text: Jewellery is broken up; watches are 'rechristened.' The 'fences' or receivers of stolen goods are of all grades, and serve every sort of thief; and in Hoxton thieves of every kind seem to be represented.
ref: 2022, Victor Bailey, Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, page 295:
text: Illinois and partner organizations kicked off a market-tested campaign Wednesday to rechristen as “copi” four species previously known collectively as Asian carp, hoping the new label will make them more attractive to U.S. consumers.
ref: 2022 June 22, John Flesher, “A ‘copi’ fillet? Illinois hopes new name for ‘invasive carp’ will convince diners”, in PBS:
text: Musk later rechristened Twitter as X, further loosening moderation on the platform, and restoring the accounts of users previously banned for bigotry or harassment.
ref: 2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To rename.
Derived terms: rechristening
recirculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recirculates
form: recirculating
form: recirculated
form: recirculated
Etymology: From re- + circulate.
Senses: examples: text: Ferry says he’s recirculating bones that would otherwise collect dust in someone’s basement and offering valuable services to people who may otherwise never interact with real human bones.
ref: 2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: word: recirc
glosses: To circulate again.
Derived terms: recirculation
reclassify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclassifies
form: reclassifying
form: reclassified
form: reclassified
Etymology: From re- + classify.
Senses: examples: text: Two-car CrossCountry Class 170/5 diesel multiple units are being extended to three-car formations and reclassified as Class 170/6s, to boost capacity on the Birmingham-Stansted Airport route. So far, two have been reformed by Arriva TrainCare at Bristol Barton Hill and put back into traffic.
ref: 2021 February 10, “Fleet News: CrossCountry boosts capacity by extending two-car Class 170/5s”, in RAIL, number 924, page 29:
synonyms: reclass
glosses: To classify again; to give a new classification to.
topics: education
synonyms: reclass
glosses: To change the graduation year of (a student) by reclassification.
Derived terms: reclassification
recolor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recolors
form: recoloring
form: recolored
form: recolored
form: recolour
Etymology: From re- + color.
Senses: glosses: To color again or differently.
recolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recolors
form: recolour
Etymology: From re- + color.
Senses: glosses: The process of changing the color or something.
examples: text: She elaborates further: "It has given me great satisfaction and fulfillment that people like my recolors. These feelings make my days less lonely and boring, even if it is only from a recolor of an object in a computer simulation game. […]
ref: 2010, J. Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes, Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning, page 88:
glosses: An object that has had its color changed.
recommit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: recommits
form: recommitting
form: recommitted
form: recommitted
Etymology: From re- + commit.
Senses: examples: text: The new Legal Services Corporation bill was returned to the House last Wednesday, where the conference committee's version will have to be approved. McDonald may, if he desires, move to recommit the measure, but he cannot offer an amendment.
ref: 1977 December 10, David Brill, “Conferees Kill Gay Legal Aid Ban”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 1:
glosses: To commit again.
Derived terms: recommitment
recommit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: recommits
Etymology: From re- + commit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A second or subsequent commit.
recompute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomputes
form: recomputing
form: recomputed
form: recomputed
Etymology: From re- + compute.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever you edit a value in the spreadsheet, the total at the bottom is recomputed.
glosses: To compute again.
Derived terms: recomputation
reconnect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: reconnects
form: reconnecting
form: reconnected
form: reconnected
Etymology: From re- + connect.
Senses: examples: text: Thameslink reconnected north and south London by reopening tunnels between Farringdon and Blackfriars, and there was talk of a Channel Tunnel connecting Britain's rail network with that of continental Europe.
ref: 2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 64:
glosses: To connect again or differently.
examples: text: Around 5,000 visitors attended Rail Live on June 16-17, to reconnect after a two-year hiatus because of COVID restrictions.
ref: 2021 June 30, Stefanie Foster, “Rail Live 2021: reconnecting, resetting, rebuilding the railway”, in RAIL, number 934, page 12, photo caption:
glosses: To connect again or differently.
To meet up again (with someone), after a long time apart and/or without communication; to reunite.
Derived terms: reconnection
reconnector
reconquer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconquers
form: reconquering
form: reconquered
form: reconquered
Etymology: Middle French reconquerir, reconquérir or from re- + conquer.
Senses: glosses: To conquer again.
Derived terms: reconquerable
Related terms: reconquest
reconsecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconsecrates
form: reconsecrating
form: reconsecrated
form: reconsecrated
Etymology: From re- + consecrate.
Senses: glosses: To consecrate again.
Derived terms: reconsecration
reweave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reweaves
form: reweaving
form: rewove
form: rewoven
Etymology: From re- + weave.
Senses: examples: example
glosses: To weave again, to weave back.
tugs-of-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tug-of-war
viruela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish viruela
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apricot pseudopox (“a disease of apricots”).
synonyms: word: apricot pseudopox
extra: a disease of apricots
marital aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marital aids
Senses: glosses: A sex toy.
have one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's way
form: having one's way
form: had one's way
form: had one's way
Senses: glosses: To obtain the circumstances one wishes for; to do what one wishes to do, or to have others do what one wishes them to do.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby. […] And so it was ten days or more before youth and health had their way, and I was strong again; and all that time Elzevir Block sat by my bed, and nursed me tenderly as a woman. So piece by piece I learned the story of how they found me.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC, pages 62–63:
glosses: To achieve a desired or natural result.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with, especially without the consent of one's partner.
raw_tags: followed by with
Derived terms: have one's way with
homosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homospheres
Etymology: From homo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about 60 miles or 100 km, in which there is no great change in its composition.
Coordinate terms: heterosphere
turbopause
coolio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkulioʊ/
Senses: examples: text: But maybe it's the just the sunny weather that puts everyone in such a good mood: "We're all just coolio at U of A!" boasts one enthusiast.
ref: 2003 -- Robert Franek, Princeton Review (Firm), Princeton Review Publishing Staff: The Best Western Colleges: 121 Great Schools to Consider http://books.google.com/books?q=%22we%27re+all+just+coolio%22
glosses: Cool; awesome; all right.
overthrowal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈθɹəʊəl/
Forms: form: overthrowals
Etymology: From overthrow + -al.
Senses: examples: text: So he will interfere with natural growth by subjecting himself to unnatural discipline and putting himself to impossible tasks, such as the upsetting of kings and the overthrowal of empires.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, →ISBN, page 818:
glosses: The act of overthrowing something or someone.
insubmersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insubmersible
form: most insubmersible
Senses: glosses: Unable to be submerged; not submersible.
perfectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfectible
form: most perfectible
Etymology: From perfect + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: "Liberals tend to think man is infinitely perfectible; conservatives see him as infinitely flawed.
ref: 1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Able to be perfected; capable of perfection.
Derived terms: perfectibility
perfectibly
heterosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterospheres
Etymology: From hetero- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The upper part of the atmosphere, above about 60 miles or 100 km, in which there is great variation in its composition.
Coordinate terms: homosphere
turbopause
rectally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rectal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The thermometer had to be inserted rectally.
text: “When you do it rectally you may still throw up, but there’s nothing to throw up here. It’s kind of like a point of no return once you put it in there that way.”
ref: 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN:
glosses: Through the rectum.
Synonyms: sense: rectal route of administration
word: per rectum
sense: rectal route of administration
word: PR
Related terms: per-rectal
rectal
reconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːkənˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /ɹiːˈkɒnvɜː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: reconverts
Etymology: From re- + convert.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is notorious, that of those professing the creed of naked Protestantism, she [the Church of Rome] has made […] converts and reconverts by thousands—nay, even by millions:
ref: 1843, William Ewart Gladstone, “Present Aspect of the Church”, in Gleanings of Past Years, volume 5, London: John Murray, published 1879, pages 33–34:
glosses: A person who has been reconverted.
recopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recopies
form: recopying
form: recopied
form: recopied
Etymology: From re- + copy.
Senses: glosses: To copy again.
recook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recooks
form: recooking
form: recooked
form: recooked
Etymology: From re- + cook.
Senses: glosses: To cook again.
rededicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rededicates
form: rededicating
form: rededicated
form: rededicated
Etymology: From re- + dedicate.
Senses: examples: text: That [memorial] service helped many of us to go on, to pull ourselves together and rededicate ourselves to the principles for which David had worked so tirelessly and courageously.
ref: 1979 December 22, Nancy Walker, “The Reaffirmation of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 16:
text: It's a good time to clean out your house and your life—to refresh, renew, and rededicate yourself.
ref: 2011, Amber K, How to Become a Witch: The Path of Nature, Spirit & Magick, page 44:
glosses: To dedicate again.
Derived terms: rededication
redeliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːdɪˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: redelivers
form: redelivering
form: redelivered
form: redelivered
Etymology: From re- + deliver.
Senses: examples: text: his father had then eigh[t] of our English men, many swords, peeces, and other tooles, which he had at seuerall times by trecherons murdering our men, taken from them, which though of no use to him, he would not redeliuer [...].
ref: 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, pages 5–6:
glosses: To give back; to return (something).
glosses: To deliver (a letter, parcel, etc.) again.
glosses: To deliver or liberate again.
examples: text: Shall I redeliver you e'en so?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To report; to deliver the answer of.
Derived terms: redelivery
redeploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeploys
form: redeploying
form: redeployed
form: redeployed
Etymology: From re- + deploy.
Senses: examples: text: That's on top of £650,000 worth of payroll cuts that have been identified for 2022 and 2023, by not filling vacancies and redeploying existing staff to cover roles.
ref: 2023 April 5, Daniel Puddicombe, “Spiralling costs are hitting the UK's heritage railways hard”, in RAIL, number 980, page 30:
glosses: To deploy again.
glosses: To rearrange (military forces).
Derived terms: redeployment
redeployable
qanāt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qanāts
Senses: examples: text: It sometimes happens that a qanāt waters more than one village; where this is the case each village has a prescriptive right to the water [...]
ref: 1991, Ann K. S. Lambton, Landlord and Peasant in Persia: A Study of Land Tenure and Land Revenue Administration, page 220:
glosses: Alternative spelling of qanat.
redissolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiː.dɪˈzɒlv/
ipa: /ˌɹi.dɪˈzɑlv/
ipa: /-ˈzɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: redissolves
form: redissolving
form: redissolved
form: redissolved
Etymology: From re- + dissolve.
Senses: glosses: to dissolve again
re-edit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-edits
form: reedit
form: reëdit
Etymology: From re- + edit.
Senses: coordinate_terms: preedit
postedit
glosses: Another edit.
re-edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-edits
form: re-editing
form: re-edited
form: re-edited
form: reedit
form: reëdit
Etymology: From re- + edit.
Senses: coordinate_terms: preedit
postedit
glosses: Edit again.
reembark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reembarks
form: reembarking
form: reembarked
form: reembarked
form: re-embark
Etymology: From re- + embark.
Senses: glosses: embark again
Related terms: reembarkation
refasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refastens
form: refastening
form: refastened
form: refastened
Etymology: From re- + fasten.
Senses: examples: text: They had to refasten their safety belts before the driver would continue.
text: The chain was removed. Lessingham and I entered. Then the door was refastened and the chain replaced.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: To fasten again.
refurnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refurnishes
form: refurnishing
form: refurnished
form: refurnished
Etymology: From re- + furnish.
Senses: examples: text: I'm planning to refurnish my flat.
glosses: To furnish again; to get new furniture for.
examples: text: The soldiers were refurnished with provisions.
text: [Y]et by his moſte excellent witte⸝ he in a few yeres⸝ nat only broughte this realme in good ordre and vnder due obedience⸝ reuiued the lawes⸝ auanced Juſtice⸝ refurniſſhed his dominions⸝ and repayred his manours: […]
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of the Fifthe Braunche Called Circumspection⸝ Shewed in Reprinse”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folios 90, recto – 90, verso:
glosses: To supply or provide anew.
qaṣīda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaṣīdas
Senses: examples: text: Even when the poetry of such poems does not employ the qaṣīda’s tripartite structure, [...]
ref: 2003, Julie Scott Meisami, Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Poetry:
glosses: Alternative spelling of qasida.
wall unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall units
Senses: glosses: An integrated set of furniture pieces (bookshelves, cabinet etc.) standing against the wall of a room.
derilict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of derelict.
apprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apprehend
apprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprehendings
Senses: examples: text: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194:
glosses: An act by which something is apprehended.
beautified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beautify
beautified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beautified
form: most beautified
Senses: glosses: Having been made beautiful.
Derived terms: unbeautified
beautifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbju.tə.faɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beautify
pilfers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pilfer
beautifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beautify
beautifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautifyings
Senses: synonyms: beautification
glosses: The act of beautifying.
beautifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beautifying
form: most beautifying
Senses: examples: text: When thou present’st me, Gellia, with an Hare,
Marcus, thou say’st, ’twill make the seven Days fair.
If Hare be such a beautifying Meat,
Thou ne’er of one in all thy Life didst eat.
ref: 1695, Henry Killigrew, transl., Epigrams of Martial, London: Henry Bonwicke, Book 5, Epigram 32, pp. 117-118:
text: It evidently surpassed his majesty’s comprehension how any sober-minded and sensible individual could entertain the least possible objection to so beautifying an operation [i.e. being tattooed].
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in Typee, London: John Murray, published 1847, page 243:
text: […] I have found exercise far more beautifying than any surgical face-lift.
ref: 1979, Nathan Pritikin, Patrick M. McGrady, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, New York: Bantam, published 1980, Part 2, Chapter 13, p. 74:
glosses: That beautifies; tending to make beautiful.
fermeture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝmət͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɜːmətjə/
Forms: form: fermetures
Etymology: From French fermeture.
Senses: glosses: The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.
assaulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assault
medical report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical reports
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An official account or record of a person's health and medical history.
madrasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madrasas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of madrasah.
dawdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawdle
dawdles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dawdle
dawdled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dawdle
renter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: renters
Etymology: From rent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Create an input form that enables you to enter the data for new videos without seeing the information on whether the video is rented. Save this form with the name New video. Then create a form for entering the name of a renter […]
ref: 1999, Donna M. Matherly, Michele Reader, Microsoft Office 97 Professional Essentials:
text: Nearly half of all renter households in the US were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs, according to new government data.
ref: 2024 September 12, Samantha Delouya, “Nearly half of US renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs”, in CNN Business:
text: A recent report from the Aspen Institute highlights the gaping wealth chasm that has formed between homeowners and renters in America.
ref: 2024 December 16, Samantha Delouya, “The median renter in America has a net worth of $10,400. The median homeowner’s net worth is $400,000”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: lessee
tenant
rentee
glosses: One who rents property or other goods from another.
topics: law
synonyms: word: lessor
word: landlord
word: rentor
glosses: One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
examples: text: It was Sweet Alice who introduced me to the various renter types, and explained to me their costumes, and their habits, and their skills.
ref: 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 205:
glosses: (Synonym of rent boy) Male prostitute.
glosses: A film worth renting, but not possibly worth visiting a cinema to see.
Derived terms: permarenter
rack-renter
sub-renter
renter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: renters
form: rentering
form: rentered
form: rentered
Etymology: Borrowed from French rentraire; Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + in (“into, in”) + trahere (“to draw”).
Senses: glosses: To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
glosses: To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.
renters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renter
animated cartoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animated cartoon
restiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restivenesses
Etymology: From restive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being restive.
Baedeker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbeɪdɪkə]
ipa: [ˈbeɪdəkəɹ]
Forms: form: Baedeker's
form: Baedekers
Etymology: From German Baedeker.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Herriton did not proceed. She was not one to detect the hidden charms of Baedeker. Some of the information seemed to her unnecessary, all of it was dull.
ref: 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread:
glosses: A long-established series of travel guidebooks.
Baedeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbeɪdɪkə]
ipa: [ˈbeɪdəkəɹ]
Forms: form: Baedekers
form: Baedeker's
form: Baedekers
Etymology: From German Baedeker.
Senses: examples: text: His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians (Henry James to T. S. Eliot) will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers.
ref: 1934 December 3, “Literary Guide: Review of The Georgian Scene by Frank Swinnerton”, in Time:
text: Concierges: Baedekers in the Flesh [title]
ref: 1991 September 6, Nancy Sharkey, “Concierges: Baedekers in the Flesh”, in New York Times, page C1:
glosses: Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.
raw_tags: from the proprietary name
Derived terms: Baedeker raid
comiconomenclaturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comiconomenclaturists
Etymology: From comic + -o- + nomenclature + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese names are not fair game, and no self-respecting comiconomenclaturist would include in his collection a Ho Hum, a T. Hee, or a Jim Shoo.
ref: 1982, Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Book of Words, David R. Godine, published 2006, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Personally I find the use of the neologistic cliché quite otiose, although, having said that, the rejectamenta of a comiconomenclaturist such as yourself, engaged in stentorophonic ultracepidarian ululation, (excessive broadcasting/crossposting) leads one to believe that perhaps, this apophthegm of yours, might be just the calefacient, that I needed, to make use of this new book on words I have.
ref: 2002 November 7, Rick Sobie, “Re: Neologism in Cliche”, in alt.language.patterns (Usenet):
text: Once, when I was a comiconomenclaturist, I captured the name Rick Shaw. On the radio, t'other day, was a Robin Banks.
ref: 2006 August 25, Richard Bollard, “Re: Not to cause any trouble but...”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
glosses: A connoisseur of humorous names.
waltzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waltz
waltzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waltz
Woiwurrung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪwərʊŋ/
Forms: form: Wuywurrung
form: Wuywurung
Etymology: A portmanteau of the Woiwurrung words woi (meaning "no") and wurrung (meaning "lip" or "speech"), from the way that speakers of this language express the negative.
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the central part of Victoria, around Melbourne.
nu metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnjuːˈmɛtəl/
/ˌnuːˈmɛtəl/
Forms: form: nu-metal
form: nü-metal
Etymology: Sensational spelling of new + (heavy) metal
Senses: examples: text: Which nu-metal song has rocked your world this year?
ref: 2004, BBC for kidz - nu-metal song of the year:
text: Nu metal band Korn is back with a big tour, no-name album.
ref: 2007, Post Gazette (Pittsburgh), 1 Aug 2007 (headline) https://web.archive.org/web/20071208125956/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07214/806207-388.stm
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of heavy metal music with influences from grunge and hip-hop, often featuring down-tuned guitars, rapped or shouted vocals, DJ effects, and a strong rhythmic focus.
tutorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutorships
Etymology: From tutor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The duty of a tutor; tutelage
topics: law
glosses: legal and financial guardianship under which the ward is a minor
Derived terms: e-tutorship
unfruitfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfruitfully
form: most unfruitfully
Etymology: From unfruitful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfruitful manner
villan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of villain.
ball and chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balls and chains
Senses: examples: text: Well, I got one foot on the platform / The other foot on the train / I'm goin' back to New Orleans / To wear that ball and chain
ref: 1964, “The House of the Rising Sun”, performed by The Animals:
text: Take away this ball and chain
ref: 1990, Mike Ness, “Ball and Chain”, performed by Social Distortion:
glosses: A heavy iron ball attached to a prisoner's leg by a chain as a means of restraint.
glosses: One's wife, as a symbol of restraint.
examples: text: Their business model of the 1920s and 1930s, which had catapulted the business to undreamt-of heights, had then turned into something of a ball and chain.
ref: 2011, John Bradley, Cadbury's Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolate's Best-Loved Brand:
text: Now 2015 feels like a very long time ago, and the charitable origins have turned into a ball and chain for OpenAI.
ref: 2025 May 30, Matteo Wong, “OpenAI Can Stop Pretending”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Anything that restricts one's freedom or opportunities.
pahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pahans
Senses: glosses: A village priest of Sarna Dhorom.
ison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek ἴσον (íson).
Senses: glosses: Accompanying drone in Byzantine music.
siron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ciron.
bad debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad debts
Senses: examples: text: The firm’s researchers also went through the public accounts of nearly all the major financial institutions in the world and constructed estimates of how much money they stood to lose from bad debts.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A debt which cannot be recovered from the debtor, either because the debtor lacks the money to pay or because the debtor cannot be found and/or forced to pay.
Related terms: non-performing loan
uncollectible
supervillain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervillains
form: super-villain
Etymology: From super- + villain.
Senses: glosses: A fantasy-fiction criminal or evil-doer, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature who can present a credible challenge for a superhero.
Related terms: 🦹
superheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superhero
supervillains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervillain
repo man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repo men
Senses: examples: text: I'm a repo man. It's a repossesser. I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?
ref: 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez):
glosses: A man employed by a finance company or similar lender to repossess property which is the security for a loan or subject of a lease and where payments have not been made by the borrower/lessor at agreed times (i.e. one that is in default).
firestick farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-stick farming
Etymology: Coined by Welsh-Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in "Fire-Stick Farming" (Australian Natural History, vol. 16, iss. 7, p. 224, September 1969).
Senses: glosses: A traditional practice of the Aboriginal people of Australia whereby areas of bushland or other vegetation would be deliberately set on fire at various times in order to promote new growth.
kilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qilin.
auton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tɒn/
ipa: /ˈɑ.tɑn/
ipa: /ˈɔ.tɑn/
Forms: form: autons
Etymology: Coined by Robert Holmes in 1969, from a contraction of automaton.
Senses: examples: text: Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.
ref: 1974, Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, page 55:
text: Juan made seven attempts to pervert the auton. One involved twelve hundred years of careful observation, timing the failure of various subsystems, maneuvering the auton into a position where he might take control and get transportation to resources in near space.
ref: 1986, Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime:
text: "The Metrologan Order built the auton that was Ninth. How can you be so sure that she was not so well crafted that she really did have her own will?"
ref: 2002, Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon, page 461:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
Related terms: automat
automatic
automation
automatization
automatize
automaton
solan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solans
Senses: examples: text: There, if you are in luck, you will find the tide out and the place fordable dryshod for a man on a horse. But if the tide runs, you will do well to sit down on the sands and content yourself till it turn, or it will be the solans and scarts of the Solway that will be seeing the next of you.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: solan goose
Boston brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boston brahmins
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Boston Brahmin.
carillonneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carillonneurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French carillonneur.
Senses: examples: text: I had never played bells. Very few people have that clanging opportunity. But I could play a piano. So I said, “Shake hands with your new carillonneur.”
ref: 1990, Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus:
glosses: Synonym of carillonist.
synonyms: word: carillonist
indoctrinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indoctrinates
form: indoctrinating
form: indoctrinated
form: indoctrinated
Etymology: From in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French endoctriner.
Senses: glosses: To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
examples: text: [...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.
ref: 1987, Asian Outlook:
text: [They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.
ref: 2002, Asian Anthropology:
text: She […] felt uncomfortable that she was to her mind 'pushing Christian values'. Apparently lurking beneath her discomfort was a sense that she was required to indoctrinate Christian values in a search for conformity rather than teaching to promote autonomy, which she regarded as her professional commitment.
ref: 2017 November 13, Ros Stuart-Buttle, John Shortt, Christian Faith, Formation and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Further still, there were other little boys and girls whose parents DID know about the history [of the show promoting racism] who may have surely taken the time to infuse and indoctrinate it into the next generation.
ref: 2024 November 29, Reggie Legend, On My Post: Recollections of a Social Media Maverick: VOLUME II, Reggie Kee d.b.a. Reggie Legend, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.
glosses: To teach; to instruct.
Derived terms: counterindoctrinate
indoctrinable
indoctrinatee
indoctrination
indoctrinator
indoctrinatory
indoctrinee
misindoctrinate
reindoctrinate
unindoctrinated
Related terms: docent
docile
doctor
doctorate
doctrinaire
doctrinal
doctrine
document
lamage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From lame + -age.
Senses: glosses: Something lame or uncool, typically actions.
botanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botanist
capri pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri.
Senses: examples: text: I see women wearing capri pants nearly every day; they're not as bad as cargo capris, but they aren't the capri pants of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, either. Those 1960s capri pants were fitted.
ref: 2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
synonyms: clamdiggers
coordinate_terms: pedal pushers
;
flood pants
;
shorts#Noun
glosses: Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.
wikipedia: Sonja de Lennart
Derived terms: skapri
Related terms: manpris
davenport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdævənpɔːt/
ipa: /ˈdævɪnˌpɔɹt/
Forms: form: davenports
Etymology: * (sofa, couch): The sofa sense is a genericized trademark named after the defunct furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company. From the surname Davenport. Named after American businessman Albert H. Davenport
* (desk)
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: furniture
text: He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt:
text: Beezus felt a little better. She curled up on the davenport again with 202 Things to Do on a Rainy Afternoon and read about making Christmas tree ornaments out of cellophane straws, until she heard her aunt's car turn into the driveway.
ref: 1955, Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona:
hypernyms: sofa
couch
divan
settee
coordinate_terms: chesterfield
loveseat
glosses: A large sofa, especially a formal one.
examples: text: Then she went into the house, and, sitting down at the davenport in the dining-room, got out a sheet of her best notepaper, and wrote a note to Pamela Dysart in her strong, commercially clear hand.
ref: 1894, E[dith Anna] Œ[none] Somerville, Martin Ross [pseudonym; Violet Florence Martin], chapter IV, in The Real Charlotte […], volume I, London: Ward and Downey […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: He crosses to the davenport to get the policies from his briefcase,
ref: 1944, Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity, (screenplay):
hypernyms: writing desk
coordinate_terms: secretary
secretaire
glosses: A writing desk, especially a small one.
keep-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keep away
Senses: glosses: A children's game in which players pass an object, usually a ball, between each other while trying to prevent a selected player from intercepting it, and if said selected player catches the ball, he or she exchanges places with whoever last touched it.
Synonyms: keepings off
piggy in the middle
salugi
configurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: configurates
form: configurating
form: configurated
form: configurated
Etymology: First attested in 1566; borrowed from Latin cōnfigūrātus, perfect passive participle of cōnfigūrō (“to form or alter”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of configure.
Senses: glosses: To configure; to arrange or shape.
examples: text: Where Pyramids to Pyramids relate / And the whole fabrick doth configurate.
ref: a. 1685, Thomas Jordan, A Defence for Musick in its Practique and Theorick, Dedicated to all Lovers of Harmony, but more especially to the much honored Mr. JOHN ROGERS:
glosses: To take form or position, like the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
configurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more configurate
form: most configurate
Etymology: First attested in 1566; borrowed from Latin cōnfigūrātus, perfect passive participle of cōnfigūrō (“to form or alter”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of configure.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Associated in configuration
glosses: Configurated.
raw_tags: as a participle
traghetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traghetto
reembody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reembodies
form: reembodying
form: reembodied
form: reembodied
form: re-embody
form: reëmbody
form: reimbody
Etymology: From re- + embody.
Senses: glosses: To embody again.
Derived terms: reembodiment
reemphasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɛmfəsʌɪz/
Forms: form: reemphasizes
form: reemphasizing
form: reemphasized
form: reemphasized
form: reemphasise
form: re-emphasise
form: re-emphasize
form: reëmphasize
Etymology: From re- + emphasize.
Senses: examples: text: Although the New England settlers made their commonwealth much less like Old England than Virginia was intended to be, it is important to re-emphasize that the vast majority were not separatists but Puritans.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 720:
glosses: To emphasize again; to reiterate.
reemploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reemploys
form: reemploying
form: reemployed
form: reemployed
form: re-employ
form: reëmploy
Etymology: From re- + employ.
Senses: glosses: To employ again.
Derived terms: reemployment
re-enforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-enforces
form: re-enforcing
form: re-enforced
form: re-enforced
form: reenforce
form: reënforce
Etymology: From re- + enforce.
Senses: glosses: To enforce again; to re-emphasize.
Derived terms: re-enforcement
re-engage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: re-engages
form: re-engaging
form: re-engaged
form: re-engaged
form: reengage
form: reëngage
Etymology: From re- + engage.
Senses: examples: text: A spokeswoman said: "We will now urgently seek to re-engage with ORR and determine our next steps regarding the future of this vital passenger service."
ref: 2025 July 23, “Network News: West Coast Main Line open access hopefuls to consider options”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 13:
glosses: To engage again.
Derived terms: re-engagement
reequip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reequips
form: reequipping
form: reequipped
form: reequipped
form: reequipt
form: reequipt
form: re-equip
Etymology: From re- + equip.
Senses: glosses: To equip again; to provide with new equipment
Derived terms: reequipment
re-explain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-explains
form: re-explaining
form: re-explained
form: re-explained
form: reexplain
form: reëxplain
Etymology: From re- + explain.
Senses: examples: text: The story of simple Bernadette and the Lady of Lourdes, for an example of the readily transmutable quality of visionary rumors, has been re-explained as a UFO visitation. It has thus been recycled and hermeneutically reinterpreted to accommodate the unconscious content and symbolic needs of the more modern age.
ref: 2014, Brian Anse Patrick, Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), London: Arktos, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: To explain again or in a different way.
Derived terms: re-explanation
reforge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reforges
form: reforging
form: reforged
form: reforged
Etymology: From re- + forge.
Senses: examples: text: "For too long, there has been a missing link between the East and West Midlands, and this is our opportunity to reforge it," said Webbe.
ref: 2022 February 23, “Network News: MP urges link between Midlands cities to be 'reforged'”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24:
glosses: To forge again.
refortify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refortifies
form: refortifying
form: refortified
form: refortified
Etymology: From re- + fortify.
Senses: glosses: fortify again
Derived terms: refortification
regather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regathers
form: regathering
form: regathered
form: regathered
Etymology: From re- + gather.
Senses: glosses: gather again, gather back together
regrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrades
form: regrading
form: regraded
form: regraded
Etymology: From re- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: Before the new station could be built, a private overbridge had to be raised, and the railway regraded.
ref: 1951 September, “Notes and News: New Station for Glasgow Zoo”, in Railway Magazine, page 639:
text: Two other landslips took place in a cutting where the sides were built too steeply to withstand wet weather. Engineers regraded the slope to make them shallower.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: NR reopens East Grinstead line...”, in RAIL, page 16:
glosses: To grade again, give a new grade or grading to.
glosses: To regroup or reassign.
glosses: To change the classification of (potentially secret documentation).
glosses: To retire or recede.
regrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regrades
Etymology: From re- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: There are no regrades in this class: your mark is final.
glosses: The act or process of grading again.
rehire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rehires
form: rehiring
form: rehired
form: rehired
form: re-hire
Etymology: From re- + hire.
Senses: examples: text: There are many upsides to rehiring former employees, according to management professor Peter Cappelli of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. The positives include savings on recruiting and training costs, maintaining associations between customers and employees, and the fact that the rehired employee doesn't need an introduction to his or her colleagues.
ref: 2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money:
text: The National Labor Relations Board petitioned in federal court to force Starbucks (SBUX) to rehire three workers who claimed the coffee chain retaliated against them for attempting to unionize.
ref: 2022 April 25, Ramishah Maruf, “US labor board sues Starbucks to rehire unionizing employees”, in CNN:
glosses: To hire again.
rehire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rehires
form: re-hire
Etymology: From re- + hire.
Senses: examples: text: Not all rehires have a happy ending. Jerry Abiog, 37, worked for an Atlanta-based consulting firm until he was laid off in January -- only to get called back six weeks later.
ref: 2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money:
glosses: A former employee who has been hired again.
reignite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reignites
form: reigniting
form: reignited
form: reignited
Etymology: From re- + ignite.
Senses: examples: text: Firefighters remained at the scene all day to prevent the smoldering remains from re-igniting.
ref: 1979 December 15, John Kyper, “Fire Guts 'Rush' Warehouse”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 3:
glosses: To ignite again.
examples: text: The verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition.
ref: 2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre & Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict”, in Reuters:
text: The legislation is named after Laken Riley, a 22-year old Georgia student who was killed last year while out for a run. An undocumented migrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the case that reignited a national debate over immigration and crime.
ref: 2025 January 22, Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, “Congress passes immigrant detention bill in first legislative win for Trump”, in CNN:
glosses: To start again, especially animosity or argument.
Derived terms: reignition
reimpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimposes
form: reimposing
form: reimposed
form: reimposed
Etymology: From re- + impose.
Senses: examples: text: COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis.
Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t wear masks even on the subway or on airplanes.
Amid this national attitude, it may be extremely difficult for local or national leaders to try to reimpose any COVID-19 restrictions.
ref: 2022 May 21, Peter Sullivan, “As cases rise, Americans are ‘checked out’ on COVID-19”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 22 May 2022:
glosses: To impose again, a further time.
reinfect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinfects
form: reinfecting
form: reinfected
form: reinfected
Etymology: From re- + infect.
Senses: glosses: infect again
Derived terms: reinfection
reinoculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinoculates
form: reinoculating
form: reinoculated
form: reinoculated
Etymology: From re- + inoculate.
Senses: glosses: To inoculate again.
Derived terms: reinoculation
reinspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛkt
Forms: form: reinspects
form: reinspecting
form: reinspected
form: reinspected
Etymology: From re- + inspect.
Senses: glosses: To inspect again.
Derived terms: reinspection