cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trick of the trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricks of the trade
Senses: examples: text: For the most part, he has some knack, or trick of the trade, which by close inspection can be delected, and so the heart of his mystery be seen into.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, page 130:
text: There is no trick of the trade which he does not know, no artifice which he does not which he does not habitually practise.
ref: 1861, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 520:
text: We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: Most customers won't notice this trick of the trade, since the part is not sat upon.
ref: 2006, Ed van Hinte, Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture, page 60:
glosses: A shortcut or other quick, or very effective way of doing things, that professional workers learn from experience.
perkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of perky: more perky
perkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of perky: most perky
filmier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of filmy: more filmy
filthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of filthy: more filthy
fizzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fizzy: more fizzy
flabbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flabby: more flabby
water boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water boys
form: waterboy
Etymology: From water + boy.
Senses: glosses: A man or boy who regularly supplies a sports team or other group with drinking water.
capotasto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capotastos
form: capo tasto
Etymology: From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering
Synonyms: capo
pay as you earn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: PAYE
glosses: The national system whereby income tax and national insurance is deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee.
parented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parent
parented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a two-parented family
glosses: Having the specified kind or number of parents.
Derived terms: disparented
overparented
unparented
PAYE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of pay as you earn.
glosses: Initialism of pay-as-you-eat.
glosses: Initialism of pay at year end, i.e. with funds from the prior fiscal year.
parceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parcelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcel
parcelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parceled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcel
chitarrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitarrones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian chitarrone.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of theorbo.
synonyms: word: theorbo
Derived terms: chitarronist
clavicembalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavicembalos
form: clavicembali
Etymology: From Italian clavicembalo.
Senses: examples: text: Also we recall that Agnesi's life was bound up with that of a younger sister, Maria Teresa, who is known in the history of music as a composer and pianist, that is, virtuoso on the clavicembalo.
ref: 1970, Edna Kramer, The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics, Princeton, published 1982, page 706:
text: He taught me composition and how to improve my playing on the clavicembalo [translating Jnſtrument] and also the harp […].
ref: 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.17, Dedalus 2016, p. 253
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A harpsichord.
Hammond organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hammond organs
Etymology: From the name of the inventor, Laurens Hammond.
Senses: examples: text: Georgie Fame plays all types of keyboards including electric piano, organ, and Hammond organ.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of electronic organ with a highly distinctive sound.
oh my
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh, my
Senses: examples: text: Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.
ref: 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light:
glosses: oh my God
World War Two
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of World War II.
Related terms: First World War
WW2
WWII
codetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codettas
Etymology: From Italian codetta.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A brief coda, or a brief segment between the themes of a fugue.
break a sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks a sweat
form: breaking a sweat
form: broke a sweat
form: broken a sweat
Senses: examples: text: Are you feeling stronger and more energetic, and even—dare I say it—breaking a sweat? No, not a pink-faced, dripping sweat; nevertheless, a little dewy under the arms and around your forehead.
ref: 2001, Karon Karter, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: To start sweating.
examples: text: He succeeded effortlessly, without breaking a sweat.
text: Consider, for instance, that Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Marat Safin and even the supposedly out-of-sorts Lleyton Hewitt all won the opening set of their first-round matches 6-0 before barely breaking a sweat in the two sets that followed.
ref: 2008 January 17, Richard Hinds, “Walkovers blaze a trail for women's equal-pay theory”, in The Age, Australia:
text: I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.
ref: 2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:
glosses: To put effort into something.
raw_tags: in the negative
see a man about a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees a man about a dog
form: seeing a man about a dog
form: saw a man about a dog
form: seen a man about a dog
Etymology: Unknown. As a Prohibition-era reference to getting alcohol, influenced by the expression hair of the dog.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be right back, but I've got to go to see a man about a dog.
glosses: Used in place of a real explanation when excusing oneself for a short period of time, particularly (euphemistic) to use the toilet or (historical) drink alcohol.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: a man
sense: all senses
word: a man about a horse
sense: use the toilet
word: a man about the plumbing
word: use the toilet
word: urinate
word: and Thesaurus:defecate
muleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muletas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish muleta, diminutive of mula (“mule”).
Senses: examples: text: Out in the center of the ring Romero profiled in front of the bull, drew the sword out from the folds of the muleta, rose on his toes, and sighted along the blade.
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 248:
topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A red flag used by bullfighters.
shed a tear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛdəˈtɪə/
Forms: form: sheds a tear
form: shedding a tear
form: shed a tear
form: shed a tear
Senses: glosses: To have a tear released, to cry (from sadness)
examples: text: Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]
ref: 1848, Thomas Frost, Paul the Poacher, page 118:
glosses: To take a dram, or glass of spirits.
Related terms: shed tears
labor market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labor markets
form: labour market
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The market consisting of the supply of unemployed workers in relation to the demand for them.
gum lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum lifts
Etymology: From gum + lift, apparently by analogy with face lift.
Senses: examples: text: Cosmetic imaging helps my patients see for themselves how gum lifts can make the difference between a satisfactory case and a great case.
ref: 2000 June, Lorin Berland, “Digital art helps patients accept treatment”, in Dental Practice Report, page 24:
text: 2002 summer, John A. Merrill, "Clinical Case Report: All-Ceramic Crown on Maxillary Left Central Incisor", in The Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry, Volume 18, Number 2, page 54,
A simple gum lift (gingivectomy) would not produce the desired results, as the actual mesiodistal root dimension is deficient.
text: so i saw on the news the other day a report on "gum lifts".... if you have a rather-too gummy smile, you apparently can now pay $800-3000 bucks for a periodontist to evaluate the gumminess of your smile, gentian-violet your face, & carve away big chunks of gum tissue.
ref: 2003 January 15, crank@got.net, “various comments on the subject of teeth”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet):
text: 2006 January 18, Olivia Barker, "Patients smile at getting long in the tooth", USA Today,
Those whose smiles are more Mister Ed than Miss America have a new hope: the gum lift.
qualifier: cosmetic dentistry
glosses: A gingivectomy performed for the aesthetic purpose of raising or shaping the gum line.
bear with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears with
form: bearing with
form: bore with
form: borne with
Senses: examples: text: Please bear with me a moment while I connect you to his office.
glosses: To be patient with.
Related terms: bear in with
complementarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtæɹɪti/
ipa: /ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtɛəɹɪti/
Forms: form: complementarities
Etymology: From complementary + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: "Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations."
ref: 1987 April 2, Kenneth N. Gilpin, “2 Forecasting Firms to Merge”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Apr 2014:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being complementary.
examples: text: For complementarity, there are entailments both from affirmative sentences to the corresponding negative sentences (which is what ordinary antonymy allows) and from negative sentences to the corresponding affirmative sentences. [...] That light is on entails That light is not off. That light is not on entails That light is off.
ref: 2005, Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths, Christopher J. Hall, Introducing Language in Use, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
glosses: A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
raw_tags: of science
Derived terms: noncomplementarity
cosmetic dentistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of dentistry that deals with the appearance of teeth. Common cosmetic dental treatments include whitening or tooth bleaching, enamel shaping, bonding, veneers, and gum lift.
corni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corno
spice up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spices up
form: spicing up
form: spiced up
form: spiced up
Senses: examples: January 2008, The Eagle-Tribune - Fresh or dried? Spice up your cooking with the right seasonings
glosses: To enhance the flavor of something by adding spice to it.
examples: text: The good sister is there to minister to his spiritual needs, the nurse is there to bind his wounds, and the prostitute is there to spice up his bland sex life.
ref: 1984, Rosemarie Tong - Women, Sex, and the Law page 39
glosses: To make more exotic, fun or extravagant.
stick one's neck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks one's neck out
form: sticking one's neck out
form: stuck one's neck out
form: stuck one's neck out
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if he caught me in the open he often touched on other topics, and the way I looked at it was that there was no sense in sticking one's neck out. It was more than a year since I had been inside this sanctum […]
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”
ref: 2014, David Bleiler, TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
text: And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough to stick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control.
ref: 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, number 923, page 47:
glosses: To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.
Related terms: wind one's neck in
lead with one's chin
out on a limb
running water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The rural population of the United States in 1950 was 57.5 million; ( of this total 22 percent was served by running water) and used an estimated 3,500 million gallons of water per day.
ref: 1951, Kenneth Allen MacKichan, Estimated Use of Water in the United States, 1950, page 4:
text: A public system or private company refers to any source supplying running water to six or more housing units.
ref: 2000, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, 1998 - Volumes 170-199, page A-19:
text: The things I previously seen as life's necessities—proper running water to drink and wash with, sanitary restrooms, and local medical help—were nowhere to be found in this God-forsaken little town.
ref: 2004, Tony Perez, Nine Lives and Still Running, →ISBN, page 1:
text: In sight of the river, their factories' source for water, they often live without running water and electricity [...because] the river becomes polluted with industrial wastewater as well as untreated, raw sewage.
ref: 2004, Mona D. Sizer, Texas Disasters: Wind, Flood, and Fire, Taylor Trade Publications, →ISBN, page 183:
text: At the time being middle class in America meant education for the children and modern home conveniences, most basically, hot and cold running water.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Soffer, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, →ISBN:
text: First, since resettled people had to move into existing communities in designated resettlement areas, policy adjustment to assist host communities with running water and electricity were needed.
ref: 2012, Kate Lazarus, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Nga Dao, Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Water available from taps.
examples: text: Productivity in running water is dependent primarily on attached algae, which is part of the periphyton.
ref: 2004, J. Jacoby, E. Welch, Pollutant Effects in Freshwater:
text: The action of running water is such as to wear away the banks against which the current is directed, and therefore one riparian owner has no right to change the flow of the current so as to direct it against the land of the opposite owner.
ref: 2006, Henry Philip Farnham, The Law of Waters and Water Rights, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see running, water.
Synonyms: tap water
fast lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast lanes
Senses: synonyms: passing lane
overtaking lane
glosses: On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds.
examples: text: One of the four main characters in This Place, tough, streetwise Candy Peters, is a white girl more at home in black culture than anywhere else, a throwaway child, a veteran of the fast lane, drugs, prostitution, jail.
ref: 1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9:
glosses: Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.
Derived terms: in the fast lane
Related terms: left lane camper
left lane hog
highflying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highflying
form: most highflying
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-flying.
fast lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fast lane
full English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full Englishes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of full English breakfast.
synonyms: word: full English breakfast
highflier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: highfliers
form: high flier
form: high-flier
form: high flyer
form: high-flyer
form: highflyer
Senses: glosses: A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
examples: text: under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words
ref: c. 1711, Jonathan Swift, Some Remarks Upon A Pamphlet, Entitl'd, A Letter To The Seven Lords Of The Committee, Appointed To Examine Gregg:
text: A beautiful woman juggled expensive shopping bags while taking a call; friends gathered clinking glasses in celebration; a young man coyly slurped noodles; a gaggle of suited highfliers shook hands over a boardroom with views across the city. Everything screamed: “We are no longer in recession! We are a beating heart of London’s future!”
ref: 2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
examples: text: Virtually all highfliers that I have seen over all these years of trading have crumbled at some point.
ref: 2003, Larry Williams, The Right Stock at the Right Time, page 93:
text: I like Canadian stocks and have done quite well investing in them, but you are typically better off buying a stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's leading exchange, than some of the highfliers in Vancouver.
ref: 2008, George Angell, Small Stocks for Big Profits:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
examples: text: […] and high-flyer boat-swings, full of half-drunken men and half-mad, screaming girls, swing up to perilous heights, and all but whirl over, as if to shoot out the whole of their frantic cargoes!
ref: 1871, The Contemporary Review, volume 18, page 392:
text: A small copper-plate representation of Frost Fair […] Among the activities shown are Letterpress Printing, Copperplate Printing, a Sheep to be roasted, Ballad Singers, Swinging (in boat-shaped swings called the 'high Flyer'), playing at Skittles, […]
ref: 1980, Journal of Meteorology, volume 5, page 9:
glosses: A swingboat.
glosses: A writer of begging letters.
examples: text: The emotions of those who journeyed for the first time on a railway at a speed four times as great as that of the swiftest High-flier that ever devoured the road are forgotten by this generation.
ref: 1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “VI. Field and Forge”, in The Great House:
glosses: A type of phaeton carriage.
Related terms: high-flying
highflyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highflyers
Senses: examples: text: One Emigration follows another; grounded on reasonable fear, unreasonable hope, largely also on childish pet. The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: The Championship highflyers almost got their reward for a resilient performance on their first visit to the Emirates, surviving a flurry of first-half Arsenal chances before hitting back with a classic sucker punch.
ref: 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of highflier.
almost doesn't count
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: a miss is as good as a mile
close, but no cigar
close only counts in horseshoes
glosses: Near success (or near accuracy) is not adequate.
Riemann zeta-function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Riemann zeta function.
toppo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + -o; compare topping.
Senses: glosses: top, great, the best
raw_tags: used by the upper classes
clavicembali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clavicembalo
flag complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag complexes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A simplicial complex where every collection of pairwise adjacent vertices spans a simplex.
simplicial complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simplicial complexes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A collection of simplices of various dimensions, connected to one another according to certain rules.
simplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmplɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɪmpləˌsiz/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin simplicēs, a masculine or feminine plural form of simplex.
Senses: topics: algebraic-topology
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
synonyms: simplexes
simplicia
glosses: plural of simplex
slobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slobberier
form: slobberiest
Etymology: From slobber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.
"Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.
ref: 2007, Elinor de Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page xi:
text: 2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25.
My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.
glosses: Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
slobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slob + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.
ref: 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary, page 319:
glosses: The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
farter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farters
Etymology: From Middle English farter, fartare, fertere, equivalent to fart + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for a bed or sleeping bag, + -er (patient suffix). Cognate with German Furzer (“farter”).
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that farts.
examples: text: The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.
glosses: One who ambles along slowly.
glosses: A bed or sleeping bag
Synonyms: cheese cutter
Related terms: fartee
figger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figgers
Senses: examples: text: "I've left my job to look after you, and I can't afford to spend money on you too. I've kept an account of all I've spent. Here it is." "But I ain't up to adding up figgers being in the state I am."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of figure.
figger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: figgers
form: figgering
form: figgered
form: figgered
Senses: examples: text: They was a button on that thar computer what said ‘Enter’. I pushed it ’cause I figgered it must be a doorbell. It didn’t make no dingy sound though.
ref: 2012, Darrell Sroufe, “Modernized Newfangled Gizmos & Gadgets”, in Howdy Folks! I’m Fuster Buskins!, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of figure.
carriage door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage doors
Senses: glosses: A door that is reminiscent of the looks and styles of the original carriage house doors.
glosses: A door on a railway carriage.
jeera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːɹə/
Forms: form: zeera
form: zira
Etymology: From Hindi जीरा (jīrā).
Senses: examples: text: The vegetarian menu had [...] pizza speckled with jeera.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 148:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Cumin.
Related terms: english: black cumin
translation: black cumin
word: kala jeera
scabbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scabby: most scabby
IVC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IVCs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inferior vena cava.
glosses: Initialism of intravaginal culture.
glosses: Initialism of individually ventilated cage.
IVC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Indus Valley Civilization.
tabela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तबेला (tabelā), from Classical Persian طَوِیلَه (tawīla), from Arabic طَوِيلَة (ṭawīla).
Senses: glosses: stable or shed (for horses, cows, etc.)
imparter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imparters
Etymology: From impart + -er.
Senses: examples: 1912, Principles of Educational Practice - Page 161.
The teacher is therefore not an imparter of knowledge but only a guide, a director of the energy and activity which the child has to offer.
glosses: One who imparts.
tick-tock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: tick tock
form: ticktock
Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick.
Senses: glosses: The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.
examples: text: Near-synonym: clock is ticking
text: You may be smart enough to elude the law for five years, but your time has run out. Tick tock, motherfucker.
ref: 2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 104:
glosses: A warning of some fateful impending event.
Derived terms: tick-tock biological clock
tick-tock model
TikTok
Related terms: second hand
tick-tock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tick-tocks
form: tick-tocking
form: tick-tocked
form: tick-tocked
form: tick tock
form: ticktock
Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick.
Senses: examples: text: And so as the clock tick-tocked along at MetLife Stadium on Friday night, the possibility grew into the probability that this frustrating, scoreless quarterfinal between Colombia and Peru would end up in one of those unfortunate, nearly random shootout results.
ref: 2016 June 17, Filip Bondy, “Colombia Slumps to Victory Over Peru in Copa América Quarterfinal”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
examples: text: Ex-military didn't pass up the chance to harshly criticise the mediocre stepping, noting their "tick-tocking" technique which is a term used in the army, describing moving arm and leg on the same side in the same direction while marching.
ref: 2019 February 20, Hollie Geraghty, “PC PLOD: Met cops mocked for 'worst march ever' in hilarious 'Monty Python meets Dad's Army' video”, in The Sun (United Kingdom):
glosses: When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
tick-tock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick-tocks
form: tick tock
form: ticktock
Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick.
Senses: examples: text: Stepping inside from the courtyard, there was silence except for the tick-tock of the antique grandfather clock in the great hall. The hulking cream-and-gray flagstones underfoot had been worn away from centuries of service.
ref: 2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The sound of a ticking clock.
examples: text: A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.
ref: 2020 May 6, Jordan Weissmann, “It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy”, in Slate:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A step-by-step account of an event or timeline.
tock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: talk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: tocks
Senses: glosses: A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
raw_tags: used in conjunction with tick
Derived terms: tick-tock
tock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: talk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: tocks
form: tocking
form: tocked
form: tocked
Senses: examples: text: The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
ref: 2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann:
text: The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.
ref: 1967, William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin:
glosses: To produce such a sound.
pharaon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharaons
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pharaoh.
samphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæm.faɪ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsæm.fə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: samphires
Etymology: Originally sampiere, from French Saint Pierre (Saint Peter), the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.
Senses: glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Plants of genus Salicornia (syn. Salicornia)
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Plants of genus Salicornia (syn. Salicornia)
Marsh samphire, glasswort, pickleweed (Salicornia europaea), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Golden samphire (Limbarda crithmoides, syn. Inula crithmoides).
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Borrichia arborescens (tree seaside tansy) of the West Indies.
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Any plant of species Blutaparon vermiculare
glosses: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Plants of genus Tecticornia
glasswort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassworts
Etymology: From glass + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia), once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Arthrocnemum subterminale (Parish's glasswort)
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Eriogonum salicornioides (glasswort buckwheat)
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Kali turgidum
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides)
Synonyms: sense: Salicornia
word: marsh samphire
Derived terms: taxonomic: Salicornia virginica
word: American glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia quinqueflora
alt: syn. Sarcocornia quinqueflora
word: beaded glasswort
taxonomic: Tecticornia flabelliformis
word: bead glasswort
taxonomic: Tecticornia pergranulata
word: blackseed glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia europaea
word: common glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia bigelovii
word: dwarf glasswort
taxonomic: Eriogonum salicornioides
word: glasswort buckwheat
taxonomic: Salicornia spp.
word: jointed glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia pacifica
alt: syn. Sarcocornia pacifica
word: Pacific glasswort
alt: Arthrocnemum subterminale
word: Parish's glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia perennis
alt: syn. Sarcocornia perennis
word: perennial glasswort
taxonomic: Salsola kali
word: prickly glasswort)
taxonomic: Salicornia ramosissima
word: purple glasswort
taxonomic: Tecticornia arbuscula
word: shrubby glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia maritima
word: slender glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia blackiana
alt: syn. Sarcocornia blackiana
word: thick-head glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia virginica
word: Virginia glasswort
taxonomic: Salicornia virginica
word: woody glasswort
duck and cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ducks and covers
form: ducking and covering
form: ducked and covered
form: ducked and covered
Senses: examples: text: It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe
ref: 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
glosses: To duck under a surface and cover one's face with one's hands, as a means to protect oneself from flying debris etc.
harmattan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑːməˈtæn/
ipa: /ˌhɑːˈmætən/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹməˈtæn/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹməˈtɑn/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹˈmætən/
Forms: form: harmattans
Etymology: From Twi Akan haramata or a related word (whence also Spanish harmatán). The ultimate origin is supposed by some to be an Arabic word, but which one is uncertain; حَرَام (ḥarām, “accursed thing”) has been suggested.
Senses: examples: text: Storm-clouds stretched their arms across the sky; from the east, to all appearances, might come a fierce harmattan, or from the south might come the fierce hurricane.
ref: 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World:
text: That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 1:
glosses: A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.
glosses: A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.
epiphenomenalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphenomenalisms
Etymology: From epiphenomenal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The textbook account of epiphenomenalism goes something like this. Although our thoughts, desires, and other mental states seem to affect what happens in the world, by bringing about changes in our behavior or subsequent mental states, this is only an appearance, cast off by the real physical sequence of cause and effect that underlies our mental life.
ref: 1997, Victor Caston, “Epiphenomenalisms, Ancient and Modern”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 106, number 3, page 310:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
examples: text: The theory of emergent evolution has been largely developed as a corrective of mechanistic theories with their attendant psycho-physical dualisms and epiphenomenalisms.
ref: 1926, Stephen C. Pepper, “Emergence”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 23, number 9, page 241:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.
Related terms: epiphenomenon
epiphenomenal
epiphenomenalist
epiphenomenalistic
parceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parcelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parcel
parceling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcelings
form: parcelling
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of parcelling.
parcelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parceling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parcel
Great Pyramid of Giza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Pyramid of Giza
form: Great Pyramid at Giza
Senses: examples: text: A ſection of the great pyramid at Gize, and a view of the head of the Sphinx.
ref: 1743, Richard Pococke, “Contents of the Plates contain’d in this Volume”, in A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries, volume the first (Observations on Egypt), London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer; […]:
text: AS you favoured my letter concerning the great pyramid of Giza with a place in your Repoſitory,[…].
ref: 1803, The Gentleman’s Magazine, page 805:
glosses: The largest and most famous of the Egyptian pyramids, and the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
unwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unwrapped gift
unwrapped text in a wordprocessor
glosses: Not wrapped.
unwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwrap
unwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwrap
unwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unwrap
parcel bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcel bomb
letter bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter bomb
letter bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of letter bomb
mail bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mail bomb
mail bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mail bomb
far away
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faraway.
far away
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further away
form: farther away
form: furthest away
form: farthest away
Senses: examples: text: She lived far away, in a distant land.
glosses: To or at a great distance.
Related terms: far and away
silverberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverberries
form: silver berry
Etymology: From silver + berry.
Senses: glosses: A plant in the genus Elaeagnus, of about 50-70 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves, primarily native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia.
glosses: The fruit of such a plant.
Synonyms: sense: Elaeagnus
word: oleaster
silverberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silverberry
tricks of the trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trick of the trade
cordons sanitaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordon sanitaire
dement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛnt/
ipa: /dəˈmɛnt/
ipa: /diˈmɛnt/
Forms: form: more dement
form: most dement
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dément, from Latin demens.
Senses: glosses: insane, demented
dement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛnt/
ipa: /dəˈmɛnt/
ipa: /diˈmɛnt/
Forms: form: dements
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dément, from Latin demens.
Senses: glosses: An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia
dement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛnt/
ipa: /dəˈmɛnt/
ipa: /diˈmɛnt/
Forms: form: dements
form: dementing
form: demented
form: demented
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dément, from Latin demens.
Senses: glosses: To drive mad; to craze
Derived terms: dementation
dementor
cosmetic second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmetic seconds
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: An item produced by a manufacturer and sold wholesale that has a minor blemish and therefore is offered at a lower price.
cryoanesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoanaesthesia
form: cryoanæsthesia
Etymology: From cryo- + anesthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Insensibility resulting from cold.
MVFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of marginal VFR flying conditions.
rime riche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimes riches
Etymology: From French.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A form of rhyme with identical sounds, as in "pear" and "pair".
SIMIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIMICs
Etymology: As defined by the World Bank in 2004.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of severely indebted middle-income country (“a country with an annual income of between $736 and $9,075 per capita, a debt ratio of at least 80%, and a debt/export ratio of at least 220%”).
sneakerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneakerheads
Etymology: From sneaker + -head. The birth of sneakerhead culture came in the late 1980s and can be attributed to two major sources: basketball and hip hop music.
Senses: examples: text: That culture waned in the late 80's and the 90's —remember Jerry Seinfeld in his clunky, generic white sneakers— but now the sneakerhead is back.
ref: 2004 July 11, Richard A. Martin, “The Rebirth of the New York Sneakerhead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The rise of sneakerheads, as aficionados of artistically enhanced footwear call themselves, has had a contagious impact on shoe companies.
ref: 2006 March 23, Eric Wilson, “Sneakerhead Bonanza”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Luber, who, like many sneakerheads, speaks of his footwear collection as if it were an ever-expanding portfolio, started collecting at age 10.
ref: 2018 July 6, Dan Hyman, “A Nasdaq for Sneakerheads? StockX Aims to Tame ‘Chaos’ of Luxury Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who owns multiple pairs of shoes as a form of collection and fashion.
snow shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊʃɛd/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊˌʃɛd/
Forms: form: snow sheds
form: snowshed
form: snow-shed
Etymology: From snow + shed.
Senses: examples: text: The only snow shed in Great Britain is on the West Highland Railway, about 2 miles north of Rannoch Station. It is some 200 yd. long, and is situated in the deepest part of Cruach cutting, which is subject to heavy drifting during winter snowstorms.
ref: 1950 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Snow Shed, West Highland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 719:
topics: rail-transport
railways
road
transport
synonyms: avalanche gallery
snow bridge
glosses: A tunnel-like structure that provides roads and railroad tracks with protection from avalanches and heavy snowfalls that cannot be easily removed.
wikipedia: Denver and Salt Lake Railway
Howard L. Fogg
Rollins Pass
syngnathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital adhesion of the maxilla and mandible by fibrous bands.
paintbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintbrush
parasitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parasitize
parasitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parasitize
parasitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: monoparasitized
multiparasitized
nonparasitized
overparasitized
polyparasitized
unparasitized
parasitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parasitize
parasitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasitizations
form: parasitisation
Etymology: From parasitize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Infestation by a parasite.
glosses: The process or result of becoming a parasite.
Synonyms: parasitation
parasitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitization
pedalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedal
pedalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedallings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedaling.
pedalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedal
pedalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The bicycle is a pedalled vehicle.
text: The Erard pianos used by Chopin were particularly good at sustaining a pedalled note
ref: 1981, Methuen-Campbell, James, Chopin Playing : from the Composer to the Present Day:
text: She also made us clothes on a pedalled sewing machine.
ref: 2014, Bob Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action:
glosses: Having, involving, or being operated by pedals.
Derived terms: unpedalled
pedaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedaled
form: most pedaled
Derived terms: unpedaled
pedaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedal
peepshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpipˌʃoʊ/
Forms: form: peepshows
form: peep show
Etymology: From peep + show.
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 181:
glosses: An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.
glosses: A titillating or pornographic display viewed through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired.
Related terms: raree show
peepshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peepshow
raree show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛːɹiʃəʊ/
Forms: form: raree shows
Etymology: Probably representing a foreign or dialectal pronunciation of rare + show.
Senses: glosses: A portable puppet show or picture show as used for public entertainment; a peepshow.
examples: text: Leaning forward she would be, on the seat of the general's illuminated car, glazed in, a regular raree show!
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 335:
glosses: A public spectacle, especially seen as lurid or vulgar.
raree shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raree show
peep show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peep shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peepshow.
peep shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peep show