cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unvanquished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvanquished
form: most unvanquished
Etymology: From un- + vanquished.
Senses: glosses: Not vanquished; unbeaten or unconquered
slip coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip coaches
Senses: examples: text: Slip-coach workings on the Western Region, the last stronghold of this practice, are now reduced to two daily - at Didcot off the 7.0 a.m. Weston-super-Mare-Paddington; and at Bicester (Saturdays excepted) off the 5.10 p.m. Paddington-Wolverhampton.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains: The vanishing slip-coach”, in Trains Illustrated, page 72:
text: Friday, September 9, saw the last of the slip coach in Great Britain; the location was Bicester, and the train was the 5.10 p.m. from Paddington to Wolverhampton, which from September 12 began to stop there instead.
ref: 1960 October, “Talking of Trains: The last of the slip coach”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A coach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination and is decoupled or "slipped" and left behind. (In bygone times the decoupling was done on the move; the rest of the train did not stop.)
Synonyms: slip carriage
maintenance window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintenance windows
Senses: glosses: A prescheduled time when a system can be taken off-line for maintenance, if necessary.
high-maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-maintenance
form: most high-maintenance
Etymology: According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the figurative sense was popularized by the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally....
Senses: glosses: Requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down.
raw_tags: of a system
examples: text: He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.
text: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.
ref: 1989, Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal):
glosses: Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: brittle
finicky
temperamental
low-maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the figurative sense was popularized by the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally....
Senses: glosses: Retaining proper functionality over long periods of time with little or no maintenance.
glosses: Of a person: self-sufficient and not requiring much attention.
Related terms: resilient
robust
torches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃəz
Senses: glosses: plural of torch
torches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃəz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torch
torching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torch
torching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torchings
Senses: examples: text: His attempt to find the real arsonist leads him to wonder if one of his newly alcoholic parents could have committed the torchings.
ref: 2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act of arson.
glosses: A way of catching fish at night with torchlight and spear.
Related terms: burn the water
torched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torch
shampooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shampoo
shampooing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/
Forms: form: shampooings
Senses: examples: text: The foyer carpet needed regular shampooings.
text: 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
In certain moments his hair looks like it could use a shampooing.
glosses: The act of cleaning something with shampoo.
thermite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɜː(ɹ).maɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)maɪt
Forms: form: thermites
Etymology: From German Thermit, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”) + -it; comparable to English therm- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of a metal and a metal oxide capable of producing a thermite reaction, such as aluminium metal and ferric oxide; used in incendiary devices.
off-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offline.
Model T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a Model T moment
text: the Model T of [device category X]
text: This institution is no Model T.
ref: 1920, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 558:
text: In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.
ref: 1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, Time:
text: Jerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me.
ref: 1924, Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review, page 356:
text: I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian.
ref: 1928, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The New England Quarterly, Northeastern University, page 543:
text: ... whenever they learned that a lynching was brewing they went by buggy, train, or Model T straight to the sheriff of the county and stayed with him until he did something about it.
ref: 1929, William Theodore Evjue, The Progressive:
text: "Is a guy sore if the Model T he got for twenty bucks don't run after he's run it five year? Forget it Johnny, profit and loss."
ref: 1931, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story Magazine:
text: You can get about as much from a Model-T/Stripped and forgotten in a sage arroyo/As you can from asking the blue peaks over and over: "Will something old come back again tonight?"
ref: 1934, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Westering, page 89:
text: All of a sudden, as Martin covered the countryside in his Model T, he began to notice strange sights...
ref: 1955, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, De Witt Wallace, editors, The Reader's Digest, page 40:
text: Carts was on his way to the governor's mansion, touring the rural back country in his Model T, sounding the warning against the encroachments of Satan.
ref: 1965, David Mark Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965, page 225:
text: When Senator Oscar Underwood announced his intention to retire in 1926, Black decided to run for Senate. He simply took off on his own, covering the back country alone in his Model-T, speaking anywhere he could find listeners and staying with anyone who would put up with him.
ref: 1999, James Stuart Olson, Historical Dictionary of the 1960s, page 59:
text: Charles Odell Lovette, the patriarch of the family that was to build North Carolina-based Holly Farms into one of the largest poultry companies in the world, began in the mid-1920s by gathering country produce in his Model T and hauling it to city markets.
ref: 2005, Steve Striffler, Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food, page 40:
synonyms: T
tin Lizzie
glosses: The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.
MPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPVs
Senses: examples: text: Swedish maintenance vehicle manufacturer Railcare has developed what it claims is the world's first battery-powered Multi-Purpose Vehicle. [...] Railcare plans to replace some of its MPVs in the UK with the new trains.
ref: 2021 January 27, “Network News: Railcare develops battery MPV”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 13:
glosses: Initialism of multipurpose vehicle: a minivan, station wagon/estate car, large car, or, small/minibus, designed to be used on- and off-road and easily convertible to facilitate either carrying people or loading goods.
glosses: Initialism of mean platelet volume.
glosses: Initialism of monkeypox virus.
glosses: Initialism of Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction.
precinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prē'sĭngkt
ipa: /ˈpɹisɪŋkt/
Forms: form: precincts
form: præcinct
Etymology: From Middle English precinct, precincte, early 15th century, in sense of “district for government purposes”, from Medieval Latin precinctum, alternative form of praecinctum (“enclosure, boundary line”), neuter singular of praecinctus, perfect passive participle of Latin praecingō (“surround, gird”), from prae (“before”) + cingō (“surround, encircle”), from which also cinch.
Cognate to Italian precingere (“to encircle”).
Senses: examples: text: For, by the fundamental Laws of the Realm, it is Capital in any Perſon, of what Quality ſoever, to make water within the Precincts of the Palace.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author by an Extraordinary Stratagem Prevents an Invasion. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 91:
glosses: An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
glosses: The general area surrounding a place, environs.
glosses: A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
glosses: A subdivision of a city or other locality for the purposes of voting and representation in local government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
examples: text: But ſince I loue to liue at libertie,
As eaſily may you get the Souldans crowne,
As any prizes out of my precinct.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: A district over which someone or some body of people has control in general; province, sphere of control.
glosses: A surrounding boundary or limit.
Derived terms: pedestrian precinct
precinct committeeman
precinctive
precinct money
shopping precinct
endlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndləsli/
Forms: form: more endlessly
form: most endlessly
Etymology: From Middle English endelesly, from Old English endelēaslīċe; equivalent to endless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.
ref: 1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85:
text: Endlessly
 I'm counting down the days
 When you will come my way
 Endlessly
 I fall asleep to dream
 And you're here again it seems, endlessly
ref: 2010, “Endlessly”, in Endlessly, performed by Duffy:
text: Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable.
ref: 2015 August 9, Jon Caramanica, “Pimp C in a Journalist’s Back Pages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2021:
synonyms: word: ceaselessly
word: incessantly
word: nonstop
word: ceaselessly
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: incessantly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: nonstop
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
glosses: In an endless manner; continuously without limit.
Related terms: indefinitely
craftsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæfts.mən.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: craftsmanships
form: craftmanship
Etymology: From craftsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a craftsman.
examples: text: The craftsmanship on the antique chair was exquisite.
text: In Venice he eats fish and vegetables. In Paris he eats cakes, because he likes the craftsmanship of their creation. “But really, I have cheap taste. I like cheese and ice cream. The sluttier the better.”
ref: 2019 September 26, Caroline Roux, “Rick Owens: 'I love art nouveau. It's super sexy and ominous'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An example of a craftsman's work.
Synonyms: artisanship
craftwork
workmanship
Related terms: craftspersonship
craftswomanship
seeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seeresses
Etymology: From seer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Following the old pagan form she sits a moment upon him in token of surrender, like the Delphian seeress on Apollo’s tripod. After receiving the breath of his spirit, the sacrament of his love, she purifies herself with like formal solemnity. Thenceforth she is a living altar.
ref: 1863, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages translated by Lionel J. Trotter:
text: As the seeress stood irresolute the tall young secretary half rose and whispered something in her ear.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: From the numinous fire of fehu Frigg and Freyja receive their gifts as seeresses.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 115:
glosses: A female seer.
argumenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtə
ipa: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntə/
Etymology: From the Latin argūmenta, nominative plural form of argūmentum.
Senses: glosses: plural of argumentum
Ernesto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
occupier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occupiers
Etymology: From Middle English occupier, occupiour, from occupien + -er (equivalent to occupy + -er) or Middle French occupier, occupiour.
Senses: glosses: One who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another.
Derived terms: nonoccupier
owner-occupier
Related terms: occupant
occupancy
occupation
occupiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occupier
colewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleworts
form: colwort
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole + wort.
Senses: examples: text: Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: [W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
glosses: A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
wikipedia: colewort
Synonyms: sense: headless Brassica
word: cole
Derived terms: sea colewort
Related terms: coleslaw
collard
impresario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪmpɹɪˈsɑːɹɪəʊ/
Forms: form: impresarios
form: impresari
Etymology: From Italian impresario.
Senses: glosses: A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.
bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌniz/
rhymes: -ʌniz
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny
prevocalically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹi.vəʊˈkæ.lɪk.li/
/ˌpɹi.vəʊˈkæ.lɪ.kə.li/
Etymology: From prevocalic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Immediately preceding a vowel or vowel sound.
prevocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiː.vəʊˈkæl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.voʊˈkæl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹiː.vəʉˈkæl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹiː.vɐʉˈkɛl.ək/
Forms: form: praevocalic
Etymology: From pre- + vocalic.
Senses: examples: text: The word "an" is the prevocalic form of the word "a".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: antevocalic
glosses: Immediately preceding a vowel or vowel sound
Derived terms: non-prevocalic
prevocalically
Related terms: intervocalic
postvocalic
collimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: collimators
Etymology: From collimate + -or.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An optical device that generates a parallel beam of light. Often used to compensate for laser beam divergence.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A similar device that produces a parallel beam of particles such as neutrons.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small telescope attached to a larger one, used to point it in the correct general direction.
Derived terms: autocollimator
microcollimator
multileaf collimator
wheelbarrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelbarrow
wheelbarrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wheelbarrow
pray tell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From pray (“ask (politely)”) + tell (“explain”).
Senses: examples: text: Pray tell us, how will they fare while you are away?
glosses: Please explain (something the requester does not yet understand).
examples: text: But how, pray tell, do you "notice" something that happens when you're asleep?
glosses: Expressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts).
Synonyms: english: not often sarcastic
translation: not often sarcastic
word: do tell
pocketknives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocketknife
privates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private
privates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She was kicked in the privates! It must have hurt.
text: Her privates were undamaged.
glosses: The genitalia; those body parts that are not normally displayed; private parts.
privates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of private
Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European
guineas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guinea
spread out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spreads out
form: spreading out
form: spread out
form: spread out
Etymology: Analytic form of earlier outspread.
Senses: examples: text: The police spread out to search a wider area.
glosses: Become further apart.
examples: text: Spread the cards out and then turn two of them over at random.
glosses: To place items further apart.
spread out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spread out
form: most spread out
Etymology: Analytic form of earlier outspread.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, space is very empty, and particles are very spread out.
ref: 2000, Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, →ISBN:
text: It is extremely time-consuming to use public transportation and the restaurants and dining are very spread out.
ref: 2007, Carolyn C. Wise, Stephanie Hauser, The Business School Buzz Book, →ISBN, page 90:
text: The plague is spread person to person, so if the people are very spread out, fewer of them will come in contact with those afflected by the plague.
ref: 2014, William W. Johnstone, Warriors from the Ashes, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: spaced out
word: thin
word: diffuse
word: dispersed
word: incompact
word: loose
word: noncompact
word: scattered
word: spaced out
word: sparse
word: spread out
word: thin
word: uncompact
glosses: Far apart, not close to each other - far apart, extended over an expanse of space or time.
examples: text: The park is very spread out, with two core areas approximately 1.5 km apart, and the trailer dump station almost 2 km away near the park entrance.
ref: 2006, Michael Clancy, Anna Clancy, A User's Guide to Saskatchewan Parks, →ISBN, page 69:
text: As a result, U.S. cities have become very spread out and cover a great deal of land.
ref: 2007, Yukio Noguchi, James M. Poterba, Housing Markets in the United States and Japan, →ISBN, page 133:
text: The t distribution tends to be flatter and more spread out, whereas the normal z distribution has more of a central peak.
ref: 2009, Frederick J. Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, →ISBN, page 285:
text: If you live in or around Houston you cannot survive without wheels. The city is very spread out and continues to sprawl outward and consume more and more real estate.
ref: 2011, Cat Schmidt, Peripheral Vision, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: widespread
glosses: Covering a wide area of space or long period of time.
mysteriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mysteriously
form: most mysteriously
Etymology: From Middle English misteriusly, equivalent to mysterious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Are there any hares about here?' I asked. 'Well, there are some left to be sure,' answered the peasant; 'on the Sukkestad-moor there is an old jack-hare, which many a hound and sportsman have been after, but he is not so easily killed, it appears.' And the worthy peasant shook his head somewhat mysteriously.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76:
text: I put my finger to the side of my nose and nodded mysteriously.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219:
text: At that moment a long, scraggy individual in a checked suit poked his head into the bar, looked around portentously, whistled mysteriously to my informant, and jerked his thumb and head in the direction of the door.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
glosses: In a mysterious manner.
bidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪd.ə/
ipa: /ˈbɪ.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɪ.ɾɚ]
homophone: bitter stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bidders
Etymology: From Middle English bidder, biddere, equivalent to bid + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bidder, German Bitter.
Senses: examples: text: The highest bidder shall get the house.
text: But that is changing; in the coming months, Mr. Gollinger said, his company will hold an auction in a suburban New York community where lenders will help preapprove bidders for mortgages.
ref: 2008 September 14, Bob Tedeschi, “It’s Helpful to Know Your Limits”, in The New York Times:
text: In 2004, the authority declared Abec a nonresponsible bidder after the company failed to submit accurate information.
ref: 2009 June 25, Simon Akam, “Distributor Guilty of Selling Counterfeit Parts to the M.T.A.”, in The New York Times:
text: In other words, the transaction is preferred because it is the best of bad choices. And at least one study has found that when management preannounces a deal it results in lower premiums presumably because it scares off other bidders.
ref: 2013 February 5, Steven Davidoff Solomon, “Reasons to Be Suspicious of Buyouts Led by Management”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone who bids (all senses), but most commonly, one offers to pay a specified price at an auction
glosses: One who commands or orders
glosses: One who asks or invites
glosses: One who begs
Derived terms: bybidder
by-bidder
nonbidder
rebidder
underbidder
fac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: facs
Etymology: Clipping of factotum.
Senses: examples: text: If a Fac or Flowered letter be deeper than the Composing-stick we measure the exact width of it by Quotations, or common Quadrats; which we put into our Stick, and the Fac into the Galley, and then compose, and empty each time so many lines as our measure in the Stick will allow, till we have composed so many as reach something beyond the Depth of the Fac, that by justifying it up to the lines, its touching the letters underneath may be prevented.
ref: 1771, Philip Luckombe, The History and Art of Printing, page 385:
text: This combination of art and accident may be continued to any given length, as punches for letter-press may be formed of steel broken as above, by cutting, drilling, punching, bending (and all their varieties upon the same principle) parts of the letters and leaving the grain of the steel, &c. to form the lines or strokes, with all its accidental irregularities, and in this way title letters and two-line letters, facs, and complex founts of types, might be cast, every letter of which would vary in its lines from every other, and in larger letters a little art might be combin'd with accident so as to make the distinctions from all others obvious to a common observer.
ref: 1859, Robert Barclay, “A.D. 1790, July 26 -- No. 1766”, in Great Britain. Patent Office, editor, Patents for Invention, page 101:
text: The Fac Initial, a cheap substitute for the Pierced Initial, is made by combinations of small borders about an interior letter. As these borders are troublesome to construct and too often plainly show their joints, the Fac Initial is seldom made now.
ref: 1907, De Vinne Press, Types of the De Vinne Press, page 45:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
fac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: facs
Etymology: Clipping of faculty.
Senses: examples: text: Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
The whitest man in all the fac.
Of Princeton spirit he does not lack
ref: 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 74, page vii:
text: I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live on, page 209:
glosses: A faculty within a university.
Derived terms: fac brat
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: max fac
take care of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes care of
form: taking care of
form: took care of
form: taken care of
Senses: examples: text: My elderly mother needs to be taken care of.
glosses: To look after, to care for.
examples: text: Can somebody take care of the customers while I clean this mess?
text: People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down. “We’re going to take care of it,” the president told reporters in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was visiting family.
ref: 2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, quoting Joe Biden, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To deal with, handle.
examples: text: In the motion picture ‘The Godfather’, gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.
glosses: To kill.
Synonyms: sense: look after
word: care for
sense: look after
word: nurse
sense: handle
word: attend to
sense: kill (slang)
word: bump off
sense: kill (slang)
word: knock off
sense: kill (slang)
word: wax
Derived terms: take care of business
take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
take care of yourself
sultana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌlˈtɑː.nə/
ipa: /ˌsʌlˈtæn.ə/
ipa: /ˌsʌlˈtɑ.nə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: sultanas
Etymology: 1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness. Doublet of sultan and soldan.
Senses: synonyms: word: golden raisin
english: American English
translation: American English
glosses: A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape.
synonyms: sultaness
consort
glosses: A wife or mistress of a sultan.
synonyms: sultaness
queen
glosses: A female ruler of a sultanate.
glosses: A type of viol, a cither viol.
glosses: An old form of necklace.
Derived terms: sultana bird
Related terms: odalisque
sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of sweat
sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: A sweatsuit.
examples: text: I have a bad case of the sweats. Do you think it's the flu?
glosses: Any illness causing copious perspiration.
examples: text: Any law-abiding person gets stomach butterflies when pulled over for running a yellow light And going to traffic court can bring on a case of the sweats.
ref: 1989 March 30, “Racism Becoming Expensive Hobby”, in Tri City Herald, Pasco, WA:
glosses: Nervousness.
Derived terms: meat sweats
night sweats
sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweat
helmsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmsmen
form: helmesman
form: helme-man
Etymology: From helm + -s- + man.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering.
glosses: A leader.
Derived terms: helmsmanship
overarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑː(ɹ)m/
Etymology: From over- + arm.
Senses: glosses: Throwing while having the hand above the elbow
overarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑː(ɹ)m/
Etymology: From over- + arm.
Senses: examples: text: In cricket, one must only bowl overarm.
glosses: Having the hand above the arm at the time of throwing
overarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: overarms
Etymology: From over- + arm.
Senses: synonyms: freestyle
front crawl
glosses: A style of swimming of extending the arms alternatively
overarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: overarms
form: overarming
form: overarmed
form: overarmed
Etymology: From over- + arm.
Senses: glosses: To provide with more weaponry than necessary.
gavels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gavel
gavels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gavel
gavelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gavel
gavelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gavel
shop around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shops around
form: shopping around
form: shopped around
form: shopped around
Senses: examples: text: He's gone to shop around for a new car.
glosses: To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor.
examples: text: She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.
text: Before you ask some girl for her hand now / Keep your freedom for as long as you can now / My mama told me, you better shop around.
ref: 1960, Smokey Robinson, “Shop Around”, performed by The Miracles:
text: Girl no longer do I / Have to shop around any more, no no no / I've found that once in a lifetime / Girl that I've been searching for
ref: 1973, Willie Hutch, “I Choose You”:
text: Federal courts look very disapprovingly on local D.A.s shopping around from grand jury to grand jury to et the indictments they want.
ref: 1980 August 2, Mitzel, “Kopacz Indicted On Murder One”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything.
examples: text: He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get a movie deal.
text: A demo of the Cascades doing "I Wish That We Were Married" was taped and shopped around to various labels.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it.
Related terms: comparison shopping
pottage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑtɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɒtɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒtɪdʒ
Forms: form: pottages
Etymology: From Middle English pottage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French potage, equivalent to pot + -age.
Senses: examples: text: And they have not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh.
ref: 1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized spelling edition:
text: He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 328:
glosses: A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
glosses: An oatmeal porridge.
synonyms: porridge
glosses: A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce.
Derived terms: mess of pottage
pease pottage
pottinger
sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
Related terms: potage
Kirchoff's circuit laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Kirchhoff's circuit laws.
Kirchoff's current law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Kirchhoff's current law.
Kirchoff's voltage law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Kirchhoff's voltage law.
don't get someone started
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Do you know what the veterinary bill was?" / "Oh, don't get me started."
text: Don't get him started on conspiracy theories, or you'll never hear the end of it!
glosses: Used to attempt to avoid or abbreviate a discussion that speaker or hearer may wish to avoid.
and then some
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It created a disruption, and then some.
text: “Space travel isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,” said Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon. “We pay taxes on plane tickets. Billionaires flying into space — producing no scientific value — should do the same, and then some!”
ref: 2021 July 20, Neil Vigdor, quoting Earl Blumenauer, “Bezos thanks Amazon workers and customers for his vast wealth, prompting backlash.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I told you that we faced a generation-defining moment, and that we as a society would not be judged by some government action, but by the small acts of kindness that we showed one another. You met that challenge, and then some, and I've never been prouder to be British.
ref: 2024 May 22, Rishi Sunak, UK PM election statement:
text: Case in point: Her 2019 When We All Fall Asleep Tour has an estimated total gross of $18 million while her 2022 Happier Than Ever Tour reportedly made *checks notes* $131.8 million. ¶ Oh, and she's on track to make that (and then some!) again on her upcoming HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Tour. We simply love to see it.
ref: 2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Used to confirm preceding utterance, while implying that what was said or asked is an understatement.
Synonyms: and how
to say the least
Related terms: and a half
to say the least
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The 9/11 attacks weren't very good for America. / To say the least!
text: His performance, to say the least, didn't impress me.
text: "We are very proud of the successful launch of the Elizabeth line. It was very reliable at the start, but the last six months have been challenging, to say the least.
ref: 2024 March 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR launches Reading-Paddington recovery operation”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 7:
synonyms: and then some
and how
glosses: Used to suggest an understatement.
cowcumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowcumbers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cucumber.
seeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seeress
nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettle
nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points
nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nettle
giggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪ.ɡə.li/
rhymes: -ɪɡəli
Forms: form: gigglier
form: giggliest
Etymology: From giggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Prone to giggling.
Derived terms: giggliness
smiles and giggly
castellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castellations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making a building into a castle.
glosses: The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
glosses: Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.
Coordinate terms: english: overlaps synonymously in the architectural sense; coordinate in the machinery sense, whereas the same concept is invoked but the words are used in idiomatically non-interchangeable ways, as with crenellated flashlight bezel but castellated nut
translation: overlaps synonymously in the architectural sense; coordinate in the machinery sense, whereas the same concept is invoked but the words are used in idiomatically non-interchangeable ways, as with crenellated flashlight bezel but castellated nut
word: crenellation
Related terms: castellate
licence to crenellate
castellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castellation
scantling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæntlɪŋ/
Forms: form: scantlings
Etymology: Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
Senses: glosses: The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
examples: text: For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204
text: Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Honor and Reputation”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
text: Reducing them to narrow scantlings.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: jot
word: tidbit
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small portion, a scant amount.
glosses: A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
examples: text: Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
synonyms: catagraph
jotting
precedent
thumbnail
glosses: A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
examples: text: These casks should be placed upon scantling or scaffolding , and not upon the ground in the cellar
ref: 1855, The Vine:
glosses: A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
Related terms: scantlings
scantling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæntlɪŋ/
Forms: form: more scantling
form: most scantling
Etymology: Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
Senses: examples: text: Heav'ns Glorie to atchieve, what scantling Span Hath the frail Pilgrimage of Man!
ref: 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila:
synonyms: word: awanting
word: deficient
word: dismal
word: exiguous
word: geason
word: inadequate
word: insufficient
word: lank
word: lean
word: meager
word: measly
word: paltry
word: raunchy
word: scant
word: scantling
word: scanty
word: scarce
word: skimpy
word: sleazy
word: slender
word: spare
word: sparse
word: threadbare
word: unsufficient
word: wanting
word: wanty
word: dearthy
word: few and far between
word: geason
word: infrequent
word: in short supply
word: rare
word: raresome
word: scant
word: scantling
word: scarce
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: seldom
word: selly
word: superrare
word: uncommon
word: unfrequent
glosses: Not plentiful; small; scanty.
scantlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scantling
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The dimensions of the timbers of a ship
janitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more janitory
form: most janitory
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or for use by a janitor.
phenotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːnə(ʊ)ˈtɪpɪk/
Forms: form: phænotypic
Etymology: From phenotype + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Most advertisements feature people with perfectly symmetrical faces, as this is a sign of phenotypic quality – or good genes.
ref: 2011 July 30, “Baby you can drive my genes”, in The Economist:
glosses: Of, or relating to a phenotype.
Derived terms: aphenotypic
biophenotypic
biphenotypic
ecophenotypic
endophenotypic
glycophenotypic
immunophenotypic
intraphenotypic
isophenotypic
monophenotypic
morphophenotypic
multiphenotypic
pathophenotypic
phenotypical
phenotypically
phenotypic lag
phenotypic masking
phenotypic mixing
phenotypic plasticity
phenotypic suppression
phenotypic switching
phenotypic value
polyphenotypic
radiophenotypic
subphenotypic
deallocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈæləkeɪt/
Forms: form: deallocates
form: deallocating
form: deallocated
form: deallocated
Etymology: From de- + allocate.
Senses: examples: text: Empty out your locker; it will be deallocated at the end of the day.
coordinate_terms: reallocate
reassign
redistribute
glosses: To remove from the set of resources put aside for (allocated to) a particular user or purpose.
examples: text: Computer programs should deallocate memory they no longer need, releasing it back to the system.
text: Similarly, the program deallocates storage for automatic objects when the procedure returns to its caller.
ref: 2010, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd edition, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To return previously allocated memory.
Related terms: deallocation
deallocator
reallocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reallocates
form: reallocating
form: reallocated
form: reallocated
Etymology: From re- + allocate.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: redistribute
I want to reallocate some of my money from stocks to bonds. (I want to sell some of my stocks and use the proceeds to buy bonds to replace them.)
coordinate_terms: deallocate
reassign
glosses: To allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.
examples: text: Appending items one at a time is still a better deal than concatenation, which reallocates every time.
glosses: To allocate again.
Related terms: deallocation
reallocation
centipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centipede
plerophory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plerophories
Senses: examples: text: Massaging themselves into the plerophory that there must be something in the cocksure statements of the various movie executives
ref: a. 1935, George Jean Nathan, "As One Critic to Another", in Passing Judgments: The Theatre World of George Jean Nathan, page 29
text: "...my distrust and hatred of vehicles in motion is partly based on my plerophory that their apparent submission to control is illusory and that they may at their pleasure, and sooner or later will, act on whim."
ref: 1938, Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar:
text: And this, if I do not mistake, the Apostle means by the plerophory or full assurance of faith.
ref: 1945, John Brazier Green, John Wesley and William Law, page 173:
text: "... the advertising departments of all journals threatened falling revenues unless a note of sprightly plerophory were maintained".
ref: 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 108:
text: "... I reject the plerophory that Mr. Greve is a murderer."
ref: 1969, Rex Stout, Death of a Dude:
glosses: Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion; the state of being fully persuaded
shoe lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe lift
gell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gells
Senses: examples: text: Well, mayhap that'll do, as it's a little gell, for they're easier persuaded to sit i' one place nor the lads.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 14”, in Silas Marner:
text: "You're a naughty little gell, that's what you are," said the fireman, and the engine-driver said:--
"Daring little piece, I call her," but they made her sit down on an iron seat in the cab and told her to stop crying and tell them what she meant by it.
ref: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: "The engine-burglar"
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of girl.
gell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gill (“a leech”).
shoe lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe lifts
Senses: glosses: A wedge-shaped shoe insert that can be affixed inside any footwear to make the wearer look taller.
shoe wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe wedge
shoe wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe wedges
Senses: glosses: A wedge-shaped shoe insert to be affixed inside any footwear to make the wearer look taller.
shoe inserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe insert