cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
limaçon of Pascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limaçons of Pascal
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A limaçon.
footing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foot
put on the dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on the dog
form: putting on the dog
form: put on the dog
form: put on the dog
form: put on dog
Senses: examples: text: If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 94:
synonyms: put on airs
glosses: To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious.
Related terms: put on the ritz
Lucia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luˈsiːə/
ipa: /ˈluː.ʃə/
rhymes: -iːə
rhymes: -uːʃə
Etymology: Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Saint Lucia
Santa Lucia fir
Related terms: Santa Lucia
belated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belate
belated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more belated
form: most belated
Senses: examples: text: Happy belated birthday!
text: England manager Roy Hodgson instantly restored Rooney after a two-match suspension in place of Andy Carroll with orders to make a belated mark on the campaign after sitting out the draw against France and victory against Sweden.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.
examples: text: The devil drives the world, whip in hand, — and oddly enough (considering that some belated folk still fancy there is a God somewhere) succeeds in managing his team with extraordinary ease!
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Lacking education or sophistication.
Synonyms: sense: late
word: tardy
sense: late
word: late
sense: late
word: overdue
sense: lacking sophistication
word: uneducated
sense: lacking sophistication
word: unsophisticated
sense: lacking sophistication
word: benighted
sense: lacking sophistication
word: backward
Derived terms: belated happy birthday
belatedly
belatedness
happy belated birthday
unbelated
taskmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæskˌmæstɚ/
Forms: form: taskmasters
Etymology: From task + master.
Senses: examples: text: And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:7:
glosses: Someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.
examples: text: It all looked so easy when the competent were at the helm, but reality is a cruel taskmaster, and all the excuses that worked as an underling wear thin once the incompetent are in leadership roles.
ref: 2023 June 4, Charles Hugh Smith, What Happens When the Competent Opt Out?:
glosses: A source of hard work or responsibility.
burdensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.dən.səm/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.dən.səm/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.dən.səm/
ipa: [ˈbɜː.ɾən.səm]
ipa: /ˈbøː.dən.səm/
Forms: form: more burdensome
form: most burdensome
Etymology: From burden + -some.
Senses: examples: text: . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 6:
text: Finally, there are the commuter trains. Both companies operate these around the big cities and both find them burdensome, owing to the lack of off-peak travel.
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
glosses: Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding
Synonyms: sense: of or like a burden
word: arduous
sense: of or like a burden
word: demanding
sense: of or like a burden
word: exacting
sense: of or like a burden
word: onerous
sense: of or like a burden
word: taxing
word: backbreaking
word: burdenous
word: burdensome
word: cumbersome
word: cumbrous
word: gruelling
word: laborious
word: nimious
topics: law
word: operose
word: oppressive
word: strenuous
word: wearing
Hypernyms: word: difficult
word: fatiguing
Derived terms: burdensomely
burdensomeness
nonburdensome
overburdensome
unburdensome
Related terms: burden
bat-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat-pads
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of a pair of soft padded coverings that protect the legs of the person batting; a pad or batting pad.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position very close to the batsman, square on the leg side, designed to catch the ball from a misplaced defensive shot.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielder in this position.
left arm orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Two days before Australia’s first Test match in Pakistan since 1998, the centre-wicket practice at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium that had been teeming with players saw their numbers dissipate through that spring afternoon. For a time [Steve] Smith alternated batting with Usman Khawaja, facing Ashton Agar’s left-arm orthodox.
ref: 2022 March 3, Geoff Lemon, “Australia plunge into unknown as cricket’s resurrection in Pakistan continues”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which finger spin is used to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman).
Related terms: left arm unorthodox
left arm unorthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which wrist spin is used to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).
Related terms: left arm orthodox
leg break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg breaks
Senses: examples: text: His idol bowled a leg break that was sent flying for four.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a normal ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, moving from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman)
Related terms: off break
leg cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg cutters
form: leg-cutter
form: legcutter
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman)
Related terms: off cutter
off cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off cutters
form: off-cutter
form: offcutter
Senses: examples: text: Boon couldn't handle my inswingers, Waugh had no idea with my off-cutters and my leggies were making Taylor dizzy.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 7:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).
Related terms: leg cutter
leg glance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg glances
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot played by a batsman with a vertical bat, deflecting the ball behind the square leg area of the field.
leg glance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leg glances
form: leg glancing
form: leg glanced
form: leg glanced
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play, or hit the ball with, a leg glance.
leg side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg sides
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The side of the pitch on the same side as the batsman's legs as he takes his stance at the wicket; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
Synonyms: on side
on side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on sides
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The leg side.
on side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Lloyd George's decision to involve Churchill in the Irish talks was a sign of confidence in him as well as a manoeuvre to keep him on side.
ref: 2007, Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill, →ISBN:
text: "Why of course! [...] I would very much like to make it up to you and take you out to dinner, one evening." Edward said with a cheeky grin passing Helena's mother medication, trying his best to sweet-talk her around to get her on side.
ref: 2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Years and years, Mum's managed to keep Hannah on side: it must have felt like a terrible defection.
ref: 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:
glosses: Alternative form of onside.
Related terms: onside
off side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off sides
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The side of the pitch away from the batsman's legs as he takes his stance at the wicket; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The right-hand side of a horse.
Related terms: offside
socioeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Brown said some young men feel they’re victims of discrimination and have expressed mounting resentment for successes of the women’s rights movement, including #MeToo. The tension also has been influenced by socioeconomic struggles.
ref: 2024 November 30, Christine Fernando, “Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election”, in Associated Press:
glosses: Alternative form of socio-economic.
leg slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg slips
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position on the leg side of the wicket-keeper, designed to catch a ball after it hits the bat and deflects by a small amount
leg spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of bowling in which a (right-handed) bowler spins the ball such that, after bouncing, it moves from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman).
Derived terms: leg spinner
off spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of bowling in which a (right-handed) bowler spins the ball such that, after pitching, it moves from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).
Derived terms: off spinner
anticlimax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.tiˌklaɪ.mæks/
ipa: [ˈæ.ɾ̃iˌklaɪ.mæks]
ipa: /ˈæn.taɪˌklaɪ.mæks/
rhymes: -aɪmæks
Forms: form: anticlimaxes
form: anti-climax
Etymology: From anti- + climax.
Senses: examples: text: Reed, Superba of yore, made a gallant effort to summon the Promethean fire that once burned within him when it was his “listening senates to command,” but his vaunted perorations proved anticlimaces and his oratory a flop.
ref: 1935 September 18, “The Two Dromios, Jim and Jouette”, in Columbia Daily Tribune, volume XXXV, number 5, Columbia, Mo., page six, column 1:
text: If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, from under siege, seemed infinitely more portentous: “The Day is Come that in all Probility on which Depends the Salvation of this Countery.”
ref: 2009, Konstantin Dierks, “Revolution and War”, in In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A failed or reverse climax, particularly
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A failed or reverse climax
An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict.
glosses: A failed or reverse climax
An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintentional) from the dignity of the idea which the speaker or writer appeared to be aiming for.
Synonyms: sense: partial
word: bathos
Related terms: anticlimactic
underwhelm
off spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off spinners
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who bowls off spin.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off cutter.
leg spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg spinners
Senses: examples: text: The leg-spinner had talked about new mystery balls, giving them names like shooters and zooters.
ref: 1994 December 25, The Canberra Times, Canberra, page 14, column 4:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who bowls leg spin.
Synonyms: leggie
antithesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪ.θə.sɪs/
Forms: form: antitheses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- + thesis.
Senses: examples: text: Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.
ref: 2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:
text: On the night of the 2nd of March 2025, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for.
ref: 2025 March 25, Daisy Stephens, “Paddington vandals 'antithesis' of bear, says judge”, in BBC:
hypernyms: opposite
;
antipode
glosses: A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
examples: text: Antithesis, opposing things to things,
Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Antithesis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.
Synonyms: word: antithesis
word: contrary
word: converse
word: inverse
word: obverse
word: opposite
word: polar opposite
word: reverse
word: witherward
Hypernyms: word: difference
Hyponyms: word: antipodes
word: foil
word: nemesis
word: opponent
Derived terms: antithesise
antithesize
antithet
antithetic
antithetical
antitheticality
antithetically
antitheticalness
recrudesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛs/
ipa: /ˌɹi-/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: recrudesces
form: recrudescing
form: recrudesced
form: recrudesced
Senses: glosses: To recur, or break out anew after a dormant period.
Synonyms: repeat
Derived terms: recrudescence
diaspora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈæs.pə.ɹə/
ipa: /daɪˈæs.pɹə/
ipa: /daɪˈæs.pɚ.ə/
ipa: /daɪˈæs.pɹə/
ipa: /diˈæs.pɚ.ə/
ipa: /diˈæs.pɹə/
note: Indic
ipa: /dajəs.pɔrɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /dajˈaspɵrɑ/
Forms: form: diasporas
form: diasporae
form: diasporai
form: Diaspora
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διασπορᾱ́ (diasporā́, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from δια- (dia-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).
Senses: examples: text: The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
text: This scattering abrode of the Iewes, as it were an heauenly sowing, fell out after their returne from the captiuitie of Babylon. Wherevpon both Acts. 2. and also 1. Pet. 1. and 1. Iam. ver. 1. [sic] they are called Diaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode.
ref: 1594, Lambert Daneau, A Fruitfull Commentarie Vpon the Twelue Small Prophets, page 1042:
text: We're going to use her to train young people in the skills of maintaining these machines, and encourage the Indian diaspora in this country to get involved in our hobby of steam railways.
ref: 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Saved: Trust protects Adrian Shooter's legacy”, in RAIL, number 987, page 29:
glosses: The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
glosses: Jews outside of the land of Israel.
examples: text: Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
glosses: The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
examples: text: Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages
ref: 1988, Joseph Foley, New Englishes: the case of Singapore, page 1:
glosses: Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
Hyponyms: Afrodiaspora
Diaspora
Derived terms: Afrodiaspora
diasporal
diasporan
diasporated
diasporation
diasporism
diasporite
tenpin bowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible.
Synonyms: bowling
Related terms: skittles
tenpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenpins
form: ten-pin
Etymology: ten + pin
Senses: glosses: Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.
glosses: The game of tenpin bowling.
Related terms: skittle
skittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtəlz/
Senses: glosses: A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: An informal form of chess played without a clock.
skittles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skittle
Derived terms: beer and skittles
skittles and beer
skittles party
Related terms: skittle alley
ninepins
tenpin bowling
skittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of skittle
skittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: skittles
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture. The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also Old English sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle.
Senses: examples: text: By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
ref: 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:
glosses: One of the wooden targets used in skittles.
Derived terms: skittle alley
skittle-dog
titty skittle
skittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: skittles
form: skittling
form: skittled
form: skittled
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture. The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also Old English sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle.
Senses: glosses: To play skittles.
glosses: (with down) To squander one's money.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
To defeat easily.
glosses: To knock down (skittles).
Derived terms: skittle out
Related terms: bowling
skittle alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skittle alleys
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The long narrow building in which skittles is played.
neura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͝oəʹrə
ipa: /ˈnjʊəɹə/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek νεῦρα (neûra), the nominative plural form of νεῦρον (neûron), whence neuron.
Senses: examples: text: 1905: Eugene Solomon Talbot, Developmental Pathology, pages 7⁽¹⁾ and 8⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ Some investigations have shown that the slightest injuries to nerve cells or neura will give rise to easily demonstrable degenerative lesions in other parts of the cell.
⁽²⁾ Certain groups of neura are more susceptible than others to a given toxication.
text: In Wollenberg’s opinion the primary type of disease of the sensory neura in tabes is of this kind.
ref: 1913: Eugene Solomon Talbot, Interstitial Gingivitis and Pyorrhœa Alveolaris, page 273 (Ransom & Randolph Co.)
text: 1998, June 1st: Warner S. Bloomberg, alt.gathering.rainbow (Google group): Yes. Love. (was Rainbow’s Views…), 8:00am
To be rendered impotent by sadness that cripples is allowing revenge to seep into one’s own neura (sic: nerves).
glosses: plural of neuron
MSCE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Master of Science in Communications Engineering.
stay behind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay behinds
Senses: examples: text: Pleasant prospect for us, who are sure to be amongst the unlucky stay behinds!
ref: 1861, John Hart Dunne, From Calcutta to Pekin, page 95:
text: “[…]Think there may be some bugs left. Deserters, stay behinds, whatever.”
ref: 1992, David Drake, Bill Fawcett, Battlestation, page 134:
text: That creates very few “dead spots” for potential thieves to avoid sensors and helps deter “stay behinds”: skulkers who come into the room with a group but remain when others leave.
ref: 2004 September, Scott Berinato, Chandra Tallman, “The Art of Securing Pricelessness”, in CSO, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of stay-behind.
forswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈswɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈswɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: forswears
form: forswearing
form: forswore
form: forsworn
form: foreswear
Etymology: From Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian (“to swear falsely”). Cognate with Old Saxon farswerian, Old High German farsweren, German verschwören. More at for- + swear.
Senses: examples: text: We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters.
text: Never to woo her more; but do forswear her.
ref: 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
text: Like Innocence, and as serenely bold / As Truth, how loudly He forswears thy Gold!.
ref: 1726, John Dryden, translating Juvenal, Satires:
text: Long since he had given up every intention of returning to civilization, and now he had decided to see no more his black friends of the Waziri. He had forsworn humanity forever. He had started life an ape—as an ape he would die.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 198:
text: Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over.
ref: 1995, Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater:
text: The sheer unimaginableness of coming into her mouth — of coming into anything other than the air or a tissue or a dirty sock — was an allurement too stupendous for a novice to forswear.
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
text: Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.
ref: 2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
synonyms: swear off
glosses: To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
synonyms: perjure
manswear
misswear
glosses: To commit perjury; to break an oath.
Derived terms: forswearer
SNMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Simple Network Management Protocol.
silently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪləntli/
Forms: form: more silently
form: most silently
Etymology: From silent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It often happens that the most important results in the natural world are brought about by causes which operate silently, if not imperceptibly.
ref: 1838, William Andrus Alcott, chapter I, in The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, third stereotype edition, Boston: George W. Light, page 21:
text: Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; his orderlies are silently speeding, plans taken, orders given: […]
ref: 1865, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume VI, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a silent manner; making no noise.
examples: text: There never was an English-language text, either in 1561 or 1859. Yule and Burnell have silently provided a translation.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 496:
glosses: Of an edit or change to a text, without explicit acknowledgment.
Derived terms: yell silently
Related terms: silent
silence
great minds think alike
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: Person A: He looks a bit like David Beckham...
Person B: I was just thinking that!
Person A: Great minds think alike, eh?
Person C: More like fools seldom differ in this case...
glosses: Used to remark upon the fact that someone else has had the same thought or idea as you, implying that both of you are clever or astute.
chemurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemurgies
Etymology: From chem- + -urgy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
Derived terms: chemurgic
chemurgical
chemurgist
stake out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stakes out
form: staking out
form: staked out
form: staked out
Senses: glosses: To watch a location or people, generally covertly.
examples: text: stake out land
text: to stake out a new road
text: Bradley, von Schoenvorts and I, with Miss La Rue's help, staked out the various buildings and the outer wall. When the day was done, we had quite an array of logs nicely notched and ready for our building operations on the morrow, and we were all tired, for after the buildings had been staked out we all fell in and helped with the logging
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: To mark off the limits by stakes.
qualifier: croquet
glosses: To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court.
Derived terms: stakeout
sidespin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidespins
Etymology: From side + spin.
Senses: examples: text: When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with a clockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a fade or if extreme a slice and the flight of the ball will curve to the right.
text: When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with an anticlockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a draw or if extreme a hook and the flight of the ball will curve to the left.
glosses: Rotation around a vertical axis that makes a ball or other object curve in flight.
Related terms: english
cardiomyopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiomyopathies
Etymology: From cardio- + myopathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The deterioration of the myocardium.
Synonyms: myocardiopathy
Hyponyms: myocarditis
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Derived terms: apical ballooning cardiomyopathy
cardiomyopathic
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
stress cardiomyopathy
takotsubo cardiomyopathy
two-seam fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-seam fastballs
Senses: examples: text: His two-seamer has a heavy sink and keeps the infielders busy.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch thrown with a grip in the "horseshoe" orientation of the ball, with the rotation at a slight angle resulting in less Magnus effect as compared to a four-seam fastball since only two of the ball's seams cross the flight path; the pitch is delivered with a similar velocity as a four-seam fastball, but has a degree of sink.
Related terms: curveball
fastball
slider
four-seam fastball
split-finger fastball
sinker
screwball
knuckleball
four-seam fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-seam fastballs
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
Related terms: curveball
slider
fastball
cut fastball
two-seam fastball
split-finger fastball
sinker
screwball
knuckleball
flatcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatcars
form: flat car
Etymology: From flat + car.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: flatbed
word: flat wagon
english: British synonyms:
translation: British synonyms:
word: truck
glosses: A railroad freight car without sides and roof.
Related terms: boxcar
-urgy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Senses: glosses: A technique for working with something.
iso-octane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iso-octanes
Etymology: From iso- + octane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isomer of octane except the normal, straight-chain one; especially 2,2,4-trimethylpentane.
Related terms: octane number
sharpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharpnesses
Etymology: From Middle English sharpnesse, scharpnesse, from Old English sċearpnes (“sharpness”), equivalent to sharp + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the cutting ability of an edge; keenness.
glosses: the fineness of the point a pointed object.
examples: text: The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.
ref: 1950 April 24, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
glosses: The product or result of being sharp.
glosses: pungency or acidity.
raw_tags: of food etc
glosses: distinctness, focus.
raw_tags: of an image
examples: text: Mrs. PAGE is gifted with a pleasing voice, which is yet imperfectly weeded of certain sharpnesses, but seems susceptible of a wide range of melodious inflection.
ref: 1861 June 14, “Amusements.”, in The New York Times:
text: A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: acuteness or acuity.
raw_tags: of intelligence
examples: text: CUT-WATER, or KNEE OF THE HEAD [S.] the ſharpneſs of the head of the ſhip, below the beak;
ref: 1760, John Marchant, Gent. Mr. Gordon, Daniel Bellamy, and others., A New Complete English Dictionary...:
text: also thei smytiden bi the scharpnesse of swerd, oxun, and scheep, and assis.
ref: ca. 1395, John Wycliffe et al., Joshua 6:21:
glosses: edge or blade
Synonyms: sense: cutting ability of an edge
word: keenness
sense: pungency, acidity
word: acidity
sense: pungency, acidity
word: acridity
sense: pungency, acidity
word: piquancy
sense: pungency, acidity
word: pungency
sense: pungency, acidity
word: sourness
sense: of an image
word: clarity
sense: of an image
word: distinctness
sense: of an image
word: focus
sense: of intelligence
word: acuteness
sense: of intelligence
word: acuity
Related terms: sense: of an image
word: acutance
Sharpness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inland port in Hinton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6702).
backhoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.həʊ/
Forms: form: backhoes
Etymology: From back + hoe.
Senses: coordinate_terms: front-end loader
glosses: A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
glosses: Ellipsis of backhoe tractor: A specialized tractor with the backhoe subassembly. This type of tractor has been superceded by the backhoe loader and trackhoe in most roles.
examples: text: Meronym: front-end loader
text: The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent.[…]I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners
ref: 1967 June, Charles E. Rhine, “How to Rent a Backhoe”, in Popular Science, page 149:
text: I'll recommend a good way to calculate backhoe production rates. Then we'll look at the two backhoes you'll be using, the wheeled backhoe and the tracked backhoe.
ref: 1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe and Excavation Contracting, page 173:
text: 2010, Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, page 2.49,
Backhoe pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).
synonyms: digger
hypernyms: heavy equipment
coordinate_terms: trackhoe
;
front-end loader
;
bulldozer
grader
glosses: Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).
Synonyms: sense: multi-purpose
word: backhoe loader
sense: multi-purpose
word: loader excavator
sense: multi-purpose
word: backhoe endloader
Derived terms: backhoe loader
Related terms: bobcat
excavator
front-end loader
JCB
backhoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.həʊ/
Forms: form: backhoes
form: backhoeing
form: backhoed
form: backhoed
Etymology: From back + hoe.
Senses: glosses: To excavate using such equipment.
epigraphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigraphists
Senses: glosses: A person who studies epigraphy (inscriptions).
Synonyms: epigrapher
Related terms: epigraph
line drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line drives
Senses: examples: text: The line drive went straight into the shortstop's glove.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: A batted ball hit hard enough and low enough that it appears to travel in a relatively straight line.
Synonyms: word: liner
liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liners
Etymology: From line (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a liner of shoes
text: A good liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 41:
glosses: Someone who fits a lining to something.
examples: text: I threw out the trash can liner.
text: Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform.
ref: 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A removable cover or lining.
examples: text: liner notes
glosses: The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc.
glosses: A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
glosses: A similar lining for cylinders of internal-combustion engines (see "Further reading").
glosses: A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
glosses: A formal no-show sock.
glosses: A pantyliner.
Derived terms: bedliner
bin liner
bottom liner
diaper liner
eyeliner
hard-liner
headliner
interliner
liner card
linerless
liner lock
liner notes
lipliner
lip liner
nappy liner
one-liner
panty liner
poncho liner
pond liner
section liner
soft-liner
trainer liner
underliner
unlinered
zip-liner
zip liner
liner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liners
form: linering
form: linered
form: linered
Etymology: From line (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They have a common chassis, except that the cylinders, 20 in. diameter in the Class "7", are linered down to 19½ in. in the Class "6".
ref: 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 444:
glosses: To fit a cylinder liner.
liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liners
Etymology: From line (noun) + -er (relational suffix) or -er (measurement suffix) (sense 5).
Senses: examples: text: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship of the line.
examples: text: The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A line drive.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A basic salesperson.
examples: text: the following three-liner by an unknown poet
ref: 2005, G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships, page 130:
glosses: Something with a specified number of lines.
examples: text: 94 liner
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line.
glosses: Ellipsis of penny-a-liner.
Derived terms: binliner
blueliner
cargo liner
commuterliner
cruise liner
feederliner
interliner
jetliner
linerless
ocean liner
passenger liner
starliner
steamliner
superliner
Related terms: airliner
hook-and-liner
knuckleball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckleballs
Etymology: From knuckle + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going.
text: Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers.
examples: text: Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.
glosses: An event that is hard to predict.
Synonyms: sense: baseball pitch
word: flutterball
sense: baseball pitch
word: floater
sense: baseball pitch
word: dancer
sense: baseball pitch
word: butterfly ball
sense: baseball pitch
word: ghostball
sense: baseball pitch
word: bug
knuckleball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knuckleballs
form: knuckleballing
form: knuckleballed
form: knuckleballed
Etymology: From knuckle + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Varitek did not start so Kevin Cash could catch the knuckleballing starter Tim Wakefield.
ref: 2008 April 16, The Associated Press, “Tigers Rally Again to Defeat the Twins”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pitch knuckleballs.
Derived terms: knuckleballer
Related terms: sense: Also of interest
word: curveball
sense: Also of interest
word: cut fastball
sense: Also of interest
word: fastball
sense: Also of interest
word: screwball
sense: Also of interest
word: sinker
sense: Also of interest
word: slider
sense: Also of interest
word: split finger fastball
sense: Also of interest
word: two-seam fastball
knuckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knucklers
Etymology: From knuckle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.
ref: 1952, Bernard Malamud, chapter 2, in The Natural:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A knuckleball.
Related terms: curveball
slider
fastball
cut fastball
two-seam fastball
split-finger fastball
sinker
screwball
sinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sinkers
Etymology: From sink + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which sinks or descends.
examples: text: McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker.
ref: 1999, David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography:
glosses: One who sinks something.
examples: text: Hook the sinker onto this loop.
text: Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
examples: text: His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
examples: text: Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
ref: 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel, page 268:
text: they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers.
ref: 2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148:
text: "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.
ref: 2003, William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man, page 168:
glosses: A doughnut; a biscuit.
glosses: In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
Derived terms: jack-sinker
tanksinker
well sinker
Related terms: sense: baseball pitches
word: curveball
sense: baseball pitches
word: slider
sense: baseball pitches
word: cut fastball
sense: baseball pitches
word: two-seam fastball
sense: baseball pitches
word: split-finger fastball
sense: baseball pitches
word: screwball
sense: baseball pitches
word: knuckleball
split-finger fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-finger fastballs
form: split-finger
form: splitter
form: split-fingered fastball
Senses: examples: text: His strikeout pitch was his split-finger fastball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A moderate rotation speed backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped between the index finger and middle finger; it has good velocity, may have a precessing spin, and sinks as it approaches the plate.
Related terms: curveball
cut fastball
fastball
knuckleball
screwball
sinker
slider
two-seam fastball
change-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʃeɪndʒʌp/
Forms: form: change-ups
form: changeup
Etymology: Deverbal from change up.
Senses: examples: text: The pitcher had a devastating change-up.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch thrown with the arm motion of a fastball, but which travels at a much slower velocity because it is released without the fingers adding power to the delivery.
examples: text: This RFQ is a real change-up.
glosses: An unexpected event.
Synonyms: sense: slower than expected baseball pitch
word: change of pace
Coordinate terms: curveball
slider
cut fastball
two-seam fastball
split-finger fastball
sinker
screwball
knuckleball
strikeout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strikeouts
form: strike-out
Etymology: Deverbal from strike out.
Senses: examples: text: We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.
glosses: An instance or the act of yielding nothing.
examples: text: The pitcher recorded seven strikeouts in the game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance or the act of striking out.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
strikeout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikeouts
form: strikeouting
form: strikeouted
form: strikeouted
form: strike-out
Etymology: Deverbal from strike out.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
Related terms: strike out
walk
single
double