cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
baby-sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-sitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babysitter.
babysitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɚ/
Forms: form: babysitters
form: baby-sitter
form: baby sitter
Etymology: From baby + sitter.
Senses: examples: text: My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
synonyms: childsitter
sitter
hypernyms: childminder
glosses: A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
examples: text: He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.
ref: 2005, Alan Ball, Playing Extra Time, page 158:
glosses: A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
Derived terms: word: babysitter test
english: via back-formation
translation: via back-formation
word: babysit
word: electronic babysitter
Related terms: birdsitter
catsitter
dogsitter
homesitter
house-sitter
petsitter
puppysitter
nanny
nurse
wordforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝdfɔɹmz/
ipa: /ˈwɜːdfɔːmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of wordform
longed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lôngd
ipa: /ˈlɔŋd/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋd/
enpr: längd
ipa: /ˈlɑŋd/
rhymes: -ɔŋd
rhymes: -ɒŋd
rhymes: -ɑŋd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of long
crushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crush
crushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Forms: form: more crushed
form: most crushed
Senses: glosses: Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
examples: text: We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.
text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated.
examples: text: Her top was of black crushed velvet.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
Derived terms: crushed strawberry
crushed sugar
crushed velvet
uncrushed
greeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
ref: 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 13, in Catch-22, page 133:
glosses: simple past and past participle of greet
Derived terms: ungreeted
tempted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmptɪd/
Senses: examples: I am tempted to go.
glosses: simple past and past participle of tempt
spared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛɹd/
ipa: /ˈspɛəd/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spare
conveyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈveɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convey
breathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːðd/
rhymes: -iːðd
Etymology: From breathe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breathe
breathed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːðd/
rhymes: -iːðd
ipa: /bɹɛθt/
rhymes: -ɛθt
ipa: /bɹiːðd/
rhymes: -iːðd
Etymology: From breath + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A less matter would hold a well-breathed minstrel in subject for recitation for a calendar month, Sundays and holydays included.
ref: 1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter III, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 103:
text: She was so mad you'd have thought she'd been propositioned by a bad-breathed lobbyist in a broken-elevator encounter at City Hall.
ref: 2005, Atlanta Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 26:
glosses: Having a specified kind of breath.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: voiceless, contrasting with voiced
raw_tags: of a consonant or vowel
Derived terms: shortbreathed
endeavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of endeavored.
doubted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtɪd/
Forms: form: more doubted
form: most doubted
Senses: examples: text: And now for the Statue or Image of Christ, if it be worshipped towards with such a religious look and devout cast of the eyes as before, significative of the highest veneration that is due to God, or can by us be given to him, it is apparent that this exteriour ritual worship is done to this Image also; nor can be any more doubted, than if kissing of this Image were the Ritual performance and it were kissed , that this Image was the Object of the kissing with all the exteriour devotionalness used therein: and that therefore this Image thus adopted, though but relatively, partakes of divine worship.
ref: 1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More: his Antidote Against Idolatry, page 24:
text: But I have heard sundry men say That he was the most doubted man, That in Carrick was living than.
ref: 1758, John Barbour, The Life and Acts of the Most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, page 105:
text: Except on a marginal scale, it is very doubted as to whether the redistributive aspect will be achieved if extensive recourse is made on taxation on the experience of the past in this country and on other grounds.
ref: 1969, Satya Prakash Jain, Studies in Finance and Economic Development, page 99:
glosses: Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain.
Derived terms: undoubted
doubted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doubt
halted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːltɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑltɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halt
clothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊðd/
ipa: /ˈkloʊðd/
rhymes: -əʊðd
Forms: form: cloathed
Etymology: From clothe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clothe
clothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊðd/
ipa: /ˈkloʊðd/
rhymes: -əʊðd
Forms: form: cloathed
Etymology: From clothe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing clothes or clothing.
Synonyms: word: clad
word: dressed
word: raimented
word: He arrived fully clothed despite the heat
word: modestly clothed
word: richly clothed
word: scantily clothed
word: aguised
word: beclad
word: clothed
word: habilimented
word: nonnude
word: sarkit
word: togged
word: vested
word: yclothed
Hypernyms: word: accoutred
word: adorned
word: furnished
Hyponyms: word: anoraked
word: bathrobed
word: becardiganed
word: becorseted
word: beshirted
word: besilked
word: besweatered
word: betighted
word: boilersuited
word: breeched
word: burkaed
word: burnoosed
word: cashmered
word: cassocked
word: catsuited
word: chasubled
word: chemised
word: costumed
word: denimed
word: drysuited
word: dungareed
word: frockcoated
word: frocked
word: fursuited
word: ginghamed
word: gymslipped
word: habited
word: jeaned
word: jerseyed
word: jumpsuited
word: kaftaned
word: loinclothed
word: muslined
word: nightclothed
word: nightgowned
word: nightshirted
word: pantaletted
word: pantalooned
word: parkaed
word: ragged
word: sackclothed
word: saried
word: sealskinned
word: shagged
word: shawled
word: sheepskinned
word: shellsuited
word: shirted
word: shirtsleeved
word: shod
word: snowsuited
word: surcoated
word: suspendered
word: tailcoated
word: tartaned
word: tighted
word: tissued
word: tracksuited
word: trousered
word: tutued
word: tuxedoed
word: vestmented
word: underweared
word: uniformed
word: wetsuited
word: woolly
word: barbed
word: barded
word: cladly dressed
word: overclothed
word: overdressed
word: semiclad
word: seminaked
word: seminude
word: scantily clad
word: underdressed
word: daggy
word: dapper
word: dressed to kill
word: dressed to the nines
word: dowdy
word: frumpish
word: gaybeseen
word: well-dressed
word: decent
word: plainclothed
Derived terms: clothedness
nonclothed
overclothed
plainclothed
plain-clothed
Related terms: word: clothe
clothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊðd/
ipa: /ˈkloʊðd/
rhymes: -əʊðd
ipa: /klɔθt/
ipa: /klɑθt/
ipa: /klɒθt/
ipa: /ˈkləʊðd/
ipa: /ˈkloʊðd/
rhymes: -əʊðd
Forms: form: cloathed
Etymology: From cloth + -ed.
Senses: examples: a white-clothed table
glosses: Covered with a cloth.
Synonyms: word: aguised
word: beclad
word: clad
word: clothed
word: dressed
word: habilimented
word: nonnude
word: raimented
word: sarkit
word: togged
word: vested
word: yclothed
Hypernyms: word: accoutred
word: adorned
word: furnished
Hyponyms: word: anoraked
word: bathrobed
word: becardiganed
word: becorseted
word: beshirted
word: besilked
word: besweatered
word: betighted
word: boilersuited
word: breeched
word: burkaed
word: burnoosed
word: cashmered
word: cassocked
word: catsuited
word: chasubled
word: chemised
word: costumed
word: denimed
word: drysuited
word: dungareed
word: frockcoated
word: frocked
word: fursuited
word: ginghamed
word: gymslipped
word: habited
word: jeaned
word: jerseyed
word: jumpsuited
word: kaftaned
word: loinclothed
word: muslined
word: nightclothed
word: nightgowned
word: nightshirted
word: pantaletted
word: pantalooned
word: parkaed
word: ragged
word: sackclothed
word: saried
word: sealskinned
word: shagged
word: shawled
word: sheepskinned
word: shellsuited
word: shirted
word: shirtsleeved
word: shod
word: snowsuited
word: surcoated
word: suspendered
word: tailcoated
word: tartaned
word: tighted
word: tissued
word: tracksuited
word: trousered
word: tutued
word: tuxedoed
word: vestmented
word: underweared
word: uniformed
word: wetsuited
word: woolly
word: barbed
word: barded
word: cladly dressed
word: overclothed
word: overdressed
word: semiclad
word: seminaked
word: seminude
word: scantily clad
word: underdressed
word: daggy
word: dapper
word: dressed to kill
word: dressed to the nines
word: dowdy
word: frumpish
word: gaybeseen
word: well-dressed
word: decent
word: plainclothed
Related terms: word: clothe
assisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪstɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assist
Derived terms: state-assisted
dismissed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: more dismissed
form: most dismissed
Senses: examples: text: Eve and the "concrete woman" are no more dismissed than Adam and the "concrete man" but are represented as capable of being converted and saved.
ref: 1995, Manfred Hauke, God Or Goddess?: Feminist Theology : what is It?, page 201:
text: I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed.
ref: 2013, Tracy L. Matteson, Funny You Should Ask, page 153:
text: The more generic you are when you communicate with someone, the more dismissed they feel.
ref: 2018, Nicole Dreiske, The Upside of Digital Devices, page 52:
text: And maybe Hazira was always going to be a gooey marshland, but that doesn't mean you entice the nation's poorest and most dismissed groups to live there.
ref: 2023, Rob Verchick, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience:
glosses: Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
examples: text: Since this time BPG factory management have reneged on this agreement and stated they will only reemploy the dismissed workers at a separate facility — an hour away from the current one, an offer rejected by the workers, who have the right to return to the same factory and to their previous positions.
ref: 2006, Tim Connor, Kelly Dent, Offside!: Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia, page 36:
text: Future studies can examine its other antecedents and its consequences to both the firm and to the dismissed CEO.
ref: 2011, Mason Andrew Carpenter, M. Keith Weikel, The Handbook of Research on Top Management Teams, page 382:
text: During the notice period all dismissed employees – regardless of whether the dismissals was due to economic reasons or incompetence – are entitled to a minimum of two hours per week to search for employment.
ref: 2016, Connecting People with Jobs, page 115:
glosses: Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated.
Derived terms: undismissed
dismissed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that an interaction is at an end and that the listener should leave.
dismissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismiss
endeavored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛvɚd/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɛvəd/
Forms: form: endeavoured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endeavor
taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăkʹsĭz
ipa: /ˈtæksɪz/
homophone: taxis (without happy-tensing)
Etymology: See tax.
Senses: glosses: plural of tax
taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tăkʹsĭz
ipa: /ˈtæksɪz/
homophone: taxis (without happy-tensing)
Etymology: See tax.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tax
taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăkʹsĭz
ipa: /ˈtæksɪz/
homophone: taxis (without happy-tensing)
enpr: tăkʹsēz
ipa: /ˈtæksiːz/
enpr: tăkʹsĭz
ipa: /ˈtæksɪz/
homophone: taxis (without happy-tensing)
Etymology: See taxis.
Senses: glosses: plural of taxis
expressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɹɛʃ.ənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of expression
faults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːlts/
ipa: /fɒlts/
ipa: /fɔlts/
ipa: /fɑlts/
rhymes: -ɔːlts
rhymes: -ɒlts
Senses: glosses: plural of fault
faults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːlts/
ipa: /fɒlts/
ipa: /fɔlts/
ipa: /fɑlts/
rhymes: -ɔːlts
rhymes: -ɒlts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fault
secrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.kɹɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of secret
secrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.kɹɪts/
Senses: examples: text: After examining it, he touches and stops the pendulum, takes away its key, poles the stick into the box and secrets it away as if it were a prize.
ref: 1978, John F. Desmond, Still moment: essays on the art of Eudora Welty, Scarecrow Press, p. 90
text: But instead of surrendering the weapon to the needy Partisans as he originally promised, Pin secrets it away in a magical place in the forest …
ref: 1999, Constance Markey, Calvino: a journey toward postmodernism, University Press of Florida, p. 38
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of secret
Related terms: secretes
comrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɹeɪdz/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɹædz/
Senses: glosses: plural of comrade
comrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɹeɪdz/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɹædz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comrade
bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bush
Panglossian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænˈɡlɑsi.ən/
ipa: /pænˈɡlɔsi.ən/
ipa: /pænˈɡlɒsɪən/
rhymes: -ɔːsiən
rhymes: -ɒsɪən
Forms: form: more Panglossian
form: most Panglossian
Etymology: From Dr. Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's Candide, + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Though he took a Panglossian view of the world in his youth, he became jaded as he grew older.
glosses: Naively or unreasonably optimistic.
glosses: Of or relating to the view that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Synonyms: Pollyannaish
Derived terms: Panglossianism
witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtnəsɪz/
/ˈwɪtnɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of witness
witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtnəsɪz/
/ˈwɪtnɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of witness
jewels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒulz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
homophone: joules
homophone: Jules
Senses: glosses: plural of jewel
jewels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒulz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
homophone: joules
homophone: Jules
Senses: examples: text: Murray, if I wasn't so crazy about you I'd give you a kick right in the jewels.
ref: 1991, Michael J Katz, The Big Freeze:
text: You just don't steal a man's gun and not expect a swift kick in the jewels in return.
ref: 2008, Liam Jackson, Offspring:
glosses: Family jewels; testicles.
Derived terms: family jewels
jewels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒulz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
homophone: joules
homophone: Jules
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jewel
particulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚz/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /pəˈtɪkjələz/
note: US, rhotic, r-dissimilation
ipa: /pəˈtɪkjəlɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of particular
particulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚz/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /pəˈtɪkjələz/
note: US, rhotic, r-dissimilation
ipa: /pəˈtɪkjəlɚz/
Senses: examples: text: The overall plan is well understood, but we still have to work out the particulars.
glosses: The details or specifics of something.
temples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕmʹp(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈtɛmpl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of temple
temples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕmʹp(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈtɛmpl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of temple
landlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/
Forms: form: landladies
Etymology: From land + lady.
Senses: examples: text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
text: Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
ref: 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
glosses: A female landlord.
Derived terms: landladyish
slumlady
Related terms: old lady
slighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His habit of slighting the company chairman was considered to be inappropriate behaviour.
glosses: present participle and gerund of slight
slighting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slighting
form: most slighting
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative
slighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slightings
Senses: examples: text: […] the rest, who had looked upon him with such disdainful neglect […] now flocked about him, striving who should express most respect, and, by an extraordinary officiousness, redeem their late slightings.
ref: 1848, Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, page 376:
glosses: The act of giving a slight or snub.
examples: text: The slighting of children
glosses: An act of ignoring or neglecting someone or something; more broadly neglect.
examples: text: The slighting of a handshake by Samuel ticked off Judi to no end.
glosses: The action of rejecting someone or something; rejection.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The full or partial demolition of a fortification.
checkbook journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequebook journalism
Senses: glosses: The practice of journalists of paying a person or organization for the receipt of a news story.
alphabet soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabet soups
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: alfabeto
text: Parents have been entertaining their children at mealtime with alphabet soup since the nineteenth century.
glosses: A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
examples: text: The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.
text: And particularly in headlines and written materials, gay was used over LGBT. One ambivalent heterosexual ally explained this decision-making: I think there were several people who were sensitive to issues like that about do we use the word lesbian? Do we use the word transgender? And it's not that we didn't use those words, but in general, if you're doing a brochure and you have a headline, you don't include the whole alphabet soup.
ref: 2006, Amy L. Stone, More than adding a T: transgender inclusion in Michigan gay rights ordinances, 1992-2000:
glosses: A cryptic overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations.
examples: text: too many three-letter agencies, constituting an alphabet soup
coordinate_terms: alphabet agency
glosses: A quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.
examples: text: This part of the neutron star has been described as ‘a rich Greek alphabet soup’.
ref: 1978, Patrick Moore, 1978 Yearbook of Astronomy, page 172:
text: GCN has published debates between and about Left groups like the Revolutionary Socialist League, Workers World Party, and Philadelphia Worokers Organizing Committee, but their debates are likely to leave the uninitiated in a daze. For folks who are new to the Left, the multitude of group acronyms must seem like an alphabet soup ― RSL, WWP, PWOC, SWP, CPML, NAM, DCSO, etc. ― and they are likely to have no appetite for it.
ref: 1980 February 9, Scott Tucker, “The Lavender Left”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 5:
text: The early big bang is an alphabet soup of quarks, W bosons, gluons, and other exotic particles and flavors. In the usual scenario, there is no place for the pion. It dissociates in the alphabet soup of the early universe.
ref: 1997, Nee-Pong Chang, “Chirality in the Early Universe”, in Ling Fong Li et al., editors, Looking to the 21st Century: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Frontiers of Physics, →ISBN, page 784:
text: At shorter distances (probed at higher energies), an alphabet-soup of other types of spin 0 (scalar) and spin 1 (vector) mesons are exchanged […]
ref: 2012, Walter M. Wilcox, Quantum Principles and Particles, →ISBN, page 434:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical state in which there is a miscellany of different particles, often designated by letters.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The series of preliminary races (denoted by letters) through which drivers must advance to the main event.
Related terms: sense: acronym-heavy communication
word: alphabet mafia
word: alfabeto
noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: no͞od'(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈnuːd(ə)lz/
Senses: glosses: plural of noodle
glosses: Euphemistic form of nudes (“nude photographs”).
Derived terms: banoodles
zoodles
noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: no͞od'(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈnuːd(ə)lz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noodle
disciplined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪplɪnd/
Forms: form: more disciplined
form: most disciplined
Senses: glosses: Possessing mental discipline.
glosses: Under control.
examples: text: The authors believe the saleman^([sic]) of the 1970s will be a man practicing "consultative selling," a three-disciplined role, in which he acts as a business planner, profit improver, and negotiator for his customers.
ref: 1970, Sales Management, volume 105, numbers 7-13, page 37:
glosses: Relating to a specified kind or number of disciplines.
Derived terms: disciplinedly
hyperdisciplined
indisciplined
multidisciplined
nondisciplined
overdisciplined
self-disciplined
superdisciplined
ultradisciplined
underdisciplined
undisciplined
disciplined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪplɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discipline
acronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'rənĭmz
ipa: /ˈæ.kɹə.nɪmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of acronym
acronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'rənĭmz
ipa: /ˈæ.kɹə.nɪmz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acronym
SSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: SSIs
form: S.S.I.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Server Side Include.
glosses: Initialism of Supplemental Security Income.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Small Scale Integration.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of shoulder sleeve insignia.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of standard settlement instruction.
examples: text: For example, Goal 7 “Reduce the risk of health care associated infections” stipulates, among other things, that hospitals have specific strategies in place to prevent surgical site infection (SSI), that they provide regular feedback about SSI rates to caregivers, with follow-up for 30 days, that they discontinue the use of shaving as a method of preop hair removal, etc.
ref: 2011, Darrell A. Campbell, “Patient Safety”, in Michael W. Mulholland, Gerard M. Doherty, editors, Complications in Surgery, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, pages 58–59:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of surgical site infection.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: WSI
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: IC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: solid-state
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: chip
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: discrete component
SSI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: S.S.I.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of Scuba Schools International.
chequebook journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of checkbook journalism.
inquisitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkwɪzətəɹ/
Forms: form: inquisitors
form: inquisitour
Etymology: From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor.
Senses: examples: text: During the meeting, Jake turned into an inquisitor, firing questions at the presenter non-stop.
glosses: A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
glosses: An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
Derived terms: Femquisitor
Grand Inquisitor
inquisitee
inquisitorship
inquisitress
ask for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asks for
form: asking for
form: asked for
form: asked for
Senses: examples: text: I asked for a glass of water.
text: Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.
ref: 2019 October 8, Christina Maxouris and Doug Criss, “Everything you wanted to know about Yom Kippur”, in CNN:
glosses: To request.
examples: text: If you keep on speeding, you are asking for trouble.
glosses: To increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite.
Synonyms: request
Derived terms: ask for the moon
ask for seconds
Related terms: beg
Xerxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɜːk.siːz/
enpr: zûrk'sēz
ipa: /ˈzɝksiːz/
Forms: form: Xerxeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ξέρξης (Xérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (x-š-y-a-r-š-a /⁠Xšayāršā⁠/, “ruler among kings”). Doublet of Ahasuerus.
Senses: glosses: Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
glosses: Xerxes II, a Persian king who ruled for 45 days in 424 BC before being assassinated.
glosses: A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.
Related terms: Ahasuerus
Artaxerxes
laid down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay down
wainscoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪŋ/
Forms: form: wainscotings
Senses: examples: text: The floor, the wainscoting, were of mahogany—the walls were hung with the finest tapestry—and there were occasional spaces in which large mirrors had been set: but the mahogany was rough and discoloured, the tapestry rent and faded, and the mirrors either wholly gone, and their places filled by matting, or by fragments smashed and shivered in every direction.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wainscotting.
Synonyms: word: wainscot
wainscoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wainscotting.
worst-case
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.
text: In the summer, the RSSB calculated that passengers stood a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19 on a train - a statistic it felt was actually a worst-case figure, with the risk probably even lower.
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33:
glosses: In the least favorable of all possible circumstances.
Derived terms: worst-case scenario
wreathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wreathe
bending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛndɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bend
bending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛndɪŋ/
Forms: form: bendings
Senses: examples: text: a bending of the knees
glosses: A motion or action that bends.
examples: text: bendings of the rules
glosses: An instance of something being adapted or distorted.
bending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛndɪŋ/
Forms: form: more bending
form: most bending
Senses: synonyms: flexible
antonyms: inflexible
unbending
glosses: Capable of being bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
Derived terms: bendingly
circuit bending
genderbending
genre-bending
hyperbending
nonbending
race-bending
racebending
spoonbending
unbending
sinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: sinkings
Etymology: From sink + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
text: We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district[…]
ref: 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
text: The excavation took 16 months of 24-hour working to complete and required the sinking of a 65ft shaft, from where workers carved out the passageway and lined it with reinforced steel and sprayed concrete.
ref: 2022 August 10, “Network News: New maintenance tunnel at Euston”, in RAIL, number 963, page 21:
glosses: gerund of sink: the process by which something sinks, or is sunk.
Derived terms: sinking feeling
sinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Etymology: From sink + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sink
Derived terms: like rats from a sinking ship
sinking fund
wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēlz
ipa: /wiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: wheals
homophone: weals (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel
wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēlz
ipa: /wiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: wheals
homophone: weals (wine–whine merger)
Senses: examples: text: Like my new wheels?
text: rolling 18 wheels
qualifier: deriving from meronymy
glosses: An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels.
examples: text: Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!
ref: 1999 March 22, “OB205”, “Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):
text: But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.
ref: 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins, Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, HarperCollins, page 76:
text: ...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.
ref: 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Human Kinetics Publishers, page 131:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Well-developed thigh muscles.
Related terms: guns
wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēlz
ipa: /wiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: wheals
homophone: weals (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel
threatening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thrĕt′ənĭŋ
ipa: /ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: threatning
Etymology: From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of threaten
threatening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: thrĕt′ənĭŋ
ipa: /ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more threatening
form: most threatening
form: threatning
Etymology: From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
text: Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:
glosses: Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
glosses: Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
Synonyms: word: minacious
word: menacing
word: baleful
word: threatensome
word: threatful
Hypernyms: frightening
Derived terms: life-threatening
nonthreatening
non-threatening
threateningly
threateningness
unthreatening
threatening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thrĕt′ənĭŋ
ipa: /ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: threatenings
form: threatning
Etymology: From Middle English thretenyng, thretnynge, þretnynge, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts iiij:[29], folio clix, recto:
text: In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.
ref: Edmund Yates (1884), “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111:
glosses: An act of threatening; a threat.
decennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnɪəm/
Forms: form: decenniums
form: decennia
Etymology: From Latin decennium, from decennis (“10-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns), from deciēs (“ten times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to decennial + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: G.B. still has to cope with the heritage of approx. 20 years of consecutive Conservative reigns, just as you guys are getting your act together after almost a decennium of Enlightened Ronnie.
ref: 1998, soc.culture.netherlands (Usenet):
text: Christian leaders refused even to *look* through Galileo's telescope (as a matter of fact, the Vatican cleared Galileo's name only as late as in the previous decennium).
ref: 1996, soc.culture.usa (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of decade: a ten year period.
synonyms: word: decade
extra: a ten year period
Derived terms: decennal
decenniad
Related terms: word: decennial
word: decennially
sense: 10-year anniversary
word: decennial
unvaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvaried
form: most unvaried
Etymology: From un- + varied.
Senses: synonyms: word: regular
word: unvarying
word: consistent
word: equable
word: equal
word: even
word: even-keeled
word: monotonous
word: regular
word: samely
word: stable
word: steady
word: uncheckered
word: uniform
word: unvaried
word: unvarying
glosses: not varied; monotonous or homogeneous; samely
dazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæz.l̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdæz.lɪŋ/
Etymology: dazzle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dazzle
dazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæz.l̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdæz.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: more dazzling
form: most dazzling
Etymology: dazzle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 206:
text: There is something in intense suffering that seeks concealment, something that is fain to belie itself. In Cooper's novel of the "Bravo," Jacques conceals himself and his boat, by lying where the moonlight fell dazzling on the water. We do the same with any great despair, we shroud it in a glittering atmosphere of smiles and jests; but the smiles are sneers, and the jests are sarcasms.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel.
ref: 1944 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:
glosses: Extremely bright, especially so as to blind the eyes temporarily; bright to the degree that dazzles.
examples: text: Oakland native [Andre] Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display.
ref: 2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very brilliant or splendid in display; that dazzles the mind of the observer.
Derived terms: dazzlingly
dazzlingness
nondazzling
undazzling
dazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæz.l̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdæz.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: dazzlings
Etymology: dazzle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.
ref: 1837, Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts:
glosses: The action of the verb to dazzle; dazzlement
worshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝʃɪpt/
ipa: /ˈwɜːʃɪpt/
Forms: form: worshiped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worship
rubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ
Forms: form: rubbings
Etymology: From Middle English rubbinge, rubbynge, equivalent to rub + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He was delighted to come across a little-worn crest of the old Great Eastern Railway, never dreaming that such a relic would still be in use, and was taking a pencil-rubbing to add to his collection.
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 271:
glosses: An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent.
rubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ
Etymology: From rub + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rub
Derived terms: beach rubbing
brass rubbing
rubbing alcohol
rubbing machine
rubbing off
rubbing oil
rubbing post
rubbing stone
rubbing strip
confronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɹʌntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confront
stained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Forms: form: more stained
form: most stained
Senses: antonyms: unstained
glosses: having a stain
glosses: coloured by adding a pigment
Derived terms: blood-stained
stained glass
tear-stained
stained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stain
exertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əɡˈzɝʃən/
Senses: glosses: plural of exertion
energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnɚd͡ʒiz/
ipa: /ˈɛnəd͡ʒiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of energy
Arctic Circle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arctic Circle
form: arctic circle
Senses: examples: text: 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, The Opinions of the Philosophers, Book 3, Chapter 14, p. 825,
PYTHAGORAS saith, that the earth is divided into five Zones proportionably to the sphaere of the universall heaven; to wit, the Artick circle, the Tropick of Summer, the Tropick of Winter, the Aequinoctiall and the Antartick.
text: Then he tells us that the Bear, or Stars of the Arctick Circle, never disappear; as an Observation which agrees with no other.
ref: 1715, Alexander Pope, “An Essay on the Life, Writings and Learning, of Homer”, in The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, page 51:
text: […] look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the Whale Fishery. Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson’s Bay, and Davis’s Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
ref: 1775, Edmund Burke, The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; on Moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, London: J. Dodsley, page 13:
text: Then, some five miles north of Bolna, the entry into the Arctic is heralded by a long blast on the whistle of the engine. The Arctic Circle is marked by a sign on the east side of the line.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
glosses: The parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 39″ north of the Equator, which marks approximately the southernmost place in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.
Related terms: Antarctic Circle
polar circle
rapier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪpˌɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rapiers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rapiere, from Middle French (espee) rapiere, from Old French rapiere, raspiere, from Spanish raspadera (“poker; raker; scraper”), from Spanish raspar (“to scrape”), of Germanic origin. More at rasp.
Senses: examples: text: […] In his lawless fit,
Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Whips out his rapier, cries ‘A rat, a rat!’
And in this brainish apprehension kills
The unseen good old man.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: The man beside him with the earrings and the big black case proceeded to unlock it. He took out of it two long Italian rapiers, with splendid steel hilts and blades, which he planted point downwards in the lawn.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sins of Prince Saradine”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless), designed predominantly for thrusting; used during the Renaissance period of Europe for civilian duelling
Derived terms: rapier-fish