cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
halfback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæfˌbæk/
Forms: form: halfbacks
Etymology: From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"
Senses: qualifier: field sports
glosses: Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: field sports
glosses: A player who occupies one of these positions.
An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: field sports
glosses: A player who occupies one of these positions.
A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
qualifier: field sports; field hockey; field hockey
glosses: A player who occupies one of these positions.
A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
qualifier: field sports; Australian rules football; Australian rules football
glosses: A player who occupies one of these positions.
One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
qualifier: field sports
glosses: A player who occupies one of these positions.
The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.
examples: text: Four years ago, Diane got a small inheritance and they became what Paul Klein calls “halfbacks” — people who moved to Florida from the North and have progressed partly back.
ref: 2012 September 11, Robert Strauss, “Heading South, but Stopping Short of Florida”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2012:
text: One of my favorite stories of North Carolina’s demographic growth and change is the “halfback.”
ref: 2016 August 11, Rebecca Tippett, “NC in Focus: Examining “halfback” trends”, in Carolina Demography:
text: “‘Halfbacks’ are snowbirds from Michigan who have tried wintering in Florida but decided to move…half way back.
ref: 2019 March 4, Michael Patrick Shiels, “Lansing to low country – half-back snowbirds settle in SC”, in Lansing State Journal:
glosses: A person from the northern United States who moves to Florida, but then due to the heat or other issues, moves again to a more temperate climate, primarily the Carolinas.
Derived terms: defensive halfback
halfback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæfˌbæk/
Forms: form: halfbacks
form: halfbacking
form: halfbacked
form: halfbacked
Etymology: From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"
Senses: glosses: To play in the position of halfback.
plagiarhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of plagiarism + rhythm.
Senses: glosses: The act of taking illegitimately-obtained (typically downloaded) musical content and using it in new works.
Related terms: mashup
plunderphonics
sampling
friendliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛndlinəs/
Forms: form: friendlinesses
Etymology: From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
ref: 1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 7, page 5, columns 6–7:
synonyms: affability
amicability
bonhomie
geniality
pleasantness
amity
antonyms: hostility
unfriendliness
glosses: The quality of being friendly.
Synonyms: word: affability
word: amiability
word: amicability
word: approachability
word: bonhomie
word: cordiality
word: friendliness
word: geniality
word: pleasantness
Coordinate terms: good-heartedness
good-naturedness
kindness
Derived terms: business-friendliness
guestfriendliness
overfriendliness
Related terms: word: friend
word: friendly
abibliophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + biblio- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Professor David Latchman, the Master of Birkbeck College, suffers from abibliophobia, a common affliction amongst book collectors that manifests itself as a morbid fear of running out of reading material.
ref: 2006, The Jewish Quarterly, page 72:
text: Speaking of frightful words, a curious fear I've suffered from on occasion, especially on long airplane flights, is abibliophobia, the fear of not having enough to read.
ref: 2010, Phil Cousineau, Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Viva Editions, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The outdoor racks, maintained on an honor system, are open 24 hours a day, for those who suffer from abibliophobia—fear of lacking for reading material.
ref: 2012, Laura M. Reckford, Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Fear of running out of things to read.
virtual Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual Fridays
Senses: examples: text: Today's Donut Sponsor, this being a virtual Friday, is Mike P, our Director of Operations.
ref: 2007, George Schnurle, The Donut Emails, page 43:
glosses: The final day of something such as work or school prior to a long weekend, typically Thursday.
fly out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies out
form: flying out
form: flew out
form: flied out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
form: flown out
form: flied out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to fly out to see you.
glosses: To travel by airplane to a destination.
examples: text: flew him out to New York
glosses: To have someone travel rapidly to a destination on an airplane.
examples: text: Near by is the RAF museum at Duxford Airfield, open at weekends, which has a large display of aircraft. Trapped there is the prototype Concorde, which flew in but can never fly out, because the runway was shortened to make way for a motorway immediately after its arrival.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 233:
glosses: To take off from an airfield.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
examples: text: Pieces flew out in all directions.
glosses: To rapidly emerge.
examples: text: Jones flied out to right field.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To become out by hitting a fly ball which is caught.
glosses: To fly into a rage; to become very angry.
Coordinate terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: pitch out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: foul out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: ground out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: throw out
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: tag out
fly out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly outs
form: flyout
form: fly-out
Senses: examples: text: A fly out was recorded on the scorecard.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of flying out.
field goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field goals
form: drop-kick
form: field-goal
Senses: examples: text: He kicked a 33 yard field goal just before the half.
text: Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?
ref: 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points.
examples: text: He got six field goals in the first half, two from three-point land.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot that is scored while the ball is in play (i.e. not a free throw).
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A goal scored where a ball that is in play but on the ground is kicked through the uprights and over the crossbar.
Coordinate terms: conversion
drop punt
punt
offensive tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive tackles
Senses: examples: text: One of the few surprises saw the New York Giants take offensive tackle Andrew Thomas at number four while the Buccaneers traded up to 13 for offensive tackle Tristian Wirfs to give some protection to their new quarterback Brady.
ref: 2020 April 24, “NFL draft 2020: Joe Burrow first pick for Cincinnati Bengals”, in BBC Sport:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lineman for the team in possession of the ball located outside one of the guard positions.
Hyponyms: left tackle
right tackle
defensive tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensive tackles
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of a few defensive positions in the middle of the defensive line.
indictment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdaɪt.mənt/
Forms: form: indictments
form: endictment
Etymology: 18th-century Latinized respelling of Middle English endytement (“action of accusing”), from Anglo-Norman enditement, from enditer, from Late Latin indictāre, from Latin indictus.
Senses: examples: text: But she accomplished the third task — the one that mattered most to her boss — securing a criminal indictment against Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
ref: 2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
examples: text: […]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
ref: 2023 March 30, William K. Rashbaum, “This is what will happen when Trump is arrested in the coming days.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment.
examples: text: Can there be a greater indictment against patriotism than that it will thus brand a man a criminal, throw him into prison, and rob him of the results of fifteen years of faithful service?
ref: 1910, Emma Goldman, “Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty”, in Anarchism and Other Essays:
text: I must say Humphrey, these facts are a frightening indictment of bureaucratic sloppiness and self-indulgence.
ref: 1980 March 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Economy Drive”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington):
text: I have been critical of the RDG in the past for merely being a cypher for government announcements, but the failure of its members to make a stand on this issue and not be complicit in the Government's subterfuge is a shocking indictment of their failure to protect the industry.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.
examples: text: an indictment of his ability to lead
text: an indictment of his game
glosses: Evidence of failure or poor performance.
Hyponyms: preindictment
reindictment
Derived terms: nonindictment
postindictment
Related terms: arraignment
grand jury
plea
pleading
indemnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛmnɪti/
Forms: form: indemnities
Etymology: From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitās (“security from damage”), from Latin indemnis (“undamaged”), from in- (“not”) + damnum (“damage”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance
text: And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
examples: Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility
topics: law
glosses: An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation
text: It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.
ref: 1859, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 363:
glosses: Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: justice
glosses: The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
topics: business
insurance
coordinate_terms: parity
proportionality
glosses: A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
Derived terms: double indemnity
indemnitee
indemnity costs
letter of indemnity
Related terms: indemn
indemnify
assurance
insurance
damage
damages
immunity
tight end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaɪt ˈɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: tight ends
Etymology: From tight (“of a space, arrangement, etc.: narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it”) + end (“position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line; player playing this position”), from the fact that the player takes up a position close to the tackle.
Senses: examples: text: Jones played tight end.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: TE
glosses: The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs are to block and serve as a short receiver.
examples: text: The tight end caught the pass.
text: He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole.
ref: 2024 February 11, Jane Coaston, “What MAGA Influencers Are Missing About Football”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: TE
glosses: A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 1.1).
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs were to block and serve as a short receiver; this position is no longer used.
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 2.1).
Coordinate terms: split end
wide receiver
bench trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench trials
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A trial by judge as opposed to a trial by jury.
Synonyms: trial by judge
Coordinate terms: trial by jury
jury trial
trial by combat
trial by battle
trial by duel
duel trial
trial by ordeal
trial by water
trial by fire
datagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datagrams
form: datagramme
Etymology: From data + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: The pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the UDP header contains the source address, the destination address, the protocol, and the UDP length. This information gives protection against misrouted datagrams.
ref: 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A packet of data passed across a network.
Derived terms: datagramming
tinygram
User Datagram Protocol
datagram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: datagrams
form: datagramming
form: datagrammed
form: datagrammed
form: datagramme
Etymology: From data + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated,^([sic]) (datagrammed) is not changeable.
ref: 1981 October, Alfred R. Dixon Jr., “Data Base Management”, in Terry Tufts, editor, The Harvest, volume 3, number 2, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Northern Illinois Apple Users Group, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
text: >* How does the dispatch station know where the trains are? Is it
>just by the engineer notifying them, or is it done by some computerized
>system in the track?
Varies. Most common is by track circuits, in which the train indicates occupancy of a "block" by shorting the rails together. This gets "datagrammed" to the CTC center. (short hand, simplified description).
ref: 1992 July 31, Dave Pierson, “Uploads to wuarchive.wustl.edu”, in rec.railroad (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025:
text: the crowd mills about datagrammed packets flowing without words to say.
ref: 1999 October 30, Decklin Foster, “[haiku] nyc right about now.”, in alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025:
decentralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decentralisations
Etymology: From French décentralisation, decentralise + -ation or de- + centralisation.
Senses: examples: text: Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
glosses: Alternative spelling of decentralization.
magistrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹət/
Forms: form: magistrates
Etymology: From Middle English magistrat, maiestrat (“magistrate; magistracy”), borrowed from Latin magistrātus. See also -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: In any case, however, I saw that part of her injuries might easily have been redressed, and I urged her often and earnestly to lay her complaint before a magistrate.
ref: 1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
topics: law
glosses: A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
glosses: A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
examples: text: Like other civil servants, Ashok Kumar started his career as an Assistant Collector cum Sub-divisional Magistrate.
glosses: A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
glosses: A master's degree.
Synonyms: sense: judicial officer
word: justiciary
sense: master's degree
word: master's degree
Derived terms: chief magistrate
committing magistrate
examining magistrate
Glasgow magistrate
magistracy
magistrates' court
magistrateship
magistratic
magistratical
police magistrate
unmagistrate
Related terms: magister
master
mister
allodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈləʊ.di.əl/
ipa: /əˈloʊ.di.əl/
rhymes: -əʊdiəl
Etymology: From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allōdiālis (“held in freehold”), from allōdium.
Senses: examples: text: Henry reconciled the Zähringer, whom he had deposed from Carinthia in 1078, by raising their allodial property in the Black Forest to a new duchy 20 years later.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 351:
glosses: Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title.
Derived terms: allodialism
allodialist
allodially
nonallodial
Related terms: allodial title
allodial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈləʊ.di.əl/
ipa: /əˈloʊ.di.əl/
rhymes: -əʊdiəl
Forms: form: allodials
Etymology: From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allōdiālis (“held in freehold”), from allōdium.
Senses: examples: text: Charles Theodore, elector Palatine, was generally considered as rightful heir to all the Bavarian territories which were not female fiefs or allodials.
ref: 1807, William Coxe, History of the House of Austria:
glosses: Anything held allodially.
encumbrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkʌm.bɹəns/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /-bɹən(t)s/
Forms: form: encumbrances
form: incumbrance
Etymology: From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
Senses: examples: text: Some consideration was necessary to decide whether or not to leave his rifle there. On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance[…]
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
glosses: Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
glosses: The state or condition of being encumbered.
Synonyms: encumberment
Derived terms: disencumbrance
encumbrancer
overencumbrance
encumbrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkʌm.bɹəns/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /-bɹən(t)s/
Forms: form: encumbrances
form: encumbrancing
form: encumbranced
form: encumbranced
form: incumbrance
Etymology: From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
laying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay
laying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: layings
Senses: examples: text: You may get a larger number of eggs within a given time, but the later layings will not give you average good chickens, when you come to hatch such product.
ref: 1882, Poultry World, volumes 11-12, page 94:
glosses: The act by which something is laid (in any sense).
Derived terms: blocklaying
bricklaying
egglaying
groundlaying
gun-laying
laying hen
minelaying
nonlaying
pipelaying
platelaying
stonelaying
tracklaying
phreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Etymology: A blend of phone + freak.
Senses: glosses: The cracking or exploring of a telephone system, e.g., attempting to obtain free calls or to discover special service numbers or other internal technical information.
Derived terms: Van Eck phreaking
phreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Etymology: A blend of phone + freak.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phreak
favoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vəd/
Forms: form: more favoured
form: most favoured
form: favored
form: favor’d
form: favour’d
Senses: glosses: Treated or regarded with partiality.
examples: ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured
glosses: Having a certain appearance or physical features.
examples: a white-favoured footman
glosses: Wearing a favour.
Derived terms: favouredly
favouredness
hard-favoured
ill-favoured
most favoured nation
unfavoured
well-favoured
favoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vəd/
Forms: form: favored
form: favor’d
form: favour’d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of favour
Related terms: favour
state capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state capitals
Senses: glosses: The capital city of a state (national subdivision).
Coordinate terms: sense: capital city of a state
word: provincial capital
sense: capital city of a state
word: county seat
sense: capital city of a state
word: parish seat
split end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split ends
Etymology: From split + end.
Senses: examples: text: I've got so many split ends – I think I must be working too hard.
glosses: A hair which has split at the end, usually from dryness or poor nutrition.
examples: text: Help! I've got split ends!
synonyms: schizotrichia
trichoptilosis
glosses: The condition of having hairs with split ends.
examples: text: Jones played split end.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: wideout
glosses: The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage, whose primary job is to serve as a wide receiver.
examples: text: The split end ran deep.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player playing the position of split end.
astigmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɪɡmətɪzm̩/
Forms: form: astigmatisms
Etymology: From a- (negative prefix) + stem of Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark, point”) + -ism. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1846.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A defect of a lens such that light rays coming from a point do not meet at a focal point so that the image is blurred.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the vision, usually due to a misshapen cornea, such that light does not focus correctly on the retina causing a blurred image.
Synonyms: astigmia
Derived terms: anisoastigmatism
astigmatic
astigmatically
mixed astigmatism
Related terms: stigma
stigmatize
emmetropia
hyperopia
myopia
pointlessness
sniffer plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniffer planes
Senses: glosses: An airplane that supposedly could detect oil fields underground.
Related terms: The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax
gibbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪbəs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbəs/
rhymes: -ɪbəs
Forms: form: more gibbous
form: most gibbous
Etymology: From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 22”, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Curved or bulged outward.
examples: text: The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
ref: 1995, Dava Sobel, Longitude, Herper Perennial, published 2011, →ISBN, page 89:
text: On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books, published 2022, page 252:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: crescent
glosses: Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
raw_tags: of a celestial body
examples: text: A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Humpbacked.
Synonyms: bulging
convex
crookbacked
humpbacked
protuberant
Derived terms: gibbose
gibbosity
gibbously
gibbous moon
gibbousness
subgibbous
waning gibbous
hyperopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperopias
Etymology: From hyper- + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: myopia
glosses: A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.
Synonyms: farsightedness
hypermetropia
hypermetropy
Derived terms: compound hyperopia
hyperope
hyperopic
simple hyperopia
Related terms: astigmatism
emmetropia
presbyopia
myopia
labrador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹə.dɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹə.dɔɹ/
Forms: form: labradors
Etymology: Named after Labrador Peninsula in Canada where the breed was developed.
Senses: glosses: A Labrador retriever.
Derived terms: Boxador
Labradane
emmetropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emmetropias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμμετρος (émmetros, “in measure, proportioned”) + -opia (“vision”).
Senses: glosses: The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
Derived terms: emmetrope
emmetropic
emmetropization
Related terms: astigmatism
hyperopia
myopia
babygro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babygros
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Babygro.
fibre optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibre-optics
form: fibreoptics
form: fiber optics
form: fiber-optics
form: fiberoptics
Senses: glosses: The transmission of light through fine flexible glass or plastic fibres, especially as a medium for communications networks.
Related terms: fibre optic
optical fibre
Narnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑː(ɹ).ni.ə/
Etymology: Named by C. S. Lewis after the Latin name of the Italian town of Narni.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.
wikipedia: C. S. Lewis
Narni
Derived terms: Narnian
garner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.nə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
homophone: Ghana (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: garners
Etymology: From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.
Senses: examples: text: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 144:13:
text: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 3:12:
glosses: A granary; a store of grain.
examples: text: Master, I bring from many wanderings,
The gathered garner of my years to thee;
One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs
And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.
ref: a. 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Death Shall Not Part Ye More:
glosses: An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
garner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.nə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
homophone: Ghana (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: garners
form: garnering
form: garnered
form: garnered
Etymology: From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.
Senses: examples: text: The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 195:
glosses: To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
examples: text: […] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather.
ref: 1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2:
text: He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
ref: 1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
text: […] its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
ref: 1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14:
glosses: To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
examples: text: to garner support
text: He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
text: Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
text: His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
text: This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
ref: 1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031:
text: President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women to increase war production and build our "Arsenal of Democracy."
ref: 1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259:
text: The AMPTP has disputed that description as a “mischaracterization” of their proposal meant to “garner support for its work stoppage.”
ref: 2023 July 26, Adrian Horton, “Netflix lists AI job worth $900,000 amid twin Hollywood strikes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: reap
gain
glosses: To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
examples: text: She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 9–10:
text: For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
Derived terms: garner up
ungarnered
fibre optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fibreoptic
form: fibre-optic
form: fiber optic
form: fiberoptic
form: fiber-optic
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to fibre optics, or to optical fibre.
optical fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical fibres
form: optical fiber
Senses: glosses: A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.
Related terms: fibre optics
optical fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical fibers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of optical fibre.
fiber optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optic.
fibreoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optic.
fiberoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fiber + optic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fibre optic.
fibre-optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, HS2 believes it could sell mobile and broadband providers access to spare capacity in the fibre-optic cabling and telecoms masts being built to support the railway's signalling and telecoms.
ref: 2024 August 21, “Network News: HS2 to sell spare data capacity to improve rural broadband along the route”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 11:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optic.
fiber-optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optic.
fibre-optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optics.
fibreoptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optics.
fiber optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fibre optics.
fiber-optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optics.
fiberoptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fibre optics.
retire hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retires hurt
form: retiring hurt
form: retired hurt
form: retired hurt
Senses: examples: text: He retired hurt after sustaining a blow to the finger.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To stop batting because of having sustained an injury.
Derived terms: retired hurt
retired hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retire hurt
return crease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return creases
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of the white lines, perpendicular to the popping crease, within which the bowler's back foot must land.
reverse sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse sweeps
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A batsman's shot made by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc from leg to off, normally whilst kneeling.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of winning a match after losing every set up to the maximum number where, should you lose one more set, you would instead lose the match.
Related terms: switch hit
reverse sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverse sweeps
form: reverse sweeping
form: reverse swept
form: reverse swept
Senses: examples: text: Maxwell reverse swept a ball to seal the win.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play such a shot.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To win such a match.
reverse swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Sideways movement of the old ball through the air in the opposite direction to normal swing.
reverse swing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverse swings
form: reverse swinging
form: reverse swung
form: reverse swung
Senses: glosses: To make the ball so behave.
raw_tags: of a bowler
glosses: To swing in this manner.
raw_tags: of the ball
ring field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring fields
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket: point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.
pussy-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy-cats
form: pussycat
form: pussy cat
Senses: glosses: A pet domestic cat; a pussy.
examples: text: He looks stern, but he’s just a big pussy-cat really.
glosses: A gentle or soft-hearted person.
glosses: The silky catkin of various willows.
glosses: A sexy woman.
Synonyms: sense: a cat
word: cat
sense: a cat
word: pussy
sense: a cat
word: kitten
sense: a cat
word: feline
sense: a cat
word: grimalkin
sense: a cat
word: kitty
sense: a cat
word: mouser
sense: a cat
word: tomcat
sense: a cat
word: malkin
sense: soft-hearted person
word: wimp
sense: soft-hearted person
word: pussy
sense: soft-hearted person
word: namby-pamby
sense: soft-hearted person
word: milksop
sense: soft-hearted person
word: pansy
sense: soft-hearted person
word: sissy
sense: soft-hearted person
word: wuss
sense: soft-hearted person
word: poltroon
sense: soft-hearted person
word: candy-ass
Derived terms: pussycat bow
roller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊlə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊlɚ/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rollers
form: rollering
form: rollered
form: rollered
Etymology: * From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.
Senses: examples: text: One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.
ref: 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz, page 138:
glosses: To roller skate.
run chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run chases
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the situation in which the side batting last need to score a certain number of runs to win; the effort made by such a side to win
run out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of runout.
run rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run rates
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of runs scored by a side divided by the number of overs taken to score them.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Alternative form of runrate.
Derived terms: net run rate
required run rate
flet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flets
form: fleet
form: flette
Etymology: From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.
Senses: glosses: Floor; bottom; lower surface.
glosses: A house; home.
run up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs up
form: running up
form: ran up
form: run up
Senses: examples: text: As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.
text: The dog ran up under the table to get his food.
glosses: To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
examples: text: We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.
glosses: To approach (an event or point in time).
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: […] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.
ref: 1924, Michigan. Supreme Court, Michigan Reports, volume 226, page 46:
glosses: To take to a destination or before an authority.
examples: text: we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
ref: 1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume 6, number 2, page 87:
synonyms: throw up
knock up
knock together
slap together
glosses: To erect hastily, as a building.
examples: text: I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
glosses: To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
examples: text: Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.
glosses: To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
glosses: To string up; to hang.
examples: text: He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
examples: text: Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
text: But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills [title]
ref: 2009 February 6, Roy Furchgott, “Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills”, in New York Times:
glosses: To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
examples: text: He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
glosses: To accumulate (a debt).
examples: text: The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.
glosses: To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
examples: text: I run me up some big bills.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
examples: text: The small boy ran up the hill.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
run up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of run-up.
Related terms: run up against
run up on
swat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /swɑt/
note: of the US
ipa: /swɒt/
ipa: /swɔt/
ipa: /swɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: SWAT
Forms: form: swats
form: swatting
form: swatted
form: swatted
Etymology: Alteration of squat.
Senses: examples: text: He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.
text: The cat swatted at the feather.
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)
text: However, Johnstons luck seems to have run out, as it is hit almost simultaneously by three 18-inch shells and three 6.1-inch shells from Yamato, which has decided to swat' the irritating vessel.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 19:53 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.