cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cyclostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclostomes
Etymology: From translingual Cyclostomata, confer French cyclostome.
Senses: examples: text: Except the cyclostomes, as the lampreys and sphagobranchiæ, which are not real fishes, as I shall show elsewhere.
ref: 1811, André Marie Constant Duméril, “On the Sense of Smell in Fishes”, in Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, volume 29, page 344:
text: The Cyclostomes, or suckers, with regard to their skeletons, are the most imperfect of all the Vertebrates,
ref: 1835, William Kirby, On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God, volume 2, William Pickering, page 390:
glosses: Any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey or hagfish.
Derived terms: cyclostomous
negotiorum gestio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin negotiōrum gestiō (literally “management of business”).
Senses: examples: MT ARGUN; SHERIFF OF CAPE TOWN AND ANOTHER v MT ARGUN, HER OWNERS AND ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN HER AND ANOTHER 2000 (4) SA 857 (C) @ 685.
The gestor is only entitled to reimbursement of expenses and not to remuneration, the underlying principle being that negotiorum gestio arises from an act of generosity and friendship and is not aimed at allowing the gestor to make a profit out of his administration.
topics: law
glosses: A situation in which a gestor acts on behalf of a principal for the benefit of that principal, but without the consent of that principal
cyclothymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclothymias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) + θυμός (thumós, “temper, disposition”) + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: A study using the BAR assessment tool criteria found that cyclothymia had the best overall clinical utility for case finding and screening when focusing on depressed youths with an early transition to bipolar.
ref: 2018 April 26, Tobias A Rowland, Steven Marwaha, “Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 8, number 9, →DOI, pages 251–269:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression.
Derived terms: cyclothymic
Related terms: cyclothymic
poikilothymia
conservatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/
ipa: /kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/
Forms: form: more conservatory
form: most conservatory
Etymology: From conserve + -atory.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
glosses: Relating to conservation.
conservatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/
ipa: /kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/
Forms: form: conservatories
Etymology: From conserve + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: a conservatory of life
ref: c. 1656, Jeremy Taylor, Of Original Sin:
glosses: That which preserves from injury.
glosses: A storehouse.
conservatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/
ipa: /kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/
Forms: form: conservatories
Etymology: Anglicized form of French conservatoire; ultimately equivalent to Etymology 1
Senses: synonyms: greenhouse
hothouse
orangery
planthouse
glosses: A large greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants
synonyms: sunroom
solarium
Florida room
glosses: A glass-walled and -roofed room in a house
synonyms: conservatoire
glosses: A music school or a drama school
Derived terms: conservatorylike
dear Sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: dear sir
form: dear Sir or Madam
form: dear Sir/Madam
form: dear Sirs
form: dear sirs
form: Dear Sirs or Madams
Senses: examples: text: Dear Sir, You will recently have received...
glosses: Used as the salutation at the beginning of a formal letter when addressing persons – assumed to be male – of unknown names.
fade in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fade ins
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
fade in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fades in
form: fading in
form: faded in
form: faded in
Senses: examples: text: Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline
ref: 2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.
Coordinate terms: fade out
fade out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fade outs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.
fade out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fades out
form: fading out
form: faded out
form: faded out
Senses: glosses: To slowly disappear; to wither away.
glosses: To sneak away.
examples: text: Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline
ref: 2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To fade from a cut to black in a movie.
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.
Coordinate terms: fade in
pococurante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊ.kəʊ.kjʊəˈɹæn.ti/
ipa: /ˌpoʊ.koʊ.kjuːˈɹɑːn.ti/
Forms: form: more pococurante
form: most pococurante
Etymology: Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).
Senses: examples: text: The Treasury was entrusted to the pococurante capacity of Grafton, the Exchequer to the erratic genius of Charles Townshend.
ref: 1909, Ward A. W., Prothero G. W., Leathes Stanley K.C.B., Lord Acton, The Cambridge Modern History, volume VI, page 20:
synonyms: word: aloof
word: disinterested
word: unconcerned
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant.
pococurante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊ.kəʊ.kjʊəˈɹæn.ti/
ipa: /ˌpoʊ.koʊ.kjuːˈɹɑːn.ti/
Forms: form: pococurantes
Etymology: Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).
Senses: glosses: An apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant person.
Derived terms: pococurantic
pococurantism
pococurantist
yowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊl
Forms: form: yowls
Etymology: From Middle English youlen, goulen, from Old Norse gaula (“to low, bellow, howl, scream”), related to Icelandic gaula (“to yell, howl, roar”), Faroese geyla (“to bawl, squall, shout, yell, bellow”), Norwegian gaule (“to roar, howl, whine, weep noisily”), dialectal Swedish gjöla, Scots gowl (“to howl, yell, roar”), Shetlandic Scots gjol. Initial y- possibly influenced by Middle English yollen, yellen (“to yell”).
Senses: glosses: A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.
yowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊl
Forms: form: yowls
form: yowling
form: yowled
form: yowled
Etymology: From Middle English youlen, goulen, from Old Norse gaula (“to low, bellow, howl, scream”), related to Icelandic gaula (“to yell, howl, roar”), Faroese geyla (“to bawl, squall, shout, yell, bellow”), Norwegian gaule (“to roar, howl, whine, weep noisily”), dialectal Swedish gjöla, Scots gowl (“to howl, yell, roar”), Shetlandic Scots gjol. Initial y- possibly influenced by Middle English yollen, yellen (“to yell”).
Senses: glosses: Utter a yowl.
glosses: Express by yowling; utter with a yowl.
Derived terms: yowler
yowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yowlers
Etymology: From yowl + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something which yowls.
volumetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volume + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to measurement by volume.
Derived terms: equivolumetric
nanovolumetric
volumetric analysis
volumetric display
volumetric efficiency
volumetric flask
Related terms: volumetrics
-metric
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
Etymology: Borrowed from French -métrique, from Latin metricus.
Senses: glosses: Forming adjectives corresponding to nouns in -meter.
glosses: Of or relating to measurement.
Derived terms: asymmetric
axisymmetric
axonometric
cliometric
conductometric
decametric
diametric
geometric
hypermetric
isodiametric
metric
symmetric
taximetric
titrimetric
trigonometric
Related terms: -meter
-metry
vacatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacaturs
Etymology: From Latin vacātūrus (“about to be void”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An announcement in court that something is cancelled or set aside; an annulment.
urbacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown, but claimed to be a coinage of Percy Adolphus Vaile in the early 20th century (see quote below). Compare urban, -ity, city. Not to be confused with urbanity.
Senses: examples: text: The Englishman has quite justly been accused of insularity. That in itself is bad, but there is a compound insularity for which no word of English exists, because the state of mind is not realised. It is the citified insularity of London, London’s “urbacity.” I had to coin a word for it.
ref: 1909, P.A. Vaile, “A new scheme for imperial scholarships”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 92, page 724:
text: England has suffered cruelly because she would not think, because she was case-armoured in her insular conceit and the urbacity of her politicians. Insularity would be a term too complimentary and too all-embracing to use of them
ref: 1918, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 125, page 388:
text: Urbacity is a disease that attacks dwellers in cities and causes them to imagine that the world is like New York or Kankakee or Gopher Prairie or wherever they happen to live.
ref: 1922, Marketing/Communications, volume 118, page 139:
text: It’s raining on Melbourne / on another design concept / made to reassure the citizens / of that city that god-given urbacity / will protect them forever / within a Florentine fantasy.
ref: 2008, Stephen Oliver, “It’s Raining”, in Harmonic, page 64:
glosses: An extreme or exaggerated pride in one's city; an insular view of one's city.
limescale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lime + scale.
Senses: glosses: A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.
Derived terms: limescaled
typographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪpəˈɡɹæfɪk(ə)l/
Etymology: From New Latin typographicus + -al.
Senses: synonyms: typographic
glosses: Pertaining to typography or printing.
glosses: Produced by typography; printed.
Derived terms: typographical apostrophe
typographical error
typographically
typographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From typography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to typography
Derived terms: typographic apostrophe
typographic ligature
typographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From typographical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Typographically the tables are pleasing and easy to read.
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
glosses: In a typographical manner.
typographica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Examples of fine printing (as in a collection).
typographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographers
Etymology: From typography + -er.
Senses: synonyms: typographist
typo
glosses: A person skilled in typography, a typesetter.
glosses: A typewriter.
glosses: A kind of bark beetle, Ips typographus.
Derived terms: typo
tulipomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: tulipomanias
Etymology: From tulip + -o- + -mania.
Senses: related: word: tulipmania
word: tulip mania
hypernyms: florimania#Noun
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glosses: Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
examples: text: Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
ref: 1989, Stanford M. Lyman, The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil, page 250:
text: [I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.
ref: 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
related: word: tulipmania
word: tulip mania
glosses: Such enthusiasm (or the period of its duration) during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed (1634–1637); it is widely considered the first speculative bubble (asset bubble).
Derived terms: tulipomaniac
normalcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹməlsi/
Forms: form: normalcies
Etymology: From normal + -cy. The original sense was mathematical. The broader sense was popularized in the United States by its use by President Warren G. Harding.https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normalcy
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
examples: text: America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
ref: 1920 May 14, Warren G. Harding, “Presidential Speeches: Warren G. Harding Presidency: May 14, 1920: Readjustment”, in Miller Center, University of Virginia:
text: When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.
ref: 1928, Dorothy Parker, “The Searched Soul”, in Sunset Gun, New York: Boni & Liveright, page 36:
text: The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
text: I’ve been consistently awed by how good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.
ref: 2001, Jeffery Veen, The Art & Science of Web Design, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
Synonyms: word: normalhood
word: normality
word: normaldom
word: normalness
word: normality
Derived terms: normalcy bias
seminormalcy
Related terms: normal
normality
normally
normalness
tulipomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: tulipomaniacs
Etymology: From tulip + -o- + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: Someone who suffers from tulipomania; someone who is extremely fond of tulips.
Tutania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: Trade name. Named after William Tutin, an English manufacturer.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy of copper, antimony, zinc and tin patented in 1770 by William Tutin, whose firm used it in commercial production of housewares.
tufaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more tufaceous
form: most tufaceous
Etymology: From tufa + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature or texture of tufa.
Related terms: tuffaceous
tuffaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more tuffaceous
form: most tuffaceous
Etymology: From tuff + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature or texture of tuff.
Related terms: tufaceous
boy in blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boys in blue
Etymology: From their blue uniforms.
Senses: glosses: A policeman.
examples: text: Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
ref: 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:
synonyms: blue job
qualifier: air force slang
glosses: A member of the air force.
Synonyms: police officer
truckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of truckle
tropical year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical years
Senses: glosses: The time that it takes for the Sun to return to the same position along the ecliptic, as viewed from the Earth, especially, completing a full cycle of seasons.
glosses: A vernal equinox year; the time between two successive vernal equinoxes.
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star, taking into account orbital precession.
Synonyms: word: solar year
word: astronomical year
word: equinoctial year
english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: Sothic year
Derived terms: mean tropical year
Related terms: tropical month
sidereal year
caravansary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹəˈvænsəɹi/
ipa: /ˌkɛɹəˈvænsəɹi/
Forms: form: caravansaries
Etymology: Anglicization of caravanserai, influenced by -ary, -ery (suffix denoting ‘place of’), as if meaning “place of caravans” by reanalysis as caravan + -s- (interfix) + -ary, -ery.
Cognates
* German Karawanserei
Senses: examples: text: A dervise travelling through Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary. […] It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary? […] 'Ah, Sir,' said the dervise, a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.'
ref: 1712 February 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, January 31, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 289; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 445–446:
text: But not in sumptuous Caravansary / The adventurer idles there, / Nor satiates wonder with her pomp and wealth; […]
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Fifth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 269:
text: Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when "saveall" was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.
ref: 1891, George W[ashington] Cullum, “Period from July 31, 1812, to July 28, 1817. Brevet Brig.-General Joseph G[ardner] Swift, Superintendent.”, in Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. […], 3rd edition, volume III (Nos. 2001 to 3384), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 617:
text: Only in Paris, a cosmopolitan caravansary in itself, did Americans and other foreigners fall nicely into the picture and spoil nothing in the charm of the place.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in Edward Augustus Weeks, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023, section 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of caravanserai.
wikipedia: Routledge
Related terms: caravansery
8 ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 8 balls
form: eightball
form: eight-ball
form: eight ball
Senses: examples: text: The 8 ball was buried behind the 10 and the 15.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The eighth numbered ball.
glosses: A cocktail made with vodka and V8 vegetable juice.
glosses: An eighth of an ounce, especially as a drug quantity.
glosses: 3.5 grams of cocaine.
glosses: A 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor
glosses: The alliance of the Folks and Crips (two gangs).
stunt double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunt doubles
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of body double: a skilled stand-in used for dangerous film or video sequences such as jumping out of a building, leaping from vehicle to vehicle, and fight sequences.
Related terms: body double
stuntman
understudy
backshish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backshishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
backshish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backshishes
form: backshishing
form: backshished
form: backshished
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
bacteriophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacteriophobic
form: most bacteriophobic
Etymology: From bacterio- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with bacteriophobia.
baiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: baiters
Etymology: From bait + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The baiter stands amidships, with the bait-box outside the rail: with a tin pint nailed to a long handle he begins throwing out bait, while every man stands to his berth.
ref: 1853, Lorenzo Sabine, Thomas Corwin, Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas, page 183:
text: The hook is easily big enough to pass through a man's hand, and if it catches some part of the baiter's body or clothing, he goes over the side with it.
ref: 1999, Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, page 52:
text: When baiting the hooks, the baiter also straightens any bent hooks, replaces worn or damaged ganglions or hooks, and untangles snarls in the line
ref: 2005, Susan R. Playfair, Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman, page 65:
glosses: Agent noun of bait; one who baits, as a fishhook.
glosses: A troll who deliberately posts aggravating messages on a message board to elicit responses.
Derived terms: bearbaiter
master baiter
race-baiter
red-baiter
scambaiter
shark baiter
Related terms: flamer
troll
bakchoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάκχοι (bákkhoi), from Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: In the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the 22-kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.
bake sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bake sales
Senses: examples: text: We try to do our part, and whenever there is a bake sale, we try to participate.
ref: 2007, Louise Fritz, Living with Big Dogs, page 99:
text: Funds were also raised through LNER staff volunteering their time to participate in a range of activities, including sporting events, bake sales and raffles.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:
glosses: A fundraising activity where baked goods are sold, with profits going to charity or some other good cause.
glosses: A session of smoking marijuana.
bakla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baklas
Senses: glosses: Effeminate man.
come-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come-overs
Etymology: Deverbal from come over.
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: Synonym of comeover.
synonyms: word: comeover
barrier method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrier methods
Senses: glosses: A means of contraception involving an impenetrable barrier, such as a diaphragm or condom, between sexual partners.
bass note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsnəʊt/
homophone: base note
Forms: form: bass notes
Senses: antonyms: high note
glosses: The lowest note played or notated.
raw_tags: of a chord or sonority
bibcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibcocks
Etymology: From bib + cock; thus ultimately traceable to the idea of drinking (e.g., water, wine, beer).
Senses: glosses: An appliance (typically a valve with a threaded outlet) allowing the provision of hose connections outside of buildings.
Synonyms: word: bibb
word: sillcock
english: sometimes synonymous, regiolectally
translation: sometimes synonymous, regiolectally
word: spigot
Hypernyms: cock
Coordinate terms: petcock
seacock
stopcock
bicentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicentenaries
Etymology: From bi- + centenary.
Senses: examples: text: Original stone Stockton & Darlington Railway sleepers, thought to be 195 years old, have been installed as close as possible to the route's original starting point. They carry replica fishbelly rails, and the project [...] was part of an initiative by the Brusselton Incline Group to mark the start of the five-year countdown to the S&D bicentenary celebrations in 2025.
ref: 2020 October 21, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern: Shildon”, in Rail, page 24:
glosses: A 200th anniversary.
bigfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bigfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigfoot
black eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌblæk ˈaɪ/
Forms: form: black eyes
Senses: examples: text: "You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: blinker
word: shiner
glosses: A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.
glosses: A defeat.
examples: text: He looked downward in mournful gloom at the skeet-shooting range he had ordered built for the officers on his headquarters staff, and he recalled the mortifying afternoon General Dreedle had tongue-lashed him ruthlessly in front of Colonel Korn and Major Danby and ordered him to throw open the range to all the enlisted men and officers on combat duty. The skeet-shooting range had been a real black eye for him, Colonel Cathcart was forced to conclude.
ref: 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster (2003), p. 205
glosses: Damage to a reputation.
glosses: An eye having a dark iris, regarded as a point of beauty.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, eye.
Related terms: black-eyed pea
blepharoptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drooping of the upper eyelid.
bobet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobets
Senses: glosses: A flag which monitors which way the wind is blowing
bookend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnd
Forms: form: bookends
form: book-end
form: book end
Etymology: From book + end.
Senses: synonyms: book support
glosses: A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
examples: text: The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]
ref: 2012 November 1, Kelly Fiveash, “Snooper's-charter plans are just misunderstood, sniffles tearful May”, in The Register:
text: In both Episode 1 and Episode 9, which serve as bookends, Burns found fascinating footage of a 1938 event at which President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to living veterans who wore the Blue and the Gray; […]
ref: 2017, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, Cynthia J. Miller, The American Civil War on Film and TV, page 214:
text: […] radio techniques, including the use of sound montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end of radio programs […]
ref: 2020, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Radio Nation, page 20:
text: And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense of equilibrium.
ref: 2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
text: In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
bookend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnd
Forms: form: bookends
form: bookending
form: bookended
form: bookended
Etymology: From book + end.
Senses: examples: text: Side one has good songs bookended by better songs.
ref: 2006, Henry Owings, Patton Oswalt, The Overrated Book, →ISBN, page 105:
text: The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.
ref: 2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer:
text: Taking the 18th-century tale at a steady, relentless drumbeat, and with a seductively cool detachment, Kubrick guides you through his hero’s rise and fall, bookended by two sensational duelling scenes.
ref: 2016 July 28, Peter Bradshaw, “Barry Lyndon review – Kubrick's intimate epic of utter lucidity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Her aim is to answer questions that “raze to the bone of life”, including the most profound of all: “How, in this blink of existence bookended by nothingness, do we attain completeness of being?”
ref: 2020 February 7, P. D. Smith, quoting Maria Popova, “Figuring by Maria Popova review – distillation of a lifetime's reading”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Yes, there are leisure lines to be enjoyed - in the Welsh 'Queen' resorts of Llandudno and Aberystwyth, or the steamer jewel of Douglas on the Isle of Man, where dramatic mountain and hill inclines were overcome and bookended with amusements and culinary amenities for the enjoyment of visitors.
ref: 2021 February 10, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Versatile and functional funiculars”, in RAIL, number 924, page 61:
synonyms: flank
glosses: To come before and after, or at both sides of.
bouffant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːfɑ̃/
enpr: bo͞o-fäntʹ
ipa: /buˈfɑːnt/
enpr: bo͞oʹfänt
ipa: /ˈbufɑːnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: more bouffant
form: most bouffant
Etymology: From French bouffant, from Middle French; present participle of bouffer (“to puff”). Doublet of buffont.
Senses: examples: text: Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.
glosses: Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body.
bouffant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːfɑ̃/
enpr: bo͞o-fäntʹ
ipa: /buˈfɑːnt/
enpr: bo͞oʹfänt
ipa: /ˈbufɑːnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: bouffants
Etymology: From French bouffant, from Middle French; present participle of bouffer (“to puff”). Doublet of buffont.
Senses: examples: text: Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.
ref: 2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
Derived terms: word: bouffant cap
word: bouffant gown
word: bouffanty
alt: buffant
word: buffont
word: semibouffant
bourrelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourrelets
Etymology: Borrowed from French bourrelet.
Senses: examples: text: The bourrelet is a slightly raised surface on the rocket designed to maintain a light contact with the inside of the launching tube to center the rocket when fired.
ref: 2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An accurately machined portion around the diameter of a shell of a gun, which acts to increase accuracy of projectile fit to the barrel.
glosses: An escoffion.
glosses: A raised rim around a footprint consisting of sediment displaced by the pressure of the step.
Coordinate terms: driving band
ogive
buck naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: buck-naked
Etymology: The earlier of two similar references to the unclothed state, the later version being the reverse bowdlerization butt-naked. First evidenced in early twentieth century literature and, some say, in the British lexicon.
It is possible the phrase was originally based on the racist usage of "buck" to refer to Black people or Native Americans, who when enslaved were often presented naked at auctions.
Senses: glosses: Completely naked.
buddy store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy stores
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: buddy pack
buddy pod
glosses: An external fuel tank that is loaded on the bomb rack on military aircraft, having hose-and-drogue equipment for aerial refuelling.
bushbash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bushbashes
form: bushbashing
form: bushbashed
form: bushbashed
form: bush-bash
Etymology: From bush + bash.
Senses: examples: text: Today she and husband Murray “bushbash” regularly, going camping in remote gorges and creeks.
ref: 1990, Asiaweek, volume 16, page 128:
text: 2008, George Dunford, Matthew D. Firestone, Anthony Ham, The Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years and Overseas Adventures, Lonely Planet, page 215,
Experienced bushbashing motorcyclists prize the rough roads of Cambodia, Laos and northern Thailand.
text: 2010, Stu Gibson, A queer sort of intelligence, Martin Crump (editor), The Search For The Great Kiwi Yarn, unnumbered page,
So rather than bushbash my way down to the road end, I decided to cut uphill to meet the round-the-mountain track and take the easy way out.
glosses: To travel or build a route straight across country rather than following an established track, typically involving forcing one's way through forest and/or undergrowth.
calade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calades
Etymology: Borrowed from French calade.
Senses: examples: text: Work your horse in a calade, after the Italian way; ride him straight, and then you make good use of the calade.
ref: 1735, The Sportsman's Dictionary:
glosses: A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.
gayest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gay: most gay
versify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: versifies
form: versifying
form: versified
form: versified
Etymology: From Middle English versifien, from Old French versifier, learned borrowing from Latin versificāre (“versify”), from versus (see verse) + faciō (“make”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll versify in spite, and do my best.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: to make or compose verses
glosses: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
glosses: to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form
Derived terms: versifier
rapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/
homophone: wrapping
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rap
rapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/
homophone: wrapping
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: rappings
Senses: examples: text: During the séance, we heard mysterious rappings on the table.
glosses: The sound of a rap or knock.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.
Derived terms: table rapping
rapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/
homophone: wrapping
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: more rapping
form: most rapping
Senses: glosses: Remarkably large; whopping.
blix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪks
Etymology: Blend of bleach + fixer.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: In color photography, a combination of bleach and fixer, which removes both the silver crystals and silver halides, leaving behind the color dyes, which form the negative image.
blix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: examples: text: See all these blix?
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of blicks (“gun”).
Roth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roths
Etymology: The surname reflects several origins; see Roth.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English of English origin.
glosses: A surname from German of German and Ashkenazi origin.
Derived terms: Rothian
Rothville
dead space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead spaces
form: deadspace
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The portion of the respiratory tract that is ventilated but not perfused by pulmonary circulation.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Picture information that is either masked off or cropped out of viewing area, whether at the top or bottom, or to the sides.
Derived terms: alveolar dead space
anatomical dead space
anatomic dead space
Fowler dead space
physiologic dead space
series dead space
deterr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deter.
dichlor-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of dichloro- used mainly before a vowel.
chloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlor- + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a compound, containing chlorine with a higher oxidation number than equivalent chlorous compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 5.
Derived terms: word: chlorate
word: hydrochloric
word: hyperchloric
word: oxychloric
word: perchloric
word: platinichloric
sense: Expressions
word: chloric acid
sense: Expressions
word: chloric anhydride
sense: Expressions
word: chloric oxide
sense: Expressions
word: chlorochloric acid
Related terms: chlorous
chlorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
Etymology: From chlor- + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a compound, containing chlorine with a lower oxidation number than equivalent chloric compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 3.
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, the electronegative character of chlorine; hence, electronegative; opposed to basylous or zincous.
Derived terms: word: chrysochlorous
word: hypochlorous
sense: Expressions
word: chlorous acid
sense: Expressions
word: chlorous anhydride
sense: Expressions
word: chlorous oxide
sense: Expressions
word: chlorous pole
Related terms: chloric
Old Slavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Old Church Slavonic language
glosses: Proto-Slavic language
glosses: Old East Slavic language
Synonyms: sense: Old Church Slavonic
word: Old Bulgarian
word: Common Slavic
word: Common Slavonic
sense: Old East Slavic
word: Old East Slavonic
revenooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenooers
Senses: examples: text: Federal revenooers recognize two kinds of cigarettes[…]
ref: 1997 July 11, Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope:
glosses: Alternative form of revenuer.
choosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choosable
form: most choosable
Etymology: From Middle English *chosable, chesable, cheseable, equivalent to choose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be chosen or selected.
Synonyms: selectable
Derived terms: unchoosable
choosable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choosables
Etymology: From Middle English *chosable, chesable, cheseable, equivalent to choose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that may be chosen; an option or alternative.
frabjous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: more frabjous
form: most frabjous
Etymology: Originally a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] / O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” / He chortled in his joy.
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
text: [Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day!
ref: 1960 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 198:
text: "Tomorrow there'll be so much to do," as the Dixie Chicks remind us, "so tonight I'll drift in a dream with you." I want her life to be frabjous, not weighed down with mimsy.
ref: 2012 March 15, “To Be a Fully Developed Person (and Leader), You Need to Dream”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
text: Beginning in the final months leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and ending in 1953, “Barefoot Gen” takes us inside war from the civilians’ view with none of the propaganda and all of the flawed and frabjous potential of humanity.
ref: 2016 January 23, Kris Kosaka, “Barefoot Gen”, in The Japan Times:
text: It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse. It's the headlong chocolate-dopamine surge that excites. It's the frabjous joy of tearing into a well-wrapped bar. It's love, love, love.
ref: 2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashville's Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean:
text: O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or “the met” as normal people call them.
ref: 2019 April 12, Suzanne Moore, “Wikileaks^([sic]) was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2021:
glosses: Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.
Derived terms: frabjously
columbarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒləmˈbɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌkɑləmˈbɛri.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: columbariums
form: columbaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin columbārium, from columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Senses: examples: text: Their sides present the well-known appearance of the Roman columbaria (dove-cotes), but with the important difference, that they are adapted to contain coffins instead of urns, the holes being about 2 feet square and 6 feet deep.
ref: 1885, Philip Smith, History of the World from the Creation to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, volume 2:
text: Doves were culticly protected; great towers were built for them in which they could nest; they were called columbaria (columba is the Latin word for dove).
ref: 1979, Leonard Swidler, Biblical Affirmations of Woman, page 61:
text: Fish ponds were stocked with netted fish during the summer as a source of protein and dove cotes, or as the Romans called them, 'columbariums', were another.
ref: 2008, Stanley Graham, Barnoldswich, page 34:
synonyms: dovecote
glosses: A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.
glosses: A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.
examples: text: We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
ref: 1873, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, anonymous translator, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, translation of original in German, part 2:
text: The columbarium (vaults lined with recesses for cinerary urns) in the form of a grotto (a cave-like structure) is the centerpiece of the Elks plot.
ref: 2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
synonyms: cinerarium
glosses: A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.
glosses: A niche in such a building for housing urns.
Aalenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Aalen (in Germany) + -ian
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Middle Jurassic epoch or series.
Aalenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: After Aalen (in Germany) + -ian
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Aalenian epoch.
chooseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chooseable
form: most chooseable
Etymology: From choose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choosable.
spectrophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectro- + photometry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: the quantitative analysis of electromagnetic spectra by use of a spectrophotometer; especially in order to determine the structure or quantity of a substance
Related terms: spectrography
spectroscopy
colorimetry
binary star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stellar system in which two stars orbit around their center of mass; double star.
Synonyms: binary
binary star system
binary system
double star
double star system
Related terms: multiple star
multiple star system
single star
single star system
star system
trinary star
triple star system
companion star