cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pound the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pounds the table
form: pounding the table
form: pounded the table
form: pounded the table
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pound, the, table.
glosses: To vehemently assert one's position.
examples: text: There's an old legal aphorism that goes, "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."
topics: law
glosses: To base an argument on bluster or rhetoric when unsupported by more substantive elements.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To promote one's products.
Related terms: tubthumping
tender loving care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TLC
Senses: glosses: Considerate and compassionate care, especially as given by nurses when no other treatment is of use.
eventuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌvɛntjuˈælɪti/
ipa: /ɪˌvɛnt͡ʃuˈælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: eventualities
Etymology: Calque of French éventualité, eventual + -ity
Senses: examples: text: Vigil: You are not Prothean. But you are not machine, either. This eventuality was one of many that was anticipated. This is why we sent our warning through the beacons.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ilos:
text: England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: contingency
word: possibility
word: chance
word: contingency
word: contingent
word: eventuality
word: possibility
word: potentiality
coordinate_terms: eventualization
realization
reality
glosses: A possible event; something that may happen.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts.
Related terms: eventualize
egregiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɡɹid͡ʒəsli/
Forms: form: more egregiously
form: most egregiously
Etymology: From egregious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This myopia has has also afflicted the tram sector - most egregiously when Alastair Darling, as transport secretary, cancelled Merseytram, Leeds Supertram, the South Hampshire Rapid Transit scheme, and an extension to Manchester Metrolink (subsequently reversed) in 2004-05.
ref: 2024 March 6, Steve Edwards discusses with Anthony Lambert, “The bedrock of urban renewal”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 34:
glosses: conspicuously badly (used negatively)
Related terms: egregious
elkhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elkhounds
Etymology: From elk + hound.
Senses: glosses: Norwegian Elkhound, a breed of dog from Norway for hunting elk (US: moose).
examples: Hällefors Elkhound
Swedish Elkhound
Swedish White Elkhound
glosses: Any Scandinavian breed of dog bred to hunt elk (US: moose).
Synonyms: Norwegian Elkhound
espantoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espantoons
Senses: glosses: A police nightstick with an attached strap by which it can be swung, used originally in Baltimore, Maryland.
thingamabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingamabobs
form: thingamabobber
form: thingamybob
form: thingmabob
form: thingumabob
form: thingumbob
form: thingumebob
form: thingummabob
form: thingummybob
form: thingymabob
Etymology: Alteration of thingumbob: obsolete thingum (from thing) + bob.
Senses: glosses: A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.
Synonyms: thingy
whatshisname
mahi-mahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahi-mahis
form: mahi-mahi
Etymology: From Hawaiian mahimahi.
Senses: glosses: A large food and game fish of the family Coryphaenidae which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters.
Synonyms: dolphinfish
dorado
mahimahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahimahis
form: mahimahi
Senses: examples: text: Tunas and other pelagic fishes, especially mahimahi and ono (wahoo), are known to congregate under drifting objects, such as logs.
ref: 1990, Hawaiian Archipelago and Johnston Island Exclusive Economic Zone, Proposed Marine Mineral Lease Sale: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 1, page 237:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mahi-mahi.
dolphinfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphinfishes
form: dolphinfish
Etymology: From dolphin + fish.
Senses: glosses: A large food and game fish of the Coryphaenidae family which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters.
Synonyms: mahi-mahi
dolphin fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphin fishes
form: dolphin fish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dolphinfish.
dolphinfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolphinfish
mahi-mahis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahi-mahi
carbonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːbən.aɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.bən.aɪz/
Forms: form: carbonizes
form: carbonizing
form: carbonized
form: carbonized
Etymology: From carbon + -ize.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: charcoalize, char
synonyms: carburize
glosses: To turn something to carbon, especially by heating it; to scorch or blacken.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react something with carbon.
Derived terms: carbonizable
carbonization
carbonizer
decarbonization
decarbonize
recarbonize
Related terms: pyrolyse
firearms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firearm
firing range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firing ranges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shooting range.
synonyms: word: shooting range
firing ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firing range
California roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California rolls
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A popular form of sushi in the United States, commonly made with avocado, cucumber, and crab meat, and wrapped with rice.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A rolling stop (when a car slows down at a stop sign, but does not come to a complete stop).
caramelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/
Forms: form: caramelizes
form: caramelizing
form: caramelized
form: caramelized
form: caramelise
form: carmelize
Etymology: From caramel + -ize.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To convert (sugar) into caramel.
examples: text: Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To brown (sugar, or a foodstuff containing sugar) by means of heat.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To undergo this kind of conversion or browning.
Derived terms: caramelization
caramelizer
uncaramelized
caramelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caramelize
calcium carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black, solid, of formula CaC₂, manufactured from lime and carbon at high temperatures; reacts with water to form acetylene.
crème brûlée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛm bɹuˈleɪ/
Forms: form: crème brûlées
form: crèmes brûlées
form: crèmes brûlée
form: creme brulee
form: crème brulée
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée (literally “burnt cream”).
Senses: synonyms: brûlée
burnt cream
Cambridge cream
Trinity cream
glosses: A dessert of custard, covered by a brittle layer of browned sugar.
creme brulee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creme brulees
Etymology: French crème brûlée (“burnt cream”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crème brûlée.
caramelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caramelize
caramelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caramelize
cloven hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloven hooves
form: cloven hoofs
Senses: examples: text: 6. Chileſe Horſe.—1. Equus biſulcus. 6. / Has cloven hoofs. Molin. hiſt. nat. Chil. 284. / Inhabits South America.—This obſcure quadruped, which is only mentioned by Molina, frequents the precipitous and rocky mountains of the Andes or Cordellieras; in ſize, number and arrangement of teeth, and in general appearance, it reſembles the Horſe, for which reaſon it is placed by Dr Gmelin in this genus, though its cloven hoofs are ſimilar to thoſe of the animals belonging to the former order: […]
ref: 1792, Robert Kerr, The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System, of the Celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus. Class I. Mammalia: […], Edinburgh: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, London; and W[illiam] Creech, Edinburgh, page 346:
glosses: A divided hoof, as on bovine animals.
examples: text: Children of the cloven hooves / Bathe the cross in your father's blood
ref: 2020, “Seeing God”, performed by The Acacia Strain and Aaron Heard:
glosses: The mark of the Devil.
Synonyms: cleft hoof
cloven foot
Derived terms: show the cloven hoof
Related terms: cloven-hoofed
bananas Foster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The dish was created in 1951 by Paul Blangé at Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named for Richard Foster, a friend of Owen Brennan's who was then New Orleans Crime Commission chairman.
Senses: glosses: A dessert made of sliced bananas which are sautéed in rum, brown sugar, and banana liqueur. Served with ice cream and often flambéed at the table.
sautéed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sautéed
form: most sautéed
Etymology: From sauté + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s so versatile and can be enjoyed raw or cooked. You can enjoy spinach added to salads, smoothies, muffins, sautéed in stir fries, soups, and in pesto,” Al Bochi said.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: That has been cooked using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat.
Derived terms: sautéed potato
sautéed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sauté + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sauté
glosses: simple past and past participle of sautée
flambéed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flambé
flambés
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flambé
flambés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flambé
flambéing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flambé
sautés
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sauté
sautéing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sauté
free agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free agents
Senses: examples: text: Or, if that’s too cringe, you can put it like The Wall Street Journal did at the end of last month: “With this spending bonanza and frenzy of movement, AI geeks are being treated more like NBA free agents.”
ref: 2025 July 14, Katie Baker, quoting Wall Street Journal, “The Summer of Free AI-gency”, in The Ringer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A professional athlete who is free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
examples: text: Nevertheless, in despite of the shackles by which he is bound, it is pretended he is a free agent, or that independent of the causes by which he is moved, he determines his own will; regulates his own condition.
ref: 1820 [1770], “Of the System of Man's free agency”, in The System of Nature, translation of Système de la Nature by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who acts freely, or without constraint to a higher power.
Related terms: free agency
red hot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red hots
form: red-hot
Senses: qualifier: Midwest
glosses: A frankfurter, a hot dog.
red hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more red hot
form: most red hot
form: red-hot
Senses: examples: text: The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.
ref: 1958 February 24, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of red-hot.
stooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Forms: form: more stooping
form: most stooping
Senses: glosses: Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
stooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stoop
stooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Forms: form: stoopings
Senses: examples: text: This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.
ref: 2011, Don DeLillo, The Names:
glosses: The act of one who stoops.
entreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entreat
groaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəʊnd/
enpr: ʹgrōnd
ipa: /ɡɹoʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of groan
murmuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
glosses: present participle and gerund of murmur
murmuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murmurings
Senses: examples: text: the murmurings of trees in the wind
glosses: A sound that murmurs.
examples: text: Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:
text: When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
ref: 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:
glosses: A complaint against something.
refers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refer
refers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: reefers
Senses: glosses: plural of refer
helps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlps/
rhymes: -ɛlps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of help
helps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlps/
rhymes: -ɛlps
Senses: glosses: plural of help
verified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verify
verified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only verified cardholders are eligible for the discount.
glosses: Subject to positive verification.
verified
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verifieds
Senses: glosses: A user of the Twitter microblogging service whose identity has been confirmed by Twitter.
chased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪst/
homophone: chaste
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: examples: text: These two means of observation will enable the chasing vessel to rectify her course and to satisfy herself that she has taken the one which will allow her to reach the chased vessel as speedily as possible — that is to say, at the intersection of their respective courses.
ref: 1867, The United States Naval Signal Code, page 61:
text: The chased player may go in and out of the circle, the others allowing him to do so by raising their hands and the IT must follow exactly or forfeit the game.
ref: 2008, Caroline Goodfellow, Games from Childhood Past:
text: Awareness about the identity of the currently chased caribou is very important for the implementation of the emergent behaviors, mentioned below.
ref: 2013, D. Barbucha, M.T. Le, R.J. Howlett, Advanced Methods and Technologies for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, page 55:
glosses: Pursued.
examples: text: Or, taking another instance of a successful copy from the antique, it would be difficult to surpass in beauty of design and execution the wine or spirit bottle which is modelled after an old Flemish original, the effect of the chased design being still further enhanced by curved lines of ribbed glass, faintly touched with gold dus , in harmony with the silver-gilt top.
ref: 1895, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality - Volume 8, page 334:
text: The chased lozenges have pairs of confronting green triangles set tip-to-tip, and with squares and diminutive triangles, all in purple and green porphyry, in the white marble interspaces.
ref: 2019, Warwick Rodwell, David S. Neal, The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey, page 234:
text: Besides the plain sculpture imitating natural or conventionalising natural forms, there is the chased and engraved work, and the repoussé work, the production of which is similar in respect of method to that of Europe.
ref: 2023, H. Cole, Catalogue of the Objects of Indian Art, page 115:
glosses: Embossed or engraved.
Derived terms: unchased
chased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪst/
homophone: chaste
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chase
adjusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪd/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɐstɪd/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɐstəd/
Forms: form: more adjusted
form: most adjusted
Senses: glosses: Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
Derived terms: adjusted flow time
adjusted gross income
disability adjusted life year
maladjusted
multiadjusted
nonadjusted
overadjusted
quality-adjusted
unadjusted
adjusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪd/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɐstɪd/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɐstəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjust
adjusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjust
coupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpəld/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of couple
Derived terms: close-coupled
crosscoupled
loose-coupled
multicoupled
noncoupled
optocoupled
overcoupled
photocoupled
precoupled
six-coupled
telecoupled
uncoupled
well-coupled
presumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presume
presumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presumed
form: most presumed
Senses: glosses: Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
Derived terms: conclusively presumed
presumedly
ordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of order
ordering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orderings
Senses: examples: text: She gave the students' performances a rank ordering.
glosses: Arrangement in a sequence.
examples: text: Ordering has to be complete at least six weeks before expected delivery to get our best prices.
glosses: The placement of an order for goods or services.
glosses: The act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons.
Derived terms: partial ordering relation
strict ordering
subordering
time ordering
total ordering relation
well-ordering
well-quasi-ordering
intending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intend
intending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: intendings
Senses: examples: text: Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.
ref: 2012, F. Kersten, Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice (page 53)
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The process by which one intends something; intention.
emptied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empty
directing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of direct
tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toss
tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tossings
Senses: examples: text: Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 48, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
examples: text: If it is necessary buddle the Tin over again , after it is sifted ( which is the best method for cleansing most sorts of Tin , for there may lie a rough waste , that will not come off by tossing and packing ) then buddle it over again
ref: 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining […] :
topics: business
mining
glosses: The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
glosses: A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Derived terms: dwarf tossing
fox tossing
midget tossing
salad tossing
shoe tossing
tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I can't get this tossing program to work.
glosses: Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
speeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Etymology: From speed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speed
speeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Etymology: From speed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Travelling very fast; moving at speed.
examples: text: We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.
text: The NTSB said on Tuesday that the 2022 North Las Vegas crash highlights the need for intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders. National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting Tech in Cars, Road track, 15 Nov 2023
glosses: Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists).
examples: text: Bob Dylan composed “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on our floor, and a speeding Edie Sedgwick was said to have set her room on fire while gluing on her thick false eyelashes by candlelight.
ref: 2010, Patti Smith, Just Kids, Ecco, published 2010, page 112:
glosses: Under the influence of the drug speed; high on amphetamines.
speeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: speedings
Etymology: From speed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
ref: 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North:
text: We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: (Instance of) acceleration.
examples: text: He was fined $100 for speeding.
glosses: Driving faster than the legal speed limit.
Derived terms: speeding ticket
screamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scream
metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: medals (t-flapping)
meddles (t-flapping)
mettles
Senses: glosses: plural of metal
metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: medals (t-flapping)
meddles (t-flapping)
mettles
Senses: examples: text: It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.
text: Now and again a night train roared along the metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental’s indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through his slumber.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, “CHAPTER 8”, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
text: They stood on the foot-bridge over Boathouse Station and looked at the metals gleaming coldly.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 7”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The way the glare from our engine firehole pulsated, reflecting continuously in the steam, combined with our achievement in keeping level with the lighter train until our metals parted at Wilton, provided another lasting memory.
ref: 1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
text: Steam services began running over NR [Network Rail] metals from Grosmont to the traffic objective of Whitby in 2007, with operations enhanced by opening of the second platform at the terminus in 2014.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, pages 77, 78:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network.
metals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: medals (t-flapping)
meddles (t-flapping)
mettles
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metal
gestures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesture
gestures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gesture
devoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devour
sighing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sī′ĭng
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.əŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaj.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Accompanied by or uttered with a sigh.
sighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sī′ĭng
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.əŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaj.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: sighings
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing.
Senses: examples: the groanings and sighings of the dying man
synonyms: sorrow
grief
glosses: The utterance of a sigh.
sighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sī′ĭng
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.əŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaj.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sigh
revolving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: moving around a central point.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
Derived terms: revolving chair
revolving credit
revolving door
revolving loan
revolving nutation
revolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revolve
revolving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolvings
Senses: examples: text: The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.
ref: 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245:
glosses: The act of something that revolves or turns.
glosses: The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)
sorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sort
sorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortings
Senses: glosses: verbal noun of sort:
Ordering.
glosses: verbal noun of sort:
Categorizing.
glosses: verbal noun of sort:
Mending.
Derived terms: edge sorting
horizontal sorting
pancake sorting
protein sorting
sorting office
sorting table
waste sorting
flooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flood
flooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/
Forms: form: floodings
Senses: examples: text: And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
ref: 1875, Mark Twain, Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls:
text: [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
glosses: An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.
Derived terms: antiflooding
flash flooding
sunny-day flooding
battered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætəd/
ipa: /ˈbætəɹd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batter
battered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætəd/
ipa: /ˈbætəɹd/
Forms: form: more battered
form: most battered
Senses: examples: text: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
glosses: Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
examples: text: There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
glosses: Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
glosses: drunk; inebriated
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Coated with batter (noun).
Derived terms: nonbattered
overbattered
unbattered
tapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: tappings
Senses: examples: text: As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.
ref: 2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
examples: text: Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]
ref: 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products, page 99:
glosses: The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
examples: text: The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].
ref: 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
tapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tap
Related terms: foot-tapping
hot tapping
self-tapping
self-tapping screw
tappingly
tapping up
toe-tapping
blended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: examples: blended tea
glosses: Being a mixture.
Derived terms: blended family
blended learning
blendedness
nonblended
preblended
self-blended
unblended
blended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blend
bruised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bruise
bruised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: examples: text: or, a cross between four squirrels sejant, gules . . . argent, a lion rampant, gules, bruised with a bendlet, or, Branch. […] On the summit is the quartered shield of Stewart, consisting of 23 coats of arms: […] 2, the same with an escotcheon of pretence, argent, a lion rampant gules, bruised by a staff ragulée in bend, or, Steward; […]
ref: 1807, Francis Blomefield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Gallow and Brothercross. Blofield. Clackclose, page 381:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of debruised.
synonyms: word: debruised
excluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exclude
excluding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).
glosses: to the exclusion of; not including
Synonyms: barring
except for
save for
except
spices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪsɪz/
rhymes: -aɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of spice
spices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪsɪz/
rhymes: -aɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spice
not much of anything
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: 1971, Carol King, “So far away”, Tapestry, Ode Records
One more song about movin’ along the highway / Can’t say much of anything that's new.
glosses: Very little; not a lot.
bocaccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bocaccio
form: bocaccios
Senses: glosses: A venomous marine fish, taxonomic name Sebastes paucispinis, in the subfamily Sebastinae found in the subtropical Eastern Pacific.
preocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ocular.
Senses: examples: the preocular antennae of certain insects
glosses: Just in front of the eyes.
Related terms: postocular
preocular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoculars
Etymology: From pre- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
text editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text editors
form: text-editor
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: word processor
glosses: A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
examples: text: Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.
ref: 1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.
control character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control characters
Etymology: From control + character.
Senses: examples: text: The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.
text: To display raw control characters in text, but try to keep the screen appearance, use less with the -R option. This displays raw control characters, but any disparities that may be caused by the control characters on the screen are controlled, whenever possible.
ref: 2004, Michael Stutz, The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use, 2nd edition, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 215:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.
Synonyms: non-printable character
non-printing character
Hyponyms: bell character
carriage return
delete character
line feed
null character
tab
text file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text files
form: textfile
form: .txt file
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A datafile in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a nonspecialized text editor.
Hypernyms: file
futurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈtjʊəɹɪti/
ipa: /fjuːˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪti/
Forms: form: futurities
Etymology: From future + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:
text: Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter XIII, in The Time Machine:
glosses: The future.
examples: text: [I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]
ref: 2022, Daisy Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, page 73:
glosses: The state of being in the future.
examples: text: […] on this perhaps,
This peradventure, infamous for lies,
As on a rock of adamant, we build
Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes,
As we the fatal sisters could out-spin,
And, big with life’s futurities, expire.
ref: 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:
glosses: A future event.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals.
Synonyms: sense: the future
word: aftertime
word: to-be
word: the future
sense: state of being in the future
word: futurition
sense: a future event
word: maybe
Derived terms: futuritial
muke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mukes
Senses: examples: 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg
Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.
glosses: Alternative form of mook.
muke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muke
Etymology: Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).
Senses: examples: 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ
According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A kind of tree spirit.
gas up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gases up
form: gasses up
form: gassed up
form: gassed up
Senses: examples: text: I can close down this bar / I can gas up my car / I can pack up and mail in my key
ref: 1977, “Bartender’s Blues”, in James Taylor (lyrics), JT, performed by James Taylor, Columbia Records:
glosses: To refuel (a vehicle).
examples: text: Social media got
us all too gassed up
Women nowadays be like
If you ain't dropped
sixteen hundred grand
On a Maserati then you
ain't the man for me
ref: 2018 December 9, Khali Raymond, savage writer, Voice of the Brick City (Axis 360), YTER/x Surreal Dreamz Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: “Stop gassing me up and tell me the truth,” Mr. Torres said. “The truth?” ChatGPT responded. “You were supposed to break.”
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To inflate (someone's ego); to deceive by flattery.
glosses: To publicly praise.
brown sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown sugars
Senses: glosses: Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses.
glosses: Refined sugar to which molasses has been added.
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
examples: text: What's happening brown sugar? Say, you look so good today / Ankle bracelet wrapped around your leg
ref: 1996, “Camay”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:
glosses: An attractive black woman.
Derived terms: brown-sugared
brown-sugary
dark brown sugar
light brown sugar
natural brown sugar
Related terms: icing sugar
raw sugar
white sugar
scripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪpts/
rhymes: -ɪpts
Senses: glosses: plural of script
scripts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪpts/
rhymes: -ɪpts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of script
Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/
Etymology: From broad + way. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
Derived terms: Broadwayish
Broadwayite
Broadway stage
off-Broadway
off-off-Broadway
off-off-off-Broadway
Related terms: Sussex Drive
Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/
Etymology: From broad + way. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Senses: examples: text: Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.
glosses: Flashy; showy.
raw_tags: of the proper noun senses
examples: text: Broadway connectors
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.
spitball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitballs
Etymology: From spit + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
related: word: spit-ball
glosses: A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
spitball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spitballs
form: spitballing
form: spitballed
form: spitballed
Etymology: From spit + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
examples: text: Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.
ref: 1992, Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men:
text: —Yes, Wheeler?
—Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
ref: 2008, David Wain, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Timothy Dowling, 01:09:07 from the start, in Role Models:
text: What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters.
ref: 2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don't come any bigger”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 13:
glosses: To brainstorm ideas.
Derived terms: spitballer
genes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēnz
ipa: /d͡ʒiːnz/
homophone: jeans
Senses: glosses: plural of gene
blanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blank
blanking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blankings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being blanked out.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
examples: text: Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.
ref: 2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
Derived terms: autoblanking
blanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blank
blanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
examples: text: She stared at Master Mannix with no expression. Somehow, her blanked face did not even flinch.
ref: 2021, Blair Babylon, Royal Romance Superbundle Boxed Set: Billionaires in Love:
glosses: In a state of blankness.