cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛəɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈwɛɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈweɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /wɛəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈweːɹə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈwiəɹə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈweəɹə/
ipa: /ˈweɹəɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈwɜːɹə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: whirrer (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wearers
Etymology: From Middle English werer, werere, equivalent to wear + -er.
Senses: examples: text: On Saint Patrick's day I put on my green shirt and join the wearers of the green.
text: Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 85:
glosses: One who wears.
proportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənz/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃənz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpoəʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of proportion
proportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənz/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃənz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpoəʃənz/
Senses: glosses: A person's figure.
qualifier: flags
glosses: The measurements of a flag, described using a ratio.
proportions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənz/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃənz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpoəʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proportion
taller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː.lə/
ipa: /ˈtaː.læ/
ipa: /ˈtɔ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tall: more tall
feel up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels up
form: feeling up
form: felt up
form: felt up
Senses: examples: text: “Feel me up and rub your pussy against mine, that'll make the pain in my bummy go away, it will,” she told me. I felt sorry for her. And I guess that's why I let her show me how girls made out without boys.
ref: 2009, Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary, page 28:
text: Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.
ref: 2013, Dan Pope, In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN:
glosses: To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.
Synonyms: sense: to caress
word: pet
word: tit up
word: touch up
word: fondle
Related terms: touch up
presbytery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛz.bɪ.tɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: presbyteries
Etymology: From Middle English presbetory, presbytory (“part of church reserved for clergy”), from Late Latin presbyterium (“group of presbyters, part of church reserved for clergy”), from Ancient Greek πρεσβῠτέρῐον (presbŭtérĭon, “group of presbyters”), from πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbŭ́teros, “elder, priest”) + -ῐον (-ĭon). Doublet of presbyterium.
Senses: synonyms: rectory
glosses: The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
glosses: A body of elders in the early Christian church.
glosses: A chancel; a section of the church reserved for the clergy.
glosses: Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
glosses: The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
Synonyms: topics: architecture
word: presbyterium
Derived terms: Presbyterian
birk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /bɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: berk
homophone: Bourke
homophone: burk
homophone: Burke
homophone: burke
Forms: form: birks
Etymology: From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch.
(tree): Cognate with Scots birk.
Senses: examples: text: Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56:
glosses: A birch tree.
glosses: A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).
birk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /bɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: berk
homophone: Bourke
homophone: burk
homophone: Burke
homophone: burke
Forms: form: birks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of berk.
nucleation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnukliˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: nucleations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of cell nuclei.
Derived terms: binucleation
centronucleation
denucleation
epinucleation
exonucleation
heteronucleation
micronucleation
misnucleation
mononucleation
multinucleation
postnucleation
prenucleation
renucleation
tetranucleation
tribonucleation
autodidactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtoʊdaɪˈdæktɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, autodidact + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Albert Einstein was autodidactic.
glosses: Of, relating to, or being an autodidact; self-taught; self-educated.
Related terms: autodidact
autodidactism
commonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commonizes
form: commonizing
form: commonized
form: commonized
form: commonise
Etymology: From common + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He attempted to commonize the various standards by ensuring a similar format and implementation.
glosses: To make similar or common.
examples: text: She gave each participant a trophy, regardless of win or loss, to commonize the award for winning.
glosses: To deprecate the importance of, or make ordinary.
brom-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of bromo- (before a vowel)
Magnificat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mæɡˈnɪfɪkæt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin magnificat, the first word of the Latin version of the canticle.
Senses: topics: Christianity
entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: Mag
glosses: The liturgical canticle of the Virgin Mary, sung in Christian churches; taken from her reported words upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth.
Derived terms: word: Mag
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
yttro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Containing yttrium.
Derived terms: yttrobetafite
yttrocerite
yttrocolumbite
yttrocrasite
yttrofluorite
yttrogummite
yttropyrochlore
yttrotantalite
yttrotitanite
yttrotungstite
yttria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yttrias
Etymology: From Ytterby, a town in Sweden.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: yttrium oxide
Synonyms: diyttrium trioxide
yttrium oxide
Derived terms: yttrialite
yttrium
bixin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪksɪn
Forms: form: bixins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An apocarotenoid that is the active ingredient of annatto.
Synonyms: E160b
Related terms: norbixin
apocarotenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocarotenoids
Etymology: From apo- + carotenoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formed by the removal of fragments of the carbon backbone (usually by oxidative cleavage) of a carotenoid.
Derived terms: diapocarotenoid
oxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑk.səˌdeɪ.tɪv/
Etymology: From oxide + -ative or oxidate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
Derived terms: antioxidative
autooxidative
electrooxidative
hyperoxidative
inoxidative
nitrooxidative
nonoxidative
oxidatively
oxidative phosphorylation
oxidative stress
photooxidative
preoxidative
prooxidative
superoxidative
norbixin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nor- + bixin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid of which bixin is the methyl ester; more soluble in water than bixin.
Synonyms: E160b when used as a food colouring
West-Flanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of West Flanders.
what's your phone number
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asks the interlocutor to give their phone number for subsequent communication.
how old are you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊ ˈəʊld ɑː(ɹ)ˌjuː/
ipa: /haʊ ˈoʊld ɑɹ ˌju/
Forms: form: How old are you
Senses: examples: Literally: What is your age in years?
glosses: Asks the age of the interlocutor.
examples: text: Jack: (laughing at infantile humor)
Jill: How old are you?
glosses: Used to question the mental age (maturity) of the interlocutor.
Related terms: I'm ... year(s) old
I'm twenty years old
how old are you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊ ˈəʊld ɑː(ɹ)ˌjuː/
ipa: /haʊ ˈoʊld ɑɹ ˌju/
Forms: form: How old are you
Etymology: Word by word translation of Chinese 怎麼老是你？/怎么老是你？ (Zěnme lǎoshì nǐ?, “Why is it always you?”)
Senses: glosses: Why is it always you? You again?
no problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finding this house should be no problem if we use a good map.
glosses: Something easy, not difficult, not posing problems.
no problem
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: Porter, can you help me with my bags? — No problem, sir.
glosses: Certainly, sure (said when granting a request).
examples: text: Thank you. — No problem.
glosses: No thanks is necessary; you're welcome (said in response to an expression of gratitude).
examples: text: I'm sorry. — No problem.
glosses: No apology is necessary; think nothing of it (said in response to an expression of regret).
Synonyms: sense: certainly
word: certainly
sense: certainly
word: of course
sense: certainly
word: yes
sense: no thanks (or apology) is necessary
word: don't mention it
word: it's nothing
word: you're welcome
word: no worries
word: it was nothing
word: not at all
word: no probs
word: it's all right
word: that's OK
Related terms: word: no prob
word: no problemo
word: NP
where are you from
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: In which country or region were you born or raised?
Related terms: home country
old country
how's the weather
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to inquire about the weather.
glosses: Indicating a change of subject to unimportant topics.
Related terms: it's cold outside
excuse me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈkjuːz mi/
ipa: /ɪksˈkjuːz mi/
Senses: glosses: Said as a request to repeat information.
examples: text: It was so hot I took off my clothes and sat by the window to cool off.
Excuse me?
glosses: Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.
examples: text: Excuse me? Anna? Is that you? — Oh, yes. I am here!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: Said as a request for an individual's attention.
examples: text: Excuse me: can I get through please?
glosses: Said as a request to pass somebody.
glosses: Sorry, as an apology.
examples: text: Oh, excuse me, I hadn't realized how late it was. I need to get home and make dinner.
glosses: Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell.
Synonyms: sense: request to repeat
word: I beg your pardon?
word: pardon?
word: I'm sorry?
word: come again?
word: say again?
word: sorry?
word: say again
Derived terms: excuse you
exsqueeze me
excuse me
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈkjuːz mi/
ipa: /ɪksˈkjuːz mi/
Forms: form: excuse mes
Senses: glosses: An old-fashioned type of dance where partners are constantly changed.
Related terms: pardon me
your attention please
predicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv.li/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.də.kə.tɪv.li/
Etymology: From predicative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Dutch adjective ‘af’ can only be used predicatively.
glosses: As a predicate; giving information about the subject of a sentence.
briefing note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briefing notes
Senses: glosses: a short paper that quickly and effectively informs a decision maker about an issue
responder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒndə/
ipa: /ɹəˈspɒndə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɑndɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈspɑndɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɔndə/
Forms: form: responders
Etymology: From respond + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As Levinson (1983: 334) points out, signs of dispreference in turn taking include: (a) Delays: notably a pause, or a time gap, before the responder replies to the preceding turn […]
ref: 2014, Geoffrey N. Leech, The Pragmatics of Politeness, page 31:
glosses: One who responds.
examples: text: 911 responders arrived at the scene within five minutes after the call.
glosses: A person who responds to an emergency situation or other summons.
Derived terms: first responder
non-responder
Related terms: responser
responsor
MCSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCSEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Microsoft certified systems engineer.
stimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈstɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /stɪm.jʉːˈlæɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: stimulations
Etymology: From Latin stimulātiō. Morphologically stimulate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A pushing or goading toward action.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input.
glosses: An activity causing excitement or pleasure; the act of stimulating.
Derived terms: acustimulation
allostimulation
angiostimulation
autostimulation
biostimulation
bronchostimulation
cardiostimulation
contrastimulation
co-stimulation
counterstimulation
cryostimulation
deep brain stimulation
destimulation
digital stimulation
electrostimulation
extrastimulation
gravistimulation
hyperstimulation
immunostimulation
interferential stimulation
interstimulation
macrostimulation
magnetostimulation
mechanostimulation
microstimulation
myostimulation
nanostimulation
neurostimulation
nonstimulation
optostimulation
osteostimulation
overstimulation
phagostimulation
pharmacostimulation
photostimulation
phytostimulation
pneumostimulation
poststimulation
prestimulation
psychostimulation
restimulation
self-stimulation
superstimulation
thermostimulation
transcranial direct current stimulation
understimulation
vasostimulation
vibrostimulation
Related terms: stimulate
stimulator
stimulatory
stimulus
capsanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsorubin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
Synonyms: E160c when used as a food colouring
capsorubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
Synonyms: E160c when used as a food colouring
carotenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carotenals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any carotenoid containing an aldehyde functional group
Derived terms: apocarotenal
carotenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carotenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carotenoid containing a carboxylic acid functional group.
Octans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin octans (“an octant”). Doublet of octant.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an octant. It lies closest to the southern celestial pole of any constellation.
wikipedia: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Derived terms: Octantis
octans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octan
fugle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːɡəl/
rhymes: -uːɡəl
homophone: fugal
Forms: form: fugles
form: fugling
form: fugled
form: fugled
Etymology: Back-formation from fugleman.
Senses: examples: text: wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 338:
glosses: To manoeuvre, jiggle or manipulate.
Derived terms: fugler
unstoppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/
rhymes: -ɔpəbəl
Forms: form: more unstoppable
form: most unstoppable
Etymology: From un- + stoppable.
Senses: examples: text: Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.
text: In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.
ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
text: I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
ref: 2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting, performed by Sia:
text: 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
text: These trains were ordered years before the pandemic, commissioned to tackle a problem that has (for now) gone away. Passenger numbers are no longer increasing at an unstoppable rate, driven by rising central London employment. The extra capacity is not currently needed.
ref: 2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “SWR unveils £1bn 'Arterios' for the "heart of our network"”, in Rail, pages 26–27:
glosses: Unable to be stopped.
Derived terms: unstoppability
unstoppably
gavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɡæˈvɑːʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Etymology: Borrowed from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”).
Senses: glosses: A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
glosses: A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
Derived terms: gastrogavage
microgavage
postgavage
pregavage
gavage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɡæˈvɑːʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: gavages
form: gavaging
form: gavaged
form: gavaged
Etymology: Borrowed from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”).
Senses: examples: text: If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one.
ref: 2009 January 8, Mike Albo, “Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago”, in New York Times:
glosses: To stuff or glut with something
-clinal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλίνω (klínō, “to lean”). Cognate with Latin clīnō.
Senses: glosses: having a specified slope
Derived terms: anticlinal
declinal
geanticlinal
geosynclinal
-cline
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from -clinal.
Senses: glosses: A specified form of slope or gradation.
-clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: having a specified slope
glosses: having a specified number of oblique axial intersections
raw_tags: of a crystal etc
Derived terms: aclinic
diclinic
isoclinic
monoclinic
triclinic
buffaloberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffaloberries
form: buffalo berry
form: buffalo-berry
Etymology: From buffalo + berry.
Senses: glosses: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Shepherdia, native to North America.
glosses: The edible berry of these plants.
Synonyms: soopolallie
racemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
Forms: form: racemates
Etymology: From racem(ic) + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Тhe greatest racemate contents were found in the products prepared in dimethylformamide and dimethylsulphoxide.
ref: 1965, Acta chimica - Volume 44, page 74:
text: Let us discuss different scenarios that may arise from a racemate consisting of two enantiomers.
ref: 2004, Indra K. Reddy, Reza Mehvar, Chirality in Drug Design and Development, page 424:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture which is racemic (“containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory and levorotatory stereoisomers and therefore not optically active”).
Derived terms: pseudoracemate
quasiracemate
racemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
Forms: form: racemates
Etymology: From racemic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of racemic acid.
Derived terms: word: dextro-racemate
word: laevo-racemate
word: racemated
sense: Finnish
alt: ester
word: raseeminen esteri
sense: Finnish
english: salt
translation: salt
word: raseeminen suola
word: Galician:
racemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪsmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪsˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
Forms: form: racemates
Etymology: From race (“contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective”) + -mate (suffix forming nouns having the sense of ‘those with whom what is denoted by the nouns are shared’).
Senses: examples: text: Differences in time at finish, time minus time of winner, and time minus racemate average for various track conditions are given in Tables 15, 16, and 17, respectively.
ref: 1977, Richard Lee Hintz, Factors Influencing Racing Performance of the Standardbred Racer, page 28:
text: Many environmental factors, such as track condition or shape, racing strategy or quality of racemates, modify the expression of true speed by a horse in a race and thereby bias performance records.
ref: 1981, Virginia Tech Livestock Research Report, page 44:
text: The interpretation of pace or purse is complicated by the fact that the data reflect not only the performance of the horse but the decisions and behavior of the track officials, the driver, the owner, racemates, etc.
ref: 1989, EAAP Publication, →ISBN, page 132:
text: A second three-car pileup happened later on. [Scott] Tucker’s racemate Guy Cosmo avoided the accidents.
ref: 2018, M. Weber, “Rough Start”, in Wild Moments of Sports Car Racing, North Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, →ISBN, page 15:
topics: chemistry
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
glosses: One participating in the same race as others.
racemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪsmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪsˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: racemates
Etymology: From race (“group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage or physical characteristics”) + -mate (suffix forming nouns having the sense of ‘those with whom what is denoted by the nouns are shared’).
Senses: examples: text: In Figure 1, Negroes and whites alternate around the circle, so that racemates are isolated from one another communicationally. If they communicate, it must be thru a person of the other race.
ref: 1967, Edward V Abner, David W Lewit, “Racial Contact, Personality, and Group Problem Solving”, in Report Resumes, ERIC:
text: if you still lay claim to the achievements your ancestors and racemates carried out, you must also share the guilt for their crimes
ref: 1994 June 16, “A harmless question”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet):
text: I'm 'white' and not so proud of it because of what my 'racemates' have done to the Americans and Africans. :-(
ref: 1996 May 8, “I hate being called "African-American"”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: She finds an organizational environment with limited prospects for responsiveness and meaningful exchange, even where, theoretically, one might have expected racial and ethnic affinity to produce responsiveness between racemates.
ref: 2013 August 14, Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (Public Management and Change series), Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A person of the same racial group as others.
racemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈsiːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From French racémique, from Latin racēmus (“cluster or bunch of grapes”) + -ique or from raceme + -ic. The name came from racemic acid, which was isolated from grapes.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: enantiopure
scalemic
glosses: Containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (+) and levorotatory (−) stereoisomers and therefore not optically active.
Derived terms: pseudoracemic
racemate
racemose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæsəməʊz/
Etymology: From Latin racēmōsus (“full of clusters”), from racēmus (“cluster, bunch”).
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: cymose
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having flowers arranged along a single central axis, as in a raceme, spike, or catkin.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: expressing such a pattern
raw_tags: of a disease
Derived terms: racemose neurocysticercosis
Related terms: raceme
raceme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsiːm/
ipa: /ˈɹæsim/
ipa: /ɹəˈsim/
ipa: /ɹeɪˈsim/
rhymes: (General American) -iːm
Forms: form: racemes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin racēmus (“cluster, bunch”). Doublet of raisin.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
Hyponyms: panicle
Coordinate terms: catkin
spike
Related terms: racemoid
racemose
silvopasture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlvəpæstʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɪlvəpɑːstʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From silvo- + pasture. From Latin silva (“forest, woods”) + pastūra (“pasture”).
Senses: glosses: The practice of combining forestry and grazing of domesticated animals for mutual benefit
Related terms: silvopastoral
silvopastural
Cartesian plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes who is credited with developing the mathematics.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A coordinate plane, with an applied Cartesian coordinate system.
Hypernyms: coordinate plane
rock pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock pipits
Senses: examples: text: There are rock pipits here too, nervy little creatures streaked brown with a touch of olive green on the chest.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 46:
glosses: A stocky bird, of species Anthus petrosus, somewhat smaller than a starling, that breeds on rocky beaches and winters on coastal salt marshes.
Synonyms: sense: Anthus petrosus
word: shore teetan
Dobermann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dobermanns
form: Doberman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dobermann, from the name of Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, who first developed this breed. Dobermann was born "Tobermann." Tobermann is derived from "Tober" (an Ashkenazic variant of Tauber) plus a suffixal -mann. Tauber is both the name of a river in Germany, and the German word for a pigeon (variant of Taube (“dove, pigeon”), formed [perhaps] to distinguish meaning.) The former is derived from Celtic, the latter from Proto-Germanic. See Dover, dove.
Senses: glosses: A large breed of guard dog bred in Germany.
wikipedia: Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann
Synonyms: Dobermann Pinscher
dead ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dead + ice.
Senses: synonyms: stagnant ice
glosses: Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving, and becoming covered with sediments.
docking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Etymology: From dock + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dock
glosses: culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.
docking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: dockings
Etymology: From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
examples: text: From their discussions, the participants mentioned informational and stimulating variations. For touching, one could always use feather dusters, a massage, a tongue in the ear, spooning and sucking toes (known in New York City as "shrimping). There's also "docking" for foreskinned men who can creatively stroke appendages.
ref: 1986 December 14, E. G. Martin, “Hot & Healthy: A Second Coming Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 7:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
Coordinate terms: sense: securing a vessel, connecting a spaceship
word: berthing
Derived terms: autodocking
cross-docking
docking station
nondocking
redocking
space docking
pessimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/
Forms: form: pessimists
Etymology: From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.
ref: 1940 September 29, “Letters Reveal Ordeals in France”, in The New York Times, page 12:
text: We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
ref: 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238:
antonyms: optimist
glosses: Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
Derived terms: Afropessimist
cyberpessimist
heteropessimist
pessoptimist
technopessimist
Related terms: pessimism
pessimistic
paperboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperboys
Etymology: From paper + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!
synonyms: newsboy
hypernyms: boy
<
person
coordinate_terms: papergirl
newsgirl
glosses: A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
paper round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper rounds
Senses: glosses: The delivery of newspapers to individual subscribers' houses.
Synonyms: newspaper round
newsround
paper route
head to toe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: head-to-toe
form: from head to toe
Etymology: From Middle English (fram) heved to þe ton.
Senses: examples: text: He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.
glosses: Entirely; completely; over one's full body.
examples: text: -we reversed positions so there was no funny business.
- Reversed positions?
- Yeah, you know, head to toe.
ref: 1995, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, “The Wink”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 4:
glosses: In reversed positions; in a lying position of two people where each person's feet are juxtaposed with the other person's head.
Synonyms: completely
overdid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-dĭd′
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈdɪd/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈdɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past of overdo
olé
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: olay
Etymology: From the Spanish olé.
Senses: glosses: An expression of excitement. Hooray!
mouthwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthwashes
form: mouth wash
Etymology: From mouth + wash.
Senses: synonyms: gargling fluid
glosses: A liquid used to clean one's mouth.
Derived terms: mouthwashy
ment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For ſince the Redcroſſe knight he erſt did weet, / To beene with Guyon knitt in one conſent, / The ill, which earſt to him, he now to Guyon ment.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: simple past and past participle of meng
ment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of meant.
ment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ments
Etymology: From Korean 멘트 (menteu).
Senses: examples: text: Paired with the seven members’ ending ments, the song’s message only intensified.
ref: 2020 October 12, P. Claire Dodson, Sara Delgado, Natasha Mulenga, “BTS “Map of the Soul” ON:E Concerts: 11 Best Moments”, in Teen Vogue, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2020:
text: Blue-haired Minghao looked ethereal right from the opening ment: […]
ref: 2022 August 11, Arpita Adhya, “Seventeen’s Be the Sun Tour Setlist Includes Mega Hits Like Hot & Rock With You”, in HITC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:
text: After all the perks are done, the artist would give a closing ment then the whole audience would get ready for the goodbye session as they exit the venue.
ref: 2022 August 17, Lei Reyes, “Here's What It's Like To Attend Korean Fansigning Events In The Philippines”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2022:
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: A segment of a performance where artists speak to the audience.
lunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌndʒd
Etymology: From lunge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lunge
lunged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌndʒd
ipa: /lʌnɡd/
rhymes: -ʌnɡd
ipa: /lʌnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌndʒd
Etymology: From lung + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He had grown a big strong fellow, but I had no difficulty in identifying the little squinting child, who begged, and sold flowers and songs in public-house bars, with the strong loud-lunged vendor of mackerel.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: Having lungs (breathing organs).
Derived terms: leather-lunged
lungedness
hankie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hankies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hanky.
Derived terms: four-hankie
pressie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛzi/
rhymes: -ɛzi
Forms: form: pressies
form: pressy
form: prezzie
form: prezzy
Etymology: From present + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A present (gift).
pressie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛzi/
rhymes: -ɛzi
ipa: /ˈpɹɛsi/
rhymes: -ɛsi
ipa: /ˈpɹɛzi/
rhymes: -ɛzi
Forms: form: pressies
Etymology: From press + -ie.
Senses: topics: media
glosses: A press conference or press briefing.
Synonyms: sense: press conference
word: newser
sense: press conference
word: presser
finalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finalists
Etymology: From final + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If the disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured.
ref: 1973, Aquatics Guide, with Official Rules and Swimming and Diving Standards:
text: Soto was a finalist once before in right field, in 2022, when he lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts.
ref: 2024 October 15, Noah Furtado, “Familiar names, a few surprises headline MLB Gold Glove Award finalists”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition.
glosses: A university student in their final year of study; a senior.
glosses: A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study).
Derived terms: nonfinalist
prefinalist
quarter-finalist
semi-finalist
Related terms: short list
shortlisted
downstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈstɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: further downstream
form: farther downstream
form: furthest downstream
form: farthest downstream
Etymology: From down- + stream.
Senses: glosses: Further along in the flow of current, in relation to a river, stream, bloodstream, or other flow of fluid.
examples: text: Input validation is downstream of input entry in the runtime process.
text: The downstream segment (also known as refining and marketing, or R&M) focuses on the final stage of the integrated process.
ref: 2009, Andrew Teufel, Aaron Azelton, Fisher Investments on Energy, page 3:
text: We're a couple of conservative Christians who believe that politics is downstream from culture.
ref: 2018, David Brody, Scott Lamb, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography, →ISBN:
glosses: Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
In the direction from the server to the client.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
downstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈstɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: further downstream
form: farther downstream
form: furthest downstream
form: farthest downstream
Etymology: From down- + stream.
Senses: examples: text: We spent the day paddling downstream in our canoes.
text: She lives downstream from the dam.
glosses: Following the path of a river or stream.
downstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈstɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: downstreams
form: downstreaming
form: downstreamed
form: downstreamed
Etymology: From down- + stream.
Senses: glosses: To stream downward.
qualifier: open-source software
glosses: Of the original developers: to make available (a version or patch) to downstream developers and users of the software.
Derived terms: downstreamer
downstreamward
downstreamwards
disruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/
ipa: /dɪzˈɹʌptɪv/
ipa: /dɪzˈɹʊptɪv/
ipa: /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/
Forms: form: more disruptive
form: most disruptive
Etymology: From disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.
Senses: examples: text: Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
glosses: Causing disruption or unrest.
examples: text: disruptive technologies
text: Each time a disruptive technology emerged, between one-half and two-thirds of the established manufacturers failed to introduce models employing the new architecture—in stark contrast to their timely launches of critical sustaining technologies.
ref: 1995 January–February, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton M. Christensen, “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave”, in Harvard Business Review:
text: […] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.
ref: 2005, Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide, page 222:
topics: business
glosses: Causing major change, as in a market.
Derived terms: chemodisruptive
chronodisruptive
disruptively
disruptiveness
disruptive selection
disruptivity
immunodisruptive
photodisruptive
undisruptive
bulimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlɪmɪk/
ipa: /bəˈliːmɪk/
ipa: /bjʊˈlɪmɪk/
ipa: /bjʊˈliːmɪk/
Forms: form: more bulimic
form: most bulimic
Etymology: From bulimia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: My sister was bulimic and consequently had a number of health problems.
glosses: Suffering from bulimia nervosa.
examples: text: The woman had displayed a number of bulimic symptoms, prompting her family to stage an intervention.
glosses: Of, or relating to, bulimia nervosa.
Derived terms: antibulimic
bulimically
nonbulimic
prebulimic
bulimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlɪmɪk/
ipa: /bəˈliːmɪk/
ipa: /bjʊˈlɪmɪk/
ipa: /bjʊˈliːmɪk/
Forms: form: bulimics
Etymology: From bulimia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The hospital strictly monitored the advertising materials the bulimics and anorexics were allowed to see.
glosses: A person suffering from bulimia nervosa.
brung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Etymology: Perhaps by analogy with other strong verbs, but compare also the Old English past forms brunge, brungon and past participle variant brungen (“brought”).
Senses: examples: text: I had enough left for coffee and two orders of beans and bread, the second of which I made sandwiches from and brung them back for my brother Bill.
ref: 1999, Thomas Berger, “Deadwood”, in The Return of Little Big Man, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Who's the pretty filly you brung along?
ref: 2017, Loren D. Estleman, Shoot: A Valentino Mystery:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bring
Related terms: brang
brought
poor man's steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fried meatloaf.
glosses: Bread dipped in gravy.
Related terms: Salisbury steak
brang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: Possibly inherited from Old English brang (also brong), alternative first and third person singular past indicative of bringan (“to bring”), although no Middle English intermediary is attested, and it may have been formed in more recent times by analogy with sing/sang instead, like its cognate Scots brang (“brought”) was.
Senses: glosses: simple past of bring
Related terms: brought
brung
bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒk/
ipa: /blɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: block
Forms: form: blocs
Etymology: Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.
Senses: examples: text: But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.
ref: 2020 May 11, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2020:
text: How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
examples: text: military bloc
text: trading bloc
text: Like the iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s.
ref: 2023 August 17, “The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2023:
glosses: A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
Derived terms: antibloc
Atlantic bloc
black bloc
bloc chip
bloc party
blocwide
Eastern Bloc
interbloc
intrabloc
nonbloc
padded bloc
Soviet Bloc
superbloc
trade bloc
Western Bloc
Related terms: choc-a-bloc
tackie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: tackies
Etymology: Unknown. Thought to derive from Dutch or Afrikaans, or may be derived from tacky (“slightly sticky”), which the rubber shoes might seem to be.
Senses: glosses: A canvas shoe with a rubber sole.
qualifier: Limerick
glosses: Another word for trainers or runners.
examples: text: The hot rod had fat tackies.
glosses: The tyre of a car or other vehicle.
Synonyms: US sneaker
UK plimsoll
Australia sandshoe
tennis shoe
Derived terms: english: tough luck.
translation: tough luck.
word: tough tackie
angora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: angoras
Etymology: From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).
Senses: glosses: A Turkish Angora cat.
glosses: A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair.
glosses: A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus).
glosses: The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles.
glosses: The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats.
Derived terms: angora goat
angora rabbit
angora wool
stompie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒmpi/
rhymes: -ɒmpi
Forms: form: stompies
Etymology: Afrikaans stompie, diminutive of stomp (“stump”).
Senses: examples: text: I must get outside because the stink of stale brandy and piss and old stompies will not let me breathe and the sides of my head are too tight.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Bigger boys were known to stand at street corners, smoking stompies of cigarettes and rolls of dagga.
ref: 2010, Thandiwe Kgosidintsi, Thelma for President, page 87:
glosses: A cigarette butt.
Derived terms: pick up stompies
letten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of let
letten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Let; demised, leased.