cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flat tire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat tires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flat tyre.
examples: text: Sam scowled at him. “You're always such a flat tire. Live a little for once.”
A twinge of pity for Judd made Carrie speak. “He's not a flat tire. He just doesn't want to.”
ref: 2020, Nancy Shew Bolton, Love Stumbled In:
synonyms: pill
square
wet blanket
glosses: A bore; a person who is no fun.
Derived terms: flat tire rule
flat tyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat tyres
form: flat tire
Senses: glosses: A tyre of a motor vehicle that is deflated, especially one deflated because of a puncture when in use.
glosses: The result of stepping on the back of another individual's shoe in an accidental act, or deliberately to bully or tease this person, so as to cause the back of the shoe to collapse under the heel.
gratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈtæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: gratins
Etymology: Borrowed from French gratin.
Senses: glosses: The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself.
Derived terms: au gratin
gratinate
glorioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡlɔːɹiˈəʊsəʊ/
Forms: form: gloriosos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: examples: text: giving credit to such a Glorioso
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: A boaster.
canalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkænəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: canalizations
Etymology: From canalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of canalisation.
Derived terms: cryocanalization
decanalization
recanalization
canalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkænələˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: canalisations
form: canalization
Etymology: From canalise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.
ref: 1857, Charles Lamb Kenney, The Gates of the East: Ten Chapters on the Isthmus of Suez Canal, page 18:
glosses: The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
glosses: The management of something using defined channels of communication.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
Derived terms: decanalisation
recanalisation
canalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canalizes
form: canalizing
form: canalized
form: canalized
Etymology: From canal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: US and Oxford British English spelling of canalise.
Derived terms: canalizable
canalization
decanalize
noncanalized
recanalize
canalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.ə.laɪz/
ipa: /kəˈnæl.aɪz/
rhymes: -ænəlaɪz
rhymes: -ælaɪz
Forms: form: canalises
form: canalising
form: canalised
form: canalised
form: canalize
Etymology: From canal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: . . . owing to the recent commencement of works about to be carried on on a large scale to improve and canalise the navigation of the Ebro . . .
ref: 1854, David Thomas Ansted, Scenery, Science and Art: being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer:
text: Under Advance Brazil, the government plans to pave over 7000 kilometres of new Amazonian highways, canalise vast rivers and construct dozens of railways, […]
ref: 2005, New Science Publications, New scientist, volume 188:
glosses: To convert (a river or other waterway) into a canal.
glosses: To build a canal through.
examples: text: On the desk lay the final version of the Birth Control speech, mastered and canalized by the skilful Maisie.
ref: 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, London: Virago, published 1996, page 221:
text: The workers' militias, based on the trade unions and each composed of people of approximately the same political opinions, had the effect of canalizing into one place all the most revolutionary sentiment in the country.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: ...yet it is always a wise precaution in defending a frontier of hundreds of miles to bar off as much as possible by fortifications, and thus economise the use of troops in sedentary roles and "canalise" potential invasion.
ref: 1948, Sir Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, page 373:
glosses: To channel the flow of.
Derived terms: canalisation
decanalise
recanalise
bottega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottegas
form: botteghe
Etymology: From Italian bottega.
Senses: glosses: A workshop or studio in Italy.
glycols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycol
unsaturated fats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsaturated fat
arteriola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: arteriolae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An arteriole.
anglesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglesites
Etymology: After the place Anglesey in Wales, in 1832.
Senses: examples: text: A curious form of anglesite was noticed in a specimen from Durango, Iowa
ref: 1862, Sir Edward Cadogan, Before the Deluge: Memories and Reflections:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline mineral form of lead sulfate, PbSO₄, formed by the weathering of galena.
ankerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑŋkɚˌaɪt/
Forms: form: ankerites
Etymology: After the Austrian mineralogist Matthias Joseph Anker (1771-1843) in 1825 + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In this second excavation the red ore is more largely mixed with the micaceous specular variety, and also includes large rounded blocks of ankerite and angular fragments of rock.
ref: 1855, John William Dawson, Acadian geology:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of mixed carbonate minerals, principally of calcium with iron, magnesium and manganese.
wikipedia: Matthias Joseph Anker
cipolline onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cipolline onions
Etymology: From Italian cipolla (“onion”).
Senses: glosses: A relatively flat, oval onion, originally from northern Italy.
branchiopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchiopods
Etymology: See Branchiopoda.
Senses: hypernyms: crustacean
glosses: Any of the very many aquatic crustaceans of the class Branchiopoda, such as the fairy shrimps and water fleas.
Related terms: branchiopodal
branchiopodan
branchiopodous
anorthoclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anorthoclases
Etymology: From an- + ortho- + -clase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of feldspars being mixed sodium and potassium aluminosilicates.
Synonyms: anorthose
soda microcline
stickpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkpɪn/
Forms: form: stickpins
Etymology: From stick + pin.
Senses: examples: text: His stickpin was gone and so was his watch-chain.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: The green stone in his stickpin was not quite as large as an apple.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 20:
glosses: An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
Synonyms: tie pin
tie tack
tie tac
stickpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickpin
tie tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie tacks
Senses: glosses: An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt.
Synonyms: stickpin
tie pin
tie tac
tie tacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tie tack
suffixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌfɪkˈseɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: suffixations
Etymology: From suffix + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Assimilation as a result of suffixation
ref: 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:
synonyms: suffixion
antonyms: prefixation
coordinate_terms: affixation
infixation
interfixation
prefixation
glosses: The process of adding a suffix to a word.
subtopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtopics
Etymology: From sub- + topic.
Senses: examples: text: The meeting dragged on interminably as topics were divided into subtopics.
glosses: A subject that forms part of a topic.
Related terms: supertopic
subtopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtopic
public speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public speakings
Senses: glosses: act of speaking to a group of people in a structured manner
glosses: oratory (art of public speaking)
metropolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metropolis (see of a metropolitan bishop)
canceler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancelers
form: canceller
Etymology: From cancel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The echo canceler is basically an adaptive tapped delay-line filter with near and far-end sections.
ref: 2003, Steven A. Tretter, Communication system design using DSP algorithms:
glosses: Agent noun of cancel: something that, or someone who cancels something; specifically an electronic device that cancels a signal.
Derived terms: cascaded feedback canceler
IF canceler
three-pulse cascaded canceler
two-pulse canceler
as per
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæz ˈpɜː/
ipa: /ˌæz ˈpɝ/
Etymology: c. 1782. From as + per
Senses: examples: text: Gentlemen—As per the rules of your Honorable Body, I advertised for bids for crockery, etc., that might be required by the various Cook County institutions from April 1st to June 30th, 1894, as per specifications on file in my office.
ref: 1895, C. Mamer, Official Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois. 1893/1894, page 403:
glosses: According to.
Consistent with; in a way that is not discordant with.
synonyms: in accordance with
;
per#Preposition
following#Preposition
examples: text: As per Captain Smith, no midshipman shall sit or linger in this area.
text: You must remake your bed, as per the inspector.
glosses: According to.
At the behest of; at the insistence of; by a command from; by the order of.
synonyms: per#Preposition
Derived terms: as per the usual
as per usual
as per
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæz ˈpɜː/
ipa: /ˌæz ˈpɝ/
Etymology: c. 1782. From as + per
Senses: examples: text: The monument is just Poseidon being lazy, as per, and not keeping his city in order. You cannot be destroyed.
ref: 2024 August 29, Charlie Covell, 23:06 from the start, in Georgi Banks-Davies, director, Kaos, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Prometheus (Stephen Dillane), via Netflix:
glosses: Ellipsis of as per usual.
Related terms: pursuant to
candidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From candid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This is an important factor in establishing trust and may affect the adolescent's candidness and anxiety level during the session.
ref: 1985, Alfred S. Friedman, Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers:
glosses: The quality of being candid.
Synonyms: english: comparatively rare
translation: comparatively rare
word: candidity
candler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlers
Etymology: From Middle English candelere, equivalent to candle (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A maker of candles is very properly called a candler; however, (as observed before) ch is seldom pronounced in this parish.
ref: 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary:
synonyms: chandler
glosses: A person who makes candles; a chandler.
candler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlers
Etymology: From candle (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: An egg candler used in a light room can be easily made […]
ref: 1917 September, Popular Mechanics, page 472:
glosses: A device for candling.
can-do
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From can + do.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to approach each day with a smile on your face and a can-do attitude.
ref: 2005, Julian Campbell, Stop the Wheel - I Want to Get Off!:
text: Network Rail's Kent Route Director Fiona Taylor said: "The only reason we were able to get this crucial work completed is because of the effort, commitment and can-do attitude from everyone in our supply chain, our TOC partners Southeastern, freight companies, and within Network Rail.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Hither Green's £100 million signalling commissioned”, in Rail, page 29:
glosses: Confident and willing to get a job done.
Derived terms: can-do-ness
Related terms: no can do
canebrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪnbɹeɪk/
Forms: form: canebrakes
form: canebreak
Etymology: From cane + brake.
Senses: examples: text: While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, and admiring the rank growth of vegetation, and the variety of timber which marked the fertility of the soil...
ref: 1865, Cecil B. Hartley, Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone, page 52:
glosses: A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
wikipedia: Oklahoma
Derived terms: canebrake groundcreeper
candlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chandlers
Senses: glosses: plural of candler
canebrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canebrake
radio beacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio beacons
form: radio-beacon
form: radiobeacon
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communication
communications
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A beacon that emits radio wave signals to guide ships or aircraft or to indicate the position of a ship, aircraft, or other object, person, or vehicle.
Hyponyms: emergency locator transmitter
ELT
emergency position indicating radio beacon
EPIRB
NDB
personal locator beacon
PLB
TACAN
VORTAC
VOR
radio beacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio beacon
by your leave
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Sir I weare my weapon for mine owne defence,
And by your leaue will weare it yet a while.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:
text: Miſtris Ford, by my troth you are very wel met: / by your leaue good Miſtris.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 40, column 2:
text: She leaned over and picked up Lightning. "By your leave, your Grace."
ref: 1983, Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure:
text: "By your leave, Mr. Turner" […] "By YOUR leave, Mr. Norrington."
ref: 2006, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest:
glosses: With your permission.
by your leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by your leaves
form: by-your-leave
Senses: examples: text: 1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I.
The natives have gathered on the top of every grave mound near by and though many resent the riding over their fields without a so much as a 'By your leave' […]
text: 1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories
He picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'
text: One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave!
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Ex-Leper (Michael Palin):
text: 1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury
'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'
glosses: Request for permission.
Related terms: French leave
by-your-leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-your-leaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of by your leave.
darbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durbar.
pluri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin pluri-, combining form of plūris, from plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“many”). Related to plenty, plural (via Latin) and fele, full (via PIE).
Senses: glosses: several
Synonyms: english: from Classical Latin
translation: from Classical Latin
word: multi-
english: from Ancient Greek
translation: from Ancient Greek
word: poly-
Hyponyms: english: from Ancient Greek via New Latin
translation: from Ancient Greek via New Latin
word: oligo-
english: from Latin
translation: from Latin
word: pauci-
by your leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: April 1 1785, Robert Burns, The First Epistle to John Lapraik
But by your leaves, my learned foes / Ye're maybe wrang
glosses: plural of by your leave
branchiopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branchiopod
birthday attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthday attacks
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A covert method of decryption exploiting the so-called birthday paradox.
birthday problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: The mathematics problem that concerns the probability there exist two people in a random group who share a birthday.
Related terms: birthday paradox
rainbow table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow tables
Etymology: Coined by cryptanalyst Philippe Oechslin in 2003.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table.
Hypernyms: table
ichnites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnite
charnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charnel
initialed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: initialled
Senses: glosses: Having initials.
Derived terms: uninitialed
initialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: initialled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of initial
initialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: initialling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of initial
initialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initialings
form: initialling
Senses: glosses: The act of adding one's initials to a document rather than signing
hogtie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hogties
form: hogtying
form: hogtied
form: hogtied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hog-tie.
hogtie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hog-tie.
shellacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From shellac + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shellac
shellacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellackings
Etymology: From shellac + -ing. Shellac is used in floor polish; compare polishing, as in "the other boxer in the match polished the floor with me; I took quite a polishing".
Senses: glosses: The act or process of coating with shellac.
examples: text: The News baseball team defeated the Press-Guardian outfit, 8 to 4, in a recent game, which squares accounts for the shellacking the News received a year ago.
ref: 1929 July, The Typographical Journal, volume 75, page 49:
text: Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me!"
ref: 1929 November 18, “National Affairs: Vote Castings”, in Time:
text: Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but […] "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.
ref: 1929 The Leatherneck, vol. 12 (December, 1929), p. 21
text: Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.
ref: 1944 Frank Marshall Davis, "Defeats of the Home Front" (news article, February 23, 1944; reprinted in Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 126)
text: After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform.
ref: 2009, Lee Hamilton, Strengthening Congress, page 69:
text: [C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he.
ref: 2010 Peter Baker, "What Does He Do Now?", The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010
text: Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
ref: 2010 Ben Shpigel, "Charmed Giants Take a Big First Step," The New York Times, October 28, 2010
text: Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.
ref: 2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections
glosses: A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.
counterstrategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterstrategies
form: counter strategy
form: counter-strategy
Etymology: From counter- + strategy.
Senses: examples: text: Any US counterstrategy will require a domestic, interagency, and multi-lateral approach to defend Taiwan's ability to resolve the conflict peacefully.
ref: 2005 - Air & Space Power Journal fall 05
glosses: Any strategy designed to counter another, or to render something ineffective.
split an infinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits an infinitive
form: splitting an infinitive
form: split an infinitive
form: split an infinitive
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To produce a split infinitive.
incrementalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrementalisms
Etymology: From incremental + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask.
ref: 2022 July 18, George Monbiot, “This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather”, in The Guardian:
text: And after a summer of extreme heat and wild weather, she evidently worries that incrementalism will not be enough to address a climate crisis that is crying out for revolution.
ref: 2023 September 3, David Smith, “‘There’s a very real danger here’: AOC on 2024, the climate crisis and ‘selling out’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
counter strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter strategies
Senses: examples: 1985 - Automation of America’s offices
Sociotechnical systems developed as a counter strategy to the traditionally structured organization
glosses: Alternative spelling of counterstrategy.
counter-strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-strategies
Senses: examples: text: For awhile^([sic]) it appeared that this counter-strategy would be effective, […]
ref: 1994, Hamas and Hizbollah: The Radical Challenge to Israel in the Occupied Territories:
glosses: Alternative spelling of counterstrategy.
war-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warmonger.
talk shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks shit
form: talking shit
form: talked shit
form: talked shit
Etymology: From talk (“to speak of, to discuss”) + shit (“nonsense, "bullshit"”).
Senses: examples: text: Talk shit, get hit.
synonyms: misrepresent
slander
glosses: To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
examples: text: Yo, man, Bobby was here, an' he was talkin' all kinds of shit about how many girlfriends he's had; y'all know that he ain't had a girlfriend since a girl had him.
synonyms: bullshit
misrepresent
glosses: To speak nonsense or to lie.
Synonyms: sense: speak ill
word: talk trash
word: talk shite
word: defame
sense: talk nonsense or lie
word: chat shit
sense: talk nonsense or lie
word: chat shite
sense: talk nonsense or lie
word: talk shite
Derived terms: shit talk
shit talking
talk shit, get hit
Johnny-come-latelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnny-come-lately
eat for two
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats for two
form: eating for two
form: ate for two
form: eaten for two
Senses: glosses: To be pregnant
thruway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thruways
Etymology: From thru + way.
Senses: examples: text: … not less than 20 miles per hour on all portions of the thruway system.
ref: 2012, Office of the Federal Register, editor, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 23, Revised, 2012 edition (Transport), Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 337:
glosses: Standard form of throughway.
pilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pili
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hair.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.
Synonyms: sense: hairlike appendage
word: fimbria
Derived terms: pilin
pseudopilus
Related terms: flagellum
rondeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑnˌdoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɹɑnˈdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒndəʊ
homophone: rondo
Forms: form: rondeaux
form: rondeaus
Etymology: From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.
Senses: examples: text: Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […].
ref: 1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, page 198:
text: First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre.
ref: 1991, Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs, page 50:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
examples: text: Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?
ref: 1968, American Musicological Society, Journal of the American Musicological Society, volumes 21-22, page 434:
text: The rondeaus show great variety. There are two very short, apparently primitive rondeaus a 3.
ref: 1986, Richard L. Crocker, A History of Musical Style, page 125:
text: […] for example, we might be tempted to think that his rondeaux also explore atypical compositional procedures.
ref: 2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, volume 1, page 61:
glosses: A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of rondeau pan; a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising.
synonyms: word: rondeau pan
extra: a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising
get out of Dodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets out of Dodge
form: getting out of Dodge
form: got out of Dodge
form: gotten out of Dodge
Etymology: An allusion to Dodge City, Kansas, a busy cattle town in the late 19th century notorious for gunfighters, gambling, brothels and saloons.
Possibly inspired by the radio and television series Gunsmoke (1952–1975).
Senses: examples: text: The pulp mills, he predicts, "are going to just high-grade all the best trees and get the hell out of Dodge."
ref: 1988 November 3, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, 5, 1987, Volume 4, p. 94:
text: When Jasper surfaced, Skiles thought to himself, Woody will come through. He'll find the way. He always gets us out of predicaments like this. Now that he's back it's just a matter or gearing up, getting in the water and getting the hell out of Dodge.
ref: 1999, Robert Forrest Burgess, The Cave Divers, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: To leave, especially to leave a difficult or dangerous environment with all possible haste.
wikipedia: Gunsmoke
Hell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hel.
glosses: Alternative form of Hela.
examples: text: In ancient times, Turfan was called Huochou, or Fire City, which was not inappropriate. Turfan is located in the lowest depression in Asia, just a notch above Hell.
ref: 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hell.
glosses: Any of various places so named.
examples: text: Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 571:
glosses: Any of various places so named.
A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
put about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts about
form: putting about
form: put about
form: put about
Senses: examples: text: It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about.
ref: 1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To change direction.
synonyms: circulate
spread
disseminate
glosses: To circulate (a rumour).
Related terms: put it about
put oneself about
put about
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more put about
form: most put about
Senses: examples: text: I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.
ref: 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124:
glosses: disturbed; upset
houdah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houdahs
Senses: examples: text: Lord and Lady Lytton rode in a silver houdah […]
ref: 1983, Bernard S. Cohn, "Representing Authority in Victorian India, in The Invention of Tradition, page 202
glosses: Dated form of howdah.
on guard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on guard
form: most on guard
form: on-guard
Senses: examples: text: We fall on guard, and after all it is a friend who comes to meet us.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The starting position of a fencing bout; en garde.
glosses: Vigilant, alert.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Transmitting on the aircraft emergency frequency.
okiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okiyas
form: okiya
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 置屋.
Senses: examples: text: My advice to you is: work very hard, and never leave the okiya without permission.
ref: 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, page 43:
glosses: The lodging-house of a geisha.
nagauta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 長唄 (nagauta).
Senses: examples: text: She was to have four classes that morning—shamisen, dance, tea ceremony, and a form of singing we call nagauta.
ref: 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha:
glosses: A form of traditional Japanese vocal music, often used in kabuki theatre.
4x2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4x2s
Senses: glosses: A four by two.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: a four-wheeled vehicle with two-wheel drive
Synonyms: word: 2x4
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: 4x2x2
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: 2WD
Derived terms: topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: 4x2x4
Related terms: 4x4
2x2
paulownia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paulownias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
Senses: examples: text: “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”
ref: 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 62:
glosses: Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Paulownia tomentosa
word: empress tree
taxonomic: Paulownia tomentosa
word: foxglove tree
taxonomic: Paulownia tomentosa
word: princess tree
2WD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2WDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of two-wheel drive.
glosses: Initialism of two-wheel drive.
A two-wheel drive vehicle.
Related terms: english: four-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: four-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: 4WD
english: four-by-two; usually synonymous
translation: four-by-two; usually synonymous
word: 4x2
english: all-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: all-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: AWD
english: four-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: four-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: FWD
english: front-wheel drive; usually hyponymous
translation: front-wheel drive; usually hyponymous
word: FWD
english: rear-wheel drive; usually hyponymous
translation: rear-wheel drive; usually hyponymous
word: RWD
word: 4x4
knobkerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knobkerries
Senses: examples: text: I close my eyes and see the pickers bending on the green hillsides, their saffron robes and slender, leaf-brown hands; I see the teeming docks where half-starved fellows with legs like knobkerries sticking out of ragged shorts have stencilled wooden chests and call to each other in parrot shrieks; I even see the pottery works where this cup was spun out of cloud-white clay one late-nineteenth-century summer afternoon by an indentured apprentice with a harelip and a blind sister waiting for him in their hovel up a pestilential back lane.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Alternative form of knobkierie.
merce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: merces
form: mercing
form: merced
form: merced
Etymology: See amerce.
Senses: examples: text: this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks, for bribery, and ejected out of his place.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
scroll saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroll saws
form: scrollsaw
Senses: glosses: A fine-toothed fretsaw with an oscillating blade that can be used to accurately cut out curves and other complicated shapes.
the devil is in the details
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the devil is in the detail
Etymology: In allusion to God is in the detail.
Senses: examples: text: Krupp already has an agreement in principle for the deal, but precise details are still being worked out by Polish officials and a Krupp bargaining team ("The devil is in the details," Beitz says).
ref: 1965, Newsweek, volume 65, page 173:
text: The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made.
ref: 1998 December 16, Alain L. Sanders, “Israel: Let the People Speak”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2009:
text: “The devil will be in the details,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now Institute, a policy research center.
ref: 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, quoting Sarah Myers West, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The specific provisions of, or particular steps for implementing, a general plan, policy, or contract may be complicated, controversial, or unworkable.
adnominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd′-nŏ′-mĭ-nəl
ipa: /ˌædˈnɑ.mɪ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnəl
Etymology: From ad- + nominal, by analogy with adverbial for verbs.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Involving or relating to words that modify a noun.
Derived terms: adnominality
adnominalization
adnominalize
adnominally
adnominal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd′-nŏ′-mĭ-nəl
ipa: /ˌædˈnɑ.mɪ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnəl
Forms: form: adnominals
Etymology: From ad- + nominal, by analogy with adverbial for verbs.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The adnominal case: A word or phrase qualifying a noun, such as an adjective or a relative clause.
adnominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd′-nŏ′-mĭ-nəl
ipa: /ˌædˈnɑ.mɪ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnəl
Etymology: The adjective form of adnoun, by analogy with the use of nominal as the adjective form of noun.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an adnoun (sensu stricto).
Synonyms: adjective
adjectival
adnoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnouns
Etymology: From Latin ad + English noun.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto); an absolute adjective (nominalized adjective).
examples: text: 3. An adjective or adnoun, expresses a particular quality ascribed to a substantive—A good man, a bad man, a studious man, a lazy man—The words good, bad, studious, and lazy, express the particular quality which belong to such or such a man.
ref: 1830, Thomas Nugent & J. Quiseau, A new Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages. In two Parts. 1. French and English.—2. English and French. Containing all the Words in general Use, and authorized by the best Writers. The Fifth American, from the last London Edition, Philadelphia, p.xii ("Section II: Of Grammar in general)")
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an adjective
Synonyms: word: adjective
word: noun
word: adjective
Related terms: adnominal
tizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪzi/
Forms: form: tizzies
form: tissy
Etymology: Unknown. American, 1935. Possibly related to tizzy (“sixpence coin”, slang), from tester (“sixpence coin”, slang). Compare also dizzy.
Senses: examples: text: to be in a tizzy
text: That Todd Evergreen. The reclusive, twenty-two-year-old, overnight billionaire whose very existence has put us all in a tizzy.
ref: 2014, The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram, Maya Sloan, “Prologue”, in Rich Kids of Instagram, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy [title]
ref: 2023 March 8, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Nico Grant, “The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
examples: text: Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
ref: 1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630:
text: Tadpole holds out, but between threats and cajoleries at length sells half for one shilling and sixpence — about a fifth of its fair market value; however, he is glad to realize anything, and, as he wisely remarks, "Wanderer mayn't win, and the tizzy is safe anyhow."
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: A sixpence; a tester.
Synonyms: dither
Derived terms: in a tizzy
Related terms: in a dither
tizzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tizzy
slot machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slot machines
Senses: examples: text: As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose you are playing a 25-cent slot machine.
ref: 2005, Benjamin Crowell, The Modern Revolution in Physics:
glosses: Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
A machine so operated to play games of chance for money, especially those with a lever and three or more rollers used to achieve combinations.
synonyms: one-armed bandit
slot
fruit machine
poker machine
pokie
pokie machine
examples: text: The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]
ref: 1998, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts:
glosses: Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
Synonym of vending machine.
synonyms: word: vending machine
Hyponyms: sense: gambline machine
english: used to play poker
translation: used to play poker
word: poker machine
sense: gambline machine
word: video lottery terminal
sense: gambline machine
english: an electronic slot machine
translation: an electronic slot machine
word: VLT
Derived terms: penny-in-the-slot machine
slot
fruit machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit machines
Etymology: From fruit + machine.
* (slot machine): From originating with machines with fruit pictures
* (criminology): From being a machine used to identify fruits (“homosexuals”)
* (food): From being a machine containing fruits
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A slot machine, especially one having spinning wheels marked with pictures of fruit.
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A vending machine that dispenses fruit.
cankerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cankerous
form: most cankerous
Etymology: From canker + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Infected with canker; ulcerous.
examples: text: Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted atmosphere.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Hall of Fantasy”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: Causing canker; ulcerating.
canoeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canoeists
Etymology: From canoe + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, photo caption:
text: Those people who have a meaningful relation to that body of water — whether it be a fisherman, a canoeist, a zoologist, or a logger — must be able to speak for the values which the river represents . . .
ref: 1990, Richard Cartwright Austin, Reclaiming America: restoring nature to culture:
glosses: A person who travels by canoe.
Synonyms: canoer
cinemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinema
sword hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword hands
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The hand in which one's sword is normally held.
Synonyms: weapon hand
Related terms: sword arm
sixte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
homophone: sixt
Etymology: Borrowed from French sixte, from Middle French sixte, from Old French siste, sixte, modification of sexte (“sixth”) (a borrowing from Latin sextus) after sis (“six”).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level.
Quinte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪnti/
rhymes: -ɪnti
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bay of Quinte: A long, narrow bay on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada
synonyms: word: Bay of Quinte
extra: A long, narrow bay on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada
Derived terms: Quinte West
gray areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gray area
canola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: canolas
Etymology: From Canola.
Senses: examples: text: The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola.
ref: 1998, Phillip Thomas, U.S. Agricultural Trade: Canadian Wheat Issues:
text: The carbohydrate component of canola meal accounts for about one third of the meal . . .
ref: 1997, Ronald R. Marquardt, Zhengkang Han, Enzymes in Poultry and Swine Nutrition: proceedings of the first Chinese Symposium on Feed:
text: For a salad dressing use olive or canola oil with lemon or vinegar and herb seasonings
ref: 2003, Jack LaLanne, Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life:
glosses: Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
Hypernyms: rape
rapeseed
Derived terms: canola oil
Related terms: acid
Canada
Canadian
Canola
low
oil
grey areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey area
canopied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canopy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1854, Edward Lewes Cutts, An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration, London: John Crockford, “Wood-Work,” pp. 32-3,
In the seal of Edward III. and Richard II. the king is seated in a niche, which is canopied and pinnacled in the usual style of niches in architectural work.
text: He slept there from time to time, in the fantasy of the canopied bed, with its countless pillows.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: covered overhead with (or as if with) a canopy.
Derived terms: uncanopied
canopied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From canopy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canopy
cantankerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cantankerous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The gamekeeper was slower to smooth himself down than Solomon; who showed much good-temper, setting himself to make up for a little cantankerousness, in fact growing to be friendly.
ref: 1863, George Cupples, Hinchbridge haunted:
synonyms: cantankerosity
glosses: The state of being cantankerous.
cantonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canton + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The cantonal governments are all republics, more or less democratic.
ref: 1852, Alexander Frederic Foster, General treatise on geography:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
Derived terms: cantonalism
cantonalist