cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stoppage time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoppage times
Senses: examples: text: But Sunderland fans fearing the worst finally had something to cheer when in the fourth of five minutes of stoppage time Gyan stood at the right place at the right time.
ref: 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
text: Brazilian substitute Andressa Alves had equalised in stoppage time to force the shootout after Ella Toone had given England a first-half lead.
ref: 2023 April 6, Emma Sanders, “Women's Finalissima:England beat Brazil in dramatic shhotout”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Additional time added to the end of a match, or period of a match, in order to compensate for time lost due to any stoppages of play.
Synonyms: word: added time
word: injury time
word: time added on
english: Australian rules football
translation: Australian rules football
word: time on
Related terms: word: extra time
word: normal time
word: overtime
last-gasp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the figurative attributive usage of last gasp.
Senses: examples: text: Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Happening at the very end of an event.
Related terms: last-ditch
rebinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebind
front man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front men
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: frontperson, front
related: word: frontman
hypernyms: person#Noun
glosses: A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: forward
attacker
hypernyms: player#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A striker.
examples: text: Near-synonym: frontperson
text: Pete Doherty is the front man of the Libertines.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
related: word: frontman
hypernyms: musician#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: frontwoman
glosses: The lead singer in a musical group.
taggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagger
on the cards
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the cards
Etymology: Originally referring to the predictions of fortune-tellers using cards.
Senses: examples: text: Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even though it appeared that Nigel de Jong had successfully cleared the effort.
ref: 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:
glosses: Likely to occur, probable.
very much
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: His two cousins are so very much alike.
text: I am very much aware you'd very much like to see me again.
text: That town was still very much a simple farming community, but something was very much the matter.
text: ‘Did you enjoy your meal?’ ‘Very much.’ ‘And did you find it innovative?’ ‘Yes, very much so.’
text: Have you still got very much work to do?
glosses: Extremely. (Used to modify a verb. To modify an adjective or an adverb, very is used.)
examples: text: An apparent first-half spitting contest between Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans provided unwanted controversy on a night when Ashley Young’s late winner kept Manchester United’s hopes of Champions League qualification very much alive.
ref: 2015 March 4, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Indeed.
Synonyms: english: Chester
translation: Chester
word: above a bit
word: a lot
word: really
Related terms: so much
hit the net
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the net
form: hitting the net
form: hit the net
form: hit the net
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To score a goal.
lady's mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady's mantles
Senses: glosses: The herb Alchemilla vulgaris, or any plant in the genus Alchemilla.
lavender cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ground cypress (Santolina chamaecyparissus).
open goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open goals
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An undefended goal.
examples: text: Labour missed an “open goal” to beat Theresa May and should not pretend it achieved a famous victory, a former shadow chancellor has said.
ref: 2017 June 10, “Labour should have won against May's ‘open goal’, says MP”, in The Guardian, sourced from Press Association, →ISSN:
text: Reeves, a former Bank of England economist, was presented with an open goal thanks to Kwasi Kwarteng’s badly received mini-budget and she was determined not miss it.
ref: 2022 September 26, Larry Elliott, “Rachel Reeves was never going to miss the open goal left by the Tories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home,[…] Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal.
ref: 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: An opportunity that is readily available.
back line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back lines
Senses: examples: text: Battling Bolton disputed the goal, claiming Drogba was offside, but the Ivorian appeared to have timed his angled run across the visitors back line to perfection to race onto a fine Michael Essien pass and ensure Chelsea moved back into fourth place in the Premier League.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Collectively, the defenders of a team.
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: The line running across the goal to the corners of the playing field.
examples: text: A running fullback radically improves the attacking prowess of any back line, particularly if she is able to read a play, knowing when it's time to hit the line at pace or to join the line to act as an extra attacker.
ref: 2011, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, →ISBN, page 58:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The players known as the backs, whose primary responsibility is defense.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The imaginary tactical line across the field that passes through the backs, through their primary line of attack/defence (i.e. excluding any players in a more backward defensive position).
Derived terms: backliner
off-the-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Occurring away from active play.
raw_tags: of an incident or foul
desecrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desecrator
retroaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroactions
Etymology: From retro- + action.
Senses: glosses: Any action that has an influence due to a past event
glosses: An opposing action; a reaction
amputator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amputators
Etymology: From amputate + -or.
Senses: glosses: The person who performs, or thing that causes, an amputation.
amputators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amputator
retroactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroactivities
Etymology: From retroactive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being retroactive.
examples: text: Should the legislation pass with the retroactivity provision, the firm's percentage would apply to the amount already due the states; if not, it would apply to the amount they collect over the next 12 years.
ref: 1994 May 6, Todd Purdum, “New Yorkers in Congress at War With a Lawyer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023:
text: it must be pointed out that the distinction between retroactivity and retrospectivity, while describing a real difference in the verbal form in which retrospective law is expressed, lacks normative and practical significance.
ref: 2008, Ben Juratowitch, Retroactivity and the Common Law, page 12:
topics: law
glosses: The application of a law to events that took place before it was made.
Synonyms: retroactiveness
amortizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amortize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being amortized.
Derived terms: nonamortizable
unamortizable
ampersands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampersand
dog whistle politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog-whistle politics.
anagrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anagram
Wels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.
anagramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anagram
anathematizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anathematize
anathematized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anathematize
anathematizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anathematize
get one's marching orders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's marching orders
form: getting one's marching orders
form: got one's marching orders
form: got one's marching orders
form: gotten one's marching orders
Senses: glosses: To be dismissed disgracefully.
anchorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchorite
see yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees yellow
form: seeing yellow
form: saw yellow
form: seen yellow
Etymology: Modelled on see red.
Senses: examples: text: Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red.
 Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews.
ref: 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To receive a yellow card.
Related terms: red
allegorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allegorist
alleviator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alleviators
Etymology: From alleviate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Blessed is he who is an alleviator of suffering.
text: Aspirin is an alleviator of headaches.
glosses: That who or which alleviates.
alleviators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleviator
alliterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alliteration
substitutes' bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitutes' benches
Senses: examples: text: Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.
Synonyms: subs' bench
spot kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot kicks
form: spot-kick
form: spotkick
Etymology: From spot + kick. Compare penalty spot.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A penalty kick.
miskick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈkɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɪskɪk/
Forms: form: miskicks
Etymology: From mis- + kick.
Senses: examples: text: The shot went wide of a post after a miskick from Sayers.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bad kick.
miskick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈkɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɪskɪk/
Forms: form: miskicks
form: miskicking
form: miskicked
form: miskicked
Etymology: From mis- + kick.
Senses: examples: text: Although Petey miskicked the ball, he still managed to score a goal.
text: Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross.
ref: 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To kick incorrectly or badly.
mishit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪshɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈhɪt/
Forms: form: mishits
Etymology: From mis- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: England added only one more run to its overnight second-innings total of 221 for 9 before Broad was caught by Hammer at mid-on to a mishit.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An incorrect or bad hit.
mishit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪshɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈhɪt/
Forms: form: mishits
form: mishitting
form: mishit
form: mishit
Etymology: From mis- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: Although Collins mishit the ball, he still managed to pocket the red.
glosses: To incorrectly or badly hit.
first-half
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Leo Messi scored a first-half hat-trick to give Barcelona a 3-1 advantage vs Arsenal.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Occurring in the first half
alleviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleviation
allocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈæl.əˌkeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈæl.əˌkeɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.kæɪ.tə/
Forms: form: allocators
Etymology: From allocate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, allocates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A utility that allocates and deallocates a dynamic resource (usually memory).
allocators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allocator
allottee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌlɒˈtiː/
Forms: form: allottees
Etymology: From allot + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom an allotment is allotted.
straight-sets
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: American Fish beat Frenchman Tsonga in a straight-sets victory.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Achieved in the minimal possible number of sets.
raw_tags: of a victory or a loss in a match
Related terms: set straight
allottees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allottee
allotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotters
Etymology: From allot + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who allots
allotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotter
mind fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mind fucks
Senses: examples: 1973, Kathryn Watterson, Women in Prison, University of Michigan/Doubleday, page 322,
One day there was a big cockroach on the wall and a woman hit it with her shoe and it screamed. I swear it screamed. That was about it for me. It was really a mind fuck.
glosses: Alternative form of mindfuck.
almsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almsmen
Etymology: From Middle English allmsman, almosman, almesmann, from Old English almesmann, equivalent to alms + man.
Senses: glosses: One who depends on the receipt of alms, a beggar.
almsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almsman
Bidet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of bidet + Biden.
Senses: examples: text: That's Joe Bidet.
ref: 1995 June 29, DDuchaine, “Steriods& Alzado”, in misc.fitness (Usenet):
text: Every minute it continues, it makes the aftermath problems more frightening to me," said Sen. Joe "Buckwheat" Bidet, Democrapic Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, a leftist group of foreign policy wonks, Bidet said he feels that a little careful bombing might be needed to help protect U.S. Special Forces operations, but it creates a scary problem. Bidet stressed that, like most Democratic weenies, he is afraid to challenge President Bush - but the "honeymoon' might get rockier soon."
ref: 2001 October 25, Crusader, “Steriods& Alzado”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: If Obama chose Joe Robinet Bidet for a running mate, he's not just covering his ass, he's cleaning it!
ref: 2008 August 25, Dennis, “it's Biden”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):
text: Trump calls Biden (Joe BIDET) 'another low I.Q. individual' after 2020.
ref: 2019 March 18, allise...@gmail.com, “Hey Fred ! ! ! Here's you another song to enjoy ...”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):
text: Kamala Harris became the first woman to be given presidential powers on Friday as Joe Biden briefly transferred authority while he underwent a colonoscopy. Whether he's shitting his pants or farting on royalty, the *fake* president is usually causing a stink. Now they're even shoving cameras up his arse to prove it can talk.
ref: 2021 November 20, The Genetically Unmodified Paul Pot (Still a natural human being as God created), “Stinky Joe Bidet undergoes colonoscopy”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: Joe Biden.
ampleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ample + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being ample.
ampler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ample: more ample
amplest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ample: most ample
eosinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eosinophilias
Senses: examples: text: Intraperitoneal injections of a strong solution produce fibrohemorrhagic peritonitis of varying intensity, according to the strength of the solution; while intraperitoneal injections of small quantities of a diluted solution of formalin induce a chronic peritonitis with great connective tissue proliferation, and a striking eosinophilia.
ref: 1901 December, E. Q. THORNTON M.D., “PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIC REFERENDUM”, in PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A QUARTERLY DIGEST OF ADVANCES DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES., volume IV, page 363:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having a high concentration of eosinophils (eosinophil granulocytes) in the blood.
Hypernyms: leucocytosis
stellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɛl.ət/
ipa: /ˈstɛlˌeɪt/
rhymes: -ɛleɪt
rhymes: -ɛlət
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stēllātus (“starry”), from stēlla (“star”) + -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to stell(a) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: stellate cells
text: stellate flowers
text: Exit wounds can be stellate, slit-like, crescent, circular, or completely irregular (Figure 4.23).
ref: 1998, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 92:
synonyms: stellated
stelliform
glosses: Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
Derived terms: folliculostellate
stellate cell
stellate ganglion
stellectomy
substellate
stellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɛl.ət/
ipa: /ˈstɛlˌeɪt/
rhymes: -ɛleɪt
rhymes: -ɛlət
Forms: form: stellates
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of stellate cell.
stellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɛl.ət/
ipa: /ˈstɛlˌeɪt/
rhymes: -ɛleɪt
rhymes: -ɛlət
Forms: form: stellates
form: stellating
form: stellated
form: stellated
Etymology: From stell(a) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To extend the edges or planes of a polyhedron to form a new shape.
Derived terms: stellated
stellation
wordlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordlessnesses
Etymology: From wordless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1834, ‘P.’, “Margaret Campbell” in American Ladies’ Magazine, Volume 7, No. 5, May 1834, p. 203,
The peculiarity of their attachment, one made up of gentle attentions and pleasant thoughts together, its wordlessness, and its mysterious ending, all had charms for a mind, which naturally clear and direct, had been led by love into a pensive and thoughtful habit.
text: Whenever you abandon ground to the enemy, it is retreat, however words coat and oil it, and there is a special sound to American troops in retreat. It is their wordlessness, their silence. All the sounds Mackenzie could hear were mechanical.
ref: 1951, Pat Frank, chapter 7, in Hold Back the Night, Philadelphia: Lippincott:
text: 2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (published in the U.S. as Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, “God willing,” p. 435,
Terrified as they already were, I could imagine their tension boiling over into hysteria, wordlessness and in some cases madness when they were stuffed into slave ships like fish into buckets, hauled across the seas and sold—if they survived—at auctions.
glosses: The state of being wordless, speechlessness.
stoppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoppies
Etymology: From stop + -ie.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: endo
Derived terms: kangaroo stoppie
tailwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailwhips
form: tail whip
form: tail-whip
Etymology: From tail + whip.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A trick in which the body of the bike is revolved around the steering column axis going through the handlebar.
table lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table lamps
Senses: examples: text: Many will have pleasing recollections of the attractive effect, especially on a winter evening, of a dining car or Pullman train, with its shaded table-lamps throwing their light on napery, cutlery, and glass to give a heartening picture of well-being.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The New Tavern Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 282:
glosses: A lamp designed to be used on tables.
table lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table lamp
happy ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy endings
Senses: examples: text: And how was this happy ending to be brought about? Why, by this very eaſy and trite expedient; to wit, by reforming Lovelace, and marrying him to Clariſſa.
ref: 1784, The Novelist's Magazine, volume XV, London: Harrison and Co., page 1263, column 1:
text: The heroine was killed, and since then the happy ending has only been preserved in an appendix in the play.
ref: 1827 June 8, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 3:
text: Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending.
ref: 1930, Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness:
text: Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.
ref: 1944, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 1, in The Razor’s Edge […], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., →OCLC, section i, page 1:
text: Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?
ref: 1957 July 6, What’s Opera, Doc?, spoken by Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc):
text: Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 25:
text: And she said: / "Don't you know that storybook loves, / Always have a happy ending."
ref: 1987, “Storybook Love”, Willy DeVille (music):
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: eucatastrophe
fairy-tale ending
happy ever after
happily ever after
glosses: A conclusion to a story in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness.
examples: text: “I don't want sucky sucky, I just want a massage. It's okay if she doesn't know how to give a massage, but could she at least tickle my back?” “No happy ending!” she yelled, getting louder. “I don't want a happy ending, you hot mess, I just want a little back rub.[…]”
ref: 2009, Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A hand job, especially one provided by a masseuse to a client at or towards the end of a massage.
Related terms: good ending
happily ever after
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpɪli ˌɛvəɹ‿ˈɑːftə/
ipa: /-ˈæf-/
ipa: /ˈhæpəli ˌɛvəɹ‿ˈæftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Etymology: The adverb is derived from happily (adverb) + ever after (adverb), used as a formulaic ending in works for children especially since the 19th century. The noun is derived from the adverb.
Senses: examples: text: And they lived happily ever after.
text: [E]xcept in our dreamiest moods, we scornfully reject the slightest hint of witchery, and yet find no difficulty in believing that the hero and heroine of the last new novel "married and lived happily ever after" the conclusion of the third volume, without the help of any fairy godmother.
ref: 1881 April, Charles Grant, “The Fairyland of [William] Shakespeare”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume CCL, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 427:
text: I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days.
ref: 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-expected party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 58:
text: After Pygmalion came back to consciousness, he proposed to his perfect woman. They got married, had a few kids, and lived happily ever after. The weird thing, though? The stories don't even tell us what the ivory girl's name was.
ref: 2014 August 19, Rick Riordan, “You Gotta Love Aphrodite”, in Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, New York, N.Y.: Disney Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Chiefly preceded by he, she, they, etc., lived: often used as a formulaic ending in fairy tales, stories for children, and similar works: in a state of happiness for the rest of his, her, their, etc., lives.
Derived terms: word: happy ever after
kickflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickflips
Etymology: From kick + flip.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: An ollie where the board is rotated 360 degrees along its axis.
kickflip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kickflips
form: kickflipping
form: kickflipped
form: kickflipped
Etymology: From kick + flip.
Senses: glosses: To perform a kickflip.
pop shove-it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop shove-its
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick, combining an ollie and a shove-it, where the board rotates 180 degrees while in mid-air.
shove-it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shove-its
form: shuvit
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick where the board is rotated 180 degrees under the rider's feet.
Derived terms: the same trick performed in mid-air
900
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 900s
Senses: examples: text: He did a 900 off the halfpipe.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of spinning 900 degrees in the air, doing two and a half complete turns.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 3 turns
translation: 3 turns
word: 1080
english: 2 turns
translation: 2 turns
word: 720
english: 1-1/2 turns
translation: 1-1/2 turns
word: 540
english: 1 turn
translation: 1 turn
word: 360
english: 1/2 turn
translation: 1/2 turn
word: 180
900
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Clipping of 1-900.
benihana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benihanas
Etymology: Named after the Benihana restaurant chain, from Japanese 紅花 (“safflower”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: An aerial trick where one hand grabs the tail of the board, and the back foot is released from the board.
out of the frying pan and into the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of the frying pan, into the fire.
lady smock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady smocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lady's smock.
crystalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crystalises
form: crystalising
form: crystalised
form: crystalised
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it occasioned considerable dissatisfaction, which soon crystalised into a rival concern, the Aberdeen, Peterhead & Fraserburgh Railway.
ref: 1956 January, H. A. Vallance, “Northwards from Aberdeen”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English spelling of crystallize.
Derived terms: crystalisation
agglutinatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agglutinatively
form: most agglutinatively
Etymology: From agglutinative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an agglutinative fashion; via agglutination.
pilot whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot whales
Senses: synonyms: blackfish
caaing whale
social whale
deductor
glosses: Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Globicephala melas
word: long-finned pilot whale
taxonomic: Globicephala macrorhynchus
word: short-finned pilot whale
aggregative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggregative
form: most aggregative
Etymology: From aggregate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Aggregative Pills, or Pills that have many Virtues, in Latin, pillulae aggregativae sive polychrestae
ref: 1694, John Pechey, The London Dispensatory, London: J. Lawrence, page 73:
text: The reason why heat is necessary to the oxidation of most metals is, because by diminishing the aggregative force by which the integrant parts of those bodies adhere together, it increases in the same proportion their force of affinity or combination;
ref: 1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, translated by William Nicholson, Elements of Natural History and Chemistry, London: C. Elliot and T. Kay, Volume 2, Chapter 4, § 5, p. 174:
text: […] the imitative power, voluntary and automatic; the imagination, or shaping and modifying power; the fancy, or the aggregative and associative power; […]
ref: 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Soul and its Organs of Sense”, in Omniana, volume 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 13:
text: I never thought Yanks had any rudiments of decorum and laudability about them. I reckon I might have been too aggregative in my tabulation.
ref: 1909, O. Henry, “Two Renegades”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, page 386:
text: Utilitarianism is essentially an aggregative morality. It requires us to promote the general happiness, and that means doing as much good as possible, not just for particular others but for people in general […]
ref: 2004, Richard Norman, chapter 4, in On Humanism, Abingdon: Routledge, published 2012, page 107:
synonyms: aggregational
glosses: By, toward, or of aggregation (the act of collecting or gathering together).
Derived terms: aggregatively
antiaggregative
autoaggregative
enteroaggregative
hyperaggregative
hypoaggregative
proaggregative
aggregational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggregational
form: most aggregational
Etymology: From aggregation + -al.
Senses: synonyms: aggregative
glosses: Relating to, or by means of, aggregation.
agress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aggress.
agglutinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnɪn/
ipa: [əˈɡluːʔn̩ɪn]
Forms: form: agglutinins
Etymology: From agglutinate + -in.
Senses: glosses: A substance that causes particles or cells to clump; it may be an antibody, a lectin, or otherwise.
glosses: A protein found in cow's milk.
Hyponyms: agglutin
Coordinate terms: agglutinogen
Derived terms: agglutinination
antiagglutinin
autoagglutinin
bacterioagglutinin
cold agglutinin disease
erythroagglutinin
haemagglutinin
hemagglutinin
isoagglutinin
leucoagglutinin
leukoagglutinin
phytoagglutinin
zooagglutinin
tatou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatous
Etymology: From Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”), possibly via French. Compare tatouay.
Senses: glosses: The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus)
business-to-business
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more business-to-business
form: most business-to-business
Senses: glosses: Of businesses selling to other businesses.
Synonyms: B2B
Coordinate terms: business-to-consumer
consumer-to-consumer
consumer-to-business
Related terms: wholesale
reutilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reutilizes
form: reutilizing
form: reutilized
form: reutilized
Etymology: From re- + utilize.
Senses: glosses: To use or utilize something again, or for another purpose
anti-reform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-reform
form: most anti-reform
Senses: glosses: Opposed to reform.
adsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adsorptive
form: most adsorptive
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, tending toward, or characterized by adsorption.
Derived terms: adsorptively
adsorptiveness
adsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adsorptives
Senses: glosses: Any substance that adsorbs.
adsorptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adsorptively
form: most adsorptively
Etymology: From adsorptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adsorptive manner; with a tendency toward or characteristic of adsorption.
adsorptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adsorptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being adsorptive, of tending toward or being characterized by adsorption.
affirmativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affirmative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being affirmative.
twice-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: " ... or twice-weekly whistle round your bottles."
ref: 1929, D H Lawrence, Pansies:
text: A through circuit working in owners' tank wagons operates on a twice-weekly basis.
ref: 1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 763:
text: "The twice-weekly Caregiver's Coffee Hour"
ref: 1998, Newsweek, Vol. 132 Issue 22, p20, 4p, 7c:
text: "For the twice-weekly Inlanders ..."
ref: 2003, Margo Daly, Rough Guide to Australia, page 462:
text: "Further study assessed twice-weekly subcutaneous injections ..."
ref: 2004, Wim B. van den Berg, Pierre Miossec, Cytokines and Joint Injury, page 114:
text: 2005, Sean Deveney, NEW points of emphasis (Sporting News), Vol. 229, Iss. 28; pg. 24, 4 pgs
"To ease any doubts, Paul has twice-weekly conversations with a guy ..."
glosses: Happening twice each week; semi-weekly.
twice-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Twice each week; semi-weekly.
pan-broil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pan-broils
form: pan-broiling
form: pan-broiled
form: pan-broiled
Senses: glosses: To cook over direct heat in an ungreased skillet
miens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mien
son of a whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of whores
Senses: glosses: The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard.
examples: text: Well, mon cher monsieur l'Anglais, may I inform you that you are the son of a whore?
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: An objectionable person.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see son, whore. (the son of a prostitute)
Synonyms: bastard
son of a bitch
whoreson
crasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crashers
Etymology: From crash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who crashes.
examples: Wedding Crashers (2005 movie)
synonyms: gatecrasher
glosses: One who attends an event without an invitation.
Derived terms: party crasher
bavardage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French bavardage.
Senses: glosses: chatter, banter
surrebutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌɹɪˈbʌtɚ/
Forms: form: surrebutters
Etymology: From sur- + rebutter, on the pattern of surrejoinder
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: surrebuttal
glosses: The plaintiff's reply in pleading to a defendant's rebuttal.
Derived terms: surrebut
surrejoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrejoinders
Etymology: From sur- + rejoinder.
Senses: examples: text: The captain-general gave a surrejoinder of still greater length and legal acumen.
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
topics: law
glosses: A plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rejoinder.
chura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chiura.
survival statute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survival statutes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statute that preserves for his estate a decedent's cause of action for infliction of pain and suffering and related damages suffered up to the moment of death.
Related terms: wrongful death statute
reverse question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse questions
Senses: glosses: A question in a television interview that was actually recorded after the interview took place, and is presented as a cutaway scene. The technique is commonly used where only one camera was present at the interview, as a way of creating the appearance of multiple camera angles and showing a scene of the interviewer asking the question, rather than the interviewee listening to the question.
mimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimers
Etymology: From mime + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who mimes during a performance of a song
wrongful death statute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrongful death statutes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statute that provides relief from the common law rule that the death of an individual cannot be the basis of a cause of action in a civil suit.
Related terms: survival statute
pain and suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A species of damages that one may recover for physical or mental pain that results from a wrong done.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pain, suffering.
Related terms: wrongful death statute
survival statute
lill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: lills
form: lilling
form: lilled
form: lilled
Senses: examples: text: Cerberus […]lilled forth his bloody flaming tong
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To loll.
Sammler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sammler.
Senses: examples: text: For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
ref: 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8:
glosses: A surname from German.
implied line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implied lines
Senses: glosses: a line in an artwork that is not physically there but suggested by points in the artwork
Internationale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˌnæ.ʃənˈæl/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˌnæ.ʃənˈɑl.eɪ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈnæˌʃən.əl/
Forms: form: the Internationale
Etymology: Borrowed from French internationale, the original title of Pierre De Geyter's song (L'Internationale).
Senses: examples: text: Last Thursday, all at once, several groups of Skillet Lickers spontaneously broke into a medly of Look for the Union Label, Woodie Guthrie’s Vigilante Man, and The Internationale.
ref: 2008 January 26, Charlie Pierce, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: A general left-wing anthem for solidarity and emancipation of the working class, dating back to the 19th century.
wikipedia: the +
Pille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French or German Pille.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
adjurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjurers
form: adjuror
Etymology: From adjure + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who adjures.
adjuror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjurors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of adjurer.
adorner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adorners
Etymology: From adorn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who places adornments; one who adorns.
examples: text: Click one of the margin adorners. The shape of the margin adorner changes […]
ref: 2010, Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.
aperitifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aperitif
anodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anode
antitoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitoxin
antiquarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquarian
antipathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipathy
anterooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anteroom
antelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antelope
arbitrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbitrator
aqueducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqueduct
arbitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arbitrate
arbitrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subject to arbitration
Derived terms: unarbitrated
arbitrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arbitrate
armourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armourer
armholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armhole
armbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armband
aspirants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspirant
arsenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsenal
aviaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aviary
anemometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemometer
anesthesiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anesthesiologist
confirmability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmabilities
Etymology: From confirm + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing seems more natural than to approach confirmability via confirmation.
ref: 1968, G. Schlesinger, “Confirmability and Determinism,”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, volume 18, number 70, page 30:
text: So the confirmability as well as the refutability of our theories (conditional if not categorical) are necessary conditions for the possibility of science.
ref: 2003, Frederik A. Muller, “Refutability Revamped: How Quantum Mechanics Saves the Phenomena,”, in Erkenntnis, volume 58, number 2, page 190:
glosses: The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
Synonyms: verifiability
labour force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour forces
form: labor force
Senses: examples: text: Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. works staff cut by a third”, in Modern Railways, page 221:
glosses: The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
Related terms: workforce
jobforce
flexitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A combination of flexible + vegetarian + -ism. The earliest known use of the term occurred in the October 17, 1992, issue of the Austin American-Statesman, article by Linda Anthony, Acorn serves up 'flexitarian fare'.
Senses: glosses: The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons.
Synonyms: sense: vegetarianism with occasional exceptions
word: semi-vegetarianism
Related terms: pollotarianism
pescetarianism
Germanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Germanophiles
Etymology: From Germano- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: What we have seen is that a simple binary system of Anglophobe versus Anglophile and Germanophobe versus Germanophile grossly misrepresents the character of Anglo-German relations and antagonism in the pre-1914 era.
ref: 2008, Thomas Weber, Our Friend "the Enemy":, page 93:
glosses: Someone who admires Germany or its culture, cuisine, history or people.
glass harmonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass harmonicas
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument composed of a series of spinning glass bowls, played with the fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin.
glosses: The glass harp.
Synonyms: bowl organ
armonica
glass armonica
hydrocrystalophone
hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica
musical glasses
Derived terms: glass harmonicist
Julian year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Julian years
Senses: glosses: A year in the old Julian calendar that has either 365 or 366 days.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each.
Yankunytjatjara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jangkundjara
form: Yankuntjatjarra
Etymology: From Yankunytjatjara Yankunytjatjara, from yankunytja + tjara, literally 'having (the word) "yankunytja" (as opposed to the word pitjantja)'.
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia.
Yankunytjatjara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jangkundjara
form: Yankuntjatjarra
Etymology: From Yankunytjatjara Yankunytjatjara, from yankunytja + tjara, literally 'having (the word) "yankunytja" (as opposed to the word pitjantja)'.
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal language (or dialect), mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (or language), which in turn belongs to the Pama-Nyungan subfamily.