cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
many a mickle makes a muckle
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛni‿ə ˈmɪk(ə)l meɪks‿ə ˈmʌk(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌmɛni‿ə ˈmɪkəl meɪks‿ə ˈmʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Senses: examples: text: People are often ruined before they are aware of the danger, by buying everything they think they want, without adverting to a Scotch adage—than which nothing in nature is more true—"that many mickles make a muckle."
ref: 1793 April 21, George Washington; Worthington Chauncey Ford, compiler and editor, “Letters to Anthony Whiting, 1793”, in The Writings of George Washington, volumes XII (1790–1794), New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, published 1891, →OCLC, page 382:
synonyms: every little helps
little and often fills the purse
many a little makes a mickle
many a pickle makes a mickle
take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
glosses: A lot of small amounts, put together, become a large amount.
Related terms: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
fairgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairgoer
fairgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairgoers
Etymology: From fair + goer.
Senses: examples: text: What is the average income of the fairgoer?
ref: 1953 November 28, Sam Abbott, “What Makes Fairgoers Go?”, in Billboard, page 48:
text: "We’ve also tossed around increasing the gate admission from $5 to $7 or $8, but we really want to avoid impacting the fairgoer, so we’re keeping admission at $5," Jensen said.
ref: 2009 August 6, Mark Olson, “County fair adapts to unfair economy”, in Chaska Herald:
text: Most fairgoers interviewed said that the annual fair was their sole exposure to professional live entertainment — and, in the case of Mr. Hilbig, to anything Teutonic.
ref: 2009 August 23, Deborah Sontag, “Send In the Skinny, German, Juggling, Lederhosen-Wearing Clown”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who is attending a fair.
yuppiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yuppie + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Richard Greenberg's witty, sometimes insightful look at the perils of yuppiedom is now at Broadway's Golden Theatre.
ref: 1989 January 16, Ruth Gilbert, “Hot Line: The tops in town this week”, in New York Magazine, page 25:
text: On the one hand, the Bonner marriage anticipates the mid-1980s ideal of yuppiedom […]
ref: 2005, Cynthia Anne Barto Lucia, Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Where Wes Anderson invites his audience to share in the absurdity of inherited wealth and Whit Stillman aestheticizes yuppiedom, Rogers agonizes over his upper-crust circumstances.
ref: 2009 August 7, Ronnie Scheib, “Filmmaker takes a personal spin”, in The Courier-Journal:
text: […] the culture of yuppiedom […] seemed threatened with dissolution.
ref: 2009 August 21, Ginia Bellafante, “A Series That Shows Its Age”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being a yuppie.
galama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Staten Island Italian American
glosses: Alternative form of galamah
ex-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ex stock.
weighmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighmaster
geogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geogenies
Etymology: From geo- + -geny.
Senses: glosses: The study of the origins or formation of the Earth.
Derived terms: geogenic
French Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the French Republic
Etymology: Calque of French République française.
Senses: glosses: Official name of France: a country in Western Europe.
Aghvank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Աղվանք (Aġvankʻ).
Senses: glosses: Caucasian Albania.
Caspiane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaspiane
Senses: glosses: The land at the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea populated by the ancient tribe of Caspians.
Kaspiane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caspiane.
unconscionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˌkɒnʃənəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ʌnˌkɒnʃənˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /-əti/
Forms: form: unconscionabilities
Etymology: From un- + conscionable + -ity.
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: contract law
glosses: The principle that one party to a contract might be entitled to a remedy if the other party has behaved in an unconscionable manner.
encage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: encages
form: encaging
form: encaged
form: encaged
Etymology: From en- + cage.
Senses: examples: text: Bruce's daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.
ref: 1858, B. B. Wiffen, Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries", page 12:
text: I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.
ref: 2009 August 12, Fiona Johannessen, “Other Voices: Inspired by shelter of compassion”, in TheUnion.com, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
text: To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.
ref: 2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times:
glosses: To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
Derived terms: encagement
encaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encage
encaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encage
encages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encage
bisemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having two meanings depending on context
unneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The nursingwoman answered him and said that that woman was in throes now full three days and that it would be a hard birth unneth to bear but that now in a little it would be.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2008:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of uneath (“Hard, difficult, not easy”).
butterfly stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly strokes
Senses: examples: text: As you begin to integrate butterfly into your workouts, begin with two to four full butterfly strokes from the wall, then swim easy freestyle for the remainder of the length.
ref: 2009, Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, “Butterfly”, in Mastering Swimming, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: A swimming stroke in which the body is prone, the arms are moved in simultaneous circles, and the feet are kicked up and down.
catnapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catnappers
form: cat-napper
form: cat napper
Etymology: From catnap + -er or blend of cat + kidnapper.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.
ref: 1965, The New Yorker, page 28:
glosses: One who takes a short sleep or nap.
examples: text: Mr. Harding was contacted by the catnappers, and arrangements were made for him to pay a ransom and recover the animal.
ref: 1999, Elane Osborn, The Cop and Calamity Jane, page 103:
glosses: The kidnapper of a cat.
catnappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catnapper
managees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of managee
metametalanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metametalanguages
Etymology: From meta- + metalanguage.
Senses: glosses: A language used to define, analyze, or describe a metalanguage.
metametalanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metametalanguage
cpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: cpi
Senses: topics: arts
graphic-design
media
publishing
typography
glosses: Initialism of characters per inch.
The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of characters per inch.
The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape
Related terms: dpi
ppi
drop acid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops acid
form: dropping acid
form: dropped acid
form: dropped acid
Senses: glosses: to take LSD.
dots per inch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: dpi
Senses: examples: text: My printer prints at 300 dots per inch.
topics: arts
graphic-design
media
publishing
typography
glosses: The measure of a number of pixels per inch used in a graphic or supported by a digital display device, used to specify type or image resolution.
Related terms: resolution
cpi
dpi
ppi
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
form: blicking
form: blicked
form: blicked
Etymology: Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.
Senses: examples: text: Shirley Steynes Bluey took a deep breath as he entered the main street; nothing new under the sun-lamp as white pinks blicked across the street in a line of heat-glazed asterisks
ref: 1978, Michael Wilding, The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, page 82:
text: The lancing sunlight blicked sharps of light from the scattering of sand on the marble of the plinth.
ref: 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, page 646:
glosses: To shine, gleam.
examples: text: The recorder blicked off, and the tape hissed to the end of the reel in silence.
ref: 1988, Sheila Radley, The chief inspector's daughter, page 171:
text: He pulled out a cigarette lighter and blicked it.
ref: 2005, Clyde White, Garbage Angel: Sarah's Story, page 16:
text: On her first day, as she walked into work[…][s]he blicked-in at the time clock[…]
ref: 2014, Lynn Russell, The sweethearts, page 231 (large print edition):
glosses: To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
Etymology: From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”), related to *blīkaną.
Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).
Senses: examples: text: The nearer the process approaches to the “Blick,” the slower is the formation of litharge, till at last it can only be continued by a very strong fire.
ref: 1870, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, page 417:
text: It was also found advantageous not to complete cupellations in the cupel furnace, but to stop the operation some time before the Blick, and to transfer the alloy to the refining furnace, in which cupellation is completed and the silver refined;
ref: 1874, John Arthur Phillips, Elements of Metallurgy, page 511:
text: Commonly, as it cools, it emits a sudden gleam or flash of light[…]but as this gleam or “blick” is exhibited by gold as well as by silver[…]
ref: 1881, Edward John Chapman, Practical Instructions for the Determination by Furnace Assay of Gold and Silver in Rocks and Ores, page 46:
text: When the last of the lead separates, and the button is not smaller than a pin-head, there is a brilliant play of colors, then the button becomes dull; this is known as the "blick," "brightening," "fulguration," or "coruscation."
ref: 1888 May, Frederick W. Clark, “Notes on Assaying of Lead, Silver, and Gold”, in Technology Quarterly, volume 1, page 338:
text: When the blick ( or coloured films ) just disappears, close the doors for a few minutes and then remove the cupels, taking the usual precautions against the button spitting.
ref: 1903, William A. Macleod, Charles Walker, Metallurgical Analysis and Assaying, page 268:
glosses: The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
form: blicking
form: blicked
form: blicked
Etymology: From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”), related to *blīkaną.
Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).
Senses: examples: text: When the cupellation is nearly finished, a play of colors is seen, and the button [sc. of silver] suddenly brightens or “blicks,” and becomes white, and is free from lead.
ref: 1870, Karl Remigius Fresenius, System of instruction in quantitative chemical analysis, § 226, page 530:
text: The English cupelling furnaces are used; the bars of rich bullion being fed continually until the silver blicks, the litharge running into small iron pots for removal.
ref: 1881, United States. Bureau of the Mint ·, Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States, page 355:
text: As the last of the lead is oxidized the iridescence suddenly disappears and the surface brightens or “blicks."
ref: 1914, Edward Garfield Mahin, Quantitative Analysis, page 483:
glosses: Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
Senses: examples: text: Witness here described many blicks of wood cut out of trees on this line showing ages of marks.
ref: 1832, Cornelia G. Goodrich et al. Vs. West Lumber Company, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 113:
text: Method of producing short boards as boards for boxes, cases or the like, characterized by the fact that the log previous to or after the ends thereof being cut away as usual is cut into short logs or blicks of about the length of the boards to be produced,
ref: 1914, Frans Hugo Johansson, “No. 158,342 Short Board Production”, in The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, page 3031:
text: And we used the saw to cut down the snow in little blicks.
ref: 1999, Erno Rossi, White Death - Blizzard of '77, page 116:
glosses: A sawed-off length of something.
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
Etymology: Probably from replacing the initial "C" of click with "B" in Blood slang.
Senses: examples: text: Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark.
ref: 2003 July 21, “Fix Up, Look Sharp” (track 6), in Boy In Da Corner, performed by Dizzy Rascal:
synonyms: blicky
glosses: A pistol.
blick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: blicks
form: blicking
form: blicked
form: blicked
Etymology: Probably from replacing the initial "C" of click with "B" in Blood slang.
Senses: examples: text: Thinkin' like Roddy, got a stick in the box (Roddy) / Hide in another car, we just blickin' the opps (Bah)
ref: 2023 May 24, “Bounce”, PGF Nuk (lyrics):
text: I'ma blick niggas all in they coffin
ref: 2024 April 30, “Euphoria” (5:28 from the start)performed by Kendrick Lamar:
glosses: To shoot up (fire bullets at).
Related terms: bick
bool
unconscionabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconscionability
blow-hard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-hards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blowhard.
no sooner said than done
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: As soon as something is said, it will be done.
Related terms: easier said than done
said and done
where there is a will
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Scheduling is the killer of Simulators. But where there's a will … you know the rest. Kill the Scheduling Monster before it kills you.
ref: [2007, Christopher J. Gallagher, S. Barry Issenberg, “Attendance and Scheduling Issues”, in Simulation in Anesthesia, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Ellipsis of where there is a will there is a way.
where there's a will there's a way
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: The powerful and the fortunate are very fond of the maxim, "where there's a will there's a way;" and they rarely use it without expressing in very clear terms a cold, insolent, and uncharitable judgment upon exertions they are themselves not called upon to make, while they modestly declare that such exertions, if by them made, would be triumphant. They say, in sort, to the weak and unprosperous—You might succeed if you would, for effort is success, and we should find a certain and easy conquest where you have met but baffled hopes and continual defeat!
ref: 1840 November, [Samuel] Laman Blanchard, “A Quarrel with Some Old Acquaintances”, in Theodore Hook, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LX, 3rd part, number CCXXXIX, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, section 10 (Where There’s a Will There’s a Way), page 408:
text: The account which he [James Ferguson] himself gives of these observations is exceedingly interesting, and strikingly brings out the ingenuity of his mind, and his determination to allow no difficulties of circumstances to stand in his way. [...] Thus we are reminded of the apothegm that where there's a will there's a way—an apothegm which has found illustration in every department of effort, but nowhere more frequently than in the progress of science and art.
ref: 1866, W[illiam] K[ing] Tweedie, “James Ferguson. 1710–1776.”, in Youthful Diligence, Future Greatness: A Book for the Young, London; Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: T[homas] Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:
text: Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; [...] [T]hirsty strangers [...] wished they could have a restful seat inside. Thus the strangers. But there were also local customers who felt the same wish; and where there's a will there's a way. In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; [...]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
glosses: Alternative form of where there is a will there is a way.
where there is a will, there is a way
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: [I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely, it is a true Saying, that where there is a Will, there is a Way.
ref: 1724, Pharmacopolæ Justificati: Or, Apothecaries Vindicated from the Imputation of Ignorance. Wherein is Shown, that an Academical Education is No Way Necessary to Qualify a Man for the Practice of Physick, London: Printed for J. Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: [H]ow far the particular practices in regard to Works of Industry may be usefully adopted, it is difficult to determine; but "where there is a will, there is a way:" local habits and circumstances must be the guides.
ref: 1796, Baron von Voght [i.e., Caspar Voght], “Account of the Management of the Poor in Hamburgh, between the Years 1788 and 1794. In a Letter to Some Friends of the Poor in Great Britain. […]”, in The Pamphleteer: Respectfully Dedicated to both Houses of Parliament, volume XI, number XXII, London: Printed by A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […]; sold by Rest Fenner, […]; Lloyd; Black, Kingsbury, and Co., […], published 1818, page 444:
text: There is more than enough legislation to deal with illegal traveller encampments. It is also important to remember that where there is a will, there is a way.
ref: 2014 July 31, Bianca Castro, quoting Robert Halfon, “MP criticises senior police for failing to deal with travellers”, in Harlow Star, Harlow, Essex, page 7, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of where there is a will there is a way.
all's well that ends well
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Often believed to be from the title of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well. More likely attributed to John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), who wrote plays for the royal court from the early 1530s onwards, some sixty years before Shakespeare made his way in the Elizabethan theatre. Although his book of proverbs was the first to use this phrasing, it originates even further back. In 1381, in J. R. Lumby’s Chronicon Henrici Knighton, the line ‘If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ seems to be a more likely origin.
Senses: glosses: A happy ending makes up for everything that has happened before.
run for the roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runs for the roses
Senses: qualifier: usually capitalized and preceded by the
glosses: The Kentucky Derby horse race.
examples: text: Looking back at Ohio State's run for the roses, there might be some who will insist the Buckeyes were lucky to escape defeat at least once. . . . the Buckeyes whipped a jinx in the form of premature Rose Bowl talk.
ref: 1954, Lloyd Larson, "Ohio Comes Through Like Real Champ," Milwaukee Sentinel, 23 Nov., part 2, p. 2 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2009)
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A college football game or series of games played with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the championship Rose Bowl game.
examples: text: The time had come, Dundee acknowledged, to decide if he was serious about making a run for the roses. It was only mid-1990, but presidential campaigns had evolved into two-year affairs, and if he really had that famous "fire in his belly," now was the time.
ref: 1984, Lawrence Sanders, The Passion of Molly T., →ISBN, page 226:
text: I thought about leaps of faith, runs for the roses, and reaching for the stars.
ref: 2007, Kathleen Bacus, Calamity Jayne Heads West, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: A hard-fought competition or demanding challenge of any kind.
enchafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchafes
form: enchafing
form: enchafed
form: enchafed
Etymology: From Middle English enchaufen, a modification of achaufen after the prefix en-.
Senses: glosses: To make warm, to heat.
arage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arages
form: araging
form: araged
form: araged
Etymology: From Old French arager.
Senses: examples: text: Than every knyght lepe frome the bourde ashamed and araged for wratthe nyghe oute of hir wittis […]
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
glosses: To enrage.
arage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + rage.
Senses: examples: text: Parliament is all arage, and Van Wyck / Hath his portfolio filled with proofs!
ref: 1864, Stephen D. Carpenter, Logic of History, page 339:
glosses: In a rage; furious.
flat chat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: flat-chat
Senses: examples: text: We had the car going flat chat down the highway when the cops pulled us over.
text: If there was a radio we'd have it going flat-chat, boy.
ref: 1987, Tim Winton, That Eye, The Sky, page 110:
text: I spun around yet again and took off flat chat.
ref: 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, unnumbered page:
text: I′m driving flat chat as I cross Green Gully, a nondescript depression in the wide flat plain of western New South Wales.
ref: 2012, Chris Hammer, The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin, page 166:
glosses: At maximum capability, intensity, or speed.
flat chat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flat-chat
Senses: examples: text: Can you call me back tomorrow, mate? I′m flat chat at the moment.
text: “Look,” he went on, “I don′t even remember writing anything in the bloody diary, for Christ′s sake. I was flat chat at the time.”
ref: 1997, Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, page 228:
text: “Sorry, I′m flat chat with work. I don′t see how you can get away until Saturday.”
ref: 2007, Joanna Hunt, Jacqui′s Dilemma, page 64:
text: 2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking With Baz, Large Print 16pt Edition, page 167,
Except that I was too flat chat to get up and collect it myself so I motioned to Wok as surreptitiously as I could, nodding in the direction of the note lying invitingly on the asphalt. Wok stared back at me uncomprehendingly.
glosses: Extremely busy.
Related terms: flat out
flat strap
wrap around one's little finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wraps around one's little finger
form: wrapping around one's little finger
form: wrapped around one's little finger
form: wrapped around one's little finger
form: turn around one's finger
form: twist around one's little finger
form: wind around one's little finger
form: wrap around one's finger
Senses: examples: text: She has all of them wrapped around her little finger. They'd do anything for her.
glosses: To successfully control or exert influence over, especially for a sustained period of time.
Synonyms: play someone like a violin
Related terms: under one's thumb
putty in someone's hands
eat out of someone's hand
unratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ratified.
Senses: examples: text: It appears, however, that the treaty is still unratified and that the minister has no authority to surrender the territory.
ref: 1820 May 9, James Monroe, “To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States”, in James D. Richardson, editor, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, published 1897:
glosses: Not ratified
uncrossable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncrossable
form: most uncrossable
Etymology: From un- + crossable.
Senses: examples: text: There is what appears under normal circumstances to be an uncrossable boundary, a total barrier.
ref: 1999, Robert D. Abbott, The World as Information: Overload and Personal Design, →ISBN, page 38:
text: And it’s brilliantly stitched together by motifs of chrysalises and movies and by a joyous abundance of metaphor and simile: “the ding of a bicycle bell like struck crystal”; a woman “talking for much of the day in a steady soft uncrossable stream.”
ref: 2009 August 16, Max Byrd, “Rosie and Friends”, in New York Times:
text: There are very few bridges on the footpaths in Skye and even short periods of heavy rain can cause rivers to rise rapidly, often making them uncrossable.
ref: 2009 August 24, Rita Campbell, “Father and young son die in loch tragedy”, in The Press and Journal:
text: There are two Underground stations. That serving the District and Piccadilly is on one side of an uncrossable road called Hammersmith Broadway; that serving the Hammersmith & City is on the other side. Whichever exit you emerge from, at whichever station, you are immediately lost.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Impossible to cross.
herraduras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herradura
multiprotocol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + protocol.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike earlier generation units, new multiprotocol terminals can, under user control, “talk” in any communications protocol.
ref: 1982, Digital Design, volume 12, page 62:
text: In a business environment that may require communications between the IBM PC and devices or host computers in a variety of protocols, a multiprotocol communications capability may be advantageous.
ref: 1987, Larry E. Jordan, Communications and Networking for the IBM Pc and Compatibles, page 111:
text: As a result of these efforts, multiprotocol lambda switching (MPLmS) and, more recently, generalized multiprotocol label switching (G-MPLS) have been proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the control plane for dynamic provisioning and restoration of lightpaths in optical networks.
ref: 2004, Jun Zheng, Optical WDM Networks: Concepts and Design Principles, page 211:
glosses: Involving or supporting more than one protocol.
cellaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellarium
malengine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /malˈɛndʒɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English male engyn, male engyne, from Anglo-Norman mal engin, Middle French mal engin, from mal (“bad, evil”) + engin (“ruse; trickery; deception”).
Senses: examples: text: But the chaſte damzell, that had neuer priefe / Of ſuch malengine and fine forgerye, / Did eaſely beleeue her ſtrong extremitye.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 406:
text: […]for when the Protectors Brother, Lord Sudley, the Admirall through private malice and mal-engine was to lose his life, no man could bee found fitter than Bishop Latimer[…]to divulge in his Sermon the forged Accusations laid to his charge[…].
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 11; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.
mutons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muton
pancartes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancarte
pharaons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharaon
two pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Alternative form of two pair.
bistriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + striate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bistriated.
supes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supes
form: most supes
Etymology: Clipping of super + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Supes Awesome. Dating advice from the clown who'd put baby powder in my blow-dryer, frozen marbles in my bed, and still regularly strung plastic wrap across the doorway.
ref: 2015, Janey Mack, Choked Up, page 130:
text: It's supes boring here.
ref: 2015, Ronel van Tonder, Compile:Quest, page 406:
text: It's going to be supes fun.
ref: 2016, Leah Reena Goren, Besties:
text: You were like a zombie for a minute there. It was supes scary.
ref: 2017, Alexandra Adornetto, Haunted:
glosses: super; extremely.
supes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supe + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of supe
superons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superon
superions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superion
roulettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roulette
roulettes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roulette
inhalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The inhalent canals appear to be situated below the most superficial layer of the epidermis
ref: 1837, The Medico-chirurgical Review:
glosses: Used for inhaling.
incitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incitant
form: most incitant
Etymology: From Latin incitans.
Senses: glosses: Inciting; stimulating.
incitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incitants
Etymology: From Latin incitans.
Senses: examples: text: The leaves and seeds ought to be classed with the incitants, for they evidently are powerful and diffusible stimulants.
ref: 1786, J. U., C. G. Lloyd, Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica:
glosses: That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.
cosegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosegregations
Etymology: From co- + segregation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transmission of two or more linked genes on a chromosome to the same daughter cell leading to the inheritance by the offspring of these genes together.
vexe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vexes
form: vexing
form: vexeing
form: vexed
form: vexed
form: vext
form: vext
Senses: examples: text: In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ to vexe them.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xij:[1], folio clxxj, verso:
text: Thy dart, or sling, / Or strong bow-string, / That should vs wring, / And vnderbring, / Who every way, / Thee vexe and pay, / And beare the sway / By nigh
ref: 1589, Ioseph Barnes, A Skeltonicall salutation, or condigne gratulation, and iust vexation of the Spanishe nation that in a bravado, spent many a crusado, in setting forth an armado England to invado.:
text: Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling.
ref: 1607, William [Barlow], A Brand, Titio Erepta. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Mathew Law:
text: Either you goe away contented, or you go away condemned of your owne conſcience: before you were vext with couetouſneſſe, but now the world ſhall vexe you too: […]
ref: 1628, Henry Smith, Three Sermons, London: […] W. S. for Iohn Smethwicke, […], page 18:
text: Other unlucky accidents happen in these seas to vexe them, as when (in most becalmings) they swim in the bearing Ocean, the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them [...].
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
text: This vexeing the brewers, they have represented it in the worst colours to the Commissioners of the Excise, and they have made complaint of it to the King in Councill.
ref: 1681 December 19, Humphrey Prideaux, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson, Letters of Humphrey Prideaux, Sometime Dean of Norwich, to John Ellis, Sometime Under-Secretary of State, 1674-1722, […] the Camden Society, published 1875, page 121:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of vex.
rotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roton
paradons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradon
orbitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbiton
limons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limon
danseuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danseuse
fusils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusil
coran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of currant.
admirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admirants
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French amirant etc. under influence of variants with ad-, Latin admirans (“admiring”), or Spanish almirante (“admiral”), from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare also Medieval Latin admirandus and Anglo-Norman admirand.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of admiral.
journeyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of journeying
conventionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventionality
tusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tussar.
tussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tusser
dissimule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dissimules
form: dissimuling
form: dissimuled
form: dissimuled
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissimulen, from Middle French dissimuler, from Latin dissimulō. Doublet of dissimulate, dissemble, and dissimilate.
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit, he bare it out a pretie while: notwithstanding that after he was come downe so farre as to Misenum, he pretermitted nothing of his ordinary and daily manner, no not so much as his feasting and other pleasures: partly upon an intemperate humour of his owne, and in part to dissimule and palliate his weaknesse.
ref: 1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, edited by Charles Whibley, Suetonius: History of Twelve Cæsars, volume I, London, page 227:
text: As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd.
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: Obsolete form of dissemble.
Derived terms: dissimulation
non-derivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + derivable.
Senses: examples: text: Here, then, is an example of an arithmetical statement that may be true, but may be non-derivable from the axioms of arithmetic.
ref: 1989, Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Godel's Proof:
glosses: Not derivable; uncapable of being derived.
Lewi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Lewi, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (Leví), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Levi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
focalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: focalises
form: focalising
form: focalised
form: focalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of focalize.
focalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of focalise
sacrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sacrify
MTSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtsəʊ/
ipa: /mɛtsoʊ/
Forms: form: MTSOs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Acronym of Mobile Telephone Switching Office.
Synonyms: topics: telecommunications
electrical-engineering
communications
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: MSC
maximality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximalities
Etymology: From maximal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being maximal.
Derived terms: premaximality
supramaximality
non-redundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonredundant
Etymology: From non- + redundant.
Senses: glosses: Not redundant; not superfluous.
public sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public sectors
form: public-sector
Etymology: public + sector
Senses: examples: text: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
text: Worth said: "We have distribution companies wanting to decarbonise. We have freight hauliers wanting to invest in electric locomotives. All we need to make that happen is the public sector's contribution. […]"
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 9:
glosses: Any government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.
public sector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: public-sector
Etymology: public + sector
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a public sector.
Related terms: private sector
non-redundancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonredundancy
Etymology: From non- + redundancy.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being non-redundant.
blastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastoma
blastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastoma
piaffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piaffes
Etymology: From French.
Senses: topics: dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.
piaffe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piaffes
form: piaffing
form: piaffed
form: piaffed
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: Which loue you must know was ingendered in the sweet soile of Fraunce, where I piaffed like a bon companion, with a steele at my girdle, till the Friars (a canker of the curssed Covent) fell to drawing of naked knives, and kild indeed the good kind Henrie of Fraunce, the more was the pittie.
ref: 1593, John Eliot, Ortho-epia Gallica: Eliots fruits for the French, Scolar P., published 1968, page A3:
glosses: To strut pretentiously, to parade about.
examples: text: To piaffe in backing is rather too much to be expected in the hurry which [etc.].
ref: 1761 (1778), James A. H. Murray, editor, A new English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, Volume 7, Part 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Mil. Equitation by Earl of Pembroke, published 1905, page 813:
glosses: To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly.
examples: text: Accordingly he piaffed away in high spirits and confidence to the head of Fergus's regiment, although understanding not a word of Gaelic, and very little English.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, edited by Peter Garside, Waverley, volume 1 of Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Edinburgh University Press, published 2008, page 289:
glosses: To ride a horse in this way.
piaffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piaffe
piaffes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piaffe
sweet-and-sour sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet-and-sour sauces
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart.
finikin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more finikin
form: most finikin
Etymology: From Middle Dutch fijnkens (“exactly; precisely”), from fijn (“fine”).
Senses: examples: text: Have a great regard for the cleanliness of your hands, but do not be finikin about it.
ref: c. 1745, George Washington, edited by Moncure D. Conway, George Washington's Rules of Civility, published 1890:
text: The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilettes, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity.
ref: 1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:
glosses: Excessively dainty or fastidious.
finikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finikins
Etymology: From Middle Dutch fijnkens (“exactly; precisely”), from fijn (“fine”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finnikin
tortillé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Nowed; twisted; wreathed.
all fingers and thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He tried to tie his shoelace but was all fingers and thumbs due to his nervousness.
glosses: clumsy or awkward
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: clumsy or awkward
word: all thumbs
Related terms: all eyes and ears
thumb-sketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb-sketches
form: thumb sketch
form: thumbsketch
Etymology: From thumb + sketch.
Senses: glosses: A crude representation, as if drawn with the thumb
Synonyms: thumbnail
thumbnail sketch
beaten track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: on the beaten track
text: The isolated cottage was well off the beaten track.
text: It is a more beaten track.
glosses: A well-populated area or well-trodden path; any busy area.
Related terms: off the beaten track
Swadesh lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swadesh list
lose track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses track
form: losing track
form: lost track
form: lost track
Senses: examples: text: With all that had happened, she had lost track of the time.
glosses: To forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence.
track-mounted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From track + mounted.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the boggy conditions, they used a track-mounted excavator.
glosses: Mounted on tracks; said, for example, of a tank, crane, or other self-propelled heavy vehicle.
oscillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oscillon
sweet-and-sour sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet-and-sour sauce
loses track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose track
losing track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lose track
lost track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose track
Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: Priest: Look, matey, this is a church, not a dealing room. I am not interested in your creepy theories about enterprise and initiative. This place is founded on ideas a bit more permanent than the Dow Jones Index... The Church will be here long after your little brat has grown up, ripped a few people off and died unloved in his Spanish retirement villa.
Mother: Portuguese, actually, and there's no need to be so beastly.
Priest: Well, I'm sorry, but people like you really piss me off.
ref: 1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, season 1, episode 5:
text: John was a convert to the Church who left his home in England and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as part of a handcart company.
ref: 2008 November, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Lift Where You Stand”, in Liahona, pages 53–56:
text: Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."
ref: Catechism of the Catholic Church
glosses: A specific church (Christian religious denomination), such as the Church of England or the Catholic Church.
raw_tags: used with "the"
examples: text: the Son in Heaven and the Church on Earth
glosses: Christianity conceptualized as a single church, irrespective of its various denominations; Christendom.
raw_tags: used with "the"
glosses: A village in Hyndburn borough, near Accrington, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7429).
synonyms: Church Village
Churchtown
glosses: An unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.
Derived terms: Church encoding
Church numeral
Church-Rosser property
metrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metron
hydrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydration
pompions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pompion