cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
malaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈleɪz/
ipa: /mæˈleɪz/
ipa: /məˈleɪz/
ipa: /mɑˈleɪz/
ipa: /-ˈlɛz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: Malays
Forms: form: malaises
Etymology: From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease.
Senses: examples: text: Addressing tech malaise has become a trend with authors and self-help coaches – such as Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, who, during a $295, 50-minute phone call, will offer you advice on things like how to create roadblocks to checking your phone by putting a rubber band around your screen, and “think of the bigger picture” rather than what you’re missing on Twitter.
ref: 2019 August 21, Adrienne Matei, “Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone?”, in The Guardian:
text: Volkswagen’s travails are symbolic of the nation’s overall economic malaise and a political crisis that collapsed the government in December, paving the way for early elections Feb. 23.
ref: 2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: unease
doldrums
ill at ease
glosses: A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
examples: text: Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2).
ref: 2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War:
synonyms: melancholy
weltschmerz
angst
glosses: An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
glosses: Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.
Derived terms: malaised
videomalaise
Related terms: disease
mudslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdˌslaɪd/
Forms: form: mudslides
Etymology: From mud + slide.
Senses: examples: text: A mudslide in the south-western province of Guizhou has resulted in 15 deaths. Thirty people are still missing as the search continues.
ref: 2019 July 25, “Chinese landslide kills 15, 30 still missing”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2019, News:
text: Flooding occurs in areas where the ground is unable to absorb all of the water, according to forecasters, who explained that flash flooding can also be caused by mudslides or breaks in dams or levees.
ref: 2021 July 18, Neil Vigdor, “What Is Flash Flooding, and How Can You Avoid It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
examples: text: […] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 997:
glosses: A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.
Synonyms: mudflow
Related terms: landslide
sandslide
headquarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛdˈkwɔː.təz/
ipa: /ˈhɛdˌkwɔɹ.tɚz/
Forms: form: headquarters
Etymology: From head + quarters.
Senses: glosses: The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
examples: text: As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
ref: 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business:
glosses: The center of an organization's operations or administration.
examples: text: The head-quarters of the rebellion in the East were at a little town called Hui-lung.
ref: [1888 [1887 March 1], “The Great Mahomedan Rebellion in Yunnan”, in The China Review, volume XVI, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: A place of concentrated activity or influence.
Synonyms: HQ
h.q.
head office
Derived terms: subheadquarters
Related terms: word: headquarter
headquarters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛdˈkwɔː.təz/
ipa: /ˈhɛdˌkwɔɹ.tɚz/
Etymology: From head + quarters.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of headquarter
charges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of charge
charges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of charge
discussions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskʌʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of discussion
ligne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignes
Etymology: From French ligne. Doublet of linea.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).
synonyms: word: line
extra: ill-defined unit of length
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).
A unit of length used for measuring the diameter of buttons.
mots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mot
Irukandji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ'rə-kăn"ji
ipa: /ˈɪɹəˌkænd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From Djabugay Yirrganydji "the Yirrgay people", a derivative of Yirrgay "the Yirrgay dialect of Djabugay", itself a comitative form of a root yirrga- of unidentified meaning.
Perhaps compare also Djabugay Gulunydji "the Guluy dialect of Djabugay", of identical derivation, perhaps based upon gulu "here".
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal tribe of northeastern Australia, also known as the Yirrganydji
Irukandji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ'rə-kăn"ji
ipa: /ˈɪɹəˌkænd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: Irukandjis
Etymology: From Djabugay Yirrganydji "the Yirrgay people", a derivative of Yirrgay "the Yirrgay dialect of Djabugay", itself a comitative form of a root yirrga- of unidentified meaning.
Perhaps compare also Djabugay Gulunydji "the Guluy dialect of Djabugay", of identical derivation, perhaps based upon gulu "here".
Senses: glosses: A deadly jellyfish found in northern Australia, Carukia barnesi.
glosses: Any box jellyfish with a sting that produces Irukandji syndrome.
Derived terms: Irukandji syndrome
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20140317195724/http://www.reef.crc.org.au/publications/brochures/Irukandjisyndrome.htm
word: Article which discusses the development of the 2nd sense
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20140101105148/http://www.irukandjijellyfish.com/
word: Irukandji Jellyfish
Angie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ănji
ipa: /ˈæn.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ændʒi
Etymology: From Angela + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Angela.
Related terms: Ang
Ange
Angi
butler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/
enpr: bŭtʹ-lər
ipa: /ˈbʌt.lɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: butlers
Etymology: From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botellārius, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of bottler.
Senses: glosses: A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
examples: text: “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
ref: 1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:
glosses: The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
glosses: A valet, a male personal attendant.
Synonyms: footman
Derived terms: word: archbutler
word: butlerage
word: butler café
word: butler cafe
word: butlerdom
word: butleress
word: butlerless
word: butler lie
word: butlerlike
word: butlerly
word: butlership
word: butler steak
alt: backformation
word: buttle
word: silent butler
word: underbutler
Related terms: english: large cask
translation: large cask
word: butt
butler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/
enpr: bŭtʹ-lər
ipa: /ˈbʌt.lɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: butlers
form: butlering
form: butlered
form: butlered
Etymology: From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botellārius, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of bottler.
Senses: glosses: To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʊɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝɪsˈdɪkʃən/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊɹɪz-/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝɪz-/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊəɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/
ipa: /d͡ʒɔːɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊəɹɪz-/
ipa: /d͡ʒɔːɹɪz-/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: jurisdictions
Etymology: From Latin iūrisdictiō.
Senses: glosses: The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
glosses: The power or right to exercise authority.
examples: text: The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
text: The Appeal Division of the Social Security Tribunal held that it was without jurisdiction to extend the statutorily established one-year time limit for a complainant to apply to rescind or amend a decision.
ref: 2020 July 23, N. Rosenberg, “Nemish v. King, Walker and Union of National Employees (Public Service Alliance of Canada), 2020 FPSLREB 76”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 21 Sep 2020:
glosses: The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
examples: text: Thus fell that glorious Minion of Edward the Second, who for a time appeared liked [sic.] a blazing Comet, and sway'd the jurisdiction of the state of England, and her Confederates.
ref: c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 12:
glosses: The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
examples: text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
Synonyms: sense: power or right to exercise authority
word: power
word: oyer and terminer
word: soc and sac
Derived terms: agreement conferring jurisdiction
appellate jurisdiction
diversity jurisdiction
federal question jurisdiction
interjurisdiction
interjurisdictional
interjurisdictionally
jurisdictional
jurisdictionally
jurisdiction clause
jurisdictionless
jurisdiction shopping
jurisdictive
multijurisdiction
multijurisdictional
original jurisdiction
pendent jurisdiction
personal jurisdiction
secrecy jurisdiction
subject matter jurisdiction
summary jurisdiction
supplemental jurisdiction
universal jurisdiction
voluntary jurisdiction
Related terms: control
petition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
Forms: form: petitions
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).
Senses: examples: text: We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.
glosses: A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
topics: law
glosses: A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce.
examples: text: a petition to aid
text: a petition to God for courage and strength
text: A house of prayer and petition for thy people.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Maccabees 7:37:
glosses: A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority.
Derived terms: counterpetition
e-petition
petitionable
petitional
petitionary
petitionee
petitioner
petitionist
petition of right
prepetition
repetition
petition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
Forms: form: petitions
form: petitioning
form: petitioned
form: petitioned
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).
Senses: examples: text: The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
text: The company, appreciating the crippling affect ^([sic]) that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.
ref: 1955 April, “Notes and News: Restoring the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 288:
glosses: To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).
Frenchify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Frenchifies
form: Frenchifying
form: Frenchified
form: Frenchified
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of frenchify, to make or become more French.
xenogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “stranger”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). By surface analysis, xeno- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one plant to the stigma of another; cross-pollination.
glosses: Cross-cultural marriage.
Related terms: xenogamic
geitonogamy
wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtl̩/
enpr: wŏtʹl
ipa: /ˈwɑtl̩/
ipa: [ˈwɑ.ɾl̩]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
homophone: what'll (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wattles
Etymology: From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).
Senses: examples: text: And there the heathen Prince, Arviragus, / Gave him an isle of marsh whereon to build; / And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore, […]
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
glosses: A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
glosses: A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
glosses: A barbel of a fish.
glosses: A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
examples: text: The buttons below his waddle open to reveal a ruddy V, tidemark of the sun.
ref: 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
glosses: Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
examples: text: The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.
ref: 1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 16:
glosses: Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.
Coordinate terms: sense: skin on head of birds
word: caruncle
sense: skin on head of birds
word: comb
sense: skin on head of birds
word: cockscomb
sense: skin on head of birds
word: crest
sense: skin on head of birds
word: snood
Derived terms: english: Acacia spp. and Callicoma
translation: Acacia spp. and Callicoma
word: black wattle
word: chinchilla wattle
word: cinnamon wattle
word: climbing wattle
word: Cootamundra wattle
taxonomic: Acacia pycantha
word: golden wattle
word: hickory wattle
word: pinbush wattle
word: sallee wattle
word: savannah wattle
word: savanna wattle
word: silver wattle
word: spurwing wattle
taxonomic: Acacia terminalis
word: sunshine wattle
word: wattle and daub
taxonomic: Kotochalia junodi
word: wattle bagworm
english: Anthochaera
translation: Anthochaera
word: wattlebird
english: Platysteiridae
translation: Platysteiridae
word: wattle-eye
word: Wattle Range
word: wattle turkey
wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtl̩/
enpr: wŏtʹl
ipa: /ˈwɑtl̩/
ipa: [ˈwɑ.ɾl̩]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
homophone: what'll (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wattles
form: wattling
form: wattled
form: wattled
Etymology: From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).
Senses: glosses: To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
glosses: To bind with wattles or twigs.
wattle and daub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattle-and-daub
Senses: glosses: A structure of interwoven branches and twigs plastered with mud, clay or dung, used in the construction of dwellings, especially as infill in a half-timbered wall
wend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: wends
form: wending
form: wended
form: wended
form: went
form: went
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wend
form: wend
form: wended
form: wend
form: wendest
form: wended
form: wendedst
form: wends
form: wendeth
form: wended
form: wend
form: wended
form: wend
form: wended
form: wend
form: -
form: wending
form: wended
form: went
Etymology: From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).
Cognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).
Senses: glosses: To turn; change, to adapt.
examples: text: We wended our weary way westward.
text: And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.
ref: 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:
text: The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History:
text: Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.
ref: 2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:
text: This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team
ref: 2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED:
glosses: To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
examples: text: with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water
ref: c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.:
glosses: To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
glosses: To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
Synonyms: to betake oneself
Derived terms: bewend
wander
wending
Related terms: wind
wend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: wends
Etymology: From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).
Cognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit
wet-nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet-nurses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wet nurse.
wham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæm/
ipa: /wæm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hwæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: whams
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, representing the sound of an object being slammed against something.
Senses: examples: text: Roger was given a violent wham by his boxing opponent.
text: Might be a good idea to have a wham at it, anyway. Stop it getting away. Knock it out so that we can have a proper look at it.
ref: 1957, John Wyndham [pseudonym; John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], “Operation Midwich”, in The Midwich Cuckoos, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published June 1972, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: A forceful blow.
examples: text: We heard a wham as the hammer struck the wall.
glosses: The sound of such a blow; a thud.
glosses: An attempt.
glosses: A great success.
Derived terms: wham-bam
wham-bang
whammo
whammy
Related terms: word: whim-wham
wham
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæm/
ipa: /wæm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hwæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, representing the sound of an object being slammed against something.
Senses: examples: text: Wham! The truck hit the wall.
text: "Come here, kid, I got something for you." Then wham and he lit on his hands and knees beside the track. Nick rubbed his eye. There was a big bump coming up.
ref: 1925, Ernest Hemingway, “The Battler”, in In Our Time: Stories, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC, page 65:
text: The second matador slipped, and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung onto the horn with one hand and held the other right against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the barrier and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword, but he fainted.
ref: 1924, Ernest Hemingway, chapter IX, in In Our Time: Stories, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, published 1925, →OCLC, page 107:
text: I was off duty, minding my own business, walking across the Avenue of the Americas at Forty-fifth Street on my way to Charlie Rothstein's when I heard a gun go off. Wham! it roared, not more than twenty feet from me, and then, in quick succession, wham—wham!
ref: 1950 July 22, Ferguson Findley [pseudonym; Charles Weiser Frey], “Waterfront [Chapter I]”, in Louis Ruppel, editor, Collier’s, volume 136, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 1; republished New York, N.Y.: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Used to indicate the sound of a forceful blow, an explosion, etc.
examples: text: Our relationship was going smoothly and then wham! Out of nowhere he told me he was leaving me for another woman.
text: Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.
ref: 1952 September 22, “Editorial: Since Stevenson [i.e., Adlai Stevenson II] Prefers ‘Compromise’, Foreign Policy is Squarely in the Campaign”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 33, number 12, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:
text: In myself I've come to notice that aging comes in spurts. […] I'll look the exact same way for a decade, and then—wham!—God hits the progeria switch and for two years the downhill plunge begins anew. And then it stops again.
ref: 2008 August, Douglas Coupland, “40 on the Outside, 30 on the Inside: My Theory of How Men Really Age”, in Stephen Perrine, editor, Best Life, volume V, number 6, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77, column 1:
glosses: Used to indicate something dramatic, sudden, and unanticipated has occurred.
Derived terms: wham, bam, thank you ma'am
wham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæm/
ipa: /wæm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hwæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: whams
form: whamming
form: whammed
form: whammed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, representing the sound of an object being slammed against something.
Senses: examples: text: My Wobblie worker buddies taught me to wham anybody who bothered me hard and fast in the crotch with my knee or my elbow.
ref: 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures the Issues: Our Beloved Gay/Lesbian Movement at a Crossroads”, in Marla Erlien, Stephanie Poggi, editors, Gay Community News, volume 20, number 3, Boston, Mass.: GCN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: I picked one of the logs up and just whammed him over the shoulder as hard as I could. Then I said to him, "I want to tell you something. If you want to come up here to school and behave, I want to see you back; otherwise, I don't want you on this school ground."
ref: 2011, William Lynwood Montell, “Disciplining Students”, in Tales from Kentucky One-room School Teachers, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To smash or strike (someone or something) with great force or impact; to slam, to whack.
examples: text: Though you may never have heard of Wham-O before, you doubtless are already acquainted with Super Ball, their latest sensation. It's about the size of a handball, and has such extraordinary bounce that it makes every other ball seem tired. […] Kids from seven to 70 can be seen dribbling it or whamming it over the rooftops almost anywhere you go these days.
ref: 1966 January, Wesley S. Griswold, “Can You Invent a Million-dollar Fad?”, in Ernest V. Heyn, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 188, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80, column 2:
glosses: To propel (something) with great force by kicking, striking, throwing, etc.
examples: text: She takes her foot off the skateboard. It keeps going without her and whams into the garage door.
ref: 2009, Ted Staunton, “No-hands”, in Daredevil Morgan (First Novels), Halifax, N.S.: Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: To smash or strike with great force or impact.
glosses: To move quickly or loudly.
Derived terms: whammer
aptitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/
Forms: form: aptitudes
Etymology: From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt + -itude. Doublet of attitude.
Senses: examples: text: She showed an early aptitude for mathematics.
text: The test measures a student’s aptitude for language learning.
synonyms: word: talent
word: knack
word: ability
word: technique
word: aptitude
word: capacity
word: capability
word: competency
word: competence
word: cunning
word: dexterity
word: ease
word: facility
word: knack
word: list
word: prowess
word: moxie
word: potential
word: proficiency
word: skill
word: talent
word: tekkers
word: touch
antonyms: ineptitude
glosses: Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
synonyms: appropriateness
fitness
suitability
antonyms: ineptitude
glosses: The condition of being suitable.
whammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: whammies
form: whammie
Etymology: From wham + -y.
Senses: glosses: a serious or devastating setback
glosses: an evil spell; a curse or hex
glosses: The vibrato system of an electric guitar, or just its lever (whammy bar)
Derived terms: double whammy
triple whammy
whammy bar
appropriateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appropriate + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: appropriacy
antonyms: inappropriateness
glosses: The quality or condition of being appropriate.
bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
homophone: bleating (with /t/-flapping)
Etymology: By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bleed
bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
homophone: bleating (with /t/-flapping)
Etymology: By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Losing blood.
examples: text: You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.
ref: 1999, Paul Milne, “Why Kari Kauffman Is A Bald Faced Liar” in comp.software.year-2000
text: "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."
ref: 2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive, retrieved 08 Oct 2014:
glosses: extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
Derived terms: bleeding edge
bleeding-edge
bleeding-heart
bleeding heart
bleeding heck
bleeding hell
bleeding Nora
bleeding oak crust
bleeding sickness
bleeding stump
bleeding tooth fungus
nonbleeding
unbleeding
bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
homophone: bleating (with /t/-flapping)
Etymology: By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
text: It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
text: It does highlight some of the difficulties, but does not dare state the bleeding obvious, which is that neither are likely to play a major part in delivering a decarbonised agenda on the railways – […].
ref: 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:
glosses: used as an intensifier: Extremely.
groin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: groyne
Forms: form: groins
Etymology: From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Senses: examples: text: The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
examples: text: He pulled a muscle in his groin.
glosses: The area adjoining this fold or depression.
topics: architecture
glosses: The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The surface formed by two such vaults.
examples: text: He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
text: My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.
ref: 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:
glosses: The genitals.
Coordinate terms: inguinal
Derived terms: groinal
groined
groinfield
groin field
groinful
groin vault
groinward
groinwards
lupoid form of groin ulceration
serpiginous ulceration of the groin
tendergroin
groin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: groyne
Forms: form: groins
form: groining
form: groined
form: groined
Etymology: From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Senses: examples: text: In the scrum he somehow got groined.
text: She groined him and ran to the car.
glosses: To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
topics: architecture
glosses: To build with groins.
examples: text: Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
ref: 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:
glosses: To hollow out; to excavate.
groin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: groyne
Forms: form: groins
form: groining
form: groined
form: groined
Etymology: From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).
Senses: examples: text: Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
text: Beares, that groynd continually
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
glosses: To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
groin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: groyne
Forms: form: groins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of groyne.
atavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəˌvɪzəm/
ipa: [ˈæɾəˌvɪzəm]
Forms: form: atavisms
Etymology: From French atavisme.
Senses: examples: text: He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 10, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Hence on false premises was built up that belief in spirits or invisible beings outside ourselves, which by some curious atavism was re-emerging in modern days among the less educated strata of mankind.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
examples: text: She had lost the power to care about his faults. Strange, sweet, poisonous indifference! She was drugged. And she knew it. Would she ever wake out of her dark, warm coma? She shuddered, and hoped not. Mrs Tuke would say atavism. Atavism! The word recurred curiously.
ref: 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Wedded Wife”, in The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 316:
text: Upon the death of Theodoric in 526, Ibidus retired from public life to compose his celebrated work (whose pure Ciceronian style is as remarkable a case of classic atavism as is the verse of Claudius Claudianus, who flourished a century before Ibidus); but he was later recalled to scenes of pomp to act as court rhetorician for Theodatus, nephew of Theodoric.
ref: 1938, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ibid:
glosses: The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
examples: text: I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: "...he traces the roots of objectless imperialism to three sources, each an atavism. Modern imperialism, according to Schumpeter, resulted from the combined impact of a "war machine", warlike instincts, and export monopolism".
ref: 1986, Michael Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics”, in American Political Science Review, volume 80, number 4:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
Derived terms: atavist
atavistic
atavistical
Related terms: throwback
reappearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappearances
form: re-appearance
Etymology: From re- + appearance or reappear + -ance.
Senses: synonyms: reapparition
glosses: The act of appearing again following absence.
Afrika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative spelling of Africa: the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Related terms: Afrikan
bodily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑdɪli/
ipa: /ˈbɒdɪli/
homophone: bawdily (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: From Middle English bodily; equivalent to body + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Colossians 2:9:
text: In I got bodily into the apple barrel, and found there was scarce an apple left; but sitting down there in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep or was on the point of doing so when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash close by.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Voyage”, in Treasure Islandᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:
glosses: In bodily form; physically, corporally.
examples: text: The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
ref: 1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112:
glosses: Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.
examples: text: He was thrown bodily out of the house.
glosses: Forcefully, vigorously.
Related terms: bodacious
incompleteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incompletenesses
Etymology: From incomplete + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Its incompleteness in this respect makes the timetable of less value than some of its Continental counterparts, such as the French Horaires Mayeux; nevertheless, it is fair value at 5s.
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
text: This low number points to the incompleteness and, with respect, haphazardness of the two selections.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 117:
glosses: The state or condition of being not complete.
Synonyms: incompletion
unfinishedness
Related terms: Gödel's incompleteness theorem
completeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: completenesses
form: completenesse
Etymology: From complete + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being complete.
examples: text: THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
(a) If #92;vDashF [or even if #92;aleph#95;0-#92;vDashF], then #92;vdashF. If E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;vDashF [or even if E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;#92;aleph#95;0-#92;vDashF], then E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;vdashF.
(b) […]
ref: 2002, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 314:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊨ϕ is true, then T⊢ϕ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: completion
raw_tags: of being complete
word: fulfillment
word: completion
Derived terms: completeness axiom
titanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tītănʹĭk
ipa: /taɪˈtænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more titanic
form: most titanic
Etymology: See Titanic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Of or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Having great size, or great force, power, or strength.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
Derived terms: titanically
titanic prime
titanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tītănʹĭk
ipa: /taɪˈtænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From titan(ium) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns), in the case of sense 1 (“of or relating to titanium”) modelled after French titanique.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: titanian
word: titaniferous
glosses: Of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
Derived terms: fluotitanic acid
titanate
titanic acid
titanic iron ore
titanico-
titanic oxide
titanic schorl
Related terms: titanian
titaniferous
titanoan
titanous
convince
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪns/
rhymes: -ɪns
Forms: form: convinces
form: convincing
form: convinced
form: convinced
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convincō (“I refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“I conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.
text: Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
ref: 1718, Francis Atterbury, sermon preached on Easter Day at Westminster Abbey:
glosses: To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
glosses: To persuade.
examples: text: […]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135:
glosses: To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
examples: text: For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:28:
text: And therfore, God neuer wrought Miracle, to conuince Atheiſme, becauſe his Ordinary Works conuince it.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Atheisme. XVI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: To confute; to prove wrong.
examples: text: Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 8:46, column 1:
text: O ſeek not to convince me of a Crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor can you pardon.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 18:
glosses: To prove guilty; to convict.
Synonyms: persuade
satisfy
assure
convert
win over
Derived terms: convinceable
convincement
convincer
unconvince
Related terms: convict
conviction
convincible
convincingly
reconvince
sinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnɚ/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
homophone: center
homophone: centre (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
Forms: form: sinners
Etymology: From Middle English synnere, equivalent to sin + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säänder (“sinner”), West Frisian sûnder (“sinner”), Dutch zondaar (“sinner”), German Low German Sünder, Sünner (“sinner”), German Sünder (“sinner”), Danish synder (“sinner”), Swedish syndare (“sinner”), Icelandic syndari (“sinner”).
Senses: examples: text: Some Christians believe the Bible tells us that homosexuals are sinners. The current trend of increased acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community is distressing to these Christians who sincerely want to follow the Bible.
ref: 2016, Janet Edmonds, The Bible Doesn’t Say That Homosexuality is a Sin:
synonyms: criminal
evildoer
offender
glosses: A person who sins or has sinned.
A person who, by one particular action, has sinned.
topics: Christianity
synonyms: criminal
evildoer
offender
glosses: A person who sins or has sinned.
An unregenerate person.
qualifier: doctrinal
glosses: A person with negative qualities; one who does bad things.
examples: Are you a sinner or a saint?
glosses: A person with negative qualities; one who does bad things.
One who lives a hedonist life; a self-indulgent person.
Derived terms: love the sinner, hate the sin
nonsinner
sinneress
sinnerhood
sinnership
sinner's prayer