cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈkluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: exclusions
Etymology: From Middle English exclusion, exclusioun, from Old French [Term?] and Latin exclusiō, from exclūdō. By surface analysis, exclude + -sion.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. JOHNSON: But this amendment does not go far enough. I suppose the framers of the amendment thought it was necessary to provide for such an exigency. I do not see but that any one of these gentlemen may be elected President or Vice President of the United States, and why did you omit to exclude them? I do not understand them to be excluded from the privilege of holding the two highest offices in the gift of the nation. No man is to be a Senator or Representative or an elector for President or Vice President——
Mr. MORRILL: Let me call the Senator's attention to the words "or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States."
Mr. JOHNSON: Perhaps I am wrong as to the exclusion from the Presidency: no doubt I am; but I was misled by noticing the specific exclusion in the case of Senators and Representatives. But I submit to the Senate whether it is advisable, whether it is politic, looking to the end which we all seek to accomplish, the true restoration of the Union, a union of hearts as well as a union of hands, that you should exclude the large mass of people from participating in the honors of the Government who will be excluded by this provision.
ref: 1866 [1866 May 30], The Congressional Globe, Washington: Congressional Globe Office, →OCLC, page 2899, column 1:
text: Two Dutch journalists entering the country were detained at JFK International Airport March 30 because they openly declared that they were homosexuals. They were subsequently released on parole pending an exclusion hearing in Manhattan April 2.
ref: 1981 April 11, Philip Shehadi, “Dutch Gays Come To NY, Protest Immigration Laws”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
text: It was also a satisfying night for England coach Capello. Not only did he have a vital victory to celebrate, but his team selection was fully justified as Cahill gave an almost flawless performance in defence and Scott Parker's display made light of the surprising exclusion of Frank Lampard.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
examples: text: For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6:
glosses: The act of pushing or forcing something out.
glosses: An item not covered by an insurance policy.
Derived terms: antiexclusion
bioexclusion
competitive exclusion
exclusionary
exclusion chromatography
Exclusioner
exclusionism
exclusionist
exclusion unit
exclusion zone
internal exclusion
nonexclusion
overexclusion
Pauli exclusion principle
self-exclusion
size-exclusion chromatography
statutory exclusion
to the exclusion of
wet nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet nurses
form: wet-nurse
form: wetnurse
Senses: coordinate_terms: dry nurse
glosses: A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
glosses: Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
wet nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wet nurses
form: wet nursing
form: wet nursed
form: wet nursed
form: wet-nurse
form: wetnurse
Senses: glosses: To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).
wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈwɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wet
wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈwɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: wettings
Senses: examples: text: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
ref: 1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c., page 28:
glosses: The act of making something wet.
glosses: The act of accidental urination on or in something.
examples: text: Earned my name name for all of them wettings
If I let you live, then give blessings
ref: 2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze, “Anti”, 3:01–3:05:
glosses: An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone.
Derived terms: bedwetting
pant-wetting
wetting down
wetting machine
wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈwɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: That makes (something) wet.
Derived terms: wetting agent
wetting agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetting agents
Senses: glosses: A substance, such as a surfactant, that reduces the surface tension of a liquid, allowing it to spread across and penetrate the surface of a solid.
Related terms: english: often coinstantiated
translation: often coinstantiated
word: cleaning agent
woodland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊd.lənd/
Forms: form: more woodland
form: most woodland
Etymology: From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”).
Senses: examples: text: The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
text: This species [[[w:Red-bellied Woodpecker|Red-bellied Woodpecker]]] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
ref: 1837, “Picus”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), The British Cyclopædia of Natural History, Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co., page 446
text: The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
ref: 1839, Sir William Jardine, Bart., The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories, part of The Naturalist's Library, W.H. Lizars, page 125–6
text: It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
ref: 1890 July, Grant Allen, “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 16, number 93, page 341:
text: As its name implies, this species Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
ref: 1894, R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, page 91:
glosses: Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
examples: text: It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.
ref: 1827, "Amateur", “Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting”, in Sporting Magazine, page 64:
text: […] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity.
ref: 1835, Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page 109:
text: Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham[…]
ref: 1871, George Gill, Fourth Reader, page 135:
glosses: Having the character of a woodland.
exclusion zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusion zones
Senses: examples: text: Although the exclusion zone around each test case is the same for all inputs, the area of each zone decreases with successive attempts.
ref: 2003, Jean-Pierre Rosen, Alfred Strohmeier, Reliable Software Technologies-Ada-Europe 2003, page 371:
text: On 7 April, Britain declared a maritime exclusion zone (subsequently upgraded to a total exclusion zone on 28 April) of 200 nautical miles around the Islands.
ref: 2005, John Uhr, Terms of Trust: Arguments Over Ethics in Australian Government, page 169:
text: If the demolition is to use explosives, an exclusion zone must be established at a distance from and surrounding the structure.
ref: 2007, Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction, page 165:
synonyms: EZ
hyponyms: no-fly zone
glosses: A geographic area in which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities, see also Restricted Area.
non-existent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + existent.
Senses: examples: text: Roads were practically non-existent and travel was undertaken mainly by water, streams and rivers providing the only practical routes.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:
text: It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the present rail passenger service is meagre and between Wetherby and Church Fenton almost non-existent.
ref: 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonexistent.
chimney pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney pots
Senses: examples: text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: A short earthenware pipe, placed on top of a chimney to improve the draft.
Synonyms: can
chimney sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney sweeps
form: chimney-sweep
form: chimneysweep
Senses: synonyms: chimney sweeper
sweep-chimney
glosses: A person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.
Derived terms: chimney sweep's cancer
chimney sweep's carcinoma
Related terms: chimney sweeper
sweep-chimney
there is
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: there’s
Senses: examples: text: There is a man here to see you.
text: There is a flaw in your argument.
text: There's the doorbell. It'll be Mom.
text: Data: For any event, there is an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow.
ref: 1993 November 27, Gene Roddenberry et al., “Parallels”, Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 11, Paramount Pictures
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of there be. Used to indicate the existence of something physical or abstract. See also there are.
em dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: em dashes
form: emdash
form: em-dash
form: m dash
Etymology: Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter m or M, or approximately twice the width of an en dash.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: em rule
m-rule
mutton dash
glosses: The symbol (—) (used to demarcate a parenthetical thought or to indicate a break, or for emphasis)
Related terms: en dash
hyphen
rule
what do you know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: who would have thunk it
text: Well, what do you know, it's raining again.
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: What a surprise; guess what.
examples: text: You think so, eh? Well what do you know?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, do, you, know.; especially, synonym of you don't know what you're talking about.
Related terms: who knows
you never know
en dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: en dashes
form: endash
form: en-dash
form: n dash
Etymology: Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter n or N, or approximately half the width of an em dash.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: en rule
n-rule
nut dash
glosses: The punctuation mark –, which is used, for instance, to indicate a range.
Related terms: em dash
en space
hyphen
rule
what for
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: for what
form: whuffo
Senses: examples: text: What is this tool for?
text: That's what friends are for.
glosses: For what purpose.
examples: text: He wants four copies of it? What for?
text: Ow! What did you do that for?
text: What do you want to know for?
glosses: For what reason; why.
what for
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: what fors
form: for what
form: whuffo
Senses: examples: text: When your dad gets home, he'll give you (a) what for.
text: - Fagin, I'm waiting.
- Waiting, my dear? What for?
- Bill will give you "what for" if you don't fork out.
ref: 1968, Oliver!, 01:12:40:
text: Cranky Kong: 'NOW GET OUT THERE AND GIVE THOSE LITTLE DRUM GUYS WHAT FOR. YES, I SAID "WHAT FOR." I'M OLD. GET OVER IT.'
ref: 2010, Retro Studios, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Nintendo, Wii, level/area: Cranky Kong's shop:
glosses: An unspecified punishment or rebuke.
raw_tags: with "give someone"
injustice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/
Forms: form: injustices
Etymology: From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- + justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes.
Senses: glosses: Absence of justice; unjustice.
examples: text: Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.
text: I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Violation of the rights of another person or people.
examples: text: The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
Synonyms: word: justicelessness
word: unjustice
word: wrong
word: wrength
Derived terms: do injustice
injustice collecting
injustice collection
injustice collector
Related terms: word: just
word: justice
word: unjust
word: injust
word: injustly
what is more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: what's more
Senses: examples: text: I've done it wrong, and what's more, I don't care.
synonyms: furthermore
moreover
in addition
more to the point
glosses: furthermore, or in addition, moreover.
Related terms: what is worse
impersonal verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impersonal verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb used only in the infinitive or in the third person. In the third person, the subject is either implied or a dummy.
Related terms: defective verb
monopersonal
what's cooking
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Hi there babe, what's cooking?
text: What's cooking, good-looking?
glosses: A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new?
glosses: Expression of concern, asking for an explanation, similar to what's going on?; what's the problem?; what gives?
Related terms: what's up with
what gives
what's with
how's tricks
what gives
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: First attested in 1940, in John O'Hara's novel Pal Joey. The term is considered by the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition (2013) and several other references to be a calque of German “was gibt's?” and/or a Yiddish equivalent. Brian Joseph considers this unlikely, however, and speculates that despite its extremely late attestation, it and the German was gibt's may "allow[] for a reconstruction of a Proto-West-Germanic existential use of 'give', which survives marginally into present usage."
Senses: examples: text: Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, my head starts itching. What gives?
glosses: What is wrong? Why is this happening?
examples: text: What gives with you and Martha?
glosses: What is happening? What is going on?
glosses: How are you?
Related terms: what's cooking
what's up with
what's with
what's eating you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: You're in a bad mood today. What's eating you?
glosses: What is annoying or bothering you?
Internet Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Internet Protocol
Senses: synonyms: IP
glosses: A communication protocol that enables networking a large number of computers to the Internet by providing the basis for packet switching, routing, addressing and other essential functions of the net.
Derived terms: word: IP address
word: IPv4
word: IPv6
word: TCP/IP
word: IP
Related terms: word: dotted quad
english: Internet Control Message Protocol
translation: Internet Control Message Protocol
word: ICMP
word: Transmission Control Protocol
word: User Datagram Protocol
what's the good of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what good is
Senses: examples: text: You can't do anything about it, so what's the good of crying?
synonyms: what's the use of
glosses: What is the purpose or advantage of
breast-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breast-feeds
form: breast-feeding
form: breast-fed
form: breast-fed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breastfeed.
back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs out
form: backing out
form: backed out
form: backed out
Senses: examples: text: He backed out of the garage.
hypernyms: back up
reverse
glosses: To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
examples: text: She backed out of organizing the fund-raising.
text: The girl threw back her head and laughed merrily. "You poor young man," she cried; "put that way it does sound alarming." Then she grew serious again. "There's plenty of time for you to back out now if you like. Just call the waiter, and ask for my bill. We'll say good-bye, and the incident will finish."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
coordinate_terms: cancel
call off
get cold feet
glosses: To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
examples: text: "I can back you out."
"How? Doin' what?" they asked.
"Crossing the canal on the pole."
"Shucks, you can't back me out," declared one of the boys, at which he darted across the swaying pole, and with a jump, landed safely across. Another boy went at it gingerly, and with the antics of a tight-rope walker, he managed to get to the other side. […]
"All right, Carlia," shouted the boys on the other bank. […]
Carlia placed her foot on the pole as if testing it. The other girls protested. She would fall in and drown.
"You dared us; now who's the coward," cried the boys.
ref: 1921, Nephi Anderson, chapter 1, in Dorian:
coordinate_terms: scare off
glosses: To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge.
examples: 1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III
Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.
See also: sell short
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To bet on someone losing.
examples: text: I had to back out the changes made to the computer when it became apparent that they had stopped it working properly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To undo (a change).
examples: text: I chose that menu option by accident, so I pressed Escape to back out.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To exit a mode or function.
examples: text: Anything 4 get bun, back it out see the paigons run
Can't believe that my door got spun, I just got nicked for a loaded gun
ref: 2018 September 13, YB (9th Street), “Don’t Make Sense”, 2:06–2:11:
glosses: To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also bare back).
Derived terms: back one out
Related terms: back down
back in
back into
back off
back up
wheedle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍiː.dəl/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈwiː.dəl/
rhymes: -iːdəl
Forms: form: wheedles
form: wheedling
form: wheedled
form: wheedled
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”).
Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent.
The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological.
Senses: examples: text: I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
text: Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 290:
glosses: To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
examples: text: If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 51:
glosses: To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
Derived terms: wheedler
wheedling
wheedlesome
wheedle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍiː.dəl/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈwiː.dəl/
rhymes: -iːdəl
Forms: form: wheedles
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”).
Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent.
The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological.
Senses: glosses: A coaxing person.
wheelbarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍiːl.bæɹ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈwiːl.bæɹ.əʊ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈʍil.bæɹ.oʊ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈʍil.bɛɹ.oʊ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈwil.bɛɹ.oʊ/
Forms: form: wheelbarrows
Etymology: From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.
Senses: examples: text: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.
ref: 2022 July 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Fareham Tunnel blockade aids landslip prevention”, in RAIL, number 961, page 32:
hypernyms: barrow
coordinate_terms: bag barrow
luggage barrow
sack barrow
sack truck
stack truck
hand truck
handtruck
cart
pushcart
dolly
trolley
hand trolley
glosses: A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
Derived terms: drunk as a wheelbarrow
wheelbarrow race
Related terms: alt: eggcorn
word: wheelbarrel
wheelbarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍiːl.bæɹ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈwiːl.bæɹ.əʊ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈʍil.bæɹ.oʊ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈʍil.bɛɹ.oʊ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈwil.bɛɹ.oʊ/
Forms: form: wheelbarrows
form: wheelbarrowing
form: wheelbarrowed
form: wheelbarrowed
Etymology: From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.
Senses: glosses: To convey in a wheelbarrow.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.
wheelbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelbases
Etymology: From wheel + base.
Senses: examples: text: Beneath the snow, and after we had left it behind, the road was as greasy as vaseline, as steep as a scenic railway, and often not a yard wider than the lorry’s wheelbase.
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, “Kala Nao”, in The Road to Oxiana:
text: The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
text: He thought the types of wagons planned (short-wheelbase types) needed reassessment.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
glosses: The horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle.
Coordinate terms: sense: track
word: the distance between the opposite wheel on a same axletree
Derived terms: LWB
SWB
Republic of the Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of the Congo
form: Republic of Congo
Senses: synonyms: Congo-Brazzaville
Congo Republic
hypernyms: Subsahara
glosses: A country in Central Africa, the smaller of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Brazzaville.
Derived terms: COG
Related terms: Democratic Republic of the Congo
a country in Africa whose capital is Kinshasa
anally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪnəli/
rhymes: -eɪnəli
Forms: form: more anally
form: most anally
Etymology: From anal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Martin penetrated his partner anally.
text: The doctor will examine the patient anally.
glosses: Involving the anus.
glosses: In an anal manner.
Derived terms: abanally
anally inflicted death sentence
crwth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuθ/
ipa: /kɹuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: crwths
form: crowd
form: cruth
form: crowth
form: crouth
Etymology: From earlier crowd, from Middle English crowde, reinforced by and cognate to Welsh crwth; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”).
Senses: examples: text: We find in one period crwths, with the strings twanged with the right hand, and stopped above with the left, being held as we hold a violoncello to-day, but being small, on the lap.
ref: 1895, John Frederick Rowbotham, The Troubadours and Courts of Love:
glosses: An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.
Synonyms: chrotta
rote
Derived terms: word: crowder
word: Crowder
wholphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒlf.ɪn/
ipa: /ˈwɑlf.ɪn/
Forms: form: wholphins
form: wolphin
Etymology: Blend of whale + dolphin
Senses: glosses: The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and a false killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (father).
creche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crèche.
crèche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛʃ/
ipa: /kɹeɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
rhymes: -eɪʃ
Forms: form: crèches
form: creche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crèche (“manger”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. Doublet of crib.
Senses: examples: text: At last, all was complete. The creche at Greccio looked like a new Bethlehem. The baby Jesus would be placed in the manger at midnight Mass.
ref: 2007, Clyde A. Bonar, Amen, I Say to You, page 666:
glosses: A representation of the nativity scene.
examples: text: They drop their two-year-old off at the crèche in the morning before they go to work.
text: If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
ref: 2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children:
glosses: A day nursery.
examples: text: One road leads to desertion of the child in a convenient hallway; another to the creche of a foundling hospital; a third, to a boarding home, good or indifferent, for the child.
ref: 1894, Amos Griswold Warner, American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics, page 272:
text: In line with this policy, a couple could adopt a Crèche foundling only if one or both of them were Roman Catholics.
ref: 1973, Wayne Dennis, Children of the Crèche, page 74:
glosses: A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital.
qualifier: marine biology
glosses: A group of young who stay together for protection.
Derived terms: crèchemate
carpetbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpetbags
form: carpet-bag
Etymology: From carpet + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
Derived terms: carpetbaggery
carpetbag steak
carpetbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carpetbags
form: carpetbagging
form: carpetbagged
form: carpetbagged
form: carpet-bag
Etymology: From carpet + bag.
Senses: examples: text: The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
ref: 2018 February 23, Jason Horowitz, “Italy’s ‘Five Star’ Grows Up Into a Real Party, Scandals and All”, in New York Times:
glosses: To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
Derived terms: carpetbagger
carpetbaggism
carpetbag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: carpet-bag
Etymology: From carpet + bag.
Senses: examples: text: carpetbag travels
glosses: Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
dogi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogis
form: dogi
form: dōgi
form: dougi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 道(どう)着(ぎ) (dōgi).
Senses: examples: text: Ninpo is a living art and that means the shidoshi-level teachers are all artists of a very physical nature with their own creative viewpoint being exercised to bring the traditional learnings of the schools into alignment with their own personality and the reality of our times. This means that dogi are sometimes replaced with cammies when people are training in the woods or street clothes when training in town.
ref: 1993, Glenn J. Morris, “A Brief History of Ninjutsu, Ancient and Modern”, in Path Notes of an American Ninja Master, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 6:
text: We were standing on the lawn near the pool in our bright white dogis, he with his black belt and I with my white.
ref: 2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 30:
glosses: A judo or karate uniform.
Related terms: gi
dogi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See doge.
Senses: glosses: plural of doge (“chief magistrate”)
Nipponese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Japanese.
Nipponese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Japanese language.
Nipponese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nipponese
Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese person.
frug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: frugs
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to frig.
Senses: examples: text: She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.
ref: 1964 July 15, The Australian, Sydney, page 20, column 3:
text: The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.
ref: 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 52:
text: They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
ref: 1990, T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East: A Novel, Viking, →ISBN, page 166:
text: In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.
ref: 1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
qualifier: usually preceded by definite article
glosses: A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
frug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: frugs
form: frugging
form: frugged
form: frugged
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to frig.
Senses: examples: text: Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.
ref: 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 12:
text: "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 105:
text: A snake charmer merely hypnotizes the creature with his movements. So I began to move the flute, just as Gopal had done. Now I had the cobra frugging.
ref: 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 53:
glosses: To perform this dance.
Gmail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈd͡ʒiːˌmeɪl]
Forms: form: gmail
form: GMail
form: G-mail
Etymology: Blend of Google + mail.
Senses: examples: text: He has a Gmail account.
text: For now, it’s hard to conclude that Sunak will succeed in rebooting a government that’s been reset more times than most people’s Gmail passwords.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A web-based e-mail system provided by Google (trademarked Gmail).
Derived terms: Gmailer
Gmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈd͡ʒiːˌmeɪl]
Forms: form: Gmails
form: gmail
form: GMail
form: G-mail
Etymology: Blend of Google + mail.
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards, when Alex had dozed off, I […] logged on to my Gmail. I sat, gazing at him sleeping and really didn’t know what to write.
ref: 2009, Lindsey Kelk, chapter 21, in I Heart New York, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 267:
text: [H]e saw an endless stack of Gmail accounts, one after the other. The tips of his fingers became cold as bone. He aimed at one of the Gmails and opened it, but he needed a user name and a password.
ref: 2013, Andre Dubus III, “Listen Carefully as Our Options Have Changed”, in Dirty Love, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Then I switched to my Gmail and found a heart-melting email from Rustem (Jordan), who was born in Kazakhstan and then adopted by an American family.
ref: 2022, Begaim Adilkhanova, “A Learning Journey by Being Far and Near: A Lesson Designed in the R2D2 Framework”, in Curtis J[ay] Bonk, Meina Zhu, editors, Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, Section 3 (Teaching With Technology), Introduction:
glosses: A Gmail account.
examples: text: Although the service was free, Google planned to make money. It would include ads, or “sponsored links,” with each Gmail. […] For example, if someone wrote about a planned vacation, the person receiving the Gmail might notice sponsored links for airlines, travel agencies, or car rentals. Did this mean someone at Google was reading the Gmails? No, but many users were uneasy and indignant.
ref: 2010, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, “Branching Out in All Directions”, in Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Founders of Google (USA Today Lifeline Biographies), Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 69:
text: My wife, Betty, for helping me get through the Gmails and the computer know-how.
ref: 2023, Paul Nyberg, Willey’s I Wish I Were, New York, N.Y.: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
text: Clearly he is alluding to the Gmails I sent parodying the well-known Dead Sea Scrolls pundit and distinguished department chairman Lawrence Schiffman of New York University—parodies that made him appear to be accusing himself of misconduct.
ref: 2024, Raphael Golb, “A Small Controversy in Lower Manhattan”, in The Qumran Con: A Dead Sea Scrolls Memoir, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: An e-mail sent using Gmail.
Gmail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈd͡ʒiːˌmeɪl]
Forms: form: Gmails
form: Gmailing
form: Gmailed
form: Gmailed
form: gmail
form: GMail
form: G-mail
Etymology: Blend of Google + mail.
Senses: examples: text: Gmail me!
text: I Googled my professor and found his home page . . . I Gmailed him my report.
ref: 2008, Greg Holden, “Learning from Google: A 21st-Century Model for Success”, in Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, →ISBN, Part I (Getting Ready to Go Google), page 3:
glosses: To send (someone) an e-mail using Gmail.
Manji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mangi
Etymology: Variant of Latin Mangi, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: Upon crossing this river you enter the noble province of Manji […]
ref: 1854, Thomas Wright, transl., The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian:
glosses: South China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China.
wiseacre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪzeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: wiseacres
Etymology: From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).
Senses: examples: text: That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgement just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, the Innocents Abroad, Random House, published 2003, pages 298–299:
text: But noooooo! Some wiseacre “expert” will patronizingly explain that because gymnast Kim Zmeskal’s left little toenail was off center by the length of an eyelash, the judges will be forced to dock a tenth of a point from her score.
ref: 1992 August 5, Daniel Ruth, “Failing to nail dismount won’t ruin your life”, in The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2-BayLife, column 1:
synonyms: word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
examples: text: A fool's paradise is better than a wiseacre's purgatory.
ref: 1776, George Colman, The Deuce is in him. A farce of two acts, page 24:
text: Peter Gower, a Grecian, journied for cunning in Egypt, and in Syria, and in every land where the Venetians had planted Masonry; and winning entrance into all lodges of Masons, he learned much, and returned and dwelt in Grecia Magna; watching and becoming a mighty wiseacre, and greatly renowned, and here he framed a grat lodge at Groton, (Crotona. Mr. Locke,) and maked many Masons; wherefrom, in process of time, the art passed into England.
ref: 1828, Henry Dana Ward, Free Masonry, page 46:
text: At their village the woman consulted the local wiseacre, explaining the difficulties her son-in-law was creating.
ref: 1970, Daniel Halpern, Antæus, page 40:
glosses: A learned or wise man.
wiseacre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪzeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: wiseacres
form: wiseacring
form: wiseacred
form: wiseacred
Etymology: From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).
Senses: glosses: To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.
smarty pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smarty pants
form: smarty-pants
form: smartypants
Etymology: From smart + -y + -pants.
Senses: synonyms: word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: A smart aleck or know-it-all.
Related terms: smarty boots
smart aleck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart alecks
form: smart alec
Etymology: Aleck is a nickname for the male given name Alexander. The phrase smart aleck is possibly derived from the name of Aleck Hoag, a 19th-century American con man and thief.
Senses: synonyms: wise guy
smarty
smarty pants
smartmouth
wise aleck
glosses: One who is given to obnoxious or insolent humor.
synonyms: word: know-it-all
word: clever dick
word: smart ass
word: wise ass
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: One who is pretentious about their own cleverness or knowledge.
synonyms: smart ass
glosses: One who is obnoxiously self-assured; a show off.
glosses: A well-dressed person.
Derived terms: word: smart-aleck
Related terms: smartass
pretentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛn.t͡ʃəs/
enpr: prĭ-tĕnˈ-chəs
Forms: form: more pretentious
form: most pretentious
form: prætentious
Etymology: From French prétentieux, from prétention, from Latin praetēnsus (“false or hypocritical profession”), past participle of praetendō.
Note that pretentious is spelled with a ‘t’, unlike related pretense, pretension. This is due to the French spelling: *-sious does not occur as an English suffix, though -sion and -tion both do.
Senses: examples: text: Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
text: I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:
glosses: Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
examples: text: Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
text: The station (1840) was originally Cheltenham but the more grandiose Cheltenham Spa since 1925, which feels a bit pretentious as the town has never allowed itself to assume such airs and graces.
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
glosses: Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Synonyms: word: highfalutin
word: affected
word: effete
word: fey
word: recherché
word: hoity-toity
word: overrefined
word: pansified
word: precious
word: pretentious
word: smug
word: stagy
word: stilted
word: theatrical
word: Woosterian
Hypernyms: word: artificial
word: canting
word: foppish
word: insincere
word: overdone
word: showy
word: vain
Hyponyms: word: ad captandum
word: artsy-craftsy
word: cutesy-wootsy
word: literose
word: mannered
word: mincing
word: minsitive
word: pedantic
word: pompous
word: pseudoclassical
word: sanctimonious
Derived terms: pretentiously
pretentiousness
Related terms: word: false pretense
word: pretend
word: pretender
word: pretense
word: pretension
word: pretentiosity
word: fastidious
word: gaudy
word: simpering
smart-aleck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smart-aleck
form: most smart-aleck
form: smart-alec
Senses: examples: smart-aleck remarks
glosses: Characteristic of a smart aleck.
wise guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wise guys
Senses: examples: text: Her reputation for being a wise guy made her new teachers hesitant about having her in their classes.
glosses: One who is insolent or flippant; one who makes jokes or perpetrates pranks.
glosses: A knowledgeable or successful sports bettor.
synonyms: Mafioso
glosses: A member of the Mafia; a mobster.
glosses: A hipster.
glosses: An Italian-American man.
Synonyms: sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: know-all
sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: know-it-all
sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: smart aleck
sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: smarty
sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: wisecracker
sense: one who is insolent or flippant
word: wisenheimer
wisecrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/
Forms: form: wisecracks
Etymology: From wise + crack.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke
text: Cut it out, Sis, an' lissen ter er wise crack. Will yer be nice if I pay yer fine?
ref: 1904, Chuck Connors, Bowery life:
glosses: A witty or sarcastic comment or quip.
wisecrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/
Forms: form: wisecracks
form: wisecracking
form: wisecracked
form: wisecracked
Etymology: From wise + crack.
Senses: synonyms: crack wise
glosses: To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment.
Related terms: word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wisecracker
english: agents who wisecrack
translation: agents who wisecrack
word: wiseguy
word: know-it-all