cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: maces
Etymology: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
Senses: examples: text: The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51:
glosses: A heavy fighting club.
examples: text: I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 259:
glosses: A ceremonial form of this weapon.
glosses: A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
examples: text: On the left were the Commons with their Speaker, attended by the mace. The southern door opened: and the Prince and Princess of Orange, side by side, entered, and took their place under the canopy of state.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
examples: text: In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.
ref: 1967, Harold B. Gill, Raymond R. Townsend, Thomas K. Ford, The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg:
glosses: A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
glosses: A billiard cue.
Derived terms: mace-bearer
mace head
macelike
maceman
reedmace
sergeant at mace
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: maces
form: macing
form: maced
form: maced
Etymology: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
Senses: glosses: To hit someone or something with a mace.
Related terms: bludgeon
celt
twirling baton
warclub
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Etymology: From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macys as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir. Doublet of macir.
Senses: examples: text: I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], line 45:
glosses: A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: maces
Etymology: From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: […] was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said.
ref: 2021 December 10, Michael Levenson, “Self-Proclaimed Proud Boys Member Gets 10 Years for Violence at Portland Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: maces
form: macing
form: maced
form: maced
Etymology: From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
examples: text: When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.
ref: 1989, Carl Hiaasen, chapter 22, in Skin Tight, New York: Ballantine Books:
glosses: To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
mace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: maces
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".
Senses: glosses: An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
examples: text: The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.
ref: 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants:
synonyms: chee
tsien
glosses: An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
n-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From n- (“number”) + dimensional.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an arbitrary number of dimensions.
Derived terms: n-dimensional space
Related terms: multidimensional
dope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [dəʊp]
ipa: [doʊp]
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: dopes
form: doping
form: doped
form: doped
Etymology: From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen. Unrelated to dopamine.
Senses: examples: text: Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. "Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night."
ref: 1915, Jack London, chapter 2, in The Star Rover:
text: Now, suppose another veterinarian should come along with another medicine, named “Goine;” and that a quart of it would make a horse go twice as fast, and you should dope the horse with both medicines […]
ref: 1929, Horatio Sawyer Earle, The Autobiography of “By Gum” Earle, page 105:
synonyms: administer
glosses: To affect with drugs.
glosses: To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
examples: text: Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom.
ref: 2011, Cathleen Shamieh, Gordon McComb, Electronics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
examples: text: The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use.
ref: 2015, Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis, The Psychology of Doping in Sport, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
glosses: To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
Derived terms: dopability
dopable
dope off
dope up
underdope
dope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dəʊp]
ipa: [doʊp]
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: doper
form: dopest
Etymology: From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen. Unrelated to dopamine.
Senses: examples: text: That party was dope!
text: The dope conceptual beauty of the Jungle Brothers is the upful spin they put on black consciousness music, showing that being pro-black can be as much about hot fun in the summertime as gearing up for the next time.
ref: 1990, SPIN, volume 5, number 10, page 74:
text: That was dope, E. That shit was dope, man!
ref: 2015, Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins):
text: Black women are dope: dope as an adjective, not as a noun or verb; dope in Black urban parlance.
ref: 2022 October 18, Charity C. Elder, “Preface: A Black Woman’s Gaze”, in Power: The Rise of Black Women in America, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: amazing
word: astounding
word: awesome
word: awesomesauce
word: based
word: bewildering
word: cool
word: dope
word: enchanting
word: excellent
word: extraordinary
word: far out
word: fire
word: goshwow
word: hellagood
word: impressive
word: incredible
word: inspiring
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: grand
word: grandiose
word: great
word: groovy
word: magnificent
word: major
word: majestic
word: marvellous
word: mystifying
word: mythic
word: neat
word: lit
word: outstanding
word: phenomenal
word: powerful
word: rad
word: selcouth
word: stupendous
word: stupefying
word: sublime
word: surpassing
word: terrific
word: tight
word: unbelievable
word: unreal
word: wicked
word: wonderful
word: wondrous
glosses: Amazing; cool.
Derived terms: dopeness
north by northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Next go north by northeast to the nose of a beast.
ref: 1997, Susan Julio, Great Map Mysteries, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Ruling out any areas that have been bombed, we have decided to head north by northeast.
ref: 2010, J. L. Bourne, Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon, →ISBN:
text: And a plane from Wotje saw a submarine 500 miles north by northeast of that island.
ref: 2014, Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, Miracle at Midway, →ISBN:
glosses: North-northeast, the compass point between north and northeast.
east by northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: East northeast, the compass point between northeast and east.
chewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English chewynge, chewand, from Old English *ċēowende, from Proto-Germanic *kewwandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kewwaną (“to chew”), equivalent to chew + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The goat is chewing on your shirt!
glosses: present participle and gerund of chew
chewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewings
Etymology: From Middle English chewyng, chewynge, from Old English ċīwung, ċȳwung, ċēowung (“chewing”), equivalent to chew + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And while the dog and the cat buses suffered considerable damage from the trapped animals' excretions, clawings, and chewings, the bus with the skunk was declared unsalvageable.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Bramseth, Bourbon Springs Box Set: Volume II, Books 4-6:
glosses: The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
Derived terms: betelchewing
chewing ball
chewing gum
chewingly
chewing sponge
fat-chewing
gumchewing
nonchewing
scenery-chewing
inept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɛpt/
ipa: /ɪˈnept/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: more inept
form: most inept
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
Senses: examples: text: As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
glosses: Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
examples: text: The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.
ref: 1954, W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon, University Press of Kentucky, page xiii:
glosses: Unfit; unsuitable.
Derived terms: ept
ineptitude
ineptly
ineptness
transcendentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcendentalisms
Etymology: From transcendental + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
glosses: Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
glosses: A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
glosses: A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
Related terms: philosophy
religion
transcendental
transcendentalist
Asiaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiaphiles
Etymology: From Asia + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person interested in Asia or its culture.
glosses: A Caucasian male with sexual interests in Asian women.
nondescript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/
ipa: /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: more nondescript
form: most nondescript
form: non-descript
Etymology: From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: undescribed
unidentified
glosses: Not described (in the academic literature).
examples: text: He drove a nondescript silver sedan.
text: There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.
ref: 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Second Cabin”, in The Amateur Emigrant:
text: In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].
ref: 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259:
text: We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps.
ref: 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
synonyms: word: undescript
word: unexceptional
word: plain
glosses: Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.
Derived terms: nondescriptly
nondescriptness
nondescript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/
ipa: /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: nondescripts
form: non-descript
Etymology: From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
Senses: examples: text: Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.
examples: text: In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 6, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
examples: text: By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.
ref: 1970, Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard: a study of the Metropolitan Police, page 118:
glosses: An unmarked police car.
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trāns (“on the other side of”). Doublet of très.
Senses: examples: text: A series of one electron shifts in this complex establish a new trans double bond at carbon ll which transfers the hydrogen to oxygen, forming the hydroperoxide and liberating the enzyme.
ref: 1973, Kert F. Ivie, The Effect of Peroxidase on Model Systems of Lipoxidase and Linoleic Acid, page 10:
text: A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side.
ref: 2015, William P Edwards, The Science of Bakery Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
examples: text: The trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Derived terms: all-trans retinoic acid
cis-trans
cis-trans isomer
cis-trans isomerism
s-trans
trans effect
trans fat
trans fatty acid
transplatin
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).
Senses: examples: text: Last week, a study released in Belgium suggested that trans people’s brains – including those of trans children – more closely matched those belonging to other members of the gender they identified with than with members of the gender associated with their sex at birth.
ref: 2018 May 30, Shon Faye, “I’m trans, and I don’t care if we were ‘born this way’. Neither should you”, in The Guardian:
text: The community also has faced political setbacks in recent years as states passed a flurry of laws, including health care bans like the one at issue in the case and measures that prohibit trans students from participating on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity.
ref: 2024 October 21, Devan Cole, “ACLU attorney will be the first openly transgender advocate to argue before Supreme Court”, in CNN:
glosses: Transgender or transsexual.
glosses: Alternative form of trans* (“having any gender identity other than cisgender”).
Derived terms: T4T
trans bash
trans bashing
transbian
trans boy
trans broken arm syndrome
trans community
trans cult
trans female
trans girl
trans guy
trans lesbian
trans male
trans man
trans woman
trans person
transness
trans panic
trans panic defense
trans patient
trans the gay away
transtrender
trans widow
trans womanhood
trans womyn
Related terms: transgender
transsexual
transvestite
LGBTQ2
LGBTQI
LGBTQ
LGBT
non-binary
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Forms: form: transes
Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).
Senses: examples: text: Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.
ref: 2001 November 23, D a#344, “TS out and proud compensation for passabilty?”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):
glosses: A trans person.
Derived terms: baby trans
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Forms: form: transes
form: transing
form: transed
form: transed
Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).
Senses: examples: text: […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.
ref: 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, →ISBN:
text: Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
ref: 2012, Finn Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, →ISBN, pages 4 and 20:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: To cause to cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or similar).
examples: text: doctors accused of transing kids
synonyms: trans someone's gender
glosses: To render (someone) transgender.
examples: text: They thought of that. The proposals make an exception for "affirmative" practices. You can say yes to your kid transing, but not no.
ref: 2023 January 5, @WingsScotland, Twitter:
glosses: To become transgender.
Derived terms: peak trans
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Forms: form: transes
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of transaction.
examples: text: Most of the transes I've seen die started out by losing a gear, usually the high one. If this happens to you, first check the trans fluid level, *then* panic.
ref: 1998 May 14, Gary S. Callison, “Trans change (was: Something I just deleted and forgot)”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
text: If there really had been a difference and the transes were so forgiving as to be able to tolerate it, then cheaper alternatives like Lubeguard and […]
ref: 2005 September 13, Richard, Re: Valvoline Transmission Fluid ATF+3 Chrysler Approved?, rec.autos.makers.chrysler, Usenet, quoting another user
glosses: Clipping of transmission.
trans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of tran
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated?
translation: etymologically unrelated?
word: trans tape
DLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Downloadable Sound Format.
DLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: D/L/S
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.
stratocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratocracies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós, “army”) + -cracy.
Senses: synonyms: militocracy
glosses: A military government.
Derived terms: stratocrat
stratocratic
phone number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone numbers
form: 'phone number
Senses: synonyms: see telephone number
glosses: Clipping of telephone number.
Brobdingnagian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/
Forms: form: more Brobdingnagian
form: most Brobdingnagian
form: brobdingnagian
Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
examples: text: When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
ref: 1899, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Keeper of Conscience”, in “They that Walk in Darkness”: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, →OCLC, section VII, page 289:
text: The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
ref: 1907, Booth Tarkington, “Glamour”, in His Own People:
text: Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, page 52:
text: Once a week, a train pulls out of Aberdeen station at 08.20 and heads south. There’s no great fanfare, no particular sense of occasion, and the train itself is only five coaches long. However, everything else about this service is Brobdingnagian.
ref: 2022 March 22, Dixe Wills, “Aberdeen to Penzance: the spectacular sights of Britain’s longest train journey”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
antonyms: lilliputian
glosses: Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
Derived terms: Brobdingnagian vision
Brobdingnagian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/
Forms: form: Brobdingnagians
form: brobdingnagian
Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A creature from Brobdingnag.
glosses: A giant.
hora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horas
Etymology: From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”). Doublet of choir, chorus, and quire.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
hora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”). Doublet of hour and year.
Senses: glosses: A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.
clavus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvəs
Forms: form: clavuses
form: clavi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin clāvus (“a nail”). Doublet of clove.
Senses: examples: text: In a review of over 1000 interdigital clavuses, 65% were found in the fourth interspace, while the first and third web space clavuses were found in 17% and 16% of the patients respectively[…]
ref: 1988, Shepard R. Hurwitz, Foot and ankle pain, page 331:
glosses: A callous growth, especially on the foot; a corn.
clavus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvəs
Etymology: Compare Claviceps; the young grain is malformed and club-shaped.
Senses: examples: text: The clavus, or ergot of grain, consists in the enlargement and elongation of the seeds […]
ref: 1817, The Analectic Magazine, page 186:
glosses: Synonym of ergot.
synonyms: word: ergot
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
form: piling
form: piled
form: piled
Etymology: From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”).
Senses: examples: text: They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
glosses: To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
raw_tags: used with the preposition "up"
examples: text: We piled the camel with our loads.
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
glosses: To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
examples: text: But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
ref: 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool”, in BBC:
glosses: To add something to a great number.
glosses: (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
examples: text: Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums.
text: I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo.
ref: 2007 October 7, S.S. Fair, “Vacuum Packed”, in New York Times:
synonyms: accumulate
pile up
glosses: To form a pile or heap.
Synonyms: sense: lay or throw into a pile
word: heap
word: pile up
Derived terms: pile in
pile it high, sell it cheap
pile on
pile on the pounds
pile out
pile Pelion on Ossa
pile up
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
Etymology: From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
Senses: glosses: A dart; an arrow.
glosses: The head of an arrow or spear.
examples: text: All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 10th edition, published 1864, Chapter VI, page 68:
glosses: A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Derived terms: pile bridge
pile cap
pile driver
pile dwelling
pile engine
pile plank
pneumatic pile
screw pile
sheet pile
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
form: piling
form: piled
form: piled
Etymology: From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
Senses: glosses: To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
Etymology: Apparently from Late Latin pilus. Doublet of pilus.
Senses: glosses: A hemorrhoid.
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
Etymology: From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
Senses: glosses: Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
examples: text: Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task:
glosses: The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
Derived terms: deep pile carpet
knotted pile
velvet pile
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
form: piling
form: piled
form: piled
Etymology: From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
Senses: glosses: To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: piles
Etymology: From French pile (“battery”), with the pronunciation adapted to the existing English word pile. Doublet of Etymology 1, which may have influenced the sense development by emphasizing the stack (“pile”) out of which early batteries were made.
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
Derived terms: thermoelectric pile
thermopile
voltaic pile
transcendentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcendentalists
Etymology: From transcendental + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who believes in transcendentalism.
glosses: Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
Related terms: transcendentalism
transept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹænsɛpt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːnsɛpt/
Forms: form: transepts
Etymology: From French transept, from New Latin transeptum, from Latin trans- (“across”) + saeptum (“fence, partition, enclosure”).
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
Derived terms: transepted
transversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
ipa: /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
Forms: form: more transversal
form: most transversal
Etymology: From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.
Senses: examples: text: a transversal line
glosses: Running or lying across; transverse.
examples: text: This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […]"
ref: 2017, Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson, Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 189:
text: First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […]
ref: 2018, Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements, And Feminism, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
transversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
ipa: /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
Forms: form: transversals
Etymology: From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.
Senses: glosses: A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
examples: text: Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
ref: 2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.
Related terms: transverse
trant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: trants
form: tranting
form: tranted
form: tranted
form: traunt
Etymology: From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).
Senses: glosses: To walk; go about.
glosses: To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
glosses: To turn; play a trick.
Derived terms: tranter
trant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: trants
form: traunt
Etymology: From Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”).
Senses: glosses: A turn; trick; stratagem.
Derived terms: tranty
tranter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranters
form: traunter
Etymology: From trant + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the left hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy’s father, Reuben, by vocation a ‘tranter’, or irregular carrier.
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II: The Tranter's”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 13:
text: 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead
An’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast
Vrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.
He wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,
Vor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;
text: ...the persons tenanting these few houses included two retired military officers, one old navy lieutenant, a small farmer and tranter, a relieving officer and registrar, and an old militiaman […]
ref: 1929, Florence Hardy, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1841-1891:
glosses: a peddler.
trapezium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈpiː.zi.əm/
ipa: /tɹæˈpi.zi.əm/
Forms: form: trapeziums
form: trapezia
Etymology: Recorded since 1570, learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”). Doublet of trapeze.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: parallelogram
glosses: A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: parallelogram
glosses: A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
A quadrilateral with two sides parallel and two sides non-parallel.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The trapezium bone of the wrist.
glosses: A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Synonyms: word: trapeze
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
sense: four-sided polygon with two parallel sides
word: trapezoid
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
sense: four-sided polygon with no sides parallel and no equal sides
word: trapezoid
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
sense: four-sided polygon with no sides parallel and no equal sides
word: irregular quadrilateral
Derived terms: trapezium rule
Related terms: trapeze
trapeziform
trapezius
trapezoid
tren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Senses: examples: text: While on "tren" (trenbolone acetate), one of the most potent steroids, [Tom] Powell couldn't keep a hard-on as long as he wanted. He had night sweats and nightmares.
ref: 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of trenbolone (a steroid used to increase muscle growth).
Derived terms: tren goblin
trensomnia
tribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: tribbles
form: treble
Etymology: Unknown. The Century Dictionary suggests possibly a corruption of cribble (“sieve”).
Senses: glosses: A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.
tribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: tribbles
Etymology: Probably invented for alliteration with trouble; the creatures first appeared in an episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles".
Senses: examples: text: Scales have proliferated like tribbles in quadra-triticale: just intonations, equal temperaments, scales based on overtones, scales generated from a single interval or pair of intervals, scales without octaves, scales arising from arcane mathematical formulas, scales that reflect cosmological or religious structures, scales that "come from the heart."
ref: 1998, William A. Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, page 49:
text: The Hyper-Producing Playwrights of Edmondton: Or Why Alberta’s Capital Breeds New Plays Like Tribbles.
ref: 2008, Robin C. Whittaker, editor, Hot Thespian Action!, page 569:
text: They were like tribbles, multiplying by the dozens, cackling, giggling their maniacal joy at the game.
ref: 2010, Dakota Cassidy, chapter 19, in Accidentally Demonic:
text: They breed like tribbles, but at least they’re not terrestrial.
ref: 2015, Zanzibar 7. Schwarzenegger, Veneri Verbum, page 19:
glosses: A fictional alien creature in Star Trek, a fast-breeding, cooing ball of fur.
trink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: trinks
Etymology: From Middle English treinekys or trynk, but earlier origin is unknown. Attested in Anglo-Norman or Middle English legal texts from the 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: 6. Item, That no Trinckerman or other Fisherman shall buy any Trincke, or take to receive any Copy under the seal of the Office of Mayoralty until he be allowed and thought fit by the Lord Mayor of LONDON, or by his Substitute, the Water-Bailiff for the Time being,
ref: 1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume II, page 288:
glosses: A kind of fishing net that is attached to a post or anchor; set net.
examples: text: 8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships,
ref: 1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume II, page 288:
glosses: A fisherman who uses a trink.
obstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.ʃən/
Forms: form: obstructions
Etymology: From Latin obstructio (“hindrance”), from obstruo (“build against, block, stop”).
Senses: glosses: The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
examples: text: The referee stopped play because of an obstruction by the defender.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: obstacle
impediment
hindrance
glosses: Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
glosses: The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
Synonyms: word: block
word: hindrance
word: impedance
word: roadblock
word: stop
sense: See also
word: hindrance
Derived terms: bowel obstruction
deobstruction
disobstruction
intestinal obstruction
nasal obstruction
obstructional
obstructionism
obstructionist
obstruction of justice
pseudo-obstruction
pseudoobstruction