cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sports car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports cars
Etymology: From sports + car.
Senses: glosses: An automobile designed for high speed and power, tight handling, and flashy looks.
Hypernyms: car
Hyponyms: supercar
hypercar
Related terms: coupe
parsonages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parsonage
polynomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polynomial
fungivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭn-jĭvʹər-əs
enpr: fŭng-gĭvʹ-
ipa: /fʌnˈd͡ʒɪvɜɹəs/
ipa: /fʌŋˈɡɪvɜɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From fungi + -vorous.
Senses: synonyms: mycophagous
glosses: Feeding on fungi.
convalesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.vəˈlɛs/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.vəˈlɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: convalesces
form: convalescing
form: convalesced
form: convalesced
Etymology: From Latin convalēscere, from con- (intensive prefix) + valēscere (“to become strong”), inchoative of valēre (“to be strong”).
Senses: examples: text: The patient convalesced for six months after his stroke.
glosses: To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
Derived terms: reconvalesce
Related terms: sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
word: convalescence
sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
word: convalescency
sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
english: adjective/noun
translation: adjective/noun
word: convalescent
panzootic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + zootic.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: enzootic#Adjective
word: epizootic#Adjective
word: ;
english: humans
translation: humans
word: endemic#Adjective
word: epidemic#Adjective
word: pandemic#Adjective
english: plants
translation: plants
word: enphytotic#Adjective
word: epiphytotic#Adjective
word: panphytotic#Adjective
glosses: Affecting nonhuman animals of many species and throughout a wide area.
raw_tags: of a disease
Related terms: zootic
panzootic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panzootics
Etymology: From pan- + zootic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: word: enzootic#Adjective
word: epizootic#Adjective
word: ;
english: humans
translation: humans
word: endemic#Adjective
word: epidemic#Adjective
word: pandemic#Adjective
english: plants
translation: plants
word: ;
word: enphytotic#Adjective
word: epiphytotic#Adjective
word: panphytotic#Adjective
glosses: An extremely widespread outbreak of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals.
of sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He wrote a polite retraction, as an apology of sorts for his harsh words.
text: The Mountain versus the Hound played out entertainingly, with the elder Clegane still outmatching his younger brother pound for pound and blow for blow. Being turned into a walking zombie of sorts didn’t just amplify his strength; it essentially obviated the need to parry blows, as even Sandor sinking his sword deep into his undead brother didn’t seem to slow him down in the slightest.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
glosses: Resembling; similar to; in a way; partially or not entirely.
Related terms: sort of
out of sorts
Lara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: lä′rə
ipa: /ˈlɑː.ɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Etymology: Anglicized from Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
Senses: examples: text: Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.
ref: 2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Laura
Larissa
promptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒmptnəs/
Forms: form: promptnesses
Etymology: From prompt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The habit or characteristic of doing things without delay.
glosses: The habit of adhering to a designated time.
Synonyms: sense: habit of doing things with out delay
word: alacrity
sense: habit of doing things with out delay
word: promptitude
sense: habit of adhering to a designated time
word: punctuality
word: timeliness
word: punctuality
sort of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːt‿əv/
ipa: [ˈsɔːʔ əv]
ipa: [ˈsət‿əv]
ipa: /ˈsɔɹt‿əv/
ipa: [ˈsɔɹɾ‿əv]
Etymology: From sort (noun) + of. The adverbial use is derived from the use of the term as an adjective in phrases such as “a sort of [something]”.
Senses: examples: text: Sandals, bound with thongs made of boars' hide, protected the feet, and a sort of roll of thin leather was twined artificially round the legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: This young lady, the daughter of my old friend and companion in arms, the richest heiress in Burgundy, has confessed a sort of a—what was I going to say?—in short, she is a fool, […]
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], “Chapter VIII. The Interview.”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 216:
text: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 305:
text: 'I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,' the Chief was saying. 'An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or Saffron Hill before the First World War. They tell me there was a recognized swag-market down here.'
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 8:
synonyms: of sorts
glosses: Preceded by a (and sometimes also followed by a): of a person, thing, etc.: similar but not identical to another person, thing, etc.
reface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refaces
form: refacing
form: refaced
form: refaced
Etymology: From re- + face.
Senses: examples: text: They decided to reface their cabinets, putting new doors and fresh paint just on the fronts.
glosses: To replace the face or surface of something; to create a new outer layer.
examples: text: He winked before refacing his audience.
ref: 2022, Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe, Game of Gravestones:
glosses: To face or confront again.
refinish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refinishes
form: refinishing
form: refinished
form: refinished
Etymology: From re- + finish.
Senses: examples: text: She refinished the old table.
text: The interior bodyside and ceiling panels in vestibules, toilets and Standard Class saloons have also been refinished, either in paint or vinyls.
ref: 2021 January 13, “Fleet News: Final Avanti West Coast Super Voyager refurbished”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 23:
glosses: To finish again; especially, to apply a fresh finish, as a new coat of varnish or paint.
the world over
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: the whole world over
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Edison is known the whole world over as the inventor of the light-bulb.
glosses: All over the world; globally; throughout the world.
flameout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flameouts
form: flame-out
Etymology: Deverbal from flame out.
Senses: antonyms: flare-up
coordinate_terms: burnout
glosses: The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
examples: text: The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
text: She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Selling the General”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
coordinate_terms: burnout
glosses: The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
examples: text: The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
text: Bombardier’s core lock screening procedure requires a cool-down period before engine shutdown to stabilize internal temperatures and clearances. However, this procedure does not produce the more severe thermal distress associated with the high power, high altitude flameouts that were experienced during the accident flight. As stated in the Safety Board’s November 20, 2006, safety recommendation letter to the FAA, the successful demonstration of Bombardier’s flight test procedure might not ensure that an engine will not experience core lock if the core is allowed to stop rotating after a high power, high altitude flameout. In its letter, the Board noted that the No. 1 accident engine had successfully passed the screening procedure during initial production acceptance testing.
ref: 2007 January 9, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.18.2 Core Lock”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N8396A, Jefferson City, Missouri, October 14, 2004, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022, pages 37–38:
antonyms: flare-up
coordinate_terms: burnout
glosses: The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
degauss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: degausses
form: degaussing
form: degaussed
form: degaussed
Etymology: From de- + gauss (“unit of magnetic field strength”). A neologism coined by then-Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II.
Senses: examples: text: Despite sustaining some damage from air attacks, it was used as a mooring point for large landing crafts with a deep draught in the lead-up to the D-Day landings, and later for the purpose of degaussing vessels.
ref: 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 59:
synonyms: demagnetise
glosses: To reduce or eliminate the magnetic field from (the hull of a ship, or a computer monitor, etc.).
Synonyms: sense: to reduce or eliminate the magnetic field from a ship
word: deperm
Derived terms: degausser
degauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: degausses
Etymology: From de- + gauss (“unit of magnetic field strength”). A neologism coined by then-Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II.
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is degaussed.
Synonyms: sense: act of degaussing a ship
word: deperm
staithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪθ/
ipa: /steɪð/
rhymes: -eɪθ
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: staithes
form: stathe
form: staith
Etymology: From Old English stæþ and/or Old Norse stöð (“harbor”).
Senses: glosses: A riverbank
examples: text: Trevithick's first use of steam traction on rail took place at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.
ref: 1951 March, E. W. Twining, “The First Railway Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 197:
glosses: A fixed structure where ships land, especially to load and unload; wharf; landing stage.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An installation built at the railside or nearby for the storage of coal unloaded from wagons.
Synonyms: wharf
waistband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪstˌbænd/
ipa: [ˈweɪstˌbænd]
Forms: form: waistbands
Etymology: From waist + band.
Senses: glosses: A band of fabric encircling the waist, especially a part of a pair of pants or a skirt.
tafferel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tafferels
Etymology: From Dutch tafereel (“panel, picture”), diminutive of tafel (“table”), from Latin tabula (“table”).
Senses: glosses: A carved panel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings.
examples: text: A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop.
ref: 1837, Edmund Roberts, chapter XVIII, in Embassy to the eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, during the years 1832-3-4, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 272:
text: Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XVIII, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 422–3:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The taffrail.
encircling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.
glosses: enclosing, skirting
encircling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encircle
encircling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encirclings
Senses: examples: text: If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.
ref: 1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich:
glosses: encirclement
shagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggers
Etymology: From shag + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1997, The Bulletin, Issues 6061-6069, page 74,
[…] deracinated German, ace journalist and communist spy, compulsive cocktail drinker and serial shagger: the agent of penetration par excellence is engaging in sexual congress with a secretary from the German embassy in the Japanese capital.
text: ‘What do you want to be remembered for, being the best shaggers and drinkers or the best rugby players?’
ref: 2006, Richard Hill, Richard Hill: The Autobiography, unnumbered page:
text: There would be card schools, too, and when we overnighted the shaggers among the lads would be sniffing after everything in a skirt.
ref: 2007, Mick Quinn, Oliver Harvey, Who Ate All the Pies?: The Life and Times of Mick Quinn, page 69:
glosses: One who shags.
One who has sexual intercourse.
examples: text: The shagger is placed in this position to avoid the danger of his being hit by a batted ball.
ref: 1980, Ken Dugan, Secrets of Coaching Championship Baseball, page 24:
text: As we arrived at the grainfield a covey of little Mexican boys swarmed in from all directions, waving and yelling and climbing on the bumpers, vying for jobs as bird shaggers. Birds were darting low over the vehicles and somebody got excited and started shooting right there, bringing the kids racing for the fallen birds, because whoever got one had a job for sure.
ref: 1983, Bob Brister, Doves Galore: Field & Stream, page 61:
text: As soon as the outfielder releases the throw to the shagger, a second ball is fungoed and the fielder must react quickly,[…].
ref: 1995, Mario Pagnoni, Gerald Robinson, Softball: Fast and Slow Pitch, page 100:
text: He always had a shagger, a caddy who put the shag bag right in front of his feet.
ref: 2011, Jim McLean, Tom McCarthy, The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf′s Greatest Swing, unnumbered page:
glosses: One who shags.
One who catches and returns a ball, usually out of play; one who fetches played balls; one who fetches shot game.
examples: 2012, Renee Wright, Myrtle Beach & South Carolina′s Grand Strand, Explorer′s Guides, unnumbered page,
The first gathering proved so successful that SOS has expanded to a year-round schedule of events, including annual ten-day Spring Safaris and Fall Migrations, attracting up to 10,000 shaggers at a time, plus weekend gatherings in winter and summer.
glosses: One who dances the shag; a jazz dancer.
Derived terms: flag shagger
ball shagger
shagger's back
sheepshagger
COGS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of cost of goods sold.
poddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: poddier
form: poddiest
Etymology: From pod + -y.
Senses: examples: 1944, New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Issues 318-329, page 88,
[…] the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy, i.e., to set seed pods.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pod or pods.
glosses: Fat, corpulent.
examples: text: One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “The 3rd of December 1898”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 292:
text: 1964, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 74, page 646,
Constant handling will cause mis-mothering, leading to deaths and a number of poddy lambs. Poddy lambs are slow to grow and often fail to reach marketable weight under eight months of age.
text: The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.
ref: 2008, Barry Heard, The View from Connor′s Hill, page 56:
glosses: Fed by hand.
raw_tags: of a young or orphaned animal
poddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poddies
Etymology: From pod + -y.
Senses: glosses: An unbranded calf.
examples: text: I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, page 207:
text: When the milkin′ music′s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An′ the poddies have done drinkin′, an′ the neddies chew their hay
ref: 1904, Bush Courtin′: Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 268:
text: She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies, the pigs and Buzz.
ref: 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page:
glosses: A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: An immature mullet.
Derived terms: poddy-dodger
Related terms: dogie
placer
poddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poddies
form: poddying
form: poddied
form: poddied
Etymology: From pod + -y.
Senses: examples: 1907, Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, 2007, Echo Library, page 110,
‘Ell ov a trouble t′ poddy, miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t′ poddy any Gord′s quantity’ remarked Nungi.
glosses: To hand-feed (a young animal).
hokier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hokey: more hokey
hokiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hokey: most hokey; most hokey.
wiggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiggle
wiggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tendency to squirm or be restless.
wiggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wiggle
wiggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wiggle
headstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headstands
Etymology: From head + stand.
Senses: glosses: The act of standing on one's head.
glosses: The position of standing on one's head.
glosses: A handstand.
quinceañera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪnseɪ.ənˈjɛɹə/
ipa: /ˌkɪnsənˈjɛɹə/
ipa: /ˌkɪnsəˈnɛɹə/
ipa: /ˌkiːn-/
ipa: /-sjə-/
rhymes: -ɛɹə
Forms: form: quinceañeras
form: quinceanera
form: quince
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quinceañera (literally “fifteen-year-old”), feminine of quinceañero, from quince años (“fifteen years”) + -ero.
Senses: examples: text: Any given night will find moms with their shoulders mounded with chrysanthemums and daughters decked out in quinceañera lace.
ref: 1987, Texas Monthly:
glosses: The fifteenth birthday and particularly the celebration and ceremony surrounding it for a young Latina woman.
Coordinate terms: sweet seventeen
sweet sixteen
mother lode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother lodes
form: mother-lode
form: motherlode
Etymology: Probably a calque of Spanish veta madre (“mother lode”).
Senses: examples: text: Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.
ref: 1912, Jack London, “The Little Man”, in Smoke Bellew:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
examples: text: It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.
ref: 2000 April 10, Dick Thompson, “The Feds Step Up the Pace”, in Time:
text: Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits [title]
ref: 2014 March 4, Landon Thomas Jr., “Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any source of valuable or useful material.
pignolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pignolias
Senses: glosses: A pine nut; the edible seed of a pine tree.
pignolias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pignolia
source codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of source code
holdover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holdovers
Etymology: Deverbal from hold over.
Senses: examples: text: That policy is a holdover from days of punch card data entry.
text: Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.
examples: text: This rangefinder not only measures the distance to the target, but also provides a digital readout of the inches of holdover at that distance.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.
Derived terms: holdover fire
Related terms: holdout
leftover
fidgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fidgetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fidget
fidgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidgetings
form: fidgetting
Senses: glosses: A fidgety motion.
semantic differentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantic differentiation
differentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of differentiation
fussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuss
fussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: more fussed
form: most fussed
Senses: examples: text: He's just not that fussed about going to the party.
text: It's all right, I tell you. Can't you see I'm not fussed, not at all fussed?
ref: 1923, Harry Leon Wilson, Oh, Doctor!, page 375:
text: An added bonus is that this system protects you against impulse purchases of stuff you're not really fussed about as you have to focus your mind on what you'll chuck out when you get home.
ref: 2006, Elisabeth Wilson, Goddess, page 331:
text: You know when the person comes to me all fussed up about their husbands or vice versa, I say, "I'm not fussed about them. I'm fussed about you."
ref: 2010, Norman Grubb, The Meaning of Life, page 95:
text: This may be a useful lesson beyond the realms of longevity in a world more fussed about efficiency than effectiveness.
ref: 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology:
glosses: Bothered; concerned.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: unfussed
retirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retiree
goings-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goingson
form: going-ons
Senses: examples: text: She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.
text: Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
text: Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape. Machines on thick metal legs with big jangling teeth.
ref: 1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: The_Donald wasn’t a place to debate the presidential election, or discuss the latest goings-on with their preferred candidate. “What I’m interested in is letting Donald Trump supporters speak among themselves,” a moderator of the subreddit told me in early 2016.
ref: 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2021:
synonyms: word: incident
word: proceeding
word: affair
word: befalling
word: episode
word: event
word: goings-on
word: happening
word: hap
word: incident
word: occasion
word: occurrence
word: proceeding
glosses: Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
preferential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛf.ɜː(ɹ)ˌɛn.ʃəl/
Forms: form: more preferential
form: most preferential
form: preferrential
Etymology: From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Club members received preferential seating.
text: preferential treatment
glosses: Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
examples: text: preferential voting; the preferential system
glosses: Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.
Derived terms: antipreferential
nonpreferential
nonpreferentially
preferential attachment
preferentially
preferential treatment
preferential voting
unpreferential
unpreferentially
eigenstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenstates
Etymology: From eigen- + state.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.
ref: 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:
text: In all quantum theories, basis vectors (which are typically eigenstates) are abstractions of the unit basis vectors along the 3D axes. A general state is a vector sum of certain amounts of each basis vector state.
ref: 2013, Robert D. Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory, 2nd edition, Fairfield, IA: Sandtrove Press, published 2018, →ISBN, §3.11.4, page 68:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A dynamic quantum mechanical state whose wave function is an eigenvector that corresponds to a physical quantity.
Related terms: eigenbasis
eigenbrain
eigendecomposition
eigen decomposition
eigenface
eigenfunction
eigengene
eigenhead
eigenmode
eigenpair
eigenspace
eigenspinor
eigensystem
eigentheory
eigenvalue
eigenvector
wave function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wave functions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wavefunction.
shaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shagger
rechauffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rechauffes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of réchauffé.
taffrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taffrail
fishtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃteɪl/
Forms: form: fishtails
Etymology: From Middle English fisch tayle, equivalent to fish + tail.
Senses: coordinate_terms: fishhead
whale tail
glosses: The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
glosses: The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
glosses: A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
glosses: Ellipsis of fishtail palm.
Derived terms: fishtail burner
fishtail palm
fishtail propeller
fishtail skirt
fishtail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃteɪl/
Forms: form: fishtails
form: fishtailing
form: fishtailed
form: fishtailed
Etymology: From Middle English fisch tayle, equivalent to fish + tail.
Senses: examples: text: As we approached the runway, the pilot fishtailed slightly to reduce landing speed.
glosses: To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
examples: text: But Bruce wasn't done baiting the jocks. He fishtailed the car; it swerved and reversed direction, heading straight for the three jocks who were chasing them on foot. It looked like he was going to run the car over the three men.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution:
glosses: To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
examples: text: A large black and gold butterfly fish-tailed in and landed on a hydrangea bush almost at my elbow, moved its wings slowly up and down a few times, then took off heavily […]
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 3:
text: She'd sprinted away like Betty Cuthbert and the blue F.J. Holden was fishtailing up the street as fast as it could go.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 99:
text: Having reversed at Eastbourne, I am in the trailing car, which leaps and fishtails around so much on our way to Bexhill that I have trouble writing coherent notes.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
figurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/
ipa: /fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/
Forms: form: figurines
Etymology: Borrowed from French figurine, equivalent to figure + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Galvanised by this knowledge, the figurine family take to exercise and healthy eating in the park, forming themselves into the key words "Eat" (better), "Move" (more) and "Live" (longer) of the government's urgings and soon the municipal landscape is filled with other happy, healthier families who, incidentally, look even more delicious en masse.
ref: 2009 January 2, Lucy Mangan, “Anti-obesity advert is sweet and easy to digest”, in The Guardian:
text: While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period.[…]The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.
ref: 2017, Isabelle Vella Gregory, “35. Mediterranean—Sardinia”, in Timothy Insoll, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford University Press, page 808:
text: For the abbreviation of the name of the pieces, each player is free to use the name which is commonly used in his/her country. Examples: F = fou (French for bishop), L = loper (Dutch for bishop). In printed periodicals, the use of figurines is recommended.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
glosses: A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.
long meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long metre
Senses: examples: text: The hymn tune “Old 100th” is written in long meter.
glosses: A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic tetrameter, usually having rhyme in the second and fourth lines.
Synonyms: long measure
Related terms: common meter
short meter
Machmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Machmeters
Etymology: From Mach + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: Many high performance aircraft are equipped with a Machmeter for monitoring Mcrit. The Machmeter is essentially an airspeed instrument that is calibrated in relation to Mach on the dial.
ref: 2012, Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-Airframe Volume 2, FAA:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument that measures the speed of an aircraft relative to that of sound and displays it in Mach numbers.
microdensitometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdensitometers
Etymology: From micro- + densitometer.
Senses: glosses: A very sensitive densitometer used for detecting and measuring faint spectral lines.
Related terms: microdensitometry
monometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monometers
Etymology: From mono- + meter.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A line of verse containing a single metrical foot.
octameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octameters
Etymology: From octa- + meter.
Senses: glosses: A line of verse containing eight metrical feet
olfactometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olfactometers
Etymology: From olfacto- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the acuity of a person's sense of smell.
glosses: A device used to measure odour intensity, and concentrations of volatile organic compounds, by means of their smell.
Related terms: olfactometric
olfactometry
osmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: osmometers
Etymology: From osmo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any of various devices used to measure osmotic pressure.
Related terms: osmometric
osmometry
osmotic pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmotic pressures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrostatic pressure exerted by a solution across a semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent; the pressure needed to counteract osmosis.
parking meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking meters
Etymology: From parking + meter (“one who measures”), modelled after coal-meter, etc.
Senses: glosses: A device, located by a parking space, that collects payment in exchange for the right to park a vehicle for a specified time.
coin-operated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coin-op
Senses: examples: text: Just as a matter of information, the Pennsylvania Railroad has unattended coin-operated public telephones on its "Congressional Limiteds" between New York and Washington and on the "Broadway Limited" between New York and Chicago.
ref: 1960 July, Robert G. Lewis, publisher, Railway Age, “Letters to the Editor: Telephones in trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 448:
glosses: Operated, or activated, by placing coins in a slot.
Synonyms: coin-in-the-slot
peakflowmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peakflowmeters
Etymology: From peak flow + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peak flow meter.
peak flow meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peak flow meters
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument that monitors the peak expiratory flow rate of air from a person's bronchi; used to manage asthma.
bronchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒŋkaɪ/
rhymes: -ɒŋkaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchus
penetrameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetrameters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of penetrometer.
penetrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetrometers
form: penetrameter
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device that measures the ease of penetration of an object into a semisolid
glosses: A device that measures the penetrating power of electromagnetic radiation (especially X-rays)
Related terms: penetrometric
penetrometry
piezometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezometers
Etymology: From piezo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: For the ground, that means using three primary types of equipment:
■ Extensometers to look for ground heave - the upwards movement of soil, which can occur at any stage. It is essentially the opposite of erosion and is often associated with clay-type soils which swell when wet.
■ Inclinometers, which measure slope movements.
■ Piezometers to measure water levels.
ref: 2022 October 5, Tom Allett, “HS2's green screen to aid the environment”, in RAIL, number 967, page 35:
glosses: An instrument used to measure pressure.
Derived terms: micropiezometer
minipiezometer
Related terms: piezometric
planimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planimeters
Etymology: From plani- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An integrating device used to measure the area of an irregular figure via tracing its outline.
Synonyms: platometer
Related terms: planimetric
planimetry
planometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planometers
Etymology: From plano- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A flat, metal plate used for estimating the flatness of a machined part; a surface plate.
Related terms: planometric
planometry
shake-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shake-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from shake up.
Senses: examples: text: "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
text: The GWML is now electrified - and from early next year, Intercity Express Trains will be able to run from London-Cardiff Central completely on electric power. That will enable the biggest timetable shake-up since 1976.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shakeup.
Related terms: shake up
run-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run-down
form: most run-down
Etymology: Deverbal from run down.
Senses: synonyms: word: out of gas
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Tired and exhausted.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:
text: Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Stations investment boosts regeneration, says report”, in Rail, page 17:
synonyms: word: dilapidated
word: worse for wear
word: shabby
word: tacky
word: scroungy
word: beat
word: beat up
word: beaten up
word: bedraggled
word: broken-down
word: crumbling
word: derelict
word: dilapidated
word: draggled
word: neglected
word: ramshackle
word: ruinous
word: run-down
word: seedy
word: tatterdemalion
word: timeworn
word: tumbledown
glosses: Decrepit.
raw_tags: of a place
glosses: Having the spring unwound.
raw_tags: of a clockwork mechanism
run-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-downs
Etymology: Deverbal from run down.
Senses: examples: text: Shepard: Give me a run-down of the damage.
Avina: We have lost all primary power to the level. Environmental controls are not responding. Class three fires are burning in sectors 2, 3, 6 and 7. Civilian casualties are high.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: Alternative form of rundown.
wields
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wield
wielding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wield
Derived terms: knife-wielding
wielded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wield
idolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolators
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of idolater.
Derived terms: bardolator
skirls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skirl
skirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirl
skirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɜːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskɝlɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: "And at ony rate , if he suld hear her skirling her auld ends oʻsangs , he's no to ken for that that there's ony body wi' her."
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of skirl
skirling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɜːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskɝlɪŋ/
Forms: form: skirlings
Senses: glosses: A small trout or salmon.
examples: text: When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.
ref: 1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life:
glosses: A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
skirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skirl
drees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dree
dreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dree
dreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dree
eerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪəɹɪli/
Forms: form: more eerily
form: most eerily
Etymology: From eerie + -ly. Compare Old English earglīċe, earhlīċe (“in a cowardly manner, timidly, fearfully”).
Senses: examples: text: And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe—wildly, eerily, urgently.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 244:
text: A woman whose fiancé died on Sept. 11, Maria Barreto-Mojica, said she noticed that something about yesterday had seemed eerily familiar. “I looked at the sky this morning. It was so blue, just the same as it was that morning,” said Ms. Barreto-Mojica, 48, who was to marry fire lieutenant Dennis Mojica.
ref: 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an eerie manner.
Synonyms: strangely
ominously
uncannily
hark back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑːk ˈbæk/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹk ˈbæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: harks back
form: harking back
form: harked back
form: harked back
Etymology: From hark (“to listen attentively”) + back (“to or in a previous condition or place”, adverb), originally a hunting command to hounds meaning “Listen! Go back!”.
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
examples: text: He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.
ref: 1885, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Hans’ City of Rest”, in The Witch’s Head […], volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 18:
synonyms: go back
glosses: To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
examples: text: Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the like, lost a syllable here and there.
ref: 1881, W[illiam] E[dward] Norris, “A Racecourse and a Cathedral”, in Matrimony. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 76–77:
text: Harking back to the theme of a series of speeches he [George W. Bush] delivered last week, he said he was reminded that "there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again."
ref: 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2020:
synonyms: harken back
hearken back
;
call back
glosses: To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To call back (hounds); to recall.
Derived terms: word: hark-back
Related terms: good old days
halcyon days