cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suborbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: sub-orbital
Etymology: From sub- + orbital.
Senses: examples: text: The first rocket test was suborbital; it didn't even get off the ground but rather exploded on the launchpad.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: infraorbital
antonyms: supraorbital
glosses: Below the orbit of the eye.
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: suborbit
suborbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: suborbitals
form: sub-orbital
Etymology: From sub- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A suborbital bone.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A portion of an orbital.
subscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: subscripts
Etymology: From sub- + script.
Senses: examples: text: In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H₂O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
examples: text: If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.
ref: 2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++ Standard Template Library, page 249:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An index into an array or hash.
Derived terms: iota subscript
Related terms: script
subscribe
subscription
subscript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: subscripts
form: subscripting
form: subscripted
form: subscripted
Etymology: From sub- + script.
Senses: examples: text: As in the chapters on the synchronous model, we use the convention of subscripting a variable by the index of the process at which the variable resides.
ref: 1996, Nancy A. Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Elsevier, page 210:
text: The elements of these matrices are subscripted with a row–column index, that is, with two integers that give the row and column position in the array.
ref: 2011, William M. Davis (original author Cifford E. Dykstra), Physical Chemistry: A Modern Introduction (Second Edition), CRC Press, page 424
topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: To provide with a subscript.
raw_tags: of a variable
examples: text: If your presentation covers chemistry or some other scientific field, you'll need to subscript and superscript characters (think H2O).
ref: 2007, Emily A. Vander Veer, PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual:
topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: To convert to a subscript form.
raw_tags: of a text
examples: text: Avoid subscripting arrays or hashes within loops.
ref: 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To access (an array element) by its index.
subscript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbskɹɪpt/
Etymology: From sub- + script.
Senses: glosses: Written underneath.
Related terms: superscribe
subsurface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsurfaces
Etymology: From sub- + surface.
Senses: examples: text: Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and support it.
glosses: Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.
subsurface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + surface.
Senses: examples: variations in subsurface conditions
glosses: Below the surface.
subtenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtenants
form: sub-tenant
Etymology: From sub- + tenant.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: undertenant
sublessee
underlessee
antonyms: word: sublessor
word: underlessor
word: sublandlord
word: underlandlord
word: subletter
word: underletter
word: head tenant
word: superior tenant
word: subleaser
word: underleaser
hypernyms: tenant
lessee
glosses: A tenant of a sublease.
Related terms: sublease
underlease
subtenancy
undertenancy
subletting
underletting
sublet
underlet
subtenant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtenants
form: subtenanting
form: subtenanted
form: subtenanted
form: sub-tenant
Etymology: From sub- + tenant.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
word: underlease
word: sublet
glosses: Synonym of sublet.
subtenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtenant
subtenants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtenant
sugarplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarplums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sugar-plum.
sugarplums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarplum
superciliously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superciliously
form: most superciliously
Etymology: From supercilious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supercilious manner.
supercargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːpəˌkɑːɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsjuːpə-/
ipa: /ˈsupəɹˌkɑɹɡoʊ/
Forms: form: supercargos
form: supercargoes
Etymology: From super- (prefix meaning ‘above; superior in position or title’) + earlier supracargo.
Senses: examples: text: [A]t night, when the boat sailed along easily before a light breeze, and the sailors were gathered on the upper deck, while the captain and the supercargo lolled in deck-chairs, smoking their pipes, I saw him dance with another lad, dance wildly, to the wheezy music of the concertina.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LVIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 314:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of supracargo
An officer on board a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo and its sale; also, if there are two of such officers, the senior one, the other being the subcargo.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of supracargo
An agent or representative of a company in charge of its overseas business.
glosses: Any overseer or superintendent; also, an agent or representative; or an intermediary; a go-between, a middleman.
Derived terms: supercargoship
subteen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + teen.
Senses: glosses: Below the age of a teenager, younger than thirteen years old.
subteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subteens
Etymology: From sub- + teen.
Senses: glosses: A person younger than a teenager, a child younger than thirteen years old.
summerhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summerhouses
form: summer house
form: summer-house
Etymology: From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.
Senses: glosses: A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
examples: text: "When he had religion he used to be always hammerin' up seats and summer-houses and things out of bits of twisty wood. Mad over that, he was."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather.
Related terms: country house
dacha
holiday home
villa
winterhouse
summerhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summerhouse
primary residence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary residences
Senses: glosses: The dwelling where a person usually lives. A person may have only one primary residence at any given time, which is used for legal purposes such as determining where a person votes or pays taxes.
primary residences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary residence. Note: the primary residence of multiple people since each person can have only one primary residence.
sun-drenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sun-drenched
form: most sun-drenched
Etymology: Since the 1890s or earlier; figurative, conceiving sunlight as if it were a fluid that can drench (immerse) something.
Senses: examples: text: Sun-drenched beaches are vacation destinations for sunbathers no matter where the beaches are.
text: Ahead of them were two sun-drenched (all going well) weeks of lazing on the beach.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 61:
glosses: Receiving lots of sunshine; bathed in sunlight; (of a place) frequently sunny.
Synonyms: word: sunbathed
Related terms: word: sun-dried
strip-mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip-mines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strip mine.
strip-mine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strip-mines
form: strip-mining
form: strip-mined
form: strip-mined
Senses: examples: text: The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.
text: Since 1945, approximately 4 million acres of land have been strip-mined, of which only 2 million have been revegetated.
ref: 1980, United States. Science and Education Administration. Cooperative Research, Minisite preparation for reforestation of strip-mined lands, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, page 5:
glosses: To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.
examples: text: This is what success looks like in the creator economy: A group of friends becomes a cast of characters, strip-mines lives and relationships for content and, in the process, turns into a corporation, with payroll to process and liabilities to consider.
ref: 2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: To use up all the resources of something.
strip-search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip-searches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strip search.
strip-search
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strip-searches
form: strip-searching
form: strip-searched
form: strip-searched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strip search.
stretchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stretchable
form: most stretchable
Etymology: From stretch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stretched.
Synonyms: stretchy
elastic
Related terms: stretchability
stripteaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stripteasers
Senses: synonyms: ecdysiast
stripper
glosses: A person who performs a striptease.
Related terms: striptease
stubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stubblier
form: stubbliest
Etymology: From stubble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the stubbly ground after harvesting
glosses: Having stubble.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of stubble.
chump chops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chump chop
streptococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streptococcus
streptococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptococci
Etymology: Morphologically a compound of strepto- + -coccus. They grow in chains or pairs, thus the name — from Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós, “twisted, pliant”), like a chain. Compare the genus name Streptococcus.
Senses: synonyms: word: strep
word: strepto
english: clippings
translation: clippings
glosses: A spherical, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Streptococcus. Although commonly found benignly in the human mouth and gut, and though many species are non-pathogenic, other species can cause diseases including strep throat and more serious conditions.
Derived terms: strep
strep throat
Related terms: coccus
streptococcal
stuffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffinesses
Etymology: From stuffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.
glosses: The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.
glosses: The result or product of being stuffy.
Synonyms: sense: state of being poorly-ventilated
word: frowst
Related terms: stuffily
stuffy
streptococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Streptococcus + -al
Senses: glosses: Relating to bacteria of the genus Streptococcus.
streptomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹɛp.tə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪ.sɪn/
ipa: /ˌstɹɛp.təˈmaɪ.sn̩/
Etymology: From translingual Streptomyces + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An aminoglycoside and bactericidal antibiotic C₂₁H₃₉N₇O₁₂ that is produced by a soil actinomycete (Streptomyces griseus), is active against many bacteria, and is administered via intramuscular injection especially in the treatment of infections by gram-negative bacteria. It was the first drug to be successful against tuberculosis but is now chiefly used with other drugs because of its toxic side effects.
Derived terms: english: antibiotic
translation: antibiotic
word: -mycin
word: dihydrostreptomycin
strep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: streps
Etymology: Clipping of streptococcus.
Senses: examples: text: Sore throat is the telltale sign. About one in 10 adults with a sore throat has strep, according to the C.D.C.
ref: 2023 April 14, Dani Blum, “Strep Is on the Rise. Here’s How to Minimize Your Risk.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of strep throat.
synonyms: strepto
glosses: A streptococcus.
strep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: streps
Etymology: Clipping of streptocarpus.
Senses: examples: text: I also have a WWW page with pictures if interested: […] look under the Convention '95 page, there are several streptos. Also look under "Take a bite of the strang stuff" for a view of a^([sic]) unifoliate strep.
ref: 1996 June 16, Justin Thyme, “Re: Streptocarpus”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet):
text: On my arrival at the nursery which (like so many of its kind) is tucked in the back of beyond, Rex was anxious to show me his beloved ‘streps’ (Streptocarpus) and seemed almost disappointed that I should insist instead on viewing his ‘chiris’ (Chirita).
ref: 2003, The Garden, volume 128, page 847:
synonyms: strepto
glosses: Clipping of streptocarpus.
niggers in the woodpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger in the woodpile.
dual-clutch gearbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual-clutch gearboxes
Senses: glosses: A twin-clutch gearbox
twin-clutch gearbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin-clutch gearboxes
Senses: glosses: An automatic transmission with separate clutches for odd and even gears.
spinney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinneys
form: spinny
Etymology: From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).
Senses: examples: text: “H'm !" he said, "so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:
glosses: A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
Related terms: thicket
copse
grove
spinney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinneys
Etymology: Clipping of spinnaker + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spinnaker.
synonyms: word: spinnaker
sequential manual gearbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequential manual gearboxes
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: sequential gearbox
sequential manual transmission
sequential transmission
glosses: A type of manual gearbox which can be designed with either a manual or fully-automated clutch system. Gear shifts by the driver can only be chosen in a successive order, and the driver cannot skip gears, like with a standard H-pattern manual transmission. This type of transmission is most commonly used in motorcycles and racecars, and is a form of manual motorcycle transmission.
Multitronic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A continuously variable transmission, in some Audi cars, that uses a chain instead of a belt.
continuously variable transmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuously variable transmissions
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any of several forms of automatic transmission, without specific gears, in which the gear ratio may be changed without any noticeable steps.
Synonyms: word: CVT
Related terms: automatic transmission
automatic
auto
A/T
AT
manual transmission
manual
stick
stick shift
M/T
MT
semi-automatic transmission
semi-automatic
semi-auto
semi-manual transmission
semi-manual
dual clutch transmission
DCT
multi-clutch transmission
MCT
torque converter
gearbox
gear ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear ratios
Senses: examples: text: Two versions exist of the new locomotives, for passenger and for freight work respectively, the technical difference between the two lying in the gearing of the bogies; the passenger locomotives, in light green and pearl grey livery, have a 25:64 gear ratio to haul 12-coach, 450-ton trains at 87 m.p.h. on the level, and the freight locomotives, in the famiiar Italian brown livery, have a 20:69 gear ratio enabling them to move 1,500-ton freights on the level at a consistent 53 m.p.h., with a maximum of 68 m.p.h.
ref: 1962 October, “Beyond the Channel: Italy: New series of E646 electrics”, in Modern Railways, page 276:
glosses: The ratio of the speeds of rotation of two gears, such as any pair that mesh and, especially, the initial and final gears in a gear train (whose relationship incorporates all the intermediate ones).
Related terms: final drive
overdrive
transmission
sectarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkˈtɛɹ.i.ən.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: sectarianisms
Etymology: From sectarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They were discussing sectarianism between Shias and Sunnis.
text: Our conversation is in French, since he downplays his ability to speak English “out of sectarianism”.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Rigid adherence to a particular sect, denomination, ideology, or party.
examples: text: In Lebanese sectarianism, one half of the members of parliament are Christians and the other half are Muslims.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political system in which power is shared among religious sects based on a constitutional formula distributing public offices among these sects.
Derived terms: anti-sectarianism
toilet table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet tables
form: toilet-table
Senses: examples: text: Her low bed, oak dresser, and toilet-table could be tucked out of view with a flick of her wrist. In the main area, a plain, solid table with four decent chairs took up one wall, the cast-iron stove and window the other. Crockery, china and linens;...
ref: 2008, Stephen Marche, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A dressing table.
Hypernyms: table
skimpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skimpily
form: most skimpily
Etymology: From skimpy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
ref: 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:
synonyms: skimpingly
glosses: In a skimpy manner.
skimpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skimpy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Images made public on Thursday of the women’s kit on a mannequin, showing a very high-cut pantyline, triggered criticism from several athletes for what they saw as a decision to prioritize skimpiness over function.
ref: 2024 April 13, “‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The property of being skimpy.
skin-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skin deep
Senses: examples: text: Dead enough; to live thenceforth a galvanic life of mere Stump-Oratory; screeching and gibbering, words without wisdom, without veracity, without conviction more than skin-deep.
ref: 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:
text: Would the wicked river drag me down by the heels, indeed? and look so beautiful all the time? Nature’s good-humour was only skin-deep after all.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: “He calls himself a white man,” answered the Master-Attendant scornfully; “but if so, it’s just skin-deep and no more. I told him that to his face too.”
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, “The End of the Tether”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC:
text: Olga de Coude is very beautiful; that, and the dim light and the seductive surroundings, and the appeal of the defenseless for protection, might have been resisted by a more civilized man, but my civilization is not even skin deep—it does not go deeper than my clothes.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 49:
text: She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: The painter smiled at once, his bright, skin-deep smile.
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter 1, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, page 242:
text: Chris Huhne, environment spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said Mr Blair's remarks showed he was "delusional" on climate change and that his environmentalism was only "skin deep".
ref: 2007 January 10, The Independent:
text: What news stories like this really show is that the rampant technology fetishism, which runs like e-wildfire through our i-society, is really only skin-deep.
ref: 2010 July 24, Guy Dammann, “Technology fetishism is skin deep”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep [title]
ref: 2020 June 3, George Monbiot, “Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: bone-deep
glosses: Shallow, superficial.
Related terms: beauty is only skin deep
skinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English skynles, equivalent to skin + -less. Cognate with Old Norse skinnlauss (“skinless”).
Senses: examples: text: I bought skinless chicken breast because the fat right under the skin is supposed to be fattening; but they don't crisp as much.
glosses: Not having an outer layer of skin or skinlike material, or with such a layer removed.
Synonyms: hideless
Derived terms: skinlessness
skinniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinninesses
Etymology: From skinny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being skinny.
skittishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skittishly
form: most skittishly
Etymology: From skittish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a skittish manner.
skittishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skittish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status[…] the state’s most-powerful sectors[…]have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil.
ref: 2023 April 11, Kurtis Lee, “California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The property of being skittish.
skintight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪnˌtaɪt/
Forms: form: skin tight
form: skin-tight
Etymology: From skin + tight.
Senses: examples: text: He'd have to stow the Gun somewhere; no place to conceal it in the skintight bodysuit.
ref: 1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 25:
text: I'mma get your heart racing / In my skin-tight jeans / Be your teenage dream tonight
ref: 2010, “Teenage Dream”, performed by Katy Perry:
synonyms: word: body-hugging
word: figure-hugging
word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: body-hugging
word: bodycon
word: clingsome
word: clingy
word: close-fitting
word: figure-hugging
word: form-fitting
word: skinny
word: skintight
word: slim-fit
word: slinky
word: snug
word: tight
word: tight-fitting
glosses: Conforming tightly to the body, snug against the skin.
skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimmers
Etymology: From skim + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that skims.
A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
glosses: A device that skims.
A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
glosses: A device that skims.
A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
coordinate_terms: skimming
shimming
shimmer
qualifier: crime
examples: text: Perhaps the greatest stone skimmer is Scotland's own Dougie Isaacs, who has won eight world titles.
ref: 2023, Richard Deitsch, The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023:
glosses: A person who skims.
glosses: Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
glosses: Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
glosses: A ballet flat shoe.
examples: text: Classic, box-pleated skimmers and pantdresses stay crisp and fresh, won't wrinkle or wilt!
ref: 1969, The New York Times Magazine (part 3)
text: The utilization of divided dart control—some stitched and some unstitched—is the basis of semifitted styles such as the shift or skimmer dress.
ref: 2006, Adele P. Margolis, Judy Skoogfors, Make Your Own Dress Patterns, page 73:
text: Slightly A-line, princess-cut “skimmers” were popular as dresses in summer and jumpers in winter.
ref: 2009, Phyllis G. Tortora, Keith Eubank, Survey of Historic Costume, page 572:
glosses: A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A surface ship.
examples: text: Kondric stood beside the skimmer for a moment, looking back at his warriors. They shouted and banged their swords on their shields. He raised his hand in farewell, and followed Violet into the cabin.
ref: 2015, Aurora Springer, Grand Master's Pawn:
text: They said no one landed on other planets. They said there was no such thing as a skimmer. Rocky hadn't believed them. They didn't know everything. He wished they could see the skimmer.
ref: 2000, Carlie Simonsen, Rocky to the Rescue, page 2:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
glosses: Synonym of water strider.
synonyms: word: water strider
Synonyms: sense: birds
word: scissorbill
Derived terms: African skimmer
black skimmer
Indian skimmer
blue skimmer
fiery skimmer
neon skimmer
sea skimmer
slender skimmer
spider skimmer
skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skimmers
form: skimmering
form: skimmered
form: skimmered
Etymology: Northern variant of shimmer.
Senses: glosses: To shimmer.
examples: text: …he was bounding over the heads of the maidens, and making his feet skimmer against the ceiling, enjoying, the while, the most ecstatic emotions.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 9:
glosses: To move quickly, to flutter.
skimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimmer
slacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slack
slacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slack
Senses: examples: text: Discipline, that’s what we need. Discipline. How are we going to win the war without discipline? Do you know, sir, some of these fellows come on parade in slacks - so I’ve been told. Can’t expect to win a war that way. Slacks! My God!
ref: 1941, Agatha Christie, N or M?:
text: Not five minutes later, Zooey, with his hair combed wet, stood wet, stood barefoot at the washbowl, wearing a pair of beltless dark-gray sharkskin slacks, a face towel across his bare shoulders.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
text: For a change, Selina was not in slacks, but in a simple dirndl and sandals.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 60:
glosses: Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single pair; may be referred to as a pair of slacks.)
slacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slack
sleaziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleazy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He didnʼt look like a gangster or pimp but he carried the sleaziness of someone who did barely legal work.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 29:
glosses: The property of being sleazy.
sledder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈslɛdə/
Forms: form: sledders
Etymology: From sled + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who rides a sled.
sledders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledder
sleazily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sleazily
form: most sleazily
Etymology: From sleazy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sleazy manner.
slasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slashers
Etymology: From slash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who slashes.
glosses: A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
examples: text: Realizing there was a fresh market for a style of movie that studios had written off as niche material, Scream’s gonzo profits ushered in a wave of subsequent slashers trying to capitalize on a new generation’s discovery of the subgenre, as Gen Xers and Gen Yers alike learned (or re-learned) the fundamental pleasures of a good old-fashioned murder spree by a crazed killer, supernatural or otherwise.
ref: 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
glosses: A murderer in such a film.
examples: text: […] an overdoser, binge drinker, slasher, or sexually impulsive person, is found to act impulsively following some sort of change in a relationship.
ref: 1992, Melvin R Lansky, Fathers who Fail:
glosses: One who self-injures by cutting.
glosses: A tool for cutting undergrowth.
examples: text: With the success of the first film and the third one already in production, Warner Bros. is more likely to greet Harry Potter slashers with more takedown orders than tolerance.
ref: 2002 December 21, Christopher Noxon, “What to do about Harry Potter Porn?”, in The Vancouver Sun, page 96:
text: The same aspects that made buddy shows attractive to relationship-oriented fans also made them attractive to slashers; the fact that these shows were set in an era of tight jeans and unbuttoned shirts, and of the loosening of formerly strict standards of acceptable male behavior, only provided additional evidence for homoerotic interpretation.
ref: 2006, Francesca Coppa, “Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance”, in Kristina Busse, editor, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, page 49:
text: In other words denied their own voice by a conservative misogynist culture, the original female slashers and vidders needed male characters as surrogates to express their own identity and desires.
ref: 2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
Coordinate terms: sense: slash fiction
word: shipper
Derived terms: femslasher
hack and slasher
hack-and-slasher
slasher film
slasher flick
slasher movie
sleepiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepinesses
Etymology: From sleepy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sleepy.
slenderness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slendernesses
Etymology: From slender + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: England have not beaten their neighbours from across the Channel since 1974 and the slenderness of the scoreline, with the two side’s separated only by Eugénie Le Sommer’s first-half strike, disguises the superiority of a French side now clear favourites to top Group F
ref: 2015 June 9, “Women’s World Cup 2015: England beaten by France in Group F opener”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: The property of being slender.
sleekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
Etymology: From sleek + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sleek manner.
sleekness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeknesses
Etymology: From sleek + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sleek.
sleepily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sleepily
form: most sleepily
Etymology: From sleepy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Igins was studying the habits of a capuchin caterpillar, that, like his betters, was sleepily eating his way through existence on the leaf of a cabbage in the garden […]
ref: 1839, Launcelot Lamprey, “Mems in the Mediterranean”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:
text: Lettie's eyes were scarcely open, but she answered sleepily, "Well, papa."
ref: 1857 January 24, “To-morrow”, in The Mother's Magazine:
glosses: In a sleepy manner.
sleeved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *sleved, *isleved, from Old English ġeslīefed (“sleeved”), equivalent to sleeve + -ed.
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
antonyms: sleeveless
glosses: Having sleeves.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Made with or having sleeves.
sleeved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sleeve + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleeve
Related terms: long-sleeved
short-sleeved
sleeplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeplessnesses
Etymology: From sleepless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of sleep; the property of being sleepless; the inability to sleep, insomnia.
Synonyms: insomnolence
Related terms: insomnia
hellbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛl.baʊnd/
Etymology: From hell + -bound.
Senses: glosses: Bound for Hell; damned.
sleeplessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sleeplessly
form: most sleeplessly
Etymology: From sleepless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sleepless manner.
slavishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavishnesses
Etymology: From slavish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Her slavishness came from fear, not respect—she was afraid to disappoint anyone.
glosses: The state or quality of being slavish.
short-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-tempered
form: most short-tempered
Etymology: By surface analysis, short temper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.
synonyms: quick-tempered
hotheaded
antonyms: cool-headed
even-tempered
cool
hypernyms: impatient
temperamental
glosses: Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.
Related terms: hot-tempered
short temper
sloucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slouchers
Etymology: From slouch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who slouches.
examples: text: It was his hat! Old straw plantation “slouchers” were a pride and joy of the Southern Confederacy.
ref: 1967, Daniel Allan Kinsley, Favor the Bold: Custer: the Civil War Years, volume 1, page 130:
glosses: A slouch hat.
slothfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slothfully
form: most slothfully
Etymology: From slothful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slothful manner; lazily.
slothfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slothfulnesses
Etymology: From slothful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being slothful.
glosses: The result or product of being slothful.
slovenliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slovenlinesses
Etymology: From slovenly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being slovenly.
glosses: The result or product of being slovenly.
sluttish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈslʌtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sluttish
form: most sluttish
Etymology: From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
examples: text: […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: […] and it was dark and sluttish as all Burmese rooms are, though U Po Kyin had furnished it 'Ingaleik fashion' with a veneered sideboard and chairs […]"
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: "Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […]"
ref: 1996 February 7, Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones's Diary”, in The Independent, London, retrieved 03 Mar 2009:
glosses: Dirty or untidy; disorderly.
Synonyms: slatternly
slutty
Derived terms: sluttishly
sluttishness
sluggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sluggishly
form: most sluggishly
Etymology: From sluggish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It hung together in banks, flowing sluggishly down the slope of the land and driving reluctantly before the wind[.]
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 145:
text: "Their survival to this day tells us Mars' mantle has evolved sluggishly over billions of years," Charalambous said. "On Earth, features like these may well have been largely erased."
ref: 2025 September 3, Julia Jacobo, “What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out”, in ABC News:
glosses: In a sluggish manner; responding or moving slowly.
smutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: smuttier
form: smuttiest
Etymology: From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).
Senses: examples: text: She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 62:
text: Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.
ref: 2007 September 6, Isabel Kershner, “Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
examples: text: And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Prayter said with a smile to the faces looking down, "Rilly—this train's a joke, isn't it!"
A wag yelled, "Yes—a smutty one!"
With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 178:
text: Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:
glosses: Obscene, indecent.
glosses: Affected with the smut fungus.
Derived terms: smuttily
smuttiness
smutty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: smutties
form: smuttying
form: smuttied
form: smuttied
Etymology: From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).
Senses: examples: text: […] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal.
ref: 1870 September 1, “Episodes in an Obscure Life”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 713:
glosses: To make dirty; to soil.
smuttiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smuttinesses
Etymology: From smutty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being smutty.
smoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɡi
Forms: form: smoggier
form: smoggiest
Etymology: From smog + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was another smoggy day in Los Angeles.
text: In Los Angeles, that means relatively cool with few temperature inversions that trap the gases that help make the region the smoggiest in the country.
ref: 1999 May 9, Barbara Whitaker, “Los Angeles Loses Dubious Distinction: Worst Summer Smog Day”, in The New York Times:
text: She was all right. The abuse she was suffering wouldn't hurt her. The bright sun would forget all about it. The smoggy sky would turn brown studies to gold. (What crap.)
ref: 2007, W. Schmitz, The Violet Catastrophe, →ISBN, pages 33–34:
text: Even the clearest distinction between the two cities — climate — has been smoggier of late.
ref: 2023 May 1, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Is New York Turning Into Los Angeles?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having smog.
smelliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smelly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being smelly.
snazzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snazzily
form: most snazzily
Etymology: From snazzy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snazzy manner.
sneeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sneeringly
form: most sneeringly
Etymology: From sneering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On the 18th of January, 1856, Commodore Mervine sailed from San Francisco, by order of Mr. Secretary Dobbin, conveyed to him by Mr. G. W. Benson, agent of the American Guano Company, to take possession of Baker and Jarvis Islands, in the name of the United States. He was also to survey the islands, and bring home specimens of the guano. Commodore Mervine, believing this matter one of the first importance, instead of sending a sloop of war, went himself in the Independence, his own ship. His route ought to have been first to Jarvis Island; but he passed by that, and sailed directly to Baker’s Island. Having reached this island, he sailed around what he sneeringly calls “the El Dorado of mercantile and agricultural interests of our country.” “The delusion was transitory,” he writes the Secretary of the Navy, “for, on applying his eye to his telescope,” he made the most marvellous discovery of modern times, viz: that “the island was covered with birdlime in a state of decomposition.”
ref: 1857 May 7, “THE AMERICAN GUANO ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN.”, in The National Era, volume XI, number 540, Washington, D. C., page 74, column 7:
text: "You know what sort of portrait we want?" "Captain of Industry?" Roger said sneeringly.
ref: 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 57:
text: The collapse in the legitimacy of what once was respectfully called middle-class morality but today is sneeringly referred to as "middle-class values"
ref: 1993, James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense, page 10:
glosses: In a sneering manner.
sniveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snivelers
Etymology: From snivel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who snivels.
examples: text: In the so-called "golden era" of science fiction, gay/lesbian characters were treated as misfits, sociopaths, villains and "unnaturals" to be pitied and scorned. Gay characters were virtually all weak, effeminate snivelers out to harm the heroes of the story. Lesbians were invariably portrayed as massive, muscular Amazons with sadistic tendencies.
ref: 1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:
glosses: A person who whines and complains about small matters.
sneakily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sneakily
form: most sneakily
Etymology: From sneaky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But on the occasions that he did do something actively nasty, he was satanically good at insinuating himself so sneakily into your most sensitive spots that if you did not know him well you could end up thinking you were being unfair to him when he annoyed you.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 76:
glosses: In a sneaky manner.
sterling silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy containing not less than 92.5 percent silver, the remainder usually being copper.
glosses: Sterling-silver articles collectively.