cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
footstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌstuːl/
Forms: form: footstools
form: foot stool
form: foot-stool
Etymology: From foot + stool.
Senses: examples: text: In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183:
glosses: A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
examples: text: Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland. And it shall be my footstool, and these other Demons the slaves of me, yea, and the slaves of my slaves.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
Derived terms: footstooled
Related terms: stepstool
semitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmitoʊn/
Forms: form: semitones
Etymology: From semi- + tone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale
Synonyms: half step
halftone
Derived terms: chromatic semitone
diatonic semitone
Related terms: hemitonic
cent
law of diminishing returns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.
Kirsten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːstən/
ipa: /ˈkɝstən/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹstən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)stən
Forms: form: Kyrsten
form: Kirstin
form: Kyrstin
form: Kirstyn
form: Kyrstyn
Etymology: From North Germanic (Danish Kirsten and Norwegian Kirsten). Doublet of Christina.
Senses: examples: text: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to send a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following up on previous requests that the administration use its authority to deschedule cannabis and pardon non-violent cannabis-related offenders.
ref: 2022 July 6, “Senators Warren, Sanders, Markey, and Gillibrand Urge Administration to Deschedule Cannabis and Pardon Nonviolent Cannabis Offenders”, in warren.senate.gov:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Kristen
Kristin
Kristine
Kirsten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːstən/
ipa: /ˈkɝstən/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹstən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)stən
Forms: form: Kirstens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kirsten.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
encourage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ɪnˈkɝ.ɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /en.kəˈreː.d͡ʒ/
Forms: form: encourages
form: encouraging
form: encouraged
form: encouraged
form: incourage
Etymology: From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier. Displaced native Old English hiertan, tyhtan, and trymman. By surface analysis, en- + courage.
Senses: examples: text: I encouraged him during his race.
text: Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.
text: "It's a lose-lose situation. It can be turned into a win-win. We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Clifton, “How can freight be a major part of rail's future?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 57:
synonyms: word: bield
word: embolden
word: hearten
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
antonyms: discourage
dishearten
glosses: To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
examples: text: We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
text: We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.
synonyms: word: exhort
word: admonish
word: advise
word: advocate
word: counsel
word: encourage
word: urge
word: exhort
word: prompt
word: recommend
word: suggest
word: tip
word: warn
glosses: To spur on, strongly recommend.
examples: text: The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.
text: They remove all sense of self-responsibility from us prisoners. We have virtually no control over any aspect of our lives. This does not encourage our ability to return to community life outside.
ref: 1987 December 20, Tim Scaggs, “No Other Choice But To Go On A Hunger Strike”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 5:
text: And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
ref: 2013 May 10, James Ball, “US government attempts to stifle 3D-printer gun designs will ultimately fail”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: promote
word: encourage
word: foster
word: feed
word: grow
word: nurture
word: promote
word: raise
glosses: To foster, give help or patronage.
Derived terms: disencourage
encourageable
encouragement
encourager
encouraging
encouragingly
overencourage
reencourage
Related terms: courage
I Ching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌiː ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: Yi Jing
Etymology: From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 易經／易经 (I⁴-ching¹).
Senses: examples: text: A somewhat analogous situation exists in China. After the death of Mao Zedong and the gradual emergence of a market economy, UFOs, channeling and other examples of Western pseudoscience emerged, along with such ancient Chinese practices as ancestor worship, astrology and fortune telling—especially that version that involves throwing yarrow sticks and working through the hoary hexagrams of the I Ching. The government newspaper lamented that “the superstition of feudal ideology is reviving in our countryside.” It was (and remains) a rural, not primarily an urban, affliction.
ref: 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: In search of inspiration, I picked up the I Ching, the ancient Chinese “Book of Changes” that has been consulted for centuries. I’ve held on to a dusty Bollingen Series text since my college days. To consult the oracle, you cast yarrow straws or, in a pinch, coins, and match the results with one of 64 hexagrams. Then you read and interpret the text that accompanies the hexagram. Got that?
Sitting at the dinner table with the I Ching and some pennies, I formed a question in my mind: “Is it time to begin investing again?”
ref: 2009 July 11, John Schwartz, “There’s No Future in Being an Oracle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: A Chinese classic text describing an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy which is at the heart of traditional Chinese cultural beliefs.
Derived terms: chingon
Related terms: word: divination
word: hexagram
word: Taixuanjing
word: Lingqijing
word: yang
word: yin
word: ䷀
word: ䷁
word: ䷂
word: ䷃
word: ䷄
word: ䷅
word: ䷆
word: ䷇
word: ䷈
word: ䷉
word: ䷊
word: ䷋
word: ䷌
word: ䷍
word: ䷎
word: ䷏
word: ䷐
word: ䷑
word: ䷒
word: ䷓
word: ䷔
word: ䷕
word: ䷖
word: ䷗
word: ䷘
word: ䷙
word: ䷚
word: ䷛
word: ䷜
word: ䷝
word: ䷞
word: ䷟
word: ䷠
word: ䷡
word: ䷢
word: ䷣
word: ䷤
word: ䷥
word: ䷦
word: ䷧
word: ䷨
word: ䷩
word: ䷪
word: ䷫
word: ䷬
word: ䷭
word: ䷮
word: ䷯
word: ䷰
word: ䷱
word: ䷲
word: ䷳
word: ䷴
word: ䷵
word: ䷶
word: ䷷
word: ䷸
word: ䷹
word: ䷺
word: ䷻
word: ䷼
word: ䷽
word: ䷾
word: ䷿
hexagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛksəɡɹæm/
Forms: form: hexagrams
form: hexagramme
Etymology: From hexa- + -gram.
Senses: synonyms: kagome
Magen David
rhombus star
Shield of David
Star of David
Star of Life
glosses: A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles.
glosses: Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching.
glosses: A large silver coin minted during the Byzantine Empire.
Related terms: sense: star shape
word: pentagram (5-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: heptagram (7-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: octogram (8-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: nonagram (9-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: decagram (10-pointed)
sense: divination
word: monogram
sense: divination
word: bigram
sense: divination
word: digram
sense: divination
word: trigram
sense: divination
word: tetragram
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷀
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷁
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷂
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷃
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷄
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷅
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷆
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷇
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷈
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷉
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷊
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷋
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷌
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷍
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷎
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷏
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷐
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷑
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷒
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷓
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷔
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷕
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷖
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷗
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷘
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷙
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷚
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷛
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷜
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷝
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷞
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷟
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷠
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷡
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷢
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷣
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷤
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷥
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷦
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷧
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷨
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷩
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷪
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷫
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷬
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷭
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷮
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷯
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷰
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷱
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷲
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷳
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷴
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷵
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷶
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷷
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷸
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷹
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷺
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷻
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷼
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷽
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷾
sense: I Ching hexagrams
word: ䷿
overlap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-lăpʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈlæp/
enpr: ōʹvə-lăp'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌlæp/
enpr: ō'vər-lăpʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈlæp/
enpr: ōʹvər-lăp'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌlæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: overlaps
form: overlapping
form: overlapped
form: overlapped
Etymology: From over- + lap.
Cognate with Dutch overlap.
Senses: examples: text: The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.
glosses: To extend over and partly cover something.
glosses: To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
examples: text: The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.
text: Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
ref: 2012 November 8, Scott Tobias, “Memento’s puzzle structure hides big twists and bigger profundities”, in The AV Club:
glosses: To have an area, range, character or function in common.
examples: text: The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of sets: to have some elements in common.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
Derived terms: nonoverlap
nonoverlapped
overlappable
overlapper
Related terms: coexist
coincide
coinstantiate
intersect
override
overlap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-lăpʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈlæp/
enpr: ōʹvə-lăp'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌlæp/
enpr: ō'vər-lăpʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈlæp/
enpr: ōʹvər-lăp'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌlæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: overlaps
Etymology: From over- + lap.
Cognate with Dutch overlap.
Senses: glosses: Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
topics: business
insurance
qualifier: pensions
glosses: The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
Derived terms: overlap syndrome
Related terms: word: coexistence
word: coincidence
word: coinstantiation
word: co-occurrence
word: intersection
word: override
dishcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishcloths
form: dish cloth
form: dish-cloth
Etymology: Compound of dish + cloth.
Senses: synonyms: dishrag
;
dishclout
hypernyms: cloth
coordinate_terms: word: scouring pad
english: hand-dishwashing implements
translation: hand-dishwashing implements
word: scrubby
word: scrubbie
word: scrubber
word: sponge
word: ;
word: dishtowel
word: dish soap
english: cloths for washing things
translation: cloths for washing things
word: ;
word: washcloth
word: washrag
glosses: A cloth used to wash dishes.
synonyms: tea towel
tea cloth
dishtowel
glosses: A cloth used to dry dishes.
Derived terms: dishcloth gourd
Sod's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒdz lɔ/
Etymology: Perhaps from unlucky sod.
Senses: examples: text: It's Sod's law that it will rain when going for a picnic.
text: It was amazing and typical of Sod's Law, the moment I turned for home, the wind direction would not only change, but be the complete reverse.
ref: 2013, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Enjoy Flying, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: Murphy's law
Finagle's law
glosses: The principle that what can go wrong, will go wrong, usually with some observed degree of irony
roly-poly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊliˈpoʊli/
Forms: form: more roly-poly
form: most roly-poly
Etymology: The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh! Mother, Mother, there has been an old man rat in the dairy—a dreadful 'normous big rat, mother; and he's stolen a pat of butter and the rolling-pin." […] "A rolling-pin?" said Ribby. "Did we not hear a roly-poly noise in the attic when we were looking into that chest?" Ribby and Tabitha rushed upstairs again. Sure enough the roly-poly noise was still going on quite distinctly under the attic floor.
ref: 1908 October, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, London: Frederick Warne, →OCLC; republished as The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding (eBook #15575), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 6 April 2005:
text: Seianus bowed, the awkward roly-poly jerk of the fat man.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Vic.; Sydney, N.S.W.: Scripts, →OCLC, page 52:
glosses: Moving with a rolling and swaying motion.
examples: text: She had been waiting for the little roly-poly man to tumble and roll along the deck, and had been mentally indulging her sense of humour on the scene.
ref: 1867, Grace Ramsay [pseudonym; Kathleen O’Meara], chapter IX, in A Woman’s Trials. […], volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 157:
text: He ducked back down the alley / With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
ref: 1986 August, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland, performed by Paul Simon:
synonyms: word: ample
word: beer-bellied
word: big
word: bulky
word: chubby
word: chunky
word: embonpoint
word: fat
word: flabby
word: fleshy
word: full-figured
word: fulsome
word: gorbellied
word: gorrel-bellied
word: heavyset
word: love-handled
word: meaty
word: overnourished
word: paunchy
word: pleasantly plump
word: plump
word: plus-size
word: portly
word: potbellied
word: podgy
word: pudgy
word: roly-poly
word: rotund
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: swagbellied
word: thick
word: tubby
word: well-covered
word: well-padded
word: well-rounded
word: well-upholstered
word: wide
glosses: Short and plump; squat.
roly-poly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊliˈpoʊli/
Etymology: The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.
Senses: examples: text: Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and wriggled; and the rolling-pin went roly-poly, roly; roly, poly, roly.
ref: 1908 October, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, London: Frederick Warne, →OCLC; republished as The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding (eBook #15575), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 6 April 2005:
glosses: By rolling, so as to roll.
examples: text: At your pleaſure thats rare; then rovvlie, povvlie, our vviues ſhall lye at your commaund: […]
ref: 1601–1602 (date written), attributed to Thomas Dekker and/or Thomas Middleton, Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards Night-walke. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Henry Rockytt, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature B2, verso:
glosses: Without hesitating; directly; hence, in a thoughtless manner; indiscriminately.
tea towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea towels
form: tea-towel
form: teatowel
Etymology: From tea + towel. Attested from the middle 19th century. Compare earlier tea-cloth from the late 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware.
Synonyms: dishcloth
dishtowel
tea cloth
lasso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăso͝o'
enpr: ləso͝o'
ipa: /læsˈuː/
ipa: /ləsˈuː/
enpr: lăs'ō
enpr: lăs'o͝o
ipa: /ˈlæs.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈlæs.u/
rhymes: -æsəʊ
Forms: form: lassos
form: lassoes
form: lassu
form: lazo
Etymology: From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.
Senses: examples: text: He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.
text: She threw the lasso skillfully around the post.
glosses: A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.
Synonyms: rope
lariat
Derived terms: lasso cell
lassolike
lasso peptide
unlasso
lasso
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lăso͝o'
enpr: ləso͝o'
ipa: /læsˈuː/
ipa: /ləsˈuː/
enpr: lăs'ō
enpr: lăs'o͝o
ipa: /ˈlæs.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈlæs.u/
rhymes: -æsəʊ
Forms: form: lassoes
form: lassoing
form: lassoed
form: lassoed
form: lassu
form: lazo
Etymology: From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.
Senses: examples: text: He had to lasso the wild horse before it ran off.
glosses: To catch with a lasso.
Synonyms: rope
lariat
Derived terms: lasso up
lassoer
lassoist
Related terms: lariat
noose
Murphy's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Murphy's Law
Etymology: Named after Edward A. Murphy Jr. (1918–1990), a development engineer who worked for a brief time on the rocket-sled experiments of the United States Air Force in 1948.
Senses: examples: text: I ran into the perfect exemplification of “Murphy's law” at one university, where everything that could go wrong did!
ref: 1953, Anne Roe, The Making of a Scientist, page 214:
text: Thus we find that Murphy's Law is not a coincidence at all, but the consequence of a deep ‘anthropomurphic^([sic]) principle’: any universe built along conventional lines that contains intelligent polymurphs will conform to Murphy's Law.
ref: 2004, Ian Stewart, Math Hysteria, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
text: ‘It was an application of Murphy's Law,’ said one Vatican dignitary in a resigned voice. What was Murphy's Law? ‘Murphy's Law,’ said the dignitary, ‘is that everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.’
ref: 2014, Muriel Spark, The Golden Fleece, Carcanet, →ISBN:
synonyms: Sod's law
Finagle's law
glosses: An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.
Coordinate terms: Ettore's observation
serendipity
Derived terms: Muphry's law
bread roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread rolls
Senses: glosses: A miniature round loaf of bread, often accompanying a meal.
Synonyms: word: bap
word: batch
word: barm
word: blaa
word: bread cake
word: bun
word: buttery
word: cob
word: muffin
word: oven bottom
word: roll
word: rowie
word: scuffler
word: stottie
word: teacake
Hypernyms: word: loaf
Related terms: word: food
god-forsaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more god-forsaken
form: most god-forsaken
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of godforsaken.
braquemard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braquemards
Etymology: From French braquemard.
Senses: glosses: a short, thick, double-edged sword
oyster bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster beds
Senses: glosses: A place on the seabed where oysters are grown to be harvested.
seabed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabeds
Etymology: From sea + bed.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: Davy Jones's locker
synonyms: seabottom
bottom of the sea
seafloor
oceanbed
ocean floor
hypernyms: bed
<
site#Noun
place#Noun
location#Noun
coordinate_terms: lakebed#Noun
;
riverbed
streambed
creekbed
glosses: The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.
Related terms: sleep with the fishes
catechol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.ɪt͡ʃ.ɒl/
ipa: /ˈkæt.ɪk.ɒl/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌkɔl/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌkoʊl/
Forms: form: catechols
Etymology: From catech(u) + -ol. Compare catechin and catecholamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.
Synonyms: pyrocatechol
Hypernyms: thitsiol
Derived terms: butylcatechol
catechase
catecholamide
catecholamine
catecholase
catecholate
catecholborane
catecholestrogen
catecholic
catechol oxidase
cefetecol
cefiderocol
chlorocatechol
polycatechol
pyrocatechol
tolcapone
scrubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌbə/
ipa: /ˈskɹʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈskɹɐbə/
ipa: /ˈskɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈskɹʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈskɹʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrubbers
Etymology: From scrub + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
coordinate_terms: cloth
dishcloth
rag
scouring pad
sponge#Noun
glosses: A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
glosses: A device that removes impurities from gases.
glosses: A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
glosses: An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
examples: text: ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 74:
glosses: Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
examples: text: What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 267:
glosses: A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
glosses: A dirty or unhygienic person.
topics: audio
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: video
glosses: A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
Derived terms: amine scrubber
back scrubber
HCl scrubber
pot scrubber
pot scrubber brush
venturi scrubber
oxyacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + acetylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals.
oxyacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + acetylene.
Senses: examples: text: an oxyacetylene torch
text: The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
glosses: Using this mixture.
Related terms: oxyacetylene torch
oxyacetylenic
bogroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogrolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bog roll.
flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflænəl/
rhymes: -ænəl
Forms: form: flannels
form: flannen
form: flanan
form: flanning
form: flanen
Etymology: From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.
Senses: examples: text: With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
text: First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.
ref: 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: tartan#Noun
glosses: A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
examples: text: "The Witch of Endor was a fool to her, sir: bless you, she would make no more of raising every gentleman in the Bible out of these here beastly tombs than I should of growing cress on an old flannel."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A washcloth.
glosses: A flannel shirt.
examples: text: Don't talk flannel!
glosses: Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
glosses: Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
synonyms: word: flip
extra: (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
Derived terms: Adam's flannel
Canton flannel
Crimean flannel
face flannel
flannelboard
flannelbush
flannel cake
flannel dance
flannelette
flannel flower
flannelgraph
flannellike
flannelly
flannel moth
flannel mouth
flannel-mouth
flannelmouth
flannel-mouthed
flannel panel
flannelweed
flannen
flannie
flanno
outing flannel
unflannelled
Welsh flannel
flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflænəl/
rhymes: -ænəl
Forms: form: flannen
form: flanan
form: flanning
form: flanen
Etymology: From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.
Senses: glosses: Made of flannel.
flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflænəl/
rhymes: -ænəl
Forms: form: flannels
form: flanneling
form: flannelling
form: flanneled
form: flanneled
form: flannelled
form: flannelled
form: flannen
form: flanan
form: flanning
form: flanen
Etymology: From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.
Senses: glosses: To rub with a flannel.
glosses: To wrap in flannel.
glosses: To flatter; to suck up to.
examples: text: I got a little cross and asked him to stop flannelling and to tell me what was holding me back. Were my annual assessments below par? Was there something I had done – or not done?
ref: 2016, J. F. Langer, From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office:
glosses: To waffle or prevaricate.
dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of dish
dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
Senses: examples: text: After dinner they had to do the dishes.
glosses: Dishwashing
Synonyms: sense: plural of dish (crockery)
word: dishware
Derived terms: dishwashing
do the dishes
dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dish
corse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːs/
ipa: /kɔɹs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
homophone: coarse
homophone: course
Forms: form: corses
Etymology: From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
Senses: examples: text: that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A (living) body.
examples: text: [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:
text: Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 214:
text: 'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse
ref: 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXIII, page 112:
text: chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!
ref: [1845], Sophocles, translated by [William Bartholomew], An Imitative Version of the Choruses and the Melo-Dramatic Dialogue, with a Synopsis of the Scenes in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone; […], London: Joseph Bonsor, […], page 21:
glosses: A dead body, a corpse.
Derived terms: corsepresent
HOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HOTs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology (“CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations”).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique, a technique that applies the technology.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Acronym of high-output turbo (turbocharger).
examples: text: If a HOT lane alternative is chosen as the preferred alternative (Build Alternatives 4A, 4B. 5A, 5B, 6A, or 6B), then additional advanced HOT lane signs will need to be placed from I-80/El Camino Avenue to I-80/Truxel Road and between US-50/I-5 and US-50/SR-99 (Sac 80 PM M1.4/3.64 and SAC 50 PM L0.60/R0.20).
ref: 2024 May 1, “Yolo 80 Corridor Improvements Project”, in Caltrans, page 8:
topics: road
transport
glosses: Acronym of high occupancy or toll lane.
topics: video-games
antonyms: DOT
glosses: Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.
HOT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: road
transport
glosses: Acronym of high occupancy or toll.
Coordinate terms: reserved bus lane
carpool lane
Related terms: english: high-occupancy vehicle
translation: high-occupancy vehicle
word: HOV
flannelled fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannelled fools
Senses: glosses: A cricketer (from the white flannel trousers they traditionally wear).
cricketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.ɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.ɪtə/
Forms: form: cricketers
Etymology: From cricket + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
ref: 2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times:
text: Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103:
synonyms: cricketeer
glosses: A person who plays cricket.
Related terms: batsman
batswoman
batter
bowler
fielder
wicket-keeper
dazibao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɑːdzəˈbaʊ/
Forms: form: dazibaos
form: dazibao
Etymology: Transliteration from Mandarin 大字報／大字报 (dàzìbào, “big-character poster”) via Hanyu Pinyin.
Senses: examples: text: There are also artifacts like a poster called a dazibao, from 1968. The big Chinese characters on the poster form political slogans and names of public enemies. The names crossed off in red represent people who were executed, Ms. Shannon said.
ref: 2008 May 18, Fred A. Bernstein, “A Home as Quirky as Life Itself”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: big-character poster
glosses: A wall-mounted newspaper or similar, used as a form of protest, propaganda, and popular communication in China.
daggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: daggier
form: more daggy
form: daggiest
form: most daggy
Etymology: From dag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "But I remember everything about that day. What everyone was wearing, all the daggy things people said in the car on the way into town. The smell of stubble, upholstery. The taste of tomato in my throat from lunch."
ref: 2004, Tim Winton, “Abbreviation”, in The Turning, UK Paperback edition, Picador, page 27:
text: We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.
ref: 2006, Debra Byrne, Not Quite Ripe: A Memoir, page 49:
text: I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.
ref: 2008, Bella Vendramini, Biting the Big Apple: A Memoir of Life, Love (okay and Sex) in New York City, unnumbered page:
text: The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House.
ref: 2011, Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles, page 1:
text: Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb.
ref: 2011, Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid's Journey to the Sunshine State, page 288:
text: “Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress "daggy," whatever that means.”
ref: 2024 August 12, Scott Gallopo, “The Solar Opposites Do An Intervention” (15:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Gavin (Clancy Brown):
text: In a daggy Canadian nightclub, Clark Kent lookalike Clif asked Pilar Mitchell for a dance – and her life changed[.]
ref: 2025 January 11, Pilar Mitchell, “The moment I knew: I’d never felt a palm so sweaty. I was smitten”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
Derived terms: daggily
dagginess
subfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfamilies
Etymology: From sub- + family.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
examples: text: There is a handy font editor tool in the engine, where you can import your font and create family and subfamily for your font (for example, the same font can have a family for its bold, italic, light, and dark style as its subfamily).
ref: 2015, Nicola Valcasara, Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints, page 142:
glosses: A secondary or subordinate grouping.
doublethink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublethinks
Etymology: From double + think. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 242:
text: Any effort by the United States to halt these creeping advances of Communist imperialism became, by the same mad process of double-think, the only kind of "intervention" there ever could be.
ref: 1965 May 11, William S. White, “Doctrine of Nonintervention Comes Cropper In Dominica”, in The Morning Record, Meriden-Wallingford, Connecticut, page 4:
text: Or does the hypocrisy and doublethink go beyond a loathing of the human body and an acceptance of violence to a very practical fear that such a club in a predominantly middle-class Caucasian neighborhood will drive down property values?
ref: 1992 March 5, Sylvain Fribourg, “The Agony of the Extasy [Letter to the Editor]”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2020:
text: The same sort of doublethink is evident in the White House’s treatment of firsthand impeachment witnesses.
ref: 2019 December 2, Eric Lutz, “Trump Lawyer Cites No Due Process as Reason to Sit Out Due Process”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021:
glosses: The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.
Derived terms: doublethinker
doublethink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doublethinks
form: doublethinking
form: doublethought
form: doublethought
Etymology: From double + think. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: "So we both doublethought our way around the inevitable as long as we could because we both really want the same thing and we both have policy problems with our superiors.” “I'm not sure I follow you,” Lindblad said, in a tone of voice[…]
ref: 2011 September 29, Norman Spinrad, A World Between, Gateway, →ISBN:
text: ... but, as they believed they had other reasons for supporting the invasion – be they moral, monetary or something else entirely – they doublethunk (or doublethought) it and endorsed the 'evidence' despite its lack of merit.
ref: 2014 November 6, M. Dentith, The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: To engage in doublethink.
Related terms: cognitive dissonance
compartmentalization
godless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒdləs/
rhymes: -ɒdləs
Forms: form: more godless
form: most godless
form: god-less
Etymology: From god + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian godloos (“godless”), West Frisian goddeleas (“godless; wicked”), Dutch goddeloos (“godless; wicked”), German Low German gottlos (“godless”), German gottlos (“godless”), Danish gudløse (“godless”), Swedish gudlös (“godless; ungodly”), Icelandic guðlaus (“godless”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 (gudalaus, “godless”).
Senses: glosses: Not acknowledging any deity or god; without belief in any deity or god.
glosses: Evil, wicked, worldly.
Synonyms: agnostic
atheistic
blasphemous
graceless
impious
infidel
iniquitous
irreligious
Related terms: godlessness
godlessly
pell mell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pell-mell.
pell mell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They came pell mell, gathering up their bath kimono and towels, and putting them on in the passage.
ref: 1905, Modern Sanitation, volumes 2–3, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., →OCLC, page 29, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of pell-mell.
pell mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pell-mell.
god-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: god-children
Senses: examples: text: When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of godchild.
landmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlændmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈlændmɑɹk/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈlɛandmɑɹk]
ipa: /ˈlændmɐːk/
ipa: /ˈlɛndmɐːk/
Forms: form: landmarks
form: land-mark
form: land mark
Etymology: From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).
Senses: synonyms: merestone
glosses: An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).
examples: text: Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads in the olden days?
ref: 2005 January 22, misc.transport.road (Usenet):
synonyms: marker
mark
glosses: A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
synonyms: monument
sight
glosses: A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
examples: text: an important landmark in human history
text: a landmark paper in neurosurgery
text: a landmark ruling/case
text: He called the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the recent elections in Afghanistan landmark events in the history of liberty.
ref: 2005 January 19, “Bush thanks troops at gala event”, in CNN.com, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2019:
text: Leicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: milestone
glosses: A major event or discovery.
Derived terms: interlandmark
landmarkable
landmark case
Landmarker
Landmarkism
Landmarkist
pseudolandmark
semilandmark
landmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlændmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈlændmɑɹk/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈlɛandmɑɹk]
ipa: /ˈlændmɐːk/
ipa: /ˈlɛndmɐːk/
Forms: form: landmarks
form: landmarking
form: landmarked
form: landmarked
form: land-mark
form: land mark
Etymology: From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).
Senses: examples: text: St Mary's Church stands on the north side of the village, a building of flint and stone with a 140 ft high steeple that landmarks one of the most beautiful churches in Suffolk.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 413, about Woolpit:
text: “Permitted demolition or stripping rarely occurs on landmarked buildings,” she said. Ms. de Bourbon also noted that the city already requires the Buildings Department to hold permits for 40 days for “calendared” properties — those currently under landmarks consideration — so the commission has a chance to designate them.
ref: 2007 March 25, Jeff Vandam, “Preservationists’ Rallying Cry”, in New York Times:
glosses: To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.