cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: swēt'nəs
ipa: /ˈswiːtnəs/
ipa: /ˈswitnəs/
Forms: form: sweetnesses
form: sweetnesse
Etymology: From Middle English swetnes, swetnesse, from Old English swētnes (“sweetness”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtinassī (“sweetness”), equivalent to sweet + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian swietens (“sweetness”), obsolete Dutch zoetenis (“sweetness”), Old High German swuoznessi, suoznessi (“sweetness”).
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.
ref: 2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal:
glosses: The condition of being sweet (all senses).
examples: text: Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
glosses: A pleasant disposition; kindness.
examples: text: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
text: Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
ref: 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
glosses: The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
examples: text: Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.
ref: 1986, The Smiths (band), Bigmouth Strikes Again (song)
text: "Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?"
ref: 2011, Kimberly Gibney, Over the Edge, page 66:
glosses: A term of address for one's sweetheart.
Synonyms: word: dulceness
word: dulciness
word: dulcitude
word: saccharinity
word: sugariness
word: sweetness
Hypernyms: word: flavour
Hyponyms: word: chocolateness
word: syrupiness
Derived terms: sweetness and light
Related terms: word: sweet
incongruous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɒn.ɡɹʊu.ʌs/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɒŋ.ɹʊu.ʌs/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑn.ɡɹu.əs/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əs/
Forms: form: more incongruous
form: most incongruous
Etymology: From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous.
Senses: examples: text: [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
ref: 1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 34, in Villette. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter I, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
ref: 1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in A Son Of The Sun:
text: A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent:
text: For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
ref: 2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
examples: text: 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
Synonyms: incongruitous
Derived terms: incongruously
incongruousness
Related terms: incongruence
incongruent
incongruity
flowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flower
flowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: flowerings
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The period of time during which a plant is in flower.
synonyms: floruit
glosses: The period of time during which someone or something is at its peak.
flowering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Azaleas are flowering plants.
glosses: Of a plant, that produces flowers.
raw_tags: used only before the noun
glosses: aflower, in bloom
Derived terms: flowering currant
flowering maple
flowering quince
orange flowering jessamine
autoflowering
coflowering
nonflowering
postflowering
preflowering
unflowering
well flowering
flattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: flă'tərĭng
ipa: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more flattering
form: most flattering
Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure.
synonyms: becoming
antonyms: unbecoming
unflattering
glosses: Attractive or good-looking; that makes one look good.
glosses: Gratifying to one's self-esteem; complimentary.
glosses: That which represents too favorably.
raw_tags: of an image etc.
Derived terms: flatteringness
flattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flă'tərĭng
ipa: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flatter
flattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flă'tərĭng
ipa: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: flatterings
Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to flatter.
glosses: Instances of flattery.
Synonyms: flattery
soft sawder
portends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of portend
scorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔɹnd/
ipa: /skɔːnd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd
Forms: form: more scorned
form: most scorned
Senses: examples: text: Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.
glosses: Hated, despised, or avoided.
Derived terms: hell has no fury like a woman scorned
scorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔɹnd/
ipa: /skɔːnd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scorn
Related terms: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
supplying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səplīʹĭng
ipa: /səˈplaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supply
dactylogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dækˈtɪləɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈdæk.tɪ.ləˌɡræm/
Forms: form: dactylograms
Etymology: From dactylo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A fingerprint.
relict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛlɪkt/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English relicte (“widow”), from Middle French relicte (“widow”), from Late Latin relicta (“widow”), from Latin relictus, past participle of relinquō (“I abandon, I relinquish, I leave (behind)”), from re- + linquō (“I leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relic, derelict, and relinquish.
Senses: glosses: Surviving, remaining.
examples: text: In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 97:
glosses: That is a relict; pertaining to a relict.
Related terms: delict
delinquency
delinquent
derelict
relic
relinquish
reliquary
in full swing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full swing.
text: The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.
Synonyms: in full gear
Related terms: go with a swing
swing of things
discontinued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/
Senses: qualifier: Of a product
glosses: Permanently no longer available for sale
qualifier: Of a product
glosses: Permanently no longer in production
Synonyms: retired
defunct
obsolete
superannuated
superseded
disused
Derived terms: undiscontinued
discontinued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/
Senses: examples: text: This software line has been discontinued.
glosses: simple past and past participle of discontinue
exasperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/
rhymes: -æspəɹeɪt
Forms: form: more exasperate
form: most exasperate
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: And this report
 Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee
 Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 143:
glosses: Exasperated.
raw_tags: as a participle
examples: text: Thersites. Do I curse thee?
Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
Sets spinning […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Fourth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: exasperated; embittered.
Related terms: asperate
asperity
exacerbate
run off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs off
form: running off
form: ran off
form: run off
Senses: examples: text: Don't run off before the end of the event.
text: He ran off to France leaving her with all the debts and three children to bring up.
text: My girlfriend's run off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa.
ref: 1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon:
glosses: To flee or depart quickly.
examples: text: Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.
glosses: To make photocopies, or print.
examples: text: Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.
glosses: To write something quickly.
examples: text: They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.
glosses: To pour or spill off or over.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace
glosses: To cause to flow away.
examples: text: If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.
text: The detective came back to see them the next day to take "additional statements." The boys ^([sic]) dad refused him access to the boys because when they saw him drive up, they burst into tears and hid in their room. Their dad eventually, several days later, had to run the detective off with a shotgun.
ref: 1983 December 10, Jay, “Who Are The Real Victimizers?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 16:
glosses: To chase someone away.
examples: text: This radio runs off batteries.
glosses: To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
glosses: To have diarrhea.
examples: text: He ran off the checklist one by one but still missed a couple of items.
glosses: To recite, especially items on a list.
examples: text: He ran off a pony from the ranch.
glosses: To steal (horses).
?
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ?s
Senses: examples: text: i hav a ? 4 u
translation: I have a question for you
english: I have a question for you
glosses: A question.
examples: text: a ? block
translation: a question-mark block
english: a question-mark block
glosses: objects seen/shaped as the question mark
?
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ?
form: most ?
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of questioning.
blender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛn.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈblɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blenders
Etymology: From blend + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: liquidiser
word: liquidizer
word: vitamiser
word: vitamizer
hyponyms: immersion blender
coordinate_terms: food processor
mixer
glosses: A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.
examples: text: A blender is added to a wig in the same way that a quick front is added. It can be added at the same time as the fronting lace is added or after the wig is completed.
ref: 2013, Martha Ruskai, Allison Lowery, Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film, page 80:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A piece of fabric sewn into the front of a theatrical wig to make it blend in with the performer's natural hair.
topics: business
manufacturing
quilting
textiles
glosses: A subtly patterned fabric printed in different shades of a single color, often used in place of a solid to create visual texture.
Derived terms: blenderization
blenderize
microblenderbeauty blender
blender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛn.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈblɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blenders
form: blendering
form: blendered
form: blendered
Etymology: From blend + -er.
Senses: glosses: To mix in a blender
Mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mixers
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mixers
Etymology: From Little Mix + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mixers, what do you think of the new song?
ref: 2013 September 23, “Little Mix Release 'Move,' New Song From Upcoming Album (LISTEN)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2022:
text: Jade Thirlwall tells us about sharing a heritage with her Middle Eastern Mixers, fearing fame and inspiring young girls […] You’ve got a lot of Middle Eastern Mixers (the name given to their fans); […]
ref: 2013 November 27, Marwa Hamad, “Making […] ”, in Gulf News:
text: To all my best friends, you know who you are. You are all ‘Mixers’. […] I will be exploring Little Mix because I believe there was a reason I went to that concert of yours, Little Mix.
ref: 2019, Eloisa Davis, Roaring Playlist of Thoughts: Using Music to Release Your Lioness and Chase Away the Butterflies, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: Global pop superstars Little Mix broadcast the final concert of their huge Confetti Tour, from London's O2. It’s going to be an incredible evening that no Mixers will want to miss!
ref: 2022 May–June, Film and Event Cinema, part 1, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts:
text: Six months later, Leigh-Anne Pinnock opened her Twitter account and even made her first interactions with Mixers.
ref: 2022 July 20, Ashley Bautista, “Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Joins Twitter and Fans Are Now Feeling the Glory Days”, in HITC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2022:
synonyms: Little Mixer
glosses: A fan of the British girl group Little Mix.
examples: text: Mixer Jesy Nelson was bowled over that a rap diva of the highest order like Elliott would want to work with them.
ref: 2013 March 23, Amy Sciarretto, “Little Mix Collaborate With Missy Elliott on ‘How Ya Doin’?’”, in PopCrush, Townsquare Media, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2013:
text: Leigh-Anne from the band confessed to thinking Austin Mahone was a cutie. He later told me he would love to take her for dinner and on the London Eye – bless him. […] Sadly for Austin, the Mixer is spoken for, and currently in Jamaica with her long-term boyfriend.
ref: 2014 July 2, Max, “Little Mix admit ‘going braless can be a problem’ in Max from Capital’s latest Metro blog”, in Metro, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2014:
text: Meanwhile Mixer Jesy Nelson, 22, says the group have recorded a “Wings number two” for their next album.
ref: 2013 July 25, Jess Phillips, “Sec’s appeal”, in Daily Star:
synonyms: Little Mixer
glosses: A member of the British girl group Little Mix.
mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪksə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mixers
Etymology: From mix + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
examples: text: I had seen so many people all my life—I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny with those of all classes that I came in contact with.
ref: 1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire, retrieved 30 Nov 2020:
text: Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: One who mixes or socializes.
coordinate_terms: blender
food processor
glosses: A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
examples: text: Do we have any mixers? I don't want to drink this vodka neat.
glosses: A nonalcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: A mixing console.
examples: text: To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.
ref: 2022 January 27, Becky Hughes, “The Hot New Thing in Dating? Actually Going on Dates.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
glosses: Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
glosses: A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
antonyms: straight
glosses: A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: Synonym of tumbler.
synonyms: word: tumbler
Derived terms: Banbury mixer
cement mixer
concrete mixer
cyclomixer
dough mixer
dough-mixer
food mixer
matrix mixer
micromixer
mixer-settler
mixer tap
multimixer
nanomixer
race-mixer
race mixer
thermomixer
vision mixer
vortex mixer
whirlimixer
whirlmixer
Related terms: mix
mixologist
mixology
mixture
zymo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪmə(ʊ)/
Forms: form: zym-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Greek combining form, from Ancient Greek ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”).
Senses: glosses: Fermentation; fermentational.
glosses: Enzyme; enzymatic.
zym-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zymo- (before a vowel).
zygotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygote
zygo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪɡoʊ-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”).
Senses: glosses: union
glosses: pair
Related terms: word: zygoma
word: zygomatic
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: zygomatico-
word: zygomaxillary
zyg-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”)
Senses: glosses: union
glosses: pair
zonks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zonk
zonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zonk
zonking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zonking
form: most zonking
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, the zonking eight-part series that took butter off middle-class tables for at least a week was entitled ‘The Art of Body Maintenance’ […]
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “Health on the Brain”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 82:
glosses: Striking; great.
zonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zonkers
Etymology: From zonk + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who zonks, especially by taking drugs.
zonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zonkers
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A lure resembling a small baitfish.
zonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonker
zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zone
zones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zone
zoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zone
zoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: zonings
Senses: examples: text: These towers are not only the product of advances in construction technology – and a global surfeit of super-rich buyers – but a zoning policy that allows a developer to acquire unused airspace nearby, add it to their own lot, and erect a vast structure without any kind of public review process taking place.
ref: 2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2020:
topics: law
glosses: Legislative action for the purpose of regulating the use of property and the construction of buildings within the area under the jurisdiction of the legislative body concerned.
examples: text: The system of zoning would lead logically to the introduction of the modern ticket barriers from 1987 (the Underground Ticketing System, or UTS), in that it allowed the software in the ticket gates to be relatively simple.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: The use of zones, such as fare zones.
Derived terms: cluster zoning
inclusionary zoning
seismic zoning
zoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zone
zoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoned
form: most zoned
Senses: examples: text: non-zoned land
glosses: Included in a zone.
glosses: Synonym of zoned out (“intoxicated by drugs”).
synonyms: word: zoned out
extra: intoxicated by drugs
zoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoners
Etymology: From zone + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who zones things.
zoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoner
zombis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombi
zombies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie
zodiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zoʊˈdaɪ.ə.kəl/
Forms: form: more zodiacal
form: most zodiacal
Etymology: From Latin zōdiacus + -al. By surface analysis, zodiac + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] in some passages of the Old Testament they think they discover the Zodiacal course of the Sun […]
ref: 1683, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture”, in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearn, page 3:
text: For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.
ref: 1912, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter 14, in Mary Webb Artois, transl., Through the Desert, New York: Benziger Brothers:
text: She knew by heart everyone’s Zodiacal sign.
ref: 1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 2, in Memento Mori, New York: New Directions, published 2000:
text: In the zodiacal procession of the poles, the 25,920-year cycle, Lascaux is the time of Virgo, and Virgo is associated with artistic excellence and discrimination.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the zodiac.
Derived terms: exozodiacal
parazodiacal
zodiacal band
zodiacal cloud
zodiacal dust
zodiacal light
zodiacal parallel
zlotys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zloty
zl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zls.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of zloty.
zizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: zizzes
Etymology: Imitative in both uses, the first being of snoring: compare zzz (“sound of snoring”).
Senses: examples: text: Then I had a little zizz until Martland telephoned.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 45:
glosses: A nap or sleep.
glosses: A buzzing or whizzing sound.
zizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: zizzes
form: zizzing
form: zizzed
form: zizzed
Etymology: Imitative in both uses, the first being of snoring: compare zzz (“sound of snoring”).
Senses: glosses: To take a nap.
zircoloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zircaloy
Senses: glosses: An alloy of zirconium with tin, chromium and nickel, widely used, especially in the nuclear power industry, for its heat- and corrosion-resistant properties
zip code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪp koʊd/
Forms: form: zip codes
form: zipcode
form: ZIP Code
form: ZIP code
form: Zip Code
form: Zip code
Etymology: From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
Senses: examples: text: 90210 was a television show popular in the 1990s about a group of high school students and their families who all lived in the zip code 90210 in Beverly Hills, California, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.
ref: 2009, Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, Gendered Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:
synonyms: zip
ZIP
hypernyms: postal code
postcode
glosses: A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.
examples: text: For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number.
ref: 1990, Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3, H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN:
text: Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp.
ref: 2011, Jaime Reed, Burning Emerald, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 46:
synonyms: postal code
postcode
glosses: Any postal code.
glosses: A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number.
examples: text: Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level.
Derived terms: have one's own zip code
zip code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪp koʊd/
Forms: form: zip codes
form: zip coding
form: zip coded
form: zip coded
form: zipcode
form: ZIP Code
form: ZIP code
form: Zip Code
form: Zip code
Etymology: From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
Senses: glosses: To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.
zingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋi
Forms: form: zingier
form: zingiest
Etymology: From zing + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There's not overmuch depth here, but Chambers does have a zingy wit and the one-liners fly fast and furious.
ref: 1989 May 6, Mara Math, “Boston's Women in Theatre Extravaganza”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: In the early drafts of the zingy script (by Charles Lederer), the visitor was to have been considerably more outre, but apparently the special effects folks weren't up to the job […]
ref: 1991, Howard Karren, The Premiere guide to movies on video:
glosses: Full of zest.
Derived terms: zingily
zinginess
idea virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idea viruses
Senses: glosses: A concept which is transmitted between people via networks (especially the Internet) generally without the knowledge or consent of the originator, and which may be modified as it is passed on.
fragor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fragors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangō (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: The direful fragor, when some southern blast / Tears from the Alps a ridge of knotty oaks[…]
ref: 1709, Isaac Watts, Horae Lyricae:
glosses: A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
fragor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fragors
Etymology: From the above, by confusion with the root of fragrant.
Senses: examples: text: it seems offensive; and tasted, penetrates a strong brain by its fragor
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: A strong or sweet scent; fragrance.
tum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: tums
Senses: examples: text: For here am I without a crumb
To satisfy a raging tum--
O what an oversight!"
As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 18:
text: We left the telephone, walked up two small flights of stairs, and opened the front door as, believe it or not, the car with three policemen in it was just pulling up. I mention this amazing promptitude hoping that it will be a comfort to timorous souls whose tums turn over when things go bump in the night.
ref: 1949 February 19, Charles, “My Column”, in Bristol Evening Post, number 5,224, Bristol, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2–3:
synonyms: tum-tum
glosses: shortened form of tummy
Related terms: rum-tum
som tum
tum tum
tum-tum
reprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
Forms: form: more reprobate
form: most reprobate
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:30:
glosses: Rejected; cast off as worthless.
glosses: Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
examples: text: The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
text: And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
reprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
Forms: form: reprobates
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
glosses: One rejected by God; a sinful person.
examples: text: I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
ref: c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana:
text: [T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
text: West of here, it ascends to its viaduct where, 20 feet above the ground, the Westway seeks to emulate it; two scruffy reprobates shouldering their way through a not very pretty streetscape; the one a railway built by corporate buccaneers, the other a road constructed as part of a discredited plan to girdle London with motorways.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50, on the Hammersmith & City line:
glosses: A person with low morals or principles.
Related terms: depraved
reprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
Forms: form: reprobates
form: reprobating
form: reprobated
form: reprobated
Etymology: First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
glosses: Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
glosses: To refuse, set aside.
Derived terms: approbate and reprobate
touchous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touchous
form: most touchous
Etymology: From touch + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Touchy; overly sensitive.
shmexy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɛk.si/
rhymes: -ɛksi
Forms: form: shmexier
form: shmexiest
form: schmexy
Etymology: From shm- + sexy.
Senses: examples: text: Sexy, schmexy. My friend Flo is coming over and I will not have her see my daughter wearing ripped-up rags!!
ref: 1984, Cathy Guisewite, Men Should Come with Instruction Booklets: A Cathy Collection, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Sir Ben Marx. Singer, model, shmexy zombie.
ref: 2011, Jaymie Baxley, "Sir Ben Marx Q&A", Feed Magazine, November 2011 (image caption)
text: He sat down and smiled at me, a corner of his mouth higher than the other and one eyebrow raised. Wow, that was entirely too shmexy for this early in the morning.
ref: 2012, Kimberly Pauley, Cat Girl's Day Off, Tu Books, →ISBN:
text: Flabbergasted by his transformation back into shmexy 'Cab Braden' who couldn't take his eyes off of me, I didn't know what to make of it in all my confusion.
ref: 2012, Samantha Young, On Dublin Street, New American Library, →ISBN:
glosses: Sexy.
glosses: Having a desirability like sexual attractiveness.
raw_tags: of an inanimate object
Synonyms: sense: sexy
word: smexy
touchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ʌtʃi
Forms: form: touchier
form: touchiest
Etymology: A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influence from some senses of touch (“affect, disturb”) and simulating touch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
glosses: Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
raw_tags: of a situation
examples: text: He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.
text: Ashley: Look at the size of that ship!
Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet.
Joker: Well, size isn't everything.
Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?
Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Bridge, Command Deck, SSV Normandy:
glosses: Easily offended, oversensitive.
raw_tags: of a person
synonyms: handsy
touchy-feely
antonyms: untouchy
glosses: Inclined to engage in physical touch.
Synonyms: sense: extremely sensitive
word: tetchy
sense: extremely sensitive
word: delicate
sense: extremely sensitive
word: touch and go
sense: extremely sensitive
word: scabrous
sense: easily irritated
word: tetchy
sense: easily irritated
word: irritable
sense: easily irritated
word: irascible
sense: easily irritated
word: cranky
Derived terms: touchiness
Related terms: touchy-feely
restlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstləsnəs/
Forms: form: restlessnesses
Etymology: From restless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.
text: A feeling of restlessness and an urge to move in your arms, legs or torso is a state of hyperarousal and can keep you from a good night’s sleep, she said.
ref: 2024 March 11, Madeline Holcombe, “What to do on the nights you are struggling with insomnia, according to experts”, in CNN:
glosses: The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.
Derived terms: migratory restlessness
Related terms: rest
restlessly
ossified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ossify
audiophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiophile
audiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/
homophone: audio file
Forms: form: audiophiles
Etymology: From audio- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: However, almost every serious audiophile or electronics hobbyist already knows that bar/graph displays are close to useless for the application they are most commonly used for, which is the attempt to indicate output power levels of audio power amplifiers.
ref: 2001, G. Randy Slone, The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook: 120 High-Performance Audio Electronics Projects, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.
Derived terms: audiophool
Related terms: arctophile
bibliophile
conspirophile
museophile
vexillophile
videophile
audiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/
homophone: audio file
Forms: form: more audiophile
form: most audiophile
Etymology: From audio- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, I abandoned the cheap record player and moved into more audiophile equipment once I got into high school.
ref: 2012, Michael R. Miller, The Ultimate Digital Music Guide: The Best Way to Store, Organize, and Play Digital Music, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: Relating to high fidelity sound reproduction or an interest in it.
general semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world
intrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/
Forms: form: more intrusive
form: most intrusive
Etymology: Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive?
glosses: Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: epenthetic
examples: text: an intrusive linked list
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections.
Synonyms: unwelcome
uninvited
disturbing
interrupting
Derived terms: intrusively
intrusiveness
intrusive r
intrusive thought
nonintrusive
intrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/
Forms: form: intrusives
Etymology: Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
certainty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝtn̩ti/
ipa: /ˈsɜːtn̩ti/
Forms: form: certainties
form: certainity
Etymology: From Middle English certeynte (“surety”), from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus.
Senses: examples: text: That there may be Certainty upon an infallible Evidence in Matters of Science, I readily grant you. But since there once were Scepticks in Philosophy as well as Religion, such as doubted of every thing, I very much question, whether the whole World be agreed in this Point; unless you could assure me, that Race of Seekers is now extinct.
ref: 1720, Samuel Fancourt, “The Remarker's second Objection produced and examined”, in An Essay Concerning Certainty and Infallibility: Or, Some Reflections Upon a Pamphlet Stiled, “The Nature and Consequences of Enthusiasm Considered, in Some Short Remarks on the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity Stated and Defended.” In a Letter to the Author of Those Remarks, London: R. Cruttenden, page 35:
text: The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.
ref: October 12, 1786, Fisher Ames, “Lucius Junius Brutus”, in Independent Chronicle:
synonyms: certitude
sureness
antonyms: doubt
uncertainty
glosses: The state of being certain.
glosses: An instance of being certain.
examples: text: Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
text: There is a certainty attainable. A certainty of feeling will arise through the very contemplation of Jesus. But there is also attainable a certainty of Reason.
ref: 1895, Alexander Robinson, chapter XXI, in The Saviour in the Newer Light: A Present Day Study of Jesus Christ, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, page 337:
text: Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
ref: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in guardian.co.uk:
synonyms: word: banker
word: cert
word: certainty
word: certitude
word: cinch
word: dead cert
word: fatality
word: inevitability
word: racing certainty
word: sure thing
word: fair bet
word: good bet
word: safe bet
word: sure bet
glosses: A fact or truth unquestionably established.
Derived terms: certainty equivalent
legal certainty
moral certainty
noncertainty
of a certainty
racing certainty
Related terms: certain
successive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səkˈsɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).
Senses: examples: text: They had won the title for five successive years.
text: A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
text: Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Coming one after the other in a series.
examples: a successive title; a successive empire
glosses: Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
Synonyms: word: in a series
Derived terms: successively
nonsuccessive
Related terms: succeed
success
succession