cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chinwag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/
Forms: form: chinwags
form: chinwagging
form: chinwagged
form: chinwagged
form: chin wag
form: chin-wag
Etymology: From chin + wag.
Senses: examples: text: I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler.
text: We stamped around to get some circulation into our legs after a stint of three hours in the cold water, had a pull at a bottle of wine, and chinwagged with some of the other fishermen who were clambering out of their waders beside their parked cars.
ref: 1972 March, Keith Draper, “Big Trout are Suckers after Dark”, in Field & Stream, Los Angeles, Calif.: CBS Magazines, →OCLC, page 161:
text: [Trevor] Nunn gives the play [All's Well That Ends Well] more than a touch of [Anton] Chekhov; he gives it the great Slav physician's context: arrivals and departures and a country estate and house in which Helena is gentlewoman to the Countess Rossilion (Peggy Ashcroft) who has an old gnarled retainer, Lavache, the Clown (Geoffrey Hutchings), with whom she chinwags and at whom she affectionately rails.
ref: 1982, The Month, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 317:
text: By the light of the big candles on stakes clusters of people were eating and drinking and chinwagging about the topics of the past four days.
ref: 1996, Ian Watson, Hard Questions, London: Gollancz, →ISBN:
glosses: To chat, to gossip.
forecourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecourts
Etymology: From fore- + court.
Senses: glosses: The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area.
examples: text: The first group is incised on the east wall and eastern part of the south wall of the temple forecourt. The second group is incised into the floor and paving stones of the forecourt, extending onto the pavement of the Podium.
ref: 2007, Pamela Rose, The Meroitic Temple Complex at Qasr Ibrim, volume 84, page 105:
text: Other improvements include a new station forecourt on Love Lane, new cycle parking, improved CCTV and an additional ticket vending machine in the ticket hall.
ref: 2019 October, “New White Hart Lane station opens”, in Modern Railways, page 23:
antonyms: backcourt#Noun
backyard#Noun
coordinate_terms: court#Noun
courtyard#Noun
;
front yard#Noun
;
dooryard#Noun
yard#Noun
lawn#Noun
garden#Noun
curtilage#Noun
apron#Noun
breezeway#Noun
glosses: Any open area in front of a building.
antonyms: backcourt
glosses: In racket sports, the front part of the court.
Related terms: frontcourt
midcourt
heroe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroes
Senses: examples: text: The heroe of this great history appears with very bad omens.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of hero.
third-party
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 3d-party
form: 3rd-party
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a third party.
examples: text: a third-party video game; a third-party character; third-party hardware
text: Not all of my vibecoding experiments have been successful. I've been struggling for weeks to build an "inbox autopilot" tool capable of responding to my emails automatically, in my writing style. I've encountered roadblocks when trying to integrate A.I. work flows into apps like Google Photos and iOS Voice Memos, which aren't designed to play well with third-party add-ons.
ref: 2025 February 27, “Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of or relating to a third party.
Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party and second-party.
coordinate_terms: third source
third-source
qualifier: hardware
Related terms: first-party
first party
party
second party
second-party
third
third-party
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: third-parties
form: third-partying
form: third-partied
form: third-partied
form: 3d-party
form: 3rd-party
Senses: examples: text: A very common mistake that Fortnite players make is being too exposed during their fights. The first step is to acknowledge that they can get third-partied.
ref: 2022 February 12, Aakrit Sharma, “8 things Fortnite pros do during a 3rd party situation (& you should too)”, in Sportskeeda:
text: While the majority of players have given up with Seer, there are a select few who believe he still has a place in the meta. One of them is aceu, who recently explained on stream why Seer is still a strong pick due to his ability to "third-party" opponents.
ref: 2022 April 27, Alex Garton, “Aceu claims Seer is actually "meta" in Apex Legends for third-partying”, in Dexerto:
text: Not only that, but you can also gauge the whereabouts of their target, making it easier to third-party them.
ref: 2022 June 21, Josh Brown, Joseph Yaden, “Call of Duty: Warzone tips and tricks to win the war”, in Digital Trends:
topics: video-games
glosses: To intervene in a fight between two players or teams, often allowing one to easily defeat both (sometimes seen as unfair).
Related terms: clean up
typefounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typefounders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of type-founder.
type-founder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type-founders
form: typefounder
form: type founder
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of metal type for printing.
Related terms: type foundry
turfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turfed
form: most turfed
Senses: examples: text: The space of ground taken up by a rich man's house is prodigious, the turfed roof forming a small field.
ref: 1858 July, “Trebizonde and Erzeroum”, in The National Magazine, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Viðimyri church is almost the only specimen remaining of a turf church. It looks outside very like a neatly turfed cottage, with the ornament of crossed planks with carved ends on its wooden front gable.
ref: 1905, Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, →OCLC, page 379:
glosses: Constructed from turf.
examples: text: For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nestling, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary.
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Gardens”, in Royal Collection Trust:
text: 3. The course should use a minimal amount of fairway area, rather than being completely turfed from tee box to green.
ref: 1988, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Preservation of petroglyphs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 225:
glosses: Covered or adorned with turf or grass.
turfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turf
tumuluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumulus
tarlatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarlatans
Etymology: Probably from Milanese tarlantanna.
Senses: glosses: A thin muslin with an open weave, once used for ballgowns etc.
syle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sile.
sile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: siles
form: syle
form: cyle
Etymology: From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).
Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).
Senses: glosses: A column; pillar.
glosses: A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
glosses: The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
glosses: A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
sile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: siles
form: siling
form: siled
form: siled
Etymology: From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) + -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).
Senses: glosses: To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
glosses: To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
glosses: To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
glosses: To go; pass.
glosses: To boil gently; simmer.
examples: text: Th' rain had siled daan day and neet.
ref: 1888, John Hartley, Clock Almanack, page 14, quoted in the EDD
text: and so when there come on a long rain it fairly "siled" down a steady beautiful rain, so different from that of a thunder-rain, the latter fairly teeming down just as the milk was teemed from the pails into the sile. Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations.
ref: 1916, Country Life, page 407:
text: ... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days.
ref: 1922, James Alpass Penny, More Folklore Round Horncastle, page 19:
text: As the rain siled down outside, we discussed David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane – France's victory in the 1998 World Cup was fresh in their minds.
ref: 2007 April 3, Kevin Rushby, Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of Lost Pirate Utopias, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
text: ... unaware of the pouring freezing rain which siled down and saturated him and which ran down his lank hair and over his cold face. The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle. He stood outside in the dark[…]
ref: 2011 December 7, Paul Wordsworth, The Logic Bomb, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: To pour with rain.
sile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: siles
Etymology: From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) + -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).
Senses: glosses: A sieve.
glosses: A strainer or colander for liquids
glosses: That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
sile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: siles
Etymology: From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.
Senses: glosses: A young herring.
Derived terms: sillock
sucken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌk(ə)n/
rhymes: -ʌkən
Forms: form: suckens
Etymology: Alteration of soken.
Senses: glosses: The duty of a tenant to bring corn etc to a particular mill to be ground.
glosses: The land astricted in this way.
Derived terms: insucken
outsucken
suckener
suckener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckeners
Etymology: From sucken + -er.
Senses: glosses: The tenant of a sucken, who under the law of thirlage had to mill his grain at the mill of his feudal lord or thirl.
taula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taulas
Etymology: From Catalan taula (“table”). Doublet of table.
Senses: glosses: A kind of T-shaped stone monument, built by the Talaiotic culture, found on the Balearic island of Minorca.
transpontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Other young women in Paris—fellow-members there of the little tight transpontine world of art-study—professed to know that the pair had been "several times" over so closely contracted.
ref: 1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge:
glosses: Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
examples: text: Such transpontine spectacles are not usually seen in our local theatre.
text: Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.
ref: 1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
antonyms: cispontine
glosses: Of or relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
hynde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyndes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hind (“female deer”).
merse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːs/
ipa: /mɝs/
Forms: form: merses
Etymology: Middle English merse, variant form of mersh, whence also marsh (see that entry for more).
Senses: examples: text: Owing probably to the channel lying obliquely to those mud flats, the flood rushes up the river with a bore, the front wave of which may be several feet high. As a result, the loose mud is churned up by every tide and the water that inundates the merse always contains much mud in suspension. Consequently the merse must be continually increasing in height. That the siltings may be rapid in favourable circumstances is shown near Kirkconnell where mooring bollards are seen […]
ref: 1926, The Journal of Ecology, volumes 14-15, page 312:
glosses: Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
demerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demerges
form: demerging
form: demerged
form: demerged
Etymology: From de- + merge.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger.
Related terms: spin off
break up
demerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demerges
form: demerging
form: demerged
form: demerged
Etymology: Latin demergo (“I submerge”).
Senses: examples: The water in which it was demerged. — Boyle.
glosses: To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
demerse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: demerses
form: demersing
form: demersed
form: demersed
Etymology: From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. See merge.
Senses: examples: text: The peach, vvhich hitherto vvas demerſed, now mounted up to the upper part of the liquor in the ſecond receiver; all the reſt ſtaid in the bottom.
ref: 1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 151, column 2:
glosses: To immerse (something).
immerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
Forms: form: immerges
form: immerging
form: immerged
form: immerged
Etymology: From Latin immergō. Compare immerse.
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir heads [i.e., of people who drink excessively] are gross, their souls are immerged in matter, and drowned in the moistures of an unwholesome cloud; […]
ref: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting; or, The Epicure’s Measures.] Part II.”, in Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]; republished in Discourses on Various Subjects, new edition, volume I, London: […] [A. Strahan] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], 1817, →OCLC, page 297:
text: VVe took about a Glaſs-full of luke-vvarm VVater, and in it immerg'd a quantity of the Leaves of Senna, and preſently upon the Immerſion there did not appear any Redneſs in the VVater, […]
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XXXIX”, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part III (Containing Promiscuous Experiments about Colours), annotation, page 296:
text: “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
ref: 1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3:
glosses: To plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
glosses: To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
glosses: Misspelling of emerge.
Derived terms: unimmerged
unimmergible
reimmerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimmerges
form: reimmerging
form: reimmerged
form: reimmerged
Etymology: From re- + immerge.
Senses: glosses: To immerge again.
mordente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mordentes
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mordent (embellishment resembling a trill).
kurban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurbans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of korban.
suade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: suades
form: suading
form: suaded
form: suaded
Etymology: From Latin suādēre.
Senses: examples: text: Howsomeber, she wuz so mad wid Jeff dat she 'suaded herse'f she did n' keer
ref: 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Hot-Foot Hannibal:
glosses: To persuade.
Related terms: persuade
suasory
shinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shin
string instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings.
Synonyms: chordophone
stringed instrument
Hyponyms: cello
double bass
viola
violin
Derived terms: string instrumentalist
woodwind instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodwind instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: woodwind
hypernyms: wind instrument
coordinate_terms: brass instrument
glosses: A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.
Hyponyms: bagpipe
bassoon
clarinet
concertina
English horn
flute
oboe
piccolo
saxophone
shakuhachi
inconcinnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconcinnities
Etymology: From Latin inconcinnitas.
Senses: glosses: Lack of harmony or suitability.
Related terms: inconcinnous
chief constables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief constable
retrograde inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrograde inversions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A technique where the composer will take the inversion of the tone row, and write that backwards, thus creating a retrograded inversion of the original note row.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition technique where the composer inverts the retrograde of a melody or makes the retrograde of the inversion of the melody, using only notes in the same key as the original melody.
caking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cake
caking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: cakings
Senses: examples: text: In order to avoid cakings the walls of the tubes are made out of rubber breadths which are stretched over corner steel in the breaks. These rubber breadths oscillate slightly.
ref: 2008, Bernd Kleinjohann, Lisa Kleinjohann, Wayne Wolf, Distributed embedded systems, page 1000:
glosses: A layer or deposit of caked material.
Derived terms: anti-caking
anticaking
anti-caking agent
caking coal
noncaking
caked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cake
caked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Forms: form: more caked
form: most caked
Senses: examples: text: Great, I had to ride in the rain, and now my bike is caked in mud.
text: Part of the fleece was caked with manure, so we had to clean it.
text: The makeup was so overdone that it was caked on.
coordinate_terms: encrusted
qualifier: feces; makeup; feces; makeup
glosses: Congealed into a cakelike consistency; (of something covered in such a material) Coated with such a congealed mass.
raw_tags: of mud
topics: lifestyle
smoking
synonyms: kicked
glosses: Empty with nothing left to smoke but ash.
raw_tags: of a pipe
Derived terms: caked up
mudcaked
uncaked
Black Forest gâteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Forest gâteaux
form: Black Forest gâteaus
form: Black Forest gateau
form: black forest gateau
form: black forest gâteau
Etymology: Various theories have been proposed:
* Named after the Kirschwasser flavouring that originated in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany.
* The black chocolate rasps topping resembles a black forest, like the Black Forest.
* A potential predecessor of this cake named Schwarzwaldtorte could have been originated in Switzerland and not in the Black Forest region.
* Inspired by the traditional costume of the women of the Black Forest region, with a characteristic hat with big, red pom-poms on top, called Bollenhut.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Black Forest gâteau.
synonyms: Black Forest cake
hypernyms: chocolate cake
glosses: A type of gâteau consisting of a rich chocolate sponge cake topped with cream and cherries.
Black Forest gateau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Forest gateaux
form: Black Forest gateaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Black Forest gâteau.
Black Forest gâteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I’d also whipped a billowing sugary quadruple ration of meringue and set it on top of four vast dishes of buttery crumbs and sharp, homemade lemon custard, and finished the chocolate sponge bases with whipped cream, thickened juices of black cherries and kirch, to make the seventies icon — Black Forest Gâteaux.
ref: 2005, Ruth Joseph, Remembering Judith, page 215:
glosses: plural of Black Forest gâteau
Black Forest gâteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Forest gâteau
Black Forest gateaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Forest gateau
Black Forest gateaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Forest gateau
gateaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gateau
gâteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gâteau
biarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biarchies
form: binarchy
Etymology: From bi- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people.
synonyms: word: diarchy
extra: rule by two people
glosses: An alliance of two countries.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
nasal mutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasal mutation
migraineur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migraineurs
Etymology: Formed in English of migraine plus French -eur. Compare French migraineux. From 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Scents, food smells, and cigarette smoke were the most frequent offending odors reported by osmophobic migraineurs.
ref: 2008, Dara G. Jamieson, Headache Medicine: Questions and Answers, page 113:
glosses: One who experiences migraines.
inflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
ipa: /ɪnˈflɛksjən/
Senses: glosses: plural of inflexion
dénoûment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dénoûments
Senses: examples: text: Instead of a dénoûment consisting in the establishment of a common-school system in Acadian Louisiana, we have a double wedding;[…]
ref: 1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Archaic form of dénouement.
finger-pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-pointings
form: finger pointing
form: fingerpointing
Etymology: From finger + pointing.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, more often, these authorial throat-clearings and finger-pointings enrich the text. Even the sample quoted above moves on to a vivid evocation of the very physical aspects of a hunt. Perhaps surprisingly for a writer so easily caricatured as a dry Marxist theoretician, Berger excels in such sensual descriptions.
ref: 2008 January 9, Sam Jordison, “Looking back at the Booker: John Berger”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2014:
text: Colleagues complained that Mr Raab’s “physical gestures” were used in a threatening way. Loud banging on tables and finger-pointing were among the allegations.
ref: 2023 April 22, Nina Lloyd, “Allegations against Dominic Raab that sent him to backbenches”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023:
text: Dr. [Kirsty] Graham argues that the recruitment view offers new ideas about why apes struggle to recognize gestures that are easy for us to understand, such as finger-pointing.
ref: 2024 September 6, Carl Zimmer, “Why Do Apes Make Gestures?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2024:
glosses: The act of pointing a finger or fingers.
examples: text: With the folding in November of Los Angeles Opera Theater came the expected finger-pointings and second-guessings among company officials.
ref: 1986 January 19, Marc Shulgold, “Women Composers Aim for the Mainstream”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2024:
text: A huge amount of material on this matter has come into public view: allegations and leaks, backgrounders and briefings, statements and press conferences, sidesteppings and finger-pointings.
ref: 1986 November 20, “At the White House”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025:
text: Relentless were the accusatory finger-pointings.
ref: 1995 December 20, Jack Valenti, “What Do ‘Money Train’ Critics Say Now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 24 December 1995, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
glosses: The making of accusations; the assigning of blame.
Related terms: word: finger point
word: finger-point
word: finger-pointy
word: blame game
word: he said, she said
finger-pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From finger-point + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finger-point
minae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minæ
Senses: glosses: plural of mina
perchloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + chloric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: hyperchloric
glosses: Describing compounds containing the most highly oxidized state of chlorine.
Derived terms: perchloric acid
Related terms: perchlorate
pocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poker.
pocket rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: bullets
glosses: A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
glosses: plural of pocket rocket
American Airlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Airlines
Etymology: Due to the initials of ace-ace and American Airlines being AA.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
two pips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
big slick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and a king as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. (Originally used to denote only an ace and a king of the same suit, the term now includes any ace and king.)
little slick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
Johnny Moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the professional poker player Johnny Moss.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and a ten as starting cards in Texas hold 'em.
wikipedia: Johnny Moss
overspends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overspend
overspending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overspend
overspending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overspendings
Senses: examples: text: Towards the very end of the year it has always been found to be impracticable to avoid overspendings, if only temporary, in some programmes and underspendings in others.
ref: 1972, Great Britain. Treasury, Public Expenditure White Papers: Handbook on Methodology (page 15)
glosses: The spending of too much money.
trashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trash
trashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trash
trashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trash
trashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trashings
Senses: examples: text: One of the most recent trashings of my work was by Sara Suleri in an issue of Critical Inquiry.
ref: 1995, Gary A. Olson, Elizabeth Hirsh, Women Writing Culture, page 136:
text: As news about the cinema trashings spread, they aroused widespread protest […]
ref: 2001, Kathleen M. Blee, France Winddance Twine, Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice, page 238:
glosses: The act by which something is trashed.
glosses: Dumpster diving.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A tradition of throwing food, confetti, etc. over students after their final examinations.
infringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: An extraordinary sequence of infringed regulations preceded and followed a collision near Lunan Bay, south of Montrose, on the morning of September 2, 1958, [...]
ref: 1959 April, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Lunan Bay”, in Trains Illustrated, page 180:
glosses: simple past and past participle of infringe
infringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infringed
form: most infringed
Senses: glosses: Of a treaty, law, right, etc., broken or violated.
glosses: Broken in or encroached on.
glosses: Furnished or embellished with a fringe.
Derived terms: noninfringed
uninfringed
bounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊnst/
rhymes: -aʊnst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bounce
bounced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊnst/
rhymes: -aʊnst
Senses: glosses: unsuccessful delivery of email
Derived terms: unbounced
strong declensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong declension
broch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒx/
ipa: /ˈbɹɒk/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑx/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑk/
rhymes: -ɒx
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: brochs
Etymology: From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
Senses: examples: text: Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 268:
text: The last man slid the bolt in the single low narrow door. The broch was impregnable then.
ref: 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 20:
text: Ian's eyes rolled slowly up, as though following the rough stones of the broch upwards. 'That tower rises sixty feet from the ground,' he told me, 'and it's thirty feet in diameter, wi' three floors.'
ref: 1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 29, in Outlander, London: Random House:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
cautioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cautioners
Etymology: From caution + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who cautions.
examples: text: Fourteen Days are only allowed for Sists of Execution, from the Date the Bill was signed, for the Clerks inquiring in the Condition of the Cautioner […]
ref: 1693, James Dalrymple Stair, The institutions of the law of Scotland, page 755:
glosses: A surety.
cellarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”). Doublet of cellar.
Senses: glosses: A cellar used for storage in an abbey.
chantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chantries
Etymology: From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”).
Senses: glosses: An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
glosses: A chapel set up for this purpose
public keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public key
Feynman diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feynman diagram
chromolithography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From chromo- + lithography; by surface analysis, chromo- + litho- + -graphy.
Senses: hypernyms: lithography
;
chromotypography
<
typography
printing#Noun
glosses: A form of lithography for printing pictures in colour.
Related terms: word: chromatography
word: chromography
word: chromolithographic
causeymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causeymakers
Etymology: From causey + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who lays cobblestones.
Related terms: causey
causey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːzi/
ipa: /ˈkɔzi/
ipa: /ˈkɑzi/
Forms: form: causeys
form: cauchie
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.
Senses: glosses: An embankment holding in water; a dam.
examples: text: than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.
ref: c. 1460, Merlin, volume II:
text: He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey.
ref: 1841, Jacob Abbott, The Rollo Books:
text: I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 177:
glosses: A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
examples: text: Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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: A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
Derived terms: causeyed
causeymaker
disaffiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disaffiliates
form: disaffiliating
form: disaffiliated
form: disaffiliated
Etymology: From dis- + affiliate.
Senses: glosses: To cease to have an affiliation (with); to take steps to break an affiliation or association.
commendam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commendams
Etymology: From Latin in commendam (“in trust”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A vacant benefice commended to a cleric until an incumbent was provided.
disaffiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disaffiliate
commendator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commendators
Etymology: From Latin commendātor.
Senses: glosses: A cleric who held a commendam.
disaffiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disaffiliate
disaffiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disaffiliate
tarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tarry
tarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarryings
Senses: examples: text: Our teams were now considerably jaded, and we found it necessary to make frequent halts and tarryings for the purpose of recruiting them.
ref: 1858, R. B. Stratton, Captivity of the Oatman Girls:
glosses: The act of one who tarries; a waiting or staying behind.
tarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarry
tarries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tarry
thirsting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thirst
thirsting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirstings
Senses: examples: text: […] any present thirstings for God, or ardent outgoings of their souls after divine objects […]
ref: 1749, Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd:
glosses: The situation of having a thirst for something.
tauntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tauntingly
form: most tauntingly
Etymology: From taunting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a taunting manner.
tinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinker
tinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tinker
sleep with the fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps with the fishes
form: sleeping with the fishes
form: slept with the fishes
form: slept with the fishes
Etymology: The idea of sleeping with fishes first appears in Homer's Iliad (21), in which Achilles threatens (and kills) Lycaon (son of Priam), who will 'sleep with the fishes', in some translations. There was emphasis on the brutality of this method because it meant the body would remain forever unburied akin to an animal (fish). The earliest known exact phrase is from 1833, see the quotation below. The phrase was popularized in the motion picture The Godfather (1972). The 1969 book on which the movie was based includes a large, dead fish wrapped in a bulletproof vest being used to signify that a character is "sleeping on the bottom of the ocean", but not the phrase.
Senses: examples: text: The porter […] opened his sack, and pitched the corpse into the river, and ran back to receive the rest of his pay “ It is done,” said he, laughing ; “ Your man sleeps with the fishes of the Tigris by this time […]”
ref: 1833 March, “The Three Humpbacks ; or, the Bridge of Bagdad”, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, page 105:
glosses: To be dead, with one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.
wikipedia: Iliad
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Lycaon (son of Priam)
The Godfather
Related terms: Davy Jones's Locker
seabed
IP trackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IP tracker
bully pulpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bully pulpit
all-but
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all but.
masticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masticable
form: most masticable
Senses: examples: text: A chewing gum comprising a mixture of snuff and a masticable waterproof waxy body, solid at ordinary temperatures.
ref: 1907, Richard Kidder Meade, Harry McCormack, Laurance T. Clark, Chemical Age: Volume 6:
glosses: Able to be chewed.
Related terms: masticate
minutiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minutiae
Senses: examples: ref: 1847, Campbell Morfit, Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles: A Thorough Exposition of the Principles and Practice of the Trade, in All Their Minutiæ, Based upon the Most Recent Discoveries in Science and Improvements in Art:
ref: 1882, Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865:
glosses: plural of minutia
elfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of elf.
acey-deucey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acey-deuceys
form: acey-deucy
Etymology: From ace + -y + deuce + -y.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: two pair, aces and twos.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: red dog
glosses: An uncommon poker variant where players bet on whether the next card will fall between two other cards.
glosses: A variant of backgammon.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An AC2: an RCAF Aircraftman 2nd Class.
acey-deucey
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: acey-deucy
Etymology: From ace + -y + deuce + -y.
Senses: glosses: Riding with uneven stirrups.
acey-deucey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: acey-deucy
Etymology: From ace + -y + deuce + -y.
Senses: glosses: Riding with uneven stirrups.
examples: text: In front of him was a sporty fellow in an acey-deucey fedora and a suit with shoulders at least three feet across.
ref: 1991, Steve Stern, Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground, page 60:
glosses: Uneven.
drinking age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinking ages
Etymology: In most of the United States, the drinking age is 21 years. In poker, an ace often has the value of one. Hence, one could say that a 2-A hand in poker could have a value equivalent to 2-1.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The least age at which one is permitted by law to drink alcoholic beverages.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A two and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
cohære
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cohæres
form: cohæring
form: cohæred
form: cohæred
Senses: examples: text: That all bodies both Animal, Vegetable, and Inanimate, are form’d out of such particles of matter, which by reason of their figures, will not cohære or lie…
ref: 1930, Richard F. Jones, Science and English Prose Style in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century, volume 45, № 4, December, pp977–1,009
text: …and aggregation of matter exist in the Sun, in the Moon, in the planets, in the fixed stars, in fine in all those round bodies whose parts cohære together and…
ref: 1983, Gad Freudenthal, Theory of Matter and Cosmology in William Gilbert’s De magnete, volume 74, № 1, March, pp22–37
glosses: Archaic spelling of cohere.
cohæres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cohære
cohæred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cohære
joint will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint wills
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A single document executed by two people, so that their property is disposed of identically upon the death of either or both.
Related terms: mirror will
mutual will
will contract
cohæring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Petals shorter than the calyx, evidently perigynous, the claws of the four uppermost (i.e., the two posterior and two lateral) connivent, and cohæring by means of their woolly covering, but not truly concreted.
ref: 19th century, W. Sonder, ORDER XXXVI. MELIANTHEÆ, Planch, in Flora Capensis, Volume I, page 366
glosses: present participle and gerund of cohære
chattel paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chattel papers
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document that demonstrates both a monetary obligation and a security interest either in certain goods, or in a lease on certain goods
negotiable instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiable instruments
Senses: topics: banking
business
law
glosses: a legal document, as a cheque or bill of exchange, that is freely negotiable.
Synonyms: word: negotiable instrument
Hyponyms: word: bill
word: check
word: draft
word: promissory note
word: banknote
word: cheque
word: bill of exchange
word: commercial paper
Related terms: assignment
drol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɹɔːl/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Adrol (“the steroid known by the brand Anadrol”).
aficionadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They own the texts, they are enthusiasts, aficionadi.
ref: 2011, Donald Richie, Viewed Sideways: Writings on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 149:
text: These forms of fandom are straight-forwardly dedicated to replicating a college of aficionadi, who by their knowledge of elevating texts are somehow superior to the rest of us.
ref: 2017, Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington, Fandom, Second Edition: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: plural of aficionado
B-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-trees
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An indexed data structure suitable for storage of a large number of items in a balanced fashion, with very few disk accesses required for locating the correct record block.
Related terms: B+ tree
2-3 tree
2-3-4 tree
ficelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fiˈsɛl/
Forms: form: ficelles
Etymology: From French ficelle.
Senses: glosses: A very narrow French loaf.
figured bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡjɚdbeɪs/
Forms: form: figured basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: thoroughbass
glosses: A musical notation in which intervals, chords and harmonizations are indicated by numbers written below a given bass note.
Related terms: basso continuo
buckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: bucklings
Etymology: From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of fastening a buckle.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A folding into hills and valleys.
examples: text: Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.
ref: 2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27:
glosses: The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
Derived terms: postbuckling
buckling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more buckling
form: most buckling
Etymology: From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Wavy; curly, as hair.
buckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buckle