cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
take to the cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the cleaners
form: taking to the cleaners
form: took to the cleaners
form: taken to the cleaners
form: take to the cleaner's
Etymology: A humorous alteration of the older expression to clean (someone) out.
Senses: examples: text: “That’s not the idea. These people you want taken to the cleaners were friends of yours yesterday. Maybe they will be friends again next week. I don’t care about that. But I’m not playing politics for you.[…]
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest:
text: Dizzy refused to pose with a blonde chorine clad only in step-ins. "No sir," exploded Dizzy. ". . . [M]y wife would take me to the cleaners if she saw a picture like that."
ref: 1934 October 25, “Dizzy and Daffy Begin Careers in Vaudeville”, in The Washington Reporter, retrieved 05 Aug 2013, page 12:
text: Take me to the power, take me to the heat / Take me to the cleaners if it's open to the street / Something's got to pay off, something's got to break / Someone's got a fortune that they're begging me to take
ref: 1983, Billy Joel, “Easy Money”, in An Innocent Man:
text: George Bush paid the IRS $198,000 in back taxes and interest, and he is planning to sue, if necessary, to get his money back. "I'm the guy that's been taken to the cleaners," Bush said last week.
ref: 1984 October 15, “Tax and Spend”, in Time, retrieved 05 Aug 2013:
text: Did your ex-wife ever go to the laundrette? Or is it just her husband that she takes to the cleaners, man?
ref: 1995, Paul Kaye, Anthony Hines, Anyone for Pennis?, spoken by Dennis Pennis (Paul Kaye):
text: "Billions of dollars are being squandered, and the taxpayer is being taken to the cleaners," Waxman said.
ref: 2007 February 4, Scott Shane, Ron Nixon, “U.S. contractors becoming a virtual fourth branch of government”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Aug 2013:
text: 'Cause anyone who's seen us / Through our victories and dumb defeats / Knows that I'll take you to the cleaners / If you come between the cheats
ref: 2011, Amy Winehouse, “Between the Cheats”, in Hidden Treasures:
text: These give the book its basic form: a master of the universe adrift in the country he helped take to the cleaners.
ref: 2018 September 13, Marcel Theroux, “Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart review – America’s new age of discontent”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc.
examples: text: One more time, mate, I'll take you to the fuckin' cleaners!
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Mr. Big Nose (Michael Palin):
glosses: To thrash someone.
throw away the key
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws away the key
form: throwing away the key
form: threw away the key
form: thrown away the key
Etymology: An ellipsis of lock someone up and throw away the key.
Senses: examples: text: Let's get these men together in a room and I would suggest feed them bread and water and throw away the key until they come together
ref: 1995 November 19, “Senators Pete Domenici and John Breaux Discuss the Shutdown of the Federal Government”, in CBS Face Nation:
glosses: To never release someone (e.g., from prison).
coat hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat hangers
form: coathanger
form: coat-hanger
Senses: synonyms: clothes hanger
clothing hanger
coordinate_terms: clip hanger
clamp
glosses: A device used to hang up coats, shirts, etc, consisting of a hook with sloping "arms" in the approximate shape of human shoulders.
coat-hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat-hangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
coathanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coathangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
cut a rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a rug
form: cutting a rug
form: cut a rug
form: cut a rug
form: cut the rug
Senses: examples: text: Young-generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug.
ref: 1991 December 15, Ron Alexander, “A Step Back to Supper Clubs and Swing”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Sep 2008:
text: Came here to get ya, but I can't wait / To grab me a partner and cut a rug up tonight
ref: 2002, “Boogie 2nite”, in Southern Hummingbird, performed by Tweet:
text: The way you can cut a rug, watching you's the only drug I need.
ref: 2009, “Hey, Soul Sister”, in Save Me, San Francisco, performed by Train:
text: Let's dance / Cut a rug together / Looking at forever / It's the way that I want it to be
ref: 2012, “Last Days of Disco”, performed by Saint Etienne:
text: Shake it up, throw your hands up and get loose / Cut a rug, lean into the fuckin' youth
ref: 2017, “When The World Was At War We Kept Dancing”, in Lust for Life, performed by Lana Del Rey:
glosses: To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, a, rug.
Derived terms: rug-cutter
rug-cutting
Related terms: cut it up
bust a move
cut the pigeon wing
show someone the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows someone the door
form: showing someone the door
form: showed someone the door
form: shown someone the door
form: showed someone the door
form: show someone to the door
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, someone, the, door.
examples: text: "[N]o man shall laugh at me now that I'm down. Show him the door, Dig."
ref: 1913, Jeffrey Farnol, chapter 29, in The Amateur Gentleman:
glosses: To escort someone to the exit of the premises; to expel someone from a room, gathering, etc.
examples: text: The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door.
ref: 1939 April 3, “Here's Your Hat!”, in Time:
text: In Maryland, Rep. Connie Morella, a skillful, conscientious politician, was ousted. . . . The always-charming Morella . . . provided great constituent service. . . . Still, voters showed her the door.
ref: 2008 November 9, Bruce DePuyt, “Sweeping the Red Out of Our Region”, in Washington Post, retrieved 24 Aug 2009, page B08:
glosses: To dismiss, fire, or reject; to exclude someone who was formerly included.
raw_tags: of a person
toss and turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses and turns
form: tossing and turning
form: tossed and turned
form: tossed and turned
Senses: examples: text: I didn't get a wink of sleep. I was tossing and turning all night long.
text: for, after tossing and turning the greatest part of the night, and tormenting myself with the falsest notions and apprehensions of things, I fell, through mere fatigue, into a kind of delirious doze
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: To be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position.
fumet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumets
Etymology: From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.
Senses: glosses: A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
glosses: A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
glosses: Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”).
fumet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.
Senses: examples: text: The next thing to be considered, is the Fumishing ; and this is to be judged of in April or May. If the Fumets be great, large and thick, they signify the Hart to be old.
ref: 1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman, page 57:
text: When he cries he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head; […]
ref: 1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187:
glosses: The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
fall on one's sword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls on one's sword
form: falling on one's sword
form: fell on one's sword
form: fallen on one's sword
Etymology: Refers to the practice of some Roman military leaders, who would commit suicide following a devastating defeat by literally falling on the point of their own swords.
Senses: examples: text: [Bob] Stempel was laboring to undo the damage when GM's board forced him to fall on his sword after little more than two years on the job.
ref: 1992 November 9, Paul A. Witteman, “Roger's Painful Legacy”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012:
text: ‘There is no sympathy for her […]’ one Minister said. ‘She [Jacqui Smith] may just fall on her sword, or Gordon [Brown] might humiliate her with a demotion to something like the Department for International Development.
ref: 2009 April 26, Glen Owen, Brendan Carlin, “Even Darling thinks his Budget doesn't add up as relations with Brown hit all-time low”, in Daily Mail, retrieved 02 May 2009:
text: The minister fell on his sword after a day that began with senior Tories observing a deliberate silence over Hancock’s future – seemingly to test public opinion in their constituencies – before many later broke ranks to insist he had to go.
ref: 2021 June 26, Toby Helm, Michael Savage, Peter Walker, “Matt Hancock resigns as health secretary after day of humiliation”, in The Observer:
glosses: To resign from a job or other position of responsibility, especially when pressured to do so.
examples: text: The bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal.
ref: 1987 July 20, Ed Magnuson, “The "Fall Guy" Fights Back”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 May 2008:
text: Humility does not require you to fall on your sword.
ref: 1996, Chip R. Bell, Managers as mentors: building partnerships for learning, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, →ISBN, page 81:
text: In written testimony given to Congress and made public the day before the hearing, Hurd falls on his sword, apologizing for HP's spying on its own directors and invading the privacy of journalists.
ref: 2006 September 28, L. Woellert, P. Burrows, “HP's Showdown: Hurd vs. Dunn”, in BusinessWeek:
synonyms: word: take the rap
word: take the fall
glosses: To voluntarily take the blame for a situation.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To commit suicide by allowing one’s body to drop onto the point of one's sword.
Related terms: hara-kiri
fall on a grenade
stump up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stumps up
form: stumping up
form: stumped up
form: stumped up
Senses: examples: text: Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, but I paid for the coffees afterwards.
text: Not least because last spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that HM Treasury's new northern base would be in Darlington. If that doesn't encourage the Treasury to stump up cash to upgrade the town's station, then I fear nothing will.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
glosses: To pay for something, often with reluctance.
al fresco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alfresco.
al fresco
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alfresco.
broad church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad churches
Senses: examples: text: The Liberal party in Australia is often described as being a broad church, encompassing conservatives and radicals, wets and dries.
text: If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility. This duo operates like an extended wink and a nudge; they tell voters the Coalition is a broad enough church to be a home for fringe views.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A wide scope of political or religious philosophies and ideas.
Synonyms: word: big tent
broad church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Broad Church.
kremlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kremlins
Etymology: Similar forms are attested, per Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, in earlier German Kremelin and French Cremlin, which are theorized to come from Old East Slavic кремльнъ (kremlĭnŭ, “having a kremlin”), from кремль (kremlĭ), whence Russian кремль (kremlʹ).
Senses: examples: text: 9% of historical parks are the gardens of monasteries and kremlins (fortified centres in the towns), 8% are urban ("public") gardens and only 2% are parks on urban estates.
ref: 1997, Council of Europe, Cultural Policy in the Russian Federation, page 107:
text: Several cities in Russia were built around fortresses called kremlins. Russians built kremlins for defense during the Middle Ages. A kremlin was often located along a river.
ref: 2012, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, page 87:
text: The centre of the kremlin usually held the prince's or voivode’s court, the cathedral, and the bishop's court. This arrangement can be seen in quite a number of 16th-century kremlins. The main street of the kremlin connected this complex with the gate leading to the marketplace.
ref: 2012, Konstantin Nossov, Russian Fortresses 1480-1682, page 45:
topics: architecture
qualifier: Slavic architecture
glosses: A fortified, central complex found in various Russian cities.
food coma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food comas
Etymology: Jocular compound of food + coma.
Senses: glosses: A state of lethargy and sleepiness that comes on shortly after eating a large or heavy meal.
Related terms: word: itis
word: postprandial
food comas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food coma
ringmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringmasters
Etymology: From ring + master.
Senses: glosses: The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
examples: text: Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.
ref: 2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:
text: Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.
ref: 2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:
glosses: The person who maintains a webring.
ringmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ringmasters
form: ringmastering
form: ringmastered
form: ringmastered
Etymology: From ring + master.
Senses: glosses: To act as ringmaster.
glosses: To control (a group of people).
Kain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish, variant of Kane.
lumber yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumber yard
Noa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Noa, a surname mostly found in Cuba. The surname could also derive from German Noä.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beefeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beefeaters
Etymology: From beef + eater.
Senses: glosses: A Yeoman Warder
hip-huggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tight-fitting pants (trousers) with a waistline that rests on the hips
wikipedia: Hillary Scott (actress)
open-face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Open-Face Bagel Thins with Scallion Schmear / Makes 2 servings: 2 open-face bagel thins each
ref: 2014, Jackie Newgent, The With or Without Meat Cookbook: The Flexible Approach to Flavorful Diabetes Cooking, Alexandria, Va.: American Diabetes Association, →ISBN, page 30:
synonyms: open
open-faced
glosses: Composed of a single slice of bread with a topping.
raw_tags: of a sandwich
open-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: open
open-face
glosses: Being a single slice of bread with a topping.
raw_tags: of a sandwich
examples: text: Frank Broughton was a finely-grown, open-faced boy of thirteen, the eldest of a family of four, and to-morrow he was to be launched upon the unknown sea of public-school life.
ref: 1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 75:
text: There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:
glosses: Having an honest and sincere expression.
brepho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βρέφος (bréphos, “baby”).
Senses: examples: text: Symptoms appeared, during last winter, of the Brephomania or Fever of Rejuvenescence which took possession of many persons of both sexes, well on towards their grand climacteric.
ref: a. 1835, “Moral Epidemics” (essay), in The Cabinet: A Series of Essays Moral and Literary, Volume I, Bell & Bradfute (1835), page 233
text: The Doctor and I do not wish it to be understood by this that we are advocates for the resumption of brephophagy in our own country […]
ref: 1875, Edward Rae, The Land of the North Wind, J Murray, page 266:
glosses: baby
openhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more openhanded
form: most openhanded
Senses: examples: text: In the painting, the enslaved and (as conjectured by historian Steven Weisenburger) sexually abused Margaret Garner betrays her liaison with her owner Archibald Gaines with an exposed, openhanded gesture toward him.
ref: 2008, Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, →ISBN, page 52:
text: And when I did not answer, f-for my mouth was t-too dry for speech, he asked again, and I stammered out some nonsense, and then he struck me, openhanded, as though I was not a man.
ref: 2015, Alexis Hall, Shackles: A Prosperity Story, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
Done with an open hand.
examples: text: In the economic realm, because of its temporary preponderance, the United States could afford to be openhanded.
ref: 1995, Robert L. Paarlberg, Leadership Abroad Begins at Home: U.S. Foreign Economic Policy After the Cold War, →ISBN:
text: Yet he understood nothing of real magnanimity; his charity was part of an openhanded recklessness, which made him fling the goods of fortune to the wind as soon as gained—part of the character of grand seigneur he aspired to assume.
ref: 1888, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy - Volume 5, page 400:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
Generous.
examples: text: Let selling be an openhanded selling, with justly balanced scales and price which do not prejudice either party, buyer or seller.
ref: 1989, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Arm-in-arm with religious liberals stand a legion of openhanded political liberals, humanists, and, of course, homosexuals themselves, all of whom passionately embrace homosexuality as a morally and constitutionally justified “alternative lifestyle."
ref: 2006, Hal Brunson, Lesbos, Narcissus, and Paulos, →ISBN, page ix:
text: The challengeof maintaining this awareness is to sit openhanded to receive all that comes.
ref: 2014, Sister Simone Campbell, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
Frank and tolerant.
examples: text: We believe the majority of Swiss guides use the Swiss loop at the end of the rope, and the openhanded loop in the middle.
ref: 1891, The Alpine Journal - Volume 15, page 7:
text: The iconic flower of love could be found in every state of its life cycle -- tender green shoots with tiny green thorns that looked like baby teeth, buds determined not to reveal themselves any sooner than necessary, fresh blooms that resemble sleepers just opening their eyes, and full blosssoms with the openhanded beauty of an old person's wrinkled face.
ref: 2012, T.D. Jakes, Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
Loose and full.
openhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more openhanded
form: most openhanded
Senses: examples: text: Patterson smacks her openhanded on the side of the head.
ref: 2014, Benjamin Whitmer, Cry Father, →ISBN, page 278:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
With an open hand or hands.
examples: text: He leaves the mild Alexander to continue, under the pressure of fraternal competition, the hereditary policy of Peter and Catherine; to raise levy after levy, loan after loan, ineffectually, while loans of any amount required are given openhanded by the people of France and England to their governments and the seas of the world remain open to the commerce of the Allies.
ref: 1856, The Living Age - Volume 48, page 502:
glosses: Alternative form of open-handed.
Generously.
openhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of openhand
openhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more openhearted
form: most openhearted
Etymology: From open + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Drinking must be sociable, and if it escalates to a certain degree of liveliness, then it promotes the arousal of the mind and makes it sociable. Moreover, in this way it also removes the propensity for dissimulation, and makes one openhearted.
ref: 2012, Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, Robert B. Louden, Lectures on Anthropology, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Dear son, don't be openhearted [generous], for openhearted people have empty pockets.
ref: 1918, William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group, Volume 2:
text: While we try to be openhearted to everyone around us, we can practice being openhearted to all the emotions, inner voices, and thoughts in our inner environment.
ref: 2013, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of open-hearted.
Derived terms: openheartedly
openheartedness
open-hearth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: open hearth
Senses: examples: text: a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
glosses: Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
examples: text: Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost was essential.
glosses: Designating the steel so produced.
examples: text: the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range
glosses: Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
Derived terms: open-hearth furnace
open-hearth process
Related terms: Siemens-Martin steel
reverberatory furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverberatory furnaces
Senses: glosses: A form of forge, used in smelting and refining, in which the material is melted by radiant heat and convection of hot gases, as opposed to direct contact with the fuel or flame (conduction).
Hyponyms: Pernot furnace
reverberatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːb(ə)ɹət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəˌɹeɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹə-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /ɹiˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
Forms: form: more reverberatory
form: most reverberatory
form: reverbatory
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin reverberatorius; by surface analysis, reverberate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing reverberation or deflection.
Derived terms: reverberatory furnace
reverberatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːb(ə)ɹət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəˌɹeɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɹə-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /ɹiˈvɚb(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
Forms: form: reverberatories
form: reverbatory
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin reverberatorius; by surface analysis, reverberate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: A reverberatory furnace.
open-plan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-plan
form: most open-plan
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having large rooms with few dividing barriers such as partitions.
Derived terms: open-plan kitchen
pronominal verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronominal verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of verb that has an attached pronoun in some languages (e.g. French, Spanish).
zip file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip files
Etymology: zip (meaning "move at high speed") was suggested by Robert Mahoney, friend of Phil Katz (original developer of the format).
Senses: examples: text: To make that functionality available, you have to place a zip file containing the source in the top-level directory of the plug-in [...]
ref: 2003, David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern, Eclipse in action: a guide for Java developers, page 244:
text: To e-mail a zip file, you need to attach the zip file to an e-mail message.
ref: 2004, Alan Simpson, Alan Simpson's Windows XP Bible, page 505:
text: Because zip is not just a compression format like deflation or gzip but an archival format, a single zip file often contains multiple [...]
ref: 2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O:
text: However, pipes can't be used to read SAS data sets from a zip file in this way. Pipes are used with FILENAME [...]. There is a way to read and write SAS data sets that are stored in a zip file.
ref: 2006, Phil Mason, SAS tips and techniques from around the globe, page 269:
glosses: A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.
wikipedia: Phil Katz
NWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N.W.T.
form: N. W. T.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Northwest Territories.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of new with tags.
traghetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traghettos
form: traghetti
Etymology: From Italian traghetto (“ferry”).
Senses: glosses: A gondola that ferries people across the Grand Canal in Venice.
run on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs on
form: running on
form: ran on
form: run on
Senses: examples: text: We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time.
glosses: To continue without interruption
examples: text: I was still running on daylight savings time.
text: Sorry, Hillary. I was running on CP time.
ref: 2016 April 9, Bill de Blasio, "Shamilton" at the Inner Circle Dinner
glosses: Using a certain time zone.
examples: text: She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways.
glosses: To continue talking for a long time.
examples: text: This car runs on bio-alcohol.
glosses: To operate with a particular energy source.
examples: text: Accordingly, depositors may run on a bank upon the receipt of adverse economic news that induces them to revise their assessment of a bank's soundness.
ref: 2009, Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Michael W. Taylor, Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies, page 27:
glosses: To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
glosses: To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
examples: text: The senator is running on his record.
glosses: To rely on (something) for popular support in an election.
examples: text: Don'chu run game on me.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone).
dealership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːləʃɪp/
Forms: form: dealerships
Etymology: From dealer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I visited the car dealership today.
text: It comes as a series of weekly protests branded “Tesla Takedown” have occurred at various locations across the U.S., which has seen a number of vehicles set on fire and various charging stations and dealerships vandalized by protesters.
On Tuesday, a masked man used molotov cocktails to firebomb a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas before firing rounds into the burning vehicles.
ref: 2025 March 19, Tom Sanders, “Anti-Musk Hackers Share Names and Addresses of Tesla Owners”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: A place that sells items, especially cars.
Derived terms: nondealership
stealership
flick the bean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flicks the bean
form: flicking the bean
form: flicked the bean
form: flicked the bean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flick one's bean.
disinheritance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪnˈhɛrɪtən(t)s/
/ˌdɪsənˈhɛrətən(t)s/
Forms: form: disinheritances
Etymology: From dis- + inheritance, replacing Middle English disheritaunce.
Senses: synonyms: disheritance
glosses: The act of disinheriting.
full of beans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full of beans
form: most full of beans
Etymology: Attested since the 1840s. Possibly a reference to coffee beans. Attributed to Robert Strang.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you mean by the expression 'Bucks you up'?"
"Well, makes you full of beans, you know. Makes you fizz."
"I don't understand a word you say. You're English, aren't you?"
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Aunt and the Sluggard”, in My Man Jeeves:
text: Irwin's friend Chris White reflected on a friendship that began in 1975. . . . "Full of beans, full of life, gung-ho, fearless, tenacious at anything he attempted."
ref: 2006 September 6, Karen Thomas, Lindsey Arkley, “World mourns 'Crocodile Hunter'”, in USA Today, retrieved 06 Nov 2008:
text: "The antibiotics are working a treat and he's full of beans. Too many beans, actually. He's asleep now." She gestured to the chaos of the sitting room.
ref: 2010, Yvonne Lindsay, For the Sake of the Secret Child, page 68:
synonyms: feeling one's oats
full of piss and vinegar
glosses: Energetic and enthusiastic.
Related terms: be on one's beanwater
full of beans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full of beans
form: most full of beans
Etymology: Attested since the 1930s. A euphemistic form of full of shit.
Senses: examples: text: Anybody who tells you that they know what today's readers want is full of beans.
ref: 2008 March 31, David Carr, “Talk to the Newsroom: David Carr, Culture Reporter and Business Columnist”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Nov 2008:
text: McCain says he can save $100 billion in earmarks, but he's full of beans.
ref: 2008, Paul Begala, Third Term: Why George W. Bush ♥ John McCain, page 73:
glosses: Incorrect; uninformed; exaggerating or expressing falsehood.
Synonyms: sense: uninformed, expressing falsehood
word: full of shit
shacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shack up
shacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sharing a small room or accommodation between many (often too many) people
glosses: (of a couple) Sharing a house, but not married.
couple up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: couples up
form: coupling up
form: coupled up
form: coupled up
Senses: examples: text: It is utterly impossible for any factory in the United States to couple up 8,000 feet of hose within ten hours unless they had thirty or forty men on and have the couplings made, […]
ref: 1892, Congressional Serial Set, page 492:
glosses: To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two.
examples: text: For this next challenge, you'll need to couple up with someone.
text: By contrast, lesbians are sexually sedate. They dont cruise sex clubs. They couple up and stay coupled, and they like cuddling and hugging more than they do serious, genitally-based sex.
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
glosses: To get into pairs; to become a group of two.
Related terms: pair up
pal up
massaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of massage
massaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massagings
Senses: glosses: The act of giving a massage.
complicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complicate
dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispatch
dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispatch
waging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wage
thickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thicken
televised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of televise
televised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The disruption to rail-related construction follows Johnson's televised address to the nation on March 23, after which fresh government guidelines on social distancing were issued to help halt the spread of Coronavirus.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Crossrail heads the construction projects placed on hold”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: Broadcast by television.
squished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squish
spliced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splice
rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of rig
rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rig
refundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refund + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The entrance fee is refundable if you choose not to stay for more than half an hour.
glosses: Able to be refunded in case of customer dissatisfaction, loss, breakage etc.
Related terms: deposit
refundable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refundables
Etymology: From refund + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that is eligible to be refunded.
reinsert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinserts
form: reinserting
form: reinserted
form: reinserted
Etymology: From re- + insert.
Senses: examples: text: The spare intermediate vehicles have been sent north by road to Worksop for store, but will be reinserted into the EMUs when required.
ref: 2019 December 4, Richard Clinnick, “New trains rolled out for December timetable”, in Rail, page 31:
glosses: To insert again.
reabsorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reabsorbs
form: reabsorbing
form: reabsorbed
form: reabsorbed
Etymology: From re- + absorb.
Senses: glosses: To absorb again.
reacquire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reacquires
form: reacquiring
form: reacquired
form: reacquired
Etymology: From re- + acquire.
Senses: glosses: To acquire again.
reactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reactivates
form: reactivating
form: reactivated
form: reactivated
Etymology: From re- + activate.
Senses: glosses: To activate again.
readdress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readdresses
form: readdressing
form: readdressed
form: readdressed
Etymology: From re- + address.
Senses: examples: text: Her latest paper readdresses some old problems in philosophy.
text: “Evenin', Commander,” Clarke said with mock cheerfulness. “How's it goin'?” Gadsby ignored this overture, turned away, and readdressed himself to his drink.
ref: 1953, Uell Stanley Andersen, The Smoldering Sea, page 161:
glosses: To address or deal with again.
examples: text: John doesn't live there any more. You'd better readdress that parcel.
text: We can use this relocator code ourselves to readdress the DOS to the memory level that we want.
ref: 1987, Nibble, volume 8, numbers 1-6, page 160:
glosses: To change the address of.
readjust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readjusts
form: readjusting
form: readjusted
form: readjusted
Etymology: From re- + adjust.
Senses: glosses: To adjust again.
Derived terms: readjuster
readjustment
readmit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: readmits
form: readmitting
form: readmitted
form: readmitted
form: re-admit
form: reädmit
Etymology: From re- + admit.
Senses: glosses: To admit, or allow to enter, again.
Derived terms: readmission
readmittance
readopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readopts
form: readopting
form: readopted
form: readopted
Etymology: From re- + adopt.
Senses: glosses: adopt again
Derived terms: readoption
reanalyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈæn.ə.laɪz/
ipa: /ɹiˈæn.ə.laɪz/
ipa: [ɹiˈɛən.ə.laɪz]
ipa: [ɹiˈɛːn.ə.laɪz]
ipa: /ɹiːˈæn.ə.lɑɪz/
ipa: /ɹiːˈæn.lɑɪz/
Forms: form: reanalyzes
form: reanalyzing
form: reanalyzed
form: reanalyzed
form: reanalyse
Etymology: From re- + analyze.
Senses: glosses: To analyze again.
examples: text: "SOS" has, in contemporary usage, been reanalyzed to stand for "save our souls".
text: Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.'
ref: 2006, Shaligram Shukla, Jeff Connor-Linton, “Language change”, in Ralph Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 296:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding.
Derived terms: reanalyzable
Related terms: reanalysis
reapply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: reapplies
form: reapplying
form: reapplied
form: reapplied
form: re-apply
Etymology: From re- + apply.
Senses: examples: text: In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:
glosses: To apply again.
Coordinate terms: deapply
preapply
unapply
Related terms: recoat
reappoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reappoints
form: reappointing
form: reappointed
form: reappointed
Etymology: From re- + appoint.
Senses: glosses: appoint again
reappraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reappraises
form: reappraising
form: reappraised
form: reappraised
Etymology: From re- + appraise.
Senses: glosses: To appraise again.
Derived terms: reappraisal
rearrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rearrests
form: rearresting
form: rearrested
form: rearrested
Etymology: From re- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: The police rearrested the suspect after finding new evidence linking him to the crime.
glosses: To arrest again.
rearrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearrests
Etymology: From re- + arrest.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent arrest.
reascend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reascends
form: reascending
form: reascended
form: reascended
Etymology: From re- + ascend.
Senses: examples: text: I had forgotten my umbrella, and had to reascend the stairs to find it.
text: […] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]
ref: 1738, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses:
glosses: To ascend again.
reassemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːəˈsɛmbəl/
Forms: form: reassembles
form: reassembling
form: reassembled
form: reassembled
Etymology: From re- + assemble.
Senses: glosses: To assemble again.
examples: text: Once the concrete for each section has cured, the wall sections are disassembled and reassembled further along, while the inner section is moved along ready for the next section to be constructed.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: To put back together; to reverse the process of disassembly.
reassert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reasserts
form: reasserting
form: reasserted
form: reasserted
Etymology: From re- + assert.
Senses: examples: text: Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
text: They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.
ref: 2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120:
glosses: assert again
Derived terms: reassertion
reassign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reassigns
form: reassigning
form: reassigned
form: reassigned
form: re-assign
Etymology: From re- + assign.
Senses: examples: text: The offending employees were reassigned after the incident.
text: Two months later, it was reassigned to Toton, and was named RAIL Magazine at Cardiff Canton open day on April 10 2000.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
coordinate_terms: unassign
;
reallocate
redistribute
glosses: To assign again or anew.
glosses: To transfer back what was previously assigned.
Derived terms: reassignment
re-attach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-attaches
form: re-attaching
form: re-attached
form: re-attached
Etymology: From re- + attach.
Senses: glosses: To attach again.
Derived terms: re-attachment
recatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recatches
form: recatching
form: recaught
form: recaught
Etymology: From re- + catch.
Senses: synonyms: recapture
glosses: To catch again.
rethatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rethatches
form: rethatching
form: rethatched
form: rethatched
Etymology: From re- + thatch.
Senses: glosses: To thatch again, especially something that has previously been thatched.
reattain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːəˈteɪn/
Forms: form: reattains
form: reattaining
form: reattained
form: reattained
Etymology: From re- + attain.
Senses: examples: text: On balance, it would seem fair to say that the standards of 1939 were about equalled, being not yet reattained in some respects but excelled in others.
ref: 1956 September, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Exile's Return”, in Railway Magazine, page 586:
text: While the Deutsche Bundesbahn has not reattained the pre-eminence in European railway speed that the German railways enjoyed before the 1939-1945 war, speeds in that country are steadily moving upwards [...].
ref: 1962 August, 'Mercury', “The fastest trains on the Continent, 1962: II—Western Germany”, in Modern Railways, page 125:
glosses: To attain again.
Derived terms: reattainment
reattempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reattempts
form: reattempting
form: reattempted
form: reattempted
Etymology: From re- + attempt.
Senses: glosses: To attempt again.
reattempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reattempts
Etymology: From re- + attempt.
Senses: glosses: Another attempt.
reboil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reboils
form: reboiling
form: reboiled
form: reboiled
Etymology: From re- + boil.
Senses: hypernyms: boil#Verb
glosses: To boil again.
Related terms: overboil
underboil
rebake
recook
refry
rebroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebroadcasts
Etymology: From re- + broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: In another demonstration against the broadcast, members of GLAAD participated in a weeklong phone-in protest to the local PBS affiliate and were told a rebroadcast of the film scheduled for March 29 had been canceled.
ref: 1986 April 5, Bruce Michael Gelbert, “PBS Runs Anti-Black, Anti-Gay AIDS Show”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: retransmission, a repeated or relayed broadcast
rebroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebroadcasts
form: rebroadcasting
form: rebroadcast
form: rebroadcast
form: rebroadcasted
form: rebroadcasted
Etymology: From re- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast again.
rebury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reburies
form: reburying
form: reburied
form: reburied
Etymology: From re- + bury.
Senses: examples: text: Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.
ref: 2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017, ASIA PACIFIC:
text: As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.
ref: 2013, Catherine Bates, “Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”, in Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup, editors, Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border (Cultural Studies), Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: To bury again.
Derived terms: reburial
recalculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recalculates
form: recalculating
form: recalculated
form: recalculated
Etymology: From re- + calculate.
Senses: glosses: To calculate again.
Derived terms: recalculation
recharter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recharters
form: rechartering
form: rechartered
form: rechartered
Etymology: From re- + charter.
Senses: glosses: To charter again
glosses: To grant a second charter
recharter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recharters
Etymology: From re- + charter.
Senses: examples: 1833-1834, Daniel Webster, The removal of the deposits
if the public will […] shall demand a recharter for a longer or a shorter time
glosses: A second, or renewed charter