cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
roomie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːmi
Forms: form: roomies
form: roomy
Etymology: From room + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “The bed is amazing,” he said and grinned. “Good night, roomie,” he said and chuckled.
ref: 2018, Alexa Davis, Beautiful Roomie: Maxwell Brothers Romance Series, #9, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: “Don't you dare, roomie,” he murmured, moving his lips to her jaw.
ref: 2021, Kate Meader, Dear Roomie: A Grumpy-Sunshine Hockey Romance, United States: Kate Meader LLC, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: The last thing she remembers before drifting off to sleep is seeing her roomie use a disposable razor to shave someone's head.
ref: 1995, Cosmopolitan: Volume 219, United States: Hearst Corporation, page 127:
glosses: A roommate.
up-to-the-minute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up-to-the-minute
form: most up-to-the-minute
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing up-to-the-minute fashion.
glosses: modern, contemporary
examples: text: An up-to-the-minute news report.
glosses: including the very latest information
Related terms: au courant
spontaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒn.tə.neɪ.ə.ti/
Forms: form: spontaneities
Etymology: From Latin spontaneus (“voluntary”). Compare French spontanéité.
Senses: examples: text: In any case, they are not very big on spontaneity. They sit on him for a few minutes before they decide what to do next.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 400:
text: The unpredictability of Gemini was then contrasted with examples of human spontaneity, like the splatter technique of Jackson Pollock.
ref: 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews:
glosses: The quality of being spontaneous.
examples: text: Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses out the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Third Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Spontaneous behaviour.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being spontaneous
word: abruptness
word: spontaneousness
word: suddenness
Related terms: spontaneous
hard-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdæs/
rhymes: -ɑɹdæs
Forms: form: more hard-ass
form: most hard-ass
form: hardass
form: hard-arse
form: hardarse
Etymology: From hard + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: Hopefully you don't take such a hard-ass approach as this.
glosses: Tough, uncompromising and inflexible.
hard-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdæs/
rhymes: -ɑɹdæs
Forms: form: hard-asses
form: hardass
form: hard-arse
form: hardarse
Etymology: From hard + -ass.
Senses: glosses: A tough and combative person.
Derived terms: hard-assed
hard-assery
hardass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard-ass.
headcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcases
form: head-case
form: head case
Etymology: From head + case.
Senses: examples: text: "A stockbroker doesn't have 80,000 people sitting behind him just waiting for a mistake," says Jim Fassel, whom fans serenaded with "Fire Fassel!" chants during his final weeks as head coach of the New York Giants last season. "It can drive you crazy." From head coach to head case in three easy steps.
ref: 2004 April 5, Sean Gregory, “Full-Court Stress”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2010:
glosses: A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
examples: text: Another gene downstream of EcR/Usp is headcase. Screening genes that show genetic interactions with EcR mutants, Loncle and Williams identified headcase as a regulator of dendrite pruning (Loncle and Williams 2012).
ref: 2016, Kazuo Emoto, Rachel Wong, Eric Huang, Casper Hoogenraad, editors, Dendrites: Development and Disease, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: hdc
glosses: A genetic sequence that inhibits terminal branching of the trachea and regulates dendrite pruning.
head-case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of headcase.
head case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head cases
Senses: examples: text: "He's a head case, man. I mean... what is it with him? He's a sado-sicko, gets high on inflicting pain. He really tied you to the cross?"
ref: 2005, George Evans, Pale Horse Among Us, page 174:
glosses: Alternative spelling of headcase.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see head, case.
gibblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of giblets.
louse around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: louses around
form: lousing around
form: loused around
form: loused around
Senses: glosses: To slack off; to be lazy or a parasite on others.
louse up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: louses up
form: lousing up
form: loused up
form: loused up
Senses: examples: text: To be loused up by Humbolt was really a kind of privilege. It was like being the subject of a two-nosed portrait by Picasso, or an eviscerated chicken by Soutine.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: The recent flu epidemic that loused up all my plans to see Pat Bond.
ref: 1980 April 12, Nancy Walker, “Parents and Friends of Gays”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: To mess up; to confuse; to put into a state of disorder.
glosses: To mistreat (someone).
Related terms: lousy
Desderman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, perhaps from derm- (“skin”).
Senses: glosses: A surgical range of hand disinfectants.
lever arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lever arms
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The distance between the point of application of a force and the axis.
Related terms: moment arm
resistance arm
post-rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post rock
form: postrock
Etymology: From post- + rock. Coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music which uses rock instrumentation for songs with gradually unfolding structures that depend more on ambience and timbre than melody.
mogwai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒɡwaɪ/
Forms: form: mogwais
form: mogwai
Etymology: From Cantonese 魔怪 (mo1 gwaai3), 魔鬼 (mo1 gwai2).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A kind of demon held to be harmful to humans.
systematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪs.tɪˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌsəs.təˈmɛt.ək/
ipa: [ˌsəs.təˈmɛɾ.ək]
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more systematic
form: most systematic
form: systematick
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin systēmaticus, from Koine Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós), from σύστημᾰ (sústēmă, “a composite; system”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix). Cognate with French systématique and Italian sistematico. By surface analysis, system + -atic.
Senses: glosses: Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.
examples: text: Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast, burning so-called "slaving factories" to the ground and openly daring anyone who objected to try and stop him.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:26 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
antonyms: chaotic
haphazard
glosses: Methodical; regular and orderly.
examples: text: the systematic study of religious beliefs
glosses: Treating an object as a system or coherent whole.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Of or relating to taxonomic classification.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or in accordance with generally recognized conventions for the naming of chemicals.
examples: text: But the systematic judgment is altogether unprofitable. Its author has not really his eye upon the professed object of his criticism at all, but upon something else, which he wants to prove by means of that object. […] As it is, all that he tells us is that he is no genuine critic, but a man with a system, an advocate.
ref: 1878 January, “A French Critic on Goethe”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 145, number 289, page 145:
text: And Paruta’s work also suggests that Venetians in the generation following the battle of Lepanto, although without altogether abandoning systematic views, were tending increasingly to look to history for their understanding of human affairs.
ref: 1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 219:
glosses: Of, relating to, or being a system.
Derived terms: asystematic
biosystematic
chemosystematic
ecosystematic
intersystematic
nonsystematic
oversystematic
semisystematic
systematicality
systematically
systematic element name
systematicist
systematicity
systematic name
systematicness
systematic risk
systematics
systematize
transsystematic
ultrasystematic
unsystematic
Related terms: systemic
systematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪs.tɪˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌsəs.təˈmɛt.ək/
ipa: [ˌsəs.təˈmɛɾ.ək]
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more systematic
form: most systematic
form: systematick
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin systēmaticus, from Koine Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós), from σύστημᾰ (sústēmă, “a composite; system”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix). Cognate with French systématique and Italian sistematico. By surface analysis, system + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: "So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the best and storing us in cages and things."
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:
text: And say, when them Gogs started out to put a thing through they did it systematic and thorough.
ref: 2019, Sewell Ford, Torchy and Vee:
glosses: systematically
insiccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of drying out.
Related terms: desiccate
molluscivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molluscivores
Etymology: From mollusc + -vore.
Senses: glosses: Any creature that eats molluscs.
Related terms: molluscivorous
New York State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: New York state
Senses: glosses: A state of the United States.
Synonyms: New York
Empire State
State of New York
NYS
Derived terms: nystatin
oyes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oyez.
oyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyeses
form: oyesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oyez.
oyez
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjɛs/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: (UK) -ɛs
Forms: form: oyes
Etymology: From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“hear; listen”), from Latin audīre.
Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.
Senses: glosses: Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).
oyez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjɛs/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: (UK) -ɛs
Forms: form: oyezes
form: oyes
Etymology: From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“hear; listen”), from Latin audīre.
Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.
Senses: glosses: A cry of "oyez".
oyez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈjɛs/
ipa: /oʊˈjeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: (UK) -ɛs
Forms: form: oyes
Etymology: From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“hear; listen”), from Latin audīre.
Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.
Senses: examples: text: I truſte you make no queſtion about thoſe dull pated pennifathers, that in ſuch dudgen ſcorne reiected him, drunck deep of the ſowre cup of repentance for it, when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyeſſed.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: To proclaim with a cry of "oyez".
lickety-split
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: lickedy-split
Etymology: First attested during the 19th century, in the US, equivalent to lickedy + split, perhaps as a reference to the flick or darting of a snake's forked tongue. The forms lickety-cut and licketie are similarly attested; and forms with t are likely due to Scottish influence.
Senses: examples: text: At the sound of the starting gun, they were off and running lickety-split.
text: I need tea right now, lickety-split.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:lickety.
glosses: Quickly; as fast as possible; in short order.
doodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdud(ə)l/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: doodles
Etymology: Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”).
The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle.
The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.
ref: 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43
text: Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,
Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!
ref: 1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231
text: Courtier, it was thine to bow —
 Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!
ref: 1837 November, “Carmen Inaugurale”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 676:
glosses: A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
glosses: A small mindless sketch, etc.
examples: text: His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
ref: 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.
ref: 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 43:
text: All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle. He had the wandering-est doodle in three states. His doodle had its own set of legs. His doodle was hardly at home. Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's doodle was hardly ever in his pants.
ref: 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
glosses: The penis.
Synonyms: sense: fool
word: fool
sense: penis
word: penis
Derived terms: word: cheese doodle
word: cock-a-doodle-do
word: cock-a-doodle-doo
word: dipsy-doodle
word: dipsy doodle
word: doodlebrain
word: doodlebug
word: doodle-bug
word: doodlehead
word: doodlelike
word: doodler
word: doodly
word: droodle
word: flap doodle
word: flap-doodle
word: fopdoodle
word: fuck-a-doodle-doo
word: Google Doodle
word: holy doodle
word: sardoodledom
word: whang-doodle
word: Yankee Doodle
Related terms: doddle
fadoodle
flapdoodle
doodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdud(ə)l/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: doodles
form: doodling
form: doodled
form: doodled
Etymology: Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”).
The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle.
The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.
Senses: examples: text: The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
glosses: To draw or scribble aimlessly.
examples: text: I've been expecting women's music finally to discover New Wave and technopop, and this album is the evidence that someone has been peaking ^([sic]) at music videos and doodling around with sythesizers.
ref: 1984 August 4, Maida Tilchen, “Sex, Politics, and Good Vibes”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up.
ref: 2003 February 23, 14tonks, “More doctors charging for e-mail and phone calls”, in sci.med.transcription (Usenet):
text: For quite a long time now (at least the 1990s) people have been doodling with the idea of separating space and time again and perhaps endowing them with some properties currently not assigned to them.
ref: 2016 May 19, JanPB, “Quantization of Gravity”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet):
glosses: To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.
raw_tags: with with and/or around
glosses: To drone like a bagpipe.
doodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdud(ə)l/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: doodles
Etymology: Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle
Senses: glosses: Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: whoopsie-doodle
systematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: From systematic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Systematics is intended to be the study of "qualitative" and structural aspects of all things in the universe; and if feasible, is designed to absorb eventually the "quantitative approach" of mathematics toward human and physical worlds as well. It is hoped that systematics will be able to develop a quantitative field and thus to enable it to incorporate mathematics into its realm of studies some time in the future.
ref: 2009, Victor Lux Tonn, Systematics and the Economics of Culture, →ISBN, page 187:
text: Trees are the central objects of systematic analysis. Taxa are ordered, characters explained, and hypotheses tested on trees. Since systematics informs and draws on other areas of science, there is a diversity of terminology for trees and their components.
ref: 2012, Ward C. Wheeler, Systematics: A Course of Lectures, →ISBN, page 2-6:
glosses: The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
glosses: The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
examples: text: Systematics is an effort to understand those specifically theological affirmations that the theologian holds to be true and so regards as doctrines.
ref: 1990, Robert M. Doran, Theology and the Dialectics of History, →ISBN, page 7:
text: The seventh functional specialty, systematics, is concerned with promoting an understanding of the realitites affirmed in the previous specialty, doctrines.
ref: 1990, Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Method in Theology - Volume 12, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Not exegesis itself, then, but biblical theology, provides the material for systematics .... Bliblical theology is not, then, a rival of systematics; it is not even a parallel product of the same body of facts, provided by exegesis; it is the basis and source of systematics.
ref: 2006, M. James Sawyer, The Survivor's Guide to Theology, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
examples: text: Different kinds of systematic interpretation of statutes affect each other. Construction of a statutory provision depends at the same time on interpretation of other provisions, systematics of the statute, conceptual analysis and theories formulated in legal dogmatics.
ref: 1989, Aleksander Peczenik, “Coherence, Truth and Rightness in the Law”, in Patrick J. Nerhot, editor, Law, Interpretation and Reality. Essays in Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
Derived terms: discontinuity systematics
same-sex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: same sex
Senses: examples: a same-sex school
glosses: Restricted to members of a single sex.
examples: text: Some nations have legalized same-sex marriage.
text: Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
ref: 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2020, retrieved 29 May 2013:
text: While there are a number of human characters—for example Steve Cortez, Kelly Chambers, Diana Allers, and Samantha Traynor—offered as potential same-sex partners for Shepard, these characters are not romance options until Mass Effect 2 or 3. Only Kaidan Alenko, among human same-sex romantic partners, participates in the player's squad at any time, providing he was not sacrificed in the first game, making most same-sex partners marginal to the player's overall experiences within the game.
ref: 2015, Summer Glassie, “"Embraced eternity lately?": Mislabeling and subversion of sexuality labels through the Asari in the Mass Effect trilogy”, in Matthew Wysocki, Evan W. Lauteria, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games (Media Studes / Game Studies), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:
text: The Taipei High Administrative Court on July 21 ruled that same-sex partners Lu Yin-jen (盧盈任), a Taiwanese, and Eizaburo Ariyoshi, a Japanese, should not have been barred from registering their marriage at a local household registration office.
ref: 2022 August 3, Lee I-chia, “Groups call for marriage equality with no borders”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2022:
glosses: Of, relating to, or between homosexual men or women.
Synonyms: sense: Synonym
word: same-gender
sense: restricted to members of a single sex
word: single-sex
sense: of or relating to homosexual men or women
word: gay
sense: of or relating to homosexual men or women
word: homosexual
Derived terms: same-sexer
same-sexness
tie up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties up
form: tying up
form: tied up
form: tied up
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake.
text: The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault.
text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: “Mother — Mother will you tie up my shoeies?” Susan’s lisping voice interrupted their conversation.
ref: 1956 June 16, Dulce E. Waller, “Your Family and You”, in The Hamilton Spectator, volume CXI, number 140, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
glosses: To secure with rope, string, etc.
examples: text: He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now.
text: Just how much traffic was tied up was not immediately determined but in Houston about 150 cars of grain arrived yesterday and could not be transferred to the port because of the Port Terminal Railroad picketing.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
examples: text: I'd like to tie up the project before I leave.
glosses: To complete, finish, or resolve.
examples: text: Don't tie up your capital in aging accounts.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
Derived terms: tie up loose ends
Related terms: tie-up
Safar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Safars
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar), from صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”).
Senses: glosses: The second month of the Islamic calendar.
glosses: A surname, potentially of German or Arabic origin
breather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: breathers
Etymology: From breathe + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that breathes.
examples: text: Most of us make sense of the world through talk and sight, and breathers represent that most anxiety provoking experience, nothingness with a hint of possibility.
ref: 1981 April 25, Martin H. Krieger, “Phone Calls”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: A heavy breather.
examples: text: After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
text: I took a breather and decided not to ruin my life
ref: 2025, “Spike Island”, in More, performed by Pulp:
glosses: A short break; a rest or respite.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
glosses: That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An air inlet path to the crankcase
Synonyms: sense: short break
word: hiatus
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: pause
Derived terms: airbreather
breather switch
chest breather
firebreather
fire-breather
interbreather
mouth-breather
mouth breather
multibreather
phonobreather
take a breather
stand down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands down
form: standing down
form: stood down
form: stood down
Senses: examples: text: They ordered the troops to stand down for the moment.
antonyms: square off
square up
glosses: To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a heightened readiness posture.
examples: text: The remaining four locomotives in traffic […] are all expected to be stood down due to their high engine hours, as well as being due exams which the company is not prepared to undertake.
ref: 2023 November 29, “Last remaining DB Cargo Class 60s face final workings in December”, in RAIL, number 997, page 19:
synonyms: stand aside
step down
glosses: To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team.
hit on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits on
form: hitting on
form: hit on
form: hit on
Senses: examples: text: That's the third guy that has hit on her tonight.
text: Guys are hitting on them almost all the time.
text: Don Iguan: I have slithered the world over in search of beauty such as yours! Perhaps you'd like to come back to my lair this evening. I'll light some candles... put on some beetle music...
Mom: I'm married. Go hit on your sister.
ref: 2003 September 23, Bill Amend, FoxTrot (comic):
text: Anne watched as he put an arm around one of the bridesmaids and gave her a decidedly ungrandfatherly squeeze while attempting to look down her dress, then proceeded to hit on the mother of the groom.
ref: 2015, Sheila Roberts, A Wedding on Primrose Street, MIRA, →ISBN, page 181:
synonyms: proposition
come on
pass
make a pass
glosses: To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
examples: text: He hit on a great idea for improving the design.
text: I think you've just hit right on the solution.
glosses: To discover, pinpoint; to think up; to realize.
examples: text: He was hit on his head so strongly that he stumbled forward and then he was severely hit from several sides.
ref: 1996, Global Journal on Human Rights Law, page 210:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, on.
Related terms: hit upon
burgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbøː.d͡ʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən
Forms: form: burgeons
form: bourgeon
Etymology: From Middle English burjon, burjoun (“shoot, bud”), from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon (“a bud”)), from Old Frankish *burjō (“sprout, offshoot, descendant”), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *burjaną (“to raise up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Compare Old High German burjan, burien, burren (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”), Albanian buron (“sprout, spring, gush out”). More at bear.
Alternate etymology derives Old French burjon (“bud”) from Vulgar Latin *burrionem, accusative of *burrio, from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff”) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).
Senses: glosses: A bud, sprout, or shoot.
burgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈbøː.d͡ʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən
Forms: form: burgeons
form: burgeoning
form: burgeoned
form: burgeoned
form: bourgeon
Etymology: From Middle English burjounen, from Old French borjoner, bourjoner, burjuner.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.
synonyms: blossom
expand
grow
sprout
glosses: To grow or expand.
glosses: To swell to the point of bursting.
synonyms: blossom
bud
green
sprout
glosses: Of plants, to bloom, bud.
Derived terms: burgeoning
reburgeon
Sha'aban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sha'abans
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Sha'ban.
go-ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-aheads
Etymology: As a name for footwear, from the fact that one can't easily step backwards wearing them.
Senses: examples: text: You can start as soon as you get the go-ahead from the president.
text: Though Pietas has a combination of features that make terraforming a possibility, the rights to the planet have been tied up in Citadel Council courts for the past eight years. The running joke is that by the time the Council finally gives the go-ahead to colonize the planet, Pietas will have evolved life of its own.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pietas:
text: Greenwood's time as TSC [Transport Select Committee] chairman came to an end late last year, when MPs finally gave the go-ahead to an early General Election so that the Brexit deadlock in Parliament could be broken.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 34:
glosses: Approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed.
glosses: A flip-flop (footwear).
go-ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more go-ahead
form: most go-ahead
Etymology: As a name for footwear, from the fact that one can't easily step backwards wearing them.
Senses: examples: text: I work for a very go-ahead company that's always looking for new ideas.
text: This turbulent ruler was a very go-ahead monarch indeed. He organised a splendid army, well-drilled and well-equipped with modern arms
ref: 1906, Arthur Lincoln Haydon, The Book of the V. C., page 150:
text: "The Sultan's go-ahead, modern in some of his views."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 587:
glosses: Progressive; exerting leadership.
glosses: Dashing; energetic.
examples: text: The pitcher gave up the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being a score which gives the scoring team or player the lead in the game.
Hyponyms: sense: sports score
word: game-winning
Coordinate terms: sense: sports score
word: game-tying
LOTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lockout-tagout, a safety procedure to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and not started up again prior to the completion of maintenance or servicing work.
Shawwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shawwals
Etymology: From Arabic شَوَّال (šawwāl).
Senses: glosses: The tenth month of the Islamic calendar.
stand one's ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands one's ground
form: standing one's ground
form: stood one's ground
form: stood one's ground
Senses: examples: text: It soon appears that peasants and burghers, however brave, are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers, whose whole life is a preparation for the day of battle, whose nerves have been braced by long familiarity with danger, and whose movements have all the precision of clockwork.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “History of England, Before the Restoration”, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, copyright edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 41:
glosses: To hold a position in battle.
examples: text: They expect their opponents to stand their ground on the issue.
text: “What on earth did you think you were doing?” demanded Dad as he kneeled on his son’s bedroom floor.
“What on earth do you think you were doing?” replied Frank.
Dad did not look pleased that his question had been met by a question, and he stood his ground. “I asked first,” said the man.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To maintain or adhere to an opinion or position; to remain resolute in the face of opposition.
Synonyms: hold one's ground
all in all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: All in all, it's not a bad little restaurant.
text: There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Generally, all things considered
examples: text: There were twenty absentees all in all.
glosses: Altogether, in all, with everything included
examples: text: And I perceived no touch of change,
⁠No hint of death in all his frame,
⁠But found him all in all the same, […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Altogether, wholly, in every way
Synonyms: sense: generally
word: for the most part
word: mostly
word: on the whole
all in all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] to realize, by constant faith, the all-sufficiency of his redeeming power and love — to make him all his salvation and all his desire, the Alpha and Omega of all his hope, his all in all.
ref: 1822, William Goode, Essays on all the scriptural names and titles of Christ, page 181:
text: You saw us all in happier days before he married me. I was all in all then to him; or would he have given up his fortune, his family, as he nobly did to make me happy?
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Her mother had been all in all to her: she had never seemed to have any separate existence from that of her child.
ref: 1828, Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby, Yes and No: a Tale of the Day, page 12:
glosses: Everything that matters; the only thing of importance.
Dhul Hijjah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dhu'l-Hijja.
go-between
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-betweens
Etymology: Deverbal from go between.
Senses: examples: text: She's the go-between for engineering and manufacturing, so you'll have to ask her if you need to coordinate between the groups.
glosses: An intermediary or middleman.
topics: board-games
games
shogi
glosses: A shogi piece, used in chu shogi and larger shogi variants, that can move one step straight forward or straight backwards.
Synonyms: intercessor
intermediary
middleman
Related terms: go between
at large
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at-large
Etymology: From Middle English at large (“at liberty or freedom”) (compare Middle English ben at large (“to be at one's liberty, be free”)). Compare Old French au large (“at liberty” and other senses).
Senses: examples: text: For a nervous twenty-four hours, three wanted criminals were at large in the city.
text: The ambassador-at-large was designated to the Middle East as a region, rather than to a specific country.
text: The lady rode hastily away, and electrified her relatives at dinner by telling them of her escape from a family of dangerous lunatics. "The little girl's eyes were simply those of a maniac. I can't think how she came to be at large," she said.
ref: 1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It:
text: Officials say the unknown male suspect is still at large and request anyone with information regarding the case to contact Crimeline at (800) 423-8477.
ref: 2024 December 27, Leah Sarnoff, “Pregnant woman stabbed 14 times by pizza delivery driver over $2 tip: Police”, in abcnews.go.com:
synonyms: in the wild
on the loose
on the run
on the lam
glosses: On the loose; roaming freely; not confined.
examples: text: The like example I find in Lælius à Fonte Eugubinus, consult. 129 […]. Read in him the story at large.
ref: , vol.I, New York 2001, p.236
synonyms: entirely
in full
wholly
glosses: In full, fully.
examples: text: Some people support the measure, but the community at large will probably be against it.
synonyms: generally
in general
glosses: In general; as a whole.
examples: text: The city has five city council districts; however, the mayor is elected at large.
text: Although the elections for Boston City Council seats are still seven months away, the race between at-large candidates is beginning to heat up.
ref: 1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “City Council Candidates Lobby For The Gay Vote”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Having an electorate across multiple districts.
raw_tags: of an election or elected position
Derived terms: ambassador-at-large
county at large
editor-at-large
prisoner at large
statutes at large
with flying colors
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: with flying colours
Senses: examples: text: He passed the test with flying colors, as everyone had expected.
glosses: Extremely well; in an exceptional, noteworthy, or extraordinary manner.
glosses: With very little or no effort; easily.
Related terms: english: flying colors
translation: flying colors
word: flying colours
coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinate
coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coordinate
quotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwoʊˈteɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of quotation
hikmah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hikmahs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore to study hikmah (theosophy) is to undertake a journey towards God; towards divinity; in other words, to al-Haklm
ref: 1996, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, History of Islamic Philosophy, →ISBN, page 947:
text: Furthermore, the Qur'anic concept of hikmah, or wisdom, together with the concept of kitab, constitute the content of the Divine curriculum (kitab wa hikmah) that different historical societies were initiated into.
ref: 2013, Abdullah Sahin, New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation, →ISBN:
text: As such, hikmah is the knowing of the idea and reality of the Universal Truth of Divine Creation; that is to say, hikmah is the knowing of the Truth of God -- as Ibn Sina wrote, it encompasses Divine Science.
ref: 2015, Shahab Ahmed, What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic, →ISBN, page 16:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Wisdom and understanding about the divine.
Hira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِرَاء (ḥirāʔ).
Senses: examples: text: Visiting the cave of Hira, where the Prophet received his first revelations, and other historically significant mosques and offering namaz at the determined times kept them all occupied.
ref: 2025, Banu Mushtaq, “The Shroud”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 174:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the grotto or cave, in Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad first received the Qur'an from Gabriel.
Husayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Husain
form: Husein
form: Hussain
form: Hussein
form: Husayn
form: Ḥusayn
form: Huseyn
form: Husseyn
form: Hussien
form: Hussayn
form: Husseyin
form: Huseyin
form: Hüseyin
form: Hoseyn
form: Hosseyn
form: Hosein
form: Hossein
form: Hosain
form: Hossain
form: Hosayn
form: Hossayn
form: Housseine
form: Houssein
form: Houssain
form: Houssayn
form: Housseyn
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn), from the root ح س ن (ḥ s n).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A son of Ali and brother of Hassan; a martyr, and Shi'a Imam.
glosses: A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims, diminutive of حسن (“Hasan”) meaning good or handsome.
glosses: A Muslim surname from Arabic derived from the Arabic given name.
Husein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Husayn.
Hasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hasans
form: Hassan
Etymology: From Arabic حَسَن (ḥasan, “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The eldest son of Ali and brother of Husayn, both are Imams.
glosses: A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
Synonyms: Hasan bin Ali
Hassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hassans
Etymology: From Arabic حَسَن (ḥasan, “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hasan.
Synonyms: Hasan bin Ali
Related terms: Hussein
Hassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hassans
form: Hassaan
Etymology: From Arabic حَسَّان (ḥassān, “doer of good”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Hassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hassans
Etymology: From Hebrew חַזָּן (khazán, “cantor”), possibly via Ladino hassan.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
Hassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hassans
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó hOsáin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Hassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the nearby temple.
Senses: glosses: A district and city in Karnataka, India.
Hamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɑs/
ipa: /həˈmæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: Khamas
form: HAMAS
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). A few speakers pronounce it with /x/ to imitate Hebrew חַמַאס instead.
Senses: examples: text: Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.
ref: 2009 January 13, “'Never again,' says survivor”, in Toronto Star:
text: [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
ref: 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
wikipedia: Hamas
Derived terms: Hamasite
Hamasnik
Hamastan
Ibada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic عِبَادَة (ʕibāda, “worship”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: service to Allah; sometimes included in the five pillars
arkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rukn
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَرْكان (ʔarkān).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The five "pillars", requirements or devotional duties of Islam: shahada, salat, zakat, saum and hajjh.
arkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkic languages: "lasso", "tether" (:tr:urgan), "rope" (arqan).
Senses: glosses: A Ukrainian folk dance
five pillars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the five pillars
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Five Pillars.
loins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of loin
loins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The pubic region.
examples: text: Neuertheleſſe, thou ſhalt not build the houſe, but thy ſonne that ſhall come foorth out of thy loynes, hee ſhall build the house vnto my Name.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:19, column 1:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The pubic region.
The reproductive organs.
Derived terms: fruit of one's loins
gird one's loins
gird up one's loins
Related terms: lumb-
lumbo-
lumbago
lumbar
lumbosacral
tangata whenua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaŋətə fɛˈnʊə/
Etymology: From Maori tangata whenua (“people of the land”).
Senses: examples: text: In the next two decades, however, the demographic, economic and political impact of the new colonists would transform the country in ways that the tangata whenua could never have foreseen.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 179:
glosses: Local or indigenous people; specifically, the Maori.