cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wintergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/
Forms: form: wintergreens
Etymology: From winter + green.
Senses: glosses: Any evergreen plant.
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Orthilia
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Moneses
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
glosses: One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
glosses: The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
glosses: The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
glosses: The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
Synonyms: sense: perennial of the genus Pyrola
word: shinleaf
sense: Gaultheria procumbens
word: boxberry
sense: Gaultheria procumbens
word: checkerberry
sense: Gaultheria procumbens
word: partridgeberry
sense: Gaultheria procumbens
word: spiceberry
sense: Gaultheria procumbens
word: teaberry
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pyrola americana
word: American wintergreen
word: chickweed wintergreen
word: creeping wintergreen
word: English wintergreen
word: false wintergreen
word: flowering wintergreen
word: lesser wintergreen
word: oil of wintergreen
word: one-flowered wintergreen
word: round-leaved wintergreen
taxonomic: Chimaphila maculata
word: spotted wintergreen
word: striped wintergreen
word: whitevein wintergreen
word: wintergreen barberry
word: wintergreen oil
Related terms: taxonomic: Pterospora andromedea
word: pinedrops
taxonomic: Monotropa hypopitys
word: pinesap
taxonomic: Pyrola elliptica
word: shinleaf
word: surgical spirit
profiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profiters
Etymology: From profit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who profits.
Hyponyms: profiteer
lunar eclipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar eclipses
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A phenomenon occurring when the Earth casts a shadow over the Moon.
Related terms: word: 🝶
word: blood moon
word: solar eclipse
émigré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/
Forms: form: émigrés
form: emigre
form: émigre
form: emigré
Etymology: Borrowed from French émigré.
Senses: examples: text: Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 516:
glosses: A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
examples: text: Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land.
ref: 1983 July 22, Janet Maslin, “‘Liquid Sky,’ High Fashion and a U.F.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen.
ref: 1991, Vipan Chandra, “Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in William Shaw, editor, Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
text: In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.
ref: 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving
text: His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
ref: 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:
text: […]the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés.
ref: 2008 September 20, David Amsden, “The Dubliners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.
ref: 2014 February 20, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books:
glosses: An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
Related terms: emigrant
emigration
émigrée
expatriate
immigrant
refugee
retirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retirers
Etymology: From retire + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And the pension should be re-cast by providing more to the over-80s - those who retired in the Sixties and Seventies who are much worse off than later retirers
ref: 1993 February 8, Nicholas Timmins, “Tory MP puts case for later retirement”, in The Independent:
text: And so Favre, serial retirer, unretired for the second time in less than two years Tuesday, joining the Vikings for a contract that ESPN reported was worth $12 million this season and $13 million in 2010 — if he does not retire again.
ref: 2009 August 19, Judy Battista, “In Another U-Turn, Favre Un-Retires”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who retires.
Synonyms: retiree
Related terms: retiree
retirement
Des Moines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɔɪn/
ipa: /dəˈmɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Etymology: From the French name of the nearby Rivière des Moines, which superficially means "river of the monks" and has traditionally been interpreted as a reference to the Trappist monks who settled along it. "It is more likely, however, to be a name of Native American origin, recorded in a 1673 text as moinguena", a Miami designation of the Moingona. The precise interpretation is uncertain; see Moingona.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Iowa, United States and the county seat of Polk County.
glosses: A city in Washington.
glosses: A village in New Mexico.
glosses: A river in the United States, that flows from southern Minnesota into the Mississippi.
Derived terms: Des Moines County
Des Moines squash
West Des Moines
cheville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈviː/
ipa: /ʃəˈviːl/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: chevilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French cheville. Doublet of clavicle.
Senses: examples: text: The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing:
text: The practice of using chevilles was very common in old Irish poetry, and a bad practice it was; for many a good poem is quite spoiled by the constant and wearisome recurrence of these chevilles.
ref: 1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, English as we speak it in Ireland, chapter 5:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.
tendu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendus
Etymology: From French tendu (“stretched”).
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A move in which the leg and foot stretch to point in a particular direction, but the foot does not leave the floor.
tendu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तेंदू (tendū), from Sanskrit तिन्दुक (tinduka).
Senses: examples: text: […]the milky stems of Ak and Thubar, and all parts of the Tendu, have a noxious effect on the water. The Tendu is said to be so poisonous that if a branch fall into the water the fish of the tank will die.
ref: 1866 January 29, W. McNeile, Best Means of Keeping Water Sweet when Stored in Tanks, page 12:
text: More than 3 million workers are involved in the tendu leaf collection.
ref: 2004, Kaushik Basu, India's Emerging Economy, Penguin Random House LLC, →ISBN, page 309:
glosses: Diospyros melanoxylon, a tree in the family Ebenaceae, native to parts of South Asia, whose leaves are used as beedi-wrappers.
Synonyms: Coromandel ebony
East Indian ebony
kendu
temburini
tuniki
arrière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arriere.
Related terms: en arrière
calamities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamity
uneasily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneasily
form: most uneasily
Etymology: From uneasy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
glosses: In an uneasy manner.
Synonyms: hesitantly
restlessly
damsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmzəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of damsel
bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracelet
bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of thirty bare yeares haue I
twice twenty bin enraged,
& of forty bin three tymes fifteene
in durance soundlie caged,
On yͤ lordlie loftes of Bedlam
with stubble softe & dainty,
braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dong
with wholesome hunger plenty
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: "Sergeant," said Inspector Gilder, eyeing the black hands with wrath, "aren't you putting the bracelets on this fellow; he looks pretty dangerous."
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Three Tools of Death:
glosses: handcuffs
bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bracelet
betrays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betray
cartridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartridge
prosecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prosecute
outrages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrage
outrages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outrage
listeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of listener
counsellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counsellor
bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearer
excelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excel
oil of wintergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The aromatic oil obtained from the berries of the wintergreen plant; mostly methyl salicylate; used medicinally and in perfumes
porters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porter
porters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of porter
wavered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waver
thinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinker
sniffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sniff
mercies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercy
methyl salicylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The methyl ester of salicylic acid and the principal constituent of oil of wintergreen.
worshippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worshipper
warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warning
boulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulder
pursuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursuer
consuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consul
grievances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.vən.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of grievance
moaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moan
galleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galley
criticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticism
rabble-rouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabble-rousers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rabble rouser.
examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of examination
sects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkts/
ipa: /sɛks/
Senses: glosses: plural of sect
realities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: plural of reality.
labourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labourer
conquerors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conqueror
insists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insist
winked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wink
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
form: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Senses: synonyms: NSAID
for hyponyms and hypernyms, see Thesaurus:nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
glosses: Any anti-inflammatory drug, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, that does not contain steroids.
Synonyms: word: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
word: NSAID
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
word: analgesic
word: antipyretic
Hyponyms: word: aspirin
word: azapropazone
word: celecoxib
word: diflunisal
word: ibuprofen
word: indomethacin
word: flunixin
word: flunoxaprofen
word: meloxicam
word: metamizole
word: miroprofen
word: naproxen
word: nepafenac
word: nimesulide
word: oxicam
word: sulindac
Related terms: word: paracetamol
word: acetaminophen
thanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thank
thanking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thankings
Senses: examples: text: 1484, William Caxton, The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, Book 3, “The Lyon & the pastour or herdman,”
And therfore this is notary and trewe that al maner of folke ought to rendre and gyue thankynges grace and mercye to theyre good doers
text: Many and hearty thankings to you both.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Bridesmaids and their dresses, thankings for wedding presents, best man, going-away clothes […] I’ve been engaged in such things for weeks.
ref: 1928, Hugh Walpole, chapter 7, in Wintersmoon:
glosses: The act by which thanks are given; thanks.
randomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹændəməˈzeɪt͡ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹændəməˈzeɪt͡ʃən/
ipa: [ˌɹɛəndəməˈzeɪt͡ʃən]
ipa: /ˌɹændəməˈzæɪt͡ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɛndəməˈzæɪt͡ʃən/
Forms: form: randomizations
form: randomisation
Etymology: From random + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making random.
Derived terms: quasirandomization
stiffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪfli/
Forms: form: more stiffly
form: most stiffly
Etymology: From Middle English stifly, styfly; equivalent to stiff + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas Mr. Glennie who first moved to seek me; for when the second day came that I was not at school, he thought that I was ill, and went to my aunt's to ask how I did, as was his wont when any ailed. But Aunt Jane answered him stiffly that she could not say how I did.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: 'Very well, Clara,' she said stiffly, 'but I shall also speak to your father.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 86:
text: It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts.
ref: 2019 February 19, Doug Criss, “Here’s why students don’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance”, in CNN:
glosses: In a stiff manner.
smilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smilingly
form: most smilingly
Etymology: From smiling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But me thinks at these words I heare some smilingly say, I would be loath to lacke liuing of my own till the Prince gaue me a maner of new Elme for my riming […]
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, chapter 8, in The Arte of English Poesie:
text: But his flaw’d heart,
Alack, too weak the conflict to support!
’Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters, London: William Miller, 1811, Volume II, Letter 28, p. 279,
He looked smilingly serious.
text: Lo! how they murmur, laugh, and smile, and weep:
Some with upholden hand and mouth severe;
Some with their faces muffled to the ear
Between their arms; some, clear in youthful bloom,
Go glad and smilingly athwart the gloom;
Some looking back, and some with upward gaze;
Yes, thousands in a thousand different ways
Flit onward […]
ref: 1816, John Keats, Sleep and Poetry:
text: So Amelia gave Dobbin her little hand as she got out of the carriage, and rebuked him smilingly for not having taken any notice of her all night.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 27, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: […] Thorndyke, having unstrapped the hamper with as much care as if it contained a collection of priceless porcelain, bore it tenderly up to his bedroom; whence he appeared, after a considerable interval, smilingly apologetic for the delay.
ref: 1909, R. Austin Freeman, “The Man with the Nailed Shoes”, in John Thorndyke’s Cases:
text: "Don't tell me, Daddy, that you with all your complex brain and wonderful self are a thing with no more life hereafter than a broken clock!" "Four buckets of water and a bagful of salts," said Challenger as he smilingly detached his daughter's grip.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: In a smiling manner; with a smile.
nonsteroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From non- + steroidal.
Senses: examples: text: Finerenone, a nonsteroidal MRA, was among the drugs in the trials.
ref: 2024 January 9, Jacqueline Howard, “Kidney disease medication found to reduce risk of cardiovascular death in certain heart failure patients in new study”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That does not consist of or contain steroids.
Derived terms: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
nonsteroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: nonsteroidals
Etymology: From non- + steroidal.
Senses: glosses: Any drug not containing steroids.
strikingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strikingly
form: most strikingly
Etymology: From striking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.
text: Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.
ref: 1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption:
topics: manner
glosses: In a striking way.
examples: text: He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
text: Each mate nursed his fellow, and some strikingly pathetic touches of devotion were shown here and there amongst them.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 150:
text: Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a remarkable degree or extent.
examples: text: Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
text: Then, they looked up which lawyers in these various lawsuits won their cases, and those who didn’t. Most strikingly, the researchers found that if the legal teams more closely mirrored a judge’s preferred writing style in documents such as past legal opinions, their chances of winning could more than double.
ref: 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC:
qualifier: evaluative
glosses: Remarkably, surprisingly.
quarrelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarrel
obliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblɪtəɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /oʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
ipa: [-ɾɪd]
ipa: /əˈblɪtəˌɹæɪtɪd/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
ipa: [-ɾɪd]
Etymology: From obliterate + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and past tenses and past participles of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obliterate
rakishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rakish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being rakish.
narrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of narrow
Derived terms: unnarrowed
fainter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fainters
Etymology: From faint (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As an adult and the wife of the minister, I was always armed with vials of smelling salts, furnished by funeral directors, for fainters at church funerals.
ref: 2005, Bonnie Trentham Myers, Best Yet Life and Lore of the Smokies, page 96:
glosses: One who faints.
fainter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Etymology: From faint (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of faint: more faint
excitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excitedly
form: most excitedly
Etymology: From excited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Everybody crowded around very excitedly and talked about the Australian crawl, a stroke I cannot do because there is something wrong with my flutter kick.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 48:
glosses: In an excited manner.
ransomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ransomers
Etymology: From Middle English raunsoner (“redeemer”); equivalent to ransom + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who pays a ransom.
doubtfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doubtfully
form: most doubtfully
Etymology: From Middle English dowtfully, doutefulli, equivalent to doubtful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably.
dimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪmd/
rhymes: -ɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dim
devoutly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more devoutly
form: most devoutly
Etymology: From devout + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a devout manner.
decently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːsəntli/
Forms: form: more decently
form: most decently
Etymology: From decent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You need to be decently attired to enter the restaurant.
glosses: In a decent manner.
examples: text: a decently high salary
glosses: To a reasonable or acceptable degree.
Derived terms: carry me out and bury me decently
confiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, confide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confide
confiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more confiding
form: most confiding
Etymology: By surface analysis, confide + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Effingham was by nature indolent, confiding, and, at times, impetuous and indiscreet; but Marmaduke was uniformly equable, penetrating, and full of activity and enterprise.
ref: 1825, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, page 41:
text: Those eyes especially struck Eugene, and when he thought of Liza he always saw those clear, mild, confiding eyes.
ref: 2012, Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness and Other Stories, page 95:
text: Not having a confiding relationship with one's husband was, however, associated with elevated risk for symptoms of anxiety.
ref: 2014, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Stress, Social Support, And Women:
glosses: Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
examples: text: Sir, they must surely entertain a higher opinion of the credulity of this house, than -- even their recent experience can justify, if they think that their confiding talent will be carried to this length.
ref: 1807, Cobbett's Political Register - Volume 11, page 293:
text: It might be sufficient, perhaps, to refer only to that trait of frank, confiding generosity, which could overlook all injuries and embrace even former enemies as friends ; as in the case of Saul above referred to ;
ref: 1834, Biblical Repository and Classical Review, page 595:
text: Juliet raised her eyes with confiding tenderness ; there was no interrogation in their glance, yet Montague wished to speak ; his heart was too full for words.
ref: 1840, Theodore Edward Hook, Cousin Geoffrey, the old bachelor, page 129:
text: He defines tie strength in a fairly intuitive way as the amount of time as well as the emotional intensity and intimacy (in a confiding sense, rather than a sexual one, although I don't think he rules out the latter) devoted to our relationships, as well as the mutual benefits characterizing our dealings with other people.
ref: 2014, John Edward Terrell, A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait:
glosses: In confidence; as if with trust.
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.
Derived terms: confidingly
confidingness
self-confiding
unconfiding
confiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: confidings
Etymology: By surface analysis, confide + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings, and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist[…]
ref: 1841, Absalom Peters, Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic, volume 1, page 141:
glosses: The telling of something in confidence.
rareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarenesses
Etymology: From rare + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We discussed the rareness of the coin and decided it was actually pretty common.
text: The patron sent back the steak because he objected to its rareness.
glosses: The property of being rare; rarity
Synonyms: word: rarity
word: infrequency
word: rareness
word: seldomness
word: scarcity
word: uncommonness
Hypernyms: word: strangeness
Hyponyms: word: uniqueness
Related terms: word: rare
word: occasionally
word: fewness
topics: state
word: lack
assaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assault
weaknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːk.nə.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of weakness
glosses: plural of weaknesse
perpetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perpetrate
summoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From summon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of summon
summoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summonings
Etymology: From summon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: spirit summonings
glosses: The act by which somebody is summoned.
Derived terms: summoning sickness
renounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renounce
winterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winterizes
form: winterizing
form: winterized
form: winterized
form: winterise
Etymology: From winter + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Temperatures are expected to plummet over the weekend, and aside from grabbing a coat, experts say there’s some things you should do to winterize your home.
ref: 2021, Freezing Temps Are Coming; It’s Time To Winterize Your Home, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, December 31 2021
antonyms: summerize
glosses: To prepare (something) for winter weather.
examples: text: Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil.
The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.
ref: 1990, David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices, page 103
glosses: To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not become cloudy in the winter.
Derived terms: winterization
winterized
winterizer
winterizing
rejecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reject
reiterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reiterate
proudest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of proud: most proud
rascally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rascallier
form: rascalliest
Etymology: From rascal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was speedily reassured, and with a large, white, rascally grin, and a glance at his charge, seemed to take me into partnership in his exalted trust.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
text: My chief creditor is, unhappily, my most bitter enemy—a rascally fellow, Sam Brewer, whom I was once compelled to horse-whip on Newmarket Heath.
ref: 1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 298:
glosses: Like a rascal.
rascally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rascally
form: most rascally
Etymology: From rascal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I hope,” said Jones, “you don’t intend to leave me in this condition.” “Indeed but I shall,” said the other. “Then,” said Jones, “you have used me rascally, and I will not pay you a farthing.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In the manner of a rascal.
owning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈoʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of own
Derived terms: homeowning
landowning
ownings
shareowning
shipowning
unowning
profited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of profit
prying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pry
prying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: pryings
Senses: examples: text: That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.
ref: 1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 280:
glosses: The act of one who pries.
mutilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mutilate
mutilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mut.
Senses: glosses: Having undergone mutilation
Derived terms: nonmutilated
unmutilated
locating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of locate
loathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loathe
glosses: simple past and past participle of loath
Derived terms: beloathed
loathedness
much-loathed
unloathed
loathed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Physical punishment is something I’m very loathed to resort to,” Steve responded.
ref: 2018, Morgan Bruce, Crowns: Alexei, Accidental Angel—Book 6, →ISBN, page 274:
text: Really, no joke, because trans men are very loathed to use public toilets.
ref: 2020, Joseph N. Goh, Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man: Gender, Society, Body and Faith, →ISBN, page 243:
text: However Pep Guardiola is loathed to lose Silva, who has been so key to their success since he joined in 2017.
ref: 2022 August 10, David Anderson, “Barcelona told Bernardo Silva fee as Man City make breakthrough in left back hunt”, in Daily Mirror:
glosses: Nonstandard form of loath.
wintery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: winterier
form: winteriest
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of wintry.
win-win
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪnˈwɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: examples: text: win-win outcome
text: win-win situation
text: In zero-sum games, every win for one side is a loss for the other ; there can be no such thing as a "win-win" outcome
ref: 1962, Joel David Singer, Deterrence, arms control, and disarmament:
text: Has the shifting policy of win-win to win-hold-win and back to win-win had an impact on your munitions requirements determinations?
ref: 1962, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense appropriations for ...: Part 3:
text: 2. Win-Win The best partnership
ref: 1966, Justin Paul, International Marketing: Text And Cases, page 175:
text: A Win/Win Approach to Conflict / An integrative approach to conflict has such obvious merit for a group that it is worth spending some time looking at how it works
ref: 1974, Taylor McConnell, Group leadership for self-realization:
text: At the time of writing, I have not seen the finished product, but I nevertheless think this is a win-win situation for Network Rail, operators, Fabrik and, of course, others.
ref: 2021 December 1, Barry Doe, “A new start as Fabrik to produce the NRT files”, in RAIL, number 945, page 63:
glosses: That benefits both or all parties, or that has two distinct benefits.
raw_tags: of a situation or outcome
win-win
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪnˈwɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: examples: text: They got their school project funded, and you got to look like a generous benefactor, plus some free advertising. It's a win-win.
text: "It's a lose-lose situation. It can be turned into a win-win. We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Clifton, “How can freight be a major part of rail's future?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 57:
coordinate_terms: lose-lose
zero-sum
glosses: A situation that benefits both or all parties, or that has two distinct benefits.
Related terms: game theory
zero-sum game
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
Duesenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Duesenbergs
Senses: glosses: A car produced by Duesenberg.
wirehair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirehairs
Etymology: From wire + hair.
Senses: glosses: An animal with wiry hair, such as a German Wirehaired Pointer, a Wirehaired Vizsla, or an American Wirehair.
wire-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having coarse, stiff hair.
Synonyms: rough-coated
Derived terms: wire-haired terrier
tête-bêche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛtˈbɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Etymology: From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).
Senses: examples: text: Liu himself is a professional stamp collector, and in 1972 he bought a tête-bêche pair of Qing dynasty stamps from an auction in London.
ref: 2017, David Der-wei Wang, A New Literary History of Modern China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 704:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column.
tête-bêche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛtˈbɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: tête-bêches
Etymology: From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).
Senses: examples: text: It's an odd little confection, the tête-bêche, but it's oddly pleasing. Each author gets a fair crack of the whip, with their own cover and top-billing, and the illusion of two separate books makes a head-to-tail volume seem somehow to be good value.
ref: 2011 July 28, David Barnett, “Tête-bêche books make a speculative return”, in The Guardian:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A book where two texts are bound together, with one text rotated 180° relative to the other, such that when one text runs head-to-tail, the other runs tail-to-head.
Related terms: dos a dos
wiretap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiretaps
Etymology: Back-formation from wiretapper; or else wire + tap
Senses: glosses: A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
wiretap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wiretaps
form: wiretapping
form: wiretapped
form: wiretapped
Etymology: Back-formation from wiretapper; or else wire + tap
Senses: glosses: To install or to use such a connection.
Derived terms: english: adjectival form
translation: adjectival form
word: wiretapped
word: wiretapper
word: wiretapping
wiretapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiretappers
Etymology: From wire + tapper.
Senses: glosses: A person who installs or monitors wiretaps.
wiretapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiretappings
Senses: glosses: The installation or monitoring of wiretaps.
wiretapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wiretap
dangly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋɡəli/
Forms: form: danglier
form: dangliest
Etymology: From dangle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Dangling; tending to dangle.
Related terms: dangly bits
tonsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of tonsil
tonsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The uvula.
Derived terms: faucial tonsils
pharyngeal tonsils
to the tonsils
up to the tonsils
foreseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From foresee + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foresee
Derived terms: foreseeingly
unforeseeing
foreseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreseeings
Etymology: From Middle English foreseing, forseying, equivalent to foresee + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But at other times my magic is a true magic, and my looking runs very lightly over all the days which are to come before my client has quite done with earth's daylight; and at these times I must tell, will I or will I not, the truth about my foreseeings […]
ref: 1932, James Branch Cabell, These Restless Heads:
glosses: The act by which something is foreseen; a prophetic vision.
tonsil hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: French kissing; tongue kissing.
Synonyms: tonsil tennis
Derived terms: play tonsil hockey
New York breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New York breakfasts
Senses: glosses: A "meal" at the start of the day, consisting of coffee and cigarettes (smoked, not eaten).
competently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more competently
form: most competently
Etymology: From competent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And on the end of the big table sat a pot of chicken and dumplings, the sad but tasty end of a tough red bird who had competently done his roosterly duty all his life, yet through no fault of his own had ended up a criminal.
ref: 2011, Donis Casey, The Drop Edge of Yonder: An Alafair Tucker Mystery:
glosses: In a competent manner.
Galway hooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galway hookers
Senses: synonyms: hooker
glosses: A type of fishing boat in the west of Ireland with a distinctive black hull and red sails.
sorer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sore: more sore
EFTPOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛftˈpɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Acronym of Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale.
Related terms: EFT
sorest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sore: most sore
class action lawsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class action lawsuits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of class action.
synonyms: word: class action
class action lawsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of class action lawsuit
child abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃaɪldəbjuːs/
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
coordinate_terms: elder abuse
glosses: Physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of a child that causes long-term or permanent damage.
Hyponyms: child molestation
child neglect
Derived terms: child abuser
sporrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporran
hesitantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hesitantly
form: most hesitantly
Etymology: From hesitant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With hesitation.
glosses: With reluctance.
Synonyms: sense: with reluctance
word: reluctantly
tetraplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraplegics
Etymology: From tetra- and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
Senses: glosses: A quadriplegic.
biplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biplane
raring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raring
form: most raring
Etymology: From rare (verb), a variant of rear (“to raise, rouse”). More at rear.
Senses: examples: text: raring to go
text: I'm ready and raring to go. I can hardly wait to get there.
synonyms: eager
keen
hot to trot
champing at the bit
;
fain
antonyms: averse
disinclined
reluctant
unwilling
glosses: Eager.
Related terms: good to go
raring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rare (verb), a variant of rear (“to raise, rouse”). More at rear.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rare
raunchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more raunchily
form: most raunchily
Etymology: From raunchy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a raunchy manner, in a lewd way.
reconvene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː.kənˈviːn/
ipa: /ˌɹi.kənˈvin/
ipa: /ɹiː.kənˈviːn/
ipa: [ɹiː.kənˈvɪin]
Forms: form: reconvenes
form: reconvening
form: reconvened
form: reconvened
Etymology: From re- + convene.
Senses: examples: text: dividing into a finite number of parts and then reconvening them,
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252b:
glosses: To resume something that has been convened and then paused.
examples: text: We will reconvene after lunch to discuss the outstanding points on the agenda.
glosses: To come together again.
regally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more regally
form: most regally
Etymology: From Middle English regali; equivalent to regal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
Synonyms: sense: in a regal manner
word: grandly
sense: in a regal manner
word: princely
sense: in a regal manner
word: royally
wiriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wiry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being wiry.
wisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wishers
Etymology: From Middle English wyssher, wisscher, wyshere, equivalent to wish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes a wish
Derived terms: ill-wisher
well-wisher