cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɡnənt/
rhymes: -ɛɡnənt
Etymology: From Middle English regnant, reignant, from Middle French regnant, régnant, and its source, Latin rēgnāns, the present participle of regnāre.
Senses: examples: text: The people are now the State, their will is the regnant will, and that will has this characteristic — it loves principles, it hates compromises; and the principles it loves must be regulative, fit to be applied to the work and guidance of life.
ref: 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99:
glosses: Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.
examples: text: The doors of his temples were kept open in time of war, the time in which the ideas of contradiction and conflict are most naturally regnant.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 7:
glosses: Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence.
examples: text: Queen Elizabeth II reigned as queen regnant, unlike her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
glosses: of a monarch, ruling in one's own right; often contrasted with consort and dowager
Derived terms: empress regnant
queen regnant
Related terms: consort
dowager
queen consort
queen dowager
regnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɡnənt/
rhymes: -ɛɡnənt
Forms: form: regnants
Etymology: From Middle English regnant, reignant, from Middle French regnant, régnant, and its source, Latin rēgnāns, the present participle of regnāre.
Senses: examples: text: Here are two sovereigns in the land, a regnant and a claimant—that is enough of one good thing—but if any one wants more, he may find a king in every peel-house in the country; so if we lack government, it is not for lack of governors—[…]
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: A sovereign or ruler.
sexualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexualistic
form: most sexualistic
Etymology: From sexual + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: This solution is based upon the unmistakable sexualistic symbolism of the language of the unconscious, and upon the concretistic interpretation of the same.
ref: 1917, Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long, Collected papers on analytical psychology, page 460:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sexuality.
natural monopolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural monopoly
economies of scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economy of scale
Senses: examples: text: When plant size increased from 400 heavy young hens per hour to about 1,500 per hour average costs per pound declined from 6.6 to 5.4 cents per pound. While these costs suggested the existence of economies of scale in processing, they did not provide a standardized measure of the exact nature and extent of potential cost savings.
ref: 1963, George Burnet Rogers, Costs and Economies of Scale in Turkey Processing Plants, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, page i:
text: In the 1930s, Brandeis argued that large companies would inevitably exploit their workers, convert their profits into political influence, and corrode both the market and the machinations of government. But the Reagan administration and subsequent lawmakers have allowed vertical and horizontal integration on the theory that economies of scale often benefit both employees and consumers.
ref: 2016 September 11, Derek Thompson, “America's Monopoly Problem”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: To exploit travel economies of scale, RAIL buys a four-in-eight-day Rail Rover. This is now known as the 'Spirit of Scotland Travelpass', although older users may remember it as the 'Freedom of Scotland' - arguably a better name.
ref: 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 43:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: diseconomies of scale
glosses: The characteristics of a production process in which an increase in the scale of the firm causes a decrease in the long run average cost of each unit.
Related terms: returns to scale
stich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: stick
Forms: form: stichs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos, “line, row, verse”). Akin to στείχω (steíkhō, “I go”).
Senses: glosses: A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of Scripture.
glosses: A part of a line of poetry, especially in the distichal poetry of the Hebrew Bible and in early Germanic heroic verse such as Beowulf, where the line is composed of two (occasionally three) such parts.
glosses: A row, line, or rank of trees.
stich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: stick
Forms: form: stiches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stitch.
glosses: Misspelling of stitch.
stich
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: stick
Forms: form: stiches
form: stiching
form: stiched
form: stiched
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stitch.
glosses: Misspelling of stitch.
smokings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking
snap inhale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap inhales
Senses: glosses: A smoking trick where one takes a drag, expels smoke from the mouth before inhaling, and immediately inhales the smoke back in.
smoke ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke rings
Senses: examples: text: A smoke ring persists for a surprisingly long time, illustrating the slow rate at which viscosity dissipates the energy of a vortex.
text: Puff—puff—puff—went John’s pipe; and as the circling smoke-rings went up, the pictures therein framed became as distinct as if they had been drawn by the delicate pencil of Hammatt Billings.
ref: 1854, John Ross Dix, chapter 2, in The Worth of the Worthless, Boston: Shakspeare Division of Sons of Temperance, page 46:
text: Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published 1892:
text: He was blowing the most enormous smoke-rings, and wherever he told one to go, it went—up the chimney, or behind the clock on the mantelpiece, or under the table, or round and round the ceiling; but wherever it went it was not quick enough to escape Gandalf. Pop! he sent a smaller smoke-ring from his short clay-pipe straight through each one of Thorin’s.
ref: 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in The Hobbit, New York: Ballantine, published 1982, page 13:
text: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref: 2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
glosses: A vortex ring of smoke; typically one exhaled by a smoker.
wikipedia: Mount Etna
WUI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of wildland-urban interface.
bestiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bestiary
reexport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reexports
form: reexporting
form: reexported
form: reexported
form: re-export
Etymology: From re- + export.
Senses: glosses: To export again; to export something that has been imported.
Derived terms: reexportation
reexport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reexports
form: re-export
Etymology: From re- + export.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The export of a (recently) imported good. (often not or hardly reworked)
Related terms: reexportation
reexports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexport
reexports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexport
reexported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexport
reexporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexport
Rutherford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrʌðərfərd/
Etymology: From Old English hryþer (“cattle”) + ford (“ford”). The first element is from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz.
Senses: examples: text: One of the things making the trip possible is Rutherford’s microlight aircraft. Microlights are small one or two-seat planes used for leisure or personal transport. If she completes her trip, Rutherford will also claim the record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in a microlight aircraft.
ref: 2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN:
glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A suburb of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Napa County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: East Rutherford
Rutherford atom
Rutherford-Bohr model
Rutherford County
Rutherfordian
rutherfordine
rutherfordium
Rutherford model
Rutherford scattering
800-pound gorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 800-pound gorillas
Etymology: Attested since at least 1971, from a riddle: "Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep?" / "Anywhere it wants."
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to the lucrative search market, Google, not Microsoft, is the 800-pound gorilla.
ref: 2008 February 6, “Who’s the 800-Pound Gorilla?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021:
text: The thing he unfortunately doesn't recognise is there is an 800-pound gorilla when it comes to major American motor sports. The 800-pound gorilla is Nascar.
ref: 2014 February 26, Eddie Gossage, quotee, “Bernie Ecclestone dismisses Nascar objection to US Grand Prix date clash”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2014:
text: It was poetically fitting. For almost a year, Mr. Trump has been the 800-pound gorilla whose unpredictable rampages have obsessed the news media. Now he was completing the circle by commenting on the 400-pound gorilla who briefly stole the spotlight from him for one holiday weekend.
ref: 2016 May 31, James Poniewozik, “Trump, 800-Pound Media Gorilla, Pounds His Chest at Reporters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2022:
text: Apache Spark is a cluster-computing framework. It’s the 800-pound gorilla you turn to when it’s impossible to fit your data in memory.
ref: 2021, Jeroen Janssens, chapter 10, in Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:
glosses: An entity that dominates its environment.
examples: text: However, a co-author of the new study said those arguments ignore the “800-pound gorilla”: sky-high prices everywhere.
ref: 2018 March 13, Jessica Glenza, “Sky-high prices of everything make US healthcare the world's most expensive”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2018:
synonyms: elephant in the room
glosses: Something dangerous, menacing, or frightening that is obvious but not addressed.
Derived terms: 800-pound gorilla in the room
consolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolate
form: most consolate
Etymology: First attested in 1477, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātus, perfect active participle of cōnsōlor, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of console.
Senses: glosses: Comforted, consoled.
examples: text: [O]ne morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, ‘he woke and found his lady dead,’ and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:
glosses: Not disconsolate; contented.
Derived terms: inconsolate
consolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consolates
form: consolating
form: consolated
form: consolated
Etymology: First attested in 1477, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātus, perfect active participle of cōnsōlor, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of console.
Senses: examples: text: To consolate thine eare.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: ‘You just talkinʼ to consolate yoʼself by word of mouth.’
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 44:
glosses: To console; to comfort.
lepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepton (coin)
lepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lepton.
Dales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Yorkshire Dales, an upland area, in Northern England.
glosses: A surname.
Lakeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Lake District, a rural area in northwest England.
glosses: A city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lanier County, Georgia, United States.
Derived terms: Lakeland terrier
South Lakeland
pamidronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pamidronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The conjugate base, or any salt or ester, of pamidronic acid. Used as a medication to inhibit bone loss in disorders of bone metabolism.
Hypernyms: bisphosphonate
diphosphonate
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: pamidronic acid
pamidronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From p(ropylidene) + ami(no-) + -dronic (“calcium metabolism regulator”) acid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: (3-amino-1-hydroxy-1-phosphono-)phosphonic acid—a bisphosphonate drug to inhibit bone loss.
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: pamidronate
hydroxyapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyapatites
form: hydroxylapatite
Etymology: From hydroxy- + apatite.
Senses: glosses: A basic calcium phosphate mineral that is the principal inorganic constituent of bone and teeth.
Derived terms: fluorhydroxyapatite
nanohydroxyapatite
dalesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalesmen
Etymology: From dale + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: And soon my lady put a pretty little tombstone over Tom’s shell in the little churchyard in Vendale, where the old dalesmen all sleep side by side between the lime-stone crags.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: January 28 2002, A Harry Griffin, The Guardian, A time to kill.
The dalesmen's sport, fox-hunting on the fells, is gradually returning after its 11-months' foot-and-mouth ban.
glosses: A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
Related terms: dalesfolk
dalespeople
daleswoman
nanohole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoholes
Etymology: From nano- + hole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hole of nanoscale dimensions; but especially one of an array of such holes on a semiconductor surface.
dalesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalesman
demodulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒdʃəleɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: demodulators
Etymology: From demodulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Any device that demodulates a signal
Derived terms: pulse demodulator
podcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podcasters
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
English Internet
English i-
English pod
English iPod
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
blend
English podcast
Latin -ariusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English podcaster
From podcast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many a RP podcaster, blogger, and Youtuber have fired up their livesteaming software, to arrogantly beat their chests, boasting that men reach their “peak SMV” (“Sexual Marketplace Value”, or desirability to women) in their late 30s.[…] When alpha male podcasters and bloggers boast that “Men’s Peak SMV is Age 37”, I agree.
ref: 2024 February 1, “When Men’s Dating Options Hit The Wall”, in Salt Lake Single Guy, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024:
text: The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).
ref: 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who podcasts.
galet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gallet.
presentation software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slideshow.
pine tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine trees
form: pine-tree
form: pinetree
Etymology: From Middle English pine tre, pynetre, pyne tree, pyn-tree, pintreow, from Old English pīntrēow (“pine tree”), also as pīnbēam (“pine tree”, literally “pine-beam”), equivalent to pine + tree. Compare West Frisian pynbeam (“pinetree”), Dutch pijnboom (“pine tree”).
Senses: glosses: Any coniferous tree in the genus Pinus
Synonyms: pine
Hypernyms: tree
podcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podcaster
rotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rotters
Etymology: From rot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Calvin could be anywhere in this zoo. I hope he at least has the sense to stay put, wherever he is. Where would the little rotter go if he was lost and separated from his stuffed toy?
ref: 1988 July 26, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: Some Johnny with brains produces a hypothesis. Everybody calls him a rotter at first. But he remains calm in the face of opprobrium.
ref: 1908 August, George A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter VII, in Spanish Gold, 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published September 1908, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: A despicable, worthless person; a scoundrel.
rotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotter
cream crackered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cream crackered
form: most cream crackered
Etymology: From knackered.
Senses: examples: text: 2019, Hop (character), Pokémon Sword and Shield, Game Freak
Now, I'm cream-crackered! I'm for the Budew Drop Inn and some sleep.
text: It would have been about four in the morning in the UK and I’m sure Vicky was utterly cream crackered, but she’d never let me hear that in our daily calls.
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Knackered; tired, exhausted.
Synonyms: Kerry Packered
Related terms: cream cracker
agony box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agony boxes
Etymology: Suggesting that the sounds produced are painful to the listener.
Senses: glosses: A piano.
glosses: A phonograph.
glosses: A radio.
albocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From Latin albus (“white”) + -cracy, equivalent to albo- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Governance by white people, especially Europeans.
alevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'-ə-vən
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.vən/
Forms: form: alevins
Etymology: Borrowed from French alevin.
Senses: glosses: Newly hatched fish, especially salmon.
beer and skittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skittles and beer
Etymology: Found as early as 1837, in Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, where it appears in the form, “It’s a reg’lar holiday to them—all porter and skittles”. The most common form, as a negative admonition, appears to have been popularized by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days (1857, see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and skittles—but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, chapter 2, in Tom Brown's School Days:
text: Being a soldier's wife isn't all beer and skittles.
ref: 1911, Anthony Hope, chapter 22, in Mrs. Maxon Protests, page 259:
text: His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land.
ref: 2012 March 24, John Walsh, “The perils of reviewing restaurants”, in The Independent:
text: Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.
ref: 2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41:
synonyms: word: peaches and cream
word: bed of roses
word: bowl of cherries
word: sunshine and rainbows
word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
glosses: Fun times; pleasure and leisure.
Derived terms: life is not all beer and skittles
Related terms: good times
alevins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alevin
back vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back vowels
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: dark vowel
glosses: Any vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth, such as /uː/ in rule or /əʊ/ in pole.
Related terms: back consonant
front consonant
front vowel
vowel harmony
intrigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrigants
Senses: glosses: An intriguer.
decede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːd/
Forms: form: decedes
form: deceding
form: deceded
form: deceded
Etymology: From Latin dēcēdō (“I withdraw”).
Senses: examples: text: God had ordered them not to decede from this form
ref: 1654, Thomas Fuller, The Lord's Prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. Luke xi. 2:
glosses: To withdraw.
poor power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
ref: 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 2:
text: Gibbie held her fast, and with all the ways in his poor power sought to comfort her.
ref: 1879, George MacDonald, chapter 52, in Sir Gibbie:
text: Heavy as was her burden, not one feather's weight of it should he carry, if by any means in her poor power she could hold it from his back.
ref: 1890, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 26, in Beatrice:
text: "The spirit of the Stern Fund will continue," he said. "It is beyond the poor power of lawyers to dissolve it."
ref: 1986 May 19, “Fund Finishes Half a Century of Philanthropy with a Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Mar 2014:
glosses: Limited ability.
bedarken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭdärʹkn
ipa: /bɪˈdɑːkn̩/
Forms: form: bedarkens
form: bedarkening
form: bedarkened
form: bedarkened
Etymology: From be- + darken.
Senses: examples: text: #*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):
text: Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.
ref: 1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:
glosses: To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
sandbur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseənd.bəɹ/
Forms: form: sandburs
Etymology: From sand + bur.
Senses: glosses: Any of several grasses, of the genus Cenchrus, found in the south-eastern United States, that has a spiny burr
sandburs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbur
burdocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burdock
bedarkens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedarken
bedarkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedarken
bedarkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedarken
bedarkened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I walked into the bedarkened hallway and tripped over something.
glosses: Dim, dark, or obscure
bulletproof vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bʊl.ɪtpɹuːf vɛst/
Forms: form: bulletproof vests
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A garment worn over the torso that protects against projectiles.
Synonyms: ballistic vest
Related terms: flak jacket
vest buster
ballistic vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballistic vests
Senses: glosses: A bulletproof vest.
ballistic vests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballistic vest
bulletproof vests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulletproof vest
international law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.
maritime law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The body of law concerning international trade on the high seas.
Synonyms: admiralty law
consummations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consummation
declutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈklʌtʃ/
ipa: /diːˈklʊtʃ/
Forms: form: declutches
form: declutching
form: declutched
form: declutched
Etymology: From de- + clutch.
Senses: glosses: To disengage the clutch on a vehicle or other engine with PTO
Derived terms: double-declutch
double-declutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-declutches
form: double-declutching
form: double-declutched
form: double-declutched
Senses: examples: text: The Talbot-Darracq, with its leather seats
And Biddy in beside me! I could show.
Double-declutching to perfection now.
ref: 1960 [1960], John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells, London: John Murray, page 89:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A method of changing gear in a vehicle which doesn't have synchromesh. The clutch is depressed to disengage the current gear, released while in neutral, and depressed again to obtain the next gear.
synchromesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchromeshes
Etymology: From synchro- + mesh.
Senses: glosses: A system of synchronized transmission found in modern gearboxes to make gear changing easier and smoother.
glosses: A device which functions like a synchronized transmission.
synchromesh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synchro- + mesh.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of smoothly exchanging interlocking forces.
Derived terms: synchro
synchromesh gearbox
synchromesh transmission
credit cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit card
hustling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hustle
hustling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hustlings
Senses: examples: text: In every tableau sex is made volubly vocal and polyaudible: with a variety of unorthodox stage directions, we are cued to hear the whisperings, hustlings, solicitings, gossipings, bawlings, chortlings and cooings of Glebe's rabble […]
ref: 1995, Elizabeth A. Grosz, Elspeth Probyn, Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism:
glosses: Act of one who hustles.
put something into perspective
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts something into perspective
form: putting something into perspective
form: put something into perspective
form: put something into perspective
Senses: examples: text: You can put your worries into perspective when you realise how many people in the world are so much worse off than you.
glosses: To compare something with a similar thing to give a clearer, more accurate idea.
maply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maply
form: most maply
Etymology: From maple + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, maple.
find one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finds one's feet
form: finding one's feet
form: found one's feet
form: found one's feet
Senses: examples: text: If you ask for help when you need it, you will soon find your feet.
glosses: To grow in confidence in a new situation as one gains experience.
Related terms: out of one's depth
Bambi bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bambi buckets
Etymology: Originally a trade name.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of helicopter bucket.
synonyms: word: helicopter bucket
flat feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: fallen arch
flatfoot
glosses: A physical condition where the soles of the feet are in full contact with the ground, either because the arches have collapsed or because they never developed.
Related terms: flat-footed
flat-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflætˈfʊtɪd/
ipa: /ˈflætˌfʊtəd/
ipa: /ˌflætˈfʊtəd/
ipa: [-ɾəd]
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -ʊtɪd
Forms: form: flatfooted
Etymology: From flat-foot + -ed (suffix forming past tense forms of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flat-foot.
explement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explements
Etymology: From Latin explēmentum, from expleō (“I fill up”).
Senses: glosses: The remainder of subtracting an angle from a full circle.
Coordinate terms: complement
supplement
Related terms: explementary
milk teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk tooth
beyond one's pay grade
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: above one's pay grade
Etymology: Possibly from the correspondence of pay grade to level of authority in U.S. civil service and in the U.S. armed forces.
Senses: examples: 1971, Testimony before U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services,
Sir, I think that is a policy decision only the President can make. That is beyond my pay grade.
glosses: Beyond one's level of authority.
examples: text: Figuring out how it would work logistically is above and beyond my pay grade and my brain power.
ref: 2007, Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Beyond one's capability.
senior theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of dramatic art in which older adults perform.
down cellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I had to run down cellar to turn off the water main.
glosses: Downstairs; the opposite of upstairs.
kukri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊkɹi/
rhymes: -ʊkɹi
Forms: form: kukris
form: khukuri
form: kukuri
Etymology: From Nepali खुकुरी (khukurī).
Senses: examples: text: In the later part of the Second World War it was customary in the French army to vaunt the ferocity of ‘their’ Algerian Tirailleurs against the Germans, much as the British took pride in the deeds performed by the Gurkhas with their terrible kukris.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 171:
text: Soon, however, the bayonets of the 72nd Highlanders and the kukris of the 2nd Gurkhas began to tell.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 356:
synonyms: Gurkha knife
glosses: A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many variants exist, but all share recurve as a common theme.
Derived terms: kukri snake
kukris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kukri
bat-shit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of batshit (in adjective sense “crazy”).
birdlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bird + life.
Senses: examples: Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.
glosses: The birds (e.g. of an area) collectively.
hoaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoax
voice votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice vote
hardballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardball
hardballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hardball
behind in the count
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having fewer strikes than balls against a batter in an at-bat.
raw_tags: of a pitcher
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having more strikes than balls against a pitcher in an at-bat.
raw_tags: of a batter
Related terms: ahead in the count
ahead in the count
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having more strikes than balls against a batter in an at-bat.
raw_tags: of a pitcher
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having fewer strikes than balls against a pitcher in an at-bat.
raw_tags: of a batter
Related terms: behind in the count
entrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrustments
Etymology: From entrust + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: consignment
glosses: the act of entrusting
Derived terms: negligent entrustment
reentrustment
re-entrustment
entrustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrustment
off-roader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-roaders
form: offroader
Etymology: From off-road + -er.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that is designed to drive off the road.
Related terms: off-road
on-roader
softroader
crystallizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crystallizable
form: most crystallizable
Etymology: From crystallize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be crystallized.
Derived terms: incrystallizable
noncrystallizable
uncrystallizable
high and dry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
synonyms: word: deserted
word: forsaken
word: abandoned
word: derelict
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: discarded
word: dropped
word: forlorn
word: forsaken
word: high and dry
word: left behind
word: orphaned
glosses: Abandoned, stranded, helpless.
examples: text: "There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."
ref: 1844, A. H. Maltby, The New Englander, volume 2, page 321:
glosses: Associated with the high church (the Church of England and other Anglican traditions, in reference to their "high" political position in England and "dry" and austere mode of worship), as opposed to the "low and slow" Evangelical party and the "broad and shallow" Broad Church.
glosses: With no condiments.
raw_tags: of a sandwich
Derived terms: leave someone high and dry
Related terms: hard-and-fast
high and mighty
leave to one's own devices
pick off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks off
form: picking off
form: picked off
form: picked off
Senses: examples: text: Before you recycle the bottle you need to pick off the label.
glosses: To remove by picking.
examples: text: Let's pick off these issues starting from the top.
text: England's batsmen were nothing more than sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by these unerringly accurate marksmen.
text: History has shown that our enemies will not leave any of us alone, in the closet or not. We must all stand together or they will pick us off one by one.
ref: 1988 August 20, John O'Brien, “Defending The Baths Is Defending Our Sexual Freedom”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 6:
text: Having more chicks together after hatching also makes it less likely her chicks will be the ones picked off by a predator.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
glosses: To dispose of tasks, obstacles, opponents etc. precisely, one by one.
examples: text: The sniper picked off the incoming police one at a time.
glosses: To dispose of tasks, obstacles, opponents etc. precisely, one by one.
To shoot one by one.
examples: text: The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw out a runner by tagging them whilst they are not in contact with any of the three bases or home plate.
examples: text: But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To intercept, such as a ball in flight.
Related terms: pick out
peel off
single out
pick off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick offs
Senses: examples: text: The final out of the game was determined by a pick off.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of throwing out a batter leading off base.
judgment call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgment calls
form: judgement call
Senses: examples: text: The rookie outfielder was waved out before he reached the plate. The reason for the rare judgment call? According to Rule 7.09 (i), a coach cannot "assist" a runner.
ref: 1983 September 26, J. D. Reed, “Can Anyone Win This Thing?”, in Time:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ruling by an umpire, referee, or similar official during a sporting event, based on his or her perception of events and in the absence of any objective measurement.
examples: text: This probably ought to be a judgment call made by individual teachers who know their students well.
ref: 2005, Jackie Wiggins, “Fostering Revision and Extension in Student Composing”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 91, number 3, page 37:
glosses: Any decision or other determination based on subjective criteria, especially one which takes into account the particular circumstances of a situation.
examples: text: So stood I, by an atmosphere beguiled
Of glad surprise, when first thy lips let fall
The name I lightly carried when a child,
That I shall rise to at the judgment call.
ref: 1894, Gilbert Parker, “Recognition,”, in A Lover's Diary:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The summons which will call the spirits of the deceased to their heavenly reward at the time of Final Judgment.
Related terms: value judgment
judgement call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgement calls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of judgment call.
negligent entrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A tort cause of action that arises where a party is injured because the other party entrusted a dangerous instrumentality (such as a vehicle or a weapon) to a person whom the other party knew or reasonably should have known should not be trusted with that instrumentality.
Related terms: negligent hiring
negligent retention
negligent supervision
incurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin incurrēns (stem incurrēnt-), present active participle of incurrō (“run into, towards or upon”) (whence also incur), from in + currō (“run”).
Senses: examples: text: In the sycon, the sponge type of intermediate complexity, water enters the ostia through small radially arranged incurrent canals formed by folding of the body wall.
ref: 2012, M. A. Brunt, J. E. Davies, The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography, page 131:
glosses: Carrying inward; relating to an inward current.
meself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlf
Etymology: From me + -self.
Senses: examples: text: ‘True, I haven’t introduced meself.’
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of myself.
unacted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + acted.
Senses: examples: an unacted drama
glosses: Not acted.
unacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unact
unclenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clenched.
Senses: glosses: Not clenched
unclenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + clenched.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclench
underdevelop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdevelops
form: underdeveloping
form: underdeveloped
form: underdeveloped
Etymology: From under- + develop.
Senses: glosses: To develop insufficiently.
underdevelops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdevelop
captation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæpˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: captations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captatio, captationis, from capto. Compare French captation.
Senses: glosses: A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction
Derived terms: hypercaptation
hypocaptation
normocaptation
captation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæpˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captatio, captationis, from capto. Compare French captation.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coaptation.
underdeveloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdevelop
sneckdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneckdraws
Etymology: From sneck + draw?
Senses: glosses: One who is sly, cunning, devious.
sneckdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneckdraw
nimshy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimshies
form: nimshi
Senses: glosses: A fool.
soodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːdəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: soodles
form: soodling
form: soodled
form: soodled
Senses: examples: text: And as I soodled on and on, / The ground was warm to look upon.
ref: 1821, John Clare, Holywell:
text: […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.
ref: 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:
text: Yes, these are the dog days, Fortunatus: / The heather lies limp and dead / On the mountain, the baltering torrent / Shrunk to a soodling thread; […]
ref: c. 1949, W. H. Auden, Under Sirius:
glosses: To walk slowly.
labefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labefies
form: labefying
form: labefied
form: labefied
Etymology: From Latin labefacere.
Senses: glosses: To weaken.
killick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of killock.
killicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killick
huckabuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huckabucks
Senses: glosses: A frozen dessert popular in Louisiana, consisting of a frozen sweet drink usually served in a paper cup.
glosses: Misspelling of huckaback.
habnab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I put it
 Ev'n to your worship's bitterment, habnab;
 I shall have a chance of the dice for it.
ref: c. 1596, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub:
glosses: Happening randomly.
garboil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bɔɪl/
Forms: form: garboils
Etymology: From Old French garbouil, connected with Latin bullire (“to boil”).
Senses: examples: text: With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges of nacion against nacion & royalme against royalme.
ref: 1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Luke 21, page clxv:
text: She’s dead, my queen:
Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:
See when and where she died.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: M. d’Espagne could not forgive the Earl the death of his friend Sir Simon Burley: that was what began the garboil!
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in My Lord John, New York: Dutton, page 25:
glosses: Disorder; uproar.