cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
for fuck's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: for Fuck's sake
form: FFS
form: fuck's sake
Etymology: Dysphemistically modelled after for Christ's sake. The word fuck is personified.
Senses: examples: text: For fuck's sake, shut Nicola up!
text: I've told you a million times already, for fuck's sake!
text: —I have to go, you're on your own. —For fuck's sake, really?
synonyms: word: FFS
word: for Christ's sake
word: for cripes' sake
word: for crying in the beer
word: for crying out loud
word: for fucking out loud
word: for fuck's sake
word: for Fuck's sake
word: for God's sake
word: for goodness' sake
word: for heaven's sake
word: for mercy's sake
word: for Pete's sake
word: for pity's sake
word: for the love of all that is holy
word: for the love of Betsy
word: for the love of God
word: for the love of Mike
word: for the love of fuck
word: for the love of Fuck
glosses: An expression of anger or frustration.
so there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Oh, yeah? Well, that's not physically possible for me to do! So there!
ref: 2007, Curious George:
glosses: Used to express one's defiance.
Related terms: that's that
blatantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪtəntli/
Forms: form: more blatantly
form: most blatantly
Etymology: From blatant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although he was blatantly on drugs, the crowd still cheered him.
text: Further on, blatantly advertising its meritorious solidity, a boarding-house exhibits behind uncurtained windows its testimony to the soundness of London.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: glaringly
word: plainly
word: apparently
word: blatantly
word: clearly
word: evidently
word: eyely
word: glaringly
word: manifestly
word: noticeably
word: obvi
word: obviously
word: openly
word: observably
word: overtly
word: plainly
word: visibly
glosses: In a blatant manner; so as to be highly visible or obvious.
Related terms: blatant
blates
sight for sore eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sights for sore eyes
Senses: examples: text: After seventeen days of rain and floods, the 4 am sunrise was a sight for sore eyes.
text: Janet (Marva Alexander): You're joking me. Yas! Tanice, look who's here!
Tanice (Llewella Gideon): You are a sight for sore eyes.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:
antonyms: eyesore
glosses: A pleasing sight; something that is beautiful to look at, particularly after a long period of deprivation.
Related terms: eye candy
eyesore
private eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private eyes
Etymology: From private investigator and its abbreviation P.I., through the homophonic term eye in place of "I", and the use of "eye" as a reference to surveillance.
Senses: glosses: A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.
Synonyms: private investigator
PI
wentest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: went + -est
Senses: examples: text: Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 57:7:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of go
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of wend
asketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ask
knocketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock
comest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: com'st
Etymology: come + -est
Senses: examples: text: When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:25:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of come
judgest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: judge + -est
Senses: examples: text: […] whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 2:1:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of judge
condemnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: condemn + -est
Senses: examples: text: […] whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 2:1:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of condemn
layeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 31:19:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay
lifteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lift + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 147:6:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lift
madest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: made + -est
Senses: examples: text: Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 2:7:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of make
crownedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 2:7:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of crown
fourscore
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskɔː/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹskoɹ/
Forms: form: four score
form: four-score
Etymology: From four + score.
Senses: examples: text: Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 173:
text: Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 4:48:
text: “I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 353:
text: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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 1:
text: Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
ref: 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
glosses: Eighty.
examples: text: […] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture.
ref: 1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: three score and ten
raw_tags: of biblical origin
glosses: A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.
Related terms: four score and seven years ago
twoscore
fourscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskɔː/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹskoɹ/
Forms: form: fourscores
form: four score
form: four-score
Etymology: From four + score.
Senses: examples: text: W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years.
ref: 1922, James Edward Carruthers, Memories of an Australian Ministry, 1868 to 1921, page 125:
glosses: A quantity or amount of eighty.
Galatians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Gal.
glosses: The ninth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians.
Galatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Galatian
mammoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammoth
endgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕndgām
ipa: /ˈɛnd.ɡeɪm/
Forms: form: endgames
form: end game
form: end-game
Etymology: From end + game.
Senses: examples: text: Rooks become much more important in the endgame.
text: The real end game consists of a position where the method can be analytically demonstrated by which the slightly superior force can win.
ref: 1884 April 12, The Academy, Horwitz, page 256:
topics: board-games
chess
games
coordinate_terms: middlegame
opening
glosses: The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left.
examples: text: You can't really use squeeze plays until the endgame.
text: Bridge writing tends to concentrate on the end game.
ref: 1952, Iain Macleod, Bridge Is an Easy Game, page 190:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left.
examples: text: Being stuck with two V tiles can make for an awkward Scrabble endgame.
glosses: The final stage of any game.
examples: text: What's his endgame, do you think?
text: He had been a Commando during the war, had landed on Sword Beach and skirmished his way across the ravaged remains of Europe after D-Day before slogging out the endgame, attached to the 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment.
ref: 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Like optics, it’s one of those buzzwords, beloved by pundits, that implies its users are smarter than everyone else, because they see another level that most people don’t in political machinations. In meme parlance, you may ask “Why?” but ah, an intellectual asks, “What’s the endgame?”
ref: 2019 April 25, Heather Schwedel, “The Myth of the Endgame”, in Slate:
text: It is time for the United States and its allies to get directly involved in shaping Ukraine’s strategic objectives, managing the conflict, and seeking a diplomatic endgame.
ref: 2022 November 2, Charles A. Kupchan, “It’s Time to Bring Russia and Ukraine to the Negotiating Table”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan.
topics: video-games
glosses: The gameplay available in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for players who have completed all of the preset challenges.
examples: text: Listener endgames have included […] shading every instance of the letters N - Z in the completed grid to reveal a 'normal' blocked crossword hidden in the one just solved
ref: 2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: What do you look for in an Advanced Cryptic crossword? […] Good balance of clues and endgame
ref: 2020 January 31, Philip Fine, Amory H. Danek, Kathryn Friedlander, Ian Hocking, William Forde Thompson, Novel Approaches for Studying Creativity in Problem-Solving and Artistic Performance, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 26:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: The thematic element of an advanced cryptic crossword puzzle, typically solved after completing the grid.
endgame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕndgām
ipa: /ˈɛnd.ɡeɪm/
Forms: form: end game
form: end-game
Etymology: From end + game.
Senses: examples: text: TJLC’ers’ strong belief in Johnlock as endgame was intrinsically linked with their trust in the show’s creators, which enabled them to interpret the repeated denial of the subtext in Sherlock as part of the game.
ref: 2017, Suzanne Frenk, "Telling The True Story: Queerbaiting, representation, and fan resistance in the BBC Sherlock fandom", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 50
text: I think the fans and I were pretty aligned with who we wanted as endgame couples.
ref: 2020, Marlene King, quoted in Sara K. Day & Summer Melody Pennell, "#PLLQueerTheory: Fans’ reactions to queer representation in Pretty Little Liars", The Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2020
text: One user, for example, posted, “Bughead haters can suck it. They’re endgame.”
ref: 2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, Whitney Monaghan, “'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr”, in Television & New Media:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Having become canon by the end of the plot of a work of fiction or speculated to be intended to become such.
raw_tags: of a ship
best laid plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best laid plan
Etymology: Shortened form of “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”, translated from Scots “The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, / Gang aft agley,” from To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert Burns (text and reading of poem).
Senses: glosses: A proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making detailed plans when the ability to fully or even partially execute them is uncertain.
wikipedia: Robert Burns
To a Mouse
bone to pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bones to pick
Senses: examples: text: "I say, Winthrop," he cried, "I've got a bone to pick with you. You've been hitting me pretty hard in that rag of yours. Do you know what a public man down in the Gulf States does with an editor who attacks him?"
ref: 1903, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 1, in Before the Dawn:
text: There are a few plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions in lesser populated areas, but big-city courts had few suits that did not involve medical error and "a legitimate bone to pick."
ref: 2006 October, Terry Carter, “Tort Reform Texas Style”, in ABA Journal, volume 92, number 10, pages 30–36:
synonyms: crow to pick
crow to pluck
crow to pull
glosses: A disagreeable matter to settle with somebody.
raw_tags: with with
Derived terms: have a bone to pick
praedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/
ipa: /ˈpɹidi.əl/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more praedial
form: most praedial
form: prædial
form: predial
Etymology: From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to land or its products.
glosses: Coming from or from the occupation of land.
examples: text: Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu."
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 60 (n.)
text: After the Black Death many villeins, viewing enviously the high wages earned by those no longer bound to render predial services, began to think that the conditions in which they were placed were no longer generally fair.
ref: 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2006, page 216:
glosses: Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.
Derived terms: nonpraedial
praedial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/
ipa: /ˈpɹidi.əl/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: praedials
form: prædial
form: predial
Etymology: From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).
Senses: glosses: A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.
clean up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleans up
form: cleaning up
form: cleaned up
form: cleaned up
Senses: examples: text: Clean up your room.
text: Rhos station had been cleaned up for the occasion, and its single platform was gay with flags.
ref: 1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Special Services for the Welsh National Eisteddfod”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:
text: Mr Mayor, you were elected in a campaign to clean up the city. When are you gonna start?
ref: 2008 July 14, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:
text: At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
examples: text: He sure cleans up nice.
synonyms: scrub up
glosses: To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.
examples: text: clean up one's act
text: Gays in Providence have suggested that the raid on the Club Baths was a political action. There is some belief that the newly re-elected Cianci administration wants to prove that it is "out to clean up the city." During the election campaign, the Cianci administration was attacked by opponents as being "soft on crime."
ref: 1978 December 16, Jim Marko, “Providence Police Raid Downtown Baths”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 1:
glosses: To make something less corrupt or unseemly.
examples: text: Man, he sure cleaned up last night at the blackjack table.
text: The investors cleaned up when the stock hit the roof last year.
text: And for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
examples: text: The key here is to stop third partying and start cleaning up. Running to the first bullets you hear will only guarantee one thing, a fight. […] Cleaning up means only swooping in for the free kills. Is a fight over? Does Octane has his hands in a deathbox? That is when you take the zipline and catch them with their pants down.
ref: 2020 June 23, Jackson Haime, “Becoming a Legend: 4 Easy Ways to Climb in Apex Legends”, in Medium:
topics: video-games
glosses: To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
Derived terms: cleaner-upper
clean up one's act
clean up one's plate
Related terms: cleanup
clean out
clean house
clean up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cleanup.
heads or tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attested since at least 1833, on the second page of Galignani's Messenger: "amusing themselves by pitching quoits, spoiling halfpence at heads or tails with the gingerbread merchants, drinking beer, smoking, etc".
Senses: glosses: The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.
wikipedia: Galignani's Messenger
Related terms: make heads or tails of
heads or harps
cross and pile
toss a coin
persuading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of persuade
persuading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more persuading
form: most persuading
Senses: glosses: persuasive
Derived terms: persuadingly
unpersuading
persuading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persuadings
Senses: examples: text: And, as I know from what you have now found upon your own souls, since he came amongst you, while under the preachings and persuadings of such a singularly serious Gospel minister, you will be restlessly solicitous till he be settled[…]
ref: 1833, William Steven, The history of the Scottish church, Rotterdam, page 63:
glosses: An act of persuasion.
candlesticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlestick
candlesticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of candlestick
articulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of articulate
pista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistas
Senses: glosses: pistachio
ruck rover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruck rovers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A position in Australian rules football: one of three followers, formerly a secondary ruckman, now an athletic player generally taller than a rover.
ontological shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ontological shocks
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of being forced to question one's worldview.
sweet gum tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet gum trees
form: sweetgum tree
Senses: glosses: A tree, Liquidambar styraciflua, found in the southern US.
Synonyms: sense: Liquidambar styraciflua
word: sweet gum
sense: Liquidambar styraciflua
word: sweetgum
compression ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compression ratios
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The ratio of the volume between the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and the piston before and after the compression stroke.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ratio of the size of compressed data to the size of the original uncompressed data.
black arched moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black arched moths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black-arched moth
hawk moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawk moths
form: hawk-moth
form: hawkmoth
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the family Sphingidae.
Synonyms: sense: moth in family Sphingidae
word: sphinx moth
sense: moth in family Sphingidae
english: caterpillar
translation: caterpillar
word: hornworm
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hemaris spp.
word: bee hawk moth
taxonomic: Acherontia spp.
word: death's head hawk moth
taxonomic: Deilephila elpenor
word: elephant hawk moth
taxonomic: Macroglossum stellatarum
word: hummingbird hawk moth
taxonomic: Mimas tiliae
word: lime hawk moth
taxonomic: Laothoe populi
word: poplar hawk moth
taxonomic: Sphinx ligustri
word: privet hawk moth
alt: Coelodasys unicornis
word: unicorn hawk moth
taxonomic: Hippotion celerio
word: vine hawk moth
taxonomic: Theretra lycetus
word: white-edged hunter hawkmoth
moth-eaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moth-eaten
form: most moth-eaten
Senses: glosses: Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.
examples: text: "A bit moth-eaten, aren't they?" he said doubtfully. "I mean to say, bumpy in the springs and all that." "Oh, of course, I'd have them resprung and fresh covers made if you bought them."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 72:
glosses: Old and in poor condition.
mothproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mothproof
form: most mothproof
form: moth-proof
Etymology: From moth + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being eaten by moths.
mothproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mothproofs
form: mothproofing
form: mothproofed
form: mothproofed
form: moth-proof
Etymology: From moth + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To apply odoriferous materials intended to repel moths from clothing.
Derived terms: moth-proofer
mothproofer
moth-proofing
mothproofing
Empedocles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕmpĕʹdəklēz
ipa: /ɛmˈpɛdəˌkliːz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐμπεδοκλῆς (Empedoklês).
Senses: glosses: A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water.
glosses: A volcano off the southern coast of Sicily.
yobbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yobbo
yobboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yobbo
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: deres
Etymology: From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).
Senses: examples: text: She did him dere.
synonyms: word: injury
word: wound
word: scath
word: scathe
word: lesion
word: dere
glosses: Hurt; harm; injury.
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: deres
form: dering
form: dered
form: dered
Etymology: From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.
Senses: synonyms: word: damage
word: scathe
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
glosses: To annoy, trouble, grieve.
Derived terms: dering
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
note: African-American Vernacular, New York City
ipa: /dɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
note: rural areas of Scotland, rare
ipa: /d̪iəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dare stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: der
Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
note: African-American Vernacular, New York City
ipa: /dɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
note: rural areas of Scotland, rare
ipa: /d̪iəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dare stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: der
Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
note: African-American Vernacular, New York City
ipa: /dɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
note: rural areas of Scotland, rare
ipa: /d̪iəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dare stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: der
Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
dere
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
note: African-American Vernacular, New York City
ipa: /dɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
note: rural areas of Scotland, rare
ipa: /d̪iəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dare stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /dɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: dear
homophone: deer
Forms: form: der
Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
glode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Senses: examples: text: And we glode fast o'er a pellucid plain / Of waters, azure with the noontide day.
ref: 1817, Shelley, Laon and Cythna:
text: And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of glide.
warfarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.fə.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹ.fəɹ.ɪn/
Forms: form: warfarins
Etymology: From Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation + (coum)arin.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.
ref: 2015 July 29, Carville G. Bevans et al., “Phylogeny of the Vitamin K 2,3-Epoxide Reductase (VKOR) Family and Evolutionary Relationship to the Disulfide Bond Formation Protein B (DsbB) Family”, in Nutrients, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A coumarin salt, warfarin sodium, found in certain clovers, that retards blood coagulation
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A coumarin salt, warfarin sodium, found in certain clovers, that retards blood coagulation:
Manufactured as a pharmaceutical drug and used in low dosage, with regular monitoring, for the prevention of thrombosis and embolism.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A coumarin salt, warfarin sodium, found in certain clovers, that retards blood coagulation:
Manufactured as a chemical, used in high dosage as a pesticide.
Derived terms: warfarinise
warfarinize
warfarin sodium
Related terms: blood thinner
brodifacoum
folk house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk houses
Senses: glosses: A house of the style that is predominant in the particular time and place referred to; an average house, an ordinary house.
brodifacoum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A highly lethal anticoagulant poison used as a rodenticide.
salbutamol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /salˈbjuː.tə.mɒl/
ipa: /sælˈbju.təˌmɔl/
Etymology: From sal- (“salicylic acid derivative”) + but(yl)am(ino) + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: The blue inhaler contained a medication called salbutamol, which was only ever to be used when you felt wheezy or short of breath.
ref: 2020, Dr Amir Khan, The Doctor Will See You Now, Ebury Press (2021), page 236:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic beta-agonist bronchodilator related to aspirin, administered in the form of its sulfate (C₁₃H₂₁NO₃)₂·H₂SO₄ as an inhalational aerosol or as a tablet to treat bronchospasm associated especially with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is marketed under the trademarks Combivent, Proventil and Ventolin.
Synonyms: alt: USAN
word: albuterol
Derived terms: salbutamol sulfate
USAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States adopted name - unique nonproprietary names assigned to pharmaceuticals marketed in the United States.
albuterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbju.təˌɹɔl/
Etymology: From (s)al(icylic acid) + -buterol (“phenethylamine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of salbutamol.
synonyms: word: salbutamol
Derived terms: levalbuterol
INN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INNs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of international nonproprietary name.
ydromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hydromancy.
yestreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestreens
form: yestereen
form: yestere'en
Etymology: From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […].
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 95:
text: "Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person."
ref: 1917, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Piccadilly Jim, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company:
text: You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Late yestreen I saw the new moon, the old moon in her arms
ref: "Sir Patrick Spens," traditional Scottish ballad
glosses: The night before; last night.
Synonyms: list in yestereve
flinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fling
flinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: flingings
Senses: examples: text: [T]he prominent character of leading young lady or heroine, which Paula was to personate, was really the most satisfactory in the whole list for her. For although she was to be wooed hard, there was just as much love-making among the remaining personages; while, as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance, [...]
ref: 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 147:
glosses: The act by which something is flung.
vacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaca
tercelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tercelets
form: tiercelet
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tercelet, from Old French tercelet; equivalent to tiercel + -et.
Senses: examples: text: In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;
ref: 1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:
glosses: A male falcon, especially a peregrine falcon or goshawk; a tiercel.
twynne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twynnes
Senses: examples: c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153,
Thomas, child of James Smythe, without Lydynte (being one of the twynnes).
1626 June 2, Jane Cornwallis, 1842, Richard Griffin (editor), The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis; 1613-1644, page 158,
[…] I comfort myself in that observacion he makes of the time, as hoping that I shall hear by the next that we are twynnes as well in recovering as in falling sick, […] .
glosses: Obsolete spelling of twin.
twynne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Her twynning cherries ſhall their ſweetnes fall / Upon thy taſtefull lips,
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of twin.
circumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː(ɹ).kəmˈɒɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From circum- + oral.
Senses: examples: text: a strenuous contraction of circumoral fascia
glosses: Around or encircling the mouth.
Derived terms: circumorally
circumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː(ɹ).kəmˈɒɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: circumorals
Etymology: From circum- + oral.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of large teeth on each side of the mouth of some fish.
altepetl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altepetls
form: altepemeh
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl āltepētl, from ātl tepētl, literally “water [and] hill”.
Senses: glosses: A Nahua community; a pueblo.
Marquis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marquises
Etymology: Borrowed from French marquis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Grenada, West Indies.
glosses: A place name:
A new neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Marquis No. 191.
glosses: A place name:
A village within the Saskatchewan municipality.
high-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪˌɛnd/
ipa: [haɪ̯ˌɛnd]
ipa: /ˈhɑeˌend/
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌend/
ipa: [haɪ̯ˌend]
Forms: form: more high-end
form: higher-end
form: most high-end
form: highest-end
form: high end
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't put a high-end stereo in your car in this neighborhood if I were you.
text: Havertz oozed class on the ball, looking every inch the high-end addition, while City knew that they had to find a way past N’Golo Kanté before they got at Chelsea’s miserly backline, which absorbed the loss of Thiago Silva to injury on 38 minutes.
ref: 2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Most sophisticated or expensive.
examples: text: She shops at discount department stores, but looks as if she patronized high-end boutiques.
glosses: Appealing to sophisticated or discerning tastes.
Synonyms: bleeding edge
state of the art
top-end
top-of-the-range
Derived terms: high-endness
Related terms: middle-end
corroding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corrode
corroding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrodings
Senses: examples: text: My companions ate merely to satisfy the corrodings of hunger. I fasted till after three the succeeding morning.
ref: 1823, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New-England and New-York, page 269:
glosses: corrosion
fast company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After James fell in with fast company he started doing drugs and sleeping around.
glosses: Companions of either gender who do morally questionable things.
myther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mythers
form: mythering
form: mythered
form: mythered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mither.
Baoulé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baoule
form: Baule
form: Bawule
form: Wawle
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire.
Baoulé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baoule
form: Baule
form: Bawule
form: Wawle
Senses: glosses: An Akan people, one of the major ethnicities of Côte d'Ivoire, who historically migrated from what is today Ghana.
Related terms: urls: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BCI
word: Ethnologue entry on the Baoulé language
knowe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowes
Senses: glosses: A small hill; a knoll.
knowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of know.
chimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of chime
chimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chime
chiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chime
chiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: chimings
Senses: glosses: An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes.
Derived terms: unchiming
chimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪmd/
rhymes: -aɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chime
denouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denouncers
Etymology: From denounce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, denounces.
hereinabove
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From herein + above.
Senses: synonyms: hereabove
hereinbefore
heretofore
herebefore
antonyms: hereinafter
hereinunder
hereafter
hereunder
hereforth
henceforth
hypernyms: hereinelsewhere
glosses: Above this, in this document.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
lipase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪpeɪz/
ipa: /ˈlɪpeɪz/
Forms: form: lipases
Etymology: Borrowed from French lipase. By surface analysis, lipid + -ase
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of lipids.
Derived terms: antilipase
colipase
DAG lipase
diacylglycerol lipase
exolipase
lipoprotein lipase
macrolipase
pancreatic lipase
pancrelipase
phospholipase
enounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊns
ipa: /ɪˈnaʊns/
ipa: /iˈnaʊns/
Forms: form: enounces
form: enouncing
form: enounced
form: enounced
Etymology: From French énoncer, from Latin ēnuntiō.
Senses: glosses: To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
examples: text: A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual.
ref: c. 1858, William Hamilton, Lectures on Logic:
glosses: To declare or proclaim.
glosses: To state unequivocally.
Derived terms: enouncement
unenounced
lipases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipase
childproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more childproof
form: most childproof
Etymology: From child + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Because of her arthritis, she always asked not to have childproof caps on her medicine bottles.
glosses: Designed to be unable for a child to use, operate, or open.
examples: text: They attempted to make the house childproof by covering all sharp corners with soft foam.
glosses: Made safe for children.
examples: text: After several visits from his darling nephews, Mike's bookshelves were childproof; all breakables and valuable books had been moved out of reach.
glosses: Made safe from children; resistant to damage by children.
childproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: childproofs
form: childproofing
form: childproofed
form: childproofed
Etymology: From child + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: I debated childproofing my house, but decided against, on the basis that any scars or burns would serve as object lessons in restraint.
glosses: To make something childproof.
Derived terms: childproofer
childproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of childproof
childproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of childproof
childproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of childproof
hydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrolase
road rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: gravel rash
coordinate_terms: rink rash
glosses: skin and bone injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces
roues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roue
Inga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Meitei language.
Senses: glosses: The third month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.