cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypnagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪpnəˈɡɒdʒɪk/
ipa: /-ɡɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɪpnəˈɡɑd͡ʒɪk/
ipa: /-ˈɡoʊ-/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪk
rhymes: -ɒɡɪk
Forms: form: more hypnagogic
form: most hypnagogic
form: hypnogogic
Etymology: From French hypnagogique, from Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).
Senses: glosses: That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
examples: text: But if we are in the right mood, a second of such lethargy is enough to make a hypnagogic [translating hypnagogische] hallucination appear, after which perhaps we reawaken, until the oft-repeated performance is brought to an end by sleep.
ref: 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:
text: Very quickly it would come to seem to Lionel Hoffmann that the remainder of his life, all that was not Siri, was of little more substance than those hypnagogic images that flash against our eyelids when, in a state of exhaustion, we begin to sink into sleep.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (paperback edition), Fourth Estate, page 253:
glosses: That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
Derived terms: hypnagogic jerk
Related terms: hypnagogue
dead duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead ducks
Senses: examples: text: She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!
synonyms: dead meat
glosses: One who is in serious danger or trouble.
examples: text: The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck.
text: The "most important suburban line—to Clifton Down, Avonmouth Dock and Severn Beach" has, I fear, been a dead duck for years. (It still exists in 2021)
ref: 1962 June, “Letters to the Editor: Diesel suburban services in Bristol”, in Modern Railways, page 430:
text: They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2–3 on agg): match report”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2016:
glosses: A project that is doomed to failure from the start.
Synonyms: sense: person in serious danger
word: shark bait
Related terms: lame duck
sitting duck
egg on one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attested by 1948.
Senses: examples: text: He really has egg on his face after that gaffe.
text: I hope the bishop of Hereford comes out of this with a great deal of egg on his face.
ref: 2007 April 1, “Bishop blocks gay youth worker's job”, in The Observer:
glosses: Embarrassment or humiliation; damage to one's reputation.
Related terms: lose face
ludology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin ludus (“game”) + -ology. By surface analysis, ludo- + -logy, although the prefix ludo- apparently derives from this word.
Senses: examples: text: It also included Gonzalo Frasca's paper, “Ludologists Love Stories Too: Notes from a Debate that Never Took Place”, in which he comes out in defence of ludology and rejects the most extreme critiques by arguing that ludology's raison d'être is not at all to reject stories, but to focus on games.
ref: 2009, Amelia Sanz, Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis, page 56:
glosses: The study of games and other forms of play.
Derived terms: ludomusicology
ludonarrative
Related terms: ludic
ludic fallacy
ludography
ludolect
ludological
ludologist
game theory
narratology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narratologies
Etymology: From narrate + -ology, after French narratologie.
Senses: glosses: The study of narrative structure.
Derived terms: antenarratology
econarratology
narratological
narratologist
Related terms: storytelling
root kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root kits
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of rootkit.
social Darwinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: sciences
glosses: The theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures.
social butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social butterflies
Etymology: In reference to a butterfly's habit of flitting from one flower to the next.
Senses: synonyms: gadabout
gadfly
glosses: A gregarious person who likes to attend parties and other social gatherings; a people person.
socialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: socialises
form: socialising
form: socialised
form: socialised
Etymology: From social + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of socialize.
bow tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow ties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bowtie.
bowtie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈtaɪ/
ipa: /bəʊˈtaɪ/
Forms: form: bowties
form: bow tie
Etymology: From bow + tie.
Senses: glosses: A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
glosses: A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).
Derived terms: bowtied
Sherman's bow tie
bowtie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈtaɪ/
ipa: /bəʊˈtaɪ/
Forms: form: bow tie
Etymology: From bow + tie.
Senses: examples: text: The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.
glosses: Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.
merciless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsɪləs/
ipa: /ˈmɝsɪləs/
Forms: form: more merciless
form: most merciless
Etymology: From Middle English merciles, mercyles, equivalent to mercy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The sun is merciless today, so please take care of yourself.
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
text: But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.
ref: 2024 November 6, David Culver, Abel Alvarado, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, “Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador”, in CNN:
glosses: Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
Synonyms: unmerciful
cruel
pitiless
ruthless
Derived terms: mercilessly
mercilessness
unmerciless
rate tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rate tarts
Etymology: rate + tart i.e., rate, as in "rate of interest", and tart, UK slang for a prostitute, referring to the promiscuity (in the sense of indiscriminate choice) of such a person.
Senses: glosses: A holder of a credit card or bank account who frequently and intentionally changes providers to take advantage of an offer of a low interest rate established to attract new customers.
Synonyms: card tart
credit card tart
card tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card tarts
Senses: glosses: A rate tart.
credit card tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit card tarts
Senses: glosses: A rate tart.
bow shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊʃɑk/
Forms: form: bow shocks
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic.
glosses: A bow wave.
Synonyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
fluid-dynamics
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: detached shock
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: termination shock
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: interstellar space
bromo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: brom-
Etymology: Representing the base of bromine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: containing bromine
Coordinate terms: chloro-
fluoro-
iodo-
Derived terms: 2-bromobutyric acid
4-bromobutyric acid
bromacetate
bromacetic acid
bromanil
bromargyrite
bromhydrin
bromo
bromobenzoic acid
bromocriptine
bromoil
bromopheniramine
bromophenol blue
bromphenol blue
bromosulphalein
bromosulphthalein
bromothymol blue
bromuret
bromyrite
chlorobromiodide
chlorobromoform
ethyl bromoacetate
potassium hexabromoplatinate
sulfobromophthalein
sulphobromophthalein
tetrabromomethane
tetrabromoquinone
tribromophosphine
α-bromoisobutyric acid
iodo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: iod-
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: containing iodine
Coordinate terms: bromo-
chloro-
fluoro-
Derived terms: iodo-acetic acid
iodo-benzene
iodobenzoic acid
iodobromite
iodo-brucine
iodocarbon paste
iodo-chloride
iodo-chloruret
iodocinchonine
iodocodeine
iodo-ethane
iodo-ethyl
iodoglycerin
iodognosis
iodohippurate
iodohydrargyrate
iodo-hydric
iodo-iodide
iodol
iodomecone
iodomeconine
iodomercurate
iodomethyl
iodomorphine
iodonicotine
iodophil
iodophile
iodophthisis
iodoplumbism
iodoprotein
iodopyracet
iodosalycilic
iodostrychnine
iodosulfate
iodosulphate
iodosulfide
iodosulphide
iodosulfuric
iodosulphuric
iodotannin
iodoterebene
iodothyrin
Related terms: bromo-
chloro-
fluoro-
fish bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish bowls
form: fishbowl
Senses: examples: text: We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl / Year after year
ref: 1975 September 12, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, “Wish You Were Here”, in Wish You Were Here, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium.
glosses: Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized.
examples: text: John Hinkle, Outreach Consultant, observing a fishbowl conversation.
ref: 1969, Oklahoma Librarian, volume 19, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Library Association:
text: The fishbowl can assume several configurations. Its most common form is simply an inner ring (Group A), which is the discussion group, surrounded by an outer ring (Group B), which is the observation group
ref: 2002, Julius E. Eitington, “Additional Techniques for Small Group Training”, in The Winning Trainer: Winning Ways to Involve People in Learning, 4th edition, Butterworth–Heinemann, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules.
glosses: The central and smallest circle where the speakers are located in some versions of such a discussion.
Synonyms: goldfish bowl
Related terms: aquarium
Friedel-Crafts reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friedel-Crafts reactions
Etymology: After Charles Friedel and James Crafts.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a substitution reaction in which an alkyl or acyl functional group replaces a hydrogen atom of an aromatic nucleus; it is catalyzed by aluminium chloride
wikipedia: Charles Friedel
James Crafts
Related terms: Friedel-Crafts alkylation
Friedel-Crafts dealkylation
Friedel-Crafts acylation
Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation
catalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalysed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catalyze
catalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catalyzed
form: most catalyzed
form: catalysed
Senses: glosses: Having undergone catalysis.
fuel cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuː(ə)l sɛl/
Forms: form: fuel cells
Senses: examples: text: A new energy source claimed by Mr. Coultas to be potentially applicable to locomotives is the fuel cell, now becoming more commonly known as the fuel battery. [...] The fuel cells which are furthest advanced in engineering development today use hydrogen as the fuel.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Fuel battery locomotives?”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
text: The Mako is powered by a sealed hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell, and includes a small element zero core. While not large enough to nullify the vehicle’s mass, the core can reduce it enough to be safely air-dropped.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Vehicles: M35 Mako Codex entry:
text: Fuel cells have a shorter lifetime than batteries and their overall efficiency of a hydrogen train is much less - recent figures from Stadler show that just 25% of the energy reaches the wheels for a hydrogen train, compared with 80% for conventional electric tration or around 68% for a battery-electric train.
ref: 2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30:
topics: business
energy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrochemical device in which the intrinsic chemical free energy of fuel and oxidant is catalytically converted to direct current energy.
topics: business
energy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of fuel tank: A fuel storage tank.
synonyms: word: fuel tank
extra: A fuel storage tank
topics: business
energy
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
racing
sports
glosses: Synonym of fuel tank: A fuel storage tank.
A fuel tank with a flexible inner liner to reduce the risk of puncture.
Derived terms: enzymatic fuel cell
fuel cell vehicle
fuel injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: carburation
carburetion
glosses: The delivery, under pressure, of a metered amount of fuel, as a fine spray, into the intake airflow or combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine.
examples: text: He replaced the carburetor with fuel injection.
coordinate_terms: carburetor
glosses: The equipment to achieve this delivery: a fuel injection system.
Derived terms: english: electronic fuel injection
translation: electronic fuel injection
word: EFI
Related terms: water injection
YAGNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yagni
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of you ain't gonna need it, the principle that software developers should not add functionality to software until it is required.
fish tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish tanks
Senses: examples: text: I sprinkled little flakes into the fish tank for the guppies to eat.
synonyms: aquarium
fishbowl
tank
glosses: A container, usually made out of glass or acrylic, specifically designed for holding water and marine life.
glosses: A section of a prison for newly arrived inmates.
Derived terms: haunted fish tank
Related terms: aquarium
fish bowl
goldfish bowl
fundamental constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundamental constants
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any of a set of physical quantities that play a fundamental role in basic theories
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical quantity that is not a function of other constants, such as Π (pi), C (light speed), etc. The smallest common denominators of physics, and the parameters or dimensions for the 'position' of our universe in the multiverse.
Related terms: english: speed of light in vacuum
translation: speed of light in vacuum
word: C
english: Planck's constant
translation: Planck's constant
word: h
english: gravitational constant
translation: gravitational constant
word: G
english: fine-structure constant
translation: fine-structure constant
word: α
word: mp
word: mn
english: mass of the proton
translation: mass of the proton
word: me
word: neutron and electron
english: Boltzmann constant
translation: Boltzmann constant
word: k
english: Avogadro's number
translation: Avogadro's number
word: NA
take up the cudgel for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up the cudgel for
form: taking up the cudgel for
form: took up the cudgel for
form: taken up the cudgel for
form: take up the cudgels for
Senses: glosses: To make a defense for someone or something, on behalf of another person.
ascender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ascenders
Etymology: From ascend + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: descender
glosses: A person or thing that ascends.
examples: text: Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: descender
glosses: The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: descender
glosses: A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
Related terms: ascend
ascendance
ascendancy
ascendency
ascendant
ascending
ascent
qty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qties
form: q'ty
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of quantity.
Drs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drs.
Senses: glosses: plural of Dr (doctors)
Drs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drs
Senses: examples: text: A disturbing fact has come to light in analyzing the channel you used to transmit your findings. Unauthorized transmissions have been sent from the MSV Rosalie to an unknown destination. It's assumed that this is how the geth are tracking Drs. Cayce and O'Loy.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Firewalker (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Alert: Security breach:
glosses: plural of Dr. (doctors)
exogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈɑ.ɡə.mi/
Forms: form: exogamies
Etymology: From exo- + -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.
Senses: synonyms: word: exogamy
word: extramarriage
word: heterogamy
word: intermarriage
word: mixed marriage
word: outmarriage
antonyms: word: endogamy
word: endogamy
word: homogamy
word: inmarriage
word: intramarriage
glosses: marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: endogamy
glosses: the fusion of two unrelated gametes
Derived terms: exogamic
Related terms: exogamous
intermarriage
MacArthur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɑː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: MacArthurs
form: Mac Arthur
form: Macarthur
Etymology: See McArthur.
Senses: examples: text: To hear Pastor John MacArthur tell it, all Grace Community Church did was open its doors and the people came, like the animals to Noah’s Ark.
ref: 2020 August 12, Daniel Burke, “California church defies public health orders, holds indoor services for thousands with no social distancing”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
examples: Former name: Hollywood
glosses: A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: General MacArthur
MacArthur Park
axis of rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axes of rotation
Senses: synonyms: rotational axis
glosses: The axis about which any body rotates.
glosses: The line joining the North Pole and South Pole about which the Earth rotates daily.
I tell a lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I visited Canada in 1996—no, I tell a lie, in 1997.
glosses: I am mistaken; I thought that what I said (or wrote) was true, but I have just realised that it is not.
Synonyms: that's not right
that's not so
Related terms: I stand corrected
stand corrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands corrected
form: standing corrected
form: stood corrected
form: stood corrected
Senses: glosses: To acknowledge, after someone else's correction of a statement one made, that this statement was indeed incorrect and that this correction is justified.
Derived terms: I stand corrected
Related terms: touché
diatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈtɒmɪk/
Etymology: From di- + atomic.
Senses: examples: text: diatomic molecule
text: diatomic element
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: monatomic#Adjective
triatomic#Adjective
tetratomic#Adjective
glosses: Consisting of two atoms.
raw_tags: of a molecule etc.
Derived terms: diatomically
diatomicity
Related terms: sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: dibromine
sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: dichlorine
sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: difluorine
sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: dihydrogen
sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: dinitrogen
sense: diatomic elemental allotropes
word: dioxygen
sense: types of diatomic molecule
word: heteronuclear
sense: types of diatomic molecule
word: homonuclear
diatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈtɒmɪk/
Forms: form: diatomics
Etymology: From di- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: monatomic#Noun
triatomic#Noun
tetratomic#Noun
glosses: A diatomic molecule or other species.
diatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈtɒmɪk/
Etymology: From diatom + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Cytological studies of the silicon diatomic cell wall, exhibiting the most beautiful diatoms appearance, are presented by Karsten and Holzinger, by Witkowski, and by others.
ref: 2019, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon, Diatoms: Fundamentals and Applications, page xxiv:
synonyms: diatomaceous
glosses: Of or relating to diatoms.
Mac Arthur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɑː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
Etymology: See McArthur.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MacArthur.
triatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + atomic.
Senses: examples: text: Ozone is a triatomic form of oxygen.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of three atoms.
raw_tags: of a molecule etc.
Coordinate terms: monatomic
diatomic
tetratomic
tetratomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of four atoms.
raw_tags: of a molecule etc.
Related terms: monatomic
diatomic
triatomic
diasystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diasystems
Etymology: From dia- (“across, between”) + system.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A system that reflects features common to a group of linguistic varieties.
Derived terms: diasystemic
works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːks/
ipa: /wɝks/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ks
Senses: glosses: plural of work in its countable senses
Hyponyms: bronzeworks
good works
public works
Derived terms: clerk of the works
clerk of works
works righteousness
Related terms: word: worked
word: wrought
works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːks/
ipa: /wɝks/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ks
Forms: form: works
Senses: examples: text: The steel works almost fills the valley.
text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.
Hyponyms: battleworks
bleachworks
brassworks
brickworks
bronzeworks
candleworks
cement works
chainworks
coalworks
cokeworks
copperworks
deadworks
dyeworks
enamelworks
false works
fishworks
freezing works
gas works
gasworks
glassworks
gunworks
headworks
iceworks
ironworks
laceworks
leatherworks
limeworks
loomworks
meatworks
metalworks
oilworks
paperworks
pinworks
potworks
printworks
railworks
saltworks
semi-works
silkworks
skunkworks
smelting works
soapworks
softworks
steelworks
streamworks
tanworks
tileworks
tryworks
upperworks
wagonworks
waterworks
woolworks
zincworks
Derived terms: gum up the works
spanner in the works
Stoke Works
works agreement
works council
works councillor
works team
wrench in the works
works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːks/
ipa: /wɝks/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ks
Senses: examples: text: Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.
text: Something clicked in his throat, as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.
examples: text: I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.
text: My my they wanted the works, can you this and that / I never got a letter back
ref: 1974, Brian Eno, “Dead Finks Don't Talk”, in Here Come the Warm Jets:
text: You like this? Limousine, champagne, the works. I'd get you on MTV, a national tour. Sponsorship. You name it.
ref: 1985, Ralph Farquhar, Krush Groove, spoken by Terri Beiker (Charles Stettler):
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
examples: text: Why did Constantinople get the works?
ref: 1953, “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”, Jimmy Kennedy (lyrics):
text: It's not, really, but I didn't want consolation. I wanted the works, and I got it, too.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
examples: text: While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.
ref: 2009, Gillian G. Gaar, The Rough Guide to Nirvana, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.
Derived terms: sense: mechanism or machinery
word: spanner in the works
works
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːks/
ipa: /wɝks/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work
Related terms: all the way
in the works
the whole nine yards
the whole shebang
the whole shop
donations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊˈneɪʃənz/
ipa: /dəʊˈneɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of donation
books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of book
examples: text: We still have to do this month's books.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Accounting records.
Derived terms: booksy
history books
books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of book
months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌnθs/
ipa: /mʌnts/
ipa: /mʌns/
ipa: /mʌ̃ⁿˀfs̄/
rhymes: -ʌnθs
rhymes: -ʌnts
rhymes: -ʌns
Senses: glosses: plural of month
months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌnθs/
ipa: /mʌnts/
ipa: /mʌns/
ipa: /mʌ̃ⁿˀfs̄/
rhymes: -ʌnθs
rhymes: -ʌnts
rhymes: -ʌns
Senses: glosses: A person's period; menstrual discharge.
parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːts/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: plural of part
parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːts/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ts
Senses: examples: text: He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
glosses: Intellectual ability or learning.
examples: text: We intend being at Leamington before long, unless some change in the weather should make our stay in these parts more tolerable.
ref: 1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241
glosses: Vicinity, region.
raw_tags: with “these”
glosses: The genitals, short for private parts.
Hyponyms: boy parts
girl parts
Derived terms: ladyparts
manparts
parts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːts/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of part
thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɔːts/
ipa: /θɔts/
ipa: /θɑts/
ipa: /θɒts/
ipa: /θoːts/
rhymes: -ɔːts
rhymes: -ɑts
Senses: glosses: plural of thought
states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of state
states
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of state
boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of boy
Derived terms: Boystown
boyswear
boysy
boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: The testicles.
horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoɹsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhoɹsəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹsəz/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔːsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of horse
examples: text: I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.
ref: 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
text: This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that.
ref: 1994, Blood (The X-Files), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Horsepower.
horses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoɹsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhoɹsəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹsəz/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔːsəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of horse
overrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more overrated
form: most overrated
form: over-rated
Etymology: From over- + rated.
Senses: examples: text: My sister is an overrated singer.
text: I say, “Tom Cruise,” because I know Irene hates Tom Cruise and she'll go on and on about why he's completely overrated.
ref: 2008, Lisa Tucker, Shout Down the Moon, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
antonyms: underrated
glosses: Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.
Derived terms: overratedly
overratedness
overrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: over-rated
Etymology: From overrate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrate
over-rated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of over-rate
over-rated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-rated
form: most over-rated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overrated.
drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: plural of drum
drums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drum
contrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrails
Etymology: Blend of condensation + trail.
Senses: synonyms: condensation trail
vapor trail
glosses: An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
Derived terms: chemtrail
contrail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contrails
form: contrailing
form: contrailed
form: contrailed
Etymology: Blend of condensation + trail.
Senses: glosses: To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.
docudrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/
Forms: form: docudramas
form: docu-drama
Etymology: Blend of documentary + drama.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.
ref: 1999, Alan Rosenthal, editor, Why Docudrama?: Fact-fiction on Film and TV, SIU Press, →ISBN, page xv:
text: And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention.
ref: 2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:
text: “Docudrama” is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.
ref: 2008 December 30, Bob Sommer, “The Education of David Frost”, in CounterPunch:
text: Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:
coordinate_terms: docufiction
glosses: A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.
Derived terms: docudramatize
Related terms: documentarylike
faction
departures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of departure
docu-drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docu-dramas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of docudrama.
condensation trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensation trails
Senses: glosses: A contrail; a visible line of condensation flowing from the edge of an airplane wing or similar structure.
craptastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæpˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more craptastic
form: most craptastic
Etymology: From crap + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: That was the most craptastic movie I've ever seen!
text: We also received a new logo for products that are craptastic to the nth power. Behold the Lick Ass award.
ref: 2000, Maximum PC, Vol. 5, No. 9 (September 2000)
text: 2003, Kevin J. Maroney, in rec.games.board http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.board/msg/aaddff7316800eee?dmode=source&hl=en
I've seen far too many games in the American market which have what I consider to be interesting themes wedded to craptastic mechanisms …
text: 2004, Thomas J. Theobald, in borland.public.off-topic http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.off-topic/msg/9f9b6e3a95f0e155?dmode=source&hl=en
If the GOP were to start acting like it cared (and yes, I believe it is their responsibility at this point, given the ultra-craptastic record they've displayed over these last four years), there might be some hope.
text: 2005, Steve Bass PC Annoyances
"The unofficial story, according to one source, is that the BBC's charter prevents it from “shower[ing] their viewers with craptastic ads …"
glosses: Of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: crapperific
craptabulous
craptacular
low-quality
Derived terms: craptastical
craptastically
vapour trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapour trails
form: vapor trail
Etymology: From vapour + trail.
Senses: glosses: A contrail.
fundamental interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundamental interactions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any of the fundamental forces that act between elementary particles; each one is associated with an exchanged particle
Synonyms: fundamental force
vapor trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapor trails
form: vapour trail
Etymology: From vapor + trail.
Senses: glosses: A contrail.
outdistance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdistances
form: outdistancing
form: outdistanced
form: outdistanced
Etymology: From out- + distance.
Senses: examples: text: He could not long outdistance such a runner as the Bishop, whose tremendous strides would surely overhaul him in the end.
ref: 1922, Christopher Morley, chapter 12, in Where the Blue Begins:
glosses: To run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.
Synonyms: outgallop
outrun
outstrip
outcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcross
outcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcrossings
Senses: glosses: An organism produced by outcrossing
outcross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcrosses
form: out-cross
Etymology: From out- + cross.
Senses: examples: text: Their two sons, Joseph I and Charles VI went still further in their pursuit of an out-cross by both marrying princesses from the Guelph house of Brunswick.
ref: 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249:
glosses: The introduction of unrelated breeding stock to an existing population, especially one which is inbred or homogeneous.
glosses: A plant or animal produced by such methods.
outcross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcrosses
form: outcrossing
form: outcrossed
form: outcrossed
form: out-cross
Etymology: From out- + cross.
Senses: glosses: to crossbreed different strains of a plant or animal.
Derived terms: outcrosser
unoutcrossed
Our Lady
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English oure lady, from Old English ūre hlǣfdīġe, a calque of Medieval Latin Domina Nostra. Cf. Queen of Heaven.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: Madonna
word: Our Lady of Sorrows
word: Mary
word: mother of Jesus
word: particularly in Catholic contexts
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly in Catholic contexts.
Derived terms: Our Lady's bedstraw
Our Lady's bell
Our Lady's day
Our Lady's eve
Our Lady's even
Our Lady's psalter
Our Lady tide
Related terms: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
Notre Dame
Our Lady of Dolors
Our Lady of Sorrows
Our Lady of the Seven Dolors
Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows
otto of roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attar of roses.
attar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæt.ə/
ipa: /ˈæt.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈæt.ɑːɹ/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: attars
form: atar
form: athar
form: ittar
form: ottar
form: otter
form: otto
form: âta
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian عطر ('ater, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.
ref: 1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78:
text: I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125:
glosses: An essential oil extracted from flowers.
glosses: A perfume made from this oil.
Derived terms: attar of roses
attar of roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otto of roses
Senses: glosses: a perfume made from an essential oil extracted from rose flowers
old country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old countries
Senses: examples: text: "Look at all the children!" Saxon cried. "School's letting out. And nearly all are Portuguese, Billy, NOT Porchugeeze. Mercedes taught me the right way."
"They never wore glad rags like them in the old country," Billy sneered. "They had to come over here to get decent clothes and decent grub."
ref: 1913, Jack London, Valley Of The Moon, book 3, ch. 1:
glosses: The country of origin of an immigrant or of a person of immigrant descent.
Related terms: back east
home country
homeland
where are you from
furnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝnɪʃt/
ipa: /ˈfɜːnɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furnish
furnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝnɪʃt/
ipa: /ˈfɜːnɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: equipped with whatever is needed
examples: text: Shabby indeed, and small and poorly furnished, and yet his, the home he had made for himself, the home he had been so happy to get back to after his day's work.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: supplied with furniture
Derived terms: overfurnished
underfurnished
well-furnished
sconcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sconce
sconcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sconcings
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The activity of sconcing in general, as part of a meal or drinking game; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Uncommon form of sconce, as part of a meal or drinking game.
sconces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high [...]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
glosses: plural of sconce
sconces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sconce
sconced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sconce
sconce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒns/
ipa: /skɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: sconces
Etymology: From Middle English sconce, sconse (“candlestick or lantern (with screen)”), from Old French esconse (“lantern”), from Latin absconsus (“hidden”), perfect passive participle of abscondō (“hide”). Cognate with abscond.
Senses: examples: text: […]tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.
ref: 1644 December 3 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 23 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
ref: 1847, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, volume 1, Harper, The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius, page 183, line 28:
glosses: A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
examples: text: Taking the candle […] she stood with the little flat brass sconce in her hand.
ref: 1858, Mrs. Oliphant, Laird of Norlaw, I. v. 55:
text: This strange scene was lightd up by candles in high and havy brass sconces.
ref: 1859, W. Collins, Queen of Hearts, published 1875, page 41:
glosses: A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
Related terms: abscond
sconce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒns/
ipa: /skɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: sconces
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps a use of sconce (“light fixture”) or sconce (“fortification”), but seemingly older than the latter
Senses: examples: text: Novv as I am a Chriſtian anſvver me, / In vvhat ſafe place you haue beſtovv'd my monie; / Or I ſhall breake that merrie ſconce of yours / That ſtands on tricks, vvhen I am vndiſpos'd: / VVhere is the thouſand Markes thou hadſt of me?
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 87, column 1:
text: Why does he suffer this rude knave now, to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Long time this sconce a helmet wore, / But sickness smites the conscience sore; / He broke his sword, and hither bore / His gear and plunder, / Took to the cowl,—then rav’d and swore / At his damn’d blunder!
ref: 1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:
text: […] roll the rider and his horse in the dust, or endeavour to drive their lance through the bars of the visor into the bull's eye of their friend's sconce, […]
ref: 1824, Galignani's magazine and Paris monthly review, page 129:
text: […]; an old blue jacket, that at one time had been a coat, looped over a red plush “singlet” of perhaps twenty or even forty years' wear : his almost hairless sconce bared to the sun, from which it had received an imperishable coating of tan, he was an object that few would pass without hailing with observations,[…] he wiped his shining sconce [...] and raised his visor […]
ref: 1867, Benjamin Brierley, Marlocks of Merriton, page 56:
glosses: A head or a skull.
examples: text: I'll gladly pay a sconce
ref: 2011, Allan Mallinson, On His Majesty's Service:
glosses: A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
examples: text: .
text: The table opposite started singing "shit sconce, shit scone^([sic]), shit sconce, shit sconce" […]
ref: 2014 February 25, James Burns, “Fishing for Sconces”, in funnywomen.com (blog), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022:
synonyms: word: sconcing
english: Oxford University slang, uncommon
translation: Oxford University slang, uncommon
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.