cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beaming
form: most beaming
Senses: examples: text: The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.
ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:
glosses: Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
Derived terms: beamingly
beamingness
inbeaming
outbeaming
beaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beam
beaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamings
Senses: examples: text: The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things […]
ref: 1826, Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt:
glosses: The act of someone or something that beams.
relieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈliːvɪŋ/
Etymology: From relieve + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relieve
relieving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈliːvɪŋ/
Forms: form: more relieving
form: most relieving
Etymology: From relieve + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 24:
glosses: That brings relief.
relieving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈliːvɪŋ/
Forms: form: relievings
Etymology: From relieve + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Purple flowers are commonly contrasted with centres or variegations of bright yellow, as blue flowers are with like relievings of orange […]
ref: 1850, George Field, Rudiments of the Painters' Art, page 68:
text: The light—divested of its aching brilliancy, lies sweetly upon the floor, checkered as that old man's life, in its quaint, yet charming relievings of shadow.
ref: 1855, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volume 5, page 42:
glosses: A change in colour, texture, etc. that relieves monotony.
withdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of withdraw
withdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withdrawings
Senses: examples: text: The first gold transaction, to four-fifths of its amount, would be by direct withdrawings of coin or bullion from the Bank of England.
ref: 1870, Patrick Barry, Wealth and Poverty considered, page 143:
glosses: withdrawal
Derived terms: withdrawing room
jerking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkings
Senses: examples: text: The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: A motion that jerks; a jerk.
jerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jerk
Derived terms: jerkingly
knee-jerking
tearjerking
recognizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛk.əɡˌnaɪ.zɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recognize
quoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quote
quoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotings
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, in many variations, quotings, and paraphrasings, gigantic assertions gained currency.
ref: 2012, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry 1945-1960:
glosses: A quoted statement; a quote.
proposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of propose
pruning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/
Forms: form: prunings
Etymology: From prune + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
glosses: Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
Derived terms: alpha-beta pruning
pruning hook
pruning shears
self-pruning
summer pruning
pruning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/
Etymology: From prune + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prune
beckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛkənɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beckon
beckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛkənɪŋ/
Forms: form: more beckoning
form: most beckoning
Senses: glosses: That beckons.
Derived terms: beckoningly
beckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛkənɪŋ/
Forms: form: beckonings
Senses: glosses: Such a wave or similar action.
frying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fry
frying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: fryings
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Pemoulie said the chefs tried various types of flour, multiple fryings, turning the batter into foam, and adding vodka to it (that idea stuck).
ref: 2009 October 7, Julia Moskin, “Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:
text: There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The action of the verb fry.
Derived terms: deep frying
deep-frying
frying pan
frying steak
identifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of identify
identifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identifyings
Senses: examples: text: There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.
ref: 2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page 49:
glosses: An act of identification.
inclining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incline
inclining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclinings
Senses: examples: text: The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…]
ref: 1836, J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain, page 690:
text: 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.
glosses: inclination
attaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈtæt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attach
arresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/
Forms: form: more arresting
form: most arresting
Senses: glosses: striking, gripping
Derived terms: arrestingly
arrestingness
arresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arrest
Derived terms: arresting gear
appreciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appreciate
appreciating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appreciating
form: most appreciating
Senses: examples: text: Gentle, affectionate, full of those small courtesies so endearing in daily life, generally silent, but such an appreciating listener, so unworldly, so young, and so lovely—Emily attached those with whom she lived, more than themselves suspected.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: Appreciative: having or showing appreciation.
Derived terms: appreciatingly
unappreciating
appreciating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appreciatings
Senses: examples: text: There are so many underlinings, so many exclamation points in the margins, and so much highlighting from my many readings and appreciatings that it looks like a case of severe book abuse. It is not; these are marks of love.
ref: 2005, Theodore Cheney, Getting the Words Right, page 238:
glosses: appreciation
apologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apologize
apologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologizings
Senses: examples: text: There were appeals and apologizings and beseechings then, but they were on the other side and he did not respond; something was frozen away inside that never unthawed in the heat of their renewed association.
ref: 2014, Allen Drury, Advise & Consent:
glosses: The act of making an apology.
counteracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counteract
eliminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eliminate
solving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solve
Related terms: problem-solving
problem solving
guarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guard
guarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Forms: form: guardings
Senses: glosses: The duty of one who guards.
examples: text: Guardings and balustrades should be designed to minimize the risk of wheelchair users catching their feet between balusters […]
ref: 2012, James Holmes-Seidle, Barrier-Free Design, page 58:
glosses: A guardrail.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.
Derived terms: coastguarding
monkey guarding
puppy guarding
foretaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretastes
Etymology: From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).
Senses: glosses: A taste beforehand.
examples: text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
Synonyms: word: foresmack
word: pregustation
Related terms: aftertaste
foretaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretastes
form: foretasting
form: foretasted
form: foretasted
Etymology: From Middle English fortasten, equivalent to fore- + taste (verb).
Senses: glosses: To taste beforehand.
glosses: To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
examples: text: [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise lost:
glosses: To taste before another.
Derived terms: foretaster
plunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plunge
plunging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: That descends steeply.
glosses: Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
glosses: Very low-cut.
raw_tags: of the neckline of a dress
Derived terms: plungingly
plunging neckline
plunging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒɪŋ
Forms: form: plungings
Senses: glosses: An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
examples: text: Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or The Whale:
text: Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.
ref: 1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete:
text: It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:
glosses: A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.
scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrapings
Etymology: From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.
ref: 2003, Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places, page 30:
synonyms: scrape
glosses: The sound or action of something being scraped.
examples: text: the scrapings of roads and ditches
text: […] the tables in the refectory would be laid out with plates of bread and scrapings of butter, with bowls ready for the saltless and slightly burned porridge, with the dark wells of golden syrup that served a universal purpose in early Australian cookery.
ref: 1987, Joan Colebrook, “In the Cubicle”, in A House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 75:
synonyms: scrape
glosses: Something removed by being scraped.
examples: text: The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.
ref: 2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automated collection of data, data scraping.
Derived terms: bowing and scraping
data scraping
screen scraping
web scraping
scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scrape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrape
nearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of near
permitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permit
examples: text: We'll come if we can, weather, health, and car permitting.
ref: 1979 December 8, “Uno Uno Uno”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 18:
glosses: Used in an absolute clause to indicate that the statement modified by the clause (typically an expression of intent) will only be fulfilled if not impeded by the noun.
permitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permittings
form: permiting
Senses: examples: text: How do we jump over that last hurdle before we start most of the permittings being done?
ref: 2003, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Energy production on federal lands: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, to receive testimony regarding federal energy development on public lands, February 27, 2003:
text: Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.
ref: 2022 September 21, Emily Cochrane, Lisa Friedman, “Manchin’s Gas Pipeline Deal Irks Both Parties, Snarling Spending Bill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An act or instance of permitting something.
overpowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpower
overpowering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpowering
form: most overpowering
Senses: examples: text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The fact that approximately 40% of spoken language at the cafeteria was not English, suggests that the effect of the near 100% English signage is far from overpowering.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:
glosses: That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
Derived terms: overpoweringly
overpoweringness
overpowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpowerings
Senses: examples: text: Each of these concepts can be used, and is used, to justify the various overpowerings and abuses that are typical of capitalism as we know it, pace the Enlightenment thinkers and any other ideal model.
ref: 2012, Andrea Micocci, Moderation and Revolution, page 327:
glosses: The process of something being overpowered.
unreasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreasoning
form: most unreasoning
Etymology: From un- + reasoning.
Senses: examples: text: When we consider the enormous amount of suffering and disease, both of mind and body, arising from the sex-suppression of which I have just spoken, especially among women, we see that mere unreasoning taboos - which possibly had their place and use in the past - can be tolerated no longer.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 196:
glosses: Lacking or without reason.
staggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæɡəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stagger
staggering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæɡəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more staggering
form: most staggering
Senses: examples: text: The army suffered a staggering defeat.
text: It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
ref: 1960 December 24, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
text: Binance may be the biggest crypto house exposed, but it is simply the latest in a long line of financial institutions whose lack of money laundering oversight — and willingness to look the other way — has drawn in staggering amounts of illicit wealth and attracted the world’s leading criminal rings and kleptocratic regimes.
ref: 2023 December 2, Casey Michel, “Opinion: Why crypto was the perfect tool for criminals and kleptocrats”, in CNN:
glosses: Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
glosses: Lurching, floundering.
Derived terms: staggeringly
staggering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæɡəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: staggerings
Senses: examples: text: There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
ref: 1837, “Memoirs of Mirabeau”, in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436:
glosses: The motion of one who staggers.
examples: text: But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory[…]
ref: 1738, Ebenezer Erskine, The Annals of Redeeming Love:
glosses: The condition of being staggered or amazed.
examples: text: As a result of the recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport, a Government-sponsored scheme for the staggering of working hours in London has been announced.
ref: 1955 July, “Traffic Congestion in London”, in Railway Magazine, page 444:
glosses: The spacing out of various actions over time.
glosses: In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort
smuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smuggle
smuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smugglings
Senses: glosses: An act of something being smuggled.
Synonyms: smugglery
contrabandism
Derived terms: human smuggling
migrant smuggling
people smuggling
smuggling raisins
lapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English lappinge, wlappynge, equivalent to lap + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 220, about Hanmer, Wales:
glosses: present participle and gerund of lap
Derived terms: lapping engine
lapping machine
lapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: lappings
Etymology: From Middle English lapping, lappyng, lappinge, equivalent to lap + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the iron roller is previously wound round with from 20 to 30 thicknesses of a strong twilled woollen cloth , which is called by the machine printer the lapping , which protects both the calico and the copper roller
ref: 1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts:
glosses: A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
glosses: The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
glosses: The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
synonyms: winding
glosses: Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
glosses: The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
Derived terms: hotlapping
Related terms: self-lapping
locking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockings
Etymology: From lock + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years.
ref: 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 7th scene (St. Crux-in-the-Marsh), pages 254–255:
glosses: gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
locking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lock + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock
Derived terms: antilocking
autolocking
central door locking
central locking
double-checked locking
letterlocking
locking differential
lockingly
locking room
mode locking
multilocking
nonlocking
pseudolocking
tidal locking
imagining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imaginings
Senses: examples: text: 1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]
text: Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.
ref: 2006, Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines, Writer's Digest Books, page 15:
text: Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.
ref: 2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60:
glosses: Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
imagining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imagine
glosses: present participle and gerund of imagin
robbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rob
robbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robbings
Senses: examples: text: Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
ref: 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141:
glosses: robbery
hiking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hike
hiking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: hikings
Senses: examples: text: To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.
text: Consulting the data provided by ARPS to the county, the county discovers that ARPS has erroneously stated that the parking area too was on solid ground when in fact the earth was ill suited to anything other than hikings.
ref: 1993, Bill P. Clark, State-of-the-art Mapping: 13-15 April 1993, Orlando, Florida, page 94:
glosses: Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
examples: text: Like in previous years, Government policies with regard to restraining price hikings have been dealing with curtailing credit supplies and bank liquidities […]
ref: 1984, Indonesia: An Official Handbook, page 125:
glosses: The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.
Derived terms: hiking boot
hiking pole
puffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puff
examples: text: It's called "puffing," when drivers start their car and then leave it unattended while running.
ref: 2011 December 6, TRI-102.5 Staff, “‘Puffing’ is Illegal in Colorado (Warming Up Your Car Unattended)”, in TRI-102.5:
glosses: Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
puffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffings
Senses: examples: the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train
glosses: The act of one who puffs.
examples: text: Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns[…]
ref: 1825, The Ladies' Monthly Museum, volume 21, page 50:
glosses: A puffy ornament.
topics: law
glosses: An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.
Related terms: puffery
analyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of analyze
galloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gallop
galloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallopings
Senses: examples: text: But the dreams came upon him too: gallopings and shouts through a windy sky, wingbeats, cruel beaks and claws, a feeling of loss unspeakable and unbounded.
ref: 1973, Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga:
glosses: Movement at a gallop.
Derived terms: galloping domino
contending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contend
contending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contendings
Senses: examples: text: in the midst of some contendings in the Church, about the government of his house
ref: a. 1752, Ralph Erskine, The Lamb in the midst of the Throne (sermon)
glosses: contention
stifling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/
Forms: form: more stifling
form: most stifling
Senses: examples: text: The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
text: The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 365-366:
text: Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty? Not he.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 119:
glosses: That stifles.
stifling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stifle
stifling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/
Forms: form: stiflings
Senses: examples: text: Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
ref: 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century, page 507:
text: Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.
ref: 2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64:
glosses: The act by which something is stifled.
offending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offend
offending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: offendings
Senses: examples: text: There are, besides, other corporations and individuals more or less connected in the activities of the other defendants, that are alleged to be instruments or accomplices in their activities and offendings[…]
ref: 2004, Rebecca S. Shoemaker, The White Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy, page 249:
glosses: The act of committing an offence.
Derived terms: juvenile offending
offending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Something in the fridge smelled terrible. The offending article was soon identified and removed.
text: According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.
ref: 2017 November 10, Aaron Mak, “This Hilarious Chatbot Messes with Scammers for You”, in Slate:
glosses: Responsible; to be blamed.
Derived terms: nonoffending
unoffending
redeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redeeming
form: most redeeming
Senses: examples: text: His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.
text: There are few redeeming features, if any, about the London Midland Region winter timetable.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 592:
glosses: Compensating for the faults of someone or something.
glosses: Able to save people from sin, error or evil.
Derived terms: redeeming quality
redeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeem
redeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeemings
Senses: glosses: An act of redemption.
punishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more punishing
form: most punishing
Senses: examples: text: Upon Amelia's return from the West Coast in October, George presented her with a punishing schedule of lectures and appointments to promote the new book and solidify her position as America's foremost woman aviator.
ref: 2010, Kathleen C. Winters, Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Regardless of the punishing heat and physicality, restaurant cooking is a calling many Chinese chefs cannot deny.
ref: 2013, Grace Young, Alan Richardson, The Breath of a Wok, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 100:
text: They took off at a punishing speed, making London in less than half a day.
ref: 2016, Tamara Gill, Only an Earl Will Do, Entangled: Select Historical
glosses: That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
examples: text: 1999, Edward Gonzalez, Richard Nuccio, Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, The Rand Forum on Cuba, Rand Corp
Others argued that the worst of all outcomes after 40 years of a punishing embargo would be for the United States to adopt policies that might extend the life of a dictatorial regime.
text: Public debt of this magnitude can provoke punishing tax rates and crowd out private investment.
ref: 2010, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Globalization at Risk, Yale University Press, →ISBN:
text: The apparent punishing effect of naloxone may be mediated through the withdrawal reaction that it produces[.]
ref: 2016, David J. Sanger, Derek E. Blackman, Aspects of Psychopharmacology, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: a punishing blow
glosses: Debilitating, harsh.
Derived terms: nonpunishing
punishingly
punishingness
unpunishing
punishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: punishings
Senses: examples: text: We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts[…]
ref: 2011, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, page 303:
glosses: Punishment.
punishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punish
semblant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmblənt/
Forms: form: semblants
form: semblaunt
Etymology: Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.
Senses: examples: text: But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: One's outward appearance.
Derived terms: make semblant
semblant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmblənt/
Forms: form: more semblant
form: most semblant
form: semblaunt
Etymology: Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.
Senses: examples: text: their eyes survey
The semblant shade
ref: 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Like; resembling.
examples: text: [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
glosses: Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
treading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English tredynge, tredyng; equivalent to tread + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tread
treading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: treadings
Etymology: From Middle English tredynge, tredyng; equivalent to tread + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
ref: 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:
glosses: The act of one who treads.
joking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joke
examples: text: Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!
glosses: Kidding, trying to fool.
joking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
Forms: form: jokings
Senses: examples: text: No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility[…]
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
Derived terms: all joking aside
jokingly
unjoking
guiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
text: That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.
ref: 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:
glosses: present participle and gerund of guide
Derived terms: guiding light
guidingly
unguiding
guiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: guidings
Senses: examples: text: Butler was ready to consider any proposition which would save her; but it must be a sound one—one not open to her whimsical moods or the guidings or leadings of romance.
ref: 1912, Theodore Dreiser, The Financier:
glosses: Guidance.
examples: text: Daisy Gordon Low then established two Girl Guide troops in poor sections of central London. Her belief was growing that guiding could serve many beneficial ends.
ref: 2002, Robert T. Grimm, Notable American Philanthropists, page 189:
glosses: Girl Guiding.
moaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moan
moaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moanings
Senses: examples: text: the moanings of the wounded men
text: But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow
⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: The utterance of a moan.
darkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darken
darkening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkenings
Senses: examples: text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
text: NEGATIVE FLASHES — Brief darkenings of a light that is otherwise steadily on.
ref: 1978, Gerald Leonard Howett, Kenneth Low Kelly, E. Thomas Pierce, Emergency vehicle warning lights: state of the art:
glosses: The act of something becoming darker.
Derived terms: antidarkening
gravity darkening
limb darkening
photodarkening
Related terms: darkeningly
undarkening
grumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grumble
grumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grumblings
Senses: examples: text: the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
text: The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”
ref: 1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:
glosses: complaining
glosses: rumbling
grumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grumbling
form: most grumbling
Derived terms: grumblingly
ungrumbling
parfum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑɹˈfum/
Forms: form: parfums
Etymology: Borrowed from French parfum. Doublet of perfume.
Senses: examples: text: Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration?
ref: 1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42:
text: For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums.
ref: 1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111:
text: WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports.
ref: 1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: Fragrance; perfume.
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: A solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds.
Related terms: parfumier
eau de parfum
parfum de toilette
Yarmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː(ɹ).məθ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)məθ
Forms: form: Yarmouths
Etymology: * From the name of the River Yare + Old English mūþ (“mouth”).
* On the Isle of Wight, from the River Yar + mouth.
* The town in Nova Scotia is named after the town in Massachusetts.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
glosses: A placename:
A town and civil parish with a town council on the northwest coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3589).
glosses: A placename:
A town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: District of Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth
Yarmouth capon
Yarmouth County
pistolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪstəlɪt/
/pɪstəˈlɛt/
Forms: form: pistolets
Etymology: From French pistolet. Ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: Pistolets are the best artilleree
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “Satire II”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
text: The Pistolet is his own
ref: 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A small pistol.
Wickham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkəm/
rhymes: -ɪkəm
homophone: Wycombe
Forms: form: Wickhams
form: Wiggam
Etymology: From Middle English Wicham, Wikham, from Old English wīċ (“village”) + hām (“homestead”). Doublet of Wycombe.
Senses: glosses: A village in Welford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3971).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Wickham and Knowle Parish Council) in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5711).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: West Wickham
Wickham Bishops
Wickham Market
Wickham stria
Related terms: Whickham
unbuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbʌtənd/
Senses: examples: text: I unbuttoned my shirt to take it off.
glosses: simple past and past participle of unbutton
unbuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbʌtənd/
Forms: form: more unbuttoned
form: most unbuttoned
Etymology: From un- + buttoned. In some instances possibly from unbutton.
Senses: examples: text: Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive, not to say drunk.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
glosses: Having the buttons undone.
glosses: In disarray.
glosses: Informal, casual.
aphthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aphtha + -ous.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to aphtha.
Derived terms: aphthous stomatitis
aphthous ulcer
aphtha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphthae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄφθα (áphtha, “mouth ulcer”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Candidiasis, oral thrush, thrush (fungal infection of the mucous membranes of the mouth caused by any species of yeast from the genus Candida).
glosses: An oral ulcer, disregarding the cause.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Foot-and-mouth disease.
Related terms: antiaphthic
aphthic
aphthoid
aphthous
bemud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemuds
form: bemudding
form: bemudded
form: bemudded
Etymology: From be- + mud.
Senses: glosses: To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
glosses: To confuse; muddle.
channel fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: the excitement on board ship as she approaches her destination with the prospect of liberty ashore.