cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in order to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Here we were nearly 8 min. early, and was now a matter of spinning out time, as indeed we did—losing 3 min. from Penrith to Carlisle!—in order not to run into Carlisle more than 5 min. early.
ref: 1957 August 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 568:
text: She stood in order to see over the crowd. / She stood to see over the crowd.
text: Simple common sense would dictate that the two-year schools, in order to compensate for the relative educational deprivation of their students, would have to spend more money on their college education.
ref: 1979, David Nasaw, Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States, page 227:
text: In order to do that, I turn briefly to the ways in which the terms "marked" and "unmarked" are employed in other domains, to determine whether those notions can be extended naturally into the area of discourse.
ref: 1995, Matthew S. Dryer, “Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order”, in Pamela Downing, Michael P. Noonan, editors, Word Order in Discourse, page 109:
text: State law requires a name change applicant to publish notice of the potential name change, in order to alert the public in case anyone wants to contest the action.
ref: 2011, Lisa Sedano, How to Change Your Name in California, page 97:
glosses: before an infinitive: As a means of achieving the specified end; to.
Synonyms: word: so as to
word: for to
word: to
Related terms: word: in order
word: in order for
word: in order that
word: so that
word: to
pan-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panpipes.
break off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks off
form: breaking off
form: broke off
form: broken off
Etymology: From Middle English breke of (“break off, terminate”), a dissimilated form of earlier Middle English ofbreken. By surface analysis, break + off.
Senses: examples: text: She unwrapped the slab of chocolate and broke off a piece.
text: The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
examples: text: A chunk of rock broke off from the cliff face.
glosses: To become detached by breaking or snapping.
examples: text: Both families want the lovers to break off any relationship they may have.
text: When the yacht had passed the man resumed the conversation that her appearance had broken off.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 101:
text: In fact I never said it; she eventually realised I was someone else, and broke off the conversation abruptly.
ref: 2023 February 25, Tim Dowling, “Tim Dowling: I’m revisiting my worst ever moment on stage – a Christmas panto”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2023:
glosses: To discontinue abruptly.
examples: text: Our school doesn't break off until July.
text: Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: “[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily.
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “A Matter of Civilization”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 3, page 341:
glosses: To end abruptly, either temporarily or permanently.
examples: text: Ted's opening line, when Steve broke off for the deciding frame, was, 'Last night we put our clocks back one hour. These two stars turned theirs back to April.'
ref: 2017, John Virgo, Say Goodnight, JV - My Autobiography, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: To play the first shot in a frame of snooker, billiards or pool.
examples: text: If you help, I'll break you off a piece of the proceeds.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To give (someone) (something); to allow (someone) to take (something); to grant (someone) a share or portion of (something).
doorsill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorsills
Etymology: From door + sill.
Senses: glosses: The horizontal piece of material at the threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
fruit loops
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruit loops
form: most fruit loops
Etymology: Based on Froot Loops, a brand of breakfast cereal
Senses: examples: text: You must really be fruit loops to think for one second I would go traipsing through the woods looking for Bigfoot with you and your whackjob boyfriend.
glosses: Crazy; deranged; fruity
fruit loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitloops
Etymology: Based on Froot Loops, a brand of breakfast cereal
Senses: glosses: Any ring-shaped rainbow-colored cereal.
fruit loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Based on Froot Loops, a brand of breakfast cereal
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit loop
home wrecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home wreckers
form: homewrecker
Etymology: From home + wrecker, suggesting the breakup of a household.
Senses: examples: text: I, unfortunately, was the prey of a vicious, depraved B-girl. In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives. Go investigate that gang and let us alone, you homewrecker.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:
text: Knots Landing surged even higher in the ratings once Donna Mills was added as the neighborhood home wrecker Abby.
ref: 2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:
synonyms: homebreaker
glosses: A person who gains the affections of someone already married or engaged, and thus causes the dissolution of the marriage or engagement.
Hyponyms: english: men only
translation: men only
word: other man
english: women only
translation: women only
word: other woman
Related terms: housewrecker
terga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tergum
deterge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deterges
form: deterging
form: deterged
form: deterged
Etymology: From French déterger, from Latin dētergēre, from dē- + tergēre.
Senses: examples: text: Nature to attenuate, open, deterge, and dissolve; and Milk and Water, and Seeds, to cool, nourish, and balmify
ref: 1742, George Cheyne, The Natural Method Of Cureing the Diseases of the Body:
glosses: To clean (especially a wound) of undesirable material.
Related terms: detersion
glucemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glycemia.
Derived terms: hyperglucemia
vicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsɪn/
ipa: /ˈvɪsiːn/
Etymology: From translingual Vicia + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa), as well as other species of Vicia. It is a white crystalline substance.
vicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsɪn/
ipa: /ˈvɪsiːn/
ipa: /ˈvɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈvɪsɪn/
ipa: /ˈvɪsiːn/
Forms: form: more vicine
form: most vicine
Etymology: From Latin vīcīnus.
Senses: examples: text: it's difficult to apprehend , but that these avennues should in a short time be stopped up by the pressure of other parts of the matter , through its natural gravity , or other alterations made in the Brain : And the opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these ; as the making of one hole in the yielding mud , defaces the print of another near it
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
text: If there may be allowed any general Way of calculating their Time, they happen from the Course of the Sun, as it respects the Æquinoctial only; for if these Æquinoxes prove rainy Seasons all over the World (as I am apt to think they are) whatever secret Cause operates with that Station of the Sun to produce them, will more effectually do it in those vicine Latitudes
ref: 1724, Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates:
glosses: Nearby; neighbouring; vicinal.
microenvironment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microenvironments
Etymology: From micro- + environment.
Senses: examples: text: What was seen from the top down, as a large environment with many difficult trade-offs, is instead seen from the bottom up--as 10 million microenvironments, each to be regulated in its own right. It is this inversion of perspective that distinguishes microgovernment from other kinds of regulation, and that accounts for its often-bizarre behavior.
ref: 1998 September 19, Jonathan Rauch, “Tunnel Vision: The Dawn of Microgovernment”, in National Journal, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2012:
glosses: A very small area that has different characteristics than its surroundings; the milieu (set of conditions) within this area.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small area that has different characteristics than its surroundings; the milieu (set of conditions) within this area.
Synonym of microhabitat.
synonyms: word: microhabitat
examples: text: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small area that has different characteristics than its surroundings; the milieu (set of conditions) within this area.
The very small environment in the immediate vicinity of an organism.
Related terms: microecology
transgresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transgress
transgressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transgress
onto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: from Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “I am”).
Senses: glosses: being
run around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs around
form: running around
form: ran around
form: run around
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
glosses: To be very busy doing many different things.
examples: text: “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To go from place to place.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
raw_tags: of a locomotive
glosses: To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
examples: text: He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.
ref: 2006, Greg Moran, Tennis Beyond Big Shots, →ISBN, page 71:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
raw_tags: of a forehand or a backhand
examples: text: The children ran around in the playground.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
Synonyms: run about
Derived terms: run-around
runaround
run around after
run around in circles
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
run around with
run around with one's hair on fire
run around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run arounds
Senses: examples: text: Natrum sulp. is my specific for inflammations of the matrix of the nails or " run arounds."
ref: 1893, The New England Medical Gazette - Volume 28, page 183:
text: The sketch shows the arrangement of run arounds for bringing the loaded trips into the bottom and for returning the empties to the proper quarter of the mine.
ref: 1914, Mine and Quarry - Volumes 8-11, page 1176:
text: The Committee contends : First, that the turn of Brakeuien W. R. Tighe and W. F. Haworth was run around at Baird by the crews of Conductors Schwartz, Russell, Hubbard, and Whaley and thereby lost 200 miles, or four 50-mile run arounds.
ref: 1937, United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board, Awards: first division. 1- - Volume 7, page 504:
glosses: Alternative form of runaround.
examples: text: We let the dog off the lead so it could have a run around.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
worker bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worker bees
Senses: examples: text: Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from.
ref: 1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.
lieutenant colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛfˈtɛ.nənt ˈkɜː.nəl/
ipa: /l(j)uː-/
ipa: /l(j)uˈtɛ.nənt ˈkɝ.nəl/
Forms: form: lieutenant colonels
form: lieutenants colonel
Senses: synonyms: half-colonel
glosses: An army officer in many countries, ranking below a colonel and above a major. Often the commander of a battalion or the executive officer of a regiment.
glosses: An English-language term used as a general categorization for military officer ranks that are the equivalent of lieutenant colonel, the relative rank level is found in most countries.
glosses: An officer in the United States Marine Corps or Royal Marines, of equivalent rank to their counterparts in the army.
glosses: An officer in the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard, ranking below colonel and above major. Often the commander of a squadron or the executive officer of a wing.
Derived terms: LieutCol
Lieut. Col.
Lieut Col
light colonel
LTC
Lt. Col.
Lt Col
LtCol
cowbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊbeɪn/
Forms: form: cowbanes
Etymology: From cow + bane.
Senses: glosses: Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta
glosses: northern water hemlock (Cicuta virosa), type species of this genus.
Synonyms: sense: plant in Cicuta
word: water hemlock
sense: plant in Cicuta
word: poison parsnip
bumper car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumper cars
Senses: examples: text: I remember redwood trees,
bumper cars and wolverines,
 the ocean's Trident submarines,
lemons, limes and tangerines.
I remember this...
ref: 1988 November 8, R.E.M., “I Remember California”, in Green:
glosses: A small electric-powered vehicle encircled with a rubber bumper, used in an amusement ride.
Synonyms: word: dodgem
Canada goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canada geese
Senses: synonyms: word: cobra chicken
glosses: A large goose, Branta canadensis.
run around with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs around with
form: running around with
form: ran around with
form: run around with
Senses: examples: text: I'm not happy about the friends my son is running around with at the moment.
glosses: To spend a lot of time with a person or group of people. Often implies disapproval on the part of the speaker.
Related terms: run about with
run around
run with
run around after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs around after
form: running around after
form: ran around after
form: run around after
Senses: examples: text: I have spent all morning running around after the kids.
glosses: To spend a lot of time doing things for another person or group of people. Often used when that person could reasonably do the things for themselves.
egal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡəl/
homophone: eagle
homophone: Eagle
Forms: form: more egal
form: most egal
form: egall
Etymology: From Middle English egal, from Old French egal, igal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of equal and aequalis.
Senses: examples: text: Whose souls do bear an egal yoke of love,
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
synonyms: word: equal
word: equitable
word: indifferent
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Equal; impartial.
Derived terms: egally
semi-bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-bluffs
form: semibluff
Etymology: From semi- + bluff.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A type of bluff where the bluffer believes that the bluff has some chance of immediate success and also that he or she has some chance of improving his hand to win at a showdown.
semi-bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semi-bluffs
form: semi-bluffing
form: semi-bluffed
form: semi-bluffed
form: semibluff
Etymology: From semi- + bluff.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To attempt a semi-bluff
post oak bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post oak bluffs
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A type of bluff in no limit poker, where a player bets a small amount to suggest that he or she has a strong hand and would like to be called.
staff sergeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staff sergeants
Senses: synonyms: staff
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of several countries, ranking above a sergeant (or, in the US Air Force, above a senior airman).
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nymphalid butterfly, Athyma selenophora, of tropical and subtropical Asia.
run off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs off with
form: running off with
form: ran off with
form: run off with
Senses: examples: text: He ran off with my wallet.
glosses: To steal or abscond with.
examples: text: The chief accountant has run off with his secretary!
glosses: To elope; to leave with (someone) with the intention of living with them or marrying them.
sour puss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sour pusses
Etymology: From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for "mouth"”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sourpuss.
bindlestiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪnd(ə)lstɪf/
Forms: form: bindlestiffs
Etymology: From bindle + stiff.
Senses: examples: text: The hobo was a migrant worker, generally honest. The tramp would make a living stealing but there would be mutual respect between them. The bindlestiff on the otherhand was the lowest of the low for he would steal from the bindles of his fellow wanderers.
ref: 1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight:
text: And before he knew it he was a bindlestiff himself.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden:
text: She had been born in Tucson, mother full-blooded Cherokee, father a bindlestiff on his way through.
ref: 1967, Harlan Ellison, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes:
text: AP Finance was tucked somewhere between South Central and the vestigial river, hometown of Indians and bindlestiffs and miscellaneous drinkers of Midnight Special […]
ref: 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 315:
glosses: A tramp (hobo) who carries a bedroll or a bundle of possessions.
palm sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm sugars
Senses: glosses: Sugar made from the sap of various species of palm tree, family Arecaceae.
Related terms: english: palmyra palm
translation: palmyra palm
word: Borassus spp
english: date palm
translation: date palm
word: Phoenix dactylifera
english: sugar date palm
translation: sugar date palm
word: Phoenix sylvestris
english: sugar palm
translation: sugar palm
word: Arenga pinnata
english: nipa palm
translation: nipa palm
word: Nypa fruticans
subtend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈtɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: subtends
form: subtending
form: subtended
form: subtended
Etymology: From Latin subtendere, from sub (“under”) + tendere (“to stretch, extend”), itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “to subtend”), from which hypotenuse also derives. See tend.
Senses: examples: text: A 43° angle subtends an arc of about 0.75 meters on a circle with a radius of 1 meter.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.
examples: text: A hypotenuse subtends the right angle of a right triangle.
text: An arc measuring about 0.75 meters on a circle with a radius of 1 meter subtends an angle of about 43°.
text: […] trillions of bacteria, each equally an individual, which are found in a person’s gut, his mouth, his scalp, his skin and all of the crevices and orifices that subtend from his body’s surface.
ref: 2012 August 16, “Me, myself, us”, in The Economist, issue:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
examples: text: The points A and B on the circumference form the arc AB, which subtends the central angle θ.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To stand beneath or close to, as a bract at the base of a flower.
doublecross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doublecrosses
form: doublecrossing
form: doublecrossed
form: doublecrossed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-cross.
doublecross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublecrosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-cross.
doublecrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doublecross
doublecrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doublecross
doublecrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doublecross
doublecrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doublecross
get up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets up to
form: getting up to
form: got up to
form: got up to
form: gotten up to
Senses: examples: text: Recently he's been getting up to all sorts of mischief.
text: I haven't seen you for a while. What have you been getting up to?
text: The windows on one side of the large open-plan room overlook the nurses' accommodation for the nearby University College Hospital[…] The LRB's editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers, likes this view. She enjoys "seeing what the nurses get up to".
ref: 2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, quoting Mary-Kay Wilmers, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer:
glosses: To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.
Related terms: up to
civil partnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil partnerships
Senses: glosses: A union similar to marriage which same-sex couples, and in some jurisdictions opposite-sex couples, may form, which affords rights and responsibilities similar or identical to those afforded by civil marriage.
Synonyms: sense: similar arrangements in various jurisdictions
word: civil union
sense: similar arrangements in various jurisdictions
word: domestic partnership
sense: similar arrangements in various jurisdictions
word: registered partnership
hay wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay wagons
form: haywagon
Senses: glosses: A wagon used to carry hay.
glosses: An open cart filled with hay used for tourist hay rides.
Synonyms: word: hay wain
hay ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay rides
Senses: glosses: A leisurely ride in an open cart filled with hay throughout a scenic area.
glosses: Any easy task.
hear on the grapevine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears on the grapevine
form: hearing on the grapevine
form: heard on the grapevine
form: heard on the grapevine
Senses: examples: text: '[…] But most of me mad dad's crew took off to American from what I can make out' - he's talking too much, he has to stop - 'from what I hear on the family grapevine, that's where they went, New York, their loss as far as I'm concerned, don't know what they're missing, eh? […]'
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 124:
glosses: To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc.
Synonyms: hear through the grapevine
do a bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does a bunk
form: doing a bunk
form: did a bunk
form: done a bunk
Senses: glosses: To escape or flee, especially under incriminating circumstances.
done a bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Where's Professor Snape?" shouted a girl from the Slytherin table. "He has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk," replied Professor McGonagall, and a great cheer erupted from the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws.
ref: 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, USA: Arthur A. Levine Books, page 609:
glosses: simple past and past participle of do a bunk
Latinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinisations
Etymology: From Latinise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of Latinization.
Latinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Latinize
dildoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪl.dəʊz/
Senses: examples: text: Thus our voluptuous passions acted one on the other, and we passed an exhausting night in every excess and refinement of venery, in which Miss Frankland’s dildoes, for she had two, of different sizes, played no small part in both our persons.
ref: 1873, The Romance of Lust, William Potter & friends:
glosses: plural of dildo
glosses: plural of dildoe
dildos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dildo
abbreviatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abbreviature
ablactations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ablactation
abolishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abolisher
absorbents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorbent
Untermensch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʊntəmɛnʃ/
Forms: form: Untermenschen
form: untermensch
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Untermensch.
Senses: examples: text: His orders are clear and concise – the Scots are viewed as untermenschen and are to be treated accordingly.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 19:
antonyms: Übermensch
glosses: An inferior person; a subhuman, especially in Nazi racial hierarchy.
wikipedia: Untermensch
yessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yes
pulpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpit
duels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duel
duels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duel
birded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bird
aquamarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquamarine
backbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbone
Untermenschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʊntəˌmɛnʃən/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Untermenschen.
Senses: glosses: plural of Untermensch
replicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replica
cadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadi
cadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French cadis.
Senses: examples: text: At Quissac is a considerable manufacture of cadis; Sauve the same; St Hipolite, cadis, 75 looms; Bauzely ditto, 60 looms; Vigan, cloths and cadis, a very considerable manufacture;
ref: 1774, Malachy Postlethwayt, “Of the commerce of Languedoc”, in The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce:
glosses: Alternative form of caddis (rough woolen cloth).
accordances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accordance
entertainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entertainer
dupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: plural of dupe
dupes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dupe
stiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stiff
bibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Senses: glosses: plural of bib
glosses: another name for overalls
bibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bib
broadswords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadsword
throttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throttle
throttles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throttle
locators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locator
binary operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary operation
proms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prom
ejectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ejector
launches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launch
launches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of launch
manias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mania
intersections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intersection
nineteenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nineteenth
archaeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeologist
barbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barber
penumbras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penumbra
tsars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsar
metanoias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanoia
wethering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wether
wethered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wether
seismologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismologist
destructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destruction
goalkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goalkeeper
commodores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commodore
possibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possible
glosses: The essential personal equipment carried by an American frontiersman
Derived terms: possibles sack
nanograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanogram
beagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beagle
beagles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beagle
sheaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːðz/
homophone: sheathes
Senses: glosses: plural of sheath
onsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onset
onsets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of onset
nubbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nubbin
fens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fen
cloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊvz/
ipa: /kloʊvz/
ipa: /kləʉvz/
rhymes: -əʊvz
rhymes: -oʊvz
Senses: glosses: plural of clove
acknowledgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acknowledgment
airfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airfoil
arrogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrogation
trey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trā
ipa: /tɹeɪ/
homophone: tray
homophone: trait stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: treys
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English trey, from Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from Old French treis (“three”). Doublet of three and tres.
Senses: examples: text: Before you begin the Game at Picket, you must throw out of the Pack the Deuces, Treys, Fours and Fives, and play with the rest of the Cards, which are in number thirty and six.
ref: 1674, Charles Cotton, chapter 6, in The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, page 81:
text: He had been a pretty good guy, straight as ace-deuce-trey-four-five, till he got on the force.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in Red Harvest:
text: You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
ref: 1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:
text: Davidson had caught a trey which did not seem to improve his hand, yet he threw three dollars into the pot.
ref: 1982, Stephen King, The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands:
topics: card-games
games
qualifier: occasionally dice games
glosses: A playing card or die with the rank of three.
topics: card-games
dice
dominoes
games
glosses: A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A three-pointer.
glosses: A three penny coin; a thrippence.
glosses: The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
glosses: The third branch of a deer's antler.
Coordinate terms: topics: dice
games
word: ace
word: deuce
word: cater
word: cinque
word: sice
Related terms: tray-trip
yurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yurt
polarizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarizabilities
Etymology: From polarize + -ability.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.
Derived terms: depolarizability
hyperpolarizability
kunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kuna
gobshites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobshite
blathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blather
blathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blather
boyars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyar
earings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earing
evzones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evzone
levees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levee
skeets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeet
skeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeet
skeeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skeet
stators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stator
yawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawl
catheterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catheterization
inside straight draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside straight draws
Senses: examples: text: Hellmuth flopped an inside straight draw, and needed a five on the turn or river to complete the straight.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A straight draw where a card is missing from the middle of the straight, therefore only one rank can complete the straight.
Related terms: open-ended
congestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congestion
defamations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defamation
empiricisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empiricism
exaggerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exaggeration
experimentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimentation
Fuegians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fuegian
hybridizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybridization
louts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of lout
louts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lout
louting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lout
louted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lout
packers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packer
open ended straight draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open ended straight draws
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Four cards to a straight where cards of two different ranks could complete a straight. (E.g. 4-5-6-7)
Synonyms: outside straight draw
open-ender
potentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potential
triumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of triumph
triumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triumphings
Senses: examples: 1867-68, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
The Finn family could not restrain their triumphings at Killaloe, and I do not know that it would have been natural had they done so.
glosses: A display of triumph.
undergirds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undergird
undergirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergird
garbage collectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage collector
adelopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adelopod
addressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addression
thaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: plural of thaw
thaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thaw
cedillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedilla
swivels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪvəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of swivel
swivels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪvəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swivel
pedestals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedestal
langers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of langer
langers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more langers
form: most langers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of langered.
multiple expansions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple expansion
warlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warlord
quetzals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quetzal
rabbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbi
balmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: balmorals
Etymology: From Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume but no brim; a blue bonnet.
examples: text: A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes with much frequency and an unmistakeable emphasis may prove a fast friend in adversity, but meanwhile your adversity has not arrived and your toes are tender.
ref: 1879, George Eliot, chapter VI, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such:
glosses: A heavy walking shoe.
glosses: An Oxford shoe.
glosses: A figured woollen petticoat.
cadets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadet
renaissances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renaissance
schlemiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlemiel
wallflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallflower
allotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotrope
political sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of political science
up and down straight draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up and down straight draws
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An open ended straight draw
rollbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollback
dungeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungeon
simps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simp
aerodromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerodrome
satyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satyr
scrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrum
flits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of flit
flits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flit
gusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Conditions on Snowdon had been dry, but gusting winds had made walking difficult.
ref: 2022 July 13, Paul Bigland, “Charity walkers are high and mighty...”, in RAIL, number 961, page 45:
glosses: present participle and gerund of gust
gusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gust
furloughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furlough
furloughs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of furlough
furloughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of furlough
furloughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furlough
freebooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freebooter
rosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roster
rosters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roster
rostering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roster
rostering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosterings
Senses: examples: text: ...talking about the business of ferrying kids to school and other domestic rosterings of the kind.
ref: 2011, Michael Meehan, Below the Styx, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: The process of forming a roster.
rostered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roster
Derived terms: unrostered
rags to riches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rags-to-riches
Etymology: By surface analysis, a change from wearing ragged clothing (due to being impoverished) to obtaining a lot of money.
Senses: examples: text: […] and finally [Oprah Winfrey] declared herself not only “a believer in the American dream of rags to riches” but living proof of its veracity.
ref: 2016 [2008], Janice Peck, Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, Routledge, →ISBN, page IV:
antonyms: riches to rags
glosses: From poverty to exceptional wealth.
Related terms: sense: from poverty to wealth
word: self-made
word: Horatio Alger
sense: from low social station to high
word: go from zero to hero
sense: antonymic contrast
word: nepotism
word: nepo baby
boycotts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boycott
boycotts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boycott
boycotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boycott
boycotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boycottings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being boycotted.
boycotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boycott
secessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secession
carrousels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrousel
camaraderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camaraderie
expanses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expanse
ecliptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecliptic
wraths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrath
lunchboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchbox
recoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoil
recoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoil
armoires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoire
forerunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forerunner
grins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of grin