cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Muth-labben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew מות לבן (muth labbén), a phrase which appears in Psalms 9:1. What the phrase means is somewhat disputed, but it likely indicates either what motivated the writing of the psalm (in which case it probably means "the death of Labben" or "the death of the son" or "the death of the fool") or how the psalm was to be sung (in which case it probably denotes a specific musical instrument to be used for accompaniment, or an existing song whose tune was to be used, or it could mean something like "young boys' voices").
Senses: glosses: Used in translating Psalms 9:1 without assuming a specific meaning for the Hebrew phrase מות לבן (muth labbén).
capris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: capri pants
Derived terms: manpris
reasonableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bəl.nəs/
ipa: /ˈɹiːz.nə.bəl.nəs/
ipa: [ˈɹɪiz.nə.bəl.nəs]
Forms: form: reasonablenesses
Etymology: From reasonable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible.
ref: 2004, George F. McLean, Robert R. Magliola, William Fox, Democracy: In the Throes of Liberalism and Totalitarianism, page 101:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
glosses: A reasonable action or behaviour.
Synonyms: reasonability
rancidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rancidnesses
Etymology: From rancid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being rancid.
rapidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rapid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being rapid.
ridiculousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridiculousnesses
Etymology: From ridiculous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Only one short bit of humor is endearing, lampshading the ridiculousness of an eye-mask being able to conceal a superhero's identity.
ref: 2011 June 21, Corinne Gaston, “Adapted comic book flick has the ring, but no power”, in Daily Trojan:
glosses: The characteristic of being ridiculous.
glosses: The result of being ridiculous.
Synonyms: word: ridiculosity
raptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raptnesses
Etymology: From rapt + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She shimmies up the tamarind tree to watch the sistersʼ progression with undisguised raptness.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 210:
glosses: The characteristic of being rapt.
raucousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raucousnesses
Etymology: From raucous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of her words were muted by the sudden raucousness of rain on the roof.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 425:
glosses: The characteristic of being raucous.
raunchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːn(t)ʃɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈɹɔnt͡ʃinəs/
Etymology: From raunchy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double bill, Twice Around the Park, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV.
ref: 1982 November 15, John Simon, “Theater: Once is Too Much”, in Edward Kosner, editor, New York, volume 15, number 45, New York, N.Y.: News Group Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105, column 1:
text: Not unexpectedly, we find here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy.
ref: 1993, Daniel E. Anderson, The Masks of Dionysos: A Commentary on Plato’s Symposium (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast.
ref: 2014, Thomas Keneally, “War’s After-shadows: From the Secret Armies to the Reds”, in Australians: Flappers to Vietnam, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 26:
text: For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure. His Playboy Clubs were open to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight censorship.
ref: 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, ‘Playboy’ Founder, Dead at 91: Legendary Magazine Editor Helped Spark the Sexual Revolution”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2018:
glosses: The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation.
Related terms: raunch
raunchfest
raunchily
raunch out
raunchy
receptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptivenesses
Etymology: From receptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of being receptive
repulsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repulsivenesses
Etymology: From repulsive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the fact of this palatableness on the part of the one and repulsiveness on the part of the other has grown a singular condition in the southern states, where the trees as here once grew in equal profusion, side by side in the forests.
ref: 2011, Winthrop Packard, Forests and Fields Through the Year, page 343:
glosses: The characteristic of being repulsive.
rigidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rigid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rigidity.
ripeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripenesses
Etymology: From Middle English ripenesse, rypenesse, rijpnesse, from Old English rīpness, equivalent to ripe + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of being ripe
riskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riskinesses
Etymology: From risky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being risky.
Synonyms: dangerousness
hazardousness
perilousness
respectfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respectfulnesses
Etymology: From respectful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being respectful.
reservedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reservednesses
Etymology: From reserved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being reserved.
resentfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resentful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being resentful.
repetitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repetitors
form: Repetitor
Etymology: Compare Latin repetitor (“a reclaimer”).
Senses: examples: text: There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.
ref: 1909, Great Britain Board of Education, Special Reports on Educational Subjects - Volume 23, page 368:
text: Where the real difference with the tutorial likes is in the fact that the repetitor does most of the talking in class, analyses the problem and then, at the end, hands out a summary of what the model answer should be.
ref: 2002, B. S. Markesinis, The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Carl Philipp (1762–1827), repetitor at the Stift from 1789 to 1791 and a Hellenist, he had a strong influence on Ho:lderlin there, kept in contact with him, and was one of the first to try to collect and publish his work; see Letter 51 (to his brother Karl, 2 November 1797).
ref: 2009, Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth, Jeremy Adler, Essays and Letters, →ISBN:
glosses: A private instructor in a repetitorium.
examples: text: For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.
ref: 1992, Robert Laurini, Derek Thompson, Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems, →ISBN, page 154:
text: I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”
ref: 2008, Treasa O'Driscoll, Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey, →ISBN:
text: The oral composer, as well as the repetitor, must then quite naturally be a "counter" of rhytmic shemas.
ref: 2015, Marcel Jousse, The Oral Style (RLE Folklore), →ISBN:
glosses: Someone or something that repeats something.
ripest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ripe: most ripe
riskiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of risky: most risky
riskier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of risky: more risky
imprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imprimes
form: impriming
form: imprimed
form: imprimed
Senses: examples: text: This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
ref: 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion:
glosses: To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
resentfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resentfully
form: most resentfully
Etymology: From resentful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `Talk sense, fat face,' he said resentfully.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 28:
text: Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378:
glosses: In a resentful manner.
amorosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorosas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian amorosa, feminine of amoroso.
Senses: examples: text: But the amorosas—or those of the order of Lais, like those amhuhaia of old amongs't the Syrians—be more sociable, have mos't freedom, and in this region are not wors't es'teemed of
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: A wanton woman; a courtesan.
amorosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoroso
disinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪnˈfɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: disinfections
Etymology: From dis- + infection.
Senses: examples: text: Recent activity in the field of blood product disinfection has been based on a photovirucidal approach, with the requirement that the other microbial branches are also susceptible.
ref: 2003, M Wainwright, “Local treatment of viral disease using photodynamic therapy”, in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents:
text: In brief, after application of the speculum and disinfection of the cervix, the hysterovideoscope was introduced intracervically.
ref: 2015 December 12, “Factors Influencing the Recurrence Potential of Benign Endometrial Polyps after Hysteroscopic Polypectomy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Whether full-room disinfections are necessary is not always clear.
ref: 2020 March 27, Michael Schulson & Undark, “Deep Cleaners Have Their Day in a Nation Paralyzed by a Pathogen”, in Scientific American:
glosses: Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.
Derived terms: photodisinfection
Related terms: disinfect
disinfectant
disinfectation
disarmament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɑː(r)məmənt/
Forms: form: disarmaments
Etymology: From disarm + -ment, modeled after armament. By surface analysis, dis + armament.
Senses: glosses: The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
examples: text: With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.
ref: 1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 11, page 15:
glosses: The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
Derived terms: nondisarmament
prodisarmament
Related terms: demilitarisation
cornamuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornamuses
Senses: glosses: A type of double reed instrument from the Renaissance.
pellegrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellegrinas
Etymology: From Italian pellegrina.
Senses: glosses: A short cape worn by some Roman Catholic clergy.
arame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 荒布 (arame).
Senses: glosses: A seaweed, Eisenia bicyclis, used in Japanese cuisine.
IIUC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of if I understand correctly.
sirop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirops
Etymology: From Middle English sirop, sirup, syrop, syroppe, from Old French sirop.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of syrup.
sirop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirops
Etymology: From French sirop. Doublet of syrup. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
Senses: examples: text: So it came about that at three o'clock of that same afternoon, Rhoda Dawes and Anne Meredith sat primly on their chairs in Poirot's neat room and sipped blackberry sirop (which they disliked very much but were too polite to refuse) from old-fashioned glasses.
ref: 1936, Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A concentrated fruit drink; a cordial.
examples: text: It is then dipped into the Flambeau, where it is brushed and cleaned, then passed to the Sirop, where it is further brushed, and finally into the Batterie, where it is concentrated to the granulating point—a density of about 45 degrees Baumé, and with a temperature of about 240 degrees Fahrenheit.
ref: 1900, Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana, pages 675–76:
glosses: A kettle used in making sugar by the open-kettle process.
holochroal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ὅλος(holos)+ χρῶμα(chroa).
Senses: glosses: Having compound lenses, each with separate cornea, each lens separated from others by shallow scleral walls; corneal membrane ends at lens edge
raw_tags: of eyes
Related terms: abathochroal
schizochroal
souler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soulers
Etymology: From soul + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Often the soulers were children, who would sing their ancient souling-songs from door to door in return for gifts or food.
ref: 2002, Kerr Cuhulain, Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior:
glosses: A mummer or guiser.
rancidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rancidly
form: most rancidly
Etymology: From rancid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rancid manner.
regretter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regretters
Etymology: From regret + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Catholics were not the only regretters of the British Government's lack of courtesy to Cardinal Lauri during his two passings through England and Wales.
ref: 1940, Ernest James Oldmeadow, Francis, Cardinal Bourne, page 311:
glosses: One who regrets.
tambour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tambours
Etymology: Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small shallow drum.
examples: text: Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:
glosses: A circular frame for embroidery.
glosses: A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
glosses: Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
topics: architecture
glosses: The capital of a Corinthian column.
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
synonyms: word: drum
extra: cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
examples: text: One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.
ref: 2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses, page 150:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
glosses: A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
Derived terms: tambour lace
tambour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tambours
form: tambouring
form: tamboured
form: tamboured
Etymology: Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Senses: glosses: To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
caning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cane
caning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪnɪŋ/
Forms: form: canings
Senses: glosses: A beating with a cane, especially as a form of punishment
caned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cane
caned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Forms: form: more caned
form: most caned
Senses: examples: text: But, somehow, you missed the plane / You did too much E / Met somebody and spent the night getting caned
ref: 2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:
glosses: intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.
Derived terms: uncaned
hung jury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hung juries
Senses: examples: text: The prosecution re-filed charges after a mistrial was declared due to a hung jury.
topics: law
glosses: A jury in a legal trial that is unable to reach or come to a verdict because the jurors cannot agree on a decision.
Related terms: hung parliament
jury is out
hung juries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hung jury
radio-frequency identification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: The storage and retrieval of data using tags attached to individual packages, animals or people; the tags contain an integrated circuit to store and process the data, and an antenna to transmit and receive such data.
Synonyms: RFID
mandorla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mænˈdɔː(ɹ)lə/
Forms: form: mandorlas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mandorla. Doublet of almond, amygdala, and amygdale.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the mandorla may be considered on a more primal level as an archetypically ritual shape that transcends conscious and intentional symbolism, thus falling under the category of the mandala.
ref: 2005, Andreas Andreopoulos, Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography:
glosses: A vesica piscis-shaped aureola that surrounds the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, or represents God the Father (who is not traditionally depicted) in traditional Eastern Christian art.
rosolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosolios
form: rosoglio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian rosolio.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, much activity exists, in all parts, in the manufacture of aromatic liqueurs, ratafias, and rosolios, both in imitating foreign productions, such as whiskey, rum, brandy, kirsch-water, extract of wormwood of Neufchâtel, Dutch curaçao, chartreuse, &c., and in the manufacture of liqueurs peculiar to the country, as aniseed brandies and rosolios (Fumetto, Rinfresco di Modena) of the Bolognese and of Emilia, the rosolio, with flavour of bitter almonds (Amaraschino di Zara), the alchermes of Florence, &c.
ref: 1862, International Exhibition, 1862: Kingdom of Italy: Official Descriptive Catalogue, Royal Italian Commission, page 147:
text: Rosolio is a simple liquor that Neapolitan families brewed and served with a cup of coffee.
ref: 2004, Irene Palescandolo, Frank Palescandolo, Remembering Recipes, iUniverse, page xxiii:
text: Soon I am drying off at a mother-of-pearl table, a snifter of rosolio reflecting its oval pinkness in the white-tiled ceiling as if assuring itself of its own existence before I pour it down my throat. This liqueur, which I've found only in Italy, wears its rose-petal roots proudly in both smell and taste.
No one recipe exists for rosolio.
ref: 2010, Matthew Gavin Frank, Barolo, University of Nebraska Press, page 88:
glosses: Any of several sweet liqueurs containing fruit extract.
-esse
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -ess.
Derived terms: finesse
largesse
noblesse
richesse
tristesse
cannella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The treatment of lipocardiac asthma consists in improving the health of the patient. Against the symptoms, digitalis, convallaria, valerianate of quinine, caffein, cognac, red wine boiled with cannella, &c. may be useful.
ref: 1885, William Hubbard, “Cantani on Lipocardiac Asthma”, in The London Medical Record, volume 13, page 323:
glosses: cinnamon
scorza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Scorza, said to be Wallachian.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: epidote in the form of sand
forestiera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestieras
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of genus Forestiera.
scrub wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrub wallabies
Senses: examples: text: She waved out the sidewindow, ‘Another scrub wallaby! That's fifteen not including your side.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 16:
glosses: Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales.
black-striped wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-striped wallabies
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, from Queensland and New South Wales
Synonyms: scrub wallaby
cypin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytosolic protein that regulates neuron branching.
road to Damascus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roads to Damascus
Etymology: From the Bible New Testament book Acts of the Apostles. Referring to the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, later known as the Apostle Paul, to Christianity while travelling to Damascus to persecute Christians.
Senses: examples: text: Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often called Road to Damascus experiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes.
ref: 2007 March 5, Jim Brown, quoting Mike Huckabee, “Huckabee criticizes fellow GOP candidates over 'Damascus Road conversions'”, in One News Now, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2007:
text: […] That was my Road to Damascus moment. They played one hit after another and this is the song I remember most clearly.
ref: 2007 March 18, Will Hodgkinson, quoting Bryan Ferry, “Soundtrack of my life: Bryan Ferry”, in The Observer:
text: The candidate is aggressively branding himself as Vernon 2.0, a kinder, gentler Vernon Jones, a bridge builder, a fence mender. Asked by a Rockdale editor about his “road to Damascus moment,” Jones laughs. “I got knocked off my donkey,” he says.
ref: 2010 February 14, Vernon Jones, quotee, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution:
text: One of his biographers, the journalist Paul Vallely, suggested that, in reflecting during this period of exile on his own record under the junta, Francis experienced a road to Damascus moment, and thereafter became a more radical, fearless and outspoken priest. As pope he said on more than one occasion, “the truth is that I’m a sinner” and that as provincial he had had to learn from “my errors along the way”
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An important point in someone's life where a great change, or reversal, of ideas or beliefs occurs.
Related terms: word: Acts of the Apostles
word: Damascene conversion
english: fundamental change of mind
translation: fundamental change of mind
word: metanoia
turnoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from turn off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turn-off.
tuneup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuneups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tune-up.
tuberose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtubəɹoʊz/
ipa: /ˈtjuːbəɹəʊz/
Forms: form: more tuberose
form: most tuberose
Etymology: From Latin tūberōsus (“tuberous”).
Senses: glosses: tuberous
tuberose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtubəɹoʊz/
ipa: /ˈtjuːbəɹəʊz/
Forms: form: tuberoses
Etymology: From Latin tūberōsus (“tuberous”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
examples: text: Only now Mariam saw a basket on the sill. White tuberoses spilled from its sides.
ref: 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 59:
glosses: Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
especially Agave amica (syn. Poliantes tuberosa), that has white flowers and grass-like leaves, used in perfumery.
tuberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt(j)uːbəɹəs/
Forms: form: more tuberous
form: most tuberous
Etymology: From tuber + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, resembling, or producing tubers.
examples: text: Huge tits and a fissured crotch / Were scored well in, and the space / Between her legs held scrawls / That set her fairly astride / A tuberous cock and balls
ref: 1962, Philip Larkin, Sunny Prestatyn:
glosses: Relating to tuberosities.
Derived terms: tuberous sclerosis
tuberculin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuberculins
Etymology: From tuberculosis + -in.
Senses: glosses: An antigen used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
tubercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuˈbɜːkjələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /tuˈbɝkjəlɚ/
Forms: form: more tubercular
form: most tubercular
Etymology: Latin tuberculum (“diminutive of tuber (“lump”)”) + -ar
Senses: examples: text: As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.
ref: 1924 November 24, “Critical Inspection of a Myth”, in Time:
text: He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.
ref: 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, Part One, Chapter 1:
text: There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 5, in Klee Wyck:
text: 2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website,
The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.
synonyms: tuberculous
;
tuberculate
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.
examples: text: The engine heaved. […] The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.
ref: 1994, John DeChancie, David Bischoff, chapter 9, in Masters of Spacetime, Crossroad Press, published 2015:
text: Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.
ref: 2007, Declan Hughes, chapter 1, in The Colour of Blood:
text: His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.
ref: 2016 October 8, Brad Wheeler, “Old Dylan and Stones deliver at new Desert Trip music festival”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
examples: text: “ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.
ref: 1930, Emily Pelloe, West Australian Orchids, page 13:
synonyms: tuberculate
glosses: Having, being, or relating to tubercles.
Related terms: antitubercular
capitulotubercular
intertubercular
quadritubercular
quinquetubercular
supratubercular
transtubercular
tritubercular
tubercularize
tuberculoventral
tubercular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuˈbɜːkjələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /tuˈbɝkjəlɚ/
Forms: form: tuberculars
Etymology: Latin tuberculum (“diminutive of tuber (“lump”)”) + -ar
Senses: examples: text: They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
ref: 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 907:
glosses: A person who has tuberculosis.
tuberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuˈbɜːkjəlɪt/
ipa: /tuˈbɝkjəlɪt/
Forms: form: more tuberculate
form: most tuberculate
Etymology: From Latin tūberculātus. By surface analysis, tubercul(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French tuberculé.
Senses: synonyms: tubercular
glosses: Having tubercles.
synonyms: tuberculous
tubercular
glosses: Having tuberculosis.
Related terms: anastomotuberculate
bituberculate
compactituberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
monotuberculate
multituberculate
nontuberculate
quadrituberculate
ramotuberculate
sagenotuberculate
trituberculate
unituberculate
untuberculate
tuberculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuˈbɜːkjələs/
ipa: /tuˈbɝkjələs/
Etymology: From Latin tuberculum (“little lump”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Not only for the adult excluded from work because of his infirmity, but also for the child excluded from the school because of its being tuberculous or predisposed must suitable provision for its cure and education be provided in preventorial and open air schools, the value of which has already been emphasized.
ref: 1907, Nova Scotia. Dept. of Public Health, Report, page 35:
glosses: Tubercular: having or relating to tuberculosis.
glosses: Having or relating to tubercles.
Derived terms: scrofulo-tuberculous
tuberculous dactylitis
tuberculous meningitis
tryout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tryouts
form: try-out
Etymology: Deverbal from try out.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, what are you guys doing?” “Dude, we're gonna tailgate the tryouts.” “Oh, shit. That's a good idea. Oh, you gonna bust out Green Man, bro?” “No. No Green Man.” “What's Green Man?” “Well, in high school, Charlie was like our school mascot.” “A mascot nobody wanted. He'd get wasted and dress in this green spandex bodysuit.” “Spandex?” “It was really sad.” “That's it.” “You gotta bring the Green Man suit.” “Yeah, no. Done with it.” “The spandex.” “Green Man was good. It got me through some hard times. But I'm done with it. Tell you what. You can wear it if you want, but I'm just gonna be relaxing, okay? This is gonna be about chilling out for me.” “No. This is gonna be exactly like Woodstock.”
ref: 2007 September 13, Charlie Day & David Hornsby & Glenn Howerton, “The Gang Gets Invincible” (3:56 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day):
text: Oh, there's only one spot open right now, so we're gonna have tryouts.
ref: 2008 July 14, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, spoken by The Joker (Heath Ledger), Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:
synonyms: trial run
coordinate_terms: try-on
glosses: A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially an audition for a performer or athlete, or the advance staging of a play at a small theatre.
trial run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trial runs
Senses: examples: text: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
ref: 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
glosses: An empirical test of the suitability or effectiveness of a method or object by running it at least once.
glosses: An empirical test of the suitability or capability of a person or actor by letting them perform at least once.
Synonyms: dry run
dummy run
tryout
minced oath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minced oaths
Senses: glosses: A type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression; a polite version of an expletive.
Related terms: expletive deleted
delinquencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delinquency
colloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloquy
colloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colloquy
penitentiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penitentiary
a closed mouth gathers no feet
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈkləʊzd ˌmaʊθ ˈɡæ.ðəz nəʊ ˈfiːt/
ipa: /ə ˈkloʊzd ˌmaʊθ ˈɡæ.ðɚz noʊ ˈfiːt/
Etymology: From put one's foot in one's mouth (“to say something embarrassing or wrong, or to make a mistake in public, or a social blunder, that is embarrassing or offensive”), adopting the structure of a rolling stone gathers no moss and a closed mouth catches no flies.
Senses: examples: text: From the wall of a New York bar: "A closed mouth gathers no feet."
ref: 1958, “Wall Signs Dept.”, in Advertising Agency, volume 51, Bristol, Conn.: Moore Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 9:
text: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
ref: 1972, American Eagle, San Francisco, Calif.: American Forest Products Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2:
text: Now disinflation is conventional wisdom on Wall Street, and Rutledge makes no apologies for his flamboyance: "A closed mouth gathers no feet," he says.
ref: 1987, Forbes, volume 139, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Or just keep your mouth shut. As sex therapist Marty Klein says, "A closed mouth gathers no feet."
ref: 1993 April, “The Playboy Advisor”, in Hugh M[arston] Hefner, editor, Playboy, volume 40, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1:
text: So open your mouth to speak about what is good. And above all remember that "a closed mouth gathers no feet!"
ref: 1996, Marvin Phillips, “A Closed Mouth Gathers No Feet”, in Never Lick a Moving Blender!: Humorous Insights that Motivate and Encourage, West Monroe, La.: Howard Publishing, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, 2010, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Bubba said he would like to go along. Leonard said, "That's okay, Bubba, but please allow me to do the talking. Remember, a closed mouth gathers no feet."
ref: 2001, Gary W. Carter, “The Role of a Tax Consultant”, in Getting Started in Tax Consulting, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: One who does not speak can be sure of not saying anything embarrassing.
Related terms: a closed mouth catches no flies
typecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, typecast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typecast
typecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typecastings
Etymology: By surface analysis, typecast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.
ref: 2011, Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990, page 142:
glosses: The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
examples: text: Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.
ref: 2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024:
text: Owning vintage typewriters, attending 'type-ins'—congregations of enthusiasts who have typing competitions with one another—and 'typecasting' (typing posts, scanning them and uploading them on to websites) are some of the activities of a new geeky species.
ref: 2011 May 1, Pronoti Datta, “Keys to the past”, in The Times of India, Mumbai: The Times Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
text: Having collected typewriters for more than 20 years, Polt decided to join the "typosphere" and start "typecasting". Simply put, he uses a typewriter to capture his thoughts, then scans the page and uploads it to his blog.
ref: 2015 November 30, Rebecca Rego Barry, “Typists of the world, unite! A new book looks inside the 'typosphere'”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023:
glosses: The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.
riskily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more riskily
form: most riskily
Etymology: From risky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:
text: They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]
ref: 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522:
synonyms: dangerously
hazardously
glosses: In a risky or rather perilous manner.
semiretired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From semi- + retired.
Senses: glosses: Partially retired; working part time, or not yet receiving pension benefits nor drawing down retirement savings.
RESP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RESPs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of registered education savings plan, an investment vehicle allowing caregivers to save for their children's post-secondary education, offering subsidies and potential tax advantages.
Related terms: CESG
RRSP
RRSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RRSPs
Senses: glosses: Registered Retirement Savings Plan—a program regulated by the federal government of Canada, offering tax advantages to help Canadian residents accumulate financial wealth, through a wide range of investment instruments, in order to provide financial security and income during retirement.
Coordinate terms: RESP
TFSA
RPP
Related terms: word: RESP
word: OAS
word: CPP
word: QPP
word: IRA
mincing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mince
mincing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mincing
form: most mincing
Senses: examples: text: "Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Affectedly dainty.
Derived terms: mincingly
mincingness
unmincing
mincing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mincings
Senses: examples: text: After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.
ref: 1931, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 90, page 689:
glosses: The act by which something is minced.
examples: text: My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings.
ref: 1975, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, page 118:
glosses: Affected dainty speech or movement.
gulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gula
gulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gula
mijl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mijls
form: mijlen
Etymology: From Dutch mijl, cognate with English mile and similarly derived from Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”) but used instead for the much longer league of about an hour's walk.
Senses: glosses: A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km.
Synonyms: word: Dutch mile
word: Dutch league
word: mile
english: in historical Dutch contexts
translation: in historical Dutch contexts
word: league
steek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːk/
Forms: form: steeks
form: steeking
form: steeked
form: steeked
form: steik
Etymology: From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.
Senses: glosses: To stitch (sew with a needle).
glosses: To shut or close.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To use a technique for knitting garments such as sweaters in the round without interruption for openings or sleeves until the end.
steek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːk/
Forms: form: steeks
form: steik
Etymology: From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.
Senses: examples: text: Ake Ogilvie told the tale the next day to Ma Cleghorn, Ma lying at rest in her bed, she'd gone to bed with a steek in her side and as lying fair wearied till Ake looked in.
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 565:
glosses: A stitch.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The bridge of extra stitches used in the steeking technique.
Knight Bachelor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knights Bachelor
Senses: glosses: A man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized orders of chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.
Knight Batchelor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knights Batchelor
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Knight Bachelor.
Knights Batchelor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Knight Batchelor
Knights Bachelor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Knight Bachelor
felonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felony
patties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patty
glosses: plural of pattie
haptenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haptenizes
form: haptenizing
form: haptenized
form: haptenized
Etymology: From hapten + -ize.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To react an antigenic compound (a hapten) with a carrier protein in order to stimulate an immune response.
Derived terms: unhaptenized
Related terms: haptenization
mop squeezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mop squeezers
form: mop-squeezer
Etymology: Sense 2 attested from 1949 in the US. Sense 2 possibly a reference to the scepter held by some queens (e.g., the queen of spades in the English deck).
Senses: examples: text: Servant Maids – who despising their Station […] deserted their Calling, and from Mop-squeezers, were promoted to Whores.
ref: c. 1758, Epistle of a Reformed Rake, page 23; quoted in Jonathon Green, “mop n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 2024:
glosses: A maidservant.
glosses: A queen (the playing card).
Related terms: mop-squeezing
Nina Ross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nina Rosses
Senses: glosses: A playing card with the rank of nine
glosses: A hand in lowball poker where the highest card is a nine
glosses: A roll of nine in table craps
glosses: A 9mm handgun
immensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of immensity
indignities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indignity
urgencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urgency
inefficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inefficiency
pluralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plurality
metae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meta
stabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stability
phonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phony
antimeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anthimeria.
steel wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel wheels
Etymology: A wheel is a common slang name for the lowest straight, ace-2-3-4-5.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The lowest straight flush, ace-2-3-4-5 (all of the same suit).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see steel, wheel: especially, a certain type of automotive wheel (also called steelies).
Related terms: mag wheel
wheels of steel
impossibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impossibility
repositories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repository
conservatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservatory
quandaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quandary
ossuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossuary
dramedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramedy