cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dicky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: Dickey
form: Dickie
Etymology: From Dick + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
Related terms: Dick
Dickie
Rick
Rickie
Ricky
regardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdn̩t/
Forms: form: reguardant
Etymology: From Middle English regardant, from Anglo-Norman regardant, Middle French regardant.
Senses: examples: text: The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25:
text: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
text: I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: With the head turned toward the back of the body.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, II.3:
text: He stood regardant for a moment.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 84:
text: And now others, casually regardant, passed the place in automobiles ….
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Watchful, attentive; contemplative.
Related terms: guardant
Crewe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuː/
ipa: /ˈkɹuʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: crew
Forms: form: Crewes
form: Crew
Etymology: Recorded as Creu in the Domesday Book, the town's name is derived from Old Welsh criu (“weir; crossing”) (compare modern Welsh cryw).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7055).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Welsh.
Derived terms: Crewe and Nantwich
Crewe-by-Farndon
Crewe Green
fledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Forms: form: more fledged
form: most fledged
Senses: glosses: Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
Hyponyms: full-fledged
fully-fledged
Derived terms: fledgedness
unfledged
fledged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fledge
Cincinnati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnsɪˈnæti/
ipa: /sɪnsɪˈnætə/
Etymology: Named after the Society of the Cincinnati, which is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus; see Latin Cincinnāti and Cincinnātus.
Senses: examples: text: To be clear, there’s no reason to hate the actual Harambe. After the silverback gorilla was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016, people used “RIP Harambe” to… comment on the irony of why we mourn animals but are quick to blame humans?
ref: 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
glosses: The third largest city in Ohio, United States and the county seat of Hamilton County.
glosses: A city in Appanoose County, Iowa.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Arkansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Center Township, Greene County, Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Parke County, Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ralls County, Missouri.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon; modern Eola.
glosses: A settlement in El Dorado County, California.
glosses: Any of five ships of the United States Navy.
Synonyms: sense: city in Ohio
word: Cincy
sense: city in Ohio
word: Cinti
sense: city in Ohio
word: Cin'ti
Derived terms: Cincinnatian
Cincinnati chili
Cincinnatia
Cincinnati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnsɪˈnæti/
ipa: /sɪnsɪˈnætə/
Forms: form: Cincinnatis
Etymology: Named after the Society of the Cincinnati, which is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus; see Latin Cincinnāti and Cincinnātus.
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A 7–9 or 8–10 split (result of a first throw).
Antoine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænt.waːn/
Forms: form: Antjuan
form: Antuan
form: Antwan
form: Antwaun
form: Antwoine
form: Antwon
form: Antwone
form: Antwuan
Etymology: From French Antoine. Doublet of Anthony.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French occasionally borrowed from French, mostly in the U.S.
Related terms: Antoine-Labelle
hallway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈhaːlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈhɔlˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlˌweɪ/
Forms: form: hallways
Etymology: From hall + way.
Senses: glosses: A corridor in a building that connects rooms.
Derived terms: hallway healthcare
hallway hospitalization
hallway medicine
hallway monitor
hallway track
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway, like throwing a sausage down a hallway
throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway
highland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.lənd/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.lɪnd/
homophone: island (in aitch-dropping accents)
homophone: Hyland
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Forms: form: highlands
Etymology: From Middle English hy laund, holond (“highland, upland”), from Old English hēahland (“highland”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauhaland, *hauhalandī; equivalent to high + land. Cognate with Scots hieland (“highland”), Dutch hoogland (“highland”), German Hochland (“highland”), Danish højland (“highland”), Swedish högland (“highland”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: upland, upcountry
text: The highlands of the Swiss Alps are home to many unique flowers.
hypernyms: land#Noun
glosses: A high area; land that is higher than surrounding areas.
Derived terms: Addington Highlands
Atlantic Highlands
Cameron Highlands
Central Highlands
Grey Highlands
Highland County
highland dance
highlander
Highland fling
Highland
Highlands
highlandman
Highland Papua
Highland Park
Highland Peak
Highland Range
highland tinamou
Lanark Highlands
Southern Highlands
St Minver Highlands
Related terms: highlands
skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Etymology: From skin (noun) + -ed (“having”).
Senses: glosses: Having skin.
examples: text: Kiwi: Kiwi fruits are imported from New Zealand. Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe. To serve this fruit, peel and slice.
ref: 1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines, Ia.: Better Homes and Gardens Books, published 1970 (2nd printing), page 146, column 1:
glosses: Having skin.
Having a specific type of skin.
glosses: Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.
Derived terms: dark-skinned
light-skinned
onion-skinned
skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Etymology: From skin (“to remove skin”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skin
skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Etymology: From skin (“to remove skin”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).
Senses: examples: text: My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.
glosses: Having skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.
glosses: Stripped of money or property.
Related terms: peeled
aad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɑːd/
Forms: form: more aad
form: most aad
Etymology: Regional form of old (compare auld), from Northern Middle English ald (southern old).
Senses: examples: text: He’s aad codger.
glosses: old
Derived terms: aad wife
aad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːd/
Forms: form: aads
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of active acoustic device; active acoustical device.
glosses: Initialism of advanced ammunition depot.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of alloxazine adenine dinucleotide.
glosses: Initialism of antibiotics-associated diarrhea.
midland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midlands
Etymology: From Middle English mydlonde, equivalent to mid- + land.
Senses: examples: text: The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.
ref: 2007, Kye-hyŏng Pak, A Life, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.
Derived terms: Northern Midlands
Southern Midlands
midland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English mydlonde, equivalent to mid- + land.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.
subcommittee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌb.kəˌmɪti/
Forms: form: subcommittees
Etymology: From sub- + committee.
Senses: examples: text: The society's museum sub-committee is aiming to gather narrow-gauge railway exhibits from throughout the British Isles, and further accommodation will be provided to house the growing collection.
ref: 1957 June 24, J. J. Davis, “Narrow Gauge Railway Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 393:
text: Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize
ref: 2003, R.E.M., “Bad Day”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003:
text: “We all know that this is a second-best option” said Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who chairs one of the Homeland Security subcommittees under Thompson.
ref: 2021 July 12, Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, “‘We’ll do this work as long as it takes’: Thompson readies for political fight leading Jan. 6 investigation”, in CNN:
text: The subcommittee report says that if evidence of the virus’ natural origin existed, it would have surfaced by now.
ref: 2024 December 2, Katherine Dillinger, “House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic”, in CNN:
glosses: A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.
cooperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cooperative
form: most cooperative
form: co-operative
form: coöperative
form: co-öperative
Etymology: From co- + operative.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
examples: text: a cooperative game
text: a cooperative business enterprise
glosses: Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
glosses: Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
Derived terms: Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Related terms: cooperation
cooperatively
cooperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperatives
form: co-operative
form: coöperative
form: co-öperative
Etymology: From co- + operative.
Senses: examples: text: The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
ref: 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153:
text: Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
ref: 1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13:
glosses: A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: anticooperative
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: co-op
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperative federalism
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperative game
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperativeness
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperative principle
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperativism
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperativist
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperativity
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: cooperativize
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: noncooperative
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: platform cooperative
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: protocooperative
sense: terms derived from noun or adjective
word: uncooperative
slaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪti/
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: slatier
form: slatiest
form: slatey
Etymology: From slate + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.
ref: 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales
glosses: Resembling the rock slate.
examples: text: But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.
ref: 1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192:
glosses: Of a light grey colour as slate.
Derived terms: Bolivian slaty antshrike
great slaty woodpecker
Guianan slaty antshrike
Natterer's slaty antshrike
Peruvian slaty antshrike
Planalto slaty antshrike
slatily
slatiness
slaty-backed gull
slaty-breasted tinamou
slaty bristlefront
slaty-grey snake
slaty-legged crake
Sooretama slaty antshrike
western slaty antshrike
subroutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subroutines
Etymology: From sub- + routine.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: routine, program, app, application
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: function
procedure
coordinate_terms: utility
applet
worklet
subprocess
subtask
glosses: A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.
Derived terms: subroutine call
stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
homophone: steaks
Senses: glosses: plural of stake
stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
homophone: steaks
Senses: glosses: The money wagered in gambling
examples: text: These are the stakes: to make a world in which all of God's children can live or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die.
Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.
ref: 1964 September 7, Lyndon B. Johnson, 0:43 from the start, in "Daisy" Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection, National Archives and Records Administration, archived from the original on 05 May 2018:
text: Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
text: I have reviewed the exhibits submitted in this case. I also have carefully considered the arguments proffered by the parties. I take my role in this proceeding extremely seriously, given both the stakes and the novel constitutional questions at issue. For the reasons that follow, I conclude that Mr. Trump's primary petition is invalid.
ref: 2023 December 28, Shenna Bellows, “Ruling of the Secretary of State”, in State of Maine Secretary of State, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2023, pages 5-6:
glosses: Risks
Derived terms: chicken stakes
high-stakes
pull up stakes
raise the stakes
table stakes
stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
homophone: steaks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stake
anti-caking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anticaking
Etymology: From anti- + caking.
Senses: glosses: Used to prevent a powder from forming a solid block or cake.
Derived terms: anti-caking agent
kiddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdi/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘɾiː]
rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: kitty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kiddies
form: kiddy
Etymology: From kid + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The kiddie pool was shallow so the children would be safe, which meant it was much warmer than the adult pool.
text: C. S. Lewis first made kiddie lit a respectable field of study.
text: Some days later, Dan, Gulunna, and the two kiddies fell in with another tribe which was ruled by Chief Bulla.
ref: 1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 9, column 2:
text: “He has two kiddies, a pigeon pair.”
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 373:
glosses: A child.
Derived terms: kiddie car
kiddie cocktail
kiddie fiddler
kiddie flick
kiddie pool
kiddie porn
kiddie ride
kiddie table
kiddie tax
script kiddie
skiddie
-ock
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -ick
form: -ik
Etymology: From Middle English -ock, -ok, -uk, -uck, from Old English -oc, -uc (diminutive suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-uk, from Proto-Germanic *-ukaz (diminutive suffix).
Akin to Old Saxon -ik (diminutive suffix), German -ich, Middle Low German -ken (diminutive suffix), Middle Dutch -kin, Old Norse -kr (diminutive suffix). More at -kin.
Senses: examples: hillock, haddock, bullock, Drillock, ballock, maddock, paddock
glosses: Forming nouns from nouns, originally with a diminutive sense.
Related terms: -kin
-ling
-en
kanny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: more kanny
form: most kanny
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of canny.
Daphne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæfni/
Forms: form: Daphnë
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).
Senses: examples: text: Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
examples: text: My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.
ref: 1989, John Banville, The Book of Evidence, page 7:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 41 Daphne
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊶
Derived terms: Daphne Major
suggilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suggilate
pickthank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickthanks
form: pick-thank
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Dogge nuſling his noſe vnder the necke of the Deare, the Wolfe glad to let the Lambe lye vpon hym to kéepe him warme, the Lyon ſuffering the Aſſe to caſt hys legge ouer him: preferring one honeſt vnmannerly friende, before a number of croutching picke-thankes.
ref: 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Vnfortunate Traueller”, in The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: […] T. Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, […], →OCLC:
text: This Dodger is mine uncle’s parasite,
The arrant’st varlet that e’er breathed on earth;
He sets more discord in a noble house
By one day’s broaching of his pickthank tales,
Than can be salved again in twenty years […]
ref: 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, act I, scene 1:
text: Yet such extenuation let me beg, / As, in reproof of many tales devised, / which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, / By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers, / I may, for some things true, wherein my youth / Hath faulty wander’d and irregular, / Find pardon on my true submission.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: 1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, Characters, 40. A rash man,
He is a man still swayed with the first reports, and no man more in the power of a pickthank then he.
text: 1755, Eliza Haywood (under the pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Garner, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 256,
Why then, sir, your friend is no better than a pickthank for bringing you such idle stories; and I am not afraid to tell him so to his face.
text: 1868, F. H. Doyle, Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, London: Macmillan, Lecture 2, pp. 49-50,
Some pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge.
text: Nevertheless, behind these pick-thank airs Mr. Bandparts was a mellowed man.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: A sycophant; one who meddles, tattles, informs (often in order to curry favour).
tyek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: tyeks
form: tyekin
form: teuk
form: tyeken
form: take
form: tak
Senses: examples: Heor pet, tyek this stotty for yer bait theday.
glosses: To take.
bicorne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicornes
Etymology: From French bicorne, from Latin bicornis. Doublet of bicorn.
Senses: examples: text: For some he was—and remains—the romantic embodiment of the French Enlightenment, the champion of religious freedom and a progressive to the tips of his bicorne hat.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History:
glosses: Alternative form of bicorn (“two-cornered hat”).
tabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tab
tabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tab
Related terms: keep tabs on
cigarettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarette
cigarettes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cigarette
blonde moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blonde moments
form: blond moment
Etymology: From common jokes about supposedly dumb blondes.
Senses: glosses: A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.
Related terms: senior moment
projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒektə/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: projectors
form: projectour
Etymology: Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.
Senses: examples: text: So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
text: [A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […].
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
text: […] either the work of the winter storms, or perhaps the victims of some extensive but desultory scheme of denudation, which the projector had not capital or perseverance to carry into full effect.
ref: 1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:
glosses: Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
glosses: An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
examples: text: a depth charge projector
glosses: That which projects or launches something.
examples: text: Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […]
ref: 1982, The Gestalt Journal, volume 5, page 44:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operator that forms a projection.
Derived terms: autoprojector
eigenprojector
film projector
holoprojector
microprojector
miniprojector
movie projector
Northover projector
overhead projector
pico projector
picoprojector
projectorless
projectress
slide projector
star projector
superprojector
video projector
prickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: prickles
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sharp, hard extension of the cortex and epidermis of some plants (such as roses), informally called a "thorn".
examples: text: The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees,[…]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small, sharp pointed object similar to the true prickle, such as a thorn.
glosses: A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
examples: text: If I had but a pottle of Sacke, like a sharp prickle, / To knock my nose against when I am nodding
ref: c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 80:
text: The prickle is a brown willow basket, in which walnuts are imported into this country from the Continent; they are about thirty inches deep, and in bulk rather larger than a gallon measure; they are used only by the vendors of walnuts.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: A kind of willow basket.
glosses: A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
glosses: A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.
Derived terms: prickle cell
prickleless
pricklelike
prickleback
prickly
prickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: prickles
form: prickling
form: prickled
form: prickled
Senses: glosses: To feel a prickle.
examples: text: Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.
ref: 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things, page 400:
glosses: To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
substantiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈstænʃieɪt/
ipa: /səbˈstanʃɪeɪt/
ipa: /səbˈstænʃiˌeɪt/
ipa: [səbˈstɛənʃiˌeɪt]
ipa: /səbˈstænʃiæɪt/
Forms: form: substantiates
form: substantiating
form: substantiated
form: substantiated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin substantiatus (“given substance”), from the verb substantiare, first used 1657.
Senses: examples: text: substantiate allegations
text: substantiate a claim
text: The lawyer was asked to substantiate her claims.
text: He could not substantiate the rumors with evidence.
text: However, as the hospital equipment was installed by German firms, it is thought probable that the locomotive came from the same source, and this theory is substantiated by the fact that the control mechanism is of German manufacture.
ref: 1957 December 24, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871:
glosses: To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate.
glosses: To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents
fremd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frĕmd
ipa: /fɹɛmd/
rhymes: -ɛmd
Forms: form: fremder
form: more fremd
form: fremdest
form: most fremd
form: frem
form: frim
form: fren
Etymology: From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”).
Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.
Senses: examples: text: a fremd day
text: Something fremd has been going on here.
text: A fremd man this.
text: Pits it i' da fremd-man's hert.
ref: 1892, Haldane Burgess, Rasmie's Büddie, section 43:
glosses: Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
examples: text: [...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.
ref: 1851, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside:
text: The doctor went up to the bed, and said, firmly, " Miss Garnock, you must not keep Mr. Yonge any longer." "Who'll he be that comes meddling between me and my Tar?" shrieked the patient. "Mither, bid yon fremd body gang his ways. I'll no be fashed wi' him the day."
ref: 1868, Legh Knight, Tonic Bitters: A Novel, page 181:
text: [...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk!
ref: 1873, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
text: There's room for everybody in the world, I suppose, and something for everybody to do, and it behoves them that have few kin to make the more friends of fremd folk.
ref: 1873, Heathergate, Heathergate, page 66:
text: Thus, a person living with a family to whom he is not related is termed "a fremd body." If it were asked, "Is he akin to you?" the answer would be, "Nawe, he's fremd," i.e. "he's one of us, but not a relation."
ref: 1875, John Howard Nodal, George Milner, A glossary of the Lancashire dialect:
glosses: Not kin, unrelated; foreign.
glosses: Wild; untamed.
Derived terms: fremdling
fremedly
fremman
fremsome
fremd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frĕmd
ipa: /fɹɛmd/
rhymes: -ɛmd
Forms: form: fremds
form: frem
form: frim
form: fren
Etymology: From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”).
Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.
Senses: glosses: A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
glosses: An enmity.
glosses: Humorous alteration of "friend".
switching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of switch
switching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: switchings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
Change from one product or service provider to another.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act or process of something that switches.
The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
Derived terms: bank switching
code switching
code-switching
in-plane switching
packet switching
phenotypic switching
Q-switching
switching algebra
switching function
switching yard
exercising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exercise
exercising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercisings
Senses: examples: text: Whilst this is a duty which cannot be excluded or restricted, and notwithstanding its general policy of promoting the spirit of portfolio in all exercisings of investment power […]
ref: 2007, Sarah Wilson, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts, page 376:
glosses: The act by which something is exercised.
do-or-die
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: do or die
Etymology: An adjectival phrase composed of the words: do, or, and die all connected by hyphens.
Senses: examples: text: At that period the L.N.W.R., with its Webb compounds, was addicted to late arrivals at Carlisle and the Caledonian proceeded to make up the arrears with a "do-or-die" attitude.
ref: 1959 February 24, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
text: The do-or-die mentality gambaru permeates Japanese society, where the pursuit of a goal can carry more significance than the outcome.
ref: 2020 August 24, Kaori Enjoji, “‘Do or die’ mentality brings Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to the brink”, in CNN:
text: This could be our do-or-die moment — with Democrats holding the White House and barely controlling Congress, this may be the country’s last best political opportunity to do something big on the climate.
ref: 2021 June 30, Farhad Manjoo, “Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure (Alternative form of do or die).
Related terms: sink or swim
fire in the hole
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A warning of an imminent explosion in a confined space, especially a grenade or blasting charge.
examples: text: Before screaming “Fire in the hole!” and detonating a cache of confiscated fireworks on a residential street two years ago, Los Angeles police Det. Damien Levesque repeatedly walked away from critical discussions about the safety of the operation.
ref: 2023 July 14, Brittney Mejia, Libor Jany, Richard Winton, “LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: […] fire-in-the-hole farts and the unwholesome sounds of a Niagara Falls of diarrhea filling the sink rim to the brim.
ref: 2023, Don H. Corrigan, "I fart in your general direction!": Flatulence in Popular Culture (page 102)
glosses: A warning of any imminent explosive detonation.
glosses: A generalized warning that something is about to happen.
Synonyms: heads up
look out
watch out
frameshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frameshifts
Etymology: From frame + shift.
Senses: glosses: A frameshift mutation.
frameshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frameshifts
form: frameshifting
form: frameshifted
form: frameshifted
Etymology: From frame + shift.
Senses: examples: text: Commonly, there are stimulatory signals in mRNA distinct from the shift site that greatly increase the level of frameshifting at the shift site.
ref: 2003, Jacques Lapointe, Lea Brakier-Gigras, Translation Mechanisms, →ISBN, page 354:
text: Considering these costs, it seems likely that mechanisms may exist to stop frameshifted translation as soon as possible, depending on the frequency of occurrence.
ref: 2004, DNA and Cell Biology - Volume 23, page 702:
text: Ribosomal frameshifting at a particular site can yield two protein products from one coding sequence or one protein product from two overlapping open reading frames.
ref: 2006, De-Shuang Huang, George William Irwin, Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics, →ISBN:
glosses: To use a starting point for translating a series of nucleotides that is off by an amount not divisible by three, resulting in an entirely distinct set of codons.
frameshift mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frameshift mutations
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A genetic mutation that either inserts or deletes a number of nucleotides that is not divisible by three (i.e., a non-integer number of codons), altering the reading frame of the portion of the gene downstream of the mutation and causing it to code for a completely different protein sequence.
devilry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛv.əl.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛv.ɪl.ɹi/
enpr: dĕv'əl-rē
Forms: form: devilries
form: deviltry
Etymology: From Middle English develrye; equivalent to devil + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Their newfound devilry : prank-calling local businesses.
ref: 2007 January 2, Arianne Cohen, Colleen Kinder, Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal Score, Penguin, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Mischief.
examples: text: "The Master's Society wishes to overturn the world order into his hands by devilry and chaos. There is good news that Mr. Stevens is repentant and under our employ and gave us a significant store of antidote for the violent toxin. We can dose the MPs."
ref: 2016 August 9, Leanna Renee Hieber, Eterna and Omega: The Eterna Files #2, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Wickedness; cruelty.
glosses: An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft.
examples: text: […] pranks and devilries which turned slowly more unpleasant.
ref: 2023 September 19, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore, Del Rey, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of such mischief, wickedness, cruelty, or witchcraft.
Derived terms: printer's devilry
deviltry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/
enpr: dĕv'əl-trē
Forms: form: deviltries
Etymology: Variant of devilry, influenced by gallantry.
Senses: examples: text: The poor girl had a right to her chance, and he should not really alter anything by taking it away from her; for was she not the artist to the tips of her tresses (the ambassadress never in the world), and would she not take it out in something else if one were to make her deviate? So certain was that irrepressible deviltry to insist ever on its own.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
text: They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.
ref: 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races”, in Nahum Dimitri Chandler, editor, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, New York: Fordham University Press, published 2015, page 57:
text: This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.
ref: 1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 223:
glosses: Devilry.
fullen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fullens
form: fullening
form: fullened
form: fullened
Etymology: From full + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: That red day, the girl fades into the fullening form of maiden.
ref: 1984, Womanspirit - Issue 39, page 11:
text: Then she took off the bodice that encased her upper body and the bum roll that fullened her hips.
ref: 2012, William Martin, Cape Cod:
text: Under the tree where they are seated, normally called the lovers court because couples tend to frequent it, students start flocking the place fullening it.
ref: 2016, Adina Araptai, Reaching: Whatever It Will Take:
glosses: To make or become full
pororoca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pororocas
form: piroróco
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pororoca.
Senses: glosses: A tidal flood, especially at the mouth of the Amazon River, that rushes with a roaring noise into the river and proceeds in one or more waves that often present a very abrupt front of considerable height.
Related terms: tidal bore
kairos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪɹɒs/
ipa: /-oʊs/
ipa: /ˈkɛə-/
Forms: form: kairoi
form: kairós
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós).
Senses: examples: text: The—so-called! friends—rational world. If only they, Mom&Dad&Buddy&Sis, dear-but-square ones, could but know the kairos, the supreme moment…
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Kairos is not measurable. Kairos is ontological. In kairos we are, we are fully in isness, not negatively, as Sartre saw the isness of the oak tree, but fully, wholly, positively.
ref: 1972, Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals), San Francisco: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 245:
text: It is a confrontation and invasion of the eternal into the temporal, what Paul Tillich also refers to in the biblical term kairos as distinguished from chronos or common linear time. Kairos is time qualified by eternal relevance, time that is of significance to the Eternal because it is disturbed by and invested with the eternal.
ref: 1980, Howard Alexander Slaatte, Time And Its End, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 87:
coordinate_terms: chronos
glosses: A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
Derived terms: kairotic
DISC assessment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DISC assessments
Etymology: From the initials of dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance.
Senses: glosses: A group of psychometric tests based on word association.
formless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːmləs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mləs
Forms: form: more formless
form: most formless
Etymology: From form + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
text: 1985: Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (New Jerusalem Bible)
glosses: Without form; shapeless.
examples: text: You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose: Windows CE for the Pocket PC Project and Windows CE Formless project.
ref: 2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications:
glosses: Without the use of forms or templates.
Synonyms: sense: shapeless
word: amorphous
word: shapeless
word: amorphous
Derived terms: formlessly
formlessness
kahal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kahals
form: qahal
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קָהָל (kahál, “community”).
Senses: glosses: The local governing body of a former European Jewish community, administering religious, legal and communal affairs.
glosses: A congregation.
Related terms: kehillah
kaiserdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiserdoms
Etymology: From kaiser + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
kakidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A secretion of sweat of a disagreeable odor.
Related terms: caco-
hidrosis
Kalema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kalema
Senses: examples: text: Has no harbour and landing is rather difficult through the heavy surf, the “Kalema”, which breaks upon the coast all year round.
ref: 1899, The International Geography Publisher: G. Newnes limited. Editor(s): Hugh Robert Mill. Page 972.:
text: "In the same way, the imposing swell causing the constant surf at the coast of Guinea (the Kalema) originates from a region near Tristan de Cunha […] There is sometimes a strong surf generated from about 400 nautical miles distance.
ref: 1961, Physical Oceanography. Publisher: Macmillan. Author(s): Albert Defant. P 101.:
glosses: A violent surf that occurs on the coast of the Guinea region of West Africa.
kipfel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪp.fəl/
Forms: form: kipfels
Etymology: From German Kipfel, diminutive of Kipf (“wagon post”), from Old High German kipfa, chipf, from Latin cippus (“post”).
Senses: examples: text: Bake the kipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven.
ref: 1880, C. J. Peterson, Peterson's Magazine, volumes 77–78, page 314:
text: The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and a kipfel’.
ref: 2003, Brigitte Hamann, edited by Hans Mommsen, The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918–1945, Hitler and Vienna: The Truth about his Formative Years, page 35:
text: From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken, kipfel, or nut rolls.
ref: 2006, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, page 167:
hypernyms: crescent
crescent roll
croissant
viennoiserie
glosses: A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.
Related terms: rogalik
lamellibranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamellibranchs
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Lamellibranchiata
Senses: glosses: any marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk, of the class Lamellibranchiata or Bivalvia; includes the clams, scallops and oysters
swonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of swink
feminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feminize
feminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feminizing
form: most feminizing
Senses: examples: text: Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]
ref: 1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex:
glosses: Tending to make more feminine.
Derived terms: nonfeminizing
swonken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of swink