cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
HL7
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of Health Level 7, ultimately, a blend of health and the ISO networking model level 7.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers.
Coordinate terms: sense: Health Level 7
word: CIS
sense: Health Level 7
word: DICOM
sense: Health Level 7
word: EHR
sense: Health Level 7
word: EMR
sense: Health Level 7
word: HIS
sense: Health Level 7
word: PACS
sense: Health Level 7
word: RIS
Related terms: sense: Health Level 7
word: HIS
sense: Health Level 7
word: RIS
sense: Health Level 7
word: PACS
sponge cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponge cakes
form: spongecake
Senses: examples: text: I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!
glosses: A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.
glosses: Something that is simple or very easy.
Related terms: chiffon cake
genoise
pound cake
sex kitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex kittens
Etymology: Coined circa 1958 to describe French starlet Brigitte Bardot, who appeared in the 1957 film And God Created Woman.
Senses: examples: text: Even the Muppets — as mainstream and heterosexual as some of them may be — are favorites among many gay men; Miss Piggy, that porcine sex-kitten, adorns many a wall in gay bars.
ref: 1986 December 7, Michael Bronsky, “Gay Man's Dream Realized in Benefit Production of archy and mehitabel"”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 7:
glosses: A woman who is both sexually desirable and sexually active.
wikipedia: And God Created Woman
Brigitte Bardot
sex kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex kitten
kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitten
Derived terms: have kittens
kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kitten
clownish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊnɪʃ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪʃ
Forms: form: more clownish
form: most clownish
Etymology: From clown + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
ref: 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema:
text: Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
text: Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.
ref: 2005 May 14, Laura Barton, The Guardian:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
glosses: Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
examples: text: Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 4, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
Derived terms: clownishly
clownishness
unclownish
clownishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clownishly
form: most clownishly
Etymology: From clownish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
pitch black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pitch black
form: most pitch black
Senses: examples: text: "When you think about it, who wants to drive 300 tonnes of steel at 125mph in the pitch black at four o'clock in the morning?" Whelan says this with a wry smile, however, recognising that these are exactly the sort of things that train drivers love about their jobs.
ref: 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of pitch-black.
aqua vitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪkwə ˈvaɪti/
/ˌækwə ˈviːteɪ/
Forms: form: aquae vitae
form: aqua vitæ
Etymology: From Medieval Latin aqua vītae directly and via Middle English aqua vite and French eau-de-vie, from aqua (“water”) and vītae (“of life”). Doublet of aquavit and akvavit. Compare eau de vie, whisky, whiskey, and water of life from the same source.
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: An aqueous solution of alcohol typically prepared by distilling wine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol.
examples: text: Ile ſooner truſt an Iriſhman vvith my
 Aquauita bottle, Sir Hu our parſon vvith my cheeſe,
 A theefe to vvalk my ambling gelding, thẽ my vvife
 VVith her ſelfe […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Synonym of liquor, particularly cognac and other French brandy.
synonyms: word: liquor
word: particularly cognac and other French brandy
fumaroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumarole
rockabilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒkəˌbɪli/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːkəˌbɪli/
Forms: form: rockabillies
form: rockabillys
Etymology: Blend of rock + hillbilly
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music originating from the South (United States) and mixing elements of rock, blues, country, hillbilly boogie and bluegrass music.
glosses: A member of the subculture associated with rockabilly music.
Derived terms: funkabilly
gothabilly
polkabilly
pornabilly
pornobilly
psychobilly
punkabilly
paroxysms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paroxysm
Bakersfield sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed in and around Bakersfield, California, during the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: A subgenre of country music, the Bakersfield Sound emerged out of what Merle Haggard called “the redneck honky-tonks” and what Glen Campbell termed “the fightin' and dancin' clubs” in Bakersfield, California.
ref: 2023, Thomas M. Kitts, Keep on Believin', Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Fender Telecaster guitars, a drum backbeat, fiddles and steel guitars, along with stylistic touches from rock and roll music.
run up the score
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs up the score
head_nr: 1
form: running up the score
head_nr: 1
form: ran up the score
head_nr: 1
form: run up the score
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: The old-school coach felt that his team's weak opponent had no business playing his strong team, so he decided to run up the score.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To engage in the practice – usually by coaching decision – of scoring more points than needed in a one-sided contest.
running up the score
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run up the score
sportive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔː(ɹ)tɪv/
Forms: form: more sportive
form: most sportive
Etymology: From sport + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Is it I
 That drive thee from the sportive court?
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: lively; merry; spritely
glosses: Playful, coltish.
glosses: Interested in sport.
glosses: Sporty, good at sport.
Derived terms: sportive lemur
sportively
sportiveness
unsportive
sportive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔː(ɹ)tɪv/
Forms: form: sportives
Etymology: From sport + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Such incidents, part of the cherished mythology of the Tour's early years, are rare in modern cycling, although a 62-year-old local councillor was arrested and subsequently released after tacks had been scattered during the 2009 Etape Caledonia, a sportive held on closed roads in Scotland, causing countless punctures among the 3,500 riders.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of cyclosportive.
synonyms: word: cyclosportive
adornments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adornment
Urban Cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Urban Cowboys
Etymology: The term is borrowed from the title of a popular 1980 movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and featuring several country music performances.
Senses: glosses: A person living in the city who dresses in clothes that suggest a film of the western genre.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pop-styled country music which became popular during the early 1980s, following the release of the movie Urban Cowboy (1980).
Synonyms: sense: city person who dresses in western-genre clothes
word: transwestite
adults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædʌlts/
ipa: /əˈdʌlts/
Senses: glosses: plural of adult
adults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædʌlts/
ipa: /əˈdʌlts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adult
econocar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: econocars
Etymology: From econo- + car.
Senses: glosses: An economy car.
economy car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economy cars
Senses: examples: text: He was so fed up with high gas prices that he traded in his full-sized sport utility vehicle for an economy car.
glosses: A car, usually small and lightweight, designed for low-cost operation.
economy model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economy models
Senses: examples: text: The old man didn't like a real fancy car with a lot of gadgets that could break, so he went with the economy model instead of one of the more fancy models.
glosses: A low-cost, no-frills version of a merchandise item, especially where a larger selection of more lavishly equipped models of the same item exist.
custodians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custodian
companionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more companionable
form: most companionable
Etymology: From companion + -able.
Senses: examples: text: She returned presently, bringing a smoking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter V, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 178:
text: All the disagreeable circumstances of my prison had become, as it were, to me friendly and companionable; not one of them gave me annoyance.
ref: 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter CXXI, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 240:
text: Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men.
ref: 1908, G. K. Chesterton, chapter IX, in The Man Who Was Thursday, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, published 1910, page 154:
text: They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it.
ref: 1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, Book II, pp. 126-7:
text: Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 100:
text: The up and down lines ran next to each other in vault-like tunnels, whereas the Tube trains would occupy their own tunnels. That's why the cut-and-cover lines are more human than the Tubes. They are more companionable. You can see people going the other way - your perspective is broadened.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.
Derived terms: companionability
companionableness
companionably
uncompanionable
Norwegia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Norweġ, Norþweġ (“Norway”), from Old Norse *Norðvegr, Norvegr, and later Noregr (“Norway (north way)”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Norway: a country in Northern Europe.
synonyms: word: Norway
extra: a country in Northern Europe
companionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more companionably
form: most companionably
Etymology: From companionable + -ly.
Senses: examples: He had been sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till her usual hour of exercise — Jane Austen, Emma Volume 2, Chapter 6.
glosses: In a companionable manner; agreeably, sociably.
Related terms: companionable
companionableness
companionability
rotatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rotate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to rotate.
Dania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The former name and present-day synonym of Dania Beach, Florida, renamed in 1998.
glosses: A town in Vavoua Department, Haut-Sassandra Region, Ivory Coast.
scuttled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scuttle
laborshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laborsheds
Etymology: By analogy from watershed, likening the regional workforce to the catchment of a river system.
Senses: examples: text: Greater Dubuque Development Corp.'s 2006 analysis, conducted by Iowa Workforce Development, surveyed some 600 qualifying working-age residents in the multi-county laborshed area.
ref: 2006 August 9, “Study: Worker pool overflowing”, in Telegraph Herald, Dubuque Iowa, page 1:
glosses: A regional workforce, those available for and willing to work.
strawberry shortcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry shortcakes
Senses: glosses: A dessert made using a sweet biscuit-like cake and topped with strawberries and/or a strawberry-flavored sauce.
ring rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring rats
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A promiscuous person, often a young female, who attends professional wrestling events primarily to seek sexual liaisons with wrestlers and other performers.
ham-and-egger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham-and-eggers
Etymology: From boxing, where a poor boxer would only win enough money to pay for meals; ham and egg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A worthless or undesirable person.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A preliminary wrestler; a jobber.
glosses: An ordinary person; a simpleton.
examples: text: Well, it's just that, you see, uh, I fight in clubs, you know, and uh, I'm really a ham-and-egger. This guy, he's the best, and uh, it wouldn't be such a good fight.
ref: 1976 November 21, Rocky, spoken by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone):
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A failed boxer; a tomato can.
Related terms: tea and toaster
rulebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rule + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: His flagrant rulebreaking earned him a demotion.
glosses: The breaking of a rule or rules.
Related terms: rulebreaker
city council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city councils
Etymology: From city + council.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: town council, municipal council, common council, select council, consulate (obsolete), capitoulate (historical, Toulouse)
hypernyms: council[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous in context>
glosses: A governing body of people elected to oversee management of a city and represent the interests of residents.
Derived terms: city councillor
city councilor
city councilman
city councilwoman
Related terms: councillor
councilor
councilman
councilwoman
majority council
minority council
Homecoming King
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Homecoming Kings
Senses: glosses: In colleges and high schools, a young man chosen by his peers to "reign" over the traditional activities associated with the Homecoming football game, usually alongside a Homecoming Queen.
Related terms: Homecoming Queen
prom queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prom queens
Senses: coordinate_terms: prom king
glosses: In colleges and high schools, a young woman chosen, or sometimes elected by her peers, to have an honored status over the school's prom and related activities.
prom king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prom kings
Senses: coordinate_terms: prom queen
glosses: In colleges and high schools, a young man chosen, or sometimes elected by his peers, to have an honored status over the school's prom and related activities.
city administrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city administrators
Senses: glosses: A person hired by a city to oversee the day-to-day management of city business.
birring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of birr
school board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school boards
Senses: glosses: A governing body of people elected (a board of directors or board of trustees) to oversee management of a school district and represent the interests of residents.
Synonyms: board of education
school committee
cassimere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassimeres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cashmere.
glosses: A thin, lightweight twilled woolen fabric; kerseymere.
glosses: An inexpensive version of this fabric, made with a cotton warp and a wool weft.
kerseymere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːzɪmɪə/
Forms: form: kerseymeres
Etymology: Alteration of cassimere.
Senses: examples: text: I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
glosses: A fine, twilled woollen cloth.
Related terms: kersey
premiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premier
premiers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premier
chopine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəʊˈpiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: chopines
Etymology: Borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -ine. Doublet of chopin.
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
examples: text: Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 263, column 2, lines 364-365:
text: He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
rhodonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodonites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A manganese inosilicate mineral with some substitution by iron and magnesium, of composition (Mn²⁺,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO₃.
Related terms: word: rhodo- and its derivatives
english: etymologically related [via color] but not chemically related
translation: etymologically related [via color] but not chemically related
word: rhodium
favours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vɚz/
Forms: form: favors
Senses: glosses: plural of favour
favours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.vɚz/
Forms: form: favors
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of favour
thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːdz/
ipa: /θɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: plural of third
thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːdz/
ipa: /θɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: examples: text: Everybody helped themselves to seconds and Meren even went for thirds. He had always been partial to good food.
ref: 2012, Sean Clancy, The Fledgling:
coordinate_terms: seconds
glosses: A third helping of food for one person, or refill of coffee or other drink.
topics: law
glosses: The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow was entitled to enjoy during her life.
thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːdz/
ipa: /θɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of third
archers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archer
biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscuit
biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biscuit
afternoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afternoon
afternoons
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We are closed afternoons.
glosses: Every afternoon.
allusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allusion
Franks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: plural of Frank
Franks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States.
manifestations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifestation
beards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beard
beards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beard
binds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: plural of bind
binds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bind
advertisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advertisement
crews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞oz
ipa: /kɹuːz/
homophone: cruise
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of crew
crews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞oz
ipa: /kɹuːz/
homophone: cruise
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crew
bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: bights
homophone: bytes
Senses: glosses: plural of bite
bites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: bights
homophone: bytes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bite
casts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast
casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cast
diffused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diffuse
diffused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diffused
form: most diffused
Senses: glosses: Having spread widely.
Derived terms: diffusedness
nondiffused
undiffused
cornered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornered
form: most cornered
Senses: glosses: Having corners.
Derived terms: cater-cornered
catty-cornered
kitty-cornered
sharp-cornered
three-cornered
three-cornered jack
tricornered
cornered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corner
certified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of certify
certified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a certified product or organization
glosses: Having met an official standard.
topics: law
glosses: Authenticated or verified in writing.
Derived terms: board-certified
certified accountant
certified check
certified copy
certified mail
certified nursing assistant
certified public accountant
certified safety professional
non-certified
noncertified
self-certified
uncertified
spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of space
stocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stock
Derived terms: fully-stocked
stocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a well-stocked fridge
glosses: Having been replenished with stock.
Derived terms: overstocked
understocked
well-stocked
bewailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewail
angled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angle
angled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Arranged so as to form an angle.
examples: the right-angled corner
glosses: Forming an angle of a particular type.
Derived terms: acute-angled
equiangled
multiangled
nonangled
unangled
billed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: build
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bill
billed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: build
Senses: glosses: Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
Hyponyms: duckbilled
top-billed
Derived terms: black-billed flycatcher
blue-billed duck
broad-billed flycatcher
broad-billed parrot
golden-billed saltator
large-billed scrubwren
prong-billed barbet
razor-billed auk
razor-billed curassow
red-billed
short-billed marsh wren
sickle-billed vanga
slender-billed curlew
slender-billed greenfinch
spoonbilled
spot-billed pelican
sword-billed hummingbird
thick-billed seedeater
unbilled
wry-billed plover
yellow-billed grosbeak
yellow-billed spoonbill
yellow-billed teal
yellow-billed tit-tyrant
boarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boarded
form: most boarded
Senses: topics: architecture
qualifier: such as a roof; window; such as a roof; window
glosses: wooden, built with pieces of wood
raw_tags: of a structure
Derived terms: unboarded
boarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of board
branded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Marked by branding
glosses: Having a brand
Derived terms: branded app
multibranded
nonbranded
unbranded
branded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brand
buzzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌzd/
rhymes: -ʌzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzz
medicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medicate
contaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contaminate
contaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contaminated
form: most contaminated
Senses: glosses: adulterated; impure
examples: text: A "contaminated" runway has over 25% of its surface area covered with standing water or slush (or loose snow) more than 3mm thick, or compressed snow and ice anywhere along the takeoff run or accelerate-stop surface.
ref: 2004, Phil Croucher, JAR Professional Pilot Studies, pages 12–6:
glosses: made unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
Synonyms: word: adulterated
word: contaminated
word: corrupted
word: mixed
word: polluted
word: sophisticated
word: tainted
Hypernyms: word: deteriorated
Hyponyms: word: infected
word: irradiated
word: rotten
Derived terms: hypercontaminated
noncontaminated
radiocontaminated
uncontaminated
congested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of congest
congested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congested
form: most congested
Senses: examples: text: congested metro
text: congested roads
text: congested street
glosses: overcrowded
Derived terms: congestedly
congestedness
noncongested
uncongested
tracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of track
tracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A tank is a tracked vehicle used in the military.
glosses: Mounted on tracks.
Derived terms: four-tracked
landing vehicle tracked
annexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈænɛkst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annex
arrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of array
burdened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burdened
form: most burdened
Senses: examples: text: Caregivers who do not feel burdened are unlikely to perceive a need for services.
ref: 1990, Confused Minds, Burdened Families, page 114:
text: When my clients describe themselves as the black sheep in their families, they often feel very burdened.
ref: 2022, Destini Ann Davis, Very Intentional Parenting:
text: Not any more burdened by modesty than you used to be, I perceive, young lady.
ref: 2023, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, More About Peggy, page 27:
glosses: encumbered by a literal or figurative burden; having too much to deal with.
Derived terms: burdenedness
burdened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.
ref: 1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
glosses: simple past and past participle of burden
debased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debase
debased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more debased
form: most debased
Senses: examples: text: 8), Azure, a thistle ensigned with an Imperial Crown, all proper; and its use is pretty frequent in the somewhat debased heraldry of the close of the last century and the beginning of the present.
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 335:
text: 58,) and also a new crest, viz. upon a wreath argent and vert, a demi-dragon erased gules P, gorged about the loins with a ducal coronet ... 59,) are an admirable specimen of the complex and debased heraldry of the day. 1515.
ref: 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress:
text: The badge itself is a remarkable medley of objects, and another good example of the debased heraldry of Tudor days. It represents a castle with the crowned hawthorn tree of the Tudors growing in the lower ward behind the principal[…]
ref: 1912, Edward Earle Dorling, Leopards of England, and Other Papers on Heraldry, page 54:
text: DEBASED HERALDRY. Of debased heraldry there is no lack of examples, and a few are ancient. Thomas de Insula, bishop of Ely (1345-61), bore gules, three bezants, on each a crowned king, robed sable, doubled ermine, sustaining[…]
ref: 1892, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature ; the R.S. Peale Reprint, with New Maps and Original American Articles, page 704:
glosses: Brought low; degraded.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:debased.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.
Derived terms: debasedness
undebased
nailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nail
nailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a red-nailed finger
glosses: Having nails (often of a specified kind).
enlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlist
enlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the military, but not as a commissioned officer.
Derived terms: nonenlisted
unenlisted
enlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: Those individuals who have enlisted in the military and who are not commissioned officers.
enumerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enumerate
excepted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of except
Derived terms: nonexcepted
present company excepted
unexcepted
exiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exile
royally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more royally
form: most royally
Etymology: From royal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unless it was decreed royally, it never got done.
glosses: In a royal manner; in a manner having to do with royalty.
examples: text: He will be royally annoyed if you change his work.
glosses: Excessively; thoroughly.
neighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neigh
neighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighings
Senses: examples: text: And when the earth beneath his tameless tread,
Shook with the sullen thunder, he would spread
His nostrils to the blast, and joyously
Mock the fierce peal with neighings; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 278:
text: During the night a neighing of horses was heard, and when day broke, they found these three animals had joined those belonging to our party.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 106:
text: Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
ref: 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time:
synonyms: neigh#Noun
glosses: The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.
blasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!
glosses: present participle and gerund of blast
blasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastings
Etymology: From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).
Senses: examples: text: But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
glosses: A planned explosion, as in mining.
examples: text: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37:
text: They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
glosses: The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: cruising
glosses: Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.
Derived terms: abrasive blasting
blasting cap
blastingly
microblasting
blossoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blossom
blossoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blossomings
Senses: examples: text: “The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.
ref: 2009 March 8, Pico Iyer, “Crimes of Innocence”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2017:
glosses: The act or process by which something blossoms.
boating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈboʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
homophone: boding
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: boatings
Etymology: airboat + -ing
Senses: examples: text: I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe, volume 1, page 95:
text: With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.
ref: 1953, Pennsylvania Angler, volumes 22-23, page 61:
glosses: The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
glosses: In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
Derived terms: dragon boating
nonboating
playboating
swifboating
boating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈboʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
homophone: boding
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Etymology: airboat + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boat
bobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bob
bobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobbings
Senses: glosses: The motion of something that bobs.
Derived terms: bobbingly
headbobbing
bounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bound
Derived terms: boundingly
bounding mine
bounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: boundings
Senses: glosses: The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
examples: text: Without buttings or boundings on any side.
ref: a. 1709, William Beveridge, The Being, Love, and Other Attributes of God:
glosses: A boundary.
glosses: The act of one who bounds or leaps.
Derived terms: harmonic bounding
bounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Containing all points of a given set within it.
Synonyms: enclosing
dimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dim
dimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: dimmings
Senses: examples: text: Then, as also happens, there were slowdowns; dimmings, even blackouts here and there.
ref: 2008 March 28, Holland Cotter, “When the Islamic World Was Inspired by the West”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of becoming dim.
Derived terms: global dimming
planking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plankings
Etymology: From plank + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A series of planks; a group of planks.
examples: text: […] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]
ref: 2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common:
glosses: The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
planking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From plank + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plank
plating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From plate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plate
plating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: platings
Etymology: From Middle English *platynge, from Old English platung (“plate, thin piece of metal”), equivalent to plate + -ing.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
glosses: A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
examples: text: Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.
ref: 1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic, page 105:
text: The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
glosses: A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
glosses: The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
Derived terms: armour plating
barrel plating
chromium plating
plating carrier
postplating
preplating
sideplating
tin-plating
cancelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canceling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cancel
ceasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cease
ceasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
Forms: form: ceasings
Senses: examples: text: If one can discern the arising and ceasing of the four elements innumerable times in one day alone, the changes, arisings, and ceasings of the derivative material qualities are also discerned.
ref: 2017, Ven Ledi Sayadaw, The Manual of Insight and the Noble Eightfold Path and Its Factors Explained:
glosses: A cessation.
chafing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chafe
chafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafings
Senses: examples: text: The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.
ref: 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3, page 325:
glosses: The act by which something is chafed.
Derived terms: antichafing
chafingly
nonchafing
chirping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chirp
chirping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirpings
Senses: examples: text: Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.]
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
text: Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.
ref: 2009 January 11, Richard Lourie, “Displaced Minds”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act, or an instance of, chirping.
raw_tags: of chirp
big old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: big ole
form: big ol'
Senses: synonyms: big-ass
big honkin'
honkin'
antonyms: little old
li'l' old
li'l old
lil old
glosses: Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
Related terms: heck of a
heckuva
hell of a
strangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strangle
strangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stranglings
Senses: glosses: The crime of killing by strangling.
circling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circle
circling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circlings
Senses: examples: text: […] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A circular motion.
examples: text: The mentoring curriculum included feminist strategies designed to facilitate egalitarian relationships in the groups, including circling, where each person takes a turn to speak while others in the group listen in situations involving decision making or conflict, […]
ref: 1996, Bonnie J. Leadbeater, Niobe Way, Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities, page 129:
glosses: The practice of sitting in a circle and taking turns to speak about one's emotions or experiences while the others listen, intended to be therapeutic or to strengthen relations within the group.
Derived terms: circlingly