cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Stonehenge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊ̯nˈhɛnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /stoʊ̯nˈhɛnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: Stonage
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Stonhenge, from ston (“stone”) + henge (“hinge”) or hengen ("hanging", but only attested as "imprisonment"). More at Stonehenge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
The failure of /ɛnd͡ʒ/ to regularly raise to /ɪnd͡ʒ/, as in hinge, singe < Middle English henge, sengen, is probably due to the influence of the local dialect; compare the forms /ɛnd͡ʒ/, /sɛnd͡ʒ/ "hinge, singe" attested for the early 20th-century dialect of Pewsey, Wiltshire, approximately 18.5 kilometres (11.5 miles) from Stonehenge.
Senses: examples: text: The collection of rocks is a national landmark that looks something like a Stonehenge on the prairie.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
text: Within weeks of winning the General Election in July 2024, the government halted a planned tunnel for the A303 past Stonehenge in Wiltshire. It stated that the £2 billion scheme was "poor value for money". […] The West of England line carries a tiny fraction of the volumes on the parallel road [A303], and Stonehenge is a nationally notorious bottleneck.
ref: 2025 January 22, Paul Clifton, “New study urges investment in West of England line”, in RAIL, number 1027, pages 6-7:
glosses: An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A rural municipality in south Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge No. 73.
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A locality in Australia:
A rural locality on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales.
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A locality in Australia:
An outback town in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland.
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A locality in Australia:
A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
glosses: A number of localities elsewhere:
A locality in Australia:
A rural locality in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania.
Meronyms: bluestones
trilithons
sarsens
Derived terms: henge
-henge
standing stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of menhir.
synonyms: word: menhir
Related terms: staddle stone
villae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villa
grumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grumblers
Etymology: From grumble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But the grumbler must be heard through the newspapers, and a great deal of unpleasantness comes to newspapers from the grumbler; and the newspapers, and not the grumbler, nearly always have to take the brunt of the trouble.
ref: 1890, American Street Railway Association, Verbatim Report of the Proceedings of the Convention (page 169)
synonyms: word: bellyacher
word: carper
word: castigator
word: caviler
word: censurer
word: complainer
word: crabber
word: critic
word: criticizer
word: faultfinder
word: findfault
word: grouch
word: grumbler
word: hafter
word: kvetcher
word: latrant
word: nitpicker
word: pettifogger
word: pick-fault
word: quibbler
word: scolder
word: smellfungus
word: sourpuss
word: squeaky wheel
word: troublemaker
word: vituperator
word: whiner
word: whinger
word: whining Willy
glosses: A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
sunburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbursts
Etymology: From sun + burst.
Senses: synonyms: starburst
glosses: A figure or shape showing rays radiating from a central point.
glosses: A strong outburst of sunlight.
examples: text: The L-30 was finished all over in black, the L-37 in sunburst.
ref: 1996, Ken Achard, The History and Development of the American Guitar, page 10:
glosses: A style of finish for musical instruments such as guitars, having an area of lighter color (often showing the wood grain underneath) that darkens gradually towards a dark outer rim.
Derived terms: sunburst chart
sunburst squash
sunburstery
sunbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunburst
sub-system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-systems
form: subsystem
Etymology: From sub- + system.
Senses: glosses: A group of related components that are part of a larger system.
Hypernyms: system
subsystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsystem
enantiomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiomer
enantiomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiomorph
diastereoisomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diastereoisomer
sun-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: sun-dried raisins
text: sun-dried tomatoes
glosses: Having been dried by the sun.
Related terms: word: sun-drenched
word: dried up
word: sunbleached
sun-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sun-dry
Related terms: word: shriveled
subtropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The region between the tropics and the temperate latitudes of the world.
rain men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain man
sunbath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbaths
form: sun-bath
form: sun bath
Etymology: From sun + bath.
Senses: glosses: A period spent tanning (sunbathing) in the sun.
Coordinate terms: moonbath
starbath
sunbathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of lying outdoors exposed to the sun, usually wearing little or no clothing, especially in order to get a tan.
Related terms: sunbather
sunbathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunbathe
street-smart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: street-smarter
form: street-smartest
Etymology: Back-formation from street smarts.
Senses: examples: text: im street smarter than him yo
text: For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-smart Real team.
ref: 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
coordinate_terms: book-smart
glosses: Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.
Related terms: streetwise
structurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From structural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.
text: Being structurally deficient does not necessarily mean that the bridge is unsafe, but it does mean it’s in need of repair.
ref: 2018 February 2, Mercedes Leguizamon and Saeed Ahmed, “There are more than 54,000 bridges in the US in need of repair, says this study”, in CNN:
text: Harringay: The station booking office has been permanently closed, after it was declared structurally unsafe.
ref: 2022 April 20, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 955, page 30:
glosses: In terms of structure.
Derived terms: infrastructurally
isostructurally
magnetostructurally
microstructurally
nanostructurally
poststructurally
sociostructurally
superstructurally
ultrastructurally
boy racers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy racer
stakeout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakeouts
Etymology: Deverbal from stake out.
Senses: examples: text: The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.
glosses: The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.
stakeouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stakeout
stationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationers
Etymology: From Medieval Latin statiōnārius. By surface analysis, station + -er. Used of a bookseller who had a fixed station, especially at universities. Doublet of stationary.
Senses: glosses: A person or business that sells stationery.
Synonyms: word: papyropolist
Derived terms: flying stationer
running stationer
stationer's
stationery
stationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationer
statesmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statesmanships
form: statemanship
Etymology: From statesman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The skill of being a good statesman, the ability to perform well in political office.
Synonyms: word: statecraft
word: statism
statelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stateless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being stateless.
Synonyms: citizenshiplessness
countrylessness
nationlessness
spongecake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongecakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sponge cake.
spongecakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongecake
scepticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scepticisms
Etymology: Equivalent to sceptic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
text: As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.
ref: 2023 October 13, Brian Logan, “‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of skepticism.
Related terms: sceptic
sceptical
Army
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Army has several returning starters this year.
glosses: A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.
glosses: Hexagram 7 of the I Ching (䷆)
mildness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mildnesses
Etymology: From Middle English mildenesse, from Old English mildnes, mildness, equivalent to mild + -ness. Cognate with Old High German miltnissa (“compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity”).
Senses: examples: text: A ſnowy Feather ſpangled white he beares,
To ſignifie the mildneſſe of his minde,
That ſatiate with ſpoile refuſeth blood:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
glosses: The quality of being mild; gentleness.
barbarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/
Forms: form: barbarities
Senses: glosses: The state of being barbarous; brutality
examples: text: As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week.
ref: 1942 [1942 February 21], Chiang Kai-shek, “One half of the world's people”, in All We Are and All We Have, New York: Chinese News Service, →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: A barbaric act
glosses: crudity
glosses: A crude act
crudity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːdɪti/
Forms: form: crudities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being crude.
examples: text: What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
ref: 1889, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An Observation:
text: Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.”
ref: 2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:
glosses: A crude act or characteristic.
examples: text: For there is no meat whatſoeuer, though otherwiſe wholeſome and good, but if it be vnſeaſonably taken, or immoderatly vſed, more then the ſtomack can well beare, will ingender crudity, and doe much harme.
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Diet rectified in quantity”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 1, subsection 2, page 309:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
Synonyms: crudeness
Related terms: crude
postern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒst(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpəʊst(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpɑstɚn/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstɚn/
rhymes: -ɒstən
Forms: form: posterns
Etymology: From Old French posterne, alteration of posterle, from Late Latin posterula (“back door”), from Latin posterus (“later”).
Senses: examples: text: And as they cam hurlyng vnder the Castel where as sir launcelot lay in wyndowe / & sawe how two knyghtes layd vpon syr Blyaunt with their swerdes /[…]/ And thenne sir launcelot brake the chaynes fro his legges and of his armes /[…]/ & so sir launcelot ran out at a posterne / and there he mett with the two knyȝtes that chaced sir Blyaunt
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
text: He by a privy postern took his flight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
text: Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The Duke of Argyle led the way in silence to the small postern by which they had been admitted into Richmond Park, so long the favourite residence of Queen Caroline. It was opened by the same half-seen janitor, and they found themselves beyond the precincts of the royal demesne.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 3:
topics: architecture
glosses: A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance, especially in a city wall or fortification.
glosses: A separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.
examples: text: The postern of the enceinte leads through the middle of the curtain, descending from the plane of sight to the ditch
ref: 1850, Dennis Hart Mahan, Summary of the Course of Permanent Fortification and of the Attack and Defence of Permanent Works:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
postern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒst(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpəʊst(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpɑstɚn/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstɚn/
rhymes: -ɒstən
Forms: form: more postern
form: most postern
Etymology: From Old French posterne, alteration of posterle, from Late Latin posterula (“back door”), from Latin posterus (“later”).
Senses: glosses: Situated at the rear; posterior.
Related terms: Shottle and Postern
chummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌ.mɪ/
enpr: chŭm'-ē
rhymes: -ʌmɪ
Forms: form: chummier
form: more chummy
form: chummiest
form: most chummy
Etymology: From chum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, I was just being nice! I was being nice and chummy!
ref: 2001, Larry David, “Thor”, in Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 2, episode 2 (television production), Larry David (actor):
glosses: Friendly
glosses: Friendly:
Naturally and genuinely easy to get along with.
synonyms: affable
amiable
approachable
companionable
sociable
warm
antonyms: aloof
cool#Adjective
distant
formal
mannered
reserved
unfriendly
unsociable
glosses: Friendly:
Making a show of friendliness; attempting to be on intimate terms but insincerely or inappropriately; cozying up.
synonyms: familiar
fresh
ingratiating
smarmy
unctuous
examples: text: Lachey and Olson have become rather chummy the last couple of years—they slide each other free tickets, they visit each other at practice sessions and games, their wives hang out—and, well, Olson has been filling Lachey’s head with a lot of baseball talk.
ref: 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 64:
text: From what Brandon tells me, Andrea is getting pretty chummy with her dorm advisor!
ref: 1993, “Moving Targets”, in Beverly Hills, 90210, season 4, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty):
text: She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.
ref: 2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
synonyms: tight
glosses: On intimate terms
synonyms: tight
glosses: On intimate terms:
In a close friendship or relationship.
synonyms: tight
glosses: On intimate terms:
On intimate terms but in an inappropriate way, for dishonest or selfish motives, etc.
Derived terms: chummily
chumminess
unchummy
headfirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From head + first.
Senses: antonyms: feet first
glosses: With the head in front; headlong.
examples: text: Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245:
text: Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.
ref: 2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
glosses: Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
Synonyms: sense: with the head in front
word: headforemost
sense: with the head in front
word: headlong
headfirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From head + first.
Senses: glosses: With the head in front; headlong.
abacot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a series of mistranscriptions and misprints, from "a bycoket" to "a bicoket" to "abocoket" to "abocoke" to, at last, "abacot".
Senses: examples: text: On his head du Chatelet wore an abacot, or cap of state, looped at one side with a jewelled button.
ref: 1822, Lee Gibbons (William Bennett), Malpas; Or Le Poursuivant D'Amour. A Romance, Etc, page 71
text: It was found to be a mistake for by-cocket, which is the correct word. In spite of this exposure of the impostor, the word was allowed to stand, with a woodcut of an abacot, in an important dictionary published subsequently, although Dr. Murray's remarks were quoted. This shows how difficult it is to kill a word ...
ref: 1893, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error", page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bycoket.
laserjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laserjets
Etymology: From LaserJet, a trademark of Hewlett-Packard, from laser + jet; compare inkjet.
Senses: examples: text: The application, form and all, can be printed on hundreds of printers including inkjet and laserjets.
ref: 1994, Dennis V. Damp, The Book of U.S. Government Jobs, page 88:
text: Printers, such as inkjets and laserjets, typically print at resolutions ranging from 300 to 720 dots per inch (dpi).
ref: 2000, Phyllis Davis, The GIMP for Linux and Unix: for linux and unix, page 282:
text: the Samsung SCX-4100 compares well with other small, desktop laserjets and you get a copier and scanner thrown in.
ref: 2004 November 14, “Business Tools: Miniature copier is a jack of all trades”, in Times Online:
text: Profiles are available for inkjets, dye-subs, and small event printers (Sony); Kodak- and 8600-series printers; Fuji Pictography printers; RA-4 printers (Light Jet, Durst Lambda/Epsilon, Fuji Frontier, Noritsu QSS, Gretag Sienna, Kodak LED, Agfa D-Lab, etc.); color laserjets; and thermal printers.
ref: 2004, Bill Hurter, The Best of Digital Wedding Photography, page 85:
text: Did you know that the famous computer printer companies can sell their laserjets, inkjets and dot printers at under production cost?
ref: 2008, Adam Corres, Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate, page 29:
text: HP aims to improve energy efficiency of its inkjet and laserjet printers 40% by 2011 and to triple its use of recycled material in inkjet products by 2011.
ref: 2009 March 27, “Inside HP's Ink Jet Cartridge Recycling Process”, in InformationWeek:
glosses: A laser printer.
Synonyms: laser printer
laserjet printer
linearly independent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: (Of a set of vectors or ring elements) whose nontrivial linear combinations are nonzero
Related terms: linear independence
linear independence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The linear independence of a set of vectors can be determined by calculating the Gram determinant of those vectors; if their Gram determinant is zero, then they are linearly dependent, and if their Gram determinant is non-zero, then they are linearly independent. Incidentally, the same Gram determinant can be used to calculate the hyper-volume of a hyper-parallelepiped (whose edges which "radiate" from an "origin" vertex are described by the vectors).
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the state of being linearly independent
linearly dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a nontrivial linear combination which is zero.
raw_tags: of a set of vectors or ring elements
natural language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural languages
Etymology: natural + language
Senses: examples: text: Although some computer programs are now widely regarded as having passed the Turing test, it is clear to discerning humans that they still do not use natural language in the same way that sane humans do, as they often spew nonsense, albeit well-formed linguistically, and they cannot engage in some important kinds of original thought.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any human language that has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages, to controlled natural languages, and to constructed languages such as Esperanto (although constructed languages are subject to change by natural forces among fluent speakers).
Derived terms: natural language processing
linear dependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear dependences
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state of being linearly dependent
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear relation between some appropriate things
Makedonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of Macedonia.
Drummond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One aim of the move [from Nine Elms] had been to speed up the overhaul of the company's locomotive stock and to reduce costs with more efficient workshop facilities, in what Dugald Drummond claimed to be "the most complete and up-to-date works owned by any railway company".
ref: 1961 March 24, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159:
glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone from any of several places in Scotland.
glosses: A hamlet near Evanton, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH6065).
glosses: A southern suburb of Inverness, Highland council area, Scotland, divided into Lower and Upper Drummond (OS grid ref NH6643).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Fremont County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Montgomery County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An island (Drummond Island) in Lake Huron, belonging to Chippewa County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, on Drummond Island, Chippewa County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Granite County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Garfield County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A village and parish of New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, central Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A settlement in Southland, New Zealand.
Derived terms: drummondin
Drummond light
Drummond Peak
Drummondville
9 to 5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 9 to 5s
form: 9-5
form: 9-2-5
form: 9-to-5
form: nine to five
form: nine-to-five
Etymology: From the common western business hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Senses: examples: text: 1976 March, advertisement, Popular Mechanics, page 44,
By day, he′s a 9-to-5 man. By night, an explorer in a field that really interests him!
text: Keisha works a 9-to-5, picks up their son from the day care and then heads home to prepare dinner for the family.
ref: 2005 December, Zondra Hughes, “Save Your Marriage Now!: Divorce-Busters That Work”, in Ebony, page 146:
glosses: A day job, especially at a large company (emphasizing banality).
examples: ref: 2000, Renata Somogyi, Inner Peace in a 9-To-5 World: Attaining Enlightenment Amidst the Chaos:
text: [D]uring his heyday, Bill Rodgers emphatically stated, “No runner working 9 to 5 can beat me”, attesting that training for elite distance competition had become a full-time job in itself.
ref: 2006 July, Max King, “Leading Edge: It′s Good to be King”, in Running Times, page 58:
text: 2010 January-February, Lou′s Clues: Getting to Work (editorial), Ancestry Magazine, page 6,
And you might decide that our 9-to-5s today just aren′t so tough.
glosses: The workday itself (the period of the day between 9 am and 5 pm).
examples: text: Stock markets crash, businesses go bankrupt, and 9-to-5s can disappear from layoffs and downsizing.
ref: 2009, Scott Brown, Treat Your Poker Like a Business, page 101:
glosses: One who works in a job from 9 am to 5 pm.
Synonyms: sense: day job
word: 9-to-5 job
sense: day job
word: nine-to-five job
youngling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/
Forms: form: more youngling
form: most youngling
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”); equivalent to young + -ling. Doublet of Yngling.
Senses: synonyms: word: baby-faced
word: juvenile
word: hebetic
word: young
word: youngling
word: youngly
word: youngsome
word: youngthly
word: youthful
word: youthly
word: youthsome
glosses: Young; youthful.
youngling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/
Forms: form: younglings
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”); equivalent to young + -ling. Doublet of Yngling.
Senses: examples: text: More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
text: He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.
ref: 1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer:
text: No eagle-child have I seen being taught to fly by its parents. That is why younglings will not open their wings until driven by hunger.
ref: 1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 43:
text: 2005 May 19, George Lucas, “Star Wars: Episode III ”, “Revenge of the Sith”, Lucasfilm
Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have seen a security hologram of him...killing younglings.
glosses: A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
Synonyms: english: human
translation: human
word: child
word: youngling
Hypernyms: word: animal
Hyponyms: word: baby
word: juvenile
word: infant
word: orphan
word: whelp
word: yearling
word: calf
word: fawn
word: hogget
word: kid
word: lamb
word: poddy
word: yeanling
word: colt
word: filly
word: foal
word: cria
word: cub
word: kitten
word: kitty
word: lion cub
word: tiger cub
word: bull-pup
word: kit
word: pup
word: puppy
word: bearcub
word: bear-whelp
word: joey
word: puggle
word: piglet
word: bunny
word: leveret
word: frogling
word: hatchling
word: polliwog
word: snakelet
word: tadpole
word: chick
word: cygnet
word: dovelet
word: duckling
word: doveling
word: eaglet
word: eyas
word: fledgling
word: gosling
word: nestling
word: piper
word: squab
word: swanling
word: crablet
word: cuttlet
word: ephyrae
word: fry
word: leptocephalus
word: nauplius
word: nymph
word: parr
word: pluteus
word: smolt
word: spat
word: littleneck
word: zoea
word: caterpillar
word: larva
Related terms: word: offspring
word: spawn
word: young
word: :Category:Baby animals
word: child
word: female animal
word: pregnant
vinegaroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪnəɡəˈruːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: vinegaroons
form: vinagron
form: vinegarroon
form: vinegerone
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vinagrón, from vinagre (“vinegar”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). Influenced by vinegar.
Senses: examples: text: I have found dead vinegaroons […] kille by a harvester ant sting successfuly placed in the intersegmental membranes of the vinegaroon's crushing, claw-like pedipalps[.]
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: A whip scorpion (arachnid of order Thelyphonida), which when threatened may eject a liquid containing acetic acid.
herding dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herding dogs
Senses: hypernyms: working dog
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working animal
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animal
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creature#Noun
coordinate_terms: hearing dog
guide dog
service dog
glosses: A dog, such as the various shepherd breeds, that are bred for working cattle, sheep, or other livestock.
haptodysphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hapto- + dysphoria.
Senses: glosses: An odd, disagreeable sensation felt by certain people when handling peaches, velvet or other fuzzy surfaces.
fanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænən/
rhymes: -ænən
Forms: form: fanons
Etymology: From Middle English fanon, fanoun, from Old French fanon, from Medieval Latin fanō, from Frankish *fano, from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Doublet of fane and vane.
Senses: glosses: A vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.
glosses: Part of a bishop's mitre. They are the tabs extending down from the mitre, often with a cross near the end of each. See lappet.
glosses: A maniple.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A fold of linen laid under a splint.
fanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænən/
rhymes: -ænən
Etymology: Blend of fan + canon.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, smaller groups within a fandom agree on readings which may be completely at odds with the canon, but which in time acquire legitimacy as fanon.
ref: 2014, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, page 53:
text: Loyalty is one aspect of Slytherin that canon and fanon readings technically agree on, but fans are significantly more sincere about this characterization.
ref: 2018, Kali DeDominicis, “Fitting Him for Leather Trousers: Fanon and the Reclamation of Draco Malfoy and Slytherin House”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 97:
text: So in a fandom as old as Austen's, how does fanon get created?
ref: 2019, Holly Luetkenhaus, Zoe Weinstein, Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, page 24:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Elements introduced by fans which are not in the official canon of a fictional world but are widely believed to be or treated as if canonical.
Derived terms: fanonical
Related terms: headcanon
Adam and Steve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phrase, often satirical, recasting the Biblical couple of Adam and Eve as a homosexual couple, Adam and Steve. In context, it may be used as a pejorative against either homosexuality or religious opposition to it.
Derived terms: Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve
Related terms: Madam and Eve
grayslick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: gray + slick
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Glassy, calm seawater.
overbold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbold
form: most overbold
Etymology: From Middle English overbold, equivalent to over- + bold.
Senses: examples: text: I hope it wasn't overbold of me to finish writing your letter for you.
glosses: Too bold; impertinent or overreaching.
Derived terms: overboldly
overboldness
overlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)lɔː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: overlords
Etymology: From Middle English oferrlaferrd, orlard, our-lord, ouyr-lord, equivalent to over- + lord.
Senses: examples: text: The various tribal chieftains met each spring to elect an overlord that would lead them in time of war.
text: The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 195:
text: Warlords leveraged their veteran soldiers to seize living space while the Council races were still grateful. Over centuries, the krogan conquered world after world. There was always "just one more" needed. When the Council finally demanded withdrawal from the asari colony of Lusia, krogan Overlord Kredak stormed off the Citadel, daring the Council to take their worlds back.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Krogan Rebellions Codex entry:
glosses: A ruler of other rulers.
examples: text: The tenant owed a variety of obligations to his overlord—usually including military service or serjeanty—but these were gradually converted into monetary rents.
glosses: A feudal lord directly owed rent or personal service by a tenant of subinfeudated land, a tenant's liege lord.
examples: text: The crusty old professor was overlord of the history department, and few dared to cross his will.
text: One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
ref: 1994 February 24, David Mirkin, “Deep Space Homer”, in The Simpsons, season 5, episode 15, spoken by Kent Brockman:
text: Fluffy is wearing a diamond collar that belongs in the Tower of London with a platoon of Beefeaters standing guard over it. "I for one welcome our new feline overlords."
ref: 2009, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue, page 239:
text: “It’s not like young authors need to worry about being supplanted now,” Ms. Williams said. “It’s a worry. But it’s got a ways to go, at least. They haven’t become our overlords yet.”
ref: 2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Sheila Williams, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: typically derogatory
glosses: Anyone with overarching power or authority in a given domain.
Synonyms: sense: subinfeudating lord
word: liege lord
sense: subinfeudating lord
word: chief lord
sense: pej. master
word: tyrant
sense: pej. master
word: despot
sense: pej. master
word: &c.
Hypernyms: sense: subinfeudating lord
word: lord
sense: subinfeudating lord
word: feudal lord
sense: subinfeudating lord
word: lord of the manor
Hyponyms: sense: subinfeudating lord
word: mesne lord
Derived terms: benevolent overlord
overlordship
superoverlord
Related terms: overlady
overlord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)lɔː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: overlords
form: overlording
form: overlorded
form: overlorded
Etymology: From Middle English oferrlaferrd, orlard, our-lord, ouyr-lord, equivalent to over- + lord.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Johnny one-note sang out with gusto / And just overlorded the place
ref: 1937, Rodgers and Hart, “Johnny One Note”:
glosses: To rule over; to domineer.
overlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlord
picqueter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picqueters
Senses: glosses: A person who arranges artificial flowers for a living.
picqueters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picqueter
cotoneaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kə(ʊ)ˌtəʊniːˈastə/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cotoneasters
Etymology: From translingual Cotoneaster, from Latin cotōneum (“quince”) + -aster.
Senses: examples: text: Around the house the flakes fly faster,
And all the berries now are gone
From holly and cotoneaster [..]
ref: 1900s, Thomas Hardy, Birds at Winter Nightfall
glosses: Any of several erect or creeping shrubs, of the genus Cotoneaster, that have pinkish flowers and red berries.
submits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of submit
outspend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈspɛnd/
Forms: form: outspends
form: outspending
form: outspent
form: outspent
Etymology: From out- + spend.
Senses: examples: text: Statistics show that political candidates who greatly outspend their opponents win more frequently.
text: As he admitted, he had been not only outspent and outslandered, but outmaneuvered.
ref: 2009, Leslie Derfler, Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911, page 143:
glosses: To spend more than some limit or than another entity.
outspends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outspend
outspending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outspend
outspent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outspend
outspent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outspent
form: most outspent
Senses: glosses: Exhausted; tired out.
megalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /mɛˈɡæ.ləʊ/
Forms: form: megal-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos), further Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas).
Senses: synonyms: mega-
glosses: large, great or exaggerated
Related terms: -megaly
nantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: To fondle or caress.
glosses: To fidget or rearrange.
Synonyms: sense: to fondle or caress
word: grope
word: pet
word: touch up
word: fondle
dowitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ.ɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dowitchers
Etymology: From an Iroquoian language; compare Oneida tawístawe (“snipe”).
Senses: glosses: Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.
Derived terms: Asian dowitcher
Limnodromus semipalmatus
long-billed dowitcher
Limnodromus scolopaceus
short-billed dowitcher
Limnodromus griseus
dowitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowitcher
ad referendum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad referendum (“subject to reference”).
Senses: examples: text: The United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s was adopted by consensus ad referendum and recommended for approval by the Assembly later this year.
glosses: Subject to agreement by others and finalization of details, especially an ad referendum contract.
Changchun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæŋˈt͡ʃʊn/
enpr: chängʹcho͞onʹ
enpr: chängʹcho͝onʹ
rhymes: -ʊn
Forms: form: Ch'ang-ch'un
Etymology: From Mandarin 長春 /长春 (Chángchūn).
Senses: examples: text: It costs but from $0.86 to $1.14 per ton to load Japanese coal into the cars at the mines, and as these are under the control of the South Manchuria Railway it is said that coal is freighted to Changchun free.
ref: 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “China-Manchuria”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, Harbin, page 3:
text: A “big-character” wall appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3.
The wall poster accused the Peiping regime [of] "practicing Fascist totalitarianism," the report said, adding that some 40 people in Changchun had been arrested for putting up wall posters.
ref: 1979 April 8, “Wallposter in Kirin”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: At least one person was killed and another was injured in a series of explosions Friday afternoon in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, the local authorities said.
The police are tentatively treating the explosions as “a criminal case,” the propaganda office of the Changchun Municipal Communist Party Committee said in a statement posted online.
ref: 2019 January 25, Austin Ramzy, “Explosions Shake Shopping District in Changchun, China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2019, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern China.
Synonyms: word: Hsinking
proof by exhaustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proofs by exhaustion
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The indirect verification or falsification of a statement by the verification or falsification of each of the finite number of cases which arise therefrom.
proofs by exhaustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proof by exhaustion
demultiplexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demultiplexers
Etymology: From demultiplex + -er.
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
synonyms: demux
glosses: A device or piece of software used to separate signals that were previously combined using a multiplexer.
Chongqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
enpr: chŏngchǐngʹ
enpr: cho͝ongʹchǐngʹ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: Chong-qing
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Chong Qing
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Chungking
form: Chungching
form: Ch'ung-ch'ing
form: Tchang-king
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng).
Senses: examples: text: Nanking attempted to maintain a nominal sovereignty by appointing Liu Xiang commissioner for the suppression of banditry (that is, communism) in 1933, but the province really eluded its control, and continued to do so until 1938, when the central government was driven back to Chongqing.
ref: 1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “China Under the Guomindang from 1927 to 1934”, in Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, transl., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:
text: The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.
ref: 2012 April 18, Michael Wines, “Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2012, Asia Pacific:
text: Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
ref: 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:
text: For nearly four years, he worked in one of the three cavernous Ford Motor assembly plants in Chongqing, a sprawling metropolis in southwestern China with almost 20 million people. Every day, he spent long hours putting brake fluid into the Ford Focus compact cars that glided past on the assembly line.
ref: 2019 April 11, Keith Bradsher, “For Chinese Raised in Prosperity, Shrugs in the Face of Layoffs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2019, China Dispatch:
text: A canteen in China's southwest municipality of Chongqing collapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.
ref: 2022 January 7, Gabriel Crossley, “Multiple people trapped after explosion in China's Chongqing - state media”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2022, China:
glosses: A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Derived terms: Chongqing chicken
Chongqing dog
Hefei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hôʹfāʹ
hǔʹfāʹ
Forms: form: Ho-fei
form: Hofei
Etymology: From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi).
Senses: examples: text: Some 10,000 people took the streets in the eastern city of Hefei this week in what appears to have been the largest student demonstration since the Tiananmen Square human rights protests of 1989.
ref: 2003 January 9, Joseph Kahn, “Huge Demonstration in China, but Subject Is Traffic Safety”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021, World:
text: The other case, surnamed Zhang, was in close contact with Li during a training class Li led in the city of Luan, near Anhui's provincial capital Hefei, Xinhua reported.[…]
Two areas in Luan city and one part of Feixi county were declared "medium-risk" regions by local authorities in response to the cases. State media reported mass testing being carried out in main urban area in Luan and some areas in Hefei.
ref: 2021 May 13, “Mainland China reports first local COVID-19 cases in more than 3 weeks”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2021, Asia Pacific:
text: The vaccination campaign in the Luyang district of Hefei city is currently operating in an orderly and efficient manner, with all vaccination points running smoothly, thanks in large part to the effective utilization of A.I. technology.
ref: 2021 July 13, “A.I. is Ensuring an Orderly Vaccination in Hefei”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Anhui, in central China.
Synonyms: Luchow
Luzhou