cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vagus nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagus nerves
form: vagus
Etymology: Partial calque of New Latin nervus vagus (literally “wandering nerve”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: nervus vagus
pneumogastric nerve
tenth cranial nerve
wandering nerve
coordinate_terms: olfactory nerve
optic nerve
oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
trigeminal nerve
abducens nerve
facial nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve
accessory nerve
hypoglossal nerve
glosses: Either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which extend from the medulla oblongata down into the abdomen. Branches of these important nerves supply the tongue, larynx, lungs, gut, and heart.
Related terms: pneumogastric
sawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːn
Etymology: Morphologically saw + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of saw
glosses: past participle of see; seen
copine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copines
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of highly conserved, calcium-dependent membrane proteins found in a variety of eukaryotes.
girl friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girl friends
Senses: examples: text: VELMA: My best girl friend is a Mexican girl. Every time I go up on the second floor where the Negroes hang out and I'm with this girl, they're always saying things like, "Hey girl, you're out of your place with her." Well, I don't listen to them at all.
ref: 1971, Frank A. Petroni, Ernest A. Hirsch, Two, four, six, eight, when you gonna integrate?, page 192:
text: He is not deeply worried about dope, because he trusts Sharon, knows she is sensible; that she tried cigarettes with her girl friends because at thirteen she wouldn't think of death […]
ref: 1980, Andre Dubus, Finding a Girl in America, page 157:
text: Then, the lady explained that her husband often talked to his girl friend about her.
ref: 2013, Beatrice Labissiere, The Evil Land: Nehemiah:
text: Remember that the way you may not be liked by your girl friend, you might think the girl who is close to your girlfriend.
ref: 2015, Strange Facts About Ways to Propose, Lulu Press Inc:
glosses: A female friend.
examples: ref: 1958, DC Comics, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane:
text: You may talk about different things with your girl friend than you do with your guy friends.
ref: 2012, The Rosen Publishing Group, Guys: Being Best Friends:
glosses: Alternative form of girlfriend.
sprawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
ipa: /spɹɔl/
ipa: /spɹɑl/
ipa: /spɹoːl/
Forms: form: sprawls
Etymology: From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.
Senses: glosses: An ungainly sprawling posture.
examples: text: He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.
ref: 1948 October, Terry B. Augur, “The Dispersal of Cities—A Feasible Program”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 4, number 10, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, →ISSN, page 314:
text: Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land.
ref: 1959 August 17, William H. Whye Jr., “A Plan to Save Vanishing U.S. Countryside”, in Life, volume 47, number 7, Time, Inc, →ISSN, page 92:
text: Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of the people who end up being most concerned about sprawl—the millions who move into suburban subdivisions, only to have their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.
ref: 2006, Anthony Flint, The Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America, JHU Press, →ISBN, Introduction: Developing America, page 17:
glosses: A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
Derived terms: asprawl
sprawler
sprawliness
sprawling
sprawlingness
sprawly
urban sprawl
Related terms: Los Angelization
urban sprawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urban sprawls
Etymology: First used in 1937.
Senses: synonyms: suburban sprawl
urban encroachment
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: An unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.
Related terms: Los Angelization
reshuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: reshuffles
form: reshuffling
form: reshuffled
form: reshuffled
Etymology: From re- + shuffle.
Senses: glosses: To shuffle something again, especially playing cards.
glosses: To reorganize or rearrange something, especially government posts.
reshuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: reshuffles
Etymology: From re- + shuffle.
Senses: examples: text: The changeover to almost exclusive electric and diesel working on the London-Ashford-Kent Coast main line at the beginning of the summer timetable naturally initiated a widespread reshuffle of steam motive power, involving some moves of considerable interest.
ref: 1961 August, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 505:
text: Danny Higginbotham was the only survivor from the weekend win over Bolton - but the Stoke captain lasted just 10 minutes before being forced off injured. That meant a reshuffle to the visitors' defence who were the busier in a lacklustre first half.
ref: 2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC:
text: Simpson had also been due to meet new Rail Minister Kevin Foster, but that too had to be cancelled on the day because of a further reshuffle.
ref: 2023 January 11, Maggie Simpson tells Tom Allett, “Freight's champion”, in RAIL, number 974, page 41:
glosses: an instance of reshuffling, a reorganization
a trifle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent.
text: He contemplated the large well-proportioned letters and final flourish, with his head a trifle on one side for an instant […]
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 3, Chapter 23:
text: Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!:
text: He stared at the chart. “Maybe we’ll move away towards the west a trifle, and come down on Fiji from the north.”
ref: 1957, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
text: 2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 411,
“Let’s get on with it,” Sikiokuu replied, a trifle impatiently.
glosses: A little, slightly.
Synonyms: a bit
a smidgeon
a tad
Lalique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːk
Etymology: The surname of René Lalique, French designer.
Senses: glosses: A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.
martial law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːʃəl lɔː/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹʃəl lɔ/
ipa: /ˈmɑ(ɹ)ʃəl lɑ/
Senses: glosses: Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.
Related terms: curfew
state of emergency
state of siege
summary jurisdiction
senses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sense
senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sense
recreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: recreations
Etymology: From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
text: Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.
ref: 1972, Peter Chan, Water quality and recreational value analysis on Lake Dubay:
glosses: Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
Synonyms: leisure
Derived terms: R&R
recreation center
recreation centre
recreation facility
recreation ground
recreation hall
recreation room
Related terms: recreate
recreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
enpr: rē-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/
enpr: rē-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
enpr: rĕ-krē-āʹshən
ipa: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: recreations
form: re-creation
Etymology: From Middle English recreacion; equivalent to re- + creation.
Senses: glosses: The process of creating something again.
examples: text: Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
ref: 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...:
glosses: The result of this process.
Related terms: recreate
R and R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of R&R.
indifference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹəns/
Forms: form: indifferences
Etymology: From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia. By surface analysis, in- + difference.
Senses: examples: text: "I do not care for them; I would not have them now," cried Lady Penrhyn; "it is only your affection I care for. Do not suppose, for a moment, that I wish for the tables when you do not: oh, no! my only concern was for your indifference. But I am content if you tell me I was mistaken."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 115:
synonyms: unconcern
glosses: The state of being indifferent.
glosses: Unbiased impartiality.
examples: text: His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she felt no empathy for the bullied.
text: I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day.
ref: 2024 November 16, Naomi Beinart, “I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2024:
glosses: Unemotional apathy.
glosses: A lack of enthusiasm.
examples: text: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Unconcerned nonchalance.
examples: text: "I call reason absolute reason, or reason insofar as it is conceived as the total indifference of the subjective and objective."
ref: 1801, FWJ Schelling, The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling, page 145:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference.
Derived terms: defensive indifference
depraved-indifference murder
indifference curve
la belle indifference
liberty of indifference
principle of indifference
unindifference
Related terms: same difference
courtyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹt.jɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɔːt.jɑːd/
Forms: form: courtyards
Etymology: From court + yard.
Senses: examples: text: She sat in the courtyard, enjoying the garden.
text: There comes a fairy in the courtyard, bearing a handful of gifts.
glosses: An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.
Derived terms: courtyarded
courtyardful
courtyardlike
courtyardy
Related terms: atrium
forecourt
Open University
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A UK university offering distance learning taught courses to people without formal academic qualifications, teaching being by correspondence and online with mostly optional tutorials and for some courses compulsory summer schools. Access to postgraduate research is selective and is primarily taught on campus using traditional methods.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A similar university in the Netherlands.
cranial nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪn.i.əl nɝv/
Forms: form: cranial nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: CN
glosses: Any of the twelve paired nerves that originate from the brainstem or base of the brain instead of the spinal cord.
Synonyms: word: cranial nerve
Hypernyms: word: nerve
Hyponyms: word: olfactory nerve
word: optic nerve
word: oculomotor nerve
word: trochlear nerve
word: trigeminal nerve
word: abducens nerve
word: facial nerve
word: vestibulocochlear nerve
word: glossopharyngeal nerve
word: vagus nerve
word: accessory nerve
word: hypoglossal nerve
Derived terms: eighth cranial nerve
eleventh cranial nerve
fifth cranial nerve
first cranial nerve
fourth cranial nerve
ninth cranial nerve
second cranial nerve
seventh cranial nerve
sixth cranial nerve
tenth cranial nerve
third cranial nerve
twelfth cranial nerve
comptrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The financial work of a comptroller.
cerebellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛ.ɹɪˈbɛl.əm/
ipa: /ˌsɛɹ.əˈbɛl.əm/
rhymes: -ɛləm
Forms: form: cerebellums
form: cerebella
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum.
Senses: examples: text: Although the cerebellum occupies just 10 per cent of the cranial cavity, it has more than half the brain’s neurons.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, page 61:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: parencephalon
holonyms: hindbrain
glosses: Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.
Derived terms: archicerebellum
cerebellar
cerebellectomy
cerebellic
cerebellin
cerebellitis
cerebello-
cerebelli-
cerebell-
cerebellotomy
cerebellous
cerebrocerebellum
decerebellate
hemicerebellum
neocerebellum
paleocerebellum
spinocerebellum
vestibulocerebellum
Related terms: cerebrum
instal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːl
Forms: form: instals
form: installing
form: installed
form: installed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of install.
glosses: To pay by instalments.
distance learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.
Synonyms: distance education
Coordinate terms: distance teaching
Derived terms: distance learner
Related terms: alt: MOOC
word: massive open online course
word: telecourse
artificial anus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artificial anuses
form: artificial ani
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An artificial opening of the intestine (usually a colostomy; sometimes an ileostomy).
Related terms: colostomy
ileostomy
ostomy
stoma
summer school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer schools
Senses: glosses: Any of various academic sessions held in the summer at schools or universities when the usual students are away; either for supplementary or remedial study or as part of distance learning.
OU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Open University.
synonyms: Ohio
coordinate_terms: Ohio State
OSU
glosses: Initialism of Ohio University.
glosses: Initialism of University of Oklahoma.
lemon juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon juices
Senses: glosses: The liquid extract of lemon fruit, notably sour and often condensed, as used especially in food preparation.
examples: text: “Come and eat,” said my father. Everyone else had already eaten lunch, so my mother waited on me. First she gave me a tall glass of lemon juice, followed by white noodles, egg rolls, cucumber salad, fish sauce, and meat rolled in rice bread.
ref: 2001, Danny Lane, Black Silk Pajamas, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 158:
text: They wiped his face with a hot towel, gave him a tall glass of very refreshing lemon juice, and took his temperature, after making him comfortable on a nice clean soft bed inside the ambulance, which sped along its siren wailing.
ref: 2006, Vithal Rajan, "Not So!" Stories for Older Children, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Spiritual pilgrims can console themselves for giving in to their appetites by making sure to buy fromage made by the monks of Cîteaux; pick up some good bread and sparkling lemon juice to go with the cheese and have a picnic on the way to the abbey.
ref: 2009, Madeline Scherb, A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks and Nuns, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Smita Dongre settled Vikram on the sofa and a young lady dressed in a bright salwar kameez placed lemon juice and biscuits on the table. [...] Vikram sipped sugary lemon juice.
ref: 2014, Deepak Dalal, Sahyadri Adventure: Koleshwar's Secret, Westland, →ISBN:
text: Upon seating, guests are treated to a complimentary free glass of thirst quenching lemon juice with ice.
ref: 2014, Ale-esi Makgekgenene, “Sanitas Tea Garden a place to unwind”, in Sunday Standard:
glosses: The juice of a sweet lemon or sweet lime.
condensate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensates
Etymology: From condense + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from condensation.
Senses: examples: text: Do you remember learning about cell diagrams in high school biology? The cell wall, the organelles, the nucleus. The real picture is turning out to be much more complicated, and interesting, than we were taught. Cells are filled with teensy, phase-shifting blobs that often contain protein and RNA, and in the past several years they’ve taken over cellular biology. In our cover story on page 22, science writer Philip Ball dives into the world of these specks, known as biomolecular condensates, which play astounding roles in cellular functioning across all domains of life.
ref: 2025 February 1, Jeanna Bryner, “In this issue: From the editor: Blobs and Green Monsters”, in Scientific American, page 4:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A liquid that is the product of condensation of a gas, i.e. of steam.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of a condensation reaction.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of various condensed quantum states.
Derived terms: anticondensate
biocondensate
biomolecular condensate
Bose-Einstein condensate
fermionic condensate
ghost condensate
noncondensate
polycondensate
quasicondensate
subcondensate
Related terms: autolysate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
condensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒndənseɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒndənseɪt/
Forms: form: condensates
form: condensating
form: condensated
form: condensated
Etymology: First attested circa 1550; borrowed from Latin condēnsātus, perfect passive participle of condēnsō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As they say a little critical learning makes one proud; if there were more it would condensate and compact itself into less room
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: To condense.
condensate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒndənsət/
ipa: /ˈkɒndənsət/
Forms: form: more condensate
form: most condensate
Etymology: First attested circa 1550; borrowed from Latin condēnsātus, perfect passive participle of condēnsō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Water […] thickened or condensate.
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
glosses: Made dense; condensed.
Related terms: condensation
condenser
assiduously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assiduously
form: most assiduously
Etymology: From assiduous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He who had appeared rather assiduously to shun her, whose good opinion she had valued, notwithstanding his seeming indifference to her, had now declared himself, and given proofs of a regard the most unequivocal.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 39, column 2:
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 184:
text: Her voice caught in her throat and another violent shiver ran through her. Bradly thought she was going to cry and became actively disturbed, holding her with one arm and patting her shoulder assiduously. "Damme, don't think about it, Cora."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XXII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 236:
text: No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, which often fell as low as 210 lb.
ref: 1944 March and April, E. S. Waterhouse, “Two Footplate Rides on "Merchant Navy" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
ref: 2003, Matrix Reloaded, spoken by The Architect:
text: 2020, Frank Bowman, The role of the chief justice in an impeachment trial, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 10, 2020, 11:18 AM), online
What little precedent we have in such cases suggests that chief justices keep their heads down and, so far as possible, defer assiduously to the will of the Senate majority.
glosses: In an assiduous manner; diligently, industriously.
steaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiː.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: steamings
Etymology: By surface analysis, steam + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Steaming is fine for this fabric, as long as you keep the iron moving.
glosses: The action of steam on something.
examples: text: Their favorite way to cook clams is steaming.
coordinate_terms: sweating#Noun
sautéing
boiling#Noun
frying#Noun
glosses: The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
examples: text: Steaming was their preferred way to travel until airliners came along.
glosses: The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
examples: text: Two 4-4-0s were steaming through the scenic foothills, giving rides to tourists.
text: The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
ref: 1947 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 39:
text: The perfect steaming and beautiful mechanical condition of the Pacific were immediately apparent.
ref: 1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 109:
glosses: The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
glosses: A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
Derived terms: slow steaming
smart steaming
steaming up
steaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiː.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more steaming
form: most steaming
Etymology: By surface analysis, steam + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We were served with steaming bowls of soup.
glosses: Giving off steam.
glosses: Extremely hot
examples: text: I was steaming when I heard about their betrayal.
glosses: Very angry.
examples: text: ‘Will it help or hinder if I tell you I was steaming that evening and remember nothing, full stop?’
ref: 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, Viking, page 6:
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: sense: giving off steam
word: steamy
sense: very angry
word: apoplectic
word: enraged
word: furious
word: angry
sense: extremely drunk
word: paralytic
word: sloshed
word: wasted
word: drunk
Derived terms: steaming hot
steaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiː.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, steam + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steam
airlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airlocked
form: most airlocked
Etymology: Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.
Senses: examples: text: It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk.
ref: 2018 April 18, Alan Croft, There's Always Risk in Movement: Tales from Old Reading Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
blitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪtst/
rhymes: -ɪtst
Senses: examples: text: As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line was only part of the plan”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
glosses: simple past and past participle of blitz
blitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪtst/
rhymes: -ɪtst
Forms: form: more blitzed
form: most blitzed
Senses: examples: text: Ben's hangovers just make him look more beautiful, in a blitzed, cheekbony way.
ref: 1999, Serena Mackesy, The Temp, page 245:
text: "You really don't need to explain. I was surprised, but not bothered. Even as blitzed as I was, I just knew I wasn't supposed to see that. So nothing happened. And I won't tell anybody."
ref: 2015 August 20, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 718 - Blitzed:
glosses: Drunk; wasted.
Synonyms: drunk
Derived terms: unblitzed
bingoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bingoed
form: most bingoed
Etymology: From bingo + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
bingoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bingo + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bingo
half lit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: drunk
Synonyms: drunk
sozzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒzl̩d/
Forms: form: more sozzled
form: most sozzled
Senses: glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: sense: very drunk
word: pickled
word: sloshed. See also: Thesaurus:drunk
sozzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒzl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sozzle
totalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: totaled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of total
totalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more totalled
form: most totalled
form: totaled
Senses: examples: text: Several totalled cars were being picked over for usable parts.
glosses: Destroyed
annelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænələd/
ipa: /ˈænəlɪd/
Forms: form: annelids
Etymology: From French annélidé, coined by French naturalist Lamarck.
Senses: examples: text: Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.
ref: 1990 January 4, Pete Dunne, “IN THE NATURAL STATE”, in The New York Times:
text: The polychaetous annelid species complex of Neanthes acuminata has a widespread distribution, with names depending on geographic location.
ref: 2015 September 4, Kondethimmanahalli H. Chandramouli, Donald Reish, Huoming Zhang, Pei-Yuan Qian & Timothy Ravasi, “Proteomic Changes Associated with Successive Reproductive Periods in Male Polychaetous Neanthes arenaceodentata”, in Scientific Reports, →DOI:
synonyms: ringed worm
segmented worm
glosses: Any of various wormlike animals, of the phylum Annelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech.
Derived terms: annelidan
annelidous
annepressin
annetocin
annelid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænələd/
ipa: /ˈænəlɪd/
Etymology: From French annélidé, coined by French naturalist Lamarck.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to these creatures
hosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of host
hosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊstɪŋ/
Forms: form: hostings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
glosses: A battle.
Derived terms: bulletproof hosting
self-hosting
web hosting
totaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: totalled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of total (US spelling)
totaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: totalled
Senses: glosses: destroyed
raw_tags: of a vehicle
serrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /sɪˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: Past participle of serrate.
Senses: examples: text: That knife has a serrated blade.
glosses: Notched or cut like a saw.
examples: text: Maple leaves have serrated edges.
glosses: Having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
Synonyms: sense: notched
word: jagged
word: serrate
word: notched
Related terms: serration
sawback
saw-tooth
sawtooth
saw-toothed
sawtoothed
serrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /sɪˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: Past participle of serrate.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serrate
beckon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛkən/
rhymes: -ɛkən
Forms: form: beckons
form: beckoning
form: beckoned
form: beckoned
Etymology: From Middle English bekenen, beknen, becnen, beknien, from Old English bēacnian, bēcnian, bīecnan (“to signal; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *bauknōn, *bauknijan (“to signal”), from *baukn (“signal; beacon”). Cognate with Old Saxon bōknian, Old High German bouhnen, Old Norse bákna. More at beacon.
Senses: examples: text: His distant friends, he beckons near.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: It beckons you to go away with it.
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 I, scene iv]:
glosses: To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
examples: text: How the gentle wind / Beckons through the leaves / As autumn colors fall
ref: 2016, “Into the Unknown”, in Brandon Michael Armstrong, Joshua Ross Kaufman, Justin Isaac Rubenstein, Patrick Nolen McHale (lyrics), Over the Garden Wall (Original Television Soundtrack), performed by Jack Jones:
glosses: To seem attractive and inviting.
Derived terms: beckoner
unbeckoned
beckon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛkən/
rhymes: -ɛkən
Forms: form: beckons
Etymology: From Middle English bekenen, beknen, becnen, beknien, from Old English bēacnian, bēcnian, bīecnan (“to signal; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *bauknōn, *bauknijan (“to signal”), from *baukn (“signal; beacon”). Cognate with Old Saxon bōknian, Old High German bouhnen, Old Norse bákna. More at beacon.
Senses: examples: text: At the first beckon.
ref: c. 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties:
text: He turn to me, make a beckon with the key in his hand.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 110:
glosses: A sign made without words; a beck.
glosses: A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
fylfot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪl.fɒt/
ipa: /ˈfɪl.fɑt/
rhymes: -ɪlfɒt
Forms: form: fylfots
Etymology: Uncertain, but likely from Middle English fillen (“to fill”) (from Old English fyllan) + fot (“foot”) (from Old English fōt), in reference to its use as a design to be placed at the bottom of stained-glass windows.
Senses: examples: text: Morley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots...
ref: 1968, The Discovery of Drama, page 378:
text: There was a coffee tray on top of it, and spilt coffee part hid the fylfot design of the tray.
ref: 1982, Anthony Burgess, The End of the World News:
glosses: A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction.
slatternly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slatternly
form: most slatternly
Etymology: From slattern + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents.
ref: 2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health [print version: Vindicated at last! It's healthier to be a slatternly housewife, p. 28]”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2015:
glosses: Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
slatternly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slatternly
form: most slatternly
Etymology: From slattern + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slatternly manner.
shortie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: shorties
form: shorty
Etymology: From short + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: That squirrel is a shortie.
synonyms: shortass
titch
glosses: Something or someone that is shorter than normal.
examples: text: They got a shortie at the start of the third.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A short-handed goal.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of shorty (“child”).
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of shorty (“attractive young female”).
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of shorty (“girlfriend”).
glosses: Shortbread.
shortie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: shorty
Etymology: From short + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: a shortie gown; a shortie jacket
glosses: Shorter than normal, especially of clothing.
aphoristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æfəˈɹɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more aphoristic
form: most aphoristic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀφορῐστικος (aphorĭstikos), equivalent to aphorist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Over and above all this, the method of the book is aphoristic; and, as might be expected from that method, without a plan; […]
ref: 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. Letter II.”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: Of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
Derived terms: aphoristically
aphoristicity
aphoristicness
two-minute warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-minute warnings
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In the NFL, a timeout and warning given to the coaches with two minutes to go before the end of each half.
encounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkaʊntə/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkaʊntə/
ipa: /ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkaʊntɚ/
rhymes: -aʊntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: encounters
Etymology: From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: Their encounter was a matter of chance.
text: That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: As they have planned the encounters, they mostly have control over the time limits.
ref: 1995, Maija Kalin, Coping with problems of understanding: repair sequences in conversations between native and non-native speakers:
glosses: A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
glosses: A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
examples: text: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A match between two opposing sides.
examples: text: Though Mr. Cosby described the sexual encounter in 2004 as consensual, Ms. Constand said she was too intoxicated to physically or verbally resist.
ref: 2021 October 10, Graham Bowley, “For One Bill Cosby Juror, the Work Did Not End With the Trial”, in The New York Times:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
topics: sciences
glosses: The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
examples: text: Telangana Labour and Employment Minister Malla Reddy on Tuesday said that the guilty person in the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Hyderabad "will be nabbed and will be killed in an encounter".
ref: 2021 September 15, “Telangana Minister says, rapist of six-year-old will be nabbed and killed in encounter”, in Catch News, retrieved 25 Feb 2023:
glosses: An extrajudicial killing or execution.
Synonyms: sense: hostile meeting
word: clash
sense: hostile meeting
word: confrontation
sense: hostile meeting
word: brush
sense: hostile meeting
word: skirmish
Derived terms: close encounter
encounter group
marriage encounter
random encounter
groovy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuvi/
rhymes: -uːvi
Forms: form: groovier
form: grooviest
form: groovey
Etymology: From groove + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
examples: text: She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon:
glosses: Set in one's ways.
groovy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuvi/
rhymes: -uːvi
Forms: form: groovier
form: grooviest
form: groovey
Etymology: From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.
Senses: examples: text: The hippies do not often try to define the feelings they experience under the influence of psychedelic drugs. Generally they just say, "Oh, groovy, man," or simply, "Wow."
ref: 1967, Brown, Joe David, ed; Time, inc, The Hippies, New York, Time, →LCCN, →OCLC:
text: Basically Bobby’s just a hard-working, highly creative, friendly, groovy guy who’s got a lot of things he wants to do and is in a hurry to try them all.
ref: 1969, Groovy Guide to the Guys!:
text: When you move me, everything is groovy.
ref: 2012, Pat Monahan (Train), Drive By (song lyrics):
text: Well, I love it! Move really fast, reverse time, save everyone? That sounds groovy! I’m gonna have to try that some day!
ref: 2015 February 12, Tina Alexander, Daniel Baxter, “How X-Men: Days of Future Past Should Have Ended”, in How It Should Have Ended, season 7, episode 3, spoken by Superman (Daniel Baxter), How It Should Have Ended, via YouTube:
glosses: Cool, neat, interesting.
examples: text: Groovy designs by Cyndi Bright and colorful 1960's-inspired papers and accessories, featuring plenty of mod flower, funky stickers, and new Spring colors.
ref: 2003 07, Leisure Arts, It's All in Your Imagination: How to Be Creative with Scrapbooking Papers and Embellishments, Leisure Arts, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The exchange was not unlike a post-bop version of Alex P. Keaton, the Reaganite teenager played by Michael J. Fox on the NBC sitcom Family Ties, which debuted in 1982, at intellectual odds with his groovy hippie parents.
ref: 2020 December 8, Michaelangelo Matos, Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Reminiscent of 1960s counterculture; hippie, psychedelic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Melodious, danceable; particularly of a riff or bassline.
Derived terms: groovily
grooviness
groovitude
supergroovy
Vangroovy
groovy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuvi/
rhymes: -uːvi
Forms: form: groovies
form: groovey
Etymology: From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.
Senses: examples: text: He also stole a $100-dollar bill from his father's wallet and gave it to a couple of the other Goth kids. […] Nevertheless, all this didn't give him the social status he coveted from his gloomy groovies.
ref: 2002, Antonio Mendoza, “The Exterminating Angel”, in Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Phenomenon, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A trendy and fashionable person.
over-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ̯və/
ipa: [ˈəʊ̯.və]
ipa: /ˈoʊ̯vəɹ/
ipa: [ˈoʊ.vɚ]
ipa: /ˈəʉvə/
ipa: [ˈɐʉ̯.vɐ]
ipa: /ˈɐʉ̯və/
ipa: [ˈɐʉ̯.vɐ]
ipa: [ˈo̝.vər]
ipa: [ˈoː.bʱə(ɾ)]
Etymology: From Middle English over-, from Old English ofer-, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér. Cognate with Dutch over-, German über-, Swedish över-, Welsh gor-, Spanish sobre-, Armenian վեր- (ver-), Persian ابر (abar-). Doublet of super-, sur-, and hyper-. More at over.
Senses: examples: overbar, overlook
glosses: Above, or higher.
examples: overlord
glosses: Superior.
examples: overkind, overloud, overstate
glosses: Excessive; excessively.
examples: overcoat, overpaint
glosses: Surrounding or covering.
glosses: Exceptional; extremely or intensely.
Synonyms: sense: excessively
word: hyper-
sense: excessively
word: ultra-
sense: excessively
word: ana-
word: super-
word: supra-
word: hyper-
word: ultra-
word: uber-
word: macro-
word: arch-
word: mega-
word: giga-
word: -zilla
word: grand