cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mimosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈməʊ.sə/
ipa: /mɪˈməʊ.zə/
ipa: /mɪˈmoʊ.sə/
rhymes: -əʊsə
rhymes: -əʊzə
Forms: form: mimosas
form: mimosae
Etymology: From New Latin mimosa, from Latin mimus (“mime, actor”), referring to Mimosa pudica and its habit of shrinking back when touched. The cocktail is named after the bright yellow, fragrant flowers of the mimosa Acacia dealbata.
Senses: examples: text: A Guardia Civil spokesperson said that ayahuasca, San Pedro, toad poison, wild rue and mimosa pudica were prohibited substances in Spain, adding that their consumption was not authorised because, while they were natural substances, they could be highly dangerous to human health.
ref: 2025 August 11, Sam Jones, “Ayahuasca and toad poison seized as police raid spiritual retreats in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.
examples: text: Ya find yrself in the fret / of reclamation via musks all motherland-misty / (coconut milk, marine accord, mimosa tree).
ref: 2018 December 24, Tarfia Faizullah, “Yr Not Exotic, but Once Ya Wanted to Be”, in Poetry, volume 213, number 3, page 270:
glosses: Certain plants of the genus Albizia (silk tree, pink siris).
glosses: Certain plants of the genus Acacia.
glosses: A cocktail consisting of half champagne and half orange juice.
Hyponyms: sense: genus Mimosa
word: sensitive plant
sense: genus Mimosa
word: touch-me-not
Derived terms: taxonomic: Homadaula anisocentra
word: mimosa webworm
taxonomic: Phyllanthus urinaria
word: mimosa weed
Related terms: mimosa salad
mimophant
fantod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantods
form: fantad
Etymology: Probably from fantastic (or fatigue) + possibly Welsh -od (“plural ending”). See also fantigue.
Senses: glosses: A state of worry or nervous anxiety, irritability.
glosses: An irritable outburst.
Derived terms: fantoddish
Related terms: nervous
exeunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksi.ənt/
Forms: form: exeunts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”).
Senses: examples: text: undoubtedly the curtains closed at the exeunt of all the characters but one.
ref: 1909, Victor Emanuel Albright, The Shakesperian stage, page 124:
text: In addition, several exits that have interpretative significance are changed by editors to exeunts and vice-versa.
ref: 2002, Alan C. Dessen, Rescripting Shakespeare: the text, the director, and modern productions, page 223:
coordinate_terms: exit
exeat
glosses: A stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage.
examples: text: To supply the place of scenery, it was hung round with crimson curtains, through which we were to make our entrances and exeunts.
ref: 1854, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage, page 35:
glosses: An act of one or more actors leaving the stage.
exeunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksi.ənt/
Forms: form: exit
form: exeunts
form: exeunting
form: exeunted
form: exeunted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”).
Senses: examples: text: Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Enter two Devils.
 Wagner. How now sir, will you serve me now?
 Robin. Ay, good Wagner, take away the devils then.
 Wagner. Spirits, away! [Exeunt Devils.] Now, sirrah, follow me.
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC:
text: Jane, Ursa, carrying Thomas, and Moss Bud start to exeunt.
ref: 1921, Montrose Jonas Moses, A Treasury of Plays for Children, page 504:
text: On that dixit we exeunted.
ref: 1957, Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, page 249:
text: That let the small problem of getting the van within proximity, running a few yards of cable, spiking the phone line, revving the engine and frying the phones, removing the cable, and exeunting, south
ref: 1997, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Task Force Blue, page 311:
text: The lasses picked up their skirts and exeunted.
ref: 2003, Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, page 142:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).
Related terms: exeunt omnes
noesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nō.ēʹsĭs
ipa: /nəʊˈiːsɪs/
enpr: nō.ēʹsĭs
ipa: /noʊˈisɪs/
Forms: form: noeses
form: noêsis
form: noësis
form: noēsis
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόησις (nóēsis, “concept”, “idea”, “intelligence”, “understanding”), from νοεῖν (noeîn, “to intend”, “to perceive”, “to see”, “to understand”) (from νοῦς (noûs, “mind”, “thought”), from νόος (nóos)) + -σις (-sis), suffix forming nouns of action.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Cognition, the functioning of intellect.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The exercise of reason.
examples: text: Husserl calls the noesis the meaning-giving element of the act, and the noema he calls the meaning given in the act."
ref: 2003, Denis Fisette, Husserl's Logical Investigations Reconsidered:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.
Related terms: word: anoesis
word: autonoesis
word: autonoetic
word: noema
word: noetic
english: and its related terms
translation: and its related terms
word: nous
noema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nō.ēʹmə
enpr: nō.āʹmə
ipa: /nəʊˈiːmə/
other: /nəʊˈeɪmə/
enpr: nō.iʹmə
enpr: nō.āʹmə
ipa: /noʊˈimə/
other: /noʊˈeɪmə/
Forms: form: noemata
form: noêma
form: noëma
form: noēma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “concept”, “idea”, “perception”, “thought”).
Senses: examples: text: "How is it that the noema can be both a sense and the intended objectivity itself? Husserl distinguishes three moments in the noema: the thetic characteristic (noematic correlate of the act-quality), the 'noematic' sense (the assimilation of the act-matter into the newly conceived intentional content), and the determined X (the "innermost moment" of the noema).
ref: 2003, Donn Welton, The New Husserl:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The perceived as perceived
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is perceived in the noesis/noema duality
glosses: An obscure and subtle speech.
Related terms: noesis
coition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: coitions
Etymology: From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.
Senses: examples: text: their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.
ref: 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:
text: Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.
ref: 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
text: All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: coitus
Derived terms: coitional
Hure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Situated to the east of the Inner Mongolian region, the Jirem League was the birthplace of the Qidan people in the 4th century AD, and was also a central region of the Liao Dynasty during the 10th-12th centuries. The people of the area enjoyed not only a high standard of living but a rich culture as well. The tomb mural paintings from the Qianwulibuge village in Hure Banner, Jirem League, are a typical example.
ref: 1987 June 29, “Mural Paintings On Display in Beijing”, in Beijing Review, volume 30, number 26, →ISSN, →OCLC, Culture/Science, page 29, columns 2–3:
text: The first Inner Mongolian modern prose work was “Struggling in a Sea of Suffering” (Gashigun-u dotorakhi telchilegchi khemekhü üliger, 1940) by Rinchinkhorlo (1904-63) of Khüriye (Hure) banner, who also translated an American detective story from Japanese into Mongolian.
ref: 2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “literature”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 337, column 2:
glosses: A banner (a type of administrative division) in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
comptometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comptometers
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company, apparently a blend of compute and meter (“measure”).
Senses: examples: text: Another was able to add up correctly the most complicated lists of figures in less time than a comptometer.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 56:
glosses: A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress.
Derived terms: comptometrist
crock pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crock pots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crockpot.
crockpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crockpots
form: crock pot
Etymology: From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock + pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.
Senses: glosses: A slow cooker.
crockpot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crockpots
form: crockpotting
form: crockpotted
form: crockpotted
form: crock pot
Etymology: From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock + pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.
Senses: glosses: To cook (food) in a slow cooker.
crockpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crockpot
crock pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crock pot
comptometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comptometer
authorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more authorial
form: most authorial
Etymology: From author + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: But no, you have an authorial obligation to determine that this rock is not magical.
ref: 2013, Kazerad, Quill-Weave: Research, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), June 4 2013
synonyms: autorial
auctorial
glosses: Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
Derived terms: authorial intent
authorial intention
authorial intentionality
authoriality
authorially
coauthorial
nonauthorial
keypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keypresses
form: key press
Etymology: From key + press.
Senses: examples: text: But Allegro does allow you to read keypresses. Every event that's sent to an Allegro game comes in via a queue. That's just a list of data that describes which keys have been pressed, where the mouse is, and so on.
ref: 2012, David Griffiths, Dawn Griffiths, Head First C: A Brain-Friendly Guide, page 531:
glosses: The depression of an input key; a keystroke.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.
Derived terms: interkeypress
keypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keypress
keystrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keystroke
incantatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incantatory
form: most incantatory
Senses: examples: text: Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors, though commonly men of inferiour rank, and from whom without illumination they can expect no more then from themselves, do daily and professedly delude them.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9:
text: 1888, Lafcadio Hearn, “A Midsummer Trip to the West Indies,” Second Paper, XIII, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 77, Number 459, August 1888, p. 332,
A trained musician might protest against so strange a manner of ringing the chimes; but he could not possibly deny that it has impressiveness: it is wild, barbaric, incantatory—it is a monstrous musical conjuration.
text: Thenceforward the witch without a name held continuous receptions in the boudoir, and the boudoir gradually grew into an abode of mystery and strangeness, hypnotizing the entire house. People went thither; people came back; and those who had not been pictured to themselves something very incantatory, and little by little they made up their minds to go.
ref: 1912, Arnold Bennett, “The Widow of the Balcony”, in The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories, London: Methuen, page 169:
glosses: Constituting, employing, dealing with, or suitable for use in incantation.
examples: text: The film's most persistent (and pernicious) image is of a train, clanking and rambling down a track. Again and again and again, down the track to Auschwitz. It is incantatory; the trains exude evil, huff and grind down the track, very slowly.
ref: 1986 February 1, Robin Lippincott, “Shoah (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 15:
glosses: Resembling incantation.
snecket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneckets
Etymology: Compare sneck.
Senses: glosses: a door latch
slow cooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow cookers
Senses: glosses: A kitchen appliance consisting of a clay pot and its housing with self-contained electrical heating, characterized by a loose-fitting lid, relatively low temperatures, and long cooking times, and used especially in the preparation of stews.
Synonyms: crockpot
crock pot
Related terms: pressure cooker
rice cooker
slow-cook
slow cookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slow cooker
mudguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdˌɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: mudguards
Etymology: From mud + guard.
Senses: synonyms: fender
wing
glosses: A cover over the wheels of a vehicle, or a flap behind that wheel, to prevent water and mud being projected.
Derived terms: mudguarded
Related terms: mudflap
key press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key presses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keypress.
key presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key press
presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛsɪz/
rhymes: -ɛsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of press
presses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛsɪz/
rhymes: -ɛsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of press
adaptive zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptive zones
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: an environment that allows the development of adaptive radiation
adaptive radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The diversification of species into separate forms that each adapt to occupy a specific environmental niche.
Related terms: adaptive zone
moving ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving ramps
Senses: glosses: An inclined moving walkway.
Gramophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally the name of a brand of phonograph; coined from Ancient Greek roots by Emile Berliner after the invention of the first phonograph. See gramophone.
Senses: glosses: A Grammy.
spoonfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonful
me and thee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Me and you.
Related terms: claw me, claw thee
for me and not for thee
spoonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspuːnfəl/
ipa: /ˈspuːnfʊl/
ipa: /ˈspʌnfʊl/
Forms: form: spoonfuls
form: spoonsful
Etymology: From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
Hyponyms: coffeespoonful
dessertspoonful
eggspoonful
saltspoonful
serving spoonful
soupspoonful
tablespoonful
teaspoonful
Coordinate terms: forkful
knifeful
ladleful
sporkful
Derived terms: a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
code signing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the attachment of a digital certificate (from a certification authority) to an executable program to ensure its legitimacy
back-to-back connection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-to-back connections
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The direct connection of the output of one telecommunications device to the input of another.
Clydesdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪdzdeɪl/
Etymology: From Clyde + -s- + dale. The horses were so named because they were bred in the valley of the Clyde in Scotland.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: The valley of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS91).
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former district of Strathclyde, Scotland, renamed from Lanark in 1980, and abolished in 1996 along with the region.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A community in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A town in Harry Gwala District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Clydesdale terrier
Clydesdale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪdzdeɪl/
Forms: form: Clydesdales
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Clyde + -s- + dale. The horses were so named because they were bred in the valley of the Clyde in Scotland.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A particularly large and powerful breed of rare draft horse.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A heavier than usual athlete (Over 200 lbs for men, over 145 lbs for women)
head_nr: 2
synonyms: word: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
word: butterball
word: chubster
word: chunker
word: chunky monkey
word: elephant
word: fat
word: fatfuck
word: fatso
word: fattie
word: fatty
word: fatty bom bom
word: fatty boombalatty
word: fat-ass
word: fatass
word: fat fuck
word: fatshit
word: fussock
word: gorbelly
word: hambeast
word: hamplanet
word: heffalump
word: landwhale
word: lardass
word: lardbucket
word: lardo
word: oinker
word: obeast
word: pig
word: podge
word: porker
word: pudge
word: roly-poly
word: salad dodger
word: swagbelly
word: thunder thighs
word: tubbo
word: tub of guts
word: tub of lard
word: whale
glosses: A very morbidly obese person.
searing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:
glosses: very hot; blistering or boiling
glosses: having a sensation of intense sudden heat
raw_tags: of a pain
examples: text: O! yearning heart! I did inherit
Thy withering portion with the fame,
The searing glory which hath shone
Amid the jewels of my throne,
Halo of Hell!
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: unbearably intense or emotionally powerful
glosses: damning; critical; scathing
Derived terms: searing hot
searingly
searing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: searings
Senses: examples: text: he was raw with the searings of the fire
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
text: It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
ref: 1970 August, Ebony, volume 25, number 10, page 156:
glosses: action of the verb to sear
glosses: cooking food quickly at high temperature
Derived terms: searing-iron
searing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sear
semiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛmiːˈɒtɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: semeiotic
form: semeiotical
form: semiotical
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikós, “observant of signs”), ultimately derived from σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”). Compare semiotics.
Senses: examples: text: Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.
ref: 2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media:
text: Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.
ref: 2025 August 20, Richard Garnett, “The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose””, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: symptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)
Derived terms: anthroposemiotic
biosemiotic
endosemiotic
exosemiotic
intersemiotic
metasemiotic
multisemiotic
nonsemiotic
phytosemiotic
psychosemiotic
semiotically
semiotician
semioticist
transsemiotic
zoosemiotic
Semitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Semitists
Etymology: From Semite + -ist.
Senses: glosses: someone who studies the history, languages and cultures of the Semitic peoples
Synonyms: Semiticist
Related terms: Semitics
silicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silicious
form: most silicious
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of siliceous.
siliceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪ.ʃɪs/
Forms: form: more siliceous
form: most siliceous
form: silicious
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: silicaceous
glosses: Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling silica or silicates.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Comprised of biogenic silicate minerals. Contrasted with the inorganic term siliciclastic.
Derived terms: calcareosiliceous
nonsiliceous
siliceousness
thin-layer chromatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thin layer chromatography
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A form of chromatography in which the solid phase is silica gel or a similar inert material supported on a glass plate.
Synonyms: word: TLC
Houdini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Harry Houdini from the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
Senses: glosses: The magician and escape artist Harry Houdini.
Houdini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Houdinis
Etymology: Invented by Harry Houdini from the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
Senses: glosses: An escape artist.
Houdini
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Houdinis
form: Houdiniing
form: Houdini-ing
form: Houdinied
form: Houdinied
form: Houdini-ed
form: Houdini-ed
Etymology: Invented by Harry Houdini from the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey! Let’s go see what the others are up too,” he suggested and Houdinied his way out from between the counter and Lorilei before fleeing to the hallway.
ref: 2008, Anthony A. von Dessauer, Victoria, Lulu.com, page 97:
text: While she Houdinied out of the sheets she seesawed upright to a sitting position, then, free, she sprang to her feet, her spiffy breasts not the least bit fazed by her thunky dismount.
ref: 2009, Tony Esposito, Don’t Ever Leave This Country, AuthorHouse, page 197:
text: Friends: to those I Houdini-ed, those I ran away from, those I lied to, took advantage of, or abused in any sort of way, I am sorry.
ref: 2012, Jennie Ketcham, I Am Jennie, Gallery Books, page 340:
glosses: To escape a difficult situation quickly.
ethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛθˈnɑɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ɛθˈnɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: ethnographies
Etymology: From ethno- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.
ref: 1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: descriptive anthropology
holonyms: anthropology
coordinate_terms: ethnology
glosses: The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.
examples: text: As intellectuals read the written text, compile ethnographies, tour the non-Western terrain, and make art out of the charred remnants of these quests, we always run the risk of fortifying the old culture with neomythologies that continue to invade the private space of others.
ref: 1997, Robin M. Chandler, “The New Movement of the Center: A Theoretical Model for Future Analysis in Art Worlds”, in Pheobe Farris-Dufrene, editor, Voices of Color: Art and Society in the Americas, Humanities Press, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: An ethnographic work.
Derived terms: autoethnography
cyberethnography
ethnographize
metaethnography
netnography
paleoethnography
Related terms: ethnic
ethnical
ethnicity
ethnographer
ethnographic
ethnographical
ethnology
kilt pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilt pins
Senses: glosses: A pin, somewhat similar in shape, though larger than, a safety pin or bobby pin, which is inserted through the outer, front apron, or through both aprons of a kilt or a kilt-skirt.
thin layer chromatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Alternative spelling of thin-layer chromatography.
tympan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪmpən/
Forms: form: tympans
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tympanum.
Senses: examples: text: As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
ref: 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The stretched membrane of a drum.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
topics: architecture
glosses: A tympanum.
examples: text: But soon I grew used to these sounds, and then I understood as well as ever, that is to say fully one half of what won its way past my tympan.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The tympanum of the ear.
tympana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: eardrums
myringas
myringes
tympanic membranes
glosses: plural of tympanum
glosses: plural of tympanon
tympani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympano
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of timpani.
Related terms: membrana tympani
scala tympani
tympanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanists
Senses: examples: text: She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.
ref: 1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom, page 207:
glosses: Alternative spelling of timpanist.
timpanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timpanists
Etymology: From timpani + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the timpani.
catalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalogue
catalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catalogue
tympanoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanoplasties
Etymology: From tympano- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Reconstructive surgery to the middle ear or eardrum
tympany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmpəni/
homophone: timpani
homophone: tympani
Forms: form: tympanies
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).
Senses: glosses: The sound made by beating a drum.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
examples: text: Thine's a tympany of sense.
ref: 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe:
text: Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence
ref: 1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
tympanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɪmpəˈnaɪtiːz/
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A distended abdomen as a result of an accumulation of gas.
Synonyms: tympanism
tympany
meteorism
Derived terms: tympanitic
Related terms: tympanitis
typal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪp(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtaɪp(ə)l/
Etymology: From type + -al.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or being a type; typical
Synonyms: typic
Derived terms: archetypal
schizotypal
typecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪp.kɑːst/
ipa: /ˈtaɪp.kæst/
Forms: form: typecasts
form: typecasting
form: typecast
form: typecast
form: typecasted
form: typecasted
Etymology: From type + cast.
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
examples: text: The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.
ref: 2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World:
glosses: To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
examples: text: Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
examples: text: Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]
ref: 1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To found type in a mold.
typecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪp.kɑːst/
ipa: /ˈtaɪp.kæst/
Forms: form: typecasts
Etymology: From type + cast.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The changing of the data type of a variable or object.
typescript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɪpskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: typescripts
Etymology: From type + script.
Senses: examples: text: The whole production, which consists of 16 typescript pages contained in a decorative stiff cover, forms a pleasant reminder of the conditions in which the railway enthusiast was able to pursue his hobby before the recent war.
ref: 1948 July and August, “Cambridge Railway Club's Scottish Tour Journal”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
glosses: typewritten material, especially such a copy of a manuscript
typescript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɪpskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: typescripts
form: typescripting
form: typescripted
form: typescripted
Etymology: From type + script.
Senses: glosses: To transcribe into typewritten form.
typestyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typestyles
Etymology: From type + style.
Senses: examples: text: Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety.
ref: 1987, InCider, volume 5, page 134:
glosses: A specific typeface.
typewrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: typewrites
form: typewriting
form: typewrote
form: typewritten
Etymology: Back-formation from typewriter.
Senses: examples: 1925, William Frederick Book, Learning to Typewrite: With a Discussion of the Psychology and Pedagogy of Skill, The Gregg pub. co.,
These facts are set forth for learning to typewrite in Part II of this book.
1935, New Jersey Secondary School Teachers' Association, Lord Dufferin School. Old Boys Association, Yearbook, page 215,
IF THE businessman discovers that his new office worker cannot spell, typewrite, compute percentage or punctuate properly, he is immediately confronted with a series of in-training problems.
1944, Robert Luther Duffus, The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorsein Veblen and Some Others, The Macmillan company, page 71,
I began to typewrite copy letters for him, and I have never been long free from the typewriter since.
1994, Kas Mazurek and Margret A. Winzer, Comparative Studies in Special Education, Gallaudet University Press, page 193,
Third, a major barrier for blind and physically handicapped children is removed by permitting them to typewrite their answers during public examinations.
glosses: To type using a typewriter.
typhlitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From typhl- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the blind gut (caecum).
blind gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind guts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The caecum of the intestines.
typhlology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The scientific study of blindness.
Derived terms: typhlologist
typhlosole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typhlosoles
Etymology: From typhl- (“blind, caecum”) + Ancient Greek σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fold in the surface of the intestines of some invertebrates etc that increases its digestive surface area.
typhoidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typhoidins
Etymology: From typhoid + -in.
Senses: glosses: A substance produced by culturing typhoid bacilli that is used to indicate the presence of typhoid fever.
bacilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈsɪl.aɪ/
Senses: examples: text: One lie in the presence of a policeman seemed to multiply like bacilli.
ref: 1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, New York: Pocket Books, page 94:
glosses: plural of bacillus
tyramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɪ.ɹəm.iːn/
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɹəˌmiːn/
Forms: form: tyramines
Etymology: Blend of tyrosine + amine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound which occurs naturally in cheese and other foods and can cause dangerously high blood pressure in people taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
phenolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnɒlɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /fɪˈnɑlɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /fəˈnoʊlɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /fɪˈnɒlɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /fəˈnoʊlɪk/
Etymology: From phenol + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: “Eggplant is highly nutritious, but it can be bitter due to its phenolic compounds.”
ref: 2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 338:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from a phenol.
Derived terms: biophenolic
biphenolic
monophenolic
mycophenolic
nonphenolic
phenolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnɒlɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /fɪˈnɑlɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /fəˈnoʊlɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /fɪˈnɒlɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /fəˈnoʊlɪk/
Forms: form: phenolics
Etymology: From phenol + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenol compound.
glosses: Any thermosetting resin manufactured from phenols and aldehydes.
glosses: Any of a large group of pigments and flavouring agents, especially those found in grapes and wine.
Derived terms: phenolic resin
phenolics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenolic
tyrannosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrannosaurs
Etymology: From translingual Tyrannosaurus.
Senses: examples: text: So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.
ref: 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:
text: Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports.
ref: 2024 November 1, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American:
glosses: Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.
Coordinate terms: tyrannosaurus
atonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɒnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more atonic
form: most atonic
Etymology: From a- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: unstressed
raw_tags: of a sound or syllable
examples: text: Some syllables are distinguished by an absence of tone; they are said to be atonic or to have a neutral tone.
ref: 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (nonfiction), University of Hawaii Press, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: not having tone (pitch)
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Lacking muscle tone.
examples: an atonic disease
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy.
Derived terms: atonia
atonically
atonicity
atony
Related terms: atonal
atonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɒnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: atonics
Etymology: From a- + tonic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: subtonic
glosses: A sound with lack of tone or vocality.
diamond paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond pastes
Senses: glosses: A paste used to polish the steels, containing microscopic diamond particles.
-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛsk/
Forms: form: -esq'
Etymology: From French -esque (“-ish, -ic, -esque”), from Italian -esco, from Latin -iscus, of Germanic origin, from Lombardic -isc (“-ish”), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos.
Cognate with Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isċ, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (-isks). Doublet of -ish and -ski.
Senses: examples: text: Kafkaesque
text: When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.
examples: text: Needless to say, Mr. T abstained from the "Wolf of Wall Street"-esque extracurriculars on grounds that he didn't agree with Cubik Partners' definition of "fun," per his testimony in court.
ref: 2022 November 25, B. Cost, “Man wins legal right to be 'boring' at work, gets $3K from company”, in New York Post, NYP Holdings, retrieved 27 Nov 2022:
glosses: Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.
Synonyms: sense: resembling
word: para-
sense: resembling
word: -oid
sense: resembling
word: -form
sense: resembling
word: -iform
sense: resembling
word: -ish
sense: resembling
word: -ly
sense: resembling
word: -some
sense: resembling
word: -y
sense: resembling; restricted to casual registers
word: -ass
sense: resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only
word: -like
gaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪpɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gape
gaping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: more gaping
form: most gaping
Etymology: From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a gaping hole in the fence.
text: Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Wide open.
examples: text: The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 134:
glosses: Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
Derived terms: gapingly
gaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: gapings
Etymology: From Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
ref: 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy:
glosses: The act of one who gapes.
glosses: Something gaping; something agape.
glosses: A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.
oil shale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil shales
Senses: examples: text: Up in the mountains along both sides of Parachute Creek the Exxon Corporation and other companies have begun to pour billions of dollars into two huge projects to turn the nation's immense reserves of oil shale into shale oil.
ref: 1981 November 6, Robert D. Hershey Jr, “Shale Oil Is Coming Of Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Can you imagine squeezing oil from rock? Oil shale is different from the shale gas that is extracted through fracking. It is geologically un-evolved oil: the remnants of organic matter buried underground for millions of years but never sunk deep enough, nor long enough, to be transformed into petroleum.
ref: 2014 April 16, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A sedimentary rock containing kerogen from which petroleum-like shale oil can be produced by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution.
Synonyms: kerogen shale
Related terms: shale oil
shale oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shale oils
Senses: examples: text: Up in the mountains along both sides of Parachute Creek the Exxon Corporation and other companies have begun to pour billions of dollars into two huge projects to turn the nation's immense reserves of oil shale into shale oil.
ref: 1981 November 6, Robert D. Hershey Jr, “Shale Oil Is Coming Of Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A synthetic crude oil obtained by the pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution of oil shale.
synonyms: tight oil
glosses: A crude oil obtained from low permeability petroleum-bearing formations (shales).
Related terms: shale gas
have bats in one's belfry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has bats in one's belfry
form: having bats in one's belfry
form: had bats in one's belfry
form: had bats in one's belfry
form: have bats in the belfry
Etymology: 1899, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically, with “belfry” indicating “head, mind”.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone declaring himself Emperor of San Francisco probably had bats in his belfry.
text: You would certainly take the prize for bats in the belfry!--flying off on a wild-goose chase across a country where even the geese need a compass to keep to the course.
ref: 1900, Mary Etta Stickney, Brown of Lost River, page 254:
text: "That's sane," he replied mechanically. "I figured all along there were no bats in your belfry."
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xv. 136:
glosses: To be crazy or eccentric.
Derived terms: batshit
batty
Super G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Super Giant Slalom skiing
downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: further downhill
form: farther downhill
form: furthest downhill
form: farthest downhill
Etymology: From down- + hill.
Senses: examples: text: Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there.
text: I worked my way downhill, slip sliding in the mud along a steep embankment that followed a stream until it emptied into a creek.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 388:
synonyms: downslope
glosses: Down a slope.
examples: text: After Don made those tasteless remarks, our relationship with him went downhill.
glosses: So as to deteriorate or get worse.
Derived terms: downcountry
downhiller
go downhill
shit rolls downhill
downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: further downhill
form: farther downhill
form: furthest downhill
form: farthest downhill
Etymology: From down- + hill.
Senses: examples: text: Moraines are found at the downhill end of a glacier.
glosses: Located towards or at the bottom of a slope or hill.
examples: text: This year's race is on a downhill course.
text: It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:
glosses: Going down a slope or a hill.
examples: text: That's the hard part of the job done. From now on it's downhill all the way.
glosses: Easy.
Derived terms: downhill creep
downhill ice cross
downhill-ski
downhill skier
downhill skiing
have the world by the tail on a downhill pull