cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elderly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛldɚli/
ipa: /ˈɛldəli/
Forms: form: elderlies
Etymology: From elder + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lives next door to an elderly.
text: He lives next door to some elderlies.
synonyms: word: elder#Noun
word: senior#Noun
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: An elderly person.
examples: text: the elderly
text: health insurance and retirement income for the elderly
synonyms: aged
;
see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms
glosses: Older people as a whole.
Derived terms: elderly care
pantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pănʹ-tri
ipa: /ˈpæntɹi/
ipa: /ˈpantɹi/
ipa: [ˈpant(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
ipa: /ˈpæntɹi/
note: without æ-tensing
ipa: [ˈpænt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
ipa: [ˈpeənt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
rhymes: -æntɹi
Forms: form: pantries
Etymology: From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).
Senses: examples: text: Next to the saloon is the pantry, which includes a wine cabinet, J. E. Hall bottle-cooling unit, a Stills Café set and ample cupboard space.
ref: 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
coordinate_terms: larder
root cellar
glosses: A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
glosses: A break room.
Synonyms: sense: room
word: walk-in pantry
sense: room
word: walk-in
sense: room
word: larder
sense: room
english: Irish & Scots
translation: Irish & Scots
word: press
sense: closet
word: cupboard
sense: closet
word: kitchen closet
sense: closet
word: larder
sense: closet
english: Irish & Scots
translation: Irish & Scots
word: press
sense: cabinet
word: cupboard
sense: cabinet
word: kitchen cabinet
Derived terms: butler's pantry
food pantry
pantry check
pantryful
pantryless
pantrylike
pantrymaid
pantryman
pantry moth
pantrywoman
serving pantry
Related terms: sense: servant overseeing a pantry
word: pantler
sense: servant overseeing a pantry
word: panter
boardinghouse reach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardinghouse reaches
Etymology: So called because the lodgers at a boardinghouse, dining at the same time, might have to reach past each other for dishes and condiments.
Senses: examples: text: He developed his boardinghouse reach in the oil fields.
text: There is nothing contrived about this restaurant — it is strictly the basics — good food, good service, and good prices. All you need is a good boardinghouse reach and if you don't have one, then ask for the food to be passed.
ref: 2003, Judy Barnes, Jolane Edwards, Carolyn Lee Goodloe, Coasting: An Expanded Guide to the Northern Gulf Coast, page 38:
glosses: The ability to reach a long distance across a table to get desired food.
examples: text: Avoid the boardinghouse reach. Reach for something only within the invisible boundary that separates your personal space from the other diners'.
ref: 2005, Peggy Post, Collins Gem: Emily Post's favorite party & dining tips, page 102:
glosses: The act of reaching across a table to get desired food, often considered poor etiquette because it invades others' personal space.
half-baked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/
ipa: /ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/
Forms: form: more half-baked
form: most half-baked
form: half baked
form: halfbaked
Etymology: From half- + baked.
Senses: examples: text: The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.
text: "You're cheap. Cheap education, cheap ideas, a half-baked bloody nobody."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 592:
text: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Though Jevons's theory was more than half-baked, it needed more time in the oven, since he forgot to calculate that poor harvests in Asia would hit England only after a time lag.
ref: 1996, Todd G. Buchholz, From Here to Economy, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?
ref: 2013 April 16, Paula Cocozza, “Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: half-assed
half-cocked
;
dough-baked
qualifier: frequently derisive
glosses: Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense.
examples: text: If you need to talk to John tonight, try to catch him early in the evening, while he's still only half-baked.
coordinate_terms: buzzed#Adjective
feeling no pain
;
three sheets to the wind
;
baked
glosses: Under the influence (of alcohol) but not totally baked.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: underbaked, dough-baked (dated)
text: The casserole was half-baked, but I choked it down anyway to be polite.
text: When the casserole is half-baked, get started on preparing the side dishes.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven, either as an accidental outcome or as a work in process.
Derived terms: half-bakedness
Related terms: half-measure
need more time in the oven
bells and whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His new car has all the bells and whistles, but it doesn't move through traffic jams any faster.
text: The bells and whistles do not impress me.
text: I need a new phone, but I don’t want all those fancy bells and whistles on it!
text: Charles’s coronation was a full-color spectacle, showing off the peacocked glory of British tradition and the bells and whistles of 21st-century TV. Britain brought out its finest garments, its finest relics, its finest rain.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: gadgetry
trivialities
frills and furbelows
antonyms: plain
no-frills
normal
ordinary
simple
unadorned
glosses: Extra features added for show rather than function; fancy additions or features.
Related terms: all singing, all dancing
form over function
nice-to-have
everything
feather in one's cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathers in one's cap
Etymology: The placing of a feather in a hat has been a symbol of achievement that has arisen in several cultures, apparently independently. The English writer and traveller Richard Hansard recorded it in his Description of Hungary, 1599:
"It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe."
The Native American tradition of adding a feather to the head-dress of any warrior who performed a brave act is well known.
Senses: examples: text: He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.
text: And contrary to his own Expectation, as well as that of every Body else, when he came to Court, the seven and twentieth of July, the Staff was taken from him, rather with mortifying, than agreeable Circumstances ; When a considerable Pension, or at least a Feather in his Cap, was the least that was expected for him.
ref: 1736, Thomas Lediard, The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire:
text: Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Major —— de Coverley”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 137:
text: However, one of the biggest feathers in Perez's cap is thanks to the 2003 crossover JLA/Avengers, a project nearly two decades in the making that was derailed by bureaucracy and bullheaded decision-making years prior.
ref: 2015, Dan Casey, 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die:
text: On a value-for-money basis, Scotland currently has more feathers in its cap.
ref: 2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 27:
synonyms: plume
notch in one's belt
glosses: An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.
examples: text: He wore a feather in his cap, and wagg'd it too often.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Belgium:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feather, cap.
bottom of the ninth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Bottom, from the home team's location below visitors on the scoreboard; ninth from the number of innings in a baseball game.
Senses: examples: text: Hitting a home run with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth let the home team finish ahead of the visitors.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The second part of the ninth and final inning; the end of the game.
glosses: By extension, any last chance or final opportunity.
fazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪzd/
homophone: phased
Forms: form: more fazed
form: most fazed
Etymology: From faze + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: How can you wake up with someone you don't love
 And not feel slightly fazed by it?
ref: 2006, “Leave Before the Lights Come On”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off.
raw_tags: in the negative
fazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪzd/
homophone: phased
Etymology: From faze + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of faze
pena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯄꯦꯅꯥ (penā).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei classical musical instrument.
cliffhanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɪfˈhæŋ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cliffhangers
form: cliff hanger
form: cliff-hanger
Etymology: From cliff + hanger, evoking the image of someone left hanging from a cliff, thereby having an uncertain fate.
The term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with the serialised version of Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes", published in Tinsley's Magazine in the 1870s, in which the character Henry Knight is left hanging off of a cliff. It was inspired by a real life story from his wife Emma's childhood, when she had to rescue one of her school friends from a similar position.
Senses: examples: text: Back in the early 80s, the hit series Dallas kept the nation guessing with its season-ending cliffhanger "Who Shot J.R.?"
ref: 2007 July 2, Hilary Hylton, “Filming Texas in a Good Light”, in Time, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2009:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.
examples: text: This presidential election is such a cliffhanger. Will it be the rising star Dmitry "Obamovich" Medvedev? Or the veteran Gennady "McCainovich" Zyuganov?
ref: February 28 2008, Timothy Garton Ash, “Russia has run rings round the west”, in Guardian, retrieved 02 Feb 2009:
glosses: An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute.
Derived terms: cliffhang
Related terms: cliffhanging
glycopyrrolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug of the group of muscarinic anticholinergic drugs with stronger effect for anti-salivary effect and weak effect for increasing heart-rate.
piety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɪ.ti/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: pieties
form: pietie
Etymology: From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity. By surface analysis, pious + -ety.
Senses: examples: text: Colleen's piety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Reverence and devotion to God.
examples: text: patriotism as piety, when done right
glosses: Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.
examples: text: Those who dwell outside of Western Establishment bastions are not idiots just because they do not mouth the pieties of GASP. Some of them can write very well. There are other traditions, you know. They could write for Wikipedia, if you let them. But such true openness and genuine tolerance is unacceptable, precisely because those other traditions fail to pay exclusive homage to GASP sources, through which—Wikipedians imagine—all the benefits of global civilization flow.
ref: 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “2. Enable competing articles.”, in larrysanger.org:
glosses: A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.
examples: text: He was quick with the pieties about hard work, honest communication, active listening, and respecting others' viewpoints, but walking the walk is different from talking the talk.
glosses: A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.
A platitude that may be empty or at least facile and undercommitted.
Derived terms: baroque piety
filial piety
in piety
pietism
pietist
unpiety
Related terms: pious
pietà
carnal knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to have carnal knowledge of someone
text: to knock a woman, to have carnal knowledge of her
ref: 1785, [Francis Grose], “Knock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S[amuel] Hooper, […], →OCLC:
text: The legal definition of rape, is the carnal knowledge of a woman by force, and against her will. The carnal knowledge of a child, under ten years of age, with or without her consent, is considered rape.
ref: 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, 2nd edition, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, page 309:
topics: law
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Related terms: carnal commerce
know someone in the biblical sense
thetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθeɪ.tən/
rhymes: -eɪtən
Forms: form: thetans
Etymology: Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, from theta + -n, from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta, “theta”), used in Scientology to represent the source of life.
Senses: examples: text: Actually a thetan is in a very, very small amount of mass. From some experiments conducted about fifteen or twenty years ago – a thetan weighed about 1.5 ounces!
ref: 1972, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Scientology for 1972 (R. P. 55/1973), Pretoria: Government Printer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:
text: According to Scientology doctrine, each human being is actually a thetan or spirit, an immortal, godlike expression of the life force (theta). […] In his writings, Hubbard traces the existence of this life force back trillions of years. In the beginning theta was separate from the physical universe. Theta had no energy or mass, time or location; it was simply energy. Thetans therefore existed before and are the original source of the material universe.
ref: 2009, David G. Bromley, “Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion”, in James R. Lewis, editor, Scientology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: One of the things Hubbard claimed he had "discovered" was that the essence of the human being was a spiritual being. This spiritual being, which is in itself good and fully conscious, Hubbard called a "thetan." From this deeper understanding of the human essence, where he saw survival as the fundamental urge for all thetans, he also discovered that the four dynamics of Dianetics had to be expanded to eight: […]
ref: 2014, Kjersti Hellesøy, “Scientology: The Making of a Religion”, in James R. Lewis, Jesper Aa[gaard] Petersen, editors, Controversial New Religions, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 260:
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A soul, spirit or being.
amphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈfɛt.ə.miːn/
ipa: /æmˈfɛt.əm.ɪn/
Forms: form: amphetamines
form: amfetamine
Etymology: Shortened form of a(lpha-)m(ethyl)ph(en)eth(yl)amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: proper
glosses: The racemic freebase of 1-phenylpropan-2-amine; an equal parts mixture of levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine in their pure amine forms.
glosses: Any mixture of the two amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine.
glosses: Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity.
Derived terms: 4-fluoroamphetamine
amphetaminelike
amphetaminic
amphetaminism
antiamphetamine
d-amphetamine
dexamfetamine
dexamphetamine
dexamyl
ethylamphetamine
iodoamphetamine
methamphetamine
methoxyamphetamine
methylamphetamine
methylenedioxyamphetamine
nonamphetamine
oxyamphetamine
propylamphetamine
substituted amphetamine
trimethoxyamphetamine
two-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two up
form: 2-up
Etymology: From two + up.
Senses: examples: text: From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.
ref: 1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, page 242:
text: The origins of two-up remain obscure. It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century. In Australia pitch and toss was first recorded in the 1850s on the Victorian goldfields, and in New Zealand as a street game on the West Coast in the early 1870s. Two-up evolved as a variant, becoming popular in Australia in the early 1890s, and in New Zealand a year or two later, as labouring men from both countries traversed the Tasman Sea in search of work.
ref: 1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, page 66:
text: Perversely, Scorps chooses not to punt on Anzac Day and won′t go near two-up, probably because his losses will be too public.
ref: 2008, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys, page 280:
topics: games
glosses: A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two pennies thrown in the air.
Synonyms: swy
swy-up
Related terms: english: similar coin-tossing game
translation: similar coin-tossing game
word: cross and pile
word: three-up
two-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: two up
form: 2-up
Etymology: From two + up.
Senses: hypernyms: N-up
glosses: Having two document pages per printed page.
raw_tags: of a printed document
two-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: two up
form: 2-up
Etymology: From two + up.
Senses: examples: text: Some of us rode two-up as we travelled in convoy to the beach.
topics: manner
glosses: With two people aboard.
raw_tags: of travel on a motorcycle
Related terms: dink
ride pillion
barbiturate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈbɪt͡ʃəɹɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈbɪt͡ʃəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹbɪˈt(j)ʊəɹɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹbɪˈt(j)ʊəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹˈbɪt͡ʃu.ɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹˈbɪt(j)u.ɪt/
Forms: form: barbiturates
form: barbituate
Etymology: See barbituric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of barbituric acid.
examples: text: Following the “Summer of Love” in 1967, amphetamines and barbiturates began to replace psychedelics as the dominant drugs used in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and increasing numbers of individuals were treated at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic for complications following barbiturate use.
ref: 1977, Donald R. Wesson, David Elvin Smith, Barbiturates, their use, misuse, and abuse, New York: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: barb
word: barbie
word: goofball
coordinate_terms: benzodiazepine
glosses: Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous system and are used as sedatives or hypnotics.
Derived terms: barbituratism
cultural barbiturate
deoxybarbiturate
nonbarbiturate
oxybarbiturate
thiobarbiturate
Related terms: amphetamine
dynamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
Forms: form: dynamites
Etymology: Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.
Senses: glosses: A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
glosses: A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
examples: text: Even though sometimes I take differing views from some articles and letters in GCN, I think it's a dynamite piece of work. Good luck and thanks again.
ref: 1977 April 30, Steve Sasville, “To Clothe Or Not...”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: And your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night) / Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)
ref: 2005, Alex Turner, “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
text: That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
He warned us: "That issue about what's been happening at that factory, is political dynamite. Keep the lid on it."
ref: 2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108:
glosses: Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.
glosses: A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.
Synonyms: nitro
Derived terms: boom goes the dynamite
dynamite charge
dynamite roll
dynamite tree
dynamitic
dynamitish
dynamitism
dynamitist
predynamite
dynamite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
Forms: form: dynamites
form: dynamiting
form: dynamited
form: dynamited
Etymology: Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually the construction gangs cut and dynamited their way through some of the most difficult country in the world.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 128:
text: [...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
glosses: To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
examples: text: Even the successful battle in the last century to overturn the court’s infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine wasn’t a frontal assault that dynamited precedent.
ref: 2021 July 29, Harry Litman, “Column: Mississippi’s abortion brief dynamites standing law and ‘super duper’ precedents”, in The Los Angeles Times:
glosses: To dismantle or destroy.
examples: text: dynamite the brakes
text: Juan dynamited the brakes and the car skidded to a halt.
ref: 2009, Claude M. Pearson, Portia Rising, page 50:
text: The 1977 Pontiacs had a tendency of dying if you were at high speed and dynamited the brakes.
ref: 2014, Mike Davis, Hunting Men: The Career of an Oregon State Police Detective, page 6:
text: At the critical moment I'd learned from countless action flicks I dynamited the brakes and felt the impact of the sedan against my rear bumper.
ref: 2018, Laird Barron, Blood Standard:
glosses: To apply maximum pressure to very quickly.
raw_tags: of brakes
examples: text: the brakes will dynamite
glosses: To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.
raw_tags: of brakes
Derived terms: dynamiter
undynamited
Related terms: cordite
mining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: minings
Senses: examples: text: gold mining
glosses: The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
examples: text: His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
text: […] the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.
ref: 1740, John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Life of the Reverend Jonathan Swift [Introduction]:
glosses: Any activity that extracts or undermines.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
examples: text: Kazakhstan became last year the world’s second-largest centre for bitcoin mining after the United States, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, after China clamped down on crypto mining activity.
ref: 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
Derived terms: antimining
argument mining
audio mining
biomining
coalmining
cryptomining
data mining
defensive mining
demining
drift mining
duomining
fetish mining
hydraulic mining
hydromining
knowledge mining
mining bee
mining camp
mining community
mining engineer
mining engineering
mining pool
mining town
nonmining
offensive mining
open-pit mining
pitch mining
postmining
process mining
quartz mining
quote mining
reality mining
robo-mining
strip-mining
strip mining
surface mining
urban mining
mining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mine
sea wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea wasps
Senses: glosses: Any of several marine stinging box jellyfish found in north east Australia and South East Asia, some deadly, especially Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi, and Malo kingi.
Synonyms: box jellyfish
Related terms: Irukandji
Irukandji syndrome
stinger
nitroglycerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroglycerines
Etymology: From nitro- + glycerine.
Senses: examples: Holonym: dynamite
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
related: word: nitroglycerin
synonyms: GTN
NG
glycerine trinitrate
glycerol trinitrate
glyceryl trinitrate
trinitroglycerin
TNG
nitroleum
hypernyms: explosive#Noun
coordinate_terms: TNT
trinitrotoluene
glosses: The compound glyceryl-tri-nitrate or 1,2,3 tri-nitrooxy propane; the ester of glycerol with nitric acid; prepared by the careful addition of a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids to glycerol with constant stirring and cooling; it is a thick, pale yellow liquid, that is highly explosive on concussion or on exposure to sudden heat; it is used in medicine as a vasodilator, and as an explosive in the form of dynamite which is safe to handle.
Related terms: cordite
glycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪs.ə.rɒl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪs.ə.rɔl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪs.ə.rɑl/
Forms: form: glycerols
form: glycerole
Etymology: From glycerine + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,3-trihydroxy-propane or propan-1,2,3-triol; a trihydric alcohol
glosses: A syrupy sweet liquid obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of soap from animal or vegetable oils and fats; it is used as an antifreeze, a plasticizer, and a food sweetener and in the manufacture of dynamite, cosmetics etc.
Synonyms: E422 when used as a sweetener
glycerin
glycerine
Derived terms: alkylglycerol
glycerolphosphate
glycerol rhizotomy
glycerol trinitrate
glyceroluria
glycerolysis
glyceryl
lactoglycerol
monoalkylglycerol
monothioglycerol
nonglycerol
phosphatidylglycerol
phosphoglycerol
polyglycerol
thioglycerol
triglycerol
Related terms: glyceride
glycerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glycerine.
Derived terms: pyroglycerin
stycerin
valerin
glycerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪsəɹɪn/
Forms: form: glycerines
form: glycerin
Etymology: From glyco- + -ine, from French glycérine, from Ancient Greek γλυκερός (glukerós, “sweet”) (compare γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”)).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glycerol
synonyms: word: glycerol
Derived terms: glyceride
glycerinate
glycerine jelly
glycerine phthalate
glycerine soap
glycerine trinitrate
glycerous
hydroxypropyl starch glycerine
nitroglycerine
misogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
ipa: /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Forms: form: misogynies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
Senses: examples: text: Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.
ref: 1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29:
text: His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]
ref: 1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84:
text: […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
ref: 2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122:
ref: 2006, Jack Holland, Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice, →ISBN:
text: […] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.
ref: 2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, archived from the original on 16 May 2017, page R7:
glosses: Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
Synonyms: misogynism
Coordinate terms: english: hatred of men
translation: hatred of men
word: misandry
Derived terms: antimisogyny
anti-misogyny
misogynic
misogynist
misogynistic
misogynistically
misogynize
misogynoir
neo-misogyny
transmisogynoir
transmisogyny
Related terms: lesbophobia
sexism
deceitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːtfʊl/
ipa: /-fl̩/
Forms: form: more deceitful
form: most deceitful
form: deceiptful
form: deceiptfull
form: deceitfull
Etymology: From deceit + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: All theſe are ſeruants to deceitfull men.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: Faithfull are the woundes of a friend : but the kiſſes of an enemy are deceitfull.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 27:6:
text: This world is all a fleeting show, / For man’s illusion given ; / The smiles of Joy, the tears of Woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — / There’s nothing true but Heaven !
ref: a. 1826, Thomas Moore, “This World Is All a Fleeting Show”, in The Works of Thomas Moore, stanza 1, page 471, lines 1–5:
glosses: Deliberately misleading or cheating.
glosses: Deceptive, two-faced.
Derived terms: deceitfully
deceitfulness
nondeceitful
undeceitful
reusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reusable
form: most reusable
Etymology: From reuse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The donor power car, owned by SR, will then be removed from Haymarket depot and disposed of. It has already been stripped of reusable components for the IC7 power cars north of the border.
ref: 2020 March 25, “Fleet News: ScotRail to dispose of first '43' donor”, in Rail, page 30:
glosses: Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded; either reentrant or serially reusable
Synonyms: recyclable
Derived terms: reusability
reusable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reusables
Etymology: From reuse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Any product, such as a diaper, that is not disposable but can be used more than once.
misogynism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misogynisms
Etymology: From misogyny + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principle or disposition of misogyny, the hatred of women.
adjustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adjustable
form: most adjustable
Etymology: From adjust + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Another feature new to British Railways is the provision of two-position adjustable seats in the first class compartments. In this design, the seat squab can be pulled out some six inches, the seat back being attached to the seat to give a less upright sitting position.
ref: 1957 August 24, “New Multiple-Unit Stock for Hastings and Watford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 532:
glosses: capable of being adjusted
Derived terms: adjustable bend
adjustable hitch
adjustable loop
adjustable pliers
adjustable spanner
adjustable wrench
adjustably
nonadjustable
readjustable
semiadjustable
unadjustable
adjustable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustables
Etymology: From adjust + -able.
Senses: examples: text: "He came in. He had a gun. He was crazy. You can see he was crazy; look what he did to Ricky. He thought Ricky was me. He wanted to steal my adjustables. Look."
Sonny smiled and tilted the steel case so Henry could look at the jumble of rusty ironmongery inside.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Anything that can be adjusted.
candied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.diːd/
Senses: examples: text: We candied some apples to get ready for the party.
glosses: simple past and past participle of candy
candied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.diːd/
Forms: form: more candied
form: most candied
Senses: glosses: coated or encrusted with sugar
examples: text: Hot cross buns contain chopped candied fruit.
glosses: preserved in sugar or syrup by baking till it becomes translucent
examples: text: Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.
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 III, scene ii]:
glosses: Pleasing, flattering.
Synonyms: crystallized
Derived terms: candied fruit
candied yams
uncandied
misandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsănʹdri
ipa: /mɪˈsændɹi/
enpr: mĭsʹəndri
ipa: /ˈmɪsəndɹi/
Forms: form: misandries
Etymology: Formed in the late 19th century as mis- (“hatred”) + -andry (“men”) by analogy with misogyny; compare the Ancient Greek μισανδρία (misandría), from μισέω (miséō, “hate”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
Senses: examples: text: “But this is a big issue. This boy was a product of this culture. And I think to talk about the culture is not misandry (the hatred of males), it’s not wrong and we do need to talk about it. If we want to know how to end this kind of violence we need to address the culture that created this kind of violence.
ref: 2014 May 26, Steve Almasy and Haimy Assefa, “California killer’s misogynist rants inspire #YesAllWomen”, in CNN:
text: The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.
ref: 2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship:
synonyms: misandrism
antonyms: philandry
glosses: Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men.
Coordinate terms: english: hatred of women
translation: hatred of women
word: misogyny
Derived terms: misandric
misandrist
transmisandry
misandrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misandrist
form: most misandrist
Etymology: From misandry + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
Synonyms: misandristic
misandric
misandrous
Coordinate terms: misogynist
misandrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misandrists
Etymology: From misandry + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A misandrist hates all men, and a philandrist likes them.
ref: 2000, David Macfarlane, Mail & guardian bedside book, 2000, page 46:
text: Others support Harmange and Coffin, yet stop short of calling themselves misandrists.
ref: 2021 January 10, Laura Cappelle, “With ‘I Hate Men,’ a French Feminist Touches a Nerve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2021:
text: According to the LAist, Bartkus appeared to describe himself as being promortalist and misandrist on a website that surfaced after the bombing and could be heard in an audio recording saying, “Basically I’m anti-life. And IVF is like kind of the epitome of pro-life ideology.”
ref: 2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
glosses: One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
Synonyms: word: manhater
word: misandric
word: androphobe
word: antimasculinist
word: misandrist
misandrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misandry + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principle or disposition of misandry, the hatred of men.
Coordinate terms: misogyny
Related terms: misandristic
misandrous
misogyny
haemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hēʹmōglōʹbĭn
enpr: hēʹməglōʹbĭn
ipa: /ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/
ipa: /ˈhiməˌɡloʊbɪn/
ipa: /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈɡləʊbɪn/
rhymes: -əʊbɪn
Forms: form: haemoglobins
Etymology: From haemo- + globin.
Senses: examples: text: When the boy was admitted, Carter said, the haemoglobin count was 8.3 grams per decilitre.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
Derived terms: ferrihaemoglobin
glycohaemoglobin
haemoglobinate
haemoglobinization
haemoglobinometer
haemoglobinopathy
haemoglobinuria
methemoglobin
oxyhaemoglobin
misandronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misandronists
Senses: synonyms: misandrist
glosses: A person who hates men.
zwischenzug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zwischenzugs
Etymology: From German Zwischenzug, from zwischen (“between”) + Zug (“move”).
Senses: examples: 2002, Eric Schiller, Standard Chess Openings, second edition, Cardoza Publishing, New York; Game (132).
After 12.g4 Be6; Black's 11th move becomes a zwischenzug to provoke another White pawn weakness.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.
Related terms: intermezzo
tenuki
porphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːfɪɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹfəɹɪn/
Forms: form: porphyrins
Etymology: From German Porphyrin, shortened from Hämatoporphyrin (“haematoporphyrin”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing pyrrole rings arranged in a square or other similar shape; they are important in biochemistry in a form with a metal atom in the central cavity (hemoglobin with iron, chlorophyll with magnesium, etc.).
Derived terms: arylporphyrin
benzoporphyrin
bisporphyrin
bromoporphyrin
coproporphyrin
deuteroporphyrin
etioporphyrin
ferriporphyrin
ferroporphyrin
geoporphyrin
hematoporphyrin
hexaporphyrin
isoporphyrin
manganoporphyrin
mesoporphyrin
metalloporphyrin
octabromoporphyrin
pentaporphyrin
porphyrinic
porphyrinogen
porphyrinogenic
porphyrinoid
porphyrinopathy
porphyrinuria
protoporphyrin
subporphyrin
tetraporphyrin
texaphyrin
uroporphyrin
vinylporphyrin
Related terms: porphyria
porphyric
corrin
ochlarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ochlo- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: mob rule
omnifarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒm.nɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌɑm.nɪˈfɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more omnifarious
form: most omnifarious
Etymology: From Latin omnifarius.
Senses: examples: text: Synaptical glitch looking glass
So enticing, real and free of lies
Prodigious, omnifarious
In nourishes, it feeds my starving eyes
ref: 2003, “Pineal Gland Optics”, performed by Meshuggah:
glosses: Of many or all forms, varieties, or kinds.
glosses: Exceedingly varied.
Derived terms: omnifariously
omnifariousness
Related terms: omniferous
cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/
ipa: [ˈkʰæv.ɨɾ.i]
rhymes: -ævɪti
Forms: form: cavities
Etymology: Mid 16th century borrowing from Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.
A hollow area within the body.
topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.
The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
coordinate_terms: core#English:_major_part_of_a_mold
examples: text: Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: caries
glosses: A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
Derived terms: word: anticavity
word: cavicapture
word: cavitand
word: cavitation
word: cavitied
word: cavityless
word: intracavity
word: intracavital
word: multicavity
word: subcavity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: body cavity search
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity magnetron
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity QED
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity quantum electrodynamics
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity resonator
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity search
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cavity wall
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cotyloid cavity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: gastrovascular cavity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: microwave resonant cavity thruster
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: mouth cavity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: pelvic cavity
Related terms: cave
cavitary
cavitate
concave
excavate
excavation
excavator
odd and curious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For the odd and curious of us, to fly like a bird is a not an easy thing.
text: The odd and curious is born good and pure. The society corrupts.
glosses: On the Isle of Man, the common or general man.
glosses: A way to designate special coins, namely coins that are both odd and imperfect or seriously damaged.
cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavity
orthorhombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔː(ɹ)θəˈɹɒmbɪk/
Etymology: A short form of the word pseudoorthorhombic; equivalent to ortho- + rhombic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three unequal axes at right angles.
Derived terms: nonorthorhombic
orthorhombically
orthorhombicity
orthorhombic pyroxene
Related terms: triclinic
monoclinic
hexagonal
rhombohedral
tetragonal
cubic
pseudoorthorhombic
orthoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoscopes
Etymology: From ortho- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for examining the interior of an eye.
glosses: An instrument for drawing projections of a skull.
Related terms: orthoscopy
orthoscopic
orthoscopical
orthoscopically
orthoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From ortho- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: free from optical distortion
Related terms: orthoscope
orthoscopical
orthoscopically
orthoscopy
osseointegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: osseointegrates
form: osseointegrating
form: osseointegrated
form: osseointegrated
Etymology: From osseo- + integrate.
Senses: glosses: The growth action of bone tissue, as it assimilates surgically implanted devices or prostheses to be used as either replacement parts (e.g., hip) or as anchors (e.g., endosseous dental implants).
Related terms: osseointegration
orthosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄρθωσις (órthōsis, “making straight”). By surface analysis, ortho- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of brace which either prevents or assists movement of a limb or the spine.
Related terms: orthotics
orthostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈoɹ.θəˌstæt/
Forms: form: orthostats
form: orthostates
form: orthostate
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὀρθοστάτης (orthostátēs, “upright shaft”); analysable as ortho- + -stat.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: menhir, standing stone
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: monolith
megalith
glosses: An upright stone or slab, especially one which is part of a larger structure.
Related terms: orthostasis
orthostatism
orthostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + static.
Senses: glosses: Relating to orthostasis or orthostatism.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to an orthostat.
Derived terms: antiorthostatic
clino-orthostatic
orthostatic hypotension
orthotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing vertically, either upwards or downwards.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: anisotropic
glosses: Having material properties that differ along three mutually orthogonal twofold axes of rotational symmetry.
Derived terms: orthotropically
Related terms: orthotropous
organ tablature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A shorthand system for notating organ music, used mostly by the north German Baroque organ school, and distinguished from musical notation by the use of letter names, octave lines and other symbols instead of notes and accidentals and by the lack of staff lines.