cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæʃənəlɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈnaʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈnæʃn̩(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/
Forms: form: nationalisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French nationalisme, equivalent to national + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Communists, socialists, and Islamists are against nationalism.
text: Perhaps the explanation of the Chinese situation most generally accepted by historians is nationalism, a phenomenon which has always occurred when a people of distinctive cultural characteristics becomes aware of foreign domination. Napoleonic domination in Italy and Germany a century ago created nationalism there, as did Turkish domination in the Balkans and the Arab countries.
ref: 1927 May, Quincy Wright, “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History, volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 300, column 1:
text: Following the 1979 Revolution, Khomeini came out against nationalism.
ref: 2017, Meir Litvak, Constructing Nationalism in Iran:
text: It dates back to the 17th century and rose into prominence during the uprisings in the 18th century that produced the American and French revolutions. But the word attained more of a negative connotation during the 20th century as it become associated with the nationalism movements in Europe that helped lead to World War I and World War II.
ref: 2018 October 23, Doug Criss, “The definition of a nationalist”, in CNN:
glosses: A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
examples: text: Basque nationalism
text: Kurdish nationalism
glosses: Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
glosses: Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Hypernyms: english: any geopolitical group pursuing its own interest
translation: any geopolitical group pursuing its own interest
word: sectionalism
Hyponyms: english: nationalism on the basis of ethnicity
translation: nationalism on the basis of ethnicity
word: ethnonationalism
english: aggressive warlike nationalism
translation: aggressive warlike nationalism
word: jingoism
word: ultranationalism
Derived terms: ablenationalism
anarcho-nationalism
binationalism
civic nationalism
cybernationalism
economic nationalism
feminationalism
femonationalism
gastronationalism
heteronationalism
homonationalism
hypernationalism
linguonationalism
metanationalism
micronationalism
neonationalism
neo-techno-nationalism
pan-nationalism
postnationalism
supernationalism
techno-nationalism
vaccine nationalism
white nationalism
Related terms: nationalist
isolationist
Pantocrator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pænˈtɒkɹətə/
Etymology: From Latin pantocrator, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr).
Senses: examples: 1942, On the dome, and again behind the altar, was Christ Pantocrator, the Ruler of All — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 988)
glosses: The ruler of everything, especially as an epithet for Jesus Christ; an artistic depiction of Jesus in this aspect.
cat and mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Allied and the enemy submarine played a game of cat and mouse, checking up on each other's whereabouts and strategies.
text: The hackers played a cat and mouse game with the system administrators: the hackers kept trying new tricks, and the system administrators kept mounting electronic defenses.
text: The Lizard however has first to contend with Akechi, Japan's number-one detective, who has been hired by the jeweler to protect his possessions. Akechi and the Lizard match wits and play cat-and-mouse while flinging weighty epigrams on crime, romance and beauty at each other.
ref: 1992 February 2, S.H. Chua, “Cars, Guns and Go-Go Chicks”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 7:
text: In practice, however, it is extremely difficult to form a new union and the unions are engaged in a constant game of cat and mouse with the Registrar.
ref: 2007, Marvin J. Levine, Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers:
text: She loved their daily rides, the easy banter, the flirtatious game of cat and mouse they played.
ref: 2014, Alison Weir, The Marriage Game:
glosses: A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other.
examples: text: He was thinking how wonderful this game of cat and mouse was. He loved the game and the feeling of control he had over this poor innocent girl.
ref: 2009, Judith C. Issette, Messenger of Death, page 34:
text: The payback for that would come in the form of a prolonged game of cat and mouse, finally culminating in a deadly game that he had perfected years earlier.
ref: 2009, Jarlon Magee, Travel in Fear:
text: She told of narrow escapes and a harried game of cat and mouse, until eventually she'd reached the darkened jungle in which Torys had found her.
ref: 2014, Mark Derbyshire, New Worlds, page 30:
glosses: A form of attack in which the attacker toys with the victim by inflicting minor damage or letting the victim have futile hopes of escape before finally finishing the victim off.
glosses: A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre.
Coordinate terms: cat and dog
Related terms: which way the cat jumps
wait for the cat to jump
cat and mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cat and mouses
form: cat and mousing
form: cat and moused
form: cat and moused
Senses: examples: text: And I've made up my mind not to be cat and moused any more.
ref: 1931, John Collis Snaith, Indian Summer, page 39:
text: She was attractive in her white uniform and Brown had cat and moused her for a long time without real enthusiasm.
ref: 1965, Anthony Boucher, The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 193:
text: I am tired of being cat and moused, and for that reason I expect to vote against proposals which I am in favor of in principle, until we can have hearings on them, to determine whether they are economically viable and constitutionally sustainable.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Legislative History of H.R. 6950: 90th Congress, to Restore the Investment Credit and the Allowance of Accelerated Depreciation in the Case of Certain Real Property.:
text: ...K-Rl 30 N-B6, the game would be over unless we have more cat and mousing by 30 .
ref: 1971, Chess Life & Review - Volume 26, page 441:
text: Careful not to draw deep blood, I cat and moused him for another moment or two as the audience stared in awe.
ref: 2011, Max Hobby, Oshgomshee and the Princess Syleen:
glosses: Alternative form of cat-and-mouse.
cornhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: cornholes
Etymology: From corn + hole.
(anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Senses: examples: text: The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
ref: 1969, J E C Peters, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, page 97:
text: A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.
ref: 1981, J E C Peters, Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings, page 17 with illustration:
glosses: A small room connected to a threshing floor.
examples: text: Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.
ref: 2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114:
text: Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.
ref: 2009, F. Winternitz, S. Bellman, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati, page 230:
glosses: A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
glosses: The anus.
Synonyms: sense: beanbag-like game
word: baggo
sense: beanbag-like game
word: corn toss
cornhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: cornholes
form: cornholing
form: cornholed
form: cornholed
Etymology: From corn + hole.
(anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Senses: examples: text: He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.
ref: 2006, Settling Accounts, Book Three: The Grapple, →ISBN:
glosses: To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.
Synonyms: sense: have anal intercourse with
word: sodomize
busker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌskɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʌskə/
Forms: form: buskers
Etymology: From busk + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who solicits donations while entertaining the public, often by playing a musical instrument, on a street or in another public area such as a park or marketplace.
Related terms: street artist
street musician
street performer
babysat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of babysit
isocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰσοκρατία (isokratía, “equality of strength or power”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to isocracy.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: which resolves a solute using a solvent system that does not change composition during the run.
raw_tags: of an HPLC system
Derived terms: anisocratic
isocratically
isocratic flow
garbologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbologists
Etymology: From garbology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents.
text: 1998 October, Trash Talk, Boys' Life, page 10,
Garbologists discovered the leachate, mostly water mixed with rotting garbage, actually aided in decomposing other trash in the area.
glosses: One who examines refuse using archaeological techniques.
synonyms: garbo
glosses: A garbage collector.
testimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/
ipa: /ˈtɛstɪməni/
Forms: form: testimonies
form: testimonie
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Inherited from Middle English testimonie, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium (“testimony”).
Senses: examples: text: The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
text: “The suspected cause of the death is believed to be the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages,” KPL said. “Officials are in the process of collecting detailed information, evidence, and witness testimonies and are expected to release an official statement soon.”
ref: 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN:
topics: law
synonyms: deposition
glosses: Statements made by a witness in court.
examples: text: [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: An account of first-hand experience.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.
examples: text: And whoſoeuer ſhall not receiue you, noꝛ heare you, when yee depart thence, *ſhake off the duſt vnder your feet, foꝛ a teſtimonie against them: Uerely I ſay vnto you, it ſhalbe moꝛe tolerable for Sodom and Gomoꝛrha in the day of iudgement, then foꝛ that citie.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 6:11:
text: Of course, the testimony of the early writers on orthography and pronunciation on the question under discussion is not always easy to interpret, especially when they offer comparisons with foreign sounds or when they give descriptions derived from other sources or from classical models.
ref: 2021 July 28, Fausto Cercignani, “On the alleged existence of a vowel /yː/ in early Modern English”, in English Language and Linguistics, volume 26, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 4:
glosses: Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
Derived terms: compel testimony
Related terms: test
testify
testimonial
testiphony
hornbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːn.bɪl/
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹn.bɪl/
Forms: form: hornbills
Etymology: From horn + bill.
Senses: examples: text: I saw what they were, hornbills, white head with a black streak of feather on top, a long grey tail, and a huge red beak that curved down, bigger than his head.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 408:
glosses: Any of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horns. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree.
Derived terms: Blyth's hornbill
Papuan hornbill
wrinkled hornbill
Related terms: ground hornbill
toucan
quetzal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛt.səl/
ipa: /ˈkɛt.səl/
ipa: /kɛtˈsɑl/
rhymes: -ɛtsəl
rhymes: (US) -ɑl
Forms: form: quetzals
form: quetzales
Etymology: From Spanish quetzal, from Classical Nahuatl quetzalli (“brightly colored tail feather, quetzal feather”), from quetza (“to raise, lift”); see also Classical Nahuatl quetzaltōtōtl (“quetzal bird”).
Senses: examples: text: Included among the images that Rigoberta Menchú uses in order to subtly convey her people's ethnicity is an image of Guatemala as the "land of the quetzal."
ref: 1997, Ann Marie Stock, Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, page 80:
text: A strikingly beautiful bird, the quetzal is the national emblem of Guatemala, appearing on its currency and postage. The quetzal ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica.
ref: 1999, Sy Barlowe, Learning about Rain Forest Animals, page 12:
text: This particular wild avocado species had beautiful small black fruits set in a red cap that made it easy for the quetzals to find them.
ref: 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, page 65:
glosses: Any trogon of the genus Pharomacrus, especially a resplendent quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno), which has very long tail feathers and is found in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
examples: text: In 2002 Guatemala officially declared the U.S. dollar as legal tender to circulate in parallel to the national currency, the quetzal. This is not likely to last for long as the quetzal is not widely accepted and is considered a weak store of value.
ref: 2005, Anastasia Xenias, “Dollarization: The End of Monetary Pluralism in South America?”, in Avery Plaw, editor, Frontiers of Diversity: Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism, page 109:
text: In this situation, they chose a policy mix of moderate monetary tightening, tight fiscal policy, and central bank intervention in the foreign exchange market to prevent excessive appreciation of the quetzal, without pursuing an exchange rate target[…].
ref: 2005, International Monetary Fund, Guatemala: 2005 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report, unnumbered page:
text: To cope with the subsequent mounting pressures on the domestic currency, the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) started to intervene in the foreign exchange market to moderate the quetzal depreciation and tightened monetary policy.
ref: 2007, Charles Enoch, Karl Habermeier, Marta de Castello Branco, editors, Building Monetary and Financial Systems: Case Studies in Technical Assistance, International Monetary Fund, page 105:
related: word: mul:Q
word: mul:GTQ
glosses: A monetary unit used in Guatemala, equal to 100 centavos.
Related terms: centavo
Quetzalcoatl
trogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊɡɒn/
Forms: form: trogons
Etymology: Present active participle of Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “chew, gnaw”).
Senses: glosses: A bird in the family Trogonidae from the order Trogoniformes, most of which live in Central and South America, have colorful feathers, and nest in holes in trees.
Derived terms: Narina trogon
spank the monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spanks the monkey
form: spanking the monkey
form: spanked the monkey
form: spanked the monkey
Senses: glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
al dente
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl ˈdɛn.teɪ/
ipa: /æl ˈdɛn.ti/
rhymes: -ɛnteɪ
rhymes: -ɛnti
Forms: form: more al dente
form: most al dente
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian al dente (literally “to the tooth”).
Senses: qualifier: vegetables; rice; beans; vegetables; rice; beans
glosses: Firm to the bite, cooked just right.
raw_tags: of pasta
tidal wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tīd'əl wāv
ipa: /ˈtaɪdəlweɪv/
Forms: form: tidal waves
Senses: glosses: A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide.
examples: text: The last tidal wave here killed twenty and left thousands homeless.
glosses: A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)
examples: text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
glosses: A large, sudden inundation of water from the storm surge, or waves of that surge; a sudden surge of river water.
examples: text: As the doors opened, a tidal wave of people flooded into the room.
text: I was overcome by a tidal wave of emotions.
text: But this is no stream, folks. This will be a tidal wave that can swamp our democracy.
ref: 2003, Michael Moore, chapter 3, in Dude, Where’s My Country:
glosses: A sudden and powerful surge.
glosses: A crest of ocean water; a wave.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces.
Related terms: tidal bore
tidal surge
earthquake
flood
NYPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An NYPD officer struck in the arm by a bullet allegedly fired by a teen gunman ignored his wound and gave chase to the 16-year-old suspect, cops said Tuesday.
ref: 2023 January 17, Harry Parker, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, “Wounded NYPD cop gave chase to Bronx teen accused of shooting him”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: Initialism of New York Police Department.
Synonyms: nycpd
Related terms: FDNY
LAPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Other members of the LAPD who were involved in the disaster have also remained anonymous, their discipline under seal.
ref: 2023 July 14, Brittney Mejia, Libor Jany, Richard Winton, “LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Initialism of Los Angeles Police Department.
LAPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.
policeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈliːsmən/
Forms: form: policemen
Etymology: From police + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police officer, usually a male.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
examples: text: A team may have a policeman or enforcer.
ref: 2002, P. J. Harari, Dave Ominsky, Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide, page 26:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Synonym of enforcer.
synonyms: word: enforcer
Synonyms: sense: member of a police force
word: police officer
sense: glass rod with rubber cap
word: rubber policeman
Derived terms: community policeman
military policeman
policemanish
policemanlike
policemanly
policeman's helmet
policemanship
silent policeman
sleeping policeman
world policeman
Related terms: constable
policewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policewomen
Etymology: From police + -woman.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A female police officer.
Synonyms: police officer
Hypernyms: police officer
Coordinate terms: policeman
nibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪbl̩/
ipa: /ˈnɪb(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: nibbles
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English nebillen, nebyll (“to peck away at (something), nibble; (figurative) to attempt to sing (a part of a song)”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Middle Low German nibbelen (“to eat in small bites, peck”) (modern German Low German nibbeln, gnibbeln, knibbeln), possibly a variant of knabbelen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”) or imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Middle Dutch cnibbelen (modern Dutch knibbelen (“to gnaw; to murmur”), nibbelen (“to nibble”))
* Saterland Frisian nibje (“to nibble”)
* West Frisian knibbelje
Senses: examples: text: [H]e would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
ref: 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
glosses: A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
examples: text: Yo'r sheep will be a' folded, a reckon, Measter Pratt, for there'll ne'er be a nibble o' grass to be seen this two month, according to my reading; […]
ref: 1863, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “New Year’s Fête”, in Sylvia’s Lovers. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268:
glosses: An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
glosses: A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
examples: text: On the northern slopes of the light-earthed hills the moss had come over the herbage, and the sweet nibble of the sheep was souring.
ref: 1875, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Going Up the Tree”, in Alice Lorraine. A Tale of the South Downs. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, […], →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.
Derived terms: word: nibble fish
english: small forms of finger food or snacks
translation: small forms of finger food or snacks
word: nibbles
word: nibbly
word: niblet
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
ref: 1994, Pulp Fiction:
glosses: Synonym of in two shakes.
synonyms: word: in two shakes
harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/
ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/
ipa: /ˈhaːvəst/
Forms: form: harvests
form: harvesting
form: harvested
form: harvested
form: harvist
form: hervest
form: harst
form: hairst
Etymology: From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.
Cognates
Cognate with Sylt North Frisian Hārefst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, dated German Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere (“to seize”), Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).
Senses: examples: text: We harvested the apples in September already.
glosses: To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
examples: text: An efficient rifle or shotgun can harvest a deer for venison.
glosses: To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
examples: text: We're going to harvest day and night, because the weather is about to turn sour.
glosses: To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
examples: text: The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.
glosses: To win, achieve a gain.
Derived terms: harvestability
harvestable
harvestee
harvester
misharvest
overharvest
reharvest
underharvest
unharvested
cancel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.sl̩/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈkɛən.sl̩ ~ ˈkeən.sl̩]
Forms: form: cancels
form: cancell
Etymology: From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
Senses: glosses: A cancellation.
glosses: A cancellation.
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
examples: text: A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The page thus suppressed.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The page that replaces it.
Derived terms: autocancel
cancel-worthy
dumb cancel
killer cancel
mute cancel
precancel
Related terms: cancellation
chancel
chancellery
chancellor
chancery
closing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: closings
Senses: examples: text: openings and closings of doors
glosses: The act by which something is closed.
examples: text: the closing of a popular play
glosses: The end or conclusion of something.
glosses: The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
Derived terms: closing ceremony
closing costs
closing credits
closing form
early closing
preclosing
closing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to add some closing words.
text: The closing scene of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" cannot but evoke a feeling of deep pathos.
glosses: Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others.
Synonyms: latter
Derived terms: closing date
closing speed
nonclosing
self-closing
closing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close
one's days are numbered
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If his performance does not improve very soon, his days at this company are numbered.
glosses: Some period of time, such as a term of employment or a lifetime, is coming to an end.
Related terms: not long for this world
Grecized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Grecize
coastline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastlines
Etymology: From coast + line.
Senses: examples: text: The sweep of the rocky Southern California coastline off Point Fermin.
text: Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’ Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 328:
text: With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
text: The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, pages 56–57:
text: The 71-year-old American, who relocated to the Indonesian destination in 2022, is a regular fixture on the sands of Sanur, which extends along the southeastern coastline of the tropical destination, known as the “Island of the Gods.”
ref: 2025 July 31, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “‘Everyone I know in the US who has a conscience wants to leave’: Why this American woman relocated to Bali”, in CNN:
glosses: The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.)
Synonyms: coast
beachfront
coastland
shore
shoreline
seashore
seaside
oceanfront
shorefront
waterfront
Derived terms: coastlined
chronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Forms: form: more chronological
form: most chronological
Etymology: From chrono- + -logical or chronology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: He is 67 in chronological age, but has the mind and body of someone 55.
glosses: Relating to time, or units of time.
examples: text: The live report lists all the events in chronological order.
text: A Book of Death and Fish is about one Peter MacAulay, an unremarkable individual who has the sea and its promises always with him, experiencing the usual strains of growing up and growing old – the death of a friend, his parents, marriage and children – all set out in chronological order and divided into two books, Migration and Turbulence.
ref: 8 November 2014, Kirsty Gunn, “A Book of Death and Fish by Ian Stephen – review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
glosses: In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
Relating to the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur within a story, rather than the order in which they are released.
qualifier: films; shows; books; etc; films; shows; books; etc
Derived terms: achronological
antichronological
astrochronological
biochronological
cosmochronological
dendrochronological
geochronological
gyrochronological
lepidochronological
magnetochronological
nonchronological
palaeochronological
paleochronological
ptilochronological
radiochronological
sclerochronological
skeletochronological
tephrochronological
thermochronological
typochronological
unchronological
Related terms: english: which see for more
translation: which see for more
word: chronicle
word: chronograph
word: chronological age
word: chronologically
word: chronological order
word: chronology
Rijnsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Holland, Netherlands.
benedick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benedicks
Etymology: From the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Senses: glosses: A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
wikipedia: William Shakespeare
Related terms: Benedict
inborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.bɔːn/
ipa: /ˈɪn.bɔɹn/
Senses: examples: text: inborn talent
text: inborn instincts
text: However, a scientific study just published in American Psychologist provides strong reasons to doubt that there are many inborn differences between genders.
ref: September 20 1995, Oliver James, “From Venus and Mars”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.
glosses: Inherited or hereditary.
Synonyms: innate
Derived terms: inbornness
éclair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɛə/
ipa: /eɪ-/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛɹ/
ipa: /ɪˈkleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɪˈkleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɪˈkliə/
ipa: /ɪˈkleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪˈklɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: éclairs
form: eclair
Etymology: Borrowed from French éclair.
Senses: glosses: A small, chocolate-covered, creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.
eclair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of éclair.
killjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: killjoys
form: KJ
Etymology: From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.
Senses: examples: text: “If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy....”
ref: 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:
text: What kill-joy have we here? […] I feel it in my bones some rascal is come to Galing, one that bringeth ill hap in his pocket and a shadow athwart the sun on this our day of festival.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 123:
text: December 10 2005, Sam Murphy in The Guardian, A sober thought
Just in time for the party season, some old killjoys at the journal Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise have released their findings on the effects on muscle of prolonged heavy alcohol intake (six weeks is prolonged, apparently). The bad news is that it seems too much boozing puts all that effort in the gym to waste - in the study, alcohol prevented the usual resistance-training-induced muscle response that leads to increased size and strength.
qualifier: occasionally endearing
glosses: A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
Synonyms: buzzkill
miserabilist
dampener
party pooper
spoilsport
fun police
Derived terms: killjoyism
sing the praises of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings the praises of
form: sang the praises of
form: sung the praises of
form: sung the praises of
Senses: examples: text: She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
ref: 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:
glosses: to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others
Related terms: praise to the skies
remote control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remote controls
Senses: examples: text: A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.
ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
hyponyms: buttons
clicker
remote
zapper
glosses: A device used to operate an appliance (such as a television, vehicle, or mechanical toy) from a short distance away.
examples: text: The bomb was detonated by remote control.
synonyms: telearchics
glosses: A means of operating a device from a distance.
masterpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæstɚˌpis/
ipa: /ˈmɑːstəˌpiːs/
Forms: form: masterpieces
form: master-piece
Etymology: From master + piece, a calque of Dutch meesterstuk or German Meisterstück (“masterpiece”). Doublet of masterstick. Compare also journeyman's piece.
Senses: examples: text: The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
ref: 1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis:
glosses: A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.
examples: text: Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.
text: “‘Man is amazing, but he is not a masterpiece,’ he said, keeping his eyes fixed on the glass case. ‘Perhaps the artist was a little mad. […]’
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 221:
text: It would hardly be an overstatement to describe Drummond's next design as an outstanding British locomotive class, and possibly his masterpiece.
ref: 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
text: It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
glosses: A work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship.
glosses: A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild.
Synonyms: word: chef d'œuvre
word: magnum opus
word: masterwork
word: masterpiece
word: pièce de résistance
word: work of art
Hypernyms: word: artifact
Derived terms: disasterpiece
trashterpiece
Related terms: word: chef d'œuvre
word: masterwork
word: mistresspiece
word: genius
scalp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skælp/
rhymes: -ælp
Forms: form: scalps
form: scalping
form: scalped
form: scalped
Etymology: From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).
Senses: examples: text: Next morning, the Indians attacked us and one of our hunters, George Huffman, was killed and scalped. As soon as Baldwin heard the shooting, he came to our assistance.
ref: 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 507:
glosses: To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
examples: text: Tickets were being scalped for $300.
text: Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […]
ref: 2011, Linda E. Swayne, Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, SAGE, →ISBN, page 324:
text: Scalped tickets were going for $3,000 and up.
ref: 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in New York Times:
synonyms: resell
glosses: To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
examples: text: The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
ref: 1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
topics: business
finance
glosses: On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
examples: text: scalped ore
synonyms: sieve
glosses: To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
examples: text: We must […]"scalp" the whole lid [of the eye].
ref: 1870, J. S. Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To remove the skin of.
glosses: To remove the grass from.
glosses: To destroy the political influence of.
qualifier: milling
glosses: To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
Derived terms: scalper
scalping
scalping knife
scalping tuft
unscalped
Related terms: sense: financial depredation senses
word: haircut
fingertip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/
Forms: form: fingertips
Etymology: From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe.
Senses: examples: text: The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands.
ref: 2007, Wikipedia:Thailand:
text: They were all professional to their fingertips, knew each other very well, and knew their disciplines backwards.
ref: 2021 January 27, “Open Access: How to run a railway”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 38:
glosses: The tip of the human finger.
Derived terms: at one's fingertips
fingertipful
fingertip search
fingertip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/
Forms: form: fingertips
form: fingertipping
form: fingertipped
form: fingertipped
Etymology: From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe.
Senses: examples: text: Then Rogne released Forrest with a diagonal ball and the winger tormented Broadfoot again before blasting a shot which McGregor managed to fingertip over his bar.
ref: 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
glosses: To move or deflect with the fingertips.
pomelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A specific type of woodgrain in lumber and veneers, also known as "quilted" from the French.
pomelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomelles
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: An ornamental knob.
wink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: winks
Etymology: From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”), French guigner (“to eye, sneak a look at”).
Senses: synonyms: 😉
;)
;-)
glosses: An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
examples: text: I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight
ref: 1973, Bryan Ferry, “Pyjamarama”, performed by Roxy Music:
glosses: A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
glosses: A brief time; an instant.
examples: text: It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.
ref: 1899, Jack London, "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series
glosses: The smallest possible amount.
examples: text: The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.
glosses: A subtle allusion.
Derived terms: a nod is as good as a wink
a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
butt wink
God-wink
God wink
in the wink of an eye
kiddle-a-wink
nudge nudge wink wink
quick as a wink
sleep a wink
tip the wink
wink-a-peep
wink murder
wink-wink
wink wink nudge nudge
wink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: winks
Etymology: Clipping of tiddlywink.
Senses: qualifier: tiddlywinks
glosses: Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
synonyms: word: tiddlywink
extra: small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks
wink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: winks
Etymology: Clipping of periwinkle.
Senses: examples: text: “I buy my winks,” said one, “at Billingsgate, at 3s. and 4s. the wash. A wash is about a bushel. […]”
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
synonyms: word: periwinkle
extra: type of mollusk