cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
erysipelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛ.ɹɪˈsɪp.ɪl.əs/
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈsɪp.əl.əs/
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈsɪp.ləs/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.əˈsɪp.əl.əs/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.əˈsɪp.ləs/
Forms: form: erysipelases
form: erisypelas
Etymology: From Middle English erisipila, borrowed from Latin erysipelas, from Ancient Greek ἐρῠσῐ́πελᾰς (erŭsĭ́pelăs), probably related to ἐρῠθρός (erŭthrós, “red”) and πέλμᾰ (pélmă, “the sole of a foot”).
Senses: examples: text: The symptoms gradually improved until, on the fifth day from her delivery, I was pleased to find the erysipelas rapidly defervescing, the lochia natural, no subinvolution of the uterus, nor abdominal tenderness.
ref: 1875 July 31, W. R. Smith, “Erysipelas During Parturition”, in James G. Wakley, editor, The Lancet, volume II, number 2709, London: John James Croft, […
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute, sometimes recurrent febrile disease caused by infection of a hemolytic streptococcus, associated with intense edematous local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, and marked by large raised red patches on the skin.
Derived terms: antierysipelas
erysipelatoid
erysipelatous
erysipeloid
pseudoerysipelas
Related terms: erythema
fizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭz
ipa: /fɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: fizzes
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
glosses: An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
examples: text: Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
glosses: The sound of such an emission.
examples: text: Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.
text: When he had returned with what remained unslopped of two glasses of fizz, she was still there, waiting for him.
ref: 2020, Alan Jones, Surrogate:
glosses: A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.
Synonyms: sense: emission of bubbles
word: effervescence
sense: emission of bubbles
word: foam
sense: emission of bubbles
word: froth
sense: emission of bubbles
word: head
sense: sound of bubbles
word: bubble
sense: sound of bubbles
word: fizzle
sense: sound of bubbles
word: hiss
sense: sound of bubbles
word: sputter
sense: carbonated beverage
word: pop
sense: carbonated beverage
word: seltzer
sense: carbonated beverage
word: soda
sense: carbonated beverage
word: tonic
Derived terms: buck's fizz
Eurofizz
fizgig
fizzless
gin fizz
fizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭz
ipa: /fɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: fizzes
form: fizzing
form: fizzed
form: fizzed
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: To emit bubbles.
examples: the fizzing fuse of a bomb
glosses: To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
examples: text: Each lad tried to send his [burning] disc fizzing and flaring through the darkness as far as possible.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 119:
text: And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.
ref: 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:
glosses: To shoot or project something at great velocity.
Synonyms: sense: emit bubbles
word: bubble
sense: emit bubbles
word: effervesce
sense: emit bubbles
word: foam
sense: emit bubbles
word: froth
sense: make bubbling sound
word: fizzle
sense: make bubbling sound
word: hiss
sense: make bubbling sound
word: sizzle
sense: make bubbling sound
word: sputter
Derived terms: fizzer
fizz out
fizzy
Related terms: fizz-buzz
back-seat driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-seat drivers
form: backseat driver
Senses: examples: text: When New York pitcher Vernon Gomez retires as a smokeballer he wants to become a smoke eater. Here he gets a tryout as a back-seat driver on a hook and ladder truck at St. Petersburg[…]
ref: 1914, Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, USA:
glosses: An occupant of a large vehicle, such as a firetruck, who helps steer the vehicle from far in the back.
synonyms: nagavator
glosses: A person sitting (typically) in the back seat of a car issuing (unsolicited and usually unwanted) instructions to the driver.
glosses: An opinionated person who offers (unsolicited and often unwanted) advice on the best way to handle a situation.
Related terms: back seat
back-seat drive
backseater
armchair quarterback
armchair general
back-seat gamer
gatecrasher
interloper
peeping tom
persona non grata
encroacher
kibitzer
meddler
nosy parker
marplot
buttinsky
busybody
sidewalk superintendent
Limburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Limburg
devi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪvi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: devis
Senses: coordinate_terms: deva
glosses: A goddess in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
humiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more humiliating
form: most humiliating
Senses: examples: text: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
Derived terms: humiliatingly
nonhumiliating
unhumiliating
humiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humiliate
humiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: humiliatings
Senses: examples: text: We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]
ref: 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:
glosses: An act of humiliation.
hairpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛə.pɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɛɚ.pɪn/
Forms: form: hairpins
form: hair pin
form: hair-pin
Etymology: From hair + pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.
Senses: coordinate_terms: hair stick
;
hairnet
glosses: A pin or fastener for the hair.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
examples: text: The variety of angles in the course, from slow bends to hairpins, will both test your skill as a driver and allow you the opportunity to pass other carts.
ref: 2009, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Beyond Disney, page 280:
glosses: A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.
Derived terms: hairpin bend
hairpin curve
hairpinned
hairpin transfer
hairpin turn
Sherman's hairpin
Related terms: hair bun
hairbun
barrette
dogleg
switchback
kinfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinfolks
form: kinfolk
form: kinsfolk
Etymology: From kin + folk.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122:
text: “Ah, woe is me! Alas, for my kingdom and my kinfolk!”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 34:
text: That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.
ref: 1982, Bernard Malamud, “Cohn’s Island”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux:
text: I'm in the 'land gettin' smoked with my kinfolk
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
text: Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
glosses: Relatives, relations.
Synonyms: family
relations
relatives
Related terms: skinfolk
great-grandchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandchildren
form: great grandchild
form: greatgrandchild
Etymology: From great- + grandchild.
Senses: examples: text: She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.
ref: 2017 February 10, Maureen O'Hare, “Great-grandmother cycles 10,000 miles – and she’s not stopping”, in CNN:
glosses: The child (son or daughter) of one's grandchild.
Synonyms: word: great-grandkid
Hyponyms: great-granddaughter
great-grandson
Related terms: child
grand
grandchild
granddaughter
grandfather
grandmother
grandparent
grandson
great-grandfather
great-grandmother
great-grandparent
kin
kinfolk
relative
grand-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English, probably modelled after use of grand in Middle French (e.g., grandpere); see also grand.
Senses: examples: text: Seth is Amal's grandfather.
glosses: of a generation removed from the original noun
Synonyms: great-
condiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.dɪ.mənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.də.mənt/
Forms: form: condiments
Etymology: From late Middle English condiment, from Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See also condite and compare recondite.
Senses: examples: text: As a condiment in food, paprika is reputed to be strongly aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 56:
text: Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")
ref: 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.
Derived terms: condimental
condimentless
non-brewed condiment
condiment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.dɪ.mənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.də.mənt/
Forms: form: condiments
form: condimenting
form: condimented
form: condimented
Etymology: From late Middle English condiment, from Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See also condite and compare recondite.
Senses: glosses: To season with condiments.
glosses: To pickle.
robbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɒbɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɑbəɹi/
Forms: form: robberies
Etymology: From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raubōn. By surface analysis, rob + -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”).
Displaced native Old English rēaflāc.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of robbing.
examples: text: bank robbery
qualifier: crime
glosses: The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
Hyponyms: sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: piracy
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: armed robbery
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: aggravated robbery
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: highway robbery
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: mugging
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: carjacking
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: extortion
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: stick-up
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: blagging
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: steaming
sense: attempt of taking the property of another by threat
word: dacoity
Derived terms: antirobbery
armed robbery
bank robbery
daylight robbery
fair exchange is no robbery
highway robbery
nonrobbery
strong-arm robbery
Related terms: rob
robber
larceny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.sən.i/
ipa: /ˈlɑː.sɪ.ni/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹ.sə.ni/
Forms: form: larcenies
Etymology: Coined in Middle English (as larceni) between 1425 and 1475 from Anglo-Norman larcin (“theft”), from Latin latrocinium (“robbery”), from latro (“robber, mercenary”), from Ancient Greek λάτρον (látron, “pay, hire”).
Senses: examples: text: “Why are you walking around,” inquired Oedipa, “with your eyes closed, Metzger?” “Larceny,” Metzger said, “maybe they'll need a lawyer.”
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37:
text: He was prudent enough not to admit he was earning money, which went down well with you, for you knew already he was working “black,” as the Germans call it — meaning illegally, and at night. Shrewd chap, you thought; resourceful; not above a bit of larceny.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
topics: law
synonyms: theft
robbery
glosses: The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
examples: text: That young man already has four assaults, a DUI, and a larceny on his record.
topics: law
glosses: An individual instance of such a taking.
Derived terms: compound larceny
floral larceny
grand larceny
mixed larceny
petit larceny
petty larceny
simple larceny
Related terms: larcenous
larcenist
impartial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɑɹ.ʃəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
Forms: form: more impartial
form: most impartial
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impartial. See im- + partial.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e are to take a ſecond ſurvievv of our Abilities, to ſee if they be confidently fit for that vvhereto our inclination ſvvayeth us: and if upon due impartial examination vve find they are, vve may then follovv the ſvvay of our inclinations.
ref: 1621 November 13 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Populum.] The Fourth Sermon. In St. Pauls Church London. 4. Nov. 1621.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 37, page 208:
synonyms: neutral
unbiased
fair
antonyms: partial
biased
unfair
glosses: treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased
Synonyms: word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
Hypernyms: word: alexithymic
word: fair
word: just
word: lacking
Coordinate terms: word: aloof
word: apathetic
word: stern
Derived terms: impartialism
impartialist
impartiality
impartially
impartialness
nonimpartial
pseudoimpartial
unimpartial
Related terms: word: analytical
word: calculating
word: honest
word: pseudoimpartial
word: objectivity
stampede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæmˈpiːd/
ipa: /stæmˈpid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: stampedes
form: stampeding
form: stampeded
form: stampeded
Etymology: The noun is derived from Mexican Spanish estampida (“a stampede”), from Spanish estampida, estampido (“a bang, a crack (sound)”), from Old Occitan estampida, from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*stampjan), from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to compress, squeeze; to stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰ- (“to trample down”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, “Amber Spring”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
synonyms: stampedo
glosses: To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
glosses: To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
examples: I was stampeded into buying an unnecessary insurance against earthquakes, fires, and flooding.
glosses: To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
glosses: To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
examples: text: Miss Withersteen, let me get what boys I can gather, an' hold the white herd. It's on the slope now, not ten miles out—three thousand head, an' all steers. They're wild, an' likely to stampede at the pop of a jack-rabbit's ears.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, “The Mill-wheel of Steers”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
examples: text: But here in the UK, we tend to stampede from the concourse the moment the platform number is announced for the train we want to catch, crush round the doors, and then launch ourselves into the first available seat before our fellow passengers can take them all.
ref: 2020 May 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Safety First: Now More than Ever”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
glosses: Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
Derived terms: word: stampeded
word: stampeder
word: stampeding
oxblood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oxblood
form: most oxblood
Etymology: From ox + blood.
Senses: examples: text: He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Of a dark brownish-red colour.
anti-hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-heroes
Etymology: From anti- + hero.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antihero.
pillar-box red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillar-box reds
Senses: glosses: A bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
pillar-box red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
Related terms: pillar box
bast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːst/
ipa: /bæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: basts
form: bass
Etymology: From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-West Germanic *bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).
Senses: glosses: Inner bark of a tree from which rope is traditionally made.
examples: text: [T]here would be seen his face, or that of his elder brother, peering down. A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking[…]
ref: 1912, John Galsworthy, Quality:
text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
text: He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
ref: 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 145:
glosses: Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants (particularly the lime tree) and used for making ropes, cords and matting.
bast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːst/
ipa: /bæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English bast, from a back-formation of Middle English bastard.
Senses: glosses: Bastardy, illegitimacy of birth.
bast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːst/
ipa: /bæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English bast, from a back-formation of Middle English bastard.
Senses: glosses: Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.
chrome red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrome reds
Senses: glosses: A bright reddish orange pigment.
chrome red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a bright reddish orange colour
Congo red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congo reds
Senses: glosses: A dye that turns red in alkaline, blue in acidic solutions.
Related terms: Congo dye
Congo group
Old Red Sandstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A red sedimentary rock formation in Britain.
Coordinate terms: New Red Sandstone
Panama Red
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A type of marijuana, originally from Panama.
phenol red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pH indicator and red dye used to test kidney function.
penis envy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Penisneid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The unconscious desire of a woman to possess a penis.
Related terms: breast envy
womb envy
vagina envy
small penis syndrome
ragged red fibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: irregular muscle fibers in some DNA disorders.
red admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red admirals
Senses: glosses: A bright red and black butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, of the family Nymphalidae.
Related terms: Admiral of the Red
blue admiral
red alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: red alerts
Senses: examples: text: Another red alert last night. Lasted only five minutes, Possibly just a friendly plane with its IFF turned off.
ref: 1944 August 7, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 898:
text: Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
ref: 1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (lyrics written by Kevin McAlea)
glosses: A warning that indicates an emergency situation.
glosses: A state of readiness to deal with such emergency situation.
Synonyms: word: battle stations
word: general quarters
word: action stations
Related terms: word: alarums and excursions
word: panic stations
red algae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red alga
red ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red ants
Senses: glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
An ant of the genus Myrmica, especially the European red ant or common red ant (Myrmica rubra).
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis).
examples: text: Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus), endemic to Australia.
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus), native to southwestern US.
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), native to South America, but broadly invasive.
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The European red wood ant (Formica polyctena or Formica pratensis).
glosses: Any of various red-coloured ants.
The red bull ant (Myrmecia gulosa).
Coordinate terms: black ant
fire ant
white ant
red bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red bays
Senses: synonyms: tisswood
glosses: A small tree, Persea borbonia, in the Lauraceae family, with red fruit and wood, used for ornamental purposes.
wikipedia: Jean-Théodore Descourtilz
red biddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cheap alcoholic drink made by mixing red wine and methylated spirit.
red carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red carpets
Senses: examples: text: I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]
ref: 2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:
text: This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.
ref: 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
glosses: VIP treatment.
red cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red cedars
form: redcedar
Senses: examples: 1892, Walt Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), Modern Library, 1921, p. 147, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit
Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat, […]
glosses: A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.
examples: text: She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: An arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.
glosses: A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
glosses: An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).
glosses: A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
glosses: Wood of any of these trees.
Synonyms: word: eastern juniper
word: eastern red cedar
sense: arbor vitae
word: western red cedar
sense: arbor vitae
word: giant arborvitae
sense: tree of the mahogany family
word: Australian red cedar
imbricate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin imbricātus (“tiled”).
Senses: examples: text: The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.
ref: 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:
glosses: Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”).
imbricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbricates
form: imbricating
form: imbricated
form: imbricated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin imbricātus (“tiled”).
Senses: glosses: To overlap in a regular pattern.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo or cause to undergo imbrication.
Derived terms: imbricately
nonimbricate
nonimbricating
subimbricate
Related terms: imbrication
red cent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red cents
Etymology: Probably from the color of the copper from which the coin was minted. Prior to 1864, a brighter nickel-based cent was used, often called the white cent. It is also possible that the red originally referred to the obverse bearing an Indian head stamp. See Indian Head cent.
Senses: glosses: A copper penny.
examples: text: I wouldn't pay one red cent for a ticket.
text: Snorkey. But I ain't got two cents. What's a fellow to do if he hasn't got a red?
ref: 1867, Augustin Daly, Under the Gaslight, Act III, Scene 2, page 28:
text: Day by day for two-and-a-half years, I've seen resources diminishing, disappearing. We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.
ref: 1989 December 10, John Zeh, quoting Tony Allen, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1:
text: My dad said he wasn't going to pay the bastards ten red cents.
ref: 2011, Jann Arden, Falling Backwards: A Memoir, page 158:
glosses: A very small amount of money.
raw_tags: in the negative
red clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red clovers
Senses: glosses: A clover (Trifolium pratense), with red flowers, found in Europe, Asia and North America.
Related terms: taxonomic: Trifolium incarnatum
word: crimson clover
red circle rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red circle rates
Senses: glosses: A rate of pay that is above average for the type of work in question.
Related terms: blue circle rate
blue circle rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue circle rates
Senses: glosses: a rate of pay that is below average for the type of work in question.
Related terms: red circle rate
red diesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The fuel is coloured with red dye to prevent illegal use on public roads.
Senses: glosses: Untaxed diesel fuel intended to be used on private property.
Related terms: diesel laundering
red drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red drums
Senses: glosses: a large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or redfish.
redfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redfish
form: redfishes
Etymology: From red + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Any of genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Any of genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Lutjanus spp., snappers.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
glosses: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.
Derived terms: word: Acadian redfish
taxonomic: Sebastes fasciatus
word: Atlantic redfish
taxonomic: Sebastes mentella
word: deep-water redfish
taxonomic: Sebastes viviparus
word: Norway redfish
Related terms: channel bass
red drum
rosefish
rose fish
Redfish Lake
red earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A red soil found in tropical areas, containing oxidized iron.
red fescue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red fescues
Senses: glosses: a grass plant, Festuca rubra, with green, red, or blue-green flowers, found in Europe, Asia and North America.
red fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chemical mixture, used in fireworks and flares, that burns with a bright red flame.
evangelistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˌvænd͡ʒəˈlɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more evangelistic
form: most evangelistic
Etymology: From evangelist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to evangelism or evangelists; spreading the gospel.
glosses: Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
examples: text: I was pretty evangelistic about the merits of working in a small team.
glosses: Characterised by enthusiasm and a desire to communicate belief.
Related terms: evangelistically
red goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The colors here have to do with the rate of consumption, as opposed to the genre (as in white goods or brown goods).
Senses: glosses: Products that are consumed and replaced quickly, such as food, as opposed to items that have moderate (orange goods) or long-term (yellow goods) lifespans.
Coordinate terms: orange goods
yellow goods
Related terms: brown goods
white goods
red giant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red giants
Senses: examples: text: Maji orbits the Vamshi binary giant stars. Vamshi-A is a blue star of spectral class A4III which burns at half again the temperature of Sol. Vamshi-B is an aging red giant of class M5III, over 220 times the size of Sol.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maji planet description:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large red coloured star with a lower surface temperature than many stars, being at the final stage of moderately massive main-sequence stars.
Related terms: red supergiant
blue giant
red dwarf
white dwarf
brown dwarf
red gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red gums
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of trees found in Australia:
Corymbia calophylla (marri), native to Western Australia, with red gum effusions.
glosses: Any of several species of trees found in Australia:
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Murray red gum, river red gum), a eucalyptus tree with red wood.
glosses: Any of several species of trees found in Australia:
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark, Cannon's stringybark, capertee stringybark)
glosses: Any of several species of trees found in Australia:
Eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red gum), with red wood.
glosses: A tree of the hazel family, of species Liquidambar styraciflua, found in North America.
Synonyms: sense: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
word: river red gum
sense: Liquidambar
word: sweet gum
sense: Liquidambar
word: sweet gum-tree
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eucalyptus tereticornis
word: forest red gum
taxonomic: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
word: Murray red gum
taxonomic: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
word: river red gum
red gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration (due to gum) of earlier red gown, reed gounde, from Middle English redgownd, redgound, radegound, radegund, equivalent to red + gound.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red-gum (“strophulus”).
red ink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌiŋk/
Senses: examples: text: GCN has gleefully swum against the political mainstream. Less comfortable has been the financial torrent that now washes the paper in red ink. Being out of step politically has meant not having access to lucrative advertisers.
ref: 1991 December 1, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Struggle Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 11:
topics: accounting
business
finance
management
antonyms: black ink
glosses: Financial loss.
glosses: Cheap red wine.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ink.
Related terms: in the black
in the red
Red List
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red List
Senses: glosses: A list of endangered species, created by the World Conservation Monitoring Center.
leotard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.ə.tɑːd/
ipa: /ˈlɪə.tɑːd/
ipa: /ˈliː.ə.tɑːɹd/
Forms: form: leotards
Etymology: Named after French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870).
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I'm off to buy a leotard.
ref: 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2017, page 99:
glosses: A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
Derived terms: biketard
leotarded
leotardlike
unitard
red-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-tops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red top (“newspaper”).
evangalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of evangelistic.
red snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watermelon snow.
synonyms: word: watermelon snow
Related terms: blue snow
red water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cattle disease, with one symptom being reddish urine.
glosses: A wastewater in the manufacture of TNT.
Derived terms: redwater fever
Rhodesian redwater fever
red meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red meats
Senses: glosses: Meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.
examples: text: To mention Bishop Manning's name in a city room is equivalent to telling the city editor that a rip-roaring good story is brewing. A bishop for almost ten years, he has provided the hungry presses of New York with more red meat than Al Capone, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, 'Legs' Diamond, Albert Einstein, Charles Augusts Lindbergh, Texas Guinan, or Nicholas Murray Butler.
ref: 1931, Robert G.M. Neville, "Prima Donnas in the Pulpit," Forum and Century, June (retrieved 10 Apr. 2021)
text: “Keep it up,” urged Truman. “You’re doing a great job for the country and, incidentally, providing me with red meat for campaign speeches.”
ref: 1950, Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Round, “Trust-Buster Truman”, May 1, 1950 (syndicated, e.g., Prescott Evening Courier, May 1, 1950, p. 4)
text: Given the fiery tone of the conference, Anita Hill's speech must have come as a disappointment. She threw no red meat to the audience.
ref: 1992 October 27, John Leo, “Hill's Potential Stunted By Gender-Focused Politics”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
text: The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.
ref: 1999 May 21, Alex Brummer, “Sir Peter throws the City meat to chew on”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
text: On environmental regulation, taxes and other topics that are red meat to economic conservatives, Mr. Bush has delivered.
ref: 2002 July 10, Richard W. Stevenson, “Bush's Dance: Moral Outrage Without Pain to Loyalists”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
text: The passage, red meat for phone-ins and columnists ever since, argued less politely for an improvement in our national work ethic: […
ref: 2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:
text: Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information.
Derived terms: red meat allergy
red meat radish
Red Planet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Planet
form: red planet
Senses: glosses: The planet Mars.
Related terms: Blue Planet
red route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red routes
Senses: glosses: A system of traffic management, marked by red lines along the edge of the road, where parking, loading or picking up passengers is restricted.
glosses: A route that has a higher-than-average rate of traffic accidents.
red-pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red-pencils
form: red-penciling
form: red-pencilling
form: red-penciled
form: red-penciled
form: red-pencilled
form: red-pencilled
Etymology: From red + pencil.
Senses: glosses: To correct (written documents).
Related terms: blue-pencil
blue-pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blue-pencils
form: blue-penciling
form: blue-pencilling
form: blue-penciled
form: blue-penciled
form: blue-pencilled
form: blue-pencilled
Etymology: From blue + pencil.
Senses: glosses: To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To use a line-item veto.
Related terms: red-pencil
blue pencil doctrine
redcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌkoʊt/
Forms: form: redcoats
form: red coat
form: red-coat
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of red + coat.
Senses: examples: text: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.
ref: 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 32:
text: He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon; / And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon, / When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, / A red-coat troop came marching— / Marching—marching— / King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza I, pages 48–49:
synonyms: lobsterback
glosses: A British soldier (stemming from the military uniform of British infantry since the 17th century).
examples: text: The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.
ref: 2013 May 16, Mirror News:
glosses: A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.
examples: text: Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.
ref: 1947, Pennsylvania Game News, page 30:
qualifier: kenning
glosses: A fox.
redcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌkoʊt/
Forms: form: redcoats
form: redcoating
form: redcoated
form: redcoated
form: red coat
form: red-coat
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of red + coat.
Senses: glosses: To work as a redcoat (Butlin's entertainer).
red kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red kangaroos
Senses: glosses: A large kangaroo, Osphranter rufus, found in the desert areas of Australia.
load-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: load bearing
Senses: examples: text: 1908, Frederick E. Turneaure, Editor-in-Chief, Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering
The different forms of partitions that are not load-bearing will be considered under "Fireproofing."
text: The reactor units each called for a circular pit over 300ft. in diameter, excavated to a depth of 20ft. to reach a suitable load-bearing stratum.
ref: 1958, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Australian Atomic Energy Symposium, 1958: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Australia:
text: Alternating sandstone and limestone (the limestone being used in façades exposed to the winter rains or in more load-bearing areas) created a most pleasing decorative effect.
ref: 2001, Akram F. Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920:
text: It was in baptism (and in consequence in penance) that the theologically most load-bearing aspects of the liturgical life of the Church were concentrated.
ref: 2004, G. R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians, an Introduction to Theology in the Early Church:
topics: business
civil-engineering
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to support a load.
examples: text: The number keeps going up, which has a buoying effect on markets that is, in the short term, good. But every good earnings report further entrenches Nvidia as a precariously placed, load-bearing piece of the global economy.
ref: 2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Of a physical, digital, procedural etc. component, necessary to the integrity of the system of which it forms a part.
load-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: load bearing
Senses: examples: text: The porters, who stand in knots with cords upon their shoulders, bear huge loads; a characteristic of the place is this load-bearing and the size of the burdens.
ref: 1904, Morley Roberts, A Tramp's Note-book:
text: 1955, National Research Council (U.S.) Building Research Institute, Modular Measure: The Edited Papers and Discussions of a Research Correlation Conference Entitled Modular Coordination: Its Value in Contemporary Building, Conducted by the Building Research Institute
Since we do not need walls for load-bearing, the storage walls do not have to have any special thickness.
text: A common degenerative joint disease that involves synovial joints only with recurrent or abnormal load-bearing on normal cartilage or normal load-bearing on weakened cartilage, or both.
ref: 2006, David Lowe, Surgical Pathology Revision:
glosses: The carrying of loads.
Guinean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Guinea + -an.
Senses: glosses: From Guinea.
glosses: From Guinea-Bissau.
Guinean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guineans
Etymology: From Guinea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Guinea or of Guinean descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Derived terms: Equatoguinean
Equatorial Guinean
French Guinean
New Guinean
Papua New Guinean
bigwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭgʹwĭg
ipa: /ˈbɪɡ.wɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: bigwigs
form: big wig
form: big-wig
Etymology: First arose in the 1730s, from big + wig. Formerly, English men of authority wore wigs. Bigwig plays on the idea that higher authority is denoted by a larger wig.
Senses: examples: text: The company bigwig is gathering his staff together for a meeting today.
text: […] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.
ref: 1891, Grace L. Keith Johnston, The Halletts: A Country Town Chronicle, volume 3, page 34:
text: Before her hay-day, she attended many derbys under her dad's celebrity where she'd hobnob with the bigwigs in Millionaire's Row.
ref: 2016 May 5, “Reality star Bethenny Frankel talks hats, hangovers and her Kentucky Derby party at Empire City Casino”, in New York Daily News:
synonyms: word: big cheese
word: VIP
word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A person of importance in a group or organization.
Derived terms: bigwiggery
bigwigism