cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nomenclature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋ.klət͡ʃə/
ipa: /-ˈmɛn-/
ipa: /ˈnəʊmɪn.klət͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈnəʊmɛn.klət͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌnoʊmənˈkleɪt͡ʃɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /nomən.kletʃə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɔmən-/
Forms: form: nomenclatures
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.
Senses: examples: text: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
glosses: A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
examples: text: Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 4:
glosses: A set of names or terms.
glosses: A name.
Synonyms: terminology
Coordinate terms: glossary
taxonomy
Derived terms: binomenclature
binomial nomenclature
bionomenclature
chemical nomenclature
comiconomenclaturist
Linnaean nomenclature
nomenclatural
nomenclaturally
nomenclaturism
nomenclaturist
substitutive nomenclature
Related terms: nomenclator
nomenclatory
numericlature
usages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usage
Jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: Jerries
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jerry (“a chamber pot”).
Jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: jerry
form: geri
form: gerri
Etymology: A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.
Senses: examples: text: Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”
ref: 2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:
text: […] chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first.
ref: 2012, Bill Leckie, Penthouse and Pavement:
glosses: A personification of the German people.
Jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: Jerries
form: jerry
form: geri
form: gerri
Etymology: A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.
Senses: examples: text: But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries.
ref: 2012, Margaret James, The Penny Bangle, Harpenden: Choc Lit, →ISBN, page 43:
synonyms: Boche
Fritz
Kraut
glosses: A German, particularly a male German.
Derived terms: jerrycan
poltergeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poltergeist
Reddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /rɛɖ.ɖi/
homophone: reddy (with gemination)
ipa: /ɹɛdi/
homophone: reddy
homophone: ready
Forms: form: Reddys
form: Redde
form: Reddi
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu రెడ్డి (reḍḍi).
Senses: glosses: A Telugu caste. People of this caste are mostly from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
glosses: A surname from Telugu.
Reddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /rɛɖ.ɖi/
homophone: reddy (with gemination)
ipa: /ɹɛdi/
homophone: reddy
homophone: ready
Forms: form: Reddys
form: Redde
form: Reddi
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu రెడ్డి (reḍḍi).
Senses: glosses: A member of this caste.
Reddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /rɛɖ.ɖi/
homophone: reddy (with gemination)
ipa: /ɹɛdi/
homophone: reddy
homophone: ready
Forms: form: Reddys
form: Redde
form: Reddi
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Ó Rodaigh.
Senses: glosses: A surname of Irish origin.
icing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪsɪŋ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: icings
Etymology: Gerund of the verb to ice.
Senses: examples: text: THICK FLUFFY ICING
At the present time there is a demand for very light fluffy icing that may be piled high on a cake. For beating many of the icings of this variety an electric beater is used, and the syrup is added very slowly.
ref: 1917, Janet McKenzie Hill, Cakes, Pastry and Dessert Dishes, page 92:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: frosting
glosses: A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
glosses: The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
examples: text: The Cessna pilots reported that moderate icing was present between 13,000 and 4,000 feet in the cloud layers.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Conditions conducive to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces.
Derived terms: anti-icing
butter icing
flood icing
fondant icing
icinged
icinglike
icing on the cake
icing sugar
royal icing
water icing
icing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪsɪŋ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From the verb to ice.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ice
Bambara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɑmˈbɑɹ.ə/
/-ɑ/
Forms: form: Bambaras
form: Bambara
Senses: glosses: A member of a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa.
glosses: The Bambara groundnut, Vigna subterranea.
Bambara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɑmˈbɑɹ.ə/
/-ɑ/
Senses: glosses: A West Sudanic language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people, and by smaller numbers of people in Senegal Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia.
Derived terms: Bambara bean
Bambara groundnut
Bambara nut
effulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈfʌl.d͡ʒəns/
Forms: form: effulgences
form: affulgence
Etymology: From Latin ex- (“out of, from”) and fulgere (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the clear effulgence of the stars by night […]
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 457
text: These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
Related terms: effulgent
refulgence
bereave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: bereaves
form: bereaving
form: bereaved
form: bereaved
form: bereft
form: bereft
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bireven, from Old English berēafian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), from Proto-Germanic *biraubōną, and Old English berēofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”); both equivalent to be- + reave. Cognate with Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), Norwegian berøve (“to deprive”), Swedish beröva (“to rob”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽 (biraubōn).
Senses: examples: text: Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: bereft of him who taught me how to sing
ref: 1719, Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison:
glosses: To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip.
examples: text: All your interest in those territories / Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: […] shall move you to bereave my life.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
glosses: To deprive of power; prevent.
examples: text: Death bereaved him of his wife.
text: The family has been recently bereaved.
text: The castaways were bereft of hope.
glosses: To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
glosses: To destroy life; cut off.
Derived terms: bereavable
bereavement
bereaver
Related terms: reave
love bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌv baɪt/
Forms: form: love bites
form: lovebite
form: love-bite
Senses: examples: text: Then the turtle-billing kisses, and the poignant painless love bites, which they both exchang'd in a rage of delight, all conspiring towards the melting period
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 63:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: And when my teeth the poignant love-bite try, / Thine should return the painless poignancy.
ref: 1797, Jean Bonnefons, Belinda; or, The Kisses of Joannes Bonefonius of Auvergne, London: G[eorge] Kearsley, s. XXXI (in imitation of Secundus's Basia), page 123:
text: […] with first a scarlet slash of tongue to cheek, he seized her hand between his teeth and dented the soft skin with a love bite that did not hurt.
ref: 1917 April, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘Gee! You ever notice the bloody big love bites on some of those sheilas that work in the Store?’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 70:
text: Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?
ref: 1983, “Bad Boys”, in Fantastic, performed by Wham!:
synonyms: hickey
monkey bite
glosses: A bruise on the skin caused by someone sucking or biting it, usually with sexual intent.
post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: poast
Etymology: Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .
Senses: examples: text: ram a post into the ground
glosses: A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A stud; a two-by-four.
glosses: A pole in a battery.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
qualifier: vocal music; chiefly a cappella; vocal music; chiefly a cappella
glosses: A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: paper
glosses: A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
examples: text: But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A goalpost.
glosses: A location on a basketball court near the basket.
examples: text: when God ſends coyne,
I will diſcharge your poaſt
ref: 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:
glosses: The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
glosses: The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
Derived terms: ale post
A-post
back post
bedpost
behind post
be left at the post
B-post
C-post
deaf as a post
doorpost
D-post
dumb as a post
far post
fencepost
pillar to post
post to pillar
gatepost
goalpost
gradient post
guarding post
high-post
hitching post
jack post
king post
knight of the post
lamppost
lamp post
listening post
low post
low post area
milepost
mooring post
near post
newel post
observation post
pencil-post bed
pip at the post
pip to the post
pissing post
plucking post
poster
post hanger
posthole
post mill
post mold
post oak
post parade
post position
post prison
post time
powder-post
powder-post beetle
prick post
queen post
quoin post
reaching-post
rubbing post
Samson post
scratching post
seat post
signal post
signalpost
signpost
snubbing post
snub post
sound post
starting post
strainer post
swinging post
telegraph post
tool post
travelling post office
turning post
warping post
whipping post
whistle post
winning post
post
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: posting
form: posted
form: posted
form: poast
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).
Senses: examples: text: Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
glosses: To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
examples: text: Post speedily to my lord your husband.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], line 1:
text: thousand at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
ref: c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13
glosses: To travel quickly; to hurry.
examples: text: Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
glosses: To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
qualifier: horse-riding
glosses: To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
examples: text: I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
glosses: To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
Derived terms: poster
post off
unposted
post
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: poast
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).
Senses: examples: text: His highness comes post from Marseilles,
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: We therefore determined to change Horses at the next Town and to travel Post the remainder of the Journey.
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
text: He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.
ref: 1886 November 23, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, pages 134–135:
glosses: With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
glosses: Sent via the postal service.
post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: poast
Etymology: Probably from French poste.
Senses: examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: An assigned station; a guard post.
examples: text: As hard as this may seem for some people to understand, my adamant stand in favor of President Clinton leaving his post was not personal.
ref: 2005, Jesse Helms, “Bill Clinton”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:
text: She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: An appointed position in an organization, job.
post
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: posting
form: posted
form: posted
form: poast
Etymology: Probably from French poste.
Senses: glosses: To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
examples: text: Post a sentinel in front of the door.
text: [I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]
ref: 1839 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: To assign to a station; to set; to place.
post
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: poast
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin post.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
ref: 2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian:
text: Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
ref: 2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian:
glosses: After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
Derived terms: ex post
post factum
post festum
post hoc
post meridiem
post obitum
post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: poast
Etymology: Clipping of post-production.
Senses: examples: text: we'll fix it in post
text: Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.
ref: 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Post-production.
Related terms: post-
post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: poast
Etymology: Clipping of post mortem.
Senses: examples: text: I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.
ref: 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
POST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊst/
Forms: form: POSTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of power-on self-test.
POST
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊst/
Forms: form: POSTs
form: POSTing
form: POSTed
form: POSTed
Senses: examples: text: The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To successfully perform a power-on self-test.
caduceus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdu.si.əs/
ipa: /kəˈdjuː.si.əs/
Forms: form: caducei
Etymology: Via Latin cādūceus, cādūceum, adaptation of Doric Ancient Greek καρύκειον (karúkeion, “herald’s wand or staff”). This and Attic Greek κηρύκειον (kērúkeion) are derived from κῆρυξ (kêrux, “herald, public messenger”). Related to κηρύσσω (kērússō, “I announce”).
Senses: examples: text: Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: golden wand
glosses: The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.
glosses: A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.
Related terms: Aesculapian staff
Star of Life
casket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæs.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæs.kɪt/
rhymes: -æskɪt
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːskɪt
Forms: form: caskets
Etymology: Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Senses: examples: text: They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
The Hunt for the Red Casked
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
glosses: An urn.
glosses: A coffin.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A gasket.
Derived terms: casketful
casketless
casket magazine
encasket
recasket
closed casket
casket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæs.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæs.kɪt/
rhymes: -æskɪt
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːskɪt
Forms: form: caskets
form: casketing
form: casketed
form: casketed
Etymology: Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Senses: examples: text: I have […] casketed my treasure.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
Related terms: cask
exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sə.saɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪz/
homophone: exorcise (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: exercises
form: exercising
form: exercised
form: exercised
form: exercize
form: exercice
Etymology: From Middle English exercise, from Old French exercise, from Latin exercitium.
Senses: examples: text: to exercise troops or horses;  to exercise one's brain with a puzzle
glosses: To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
examples: text: I exercise at the gym every day.
glosses: To perform physical activity for health or training.
examples: text: exercise caution
text: The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy.
text: She is going to exercise her right to vote.
text: The people of the land haue vsed oppression, and exercised robbery, and haue vexed the poore and needie: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 22:29:
text: The pre-grouping railway managements were very chary about allowing other people's trains on their territory, and there were many instances where running powers granted by Act of Parliament were never actually excercised because of difficulties deliberately put in the way.
ref: 1955 July, R. S. McNaught, “"Foreign" Engine Workings”, in Railway Magazine, page 497:
glosses: To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
examples: text: exercised with pain
text: Where pain of unextinguiſhable fire / Muſt exerciſe us without hope of end
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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, lines 88–89:
qualifier: now often passive voice
glosses: To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
examples: text: And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:16:
text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
glosses: To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
Derived terms: word: exercisability
word: exercisable
word: exercised
word: exerciser
word: exercise the ferret
alt: n.
word: exercising
word: nonexercising
word: outexercise
word: overexercise
word: underexercise
word: unexercised
Related terms: train
work out
exorcise
crania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Senses: examples: text: They used advanced CT scanning and digital construction to correct the compression and distortions in the crania, which revealed a mix of previously unknown traits.
ref: 2025 September 27, Julia Jacobo, “Million-year-old skull could rewrite timeline of human origin, researchers say”, in ABC News:
glosses: plural of cranium.
onymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.ɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˈɑn.ɪ.məs/
Etymology: Back-formation from anonymous.
Senses: synonyms: named
antonyms: anonymous
glosses: Having a name.
Derived terms: onymity
onymously
Related terms: -nym
-onym
pseudonymous
English terms suffixed with -nym
Roumania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rumania
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Romania.
Rumania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɹuˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: Romania
form: Roumania
Senses: examples: text: Yugoslavia is as free as Iran, freer than Rumania, less free than Morocco.
ref: 1978, Freedom House, Freedom in the World:
glosses: Dated form of Romania.
perspicuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈspɪkjuːəs/
ipa: /pərˈspɪkjəwəs/
ipa: /pɚˈspɪkjuːəs/
Forms: form: more perspicuous
form: most perspicuous
Etymology: From Latin perspicuus, in turn from perspiciō (“see through”).
Senses: examples: text: I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous […]
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 4:
synonyms: word: transparent
word: pervious
word: apprehensible
word: clear
word: comprehensible
word: explainable
word: explicable
word: explicatable
word: fathomable
word: graspable
word: illuminable
word: intelligible
word: lucid
word: pellucid
word: perspicuous
word: straightforward
word: tangible
word: understandable
antonyms: word: comprehensible
glosses: Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: (Of a language or notation) the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
synonyms: word: transparent
word: see-through
word: ;
word: translucent
word: ;
word: clear
word: clear as crystal
word: crystalline
word: diaphanous
word: glassy
word: hyaline
word: hyaloid
word: limpid
word: lucid
word: pellucid
word: perspicuous
word: see-through
word: serene
word: transparent
word: transpicuous
word: vitreous
antonyms: word: imperspicuous
word: translucent
word: transparent
word: turbid
qualifier: literal
glosses: That can be seen through clearly; that lets light through.
Derived terms: perspicuously
perspicuousness
semiperspicuous
unperspicuous
Related terms: perspective
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicacity
perspicuity
homograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒməɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈhəʊməɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈhɑːməɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈhoʊməɡɹæf/
Forms: form: homographs
Etymology: From homo- + -graph.
Senses: hypernyms: homonym
coordinate_terms: homophone
glosses: A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: homoglyph
glosses: A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.
Derived terms: homographic
homographous
Related terms: word: allograph
word: autograph
word: homeograph
word: homoglyph
word: homographic
word: homography
word: isograph
word: polyphone
word: capitonym
word: identical
word: same
word: homophone & homograph
english: category
translation: category
word: homophone
word: different
word: homophone & heterograph
word: alternative spelling
word: homonym
word: synonym
word: heterophone & heterograph
english: category
translation: category
word: heteronym
word: heterophone & homograph
word: alternative pronunciation
word: distinct
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: Uncertain; it has been suggested that the word derives from cobbler’s punch (“warm drink made of beer with added spirit, sugar, and spices”), or because the drink patches up (“repairs; makes better”) the drinker.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e produced a very large tumbler, piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two thin slices of lemon, and a golden liquid of delicious appearance, appeared from the still depths below, to the loving eye of the spectator. […] "This wonderful invention, sir," said Mark, tenderly patting the empty glass, "is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler when you name it long; cobbler, when you name it short.[…]"
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Martin Enlarges His Circle of Acquaintance; […]”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, pages 223–224:
text: In the creed of Asirvadam the Brahmin, the drinker of strong drink is a Pariah, and the eater of cow's flesh is damned already. If, then, he can tell a cocktail from a cobbler, and scientifically discriminate between a julep and a gin-sling, it must be because the Vedas are unclasped to him; for in the Vedas all things are taught.
ref: 1858 June, “Asirvadam the Brahmin”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume II, number VIII, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 86, column 1:
text: It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
qualifier: alcoholic beverages
glosses: An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: From cobble (“rounded stone used for paving roads, cobblestone”) + -er (occupational suffix). Cobble is from Late Middle English, from cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”) + -le, -el (suffix forming diminutives). The further etymology of cobbe is uncertain; it is perhaps a variant of cop (“the top of something (a house, tower, mountain, tree, etc.); crown or top of the head; the head”), from Old English cop, copp (“summit, top; cup, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, orb; knoll; hilltop, summit; crown or top of the head; head; skull; bowl; container, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object; knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”). However, this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: glosses: A roadworker who lays cobbles.
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.
Senses: examples: text: ["A]n' 'e was mad, an' so he snatched my cobbler an' run off with it. An' so I run after 'im, an' when I was gettin' hold of him, 'e dodged, an' it ripped 'is collar. But I got my cobbler—" He pulled from his pocket a black old horse-chestnut hanging on a string. This old cobbler had "cobbled"—hit and smashed—seventeen other cobblers on similar strings. So this boy was proud of his veteran.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Casting Off of Morel—The Taking On of William”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 50:
glosses: The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
topics: games
glosses: Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
synonyms: word: conkers
extra: (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.
ref: 1831 November 10, George Fletcher Moore, “The Journey”, in Martin Doyle, editor, Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Esq. […], London: Orr and Smith, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Co. […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 122:
glosses: Used as a name for various animals.
Also estuary cobbler:
The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.
glosses: Used as a name for various animals.
Also estuary cobbler:
The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
glosses: Used as a name for various animals.
Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
glosses: Used as a name for various animals.
Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
glosses: Used as a name for various animals.
Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
examples: text: Look out: it’s the cobblers!
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer.
Related terms: cobblerfish
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: Uncertain. First attested in 1859; various suggested etymologies include:
* the top having the appearance of cobblestone rather than smooth rolled-out pastry;
* Middle English cobeler, some type of wooden bowl, dish, or vessel (mentioned in a 1385 list of wooden vessels)
* the dish having been cobbled together, as it is suggested it may have originated in the British colonies in America among settlers who lacked ingredients and tools to make make things like traditional suet pudding and so fit together pieces of other pastry-topping materials.
Senses: examples: text: I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive—as follows: […] Apple puffs, Southern style. Peach cobbler, Southern style. Peach pie. American mince pie.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, pages 574–575:
text: The Al Qaeda online magazine 'Inspire' has a recipe for a homemade bomb. They also have a recipe for a pretty darn good peach cobbler.
ref: 2013 April 30, Norm Macdonald Live, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Larry King:
glosses: Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.
Related terms: dump cake
cobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒblə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbələ/
ipa: /ˈkɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobblers
Etymology: From cobbler's awls as rhyming slang for balls.
Senses: glosses: A testicle.
glosses: Nonsense.
imitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more imitable
form: most imitable
Etymology: From French imitable, from Latin imitābilis. See imitate.
Senses: examples: text: The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers.
ref: 1705, Francis Atterbury, Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet:
glosses: Capable of being imitated or copied.
examples: text: otherwise how were it possible, that the most base men, and separate from all imitable qualities, could so often attain to honour and riches, but by such an observant slavish course ?
ref: 1616, Walter Raleigh, “Of fortune: and of the reason of some things that seem to be by fortune, and against reason and providence.”, in The History of the World, section XV:
glosses: Worthy of imitation.
Synonyms: word: copiable
word: imitable
Derived terms: imitableness
unimitable
Related terms: word: imitate
word: imitation
word: imitative
acquaintant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪntənt/
Forms: form: acquaintants
Etymology: From acquaint + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: By the time that an author hath written out a book, he and his readers are become old acquaintants
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section CONCLUSION”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An acquaintance.
polyeidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The quality or state of being polyeidic.
SEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SEOs
Senses: examples: text: Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.
ref: 2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:
coordinate_terms: ASO
glosses: Initialism of search engine optimization.
examples: text: Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.
ref: 2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024:
synonyms: SEOer
glosses: Initialism of search engine optimizer.
Derived terms: SEOer
paddlewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddlewheels
Senses: glosses: A large wheel fitted with thick slats, turned by an engine and used to propel a boat.
glosses: A boat propelled by a paddlewheel.
Derived terms: paddlewheeler
brunette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuˈnɛt/
ipa: /bɹuːˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: brunet
raw_tags: of a man or boy
Etymology: Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.
Senses: glosses: Of a brown color or tone.
raw_tags: of hair
glosses: Having brown hair.
raw_tags: of a person
brunette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuˈnɛt/
ipa: /bɹuːˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: brunettes
form: brunet
raw_tags: of a man or boy
Etymology: Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.
Senses: examples: text: And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.
ref: 1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:
text: The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
ref: 1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:
text: Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.
ref: 2020, Eleanore King, Glorify Yourself:
glosses: A person, especially female, with brown hair.
Derived terms: bluenette
bronde
brunetteness
Related terms: blonde
noirette