cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tramp steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramp steamers
Senses: examples: text: They found out I was bright, so they figured I'd make a good labor organizer when I got out of school. When I left at the end of the summer, they carefully instructed me how to shag a tramp steamer in 'Frisco going south, lending me an old union card so I could work my passage as a deck hand.
ref: 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A commercial steamship that has no regular schedule or published ports of call.
Synonyms: ocean tramp
Related terms: tramp trade
port of call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ports of call
Senses: examples: text: Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
ref: 1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies.
examples: text: My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man.
ref: 2002, Phil Cousineau, Robert A Johnson, Coincidence Or Destiny?: Stories of Synchronicity That Illuminate Our Lives:
glosses: A place visited.
Derived terms: first port of call
lopsided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒp.saɪ.dəd/
ipa: /ˈlɑp.saɪ.dɪd/
Forms: form: more lopsided
form: most lopsided
form: lop-sided
Etymology: From lop (“to hang loosely”) + side + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.
glosses: Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.
glosses: biased; not balanced between points of view
Derived terms: lopsidedly
lopsidedness
Related terms: top-heavy
stokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊks
Etymology: See stoke (verb)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stoke
stokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊks
Forms: form: stokes
Etymology: After George Gabriel Stokes
Senses: glosses: A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s. Symbol: S or St.
slant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈslænt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: slants
Etymology: Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Senses: examples: text: The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
glosses: A slope; an incline, inclination.
glosses: A sloped surface or line.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
examples: text: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref: [1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: text
word: particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text
extra: text
glosses: An oblique movement or course.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sloping surface in a culture medium.
glosses: A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
glosses: A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
glosses: A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
glosses: A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
glosses: An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
glosses: A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
examples: text: It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.
synonyms: bias
glosses: A point of view, an angle.
examples: text: All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: `What do you want?' `Just a slant at the weapon,' said Fenner.
ref: 1920 June 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 213, column 1:
glosses: A look, a glance.
glosses: A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
Synonyms: topics: typography
publishing
media
word: slash
Derived terms: downslant
rough slant
slant bar
slant distance
slant-eyed
slant height
slant line
slant of wind
slant range
slant rhyme
slant sight
Related terms: slent
slant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈslænt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: slants
form: slanting
form: slanted
form: slanted
Etymology: Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Senses: examples: text: If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
text: On the side of yonder slanting hill
ref: 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture:
glosses: To lean, tilt or incline.
examples: text: The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
glosses: To bias or skew.
glosses: To lie or exaggerate.
Related terms: aslant
slent
slant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈslænt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Etymology: Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Senses: examples: text: The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun
Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]
ref: 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:
text: A slant ray of golden sunshine entered the chamber; it drew nearer and nearer as the hour went by, till it fell on Guido's bed.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 308:
text: By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]
ref: 2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now:
glosses: Sloping; oblique; slanted.
from the bottom of one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He told her how much he loved her, and he meant it from the bottom of his heart.
text: From the bottom of my heart, I love you / I can say these words to you without delay
ref: 2005, Stevie Wonder, “From the Bottom of My Heart”, in A Time to Love:
text: When did all the things I mean / From the bottom of my heart start to lose meaning?
ref: 2017, “Lose You”, in More Life, performed by Drake:
glosses: In earnest; sincerely; with one's full feeling.
Related terms: with all one's heart
converging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: approaching each other at a point; convergent.
converging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of converge
Derived terms: converging lens
convergingly
converging rays
converging series
nonconverging
unconverging
converging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convergings
Senses: examples: text: the deeper convergings and divergings of our own natures
ref: 1998, Franklin Burroughs, Billy Watson's Croker Sack, page 61:
glosses: convergence
Garrett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Etymology: A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.
Senses: related: word: Garrod
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
related: word: Garret
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from an English and an Irish surname, or in Ireland directly from Gerard.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Douglas County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in DeKalb County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Meade County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Callaway County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ellis County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Walla Walla County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Albany County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Crosby Garrett
Garrett County
-safe
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: 2000 September 6, Hadley Stern and David Lehn, Death of the Websafe Color Palette?, Webmonkey
But it's been more than three years since Lynda Weinman assembled her "browser safe palette" for Photoshop
2005, Planet Innovation, website
attempting to compile a complete list of the most people-safe products
glosses: Free from danger or problems.
Derived terms: dishwasher-safe
fail-safe
Related terms: -proof
wirehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireheads
Etymology: From wire + -head.
Senses: examples: text: He turns around and looks behind him. The wirehead he saw a few seconds ago is out in the open now, standing all by himself at the edge of a raft. Everyone else has cleared out of there.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who has an electronic brain implant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware hacker.
glosses: A person who likes to tinker with electronics.
fisheye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃˌaɪ/
Forms: form: fisheyes
form: fish eye
form: fish-eye
Etymology: From fish + eye.
Senses: glosses: An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
glosses: An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
glosses: An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow.
examples: text: The imaging unit is not without flaws, and it’s not as powerful as a professional hand-held S.L.R. camera. For example, there’s a noticeable fish-eye distortion in the image that comes from the unit’s really wide vision angle, and you can’t zoom the field of view.
ref: 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Ellipsis of fisheye lens.
Related terms: fish-eyed
fishhead
fisheye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃˌaɪ/
Forms: form: fisheyes
form: fisheyeing
form: fisheying
form: fisheyed
form: fisheyed
form: fish eye
form: fish-eye
Etymology: From fish + eye.
Senses: examples: text: She fisheyed our entrycards, looking to see if we’d remagnetized them to untoward purpose.
ref: 1988, Jack Womack, Terraplane, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 27:
text: The director fisheyed me—I strolled to the trailer, nonchalant.
ref: 1992, James Ellroy, White Jazz, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, →ISBN, page 164:
text: My father with his Christmas-red vest and braggart’s moustache is boycotting the party. It must be Sunday or Saturday morning and he’s cold and sleepy fisheyeing his long-haired sons.
ref: 1996, Pat Lowther, Time Capsule: New and Selected Poems, Polestar Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at.
achondroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪkɑndɹəˈplæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: Of, related to, or suffering from achondroplasia.
bewitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈwɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: bewitches
form: bewitching
form: bewitched
form: bewitched
Etymology: From Middle English bewicchen, bewycchen, biwicchen, equivalent to be- + witch.
Senses: examples: text: And further, this examinate saith, that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby, to one Willison, a husbandman, and Robert Williman, a husbandman's son, and bade the kitten go to Willison and bewitch him to death, and the moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death, which they did, and within ten days they died.
ref: 1852, Thomas Wright, “Witchcraft in England during the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century” (chapter XXIV), in Narratives of Sorcery and Witchcraft from the most Authentic Sources, page 288:
text: Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance,[…]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
ref: 1901, Andrew Lang, “The Fairy of the Dawn”, in The Violet Fairy Book:
glosses: To cast a spell upon.
examples: text: I was bewitched by the sight of the girl dancing in the forest.
text: A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: / […] / A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby / Ribbands to flovv confuſedly: / […] / Do more bevvitch me, than vvhen Art / Is too preciſe in every part.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 29:
synonyms: forspeak
glosses: To fascinate or charm.
examples: text: Is it not a fact that the miners of this country are bewildered and bewitched and do not know what is to happen?
ref: 1967 May 9, Eldon Wylie Griffiths, “Fuel And Power Policy”, in parliamentary debates (UK House Of Commons), volume 746, column 1260:
glosses: To astonish, amaze.
Derived terms: bewitchable
bewitchedness
bewitchee
bewitcher
bewitchery
bewitchful
bewitching
bewitchingly
bewitchingness
bewitchment
unbewitch
blogography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: blogographies
Etymology: Blend of blog + biography
Senses: examples: 2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
As the Arabic blogosphere started with people living under the pressures of war, rebellion and persecution, it is no wonder that blogographies have tremendously increased since the beginnings of the 'Arab spring'.
glosses: A biography in blog format.
infecundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infecundities
Etymology: From in- + fecundity, from Latin infecunditas.
Senses: synonyms: barrenness
fruitlessness
sterility
unproductiveness
glosses: Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness
Derived terms: infecund
engram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɛŋˌɡɹæm/
homophone: n-gram
Forms: form: engrams
form: engramme
Etymology: Borrowed from German Engramm which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 (see quotation below). Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing, picture”).
Senses: examples: text: I use the word engram to denote this permanent change wrought by a stimulus; the sum of such engrams in an organism may be called its "engram-store," among which must distinguish inherited from acquired engrams.
ref: 1921 January, Richard Semon, “II (Engraphic Action of Stimuli on the Individual)”, in Louis Simon, transl., The Mneme, Cornell University Library, published 2005, page 24:
glosses: A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.
Derived terms: engrammic
fish eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fisheye.
examples: text: Fish eyes are specially suited for seeing underwater.
ref: 2008, Sara Swan Miller, All Kinds of Eyes, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fish, eye.
carrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carri
form: charrus
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin carrus (“load”). Doublet of car and horse.
Senses: glosses: A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Synonyms: load
Hyponyms: load
Engram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, a rare variant of Ingram.
glosses: an enneagram, a nine-pointed figure.
glosses: N-gram, a subsequence.
Ingram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋɡɹəm/
Forms: form: Inghram
form: Ingrum
Etymology: From a Middle English given name, from Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz (“a Germanic god”) + *hrabnaz (“raven”). The places are named after persons with the surname.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Kerr County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A small village and large civil parish west of Alnwick, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0116).
Related terms: word: Inghram
word: Ingraham
ferri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferric
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferric:
Iron (the metal).
synonyms: ferro-#Prefix
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferric:
Iron (the metal).
Iron of oxidation number 3.
synonyms: ferro-#Prefix
coordinate_terms: ferro-#Prefix
Derived terms: ferricyanhydric acid
ferricyanic acid
ferricyanide
ferricyanogen
hydroferricyanate, hydroferridcyanate
hydroferricyanic, hydroferridcyanic
tram stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram stops
Senses: examples: text: When Metrolink services finally began operating on the route, new tram stops were opened at Monsall, Central Park, South Chadderton and Freehold, while the former rail stations at Failsworth, Hollinwood and Dean Lane (renamed Newton Heath and Moston) were put back into service.
ref: 2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in Rail, page 62:
glosses: a designated point on a tram route where passengers may board or leave the tram
tram track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram tracks
Senses: glosses: The track on which a tram runs; the tramway.
tramway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramways
Etymology: From tram + way.
Senses: glosses: The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
glosses: The system of cables that supports a cable car.
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.
Derived terms: aerial tramway
cable tramway
tranquilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranquilizers
form: tranquiliser
form: tranquilliser (mainly UK)
form: tranquillizer (mainly US)
Etymology: From tranquilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which tranquillizes or soothes.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: ataractic
word: tranq
word: sedative
glosses: A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: ataractic
word: tranq
word: sedative
glosses: A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
A gun that fires sedative darts.
Synonyms: trank
tranq
Coordinate terms: chill pill
downer
horse tranquilizer
no-go pill
pill
sleeping pill
Derived terms: horse tranquilizer
trank
tranq
tranquilizer dart
tranx
ferroso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferrous
Derived terms: ferroso-aluminic sulfate
ferroso-aluminic sulphate
ferroso-ferric oxide
Related terms: ferro-
adzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.zəd/
rhymes: -ædzəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adze
glosses: simple past and past participle of adz
adzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adze
glosses: present participle and gerund of adz
adzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adze
adzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adze
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adz
advokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advoke
advoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advoke
advoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advoke
advises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advise
adviewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adview
adviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adview
adviews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adview
advertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advertise
adverbialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adverbialize
adverbializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adverbialize
adverbializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adverbialize
adverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advert
adverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advert
adverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advert
adverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advert
transcendentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transcendentally
form: most transcendentally
Etymology: From transcendental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a transcendental manner.
transfer rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer rates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data transfer rate.
data transfer rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data transfer rates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transmission speed of a communications channel; measured in bits or bytes per second.
Synonyms: transfer rate
cobaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cobaltic
form: most cobaltic
Etymology: From cobalt + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to cobalt.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing cobalt in oxidation state 3.
Derived terms: luteocobaltic
purpureocobaltic
Related terms: cobalti-
cobaltosic
cobaltous
advoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: advokes
form: advoking
form: advoked
form: advoked
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin advocare, formed from ad + vocare (“to call”). Doublet of advocate, avouch, and avow.
Senses: glosses: To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
Related terms: avoke
cobaltous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cobaltous
form: most cobaltous
Etymology: From cobalt + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing cobalt in oxidation state 2.
Derived terms: cobaltous chloride
cobaltous oxide
Related terms: cobalto-
cobaltic
cobaltosic
cobalti-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cobaltic
Related terms: cobaltic
cobalto-
adview
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adviews
form: adviewing
form: adviewed
form: adviewed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aview.
cobalto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cobaltous
Related terms: cobaltous
cobalti-
adventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃəz/
ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of adventure
adventures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃəz/
ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adventure
adverbialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adverbialise
adventuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adventure
adventuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adventurings
Senses: examples: text: Shawna has grown up into a sort of Outward Bound explorer of the erotic wilderness, whose adventurings — recounted on a widely read blog — include a stint working at “the Lusty Lady, a peep show in North Beach that recently became the nation’s first worker-owned strip club.”
ref: 2007 June 24, David Leavitt, “Still More Tales of the City”, in New York Times:
glosses: adventure
adverbialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adverbialise
adverbialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adverbialise
bumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bum
adventured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adventure
SADT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SADTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of structured analysis and design technique.
scrumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrump
scrump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: scrumps
form: skrump
form: skrimp
Etymology: From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.
Senses: glosses: Anything small or undersized.
glosses: A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
glosses: A small apple.
scrump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: scrumps
form: scrumping
form: scrumped
form: scrumped
form: skrump
form: skrimp
Etymology: From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.
Senses: glosses: To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
examples: text: (we've all seen trees, and arent Adam and Eve condemned for having gone scrumping?; interestingly a great philosopher recalled Saint Augustine spent a lot of his long life being racked with guilt for having gone scrumping for some pears when he was a boy! ...)
ref: 1994, Edward Bond, Edward Bond Letters, volume 1, page 180:
ref: 1997, Caradog Prichard, translated by Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night, page 18:
text: [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.
I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:
text: Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.
ref: 2006, Richard Dawkins, chapter 7, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
glosses: To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
glosses: To have sex.
Derived terms: scrump up
Related terms: scrumpy
shrump
foreman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: foremen
form: forman
Etymology: From Middle English foremon, forman; equivalent to fore- + man. Compare West Frisian foarman, Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand, Swedish förman, Icelandic formaður.
Senses: examples: text: Since we’re getting too friendly, Ephraim Winslow, tell me, what’s a timber man want with being a wickie? Not enough quiet for ye up north? Sawdust itching yer nethers? Foreman found ye too high-tempered for carrying an axe?
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
topics: management
glosses: The leader of a work crew.
topics: law
glosses: The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
glosses: A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
Derived terms: foremanship
subforeman
Related terms: forepeople
foreperson
forewoman
foremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mən/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mɛn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Senses: glosses: plural of foreman
naartjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naartjies
form: naartje
form: nartje
form: nartjie
Etymology: From Tamil நாரத்தை (nārattai, “citron”) through Afrikaans. Has been used in South Africa since 1790. Appearing in English as naartje in 1901, in this spelling by Lawrence Green in Tavern of the Seas, 1947.
Senses: glosses: Citrus reticulata (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.
bish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bǐsh
ipa: /bɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: bishes
Etymology: Phonetic modification of bitch, based on black American speech.
Senses: examples: text: Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a series of cue cards: I know you're an elector / And on December 19ᵗʰ... / You're supposed to vote for Donald Trump / But bish... / ...He crayhttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/but-bish-he-cray-snl-spoofs-love-actually-ahead-of-electoral-college-vote-to-confirm-president-trump
ref: 2016 December 17, Saturday Night Live (comedy sketch), National Broadcasting Company
glosses: A minced oath (as a term of abuse).
bish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bǐsh
ipa: /bɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: bishes
Senses: examples: text: What on earth was the matter with him? He never made bishes like this during PT!
ref: 1951, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Follows a Clue, →ISBN, page 41:
text: "You — you don't mean you've made a bish of it?" [said Darbishire]
ref: 1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire, London; Glasgow: Collins, page 64:
glosses: A mistake.
bish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bǐsh
ipa: /bɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: bishes
Etymology: Clipping of bishop.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's all right, bish,' said Augustine.
'All—all right?' faltered the bishop.
ref: 1927, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Bishop's Move”, in Meet Mr Mulliner:
text: BALDRICK: My Lord, the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
BISHOP: (enters) The time has come, Blackadder!
ref: 1986, Blackadder TV series, Money (series 2 episode 4)
roman: EDMUND: Oh, hello, Bish.
text: 'The Bishop of Bangor called.' My father and the bish were pals. 'He has received a strange request from the security service.'
ref: 2017, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All about You, page 1:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A bishop.
Derived terms: archbish
bish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bǐsh
ipa: /bɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bikh.
synonyms: word: bikh
Related terms: bish bash bosh
rooinek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔɪnek/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɪnɛk/
Forms: form: rooineks
form: rooinekke
Etymology: From Afrikaans rooinek, from rooi (“red”) + nek (“neck”). The term refers to South Africans of British descent, who were perceived by Afrikaners to wear headgear (such as solar topees or no hat at all) which was inadequate in protecting them from sunburn, and thus caused them to have red necks. Other theories include the term being a reference to the red collars of 19th-century British military uniforms or to the red markings that British-South African farmers painted on their imported merino sheep. Compare redneck.
Senses: examples: text: Again and again the surprise was effected, not by the nation of hunters, but by those rooineks whose want of cunning and of veld-craft had for so long been a subject of derision and merriment.
ref: 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, published 2011, page 470:
text: “Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”
ref: 1904, Sabine Baring-Gould, The White Flag:
text: 'My father was at Bronkhurst Spruit,' he continued. 'How they shot the rooineks down that day! Our men lay in the long grass, while the redcoats stood in line on the road, and they shot them like rabbits. The fools! Their guns were in the carts.'
ref: 1906, William Henry Fitchett, Ithuriel's Spear, published 2008, page 240:
text: That evening […] the other, quite frankly, said that these rooineks got her down, they were all the same, they thought they owned the earth they walked on.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 13:
text: I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.
ophthalmitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒfθælˈmaɪtɪs/
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -itis.
Senses: synonyms: ophthalmia
glosses: Severe conjunctivitis (inflammation of the conjunctiva).
Related terms: pinkeye
conjunctivitis
damps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damp
damps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of damp
dilutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dilute
dilutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilute
diluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dilute
diluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diluted
form: most diluted
Senses: examples: text: diluted orange juice
glosses: That has had something added in order to dilute it.
Derived terms: dilbit
dilutedness
haemodiluted
hemodiluted
nondiluted
prediluted
rediluted
semidiluted
undiluted
linguaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguaphiles
Etymology: From Latin lingua + -phile.
Senses: synonyms: glossophile
antonyms: logophobe
glosses: A person who loves languages and words.
Related terms: linguaphilia
hurts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːts/
ipa: /hɝts/
homophone: hertz
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurt
hurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːts/
ipa: /hɝts/
homophone: hertz
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: plural of hurt
Hellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more Hellenic
form: most Hellenic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), equivalent to Hellen + -ic.
The English term is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek formed in the 17th-century, attested from ca. 1640.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
glosses: Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
Synonyms: word: Grecian
word: Greek
Hellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), equivalent to Hellen + -ic.
The English term is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek formed in the 17th-century, attested from ca. 1640.
Senses: glosses: The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek.
Derived terms: Hellenic Republic
Hellenisation
Hellenization
Hellenise
Hellenize
Helleniser
Hellenizer
Hellenism
Hellenist
Hellenistic
Hellenistical
Related terms: Helladic
Hellas
Hellen
Hellene
hunkering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hunker
acclimatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acclimatizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acclimatise
acclimatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acclimatise
acclimatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acclimatise
accloys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accloy
accloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accloy
accloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accloy
accoasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accoast
accoasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accoast
accoasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accoast
accolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accoll
accolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accoll
accolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accoll
accoladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accolade
accoladed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accoladed
form: most accoladed
Senses: glosses: Having been the subject of accolade(s); having won awards, received honors or been commended.
accolading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accolade
accouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accouche
accouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accouche
accouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accouche
accompted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accompt
accompting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accompt
accompting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of accounting.
accompts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accompt
accompts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accompt
ecumenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iːˈkjuː.mə.nɪzm/
/ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪzm/
Forms: form: ecumenisms
form: œcumenism
Etymology: From ecumene + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: ecumenicalism
ecumenicism
ecumenicity
glosses: Ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
Derived terms: ecumenist
ecumenicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.sɪzm/
Forms: form: ecumenicisms
Etymology: From ecumenic + -ism. By surface analysis, ecumene + -icism.
Senses: examples: text: He [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] corresponded so heavily that scholars are still sorting through his unpublished papers. In his philosophy he practised an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven. Leibniz seems never to have met a philosopher or a theologian he didn’t like, and his metaphysics developed out of an effort to harmonise the ancient thinking of (both) Plato and Aristotle with tenets of Christian and Jewish theology and with the ‘mechanical philosophy’ the Royal Society had been created to champion. It is impossible to know precisely what he was thinking without perusing his vast legacy of papers. In effect, Leibniz’s philosophy ceased to exist at the moment he died. Since then, anyone who has wanted to know it has first had to reconstruct it, which is only possible for forensically inclined scholars, fluent in Latin, French and German, and well versed in the history of Western philosophy, Christian theology and Enlightenment science.
ref: 2010, Neal Stephenson, “Atoms of cognition: metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715–2010”, in Bill Bryson, editor, Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, Mariner Books, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Synonym of ecumenism.
synonyms: word: ecumenism
Related terms: ecumenical
ecumenicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecumenicists
Etymology: From ecumenic + -ist.
Senses: hypernyms: conciliator
reconciler
reconciliator
glosses: A person who advocates Christian ecumenicity.
Related terms: ecumenical
ecumenicism
ecumenicity
ecumenical movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved.
Related terms: ecumene
ecumenic
ecumenical
ecumenicalism
ecumenicism
ecumenism
balls-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balls-ups
Etymology: Balls in this sense refers to testicles. See also the verb, to balls up and go balls up.
Senses: examples: text: I was making a cake but when I added too much sugar, it became the balls-up of my cooking career.
synonyms: ballup
cock-up
mess-up
glosses: Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.
DFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DFDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of data flow diagram.
honours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honors
Senses: glosses: plural of honour
honours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: honors
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honour
honors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈɒn.əz/
Forms: form: honours
Senses: glosses: plural of honor
honors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈɒn.əz/
Forms: form: honours
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honor
honors
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈɒn.əz/
Forms: form: honours
Senses: examples: text: I'm taking honors math this year.
text: My son is an honors student.
glosses: At an excelling level in academics.
Gallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Forms: form: more Gallic
form: most Gallic
form: gallic
Etymology: From Latin Gallicus (“of or related to Gaul”), from Gallia (“Gaul”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adj.”), used archaically in New Latin and English in reference to modern France.
Senses: synonyms: word: Gaulish
word: Gallian
glosses: Of or related to Gaul or the Gauls.
glosses: Synonym of Frankish, of or related to the medieval Frankish kingdom or the Franks.
synonyms: word: Frankish
word: of or related to the medieval Frankish kingdom or the Franks
examples: text: This dislocation of gender roles in popular entertainment seems to have started with La Cage Aux Folles. This Gallic drag remake of You Can't Take It With You was a huge success at the box office while managing to present gay characters as comic though never foolish.
ref: 1983 February 12, Michael Bronski, “Tootsie and the Gender Benders”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of French, of or related to modern France or the French.
synonyms: word: French
word: of or related to modern France or the French
Derived terms: gallice
gallicism
Gallicity
gallicize
Gallicness
gallium
humidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humidify
humidified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by humidification
Derived terms: unhumidified
Nguni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /(ə)ŋˈɡuːni/
Etymology: From Zulu noun stem as in umNguni (“member of Nguni people”), isiNguni (“Nguni language group”).
Senses: glosses: The group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.
Nguni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /(ə)ŋˈɡuːni/
Etymology: From Zulu noun stem as in umNguni (“member of Nguni people”), isiNguni (“Nguni language group”).
Senses: glosses: The group of languages of the Nguni people.
Derived terms: sense: Nguni cattle
word: small hardy cattle endemic to Southern Africa
homoerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhoʊmoʊəˈɹɑtɪk/
ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊəˈɹɒtɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more homoerotic
form: most homoerotic
Etymology: From homo- + erotic.
Senses: glosses: Arousing a homosexual desire.
glosses: Pertaining to homosexual love or desire
glosses: homosexual
Derived terms: homoerotically
homoeroticism
homoeroticist
nonhomoerotic
Related terms: homoromantic
bierotic
analloerotic
lighthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪthaʊs/
Forms: form: lighthouses
Etymology: From light + house.
Senses: related: word: light house
synonyms: obeliscolychny
phare#Noun
hypernyms: house#Noun
building#Noun
;
light
;
aid#Noun
coordinate_terms: light buoy#Noun
lightboat#Noun
lightship#Noun
lightvessel#Noun
glosses: A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
Derived terms: lighthouse coffeepot
lighthouse keeper
lighthousekeeper
lighthouselike
lighthouseman
lighthouse tube
screw-pile lighthouse
Related terms: beacon