cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: elatives
Etymology: From Latin ēlātus, perfect past participle of efferō (“I carry out or away”)
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about".
Related terms: absolute superlative
comparative
comparative superlative
degrees of comparison
elative case
positive
relative superlative
superlative
stylish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more stylish
form: most stylish
form: stilish
Etymology: From style + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Having style.
examples: text: “[…] Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. […]”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XXX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: […] and that her darling boy, with his beautiful face and stylish air “beyond anybody else’s son in Middlemarch,” would be sure to get like that family in plainness of appearance and carelessness about his clothes.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVI, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 257:
text: “That’s it!” cried Clare, pleased to think that she had reverted to the real pronunciation. “What place is The Herons?”
“A stylish lodging-house. ’Tis all lodging-houses here, bless ’ee.”
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 234:
text: But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIII, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: chic
antonyms: unstylish
glosses: Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Having a particular directing style or cinematography.
Derived terms: stylishly
stylishness
unstylish
lexical definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexical definitions
Senses: glosses: The meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.
Synonyms: word: dictionary definition
dictionary definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictionary definitions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: lexical definition
antonyms: stipulative definition
hypernyms: definition
;
meaning
;
identity
;
characterization
coordinate_terms: word: conceptual definition
english: all can [[overlap#Verb|overlap]] with dictionary definition
translation: all can [[overlap#Verb|overlap]] with dictionary definition
word: operational definition
word: ostensive definition
glosses: A descriptive definition specifying one of the commonly used meanings of the defined term.
draining board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draining boards
Senses: glosses: A board beside a kitchen sink, designed to drain into the sink, used for letting kitchen utensils dry after they had been washed.
Synonyms: drainboard
drainer
Related terms: dish rack
drying rack
dish drainer
field mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field mice
form: fieldmouse
Etymology: From Middle English feeld mous.
Senses: glosses: A small vole such as the meadow vole.
glosses: One of several species of mice in genus Apodemus found in Eurasia and Africa.
glosses: One of several species of mice in genus Akodon found in South America.
Derived terms: St Kilda field mouse
Taiwan field mouse
yellow-necked field mouse
Related terms: country mouse
field rat
delectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɛktəbəl/
ipa: [dɪˈlɛktəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more delectable
form: most delectable
Etymology: From Middle English delectable, from Middle French délectable, from Old French delectable, from Medieval Latin delectare (“to delight”). By surface analysis, delect + -able. Piecewise doublet of delightable.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:delectable.
glosses: Highly pleasing; delightful, especially to any of the senses; delicious.
Derived terms: delectability
delectableness
delectably
indelectable
undelectable
delectable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɛktəbəl/
ipa: [dɪˈlɛktəbəɫ]
Forms: form: delectables
Etymology: From Middle English delectable, from Middle French délectable, from Old French delectable, from Medieval Latin delectare (“to delight”). By surface analysis, delect + -able. Piecewise doublet of delightable.
Senses: examples: text: These include such delectables as cars and drivers, country club memberships and personal use of corporate aircraft.
ref: 2009 February 8, Gretchen Morgenson, “Bailout Needs Some Strings Attached to Limit Pay”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something that is delectable.
elative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The case used to indicate movement out of something; for example, out of the house. Some languages that make use of the elative are Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian.
demarcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɑːˌkeɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈmɑːkeɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈmɑɹˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdi.mɑɹˌkeɪt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)keɪt
Forms: form: demarcates
form: demarcating
form: demarcated
form: demarcated
Etymology: Back-formation from demarcation.
Senses: examples: text: Small Committees of officials are frequently appointed in advance to consider the geographical, topographical, and ethnological evidence that is forthcoming, and to construct a tentative line for their respective Governments; this, after much debate, is embodied in a treaty, which provides for the appointment of Commissioners to demarcate the line upon the spot and submit it for ratification by the principals.
ref: 1907, George Curzon, Frontiers:
glosses: To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
glosses: To mark the difference between two causes of action; to distinguish.
Synonyms: sense: to mark the limits or boundaries
word: demark
sense: to mark the limits or boundaries
word: delimit
sense: to mark the limits or boundaries
word: delineate
Derived terms: demarcatable
demarcative
demarcator
nondemarcated
redemarcate
undemarcated
Related terms: demarcation
aneolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a- + neolithic.
Senses: examples: text: During our travels in Mesopotamia we also studied the similar pottery of the aneolithic age found at Abu Shahrein, Tell el-'Obeid and elsewhere in Babylonia, as well as at several sites in the East Tigris country and Assyria, from all of which we made collections which supplement the sherds from Tell el-'Obeid and Kerkufk now in the Baghdad Museum.
ref: 1926 March, W.F. Albright, “25. Proto-Mesopotamian Painted Ware from the Balikh Valley”, in Man, volume 26:
text: … the late Neolithic period (2000 BC to 1200 BC) is represented by a series of pottery consisting of card marked red, black, white and grey ware and the aneolithic period (1200 BC to 700 BC) is associated with grey and black pottery (Cheng Te-kun 1967: XIV) which has some similarity with the Motupalli stamped ware ...
ref: 2001 June, P. Krishna Mohan Reddy, “Maritime Trade of Early South India New Archaeological Evidences from Motupalli, Andhra Pradesh”, in East and West, volume 51, number 1/2:
text: (see title)
ref: 2007 August, Shi-Zhu Gao, Yi-Dai Yang, Yue Xu, Quan-Chao Zhang, Hong Zhu, Hui Zhou, “Tracing the genetic history of the Chinese people: mitochondrial DNA analysis of aneolithic population from the Lajia site”, in American journal of Physical Anthropology, volume 133, number 4:
text: It appears to have reached the Japanese archipelago around the aneolithic Yayoi period, almost contemporaneous with the TB expansion in the continental Asia.
ref: 2016 June, Osamu Kondo, Tomoya Aono, “Expansion of vertebral tuberculosis into Hokkaido: Implications for the population history of Ainu”, in Quaternary International, volume 405, number B:
glosses: The Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
extremophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extremophiles
Etymology: From extreme + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 207:
text: Lichens are 'extremophiles', organisms able to live, from our point of view, in other worlds.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 95:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: organism#Noun
coordinate_terms: mesophile
glosses: Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are autotrophs; some are commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
Derived terms: extremophilic
hyperextremophile
pronotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronota
Etymology: From pro- + notum.
Senses: examples: text: Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
ref: 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys:
glosses: The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects
Derived terms: lateropronotum
alkaliphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaliphiles
form: alkalinophile
form: alkalophile
Etymology: From alkali + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
Derived terms: alkaliphilic
alkaliphily
thermoalkaliphile
alkalinophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalinophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkaliphile.
alkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kəl.aɪn/
enpr: ălˈkəlīn
ipa: /ˈæl.kə.laɪn/
Forms: form: more alkaline
form: most alkaline
form: alk.
Etymology: First attested in 1677. From alkali + -ine, ultimately from Arabic اَلْقِلْي (al-qily, “alkali, ashes of the saltwort”), related to قَلَى (qalā, “to roast in a pan, fry”).
Senses: examples: text: [Joseph Black's] experiments on magnesia alba, quick lime, and other alkaline substances proved that "fixed air" is given off when limestone is burned, and that the same loss is incurred when it is dissolved in muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid).
ref: 1913, James Campbell Brown, A History of Chemistry from the Earliest Times, page 279:
glosses: Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: basic
coordinate_terms: acidic
glosses: Having a pH greater than 7.
Derived terms: alkaline air
alkaline battery
alkaline earth
alkaline earth metal
alkaline glaze
alkaline hydrolysis
alkalinely
alkaline phosphatase
alkalinise
alkalinity
alkalinization
alkalinize
antalkaline
antialkaline
hyperalkaline
immunoalkaline
nonalkaline
peralkaline
subalkaline
superalkaline
Related terms: alkalescent
alkalic
alkali
alkaloid
alkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kəl.aɪn/
enpr: ălˈkəlīn
ipa: /ˈæl.kə.laɪn/
Forms: form: alkalines
form: alk.
Etymology: First attested in 1677. From alkali + -ine, ultimately from Arabic اَلْقِلْي (al-qily, “alkali, ashes of the saltwort”), related to قَلَى (qalā, “to roast in a pan, fry”).
Senses: glosses: An alkaline battery.
alkaliphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: alkalinophilic
Senses: glosses: of or relating to alkaliphiles
glosses: living and thriving in alkaline conditions
alkalinophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkaliphilic.
absolute value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈvæl.ju/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈvæl.ju/
Forms: form: absolute values
form: | |
Senses: examples: The absolute value |x| of a real number x is √, which is equal to x if x is non-negative, and -x if x is negative.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a complex number a+bi, the principal square root of the sum of the squares of its real and imaginary parts, √. Denoted by vertical bars |,|.
Synonyms: modulus
Hypernyms: norm
Euclidean norm
Derived terms: p-adic absolute value
trivial absolute value
necrophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrophiliacs
Etymology: From necro- + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in necrophilia.
barophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barophiles
Etymology: From baro- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
Synonyms: piezophile
Related terms: barophilic
piezophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezophiles
Etymology: From piezo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: a barophile
Derived terms: hyperpiezophile
Related terms: piezophilic
embedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embeddings
Etymology: From embed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
qualifier: differential topology
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
qualifier: field theory; Galois theory; field theory; Galois theory
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
examples: text: word embeddings
text: “A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author.
ref: 2017 April 13, Hannah Devlin, quoting Arvind Narayanan, “AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: A few years ago, Dr. [Alexander] Huth noticed that particular pieces of these maps — so-called context embeddings, which capture the semantic features, or meanings, of phrases — could be used to predict how the brain lights up in response to language.
ref: 2023 May 1, Oliver Whang, “A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2023:
qualifier: machine learning; artificial intelligence; machine learning; artificial intelligence
glosses: A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.
Derived terms: cryoembedding
deep embedding
embedding effect
Plücker embedding
postembedding
preembedding
self-embedding
shallow embedding
superembedding
Yoneda embedding
embedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From embed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embed
bootlace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌleɪs/
Forms: form: bootlaces
Etymology: From boot + lace.
Senses: glosses: A long lace for fastening boots.
glosses: A long, thin, chewy confectionery, typically with liquorice or fruit flavour.
Derived terms: bootlaced
bootlace fungus
bootlace weed
bootlace worm
Related terms: shoelace
All Blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The national rugby union representative team of New Zealand
Related terms: All Whites
barophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barophilic
form: most barophilic
Etymology: From baro- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a barophile.
glosses: Thriving under high barometric pressure.
Synonyms: piezophilic
Derived terms: barophilicity
piezophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piezophilic
form: most piezophilic
Etymology: From piezo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: barophilic
halophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halophiles
Etymology: From halo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile
Derived terms: halophilic
halophilism
hyperhalophile
thermohalophile
Related terms: halobacteria
halophil
halophyte
halotolerance
halophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to a halophile; living and thriving in an environment of high salinity.
Derived terms: hyperhalophilic
nonhalophilic
thermohalophilic
hyperthermophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperthermophiles
Etymology: From hyper- + thermophile.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, scientists were finding even hardier microbes, now known as hyperthermophiles, which demand temperatures of 80 degrees Celsius or more.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 208:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives and thrives in an extremely hot environment, such as a deep sea smoker vent; often a member of the Archaea.
Related terms: hyperthermophilic
thermophile
hyperthermophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + thermophilic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to a hyperthermophile; living and thriving in an extremely hot environment
Derived terms: nonhyperthermophilic
mesophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesophiles
Etymology: From meso- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An organism, especially a microorganism, that lives and thrives at moderate temperatures.
Related terms: mesophilic
mesophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesophilic
form: most mesophilic
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a mesophile
glosses: living and thriving at moderate temperatures
microaerophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaerophiles
Etymology: From micro- + aerophile.
Senses: glosses: An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.
Related terms: microaerophilic
posse comitatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin posse comitātūs (“force of the county”, literally “power of the county”).
Senses: examples: text: They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc.
ref: 1849, Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government:
glosses: The able-bodied men over 15 in a given county who can be summoned by the sheriff to help keep the peace, or arrest a felon; also a group of men so gathered.
examples: text: With him retired his ‘posse comitatus,’ / The attorney last, who linger'd near the door / Reluctantly […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: Any band of men, especially armed or hostile.
Derived terms: posse
microaerophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + aerophilic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a microaerophile or to microaerophily.
glosses: Able to thrive in an environment low in oxygen.
optima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optimum
crotanaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde, 2-butenal, CH₃.CH:CH.CHO; it is used in the manufacture of sorbic acid, and to denature alcohol
sorbic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin sorbum (“the rowan or serviceberry”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative
Synonyms: E200 when used as a preservative
back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs into
form: backing into
form: backed into
form: backed into
Senses: examples: text: The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost.
examples: text: I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be forced into a situation by circumstances.
examples: text: I like to back into parking spots.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, into.
Related terms: back down
back off
back out
back up
cardinal bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal bishops
Senses: glosses: A cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who is bishop of one of the cardinal ("hinge") dioceses of the Province of Rome.
qualifier: more loosely
glosses: A cardinal who is a bishop anywhere.
Related terms: bishop
cardinal
cardinal diocese
cardinal priest
College of Cardinals
thermophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermophiles
Etymology: From thermo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives and thrives at relatively high temperatures; a form of extremophile; many are members of the Archaea.
Hypernyms: extremophile
Derived terms: thermophilic
hyperthermophile
Related terms: thermophilic
thermophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermophilic
form: most thermophilic
Etymology: From thermo- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a thermophile; living and thriving at relatively high temperatures.
pika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkə/
ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: pikas
form: pica
Etymology: From French, from an Evenki word which Peter Simon Pallas transcribes as piika or peeka, but which cannot be found in modern dictionaries.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the genus Ochotona, from the mountains of North America and Asia.
Derived terms: black-lipped pika
plateau pika
Sardinian pika
hardwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/
Forms: form: hardwoods
Etymology: From hard + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood.
glosses: The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
raw_tags: in botany and forestry
examples: text: Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods.
text: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
examples: text: This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
examples: text: You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.
glosses: A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
hardwood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/
Etymology: From hard + wood.
Senses: glosses: Made of interlocking hardwood boards.
raw_tags: of a floor
Related terms: softwood
MICR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of magnetic ink character recognition.
softwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softwoods
Etymology: From soft + wood.
Senses: examples: text: The bodies are sheeted in softwood, a double layer of ⅝-in. boards on the quarters, with a single thickness lining inside the steel ends.
ref: 1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The wood from any gymnosperm, without regard to how soft this wood is.
glosses: Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
raw_tags: in more general use
examples: text: SYP is a softwood, but it is harder than many hardwoods.
text: This softwood has been planted extensively throughout Scotland.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The tree or tree species that yields this wood.
examples: text: You should have used softwood for the frame of this shed, instead of overbuilding it like this.
glosses: Any commercial timber.
Related terms: hardwood
wood
timber
lumber
doggy bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggy bag
doggie bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggie bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doggy bag.
bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băgz
ipa: /bæɡz/
note: bad-lad split
ipa: /bæːɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
rhymes: -æːɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of bag
examples: text: No need to rush: there's bags of time.
text: Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags.
qualifier: often in the phrase 'bags of'
glosses: A large quantity.
examples: text: It may have many names, but depending on where you reside it only has one. ‘Cornhole’ or ‘Bags’ has been in the middle of discussions when it comes to what the popular bag toss game is called.
ref: 2019 July 28, Devin Willems, “Is it ‘Bags’ or ‘Cornhole’? Official governing body tries to settle the debate”, in WFRV:
qualifier: chiefly Chicago
glosses: A game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole.
examples: text: ‘Emerson, you beast, you've got on my bags.’
ref: 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 123:
glosses: Trousers.
glosses: A woman's breasts.
Derived terms: spongebags
bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băgz
ipa: /bæɡz/
note: bad-lad split
ipa: /bæːɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
rhymes: -æːɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bag
bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băgz
ipa: /bæɡz/
note: bad-lad split
ipa: /bæːɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
rhymes: -æːɡz
Forms: form: bagses
form: bagsing
form: bagsed
form: bagsed
form: baggs
Etymology: Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).
Senses: examples: text: So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.
ref: 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81:
text: Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
ref: 2007, Debra Oswald., Getting Air, page 66:
text: Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
ref: 2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13:
text: ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
ref: 2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316:
text: They used to share the water as kids, and for some reason Irene always managed to bags the first bath; Riva made do with the soapy second.
ref: 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: To reserve for oneself.
Synonyms: word: have dibs on
word: bagsy
bags
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: băgz
ipa: /bæɡz/
note: bad-lad split
ipa: /bæːɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
rhymes: -æːɡz
Forms: form: baggs
Etymology: Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).
Senses: examples: text: Bags I sit in the front seat!
glosses: Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
doggie bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggie bag
hot short
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: hot-short iron
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: red-short
glosses: Of metal: brittle at high temperatures.
Related terms: cold short
plod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒd/
ipa: /plɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
Etymology: From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
Senses: examples: text: We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
text: Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
ref: 2025 February 23, Lisa Haseldine, “Whatever happens next, Merkelism is finished”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2025:
glosses: A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
plod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒd/
ipa: /plɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: plods
form: plodding
form: plodded
form: plodded
Etymology: From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
Senses: examples: text: The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 1:
glosses: To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
examples: text: Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
ref: 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127:
text: 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,
[…] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
text: Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And sparkling to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him […]
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70:
glosses: To trudge over or through.
examples: On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,
Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
He must be still familiar with the skyes,
which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
glosses: To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
glosses: To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Derived terms: outplod
plodder
plodding
Plodgate
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plod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒd/
ipa: /plɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: plods
Etymology: From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Senses: glosses: A puddle.
plod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒd/
ipa: /plɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: plods
Etymology: From PC Plod.
Senses: glosses: the police, police officers
glosses: a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms: sense: the police
word: police
sense: police officer
word: police officer
Derived terms: plastic plod
upbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈbit/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌbit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more upbeat
form: most upbeat
form: up-beat
Etymology: From up- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: The notes are easy, but it's an upbeat tune and should be played fairly quickly.
glosses: Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
examples: text: Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future.
text: He sounded upbeat when I talked to him.
text: But Murphy remains upbeat about the longer-term prospect of recovery and a resumption of the record growth in passenger volumes experienced in the UK in the two decades following privatisation.
ref: 2022 August 24, Steve Murphy tells Paul Stephen, “Rail + property: a winning combination”, in RAIL, number 964, page 48:
glosses: Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc.
upbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈbit/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌbit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: upbeats
form: up-beat
Etymology: From up- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: The conductor said: I give you three beats for nothing and then you come in on the upbeat.
glosses: An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.
Synonyms: unaccented beat
anticipatory note
anticipatory
unstressed note
unstressed
anacrusis
pickup
maquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakiː/
ipa: /maˈkiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.
Senses: examples: text: The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.
ref: 2007 May 27, Alida Becker, “Season in the Sun”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
examples: text: By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 75:
text: For many weeks after I finished Bodyguard of Lies, Alan Turing stuck in my mind. He seemed so incongruous a figure to be mixed up with the cut-throat maquis and sinister double-agents who populated the rest of the book.
ref: 1983 December 3, Gary Ralph, “No Security for Those Who Never Had It”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 5:
glosses: The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
strawberry tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry trees
Senses: synonyms: arbutus
madrone
glosses: A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries.
synonyms: arbutus
madrone
glosses: A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries.
Any of the other species of Arbutus, native to Europe and temperate North America, especially
synonyms: arbutus
madrone
madrone
madrona
Pacific madrone
glosses: A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries.
Any of the other species of Arbutus, native to Europe and temperate North America, especially
A madrone (Arbutus menziesii), an evergreen tree with rich orange-red bark which naturally peels away in thin sheets when mature, and which bears berries which are astringent but edible if prepared properly.
glosses: A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura), in the family Malvaceae, native to the American tropics
glosses: A Chinese strawberry tree (Myrica rubra), in the family Myricaceae
Beere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Moos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cacuminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kəkyo͞oʹmĭnəs
ipa: /kəˈkjuːmɪnəs/
Etymology: cacūmin- (the stem of the Latin cacūmen (“tree-top”)) + -ous
Senses: examples: text: Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
text: [A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
ref: 1597: John Hoskyns’ “A Tuftafffeta Speech”, printed in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour, and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566–1638 (published by the Yale University Press)
text: Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
ref: 1834: James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165
text: Hours Of youth…and love ‛neath trees cacuminous.
ref: 1871, Mortimer Collins, Inn Street Meetings, page 10:
text: Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.
ref: ante''' 1879: Mortimer Collins, Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand, volume 1, page 248
glosses: Having a pyramidal top.
Related terms: cacuminal
cacuminate
cacumination
carrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carroms
Senses: examples: text: Jonny watches me powder his varnished carrom board.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 199:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carom.
carrom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carroms
form: carroming
form: carromed
form: carromed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carom.
carom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəm/
rhymes: -æɹəm
Forms: form: caroms
form: carrom
Etymology: Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: cannon
glosses: A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
examples: text: He loved playing carrom in his free time.
glosses: A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
Derived terms: carom billiards
carom plug
carom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəm/
rhymes: -æɹəm
Forms: form: caroms
form: caroming
form: caromed
form: caromed
form: carrom
Etymology: Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).
Senses: glosses: To make a carom (shot in billiards).
examples: text: [T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.
ref: 1922, John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World:
text: Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
carom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəm/
rhymes: -æɹəm
Forms: form: carrom
Senses: glosses: Ajwain.
non-smoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-smokers
form: nonsmoker
Etymology: From non- + smoker.
Senses: examples: text: The smaller saloon is reserved for non-smokers in both cases.
ref: 1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
coordinate_terms: non-vaper
glosses: Somebody who does not smoke tobacco.
glosses: A railway carriage where smoking tobacco is not permitted.
Related terms: non-smoking
smoke
smoker
line conch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line conches
Senses: synonyms: banded tulip
glosses: A spiral marine shell (Cinctura lilium), found in Florida and the Caribbean.
fumitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumitories
form: fumiter
form: fumetere
Etymology: From late Middle English fumyter (with remodelling of suffix), from Old French fumeterre, from Latin fūmus terrae.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the taxonomic genus Fumaria of annual herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to temperate Europe and Asia.
Derived terms: yellow fumitory
Elster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elsters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Elster.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Elster glaciation
line breeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother.
cross the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses the line
form: crossing the line
form: crossed the line
form: crossed the line
Senses: examples: text: I can tolerate a lot, but they really crossed the line when they broke the equipment.
text: I don't even know her
But I feel a responsibility to do what's upstanding and right
It's kinda like a code, yeah
And you've been getting closer and closer, and crossing so many lines
ref: 2012, Taylor Swift, “Girl at Home”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
text: Bring me margaritas, champagne and red wine / We're gonna have a party / Where we all cross the line
ref: 2020, “Monkey Business”, in Hotspot, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
text: Climate change protesters “crossed the line” between their right to protest and their responsibility towards the rest of the public when they caused huge tailbacks by blocking three key London roads on Monday, the policing minister, Kit Malthouse, has said.
ref: 2021 October 5, Damien Gayle, quoting Kit Malthouse, “Climate activists crossed the line with roadblocks, says minister”, in The Guardian:
related: word: cross a line
synonyms: go too far
overstep the mark
coordinate_terms: push the envelope
toe the line
glosses: To overstep a boundary, rule, or limit; to go too far or do something unacceptable.
synonyms: go all the way
antonyms: fall at the last hurdle
glosses: To finish a race.
synonyms: go all the way
antonyms: fall at the last hurdle
glosses: To achieve completion of something.
glosses: To cross the equator, as a vessel at sea.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: To film from the opposite side of an imaginary axis on set in order to view the actors from the opposite direction.
Derived terms: crossing the line
Related terms: draw the line
step out of line
line of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of fire
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: direction in which a weapon fires
examples: text: It is a difficult balancing act because Maguire might not wish to be taken out of the line of fire and such are United's current struggles that Solskjaer may feel he needs his leader going in to battle for him.
ref: 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: position vulnerable to attack
line of dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of dip
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon
Related terms: dip
strike
Gunter's line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʌntəz ˈlaɪn/
ipa: /ˌɡʊn-/
ipa: /ˌɡʌntɚz ˈlaɪn/
ipa: [-ɾɚz-]
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Gunter's lines
Etymology: From Gunter + -'s + line, from the surname of the English clergyman, geometer, and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1628), the inventor of the Gunter’s scale.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Gunter's proportion
line of lines
line of numbers
glosses: A logarithmic line on a Gunter's scale, which is used to perform the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically with only dividers.
wikipedia: Edmund Gunter
Related terms: Gunter's chain
Gunter's proportion
Gunter's quadrant
Gunter's rule
Gunter's scale
lined gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Gold foil having a lining of another metal.
line engraving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line engravings
Senses: coordinate_terms: copperplate engraving
steel engraving
glosses: Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material.
glosses: A plate or picture produced by printing from such an engraving.
line of battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of battle
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
Related terms: ship of the line
line of centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of centers
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line joining centers of figures.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers.
glosses: A line which determines a dead center.
Related terms: dead center
line of march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of march
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The arrangement of troops during a march.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The course or direction taken by marching soldiers.