cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
possibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒs.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.tiz/
ipa: /ˌpɑ.səˈbɪl.ə.tiz/
ipa: [ˌpɑ.səˈbɪl.ə.ɾiz]
Senses: glosses: plural of possibility
analyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ə.laɪzd/
Forms: form: more analyzed
form: most analyzed
Senses: glosses: Having been subject to analysis; examined closely, carefully considered.
Derived terms: nonanalyzed
preanalyzed
unanalyzed
underanalyzed
analyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ə.laɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of analyze
shattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃætɚd/
ipa: /ˈʃætəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shatter
authorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔθəɹaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɑθəɹaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɔːθəɹaɪzd/
Forms: form: authorised
Senses: examples: text: authorized access
text: authorized clothes
text: authorized decision
text: authorized hunting
text: authorized payment
glosses: Explicitly allowed.
Synonyms: permitted
allowed
Coordinate terms: english: in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval
translation: in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval
word: approved
Derived terms: authorizedly
authorized term
nonauthorized
Related terms: authorization
authorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔθəɹaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɑθəɹaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɔːθəɹaɪzd/
Forms: form: authorised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of authorize
blankets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋkɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of blanket
blankets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋkɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blanket
blossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒ.səms/
ipa: /ˈblɑ.səms/
Senses: glosses: plural of blossom.
blossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒ.səms/
ipa: /ˈblɑ.səms/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blossom
entrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹʌstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrust
palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ɪ.sɪz/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of palace
palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ɪ.sɪz/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palace
logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡz/
ipa: /lɔɡz/
ipa: /lɑɡz/
rhymes: -ɒɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of log
logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡz/
ipa: /lɔɡz/
ipa: /lɑɡz/
rhymes: -ɒɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of log
fancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.siz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fancy
glosses: plural of fancie
fancies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.siz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fancy
countrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌntɹimən/
Senses: glosses: plural of countryman
bellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛloʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɛləʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: bellows
form: beller
Etymology: From Middle English belwen, from Old English belgan, bylgan, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”), whence also belg (“leather bag”), bellan (“to roar”), blāwan (“to blow”). Cognate with German bellen (“to bark”), Russian бле́ять (bléjatʹ, “baa, bleat”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a tap at a door, a bull's bellow from within, and I was face to face with the Professor.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.
bellow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛloʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɛləʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: bellows
form: bellowing
form: bellowed
form: bellowed
form: beller
Etymology: From Middle English belwen, from Old English belgan, bylgan, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”), whence also belg (“leather bag”), bellan (“to roar”), blāwan (“to blow”). Cognate with German bellen (“to bark”), Russian бле́ять (bléjatʹ, “baa, bleat”).
Senses: examples: text: the bellowing voice of boiling seas
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
examples: text: Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To shout in a deep voice.
Derived terms: bellower
bellow out
bellowsome
outbellow
rebellow
Carinthia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪnθiə/
rhymes: -ɪnθiə
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin; compare Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective *korǫtьskъ); compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška (“Carinthia”).
Senses: examples: text: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...
ref: 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
glosses: A former duchy and historical region of Central Europe, now split politically between Austria and Slovenia.
glosses: A state of Austria. Capital: Klagenfurt.
synonyms: Slovenian Carinthia
glosses: A traditional region in northern Slovenia.
Related terms: Carinthian
nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of net
examples: text: He hit the nets seven hours before the cricket match.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and batsmen or even backups.
nets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of net
protologisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protologism
dominion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɪnjən/
ipa: /doʊˈmɪnjən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Forms: form: dominions
Etymology: From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium.
Senses: examples: text: And at the end of the dayes, I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderſtanding returned vnto me, and I bleſſed the moſt high, and I praiſed, and honoured him that liueth for euer, whoſe dominion is an euerlaſting dominion, and his kingdome is from generation to generation.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 4:34, column 1:
text: To choose between dominion or slavery.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English:
text: 'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe therein.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
examples: text: Objects placed foremost ought […] have dominion over things which are confus'd and transient.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Predominance; ascendancy.
examples: text: the dominions of a king  the dominion of the passions
text: Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: kingdom
examples: text: For by him were all things created[…], whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Colossians 1:16, column 2:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: domination
glosses: An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.
Derived terms: Colony and Dominion of Virginia
dominionism
dominionist
dominionistic
dominionless
Dominion of New Zealand
dominion theology
interdominion
predominion
Related terms: dominate
domination
dominator
domineering
domino
subdominion
innards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of inwards.
Senses: glosses: plural of innard
innards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of inwards.
Senses: examples: text: It's the place for all black sinners. / Watch them eating dead rat's innards.
ref: 1970, “Walpurgis (older version of War Pigs)”, in Geezer Butler (lyrics), Paranoid, performed by Black Sabbath:
glosses: The internal organs of a human or animal; especially viscera, intestines.
examples: text: He took the cover off his computer and looked at the innards.
glosses: The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.
dominions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɪnjənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dominion
spittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: spittles
Etymology: Alteration of dialectal spattle (by association with spit (noun)), from Old English spātl, which is related to spǣtan (whence spit (verb)).
Senses: examples: text: "Who are you?!" he blurted into the woman's palm, and she shook it off in obvious disgust, wiping spittle onto his D-class uniform.
ref: 2023 September 30, HarryBlank, “Meeting in the Middle”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
glosses: Something frothy and white that resembles spit.
glosses: Spit-up or drool of an infant.
Derived terms: cuckoo-spittle
fasting spittle
lickspittle
spittlebug
spittly
spittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: spittles
Senses: examples: text: I'll build a spittle, or mend common ways […]
ref: a. 1633, George Herbert, The Thanksgiving:
glosses: Alternative form of spital.
spittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: spittles
Etymology: Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le.
Senses: glosses: A small sort of spade.
spittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: spittles
form: spittling
form: spittled
form: spittled
Etymology: Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le.
Senses: glosses: To dig or stir with a small spade.
frothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: frothier
form: frothiest
Etymology: From froth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I like my milkshakes frothy, not flat like this!
text: When this brown head was obtained the juice was drawn off into barrels, the lees were left in the keeve, and new juice was pumped upon these lees, this, however, produced a white frothy head, similar to that in the remaining keeves.
ref: 1903, Frederick James Lloyd, Report on the Results of Investigations Into Cidermaking, page 50:
text: The motion of this liquid layer was made visible by the small , frothy bubbles of vapor which were present in the film.
ref: 1964, John Henry Vohr, A Photographic Study of Boiling Flow, page 113:
text: For a frothy result, in a blender blend the hot chocolate in batches.
ref: 1992, Pearl Violette Metzelthin, editor, Gourmet - Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 128:
glosses: Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
examples: text: songs with frothy lyrics
text: a frothy argument
text: I cannot describe to you what pain I feel in repeating this light and frothy conversation, but I have compelled myself to give it you at some length, in order to lay before you, in its true light, the weakness of that heart which is not upheld by divine strength, and to shew you how little dependence can be placed on those who walk in their own strength, and are not divinely upheld.
ref: 1825, Mary Martha Sherwood, The lady of the manor, page 87:
text: The frothy orator, who busked his tales
In quackish pomp of noisy words
ref: 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:
text: Now, I ask those honourable gentlemen who have given us a good deal of frothy argument this evening, without much business basis in it, who is going to pay that bill?
ref: 1921, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives, page 888:
glosses: lightweight; lacking depth or substance
examples: text: But we have found it profitable to engage in some trading on our own account, generally in the rather frothy areas.
ref: 1974, Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Papers, page 297:
text: First, many of the welfare gains of the previous two decades or more turned out to have been illusory, as house and share prices tumbled, jobs disappeared and frothy investment opportunities collapsed.
ref: 2010, Bill Jordan, What's Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It, page 47:
text: In such a “frothy” market, investors' interests would generally have been served by selling rather than purchasing assets—and, in fact, by returning committed capital to investors rather than deploying it, since acquisitions generally would not be accretive.
ref: 2013, H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Alternative Investments:
topics: business
glosses: Highly speculative; having high risk and high return.
Synonyms: sense: with bubbles
word: foamy
word: spumescent
word: effervescent
Derived terms: frothily
frothiness
frothy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frothies
Etymology: From froth + -y.
Senses: glosses: A serving of beer.
bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble
bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I used to let myself down by being "like a man" and taking an interest in current affairs and complex wotnot, but now, like all these ladies, my grandest ambition is "pamper time" with "a glass of bubbles" and "some nibbles".
ref: 2011 April 9, Grace Dent, “TV OD: Candy Cabs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Sparkling wine; champagne.
bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bubble
organizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənɪˈzeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənaɪˈzeɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: organisational
Etymology: From organization + -al.
Senses: examples: text: They changed the company's organizational structure.
glosses: Of, relating to, or produced by an organization.
examples: text: She lacks organizational skills.
glosses: Relating to the action of organizing something.
Derived terms: anti-organizational
biorganizational
extraorganizational
industrial-organizational psychology
infraorganizational
interorganizational
intraorganizational
macro-organizational
mega-organizational
micro-organizational
mini-organizational
multiorganizational
nonorganizational
organizational breakdown structure
organizational chart
organizational climate
organizational crime
organizationalization
organizationalized
organizationalizing
organizationally
panorganizational
paraorganizational
politico-organizational
pseudo-organizational
quasiorganizational
reorganizational
semiorganizational
socio-organizational
suborganizational
superorganizational
supraorganizational
techno-organizational
tri-organizational
ultra-organizational
directional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
ipa: /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
Forms: form: more directional
form: most directional
Etymology: From direction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Indicating direction.
glosses: Of or relating to guidance or help.
Hyponyms: bi-directional
uni-directional
Derived terms: ambidirectional
auto-directional
bidirectional
codirectional
contradirectional
directional case
directional derivative
directional driller
directional gyro
directionality
directionalize
directionally
directional magnetism
directional pad
directional signal
directional stability
equidirectional
heterodirectional
homodirectional
isodirectional
monodirectional
multi-directional
multidirectional
nondirectional
omnidirectional
polydirectional
postdirectional
predirectional
quadridirectional
semidirectional
tridirectional
undirectional
unidirectional
uni-directionality
directional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
ipa: /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
Forms: form: directionals
Etymology: From direction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Something that indicates direction, such as a vehicle's turn signal.
Derived terms: human directional
Related terms: blinker
indicator
trafficator
turn indicator
turn signal
splosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɑʃ/
ipa: /splɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: sploshes
form: sploshing
form: sploshed
form: sploshed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh.
Senses: examples: text: splosh into the sea
text: Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in.
ref: 2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann:
glosses: To splash with a heavy splashing sound.
glosses: To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
glosses: To spill or spill over.
Related terms: slosh
splash
splish
sploosh
splosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɑʃ/
ipa: /splɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: sploshes
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh.
Senses: glosses: A heavy splashing sound.
examples: text: Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.
ref: 2008, Jill Mansell, The One You Really Want, Hachette U.K., →ISBN:
text: […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
examples: text: Give us a cup of splosh, love.
glosses: Tea (the drink).
spill over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spills over
form: spilling over
form: spilled over
form: spilled over
form: spilt over
form: spilt over
Senses: glosses: to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
glosses: (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
examples: text: undercurrents of popular discontent spilled over into outright revolt
text: That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.
ref: 2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:
text: There was indiscipline, too, from Kovacic, who was fortunate to only be shown a yellow card for a poor challenge on Odegaard yet still followed it up almost immediately with another on Rice.
The indiscipline spilled over at the final whistle too as a clutch of City players including Haaland and Kyle Walker were involved in a heated exchange with a number of Arsenal's backroom staff.
ref: 2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
overcrowd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcrowds
form: overcrowding
form: overcrowded
form: overcrowded
Etymology: From over- + crowd.
Senses: examples: text: The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.
ref: 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:
glosses: To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
Derived terms: overcrowder
overflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-flō
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/
enpr: ō-və-flōʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/
enpr: ōʹvər-flō
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌfloʊ/
enpr: ō-vər-flōʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: overflows
Etymology: From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.
Senses: examples: text: High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]
ref: 1943, Climatological Data, page 8:
glosses: The spillage resultant from overflowing.
glosses: An outlet for escape of excess material.
examples: text: GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts?
JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.
ref: 1977 February 12, Don Shewey, John Glines, “Theatre Profiles Part II”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 8:
glosses: Excess, superabundance
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
Derived terms: overflow hole
overflow meeting
overflow pool
spillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈspɪl.əd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: spillages
Etymology: From spill + -age.
Senses: glosses: The process or action of spilling.
glosses: That which has been spilled.
Synonyms: word: spilth
face-plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face-plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faceplant.
face-plant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: face-plants
form: face-planting
form: face-planted
form: face-planted
Senses: examples: text: He stumbles on the steps and falls, clumsily enough to face-plant on a riser.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 195:
glosses: Alternative spelling of faceplant.
plowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.
glosses: ploughing
plowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ploughing.
shot glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot glasses
form: shot-glass
form: shotglass
Etymology: From shot + glass, in use since at least the 1940s.
Senses: synonyms: shot cup
shooter glass
shooter cup
glosses: A small glass used to hold or measure a small quantity of liquor.
fall line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall lines
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geomorphologic unconformity marking a boundary between an upland region and a plane; sometimes marked by a series of waterfalls on rivers that cross it.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.
gulp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
Forms: form: gulps
Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.
Senses: examples: text: What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
synonyms: slug
glosses: The usual amount swallowed.
examples: text: Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XVII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […], there should be an almost audible "gulp".
ref: 1994, James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies:
glosses: The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
Derived terms: gulpful
gulp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
Forms: form: gulps
form: gulping
form: gulped
form: gulped
Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.
Senses: examples: text: He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, Table-Talk:
synonyms: word: drink
word: hydrate
word: imbibe
word: wet one's whistle
word: wet one's beak
glosses: To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
examples: text: The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]"
ref: 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, published 2004, page 198:
text: I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.
ref: 2003, Carl Deuker, High Heat, page 140:
text: My heart was beating madly and I was gulping nervous energy.
ref: 2006, Nancy Anne Nicholson, Thin White Female in No Acute Distress: A Memoir, page 187:
glosses: To react nervously by swallowing.
Derived terms: gulpable
gulp down
gulper
gulpingly
gulp up
gulpy
gurp
ungulped
gulp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.
Senses: examples: text: "Honey, I know you want to go to their home next week, but there's one thing that keeps happening when we're together that really drives me away from social gatherings in general. (Oh, what is it … gulp.) Well, I'm not sure I can really explain it without offending you. (Gulp, gulp.) Do you really want to talk about it? (Yes.) […]"
ref: 1982, Gary Smalley, If Only He Knew, page 163:
text: I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.
ref: 1990 December 9, Ed Fendor, “The Promised Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 4:
synonyms: ulp
glosses: An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.
potent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/
ipa: /ˈpoʊt(ə)nt/
ipa: [ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t]
ipa: [-n̩ʔ]
ipa: /ˈpəʉt(ə)nt/
ipa: [ˈpʰəʉ̯ʔn̩t]
ipa: [-n̩ʔ]
rhymes: -əʊtənt
Forms: form: potents
Etymology: From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”).
Senses: examples: text: Cry, havock , kings! back to the stained field, You equal potents
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A prince; a potentate.
glosses: A staff or crutch.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
Derived terms: counter-potent
cross potent
equipotent
idempotent
multipotent
nilpotent
oligopotent
omnipotent
pluripotent
totipotent
unipotent
ventripotent
Related terms: cross potent
potence
potency
potentate
potential
potentiality
potentiate
potenty
potente
ollie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒli/
Forms: form: ollies
Etymology: From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
Senses: examples: text: In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
ref: 2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
Derived terms: nollie
ollie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɒli/
Forms: form: ollies
form: ollieing
form: ollied
form: ollied
Etymology: From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
Senses: examples: text: He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.
ref: 1992, Troy Bannon, Mean Street, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To perform an ollie.
toe edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe edges
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The sharp edge on the long side of a snowboard closest to one's toes, regardless of which way one if facing (up-mountain or down-mountain) or riding (goofy or regular).
half-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-pipes
form: halfpipe
form: half pipe
Etymology: From half- + pipe.
Senses: examples: text: But the kid who washed windows for $2 an hour when he was 8 so he could buy his first snowboard served notice he could be a contender at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a silver medal yesterday in men's halfpipe.
ref: 2009 January 24, Randy Starkman, “Silver medal eases pain for Batchelor at world championships”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.
Related terms: pipe
quarter-pipe
superpipe
slopestyle
tubular
carving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vɪŋ
homophone: calving (non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, trap–bath split)
Forms: form: carvings
Senses: examples: text: The carvings on the oak panels were ancient.
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A carved object.
examples: text: He took up carving after his retirement.
text: My father is an expert in carving, so we let him handle Christmas dinner.
glosses: The act or craft of producing a carved object.
Derived terms: carving fork
file carving
seam carving
wood carving
carving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vɪŋ
homophone: calving (non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, trap–bath split)
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carve
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Executing turns without pivoting.
go platinum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes platinum
form: going platinum
form: went platinum
form: gone platinum
Senses: glosses: (of an LP or CD) To sell some specified number of copies (currently 1 million in the US) and be awarded a platinum record.
Dominion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /doʊˈmɪnjən/
Senses: glosses: Any of the self-governing nations of the British Commonwealth until 1949.
salad days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra around 1607, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Cleo. Did I Charmian, euer loue Caeſar ſo?
[…]
Char. By your moſt gracious pardon,
I ſing but after you.
Cleo. My Sallad dayes,
When I was greene in iudgment, cold in blood[…]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 344, column 2:
text: The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?
ref: 1874 October, “Salad Days”, in The American Educational Monthly, page 462:
text: But it must be in solitude. I do not need or desire to hobnob artificially with other old men in order to revisit them in their salad days, and to renew my own.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
text: “I'll bet he was swiping things as a small boy.” “Only biscuits.” “I beg your pardon?” “Or crackers you would call them, wouldn't you? He was telling me he occasionally pinched a cracker or two in his salad days.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Do you know I've not been to a ball in ages? I used to be quite the dancer in my salad days, if you can believe such a thing.
ref: 2015, 23m30s from the start, in Penny Dreadful, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton):
text: Liz: Derek, remember when I used to want to fuck all the time?
Derek: Ah, yes. The salad days.
Liz: Mmh. Now, my sex window is between 3 and 3:20 pm and Derek needs not to have annoyed me that day.
Derek: Doesn't happen often.
ref: 2023 February 24, Annie Mebane, Shrinking, season 1, episode 6:
glosses: A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism.
wikipedia: Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
Coordinate terms: halcyon days
union suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union suits
Senses: glosses: one-piece underwear, usually long, combining drawers and long-sleeved, button-front undershirt in a single garment, with a flap in the seat that can be opened for defecation.
genuflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genuflections
form: genuflexion
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin genuflexio, though with standardized spelling. By surface analysis, genuflect (“to bend the knee”) + -ion (Latinate abstract-noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Those impious Pigs,
Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn
The settled Swellfoot system, or to make
Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions
Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt
Into a loyal and an orthodox whine.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
text: Certain business titans have made Mar-A-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.
ref: 2025 January 12, David Remnick, “The Inauguration of Trump's Oligarchy”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: The act of genuflecting.
haddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhædək/
rhymes: -ædək
Forms: form: haddock
form: haddocks
Etymology: From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”).
The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).
Senses: glosses: A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
Derived terms: Findon haddock
finnan haddock
haddocker
haddocky
Jerusalem haddock
Norway haddock
Related terms: finnan haddie
hake
zander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæn.də(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zanders
form: zander
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zander, from a Slavic language, perhaps via Middle Low German sandāt. Pfeifer states that the first German attestation is East Central German czandas (in the Marienburger Treßlerbuch) circa 1400, which he derives from Pomeranian *sądač (compare Slovincian sãdzoc), from Proto-Slavic *sǫdakъ. Low Prussian forms include Zand, and other Slavic languages (e.g. Kashubian) have been considered as possible sources. Doublet of sandre.
Senses: glosses: A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
glosses: Any fish of the genus Sander that live in freshwater.
Synonyms: sense: Sander lucioperca
word: sandari
sense: Sander lucioperca
word: sander
sense: Sander lucioperca
word: sandre
sense: Sander lucioperca
word: sannat
sense: Sander lucioperca
word: schill
sense: Sander lucioperca
word: zant
sense: fish of the genus Sander
word: pike-perch
turbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːbət/
ipa: /ˈtɝbət/
Forms: form: turbot
form: turbots
Etymology: From Middle English turbot, turbut, from Anglo-Norman turbut, Old French turbot, torbot, from Old Swedish tornbut, from törn (“thorn”) + but (“butt, flatfish”).
Senses: glosses: Any of species Scophthalmus maximus (syn. Psetta maxima) of flatfish native to Europe.
examples: text: Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
glosses: Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.
glosses: A triggerfish (Canthidermis sufflamen).
Derived terms: diamond turbot
spotted turbot
barracuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹəˈkuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
Forms: form: barracuda
form: barracudas
Etymology: First attested in the 1670s, from Latin American Spanish barracuda, perhaps from a Cariban word.
Senses: glosses: Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators.
glosses: One who uses harsh or predatory means to compete.
Derived terms: barracudalike
yellowtail barracuda
Related terms: barracouta
Buggins's turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Earliest recorded use is by Admiral Fisher, later First Sea Lord, in a 1901 letter.
'Buggins' is a humorous invented surname, suggestive of a man of mediocre ability.
Senses: examples: text: He will be appointed on the principle of Buggins's turn.
text: 1919, Memories, John Fisher (reprinting a 1917 letter to him from an unnamed Privy Councillor) http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/38/mode/2up
I remembered your old saying "Some day the Empire will go down because it is Buggins's turn."'
glosses: A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's "turn") rather than merit or level of qualification.
likelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪklihʊd/
Forms: form: likelihoods
form: likelyhood
Etymology: From Middle English liklihode, equivalent to likely + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
text: The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
text: While starting early can increase your likelihood of attaining millionaire status, the investments you choose play an equally important role.
ref: 2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000 a year”, in CNN Money:
glosses: The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
examples: text: There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […]or between righteousness and reprobation.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book:
glosses: Likeness, resemblance.
glosses: Appearance, show, sign, expression.
Synonyms: likeliness
liability
odds
Derived terms: dislikelihood
in all likelihood
loglikelihood
pseudolikelihood
quasilikelihood
Whittle likelihood
flames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of flame
flames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flame
sailors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪlɚz/
ipa: /ˈseɪləz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sailor
thanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thăngkt
ipa: /θæŋkt/
rhymes: -æŋkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thank
garments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənts/
ipa: /ˈɡɑː.mənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of garment
questioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənd/
Forms: form: quæstioned
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of question
fragments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæɡmənts/
/fɹæɡˈmɛnts/
/ˈfɹæɡmɛnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of fragment
fragments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæɡmənts/
/fɹæɡˈmɛnts/
/ˈfɹæɡmɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fragment
guessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛst
ipa: /ɡɛst/
homophone: guest
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guess
Derived terms: unguessed
A cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A cups
Senses: examples: text: The smallest cup size is AAA. The largest is a DD/E. An A cup is fairly small, just a little swell of breast tissue.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth M. Hoekstra, M. Beth Cutaiar, Just for Girls:
glosses: A standard, relatively small, bra cup size, consisting of a measurement around the bust that is one inch longer than a measurement around the band, plus five inches.
examples: text: "Gabrielle had always been an A cup, but her pregnancy had left her breasts flat as pancakes, and she wanted to go to a C cup and eliminate some of the sag."
ref: 2003, Michelle Copeland, Change Your Looks, Change Your Life, →ISBN:
text: Directly after Julia is Patricia, who, oddly enough, is another young blond mother from the suburbs. She, too, is an A cup wanting breast implants.
ref: 2004, Z Paul Lorenc, Trish Hall, A Little Work:
glosses: A woman with small breasts (of this cup size).
right back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right backs
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A defender who normally plays on the right side of the field.
Related terms: centre back
center back
left back
right back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Clipping of right back at you
Senses: examples: text: Thank you, all! I love you right back.
ref: 2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes SHOCK appearance at Grammys 2024 amid battle with incurable stiff-person syndrome - as she presents historic award to tearful Taylor Swift”, in dailymail.co.uk:
glosses: Synonym of back at you.
synonyms: word: back at you
right back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You come right back here this instant!
text: We're right back where we started from.
glosses: In an immediate or quick return to an original position.
examples: text: And just to test them out, when those boys asked her again if she'd take them in her shed she teased them right back, “Sure, if you guys want to clean up my stable it's okay by me! I'll come and inspect!”
ref: 1974, Adele Wiseman, chapter 4, in Crackpot, →ISBN, page 79:
text: As much as Kyle pretended to ignore her, she pretended to ignore him right back.
ref: 2008, Robyn Freedman Spizman, Mark Johnston, chapter 6, in The Secret Agents Strike Back, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: In direct reciprocation or repayment of an action or gesture; in kind.
earthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)θt
Senses: glosses: Grounded, connected electrically to the ground.
Derived terms: nonearthed
earthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)θt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earth
Neave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: Neaves
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A variant of the English surname Neve.
* Variant of Nevay, a Scottish habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: Neave was born in Utica, New York, into a wealthy Anglo-American family.
ref: 2018 January 12, Mark Swenarton, “Neave Brown obituary”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media Limited, retrieved 31 Mar 2024:
text: Since this photo was taken, my daughter Neave has grown up.
ref: 2024 March 30, Anna Cafolla, “‘We have five in our bed – any more and I wouldn’t sleep!’: meet the extreme [British] dog owners”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media Limited, retrieved 31 Mar 2024:
glosses: A male or female given name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
TINC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of There Is No Cabal.
Related terms: cabal