cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hanker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hankers
form: hankering
form: hankered
form: hankered
Etymology: With a secondary frequentative suffix -er, ultimately pointing to Proto-Germanic *hankōną, an iterative to *hanhaną (“to hang”). Related to Dutch hunkeren (“to crave”), which continues the zero-grade iterative.
Senses: examples: text: If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
text: “O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: “Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.”
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 220:
text: I objected. I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 7, in Three Men in a Boat […] :
text: […] it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:
text: She bade him good-night and hurried down the road. Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress. She had been hankering for it.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys. Now it was to be.
ref: 1957 February 24, Henry Maxwell, “A Sentimental Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
text: […] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
ref: 2012 October 13, “Very good, sir”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
synonyms: covet
glosses: To crave, want or desire.
Derived terms: word: hankerer
word: hankering
betting shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betting shops
Senses: glosses: The premises of a bookmaker, where people may place bets, watch horse races etc on television, and collect their winnings.
Synonyms: betting office
change of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changes of heart
Senses: examples: text: He quit work on Friday, but on Monday he had a change of heart and decided to come back.
text: We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row / We could stay inside and play games, I don't know / And you could have a change of heart
ref: 1974, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed by Steely Dan:
text: "I thought you were loyal to the cause, Paul."
“I was,” Grayson answered. “Then I saw the kind of people who share your vision, and I had a change of heart.”
ref: 2008, Drew Karpyshyn, “Epilogue”, in Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 341:
text: The Keswick-Carlisle, Bury-Rawtenstall, Watford-Croxley Green and Haltwhistle-Alston services had run out of friends, but the hit-listed Oldham-Rochdale and Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh lines would benefit from a change of heart.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
text: Unfortunately, in 1979 Lipburger was convicted of erecting unapproved street signs and jailed for ten weeks. Following a change of heart, the government later invited Lipburger to move his construction to Vienna’s Prater Park, where it still sits today.
ref: 2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Motivations” (chapter 3), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 99:
glosses: A change of one's opinion, belief or decision.
Related terms: change of mind
change of tack
cold feet
chola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chola.
Senses: glosses: A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).
leery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈlɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈlɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈliɹi/
ipa: /ˈliɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈliɹe/
ipa: /ˈliəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈlɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
homophone: lairy (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: leerier
form: leeriest
form: leary
Etymology: First attested in 1718, “untrustful, suspicious”, either from leer (“sideward look”) + -y, lear (“learning, knowledge”) + -y. More at leer, lear.
Senses: examples: text: Since he was bitten by a dog when he was young, he has always been leery of animals.
text: “[…]He was one of their top gun-fighters—always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm.”
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, chapter X, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: “He's so darn afraid you'll be offended if he smokes. You scare him. Every time he speaks of the weather you jump him because he ain't talking about poetry or Gertie—Goethe?—or some other highbrow junk. You've got him so leery he scarcely dares to come here.”
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
glosses: Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.
glosses: Sly; artful; knowing.
examples: text: And there was a particularly brutal villain with leery eyes, ugly mouth, with one tooth gone, and an iron jaw like a hull-dog's.
ref: 1902, Francis Hopkinson Smith, chapter X, in The Fortunes of Oliver Horn:
glosses: Lecherous.
raw_tags: of a look or smile
Derived terms: leerily
leeriness
unleery
hesitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛzɪtənt/
Forms: form: more hesitant
form: most hesitant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin haesitans, present participle of haesitare (“to stick fast, to hesitate”).
Senses: examples: text: I am hesitant to recommend him as a manager because he has a short temper.
glosses: Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.
Derived terms: hesitantly
unhesitant
Related terms: hesitance
hesitancy
hesitate
hesitation
hesitative
zulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Zulu from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
mop head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mop heads
form: mophead
Senses: glosses: The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened.
glosses: A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop.
glosses: A type of thick rounded haircut similar to that worn by the Beatles in the early 1960s.
glosses: A person with unkempt hair that stands away from the head.
Related terms: mop-headed
moppet
zeitgeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/
ipa: /ˈtsaɪtˌɡaɪst/
Forms: form: zeitgeists
form: zeitgeister
form: zeitgeisten
form: Zeitgeist
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitgeist (literally “spirit of the age”).
Senses: examples: text: She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn. She was a victim of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time.
ref: 1958, Martin Luther King Jr., “Rosa Parks' Arrest”, in Stride Toward Freedom:
text: After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.
ref: 1996, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: [Robert] Heinlein’s gift was to catch the zeitgeist. “That’s what made him so successful, but it makes his work seem dated.”
ref: 2007 December 9, Scott Timberg, quoting Annalee Newitz, “The descent of a sci-fi guru”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, where right-wing populists increasingly are seizing the spotlight with an anti-immigration political agenda.
ref: 2014 February 10, Anthony Faiola, “Swiss vote to limit foreign workers captures growing European fears about immigration”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2014:
synonyms: spiritus mundi
temper of the times
tenor of the times
time spirit
time-spirit
glosses: The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.
Derived terms: zeitgeisty
Related terms: sign of the times
piscatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).
Senses: examples: text: There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.
ref: c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 41, in The Claverings:
text: That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
ref: 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, pg. 38:
text: Jane lined up the girls and called out, "Dive!" The girls dived - mermaids for a piscatorial pageant.
ref: 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 184:
text: The theme is unashamedly piscatorial – there are models of trout, pictures of trout, books about trout, a cabinet full of fly-tying gear. The veranda, cluttered with waders, boots, rods and tackle, is where the fishing day begins.
ref: 2015 April 2, Tom Fort, “Trout fishing in Chilean Patagonia [print version: Gone fishing – and waking up in heaven, 4 April 2015, p. T6]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel), archived from the original on 06 Apr 2015:
glosses: Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
examples: text: The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.
ref: 2005 November 25, “Mercedes goes back to nature for dynamic inspiration”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 02 Jul 2007:
text: There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.
ref: 2007 December 22, “Atlantic salmon: Ruler of the river”, in The Economist, volume 385, number 8560, page 139:
glosses: Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
Synonyms: piscatorian
piscatory
Derived terms: piscatorialist
piscatorially
leave someone in the lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves someone in the lurch
form: leaving someone in the lurch
form: left someone in the lurch
form: left someone in the lurch
Senses: examples: text: He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself.
text: And though th'art of a diff'rent Church, / I will not leave thee in the lurch.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC, page 103:
text: “So I really loved working here.” “Obvi.” “But the time has ome for me to move on. But don't worry, I am not gonna leave you guys in the lurch. I've already found my replacement. I'm gonna train him really, really well so that no business is interrupted in any way.”
ref: 2014 February 25, Nick Kroll, “Finger Magnets” (5:22 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Cassandra (Sarah Dampf):
text: “Wayne, bro, I am so sorry. Wayne, I said I'm sorry.” “I heard you. I just was trying to figure out if you're apologizing for this or-or for a whole lifetime of leaving me in the lurch. But then again, I'm the dumbass for thinking you've grown up.” “Serious?” “Serious.”
ref: 2021 May 2, Janine Brito & Jeremy Rowley, “The Drincan Temple” (15:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
text: Frédérique Laurence, the owner of a grocery shop in La Morte, added: “We’ve been left completely in the lurch. We still have loans to pay as we’ve only been here four years. Who will pay them? Our lives have been ruined. That’s what is going to happen to us.”
ref: 2024 October 7, Kim Willsher, “Large French Alpine ski resort to close in face of shrinking snow season”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation.
Synonyms: leave someone holding the bag
leave someone high and dry
bilk
bronchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑːn.ki.əl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bronchiālis. By surface analysis, bronchium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the bronchia, bronchi or bronchioles.
Derived terms: bronchially
bronchial tree
bronchial tube
colobronchial
dorsobronchial
endobronchial
esophagobronchial
extrabronchial
interbronchial
intrabronchial
laryngobronchial
laryngotracheobronchial
lymphobronchial
nasobronchial
nonbronchial
parabronchial
peribronchial
postbronchial
prebronchial
subbronchial
tracheobronchial
transbronchial
ventrobronchial
hit the trail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the trail
form: hitting the trail
form: hit the trail
form: hit the trail
Senses: examples: text: It's time for me to hit the trail and be on my way.
glosses: To leave or depart.
Related terms: trail hitter
hit the road
hit home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits home
form: hitting home
form: hit home
form: hit home
Senses: examples: text: Do you think the message really hit home with him?
text: Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd.
text: Which led me to publish it, to see if it hits home at all. Which, to me, is the point of the written word, the novels: Our desire to be reassured and read that, in all this, we're not alone.
ref: 2008, Gordon Watt, Fading Home, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 297:
synonyms: strike a chord
strike home
glosses: To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.
examples: text: This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul the Japanese battleship, and, sooner or later, another salvo of 16-inch shells - no one's quite sure whether it comes from Alabama or Washington - smashes into the base of the superfiring aft turret.
ref: 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 32:32 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weapon
weaponry
qualifier: or projectile
glosses: To strike its target with damaging effect.
raw_tags: of an attack
Related terms: bat a thousand
hit a home run
hit up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits up
form: hitting up
form: hit up
form: hit up
Senses: examples: text: Why not hit him up for some assistance on the rebuilding project?
synonyms: touch base
chat up
glosses: To visit with or contact someone, especially with a definite purpose.
examples: text: Jerry will hit up a round for us all.
glosses: To eat or drink; to buy a round of drinks.
examples: text: I hit up the computer to find the answer.
glosses: To embark on or devote oneself to (an activity); to perform or do (something).
examples: text: He hit up with the heroin Jake brought him.
glosses: To take (an intoxicating drug).
examples: text: He hit me up for twenty bucks.
glosses: To request or demand; to confront verbally.
Related terms: hit it up
HMU
hit up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit ups
form: hitup
form: hit-up
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The act of taking a pass from the dummy half and running straight into the opposition's defensive line without looking to pass.
hole in one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holes in one
form: hole in ones
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: ace
dodo
glosses: A hole that is completed by sinking the ball in a single shot or attempt, with one hit.
examples: text: If we can get the entire thing moved over in a day, it'll be a hole in one with the customer.
glosses: Any rare, wonderful, or remarkable accomplishment.
toughie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: toughies
form: toughy
Etymology: From tough + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: His question is a toughie. I might have to do some more research.
glosses: Something that is tough, or difficult.
examples: text: Sansevieria and aspidistra are two old houseplant toughies that make good indoor choices.
ref: 1977 October, Gladys Reed Robinson, “Two Old Houseplant Toughies”, in Organic Gardening and Farming, volume 24, page 170:
text: With typical courage she had taken hold of her life and changed it for the better. She always was a brave little toughie, and now her courage had paid off.
ref: 1996, Kathleen Rowntree, Laurie and Claire, page 319:
text: His eyes were red, but his lashes were not beaded with fresh tears. He was something, this little toughie.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 84:
glosses: Someone or something that is strong and resilient.
examples: text: The liberal states, in the present situation, are the "softies"; the Fascist states are the "toughies". And the toughies are always able to get away with "murder" until the softies become tough.
ref: 1936 April, “Hitler and Mussolini Win Again”, in The Modern Monthly, volume 9, number 9, page 3:
text: But we knew she would follow how and why my student and I would immediately detect the similarity in our situation from the studied calmness we had both displayed toward the havoc roused by the toughies to intimidate the new female temporary teacher.
ref: 2001, Min-Zhan Lu, Shanghai Quartet: The Crossings of Four Women of China, page 249:
text: There was Butch behind the bar, and there sat four of the toughies at their table with their heads all close together and not drunk no more.
ref: 2012, Tom Powers, Virgin With Butterflies:
text: Often I don't even have a partner when I make my rounds as a patrol cop, because of city budget constraints. But when the toughie is armed or there are too many toughies, l have to call for a backup before I make a move.
ref: 2012, Jules Lombard, Sons, Daughters and Wine Tasters, page 11:
glosses: A tough; Someone or something that acts as a thug or bully.
on a roll
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was on a roll with the answers that day and didn't want to stop.
text: You're on a roll and now you pray it lasts
ref: 1983, Matthew Wilder, Greg Prestopino, “Break My Stride”, in I Don't Speak the Language:
text: With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll.
ref: 1984 January 2, Charles P. Alexander, “Cheers for a Banner Year”, in Time, retrieved 26 Aug 2015:
text: `You beauty I thought, I'm on a roll now so I grabbed her hand and escorted her to the floor.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 85:
text: After a sluggish start to the season, Torino are on a roll. The Granata began their nine-match unbeaten streak in Serie A on December 6.
ref: 2015 February 9, Matthew Amalfitano, “Torino eyeing Europa League”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 26 Aug 2015:
glosses: Having a streak of good luck or good progress or success.
Related terms: on a kick
lucky streak
push one's luck
when you're hot, you're hot
hot hand
toughy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toughies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toughie.
bronchiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɒŋkiˌoʊl/
Forms: form: bronchioles
Etymology: From bronchial + -ole.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the small cartilage-less branches of a bronchus.
Synonyms: bronchiolus
Derived terms: bronchiolar
bronchiolectasis
bronchiolitis
bronchiolization
bronchioloalveolar
peribronchiole
respiratory bronchiole
terminal bronchiole
herrenvolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹənfəʊk/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹənfɒlk/
enpr: hĕrʹən-fōk
enpr: hĕrʹən-fŏlk
ipa: /ˈhɛɹənfoʊk/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹənfɔlk/
enpr: hĕrʹən-fōk
enpr: hĕrʹən-fôlk
Forms: form: herrenvolks
form: herrenvolker
form: Herrenvolk
Etymology: From German Herrenvolk, from Herr (“lord, master, gentleman”) + -en- + Volk (“folk, people”).
Senses: examples: text: In their position halfway between the blacks and the white Herrenvolk, they are bound to be unstable, they are petty bourgeois to the core, all of them.
ref: 1995 [1954], Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, page 59:
text: The political system that was emerging has been aptly described as a 'Herrenvolk democracy', a formally democratic political system in which voting and office holding is limited to members of a dominant ethno-racial group.
ref: 2003, George M. Fredrickson, The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States^(https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/8A0AE7EACD11F278C1256DD6004860EA/$file/Fredrick.pdf), page 14:
glosses: A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.
Derived terms: herrenvolkism
scots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scot
head-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: head on
Senses: examples: text: a head-on approach to a problem
text: In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us to better discover - and describe - people and objects? How does distancing produce an effect? Westerners find it natural and normal to meet the world head-on. But what can we gain from approaching the world obliquely?
ref: 2000 [1995], François Jullien, “Preface”, in Sophie Hawkes, transl., Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece [Le Détour et l'accès: Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce], New York: Zone Books, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:
english: Le Détour et l'accès: Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce
translation: Le Détour et l'accès: Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce
glosses: Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating.
examples: text: Getting into a head-on collision is dangerous.
text: This secondary collision, head-on with a closing speed of 142mph, caused the DVT to veer off to the left. Many of the coaches behind it overturned and careered into an adjacent field.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 39:
glosses: Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
Derived terms: head-on collision
head-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: head on
Senses: examples: text: Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
ref: 2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, →ISBN, 3.1.2:
glosses: With the front of a vehicle.
examples: text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
text: And there is little research to address the issue head on. A previous study, published in 2000, surveyed doctors and found that three quarters of them said some patients addressed them by their first name.
ref: 2022 October 13, Gina Kolata, “‘Kind of Awkward’: Doctors Find Themselves on a First-Name Basis”, in The New York Times:
glosses: With direct confrontation.
head-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-ons
form: head on
Senses: examples: text: He was injured in a head-on with a larger vehicle.
glosses: A collision from the front.
head on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of head-on.
head on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of head-on.
satan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈseɪ.ʔn̩]
Forms: form: satans
Etymology: See Satan: from Latin Satān, from Ancient Greek Σατάν (Satán), from Hebrew שָׂטָן (Sātān, “adversary, accuser”).
Senses: examples: text: According to Wahb b. Munnabih, Muhammad b. Ka‘b, and other authorities: Solomon was led to this [test of her intelligence] because the satans feared that he would marry her and make her desirous of having his offspring. She would then disclose to him the secrets of the jinn, and they would never rid themselves of their subservience to Solomon and his offspring to follow.
ref: 1993, Jacob Lassner, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba, page 199:
text: He tells them to go away, calling them ‘You little satans!’ and then the children′s faces become ghoulish and they begin snapping at him, trying to bite him. A short time later, we see Judas being chased by about a dozen of these children; he falls and they kick and hit him. Twice, we see the figure of Satan (recognizable from the opening scene) standing among the demon-children.
ref: 2004, Mark Allan Powell, “6: Satan and the Demons”, in Kathleen E. Corley, Robert L. Webb, editors, Jesus and Mel Gibson′s The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of Satan (especially in the sense "a demon follower of Satan; a fallen angel").
satan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈseɪ.ʔn̩]
Forms: form: satans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of satin.
oxter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒkstə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: oxters
Etymology: Apparently from Middle English *oxtere, *oxte, from Old English ōxta, ōhsta, related to Old English ōxn (“armpit”), Old English eax (“axis, axle”), and eaxl (“shoulder”). See also axis and axon.
Senses: examples: text: And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, […]
ref: Episode 12: The Cyclops
text: ‘It's a small beast,’ he said. ‘I could carry it under my oxter.’
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 90:
glosses: The armpit.
Derived terms: oxtercog
oxter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒkstə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: oxters
form: oxtering
form: oxtered
form: oxtered
Etymology: Apparently from Middle English *oxtere, *oxte, from Old English ōxta, ōhsta, related to Old English ōxn (“armpit”), Old English eax (“axis, axle”), and eaxl (“shoulder”). See also axis and axon.
Senses: examples: text: They oxter him into the building.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 412:
glosses: To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of.
Synonyms: sense: cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
word: armpit
sense: cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
word: axilla
sense: cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
word: underarm
sense: cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
word: armhole
EDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EDMs
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York, which he has said he will no longer use. […] EDMs rarely have any effect apart from generating publicity for a cause, but if a significant number of cross-party names were to sign the SNP motion it would act as a method for piling pressure on the government.
ref: 2025 October 21, Jessica Elgot, “MPs move to lodge parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of dukedom”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of early day motion.
qualifier: electrics
glosses: Initialism of electrical discharge machining.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of electronic document management.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of entity data model.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of engineering data management.
examples: text: But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of electronic dance music.
EDM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Edm
form: Edm.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Edmonton.
brevity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛvɪti/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛvəti/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛvəti/
ipa: [ˈbɹɛvəɾi]
ipa: [ˈbɹɛvɾi]
ipa: /ˈbɹevəti/
ipa: [ˈbɹevəɾi]
Forms: form: brevities
Etymology: First attested in English in 1509; either:
* Borrowed directly from Latin brevitās; or
* from Anglo-Norman brevité, from Old French brieveté, from Latin brevitātem, accusative of brevitās, from brevis (“short”).
By surface analysis, brief + -ity
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.
ref: 2005, Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything:
glosses: The quality of being brief in duration.
examples: text: [B]revity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
ref: 1856 June 14, “Head and Tail”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142:
text: A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.
ref: 1966, Jackson E. Morris, Principles of scientific and technical writing:
glosses: Succinctness; conciseness.
glosses: A short piece of writing.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being brief in duration
word: ephemerality
word: fleetingness
word: transiency
word: transience
sense: succinctness
word: concision
word: laconicism
word: terseness
word: succinctness
Derived terms: brevitic
brevity code
brevity is the soul of wit
Related terms: breve
brief
Aleshia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: One of the modern variations of Alicia, meaning "of noble kind".
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Related terms: Alisha
Alicia
Alesha
joe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jō
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
homophone: Jo
homophone: Joe
homophone: Zhou
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: joes
form: Joe
Etymology: From the proper name Joe.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just an ordinary joe.
glosses: A male; a guy; a fellow.
examples: text: Name me a joe in a bad country ... who doesn't fall for a pretty face if she's on his side against the world.
ref: 2001, Tod Hoffman, Le Carré's Landscape, page 193:
text: Soviet troops were permitted to enter the American sector, where they could easily capture and torture an agent to confirm the existence of a Joe house, then cripple American espionage efforts by kidnapping a nest of spies in one fell swoop.
ref: 2004, Richard W. Cutler, Counterspy, page 96:
text: Then Hapgood turned him into a joe — that is, he works for the British.
ref: 2009, John Fleming, Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos, page 178:
text: Lamb didn't look any different, was still a soft fat rude bastard, still dressed like he'd been thrown through a charity shop window, but Jesus, River thought—Lamb was a joe.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 215:
glosses: A spy, especially a double agent.
examples: text: I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter XCIX. The Doubloon”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 481:
text: Guineas, joes, half joes, doubloons, and pistoles of various origin constituted the gold currency, while the silver was mostly the Spanish American dollar and its fractions: the half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth, with the pistareen and half pistareen.
ref: 1861, “United States Mint”, “Chapter I. Establishment of Mint—Standard of Coins—Laws Regulating Coinage—Progress of Coinage—Precious Metals in the Country”, in Eighty Years’ Progress of the United States: […], volume I, New York: […]. Worcester, Mass.: L. Stebbins, page 213, column 1:
text: In the olden time the currency, you know, was a l^([sic]) in gold and silver, joes, half-joes (Johannes), pistoles, moidores, doubloons, pistareens, ninepences (12+¹⁄₂ cents), and fourpence-half-pennies (6+¹⁄₄ cents) or “fippenny-bits.”
ref: 1863 August, The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, volume VII, number 8, New York: Charles B. Richardson, […]. London: Trübner & Co., page 245, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”).
synonyms: word: johannes
extra: (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”).
Derived terms: average joe
cup o' joe
cuppa joe
dwarf joe-pye weed
green joe-pye weed
half joe
joe blake
joe job
joe-pye weed
mumbly joe
sloppy joe
joe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jō
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
homophone: Jo
homophone: Joe
homophone: Zhou
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: joes
Etymology: Uncertain. See cup of joe for more.
Senses: examples: text: In olden times, you'd wander down to Mom's Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 178:
text: 45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
text: Some people say I make the best joe in town. But you know there's a kiosk over on Eighteenth Avenue, not that far from here.
ref: 2010, Melody Carlson, A Mile in My Flip-Flops, page 221:
glosses: Coffee.
Related terms: cup of joe
joe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jō
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
homophone: Jo
homophone: Joe
homophone: Zhou
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: joes
Senses: examples: text: 1836 Joanna Baillie The Phantom, Act 2. Provost, to a maidservant.
I fear, my joe, the good that I can do him,
Or ev'n the minister, if he were here,
Would be but little.
text: My tantie Kate sits at her wheel, / And sair she lightlies me; / But weel ken I it's a' envy, / For ne'er a joe has she.
ref: 1890, Scottish Humorous Poetry, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of jo (“a darling or sweetheart”).
joseph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊsəf/
enpr: jō'səf
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊsəf
rhymes: (US) -oʊsəf
Forms: form: josephs
Etymology: Probably in allusion to Joseph's coat of many colours in Genesis 37:3.
Senses: examples: text: Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet . . . travelling on pillions in snowy weather was unpleasant, though a joseph was a great protection . . . these ladies were so taken by surprise at finding such a lovely face and figure in an out-of-the-way country place, that they began to feel some curiosity about the dress she would put on when she took off her joseph
ref: 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 11”, in Silas Marner:
glosses: A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.
oral availability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral availabilities
Senses: examples: 2002, Daniel F. Veber, Stephen R. Johnson, Hung-Yuan Cheng, Brian R. Smith, Keith W. Ward, and Kenneth D. Kopple, "Molecular Properties That Influence the Oral Bioavailability of Drug Candidates". Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 45(12):2615-2623. Retrieved July 9, 2005.
An analysis of the measured oral availability in rats for over 1100 compounds studied at SmithKline Beecham has revealed the unexpected positive influence of increasing molecular rigidity as measured by the rotatable bond count and the more expected negative impact of increasing polar surface area.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The quality of being efficacious when taken by mouth (usually of a medicinal drug).
small molecule drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small molecule drugs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A medicinal drug compound having a molecular weight of less than 1000 daltons, and typically between 300 and 700 daltons.
Dalton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒltən/
ipa: /ˈdɔːltən/
ipa: /ˈdɔltən/
ipa: /ˈdɑltən/
rhymes: -ɒltən
rhymes: -ɔːltən
homophone: dalton
Forms: form: Daltons
form: Doulton
Etymology: From Old English dæl (“valley”) + tun (“settlement”). Equivalent to dale + town.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a former unit of atomic mass equivalent to 1/16 the mass of an oxygen atom; now replaced by the atomic mass unit (or dalton)
dalton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒltən/
ipa: /ˈdɔːltən/
ipa: /ˈdɔltən/
ipa: /ˈdɑltən/
rhymes: -ɒltən
rhymes: -ɔːltən
homophone: Dalton
Forms: form: daltons
Etymology: Named after the chemist John Dalton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the atomic mass unit
wikipedia: John Dalton
Derived terms: kilodalton
megadalton
gigadalton
atomic mass unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic mass units
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A unit of mass equal to 1/12 the mass of an atom of ¹²C (carbon-12, an isotope of carbon).
Synonyms: dalton
unified atomic mass unit
UCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UCOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of used cooking oil (for biodiesel).
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of undercover officer.
choler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kǒ'lər
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cholers
Etymology: From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.
Senses: examples: text: Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
ref: 1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127:
glosses: Anger or irritability.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of yellow bile.
synonyms: word: yellow bile
Synonyms: anger
bile
displeasure
fury
gall
grudge
indignation
ire
passion
rage
spleen
vexation
wrath
yellow bile
Related terms: cholera
choleric
choleric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl(ə)ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑlɝɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɛɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɔl(ɘ)ɹɘk/
ipa: /kɘˈliəɹɘk/
Forms: form: cholerics
Etymology: From Middle English colerik, from Old French colerique, from Latin cholericus, from Ancient Greek χολερικός (kholerikós). By surface analysis, choler + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The cholerics show ambition, stubbornness, love of work, courage […]
ref: c. 1915, John Adams, Making the Most of One’s Mind, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, page 21:
text: 1984, Tim LaHaye, Your Temperament: Discover its Potential, republished as Why You Act the Way You Do, Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House, 2012,
No one utters more caustic comments than a sarcastic choleric!
glosses: A person with a choleric temperament.
examples: text: Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics.
ref: 1832, Ashbel Smith, The Cholera Spasmodica, New York: P. Hill, page 59:
glosses: A person suffering from cholera (infectious disease).
Herrenvolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herrenvolks
form: Herrenvolker
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of herrenvolk.
residency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛzɪdənsi/
Forms: form: residencies
Etymology: From reside + -ency or resident + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a resident of a particular place.
glosses: The home or residence of a person, especially in the colonies.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: The position or term of a medical resident.
examples: text: The trance DJ was keen to secure a residency in Ibiza.
text: After a successful Thursday-night residency at the Marquee Club—where the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones first earned their reputations—England's CBS label signed the group to a recording contract.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: The position of a musical artist who commonly performs at a particular venue.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of rezidentura.
synonyms: word: rezidentura
Derived terms: e-residency
low-residency
permanent residency
philogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From philo- + -gyny.
Senses: glosses: Love or fondness for women.
Synonyms: gynephilia
Derived terms: philogynist
Abel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
homophone: able
Etymology: From Middle English Abel, from Old English Ābel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Biblical Hebrew הֶבֶל (Héḇel, “Abel”), possibly from the homonymous word הֶבֶל (heḇel, “breath, vapor; vanity”) or from Akkadian 𒌉𒍑 (ablu, “son”).
Senses: examples: text: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:8:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States, named after the biblical Abel.
Derived terms: Abelian
abelian
Abelite
abelite
Abel-Jacobi-Liouville identity
Abel-Jacobi map
Abel-Plana formula
Abel-Ruffini theorem
Abel's formula
Abel's identity
Abel's impossibility theorem
Abel's irreducibility theorem
Abelson
Abel's summation formula
Abel's theorem
Related terms: Cain
paces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of pace
paces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pace
Related terms: put one through one's paces
insipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/
rhymes: -ɪpiənt
homophone: incipient
Forms: form: more insipient
form: most insipient
Etymology: From Middle English insipient, incipient, from Old French insipient, ultimately from Latin īnsipiēns.
Senses: glosses: foolish; lacking wisdom; stupid
Derived terms: insipience
insipiently
Related terms: insipid
supracellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: above the level of cells
exigent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɪ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.zɪ.d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more exigent
form: most exigent
form: exigeant
Etymology: From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.
Senses: examples: 2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence
Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
glosses: Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
glosses: Demanding; requiring great effort.
Derived terms: allocatur exigent
exigent circumstance
exigenter
exigently
inexigent
unexigent
Related terms: exigence
exigency
exigenter