cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dawn on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dawns on
form: dawning on
form: dawned on
form: dawned on
form: dawn upon
Senses: examples: text: It finally dawned on him that he could automate the process instead of doing it by hand each time.
text: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: "Sir," he remarked, "you have been robbed," and then it suddenly dawned on me that it must have taken place as I was passing the men congregated in the corridor.
ref: 1943 September and October, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1934)—IV”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
text: What dawned on me as the night went on is that even in apparently frivolous conditions the establishment asserts control, and won't tolerate having that assertion challenged, even flippantly, by that most beautifully adept tool: comedy.
ref: 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian:
text: Underground stations were also slated for closure, and there were plans for massive ring roads to cater for the ever-growing numbers of people commuting into town by car. […] However, it soon dawned on politicians that this was unsustainable. Much of London would have had to be demolished to make way for the ring roads, and parking was becoming an insuperable difficulty.
ref: 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 57:
synonyms: strike
glosses: To occur to somebody; to be realized by.
raw_tags: of an idea
Related terms: daylight
the light
wake up to something
centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of center
centers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of center
stayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪd/
ipa: /steːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: stade
homophone: staid (except Scotland)
Forms: form: staid
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stay
saints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnts/
rhymes: -eɪnts
Senses: glosses: plural of saint
saints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnts/
rhymes: -eɪnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saint
mentioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnʃənɪŋ/
Forms: form: mentionings
Senses: examples: text: Rather, they issue forth as fragmented commentary, casual mentionings, and sporadic allusions to aspects of the lives and times of universally known characters who have come to represent archetypes, moral types, and object lessons.
ref: 2007, James Anthony Pritchett, Friends for Life, Friends for Death, page 57:
glosses: present participle and gerund of mention
interpreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɪd/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: interpretted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interpret
interpreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɪd/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: interpretted
Senses: glosses: Executed directly, rather than via a compiled binary representation.
raw_tags: of computer languages or code
Derived terms: noninterpreted
uninterpreted
interpret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝ.pɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈin.tɚ.pɹɛt/
ipa: /ɪn.tɚˈpɹɛt/
Forms: form: interprets
form: interpreting
form: interpreted
form: interpreted
Etymology: From Middle English interpreten, from Old French enterpreter, (French interpréter), from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret”), past participle interpretatus, from interpres (“an agent, broker, explainer, interpreter, negotiator”), from inter (“between”) + -pres, probably the root of pretium (“price”); -pres is probably connected with Ancient Greek φράζειν (phrázein, “to point out, show, explain, declare, speak”), from which φραδή (phradḗ, “understanding”), φράσις (phrásis, “speech”); see phrase.
Senses: synonyms: take
understand
construe
glosses: To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
examples: text: to interpret an Indian speech
text: The Holy Bible, Matthew i. 23.
Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
text: The Holy Bible, Genesis xli. 8.
And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
glosses: To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
examples: text: The actor interpreted the character of Hamlet with great skill.
text: The way the musician interpreted a sonata was quite special.
text: an artist interprets a landscape
glosses: To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation
examples: text: He interpreted at the meeting between the Chinese and French associates.
glosses: To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
Synonyms: translate
explain
contrue
solve
render
expound
elucidate
decipher
unfold
unravel
Derived terms: interpretory
overinterpret
preinterpret
Related terms: interpretable
interpretament
interpretation
interpretative
interpret away
interpreter
interpretive
interpretted
misinterpret
reinterpret
asterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.təˌɹɪz.əm/
Forms: form: asterisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστερισμός (asterismós, “group of stars”), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”). Analyzable as aster- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
text: Of the constellations, or asterisms. [...] It therefore became necessary to adopt a more general method of distinguishing them. This was accomplished by portioning out the heavens into imaginary figures, of men, birds, fishes, &c. called Constellations or Asterisms.
ref: 1825, Geo G. Carey, Astronomy, as it is known at the present day, London, p. 66 f:
text: Like Pisces and Capricorn, Aquarius is located in that part of the sky known as "Astral Sea," a region inhabited by water asterisms such as Eridanus, Cetus (the Whale), and the Dolphin.
ref: 2007, Matilde Battistini, Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia (translation from Italian into English), Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art, page 60:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
glosses: A rarely used typographical symbol of three asterisks arranged in a triangle, ⁂, used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book. Distinct from a dinkus which also uses asterisks to separate.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
Derived terms: asterismal
Related terms: aster
asterisk
asteroid
catasterism
starstone
syzygy
presence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛzn̩s/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛz(ə)ns/
rhymes: -ɛzəns
Forms: form: presences
form: præsence
Etymology: Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Senses: examples: text: Any painter can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw.
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
examples: text: Bob never said anything about it in my presence.
glosses: The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
glosses: A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
examples: text: Despite being less than five foot, she filled up the theatre with her stage presence.
text: Perrin Ferris succeeds in his equally demanding task of maintaining some semblance of presence while sharing the stage with a chronic upstager.
ref: 1976 February 14, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 14:
glosses: A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.
examples: text: I'm convinced that there was a presence in that building that I can't explain, which led to my heroic actions.
glosses: Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
glosses: A company's business activity in a particular market.
glosses: An assembly of great persons.
glosses: The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts.
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of room tone.
synonyms: word: room tone
Derived terms: compresence
copresence
holopresence
hyperpresence
Internet presence
in the presence of
make one's presence felt
multipresence
nonpresence
overpresence
pluripresence
presence chamber
presenceless
presence of mind
presence room
presentity
real presence
saving your presence
stage presence
superpresence
telepresence
presence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛzn̩s/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛz(ə)ns/
rhymes: -ɛzəns
Forms: form: presences
form: presencing
form: presenced
form: presenced
form: præsence
Etymology: Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Senses: examples: text: Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself.
ref: 1972, Joan Stambaugh, Time and being (lecture), translation of original by Martin Heidegger, page 13:
text: Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.
ref: 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen, page 59:
text: Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
ref: 1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59:
text: 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118,
From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
text: Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person.
ref: 2011, Brendan McCormack, Tanya McCance, Person-centred Nursing: Theory and Practice:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To make or become present.
Related terms: present
presentation
omnipresence
Midianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midianites
Etymology: From Midian + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient northern Arabian people.
maisonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪ.zəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: maisonettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French maisonnette. Doublet of mansionette.
Senses: glosses: a small house
glosses: an apartment often on two floors
coulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːli/
ipa: /kuːˈliː/
ipa: /ˈkuːliz/
ipa: /kuːˈliːz/
homophone: coolie
homophone: coolly
homophone: coulee
Forms: form: coulis
form: coulises
Etymology: Borrowed from French coulis.
Senses: examples: text: Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:
glosses: A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.
Related terms: coulee
ventre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ventres
form: ventring
form: ventred
form: ventred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of venture (“to hazard, risk”).
coulisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: coulisses
Etymology: Borrowed from French coulisse.
Senses: glosses: A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
glosses: A fluting in a sword blade.
glosses: A side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.
groove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuːv/
ipa: /ɡɹuv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: grooves
form: grooving
form: grooved
form: grooved
Etymology: From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).
Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.
Senses: examples: text: The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 186:
glosses: To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
examples: text: I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.
glosses: To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
Derived terms: groove on
grooved
groover
regroove
ungrooved
engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪɹz/
ipa: /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪəz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of engineer
engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪɹz/
ipa: /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪəz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engineer
ensheathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈʃiːð/
rhymes: -iːð
Forms: form: ensheathes
form: ensheathing
form: ensheathed
form: ensheathed
form: insheathe
Etymology: From en- + sheathe.
Senses: examples: text: Each filament of combustible pulp is ensheathed in an isolating tube, and these tubes are then bound into cable-like trunks.
ref: 1858, Edward Hughes, Reading Lessons:
glosses: To cover with or as if with a sheath.
Derived terms: ensheathment
meets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːts/
rhymes: -iːts
homophone: meats
homophone: metes
Senses: glosses: plural of meet
meets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːts/
rhymes: -iːts
homophone: meats
homophone: metes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meet
meets
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːts/
rhymes: -iːts
homophone: meats
homophone: metes
Senses: examples: text: The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.
text: The concept of the movie was Fantastic Voyage meets The Devil Wears Prada.
glosses: Forming a combination or nexus of.
saving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: savings
Etymology: From save + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
text: This new yard will replace a group of out-of-date yards, and there will be an estimated net saving of £150,000 a year.
ref: 1954 August, “Marshalling Yard Reorganisation, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 570:
glosses: A reduction in cost or expenditure.
examples: text: I invested all my savings in gold.
text: The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement.
text: “Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
ref: 2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN:
glosses: Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
glosses: The action of the verb to save.
examples: text: saving and transitional provisions
text: Tis Good Advice not to Contend with Those that are too Strong for us, but still with a saving to Honesty and Justice
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Exception; reservation.
Derived terms: cost saving
daylight saving
daylight saving time
lifesaving
life savings
paradox of saving
saving throw
weight-saving
saving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Etymology: From save + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of save
saving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: more saving
form: most saving
Etymology: From save + -ing.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
examples: text: He is the saving strength of his anointed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 28:8:
glosses: Preserving; rescuing.
examples: text: a saving cook
text: Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 14:
glosses: Thrifty; frugal.
examples: text: a saving bargain
text: The ship has made a saving voyage.
glosses: Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
examples: a saving clause
glosses: Making reservation or exception.
examples: text: labour-saving
text: energy-saving light bulbs
glosses: Relating to making a saving.
Derived terms: word: savingly
word: savingness
sense: Compound words
word: cost-saving
sense: Compound words
word: facesaving
sense: Compound words
word: laborsaving
sense: Compound words
word: labour-saving
sense: Compound words
word: life-saving
sense: Compound words
word: space-saving
sense: Compound words
word: timesaving
sense: Expressions
word: saving grace
sense: Expressions
word: saving throw
saving
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Etymology: From save + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 2:17:
glosses: With the exception of; except; save.
examples: text: I should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Saving your presence.
ref: a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes:
glosses: Without disrespect to.
developments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of development
developments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.
exposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: exposed to light; exposed to water; exposed to abuse; exposed to danger
text: an exposed path (trail, etc) up the mountain (one with a drop-off on one or both sides)
text: The monastery perched on an exposed cliff.
text: The soldiers needed to find cover fast. Their current position was very exposed.
text: The bike chain is open and exposed to tough environmental conditions such as temperature changes, humidity, rain, dirt and road salt.
text: exposed beam
text: exposed brick
glosses: Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).
Derived terms: exposed beam
exposed brick
exposedly
exposedness
exposed services
nonexposed
overexposed
preexposed
semiexposed
time-exposed
underexposed
unexposed
exposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The film was not exposed to sufficient light.
text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.[…]Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
glosses: simple past and past participle of expose
beeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːlaɪn/
rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Forms: form: beelines
form: bee-line
Etymology: From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course, originally an Americanism.
Senses: examples: text: to make / strike a beeline for / to something
text: The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
text: Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Hershie made a beeline for Thomas's table, not making eye-contact with the others — old-guard activists who still saw him as a tool of the war-machine.
ref: 1998, Cory Doctorow, Super Man and the Bug Out:
glosses: A very direct or quick path or trip.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
beeline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːlaɪn/
rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Forms: form: beelines
form: beelining
form: beelined
form: beelined
form: bee-line
Etymology: From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course, originally an Americanism.
Senses: examples: text: A uniformed policeman came off the elevator and beelined for the nurse's station. I beelined into the stairwell. I wasn't in the mood for chatting with the police.
ref: 2002, Tim Cockey, Hearse of a Different Color, Hachette Books, →ISBN:
text: Suddenly, a woman beelines to the president, climbs to join him on his platform, there’s no security around to stop her and leans in for a kiss.
ref: 2009 November 24, Simon Dumenco, “Oriole Kooky”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel.
Related terms: as the crow flies
like a martin to his gourd
second-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Her youth had passed in intrigues and vanities, and she still lived among them at second-hand: she now talked what she formerly did.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Gossipping”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Alternative spelling of secondhand.
resolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɑlvd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɒlvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resolve
resolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɑlvd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɒlvd/
Forms: form: more resolved
form: most resolved
Senses: glosses: Determined; fixed in one's purpose.
religions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈlɪd͡ʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of religion
religions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈlɪd͡ʒənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of religion
cough up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coughs up
form: coughing up
form: coughed up
form: coughed up
Etymology: From cough + up.
Senses: examples: text: He was coughing up blood.
text: He was coughing up a lung. [idiomatic, figurative]
glosses: To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
examples: text: Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?
text: "[…] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole."
ref: 2006, K. M. Soehnlein, You Can Say You Knew Me When, page 240:
glosses: To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
To pay or disburse reluctantly (perhaps influenced by coffers of money).
synonyms: shell out
fork out
fork over
coordinate_terms: come up with
raw_tags: of money
examples: text: "Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Cough it up, Cooper.
ref: 2013, The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 14
glosses: To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
To hand over, give.
raw_tags: of other objects
glosses: To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
To confess; to give up information.
examples: text: That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.
glosses: To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
examples: text: England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: To spill, to fumble.
Related terms: expectorate
decent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːs(ə)nt/
rhymes: -iːsənt
Forms: form: more decent
form: most decent
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French décent, or its source, Latin decēns, present participle of decet (“it is fitting or suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take, accept, to receive, greet, be suitable”) (compare Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I appear, seem, think”), δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I accept”); Sanskrit दशस्यति (daśasyáti, “shows honor, is gracious”), दाशति (dāśati, “makes offerings, bestows”)). Meaning ‘kind, pleasant’ is from 1902.
Senses: glosses: Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
glosses: Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Are you decent? May I come in?
glosses: Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
examples: text: He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.
text: A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.
ref: [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24:
text: I'm all for opening new stations (Transport Scotland is planning another at East Linton, about halfway between Drem and Dunbar), but they are useless without a decent service.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
glosses: Fair; acceptable; okay.
examples: text: There are a decent number of references out there, if you can find them.
glosses: Significant; substantial.
examples: text: I had a cup of tea - the last decent cup of tea for many days; and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady’s drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
glosses: Conforming to perceived standards of good taste.
examples: text: And ſable ſtole of Cipres Lawn,
Over thy decent ſhoulders drawn.
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Comely; shapely; well-formed.
Synonyms: sense: conforming suitably to moral standards
word: good
sense: conforming suitably to moral standards
word: moral
sense: good enough
word: satisfactory
Derived terms: decentish
decentness
do the decent thing
half-decent
halfway decent
jolly D
semidecent
undecent
Related terms: decency
decently
decent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːs(ə)nt/
rhymes: -iːsənt
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of descent.
landed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd.ɪd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English londed, from Old English ġelandod. By surface analysis, land + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: landed gentry
glosses: In possession of land.
examples: text: a landed estate
glosses: Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.
Derived terms: landed cost
landed gentry
landed immigrant
landed society
nonlanded
unlanded
landed property
landed estate
landed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd.ɪd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of land
sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From size + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A badly-sized pair of shoes.
text: A pea-sized creature.
text: The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
Hyponyms: bite-sized
car-sized
Earth-sized
fair-sized
family-sized
fun-sized
good-sized
king-sized
large-sized
life-sized
man-sized
medium-sized
micro-sized
middle-sized
midsized
mid-sized
moon-sized
party-sized
pea-sized
piano-sized
pint-sized
planet-sized
plus-sized
pocket-sized
queen-sized
refrigerator-sized
small and medium-sized enterprise
small or medium-sized enterprise
small-sized
standard-sized
super-sized
Texas-sized
travel-sized
woman-sized
sized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From size + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of size
Related terms: sized up
stages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of stage
stages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stage
manteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæntəʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
Forms: form: manteaus
form: manteaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French manteau (“mantle”). In the Iranian context, borrowed from Persian مانتو (mânto), originating in the Qajar period. Doublet of mantle and mantel.
Senses: examples: text: Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 816:
glosses: A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries.
examples: text: As a result of this politics of personal appearance, Iranians have come to refer to three types of woman, defining their politics by the clothes they wear: the chadory, the manteauy, and the maghna'eh-poosh. […] In contrast, the manteauy woman wears the loose-fitting manteau, often fashionably with a colorful, loosely tied head scarf. She generally supports both political and social reform.
ref: 2010, Afshin Molavi, The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 91:
coordinate_terms: chador
glosses: A long, loose-fitting coat worn by Iranian Muslim women based off the trenchcoat, originally worn with a square Arabic-style hijab and in plain colours, and often associated with liberal politics.
manteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manteau
koko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cf. Burmese ကုက္ကို (kukkui).
Senses: synonyms: lebbek
East Indian walnut
woman's tongue tree
hypernyms: siris
glosses: The tree Albizia lebbeck.
koko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: school slang
glosses: Alternative form of koku.
missions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mission
missions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mission
red letter day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red letter days
form: red-letter day
Etymology: An allusion to the practice, dating to classical antiquity, of marking important days in red on calendars.
Senses: examples: text: The only red-letter day occurring in July, is the twenty-fifth, called St James's Day.
ref: 1825, Christian Gleaner and Domestic Magazine, Volume 2, page 161:
text: But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.
ref: 1893, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation and Coleridge”, in Alexander H. Japp, editor, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, volume II, London: William Heinemann:
glosses: A day marked in red on calendars; a church feast day.
examples: text: Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it.
text: We saw losses for days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all.
text: "In the meantime, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars."
ref: 1975, John Ankenbruck, Twentieth Century History of Fort Wayne, page 286:
text: So I assume that we all have some red letter days that are precious to our memories—maybe a first date, a wedding, a gift, a word of encouragement, a vacation, a graduation or a trip to an interesting place.
I had one of those red letter days when I was a young boy, perhaps five or six years old.
ref: 2007, Clyde Wilton, Wilton's Wit, iUniverse, page 3:
text: 2010, Eric Braun, Doris Day, Hachette, Revised and updated edition, unnumbered page,
That was, indeed, a red-letter day in my filmgoing life, and a red-letter day in my literary life was when I was asked to write a new biography of Doris Day.
synonyms: day of days
red letter date
coordinate_terms: black letter day
glosses: A particularly significant day; a day of personal or sectarian celebration.
Related terms: Scarlet Day
astroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæstɹɔɪd/
homophone: asteroid (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: astroids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “a star”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hypocycloid with four cusps.
Related terms: asteroid
astronomy
hypocycloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocycloids
Etymology: From hypo- (“below or inside”) + cycloid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping inside the circumference of another circle.
Derived terms: hypocycloidal
Related terms: cycloid
epicycloid
roulette
Spirograph™
astroid
transsexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transsexualities
Etymology: From trans- + sexuality or transsexual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state, condition, or properties of being transsexual.
glosses: The psychological diagnosis of gender identity disorder.
Synonyms: word: transsexualness
english: now disfavored
translation: now disfavored
word: transsexualism
word: transsex
Derived terms: transphobia
transphobe
transphobic
Related terms: sex reassignment surgery
male-to-female
female-to-male
gender dysphoria
gender identity disorder
intersexuality
transgender
transvestite
sex reassignment surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛks.ɹɪəˈsaɪnmənt ˈsɚ.d͡ʒɚ.i/
Forms: form: sex reassignment surgeries
form: SRS
Senses: synonyms: word: gender affirmation surgery
word: gender confirmation surgery
word: gender realignment surgery
word: gender reallocation surgery
word: gender reassignment surgery
word: sex change
word: sex-change operation
word: sex reassignment surgery
word: sexual reassignment surgery
glosses: Surgical procedure that alters a person's sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender, particularly for transgender people, or to conform to societal standards for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.
Hyponyms: bottom surgery
top surgery
Coordinate terms: alt: HRT
word: hormone replacement therapy
alt: FFS
word: facial feminization surgery
alt: FMS
word: facial masculinization surgery
cycloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪklɔɪd/
Forms: form: cycloids
Etymology: From cyclo- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: In the firſt Courſe there was a Shoulder of Mutton, cut into an Æquilateral Triangle, a Piece of Beef into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 20:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fish having cycloid scales.
Derived terms: circloid
cycloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪklɔɪd/
Etymology: From cyclo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
raw_tags: of fish scales
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: characterized by alternating high and low moods.
Derived terms: cycloidal
cycloidal arch
cycloidal engine
Related terms: epicycloid
hypocycloid
Spirograph™
epicycloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicycloids
Etymology: From epi- (“above or outside”) + cycloid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle.
Derived terms: epicycloidal
Related terms: cycloid
epicycle
hypocycloid
roulette
Spirograph™
spirograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirographs
Etymology: From spiro- + graph.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
Related terms: spirogram
LAMPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: LAMP
LEMP
LNMP
WAMP
glosses: Initialism of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl: an interoperable group of open-source software for serving websites.
rebuttal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈbʌt.əl/
ipa: /ɹiˈbʌt.əl/
ipa: [ɹiˈbʌɾ.əl]
ipa: /ɹɪˈbat.əl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈbaɾ.əl]
rhymes: -ʌtəl
Forms: form: rebuttals
Etymology: From rebut + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For those who imagine the capital flows with milk and honey, or avocado and sourdough, Edmonton is your rebuttal. Once full of light industry, today it has some of the most deprived areas in England.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
glosses: A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
topics: law
glosses: A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
Synonyms: confutation
contradiction
refutal
refutation
Derived terms: right of rebuttal
Related terms: rebut
rebuttable
rebutter
cloverleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/
enpr: klōʹvər-lēf
ipa: /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/
Forms: form: clover-leaf
Etymology: From clover + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: a fancy cloverleaf motif
glosses: In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
cloverleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/
enpr: klōʹvər-lēf
ipa: /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/
Forms: form: cloverleafs
form: cloverleaves
form: clover-leaf
Etymology: From clover + leaf.
Senses: glosses: The leaf of a clover plant.
raw_tags: with plural cloverleaves
examples: text: By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.
Derived terms: cloverleaf antenna
cloverleaf interchange
cloverleaf model
clover-leaf roll
clover-leaf sight
clover-leaf skull
cloverleaf skull
cloverleaf stack
cloverleaf tongue
clover leaf weevil
parclo
cloverleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/
enpr: klōʹvər-lēf
ipa: /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/
Forms: form: cloverleafs
form: cloverleafing
form: cloverleafed
form: cloverleafed
form: clover-leaf
Etymology: From clover + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.
ref: 2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967:
glosses: To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
olive branch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒlɪv bɹɑːntʃ/
ipa: /ˈɑlɪv bɹæntʃ/
Forms: form: olive branches
form: olive branching
form: olive branched
form: olive branched
Etymology: The olive branch has been regarded as a symbol of peace since Ancient Greek times. For example, in Virgil’s Aeneid (written between 29 and 19 B.C.E.), Aeneas holds an olive branch and declares that it bears the following message: “The Trojans and their Chief / Bring holy peace; and beg the King’s relief.” The symbolism was strengthened by the reference in Genesis 8:11 of the Bible to Noah sending out a dove from the Ark which returns bearing an olive leaf in its beak, thus showing that the Great Flood is receding.
Senses: examples: text: There's no olive branching. You see I know these people backwards, the agony and the problems we had with those fellows is unbelievable," he says.
ref: 1986, The Bulletin - Volume 108, page 28:
text: "Presumably, Carty could make this an occasion for olive branching here," Mr. Hopkins said.
ref: 1998, The Air Line Employee - Volumes 44-46, page 7:
text: Fire signs also have fiery tempers but traditionally, their hearts can 'olive branch' their way through most problems.
ref: 2005, Vera Kaikobad, The 12 Moon Signs in Love:
glosses: Alternative form of olive-branch.
Tin Pan Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Purported to be a reference to the constant sound of pianos as songwriters worked out their tunes.
Senses: glosses: The district in New York City centered on 28th Street from the late 19th to the early 20th century, wherein thousands of popular songs were commercially written.
examples: text: From its inception the OWI framed directives that offered guidelines for songwriters to aid them in the composition of “proper” war songs, and, in the public press, the OWI rebuked Tin Pan Alley for its uninterrupted production of “nostalgic” hit songs.
ref: 2003, Kathleen E. R. Smith, God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 81:
text: At the time, almost all Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songs had two parts.
ref: 2009, Tighe E. Zimmers, Tin Pan Alley Girl: A Biography of Ann Ronell, McFarland, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The songwriting and publishing industry which was built around the songs produced in Tin Pan Alley; the style of popular music produced by this industry.
Derived terms: Tin Pan Alleyite
Related terms: Brill Building
Denmark Street