cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.din/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: guardians
Etymology: From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]
ref: 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 162:
text: As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 52::
glosses: Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
topics: law
glosses: A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
topics: law
glosses: A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
glosses: A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
examples: text: Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.
ref: 1993, Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2:
text: 'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'
ref: 2004, James Newman, Videogames:
topics: video-games
glosses: A major or final enemy; boss.
topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: serviceman#Noun
servicewoman#Noun
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servicemember#Noun
serviceperson#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: airman#Noun
soldier#Noun
sailor#Noun
marine#Noun
;
veteran
glosses: A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
Derived terms: coguardian
Earth Guardian
gate guardian
guard
guardenage
guardian ad litem
guardianage
guardian angel
guardian cell
guardiancy
Guardianesque
guardianess
guardianless
guardianlike
guardian lion
guardianly
guardian of the peace
guardianship
testamentary guardian
underguardian
rampant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.pənt/
rhymes: -æmpənt
Forms: form: more rampant
form: most rampant
form: rampaunt
Etymology: From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (“to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend”), from Old French ramper (“to creep, climb”) (see below), equivalent to ramp + -and or ramp + -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (“rampant”).
Alternatively from Middle English *rampant, from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (“to creep, climb”), equivalent to ramp + -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to hook, grapple, climb”), from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: Things seem to be running rampant around here lately.
glosses: Rampantly.
castration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: castrations
Etymology: From castrate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
text: The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration
Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages
Probed and beaten
A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness
ref: 2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The act of removing the testicles.
glosses: Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
Synonyms: topics: surgery
medicine
sciences
word: orchiectomy
Derived terms: alimentary castration
anti-castration
autocastration
cashtration
castration anxiety
chemical castration
elastration
hemicastration
immunocastration
postcastration
semicastration
Related terms: castrate
castrati
emasculation
testiclectomy
desex
geld
neuter
spay
unrestrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪnd
Forms: form: more unrestrained
form: most unrestrained
Senses: examples: text: The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
synonyms: word: intemperate
word: lavish
word: wanton
word: excessive
word: extravagant
word: unmeasured
word: unreasonable
word: extreme
word: immoderate
word: intemperate
word: lavish
word: nimious
word: obscene
word: overmuch
word: overweening
word: over the top
word: prodigal
word: undue
word: unrestrained
word: wanton
antonyms: moderate
restrained
glosses: immoderate; not restrained or held in check; inordinate (literary).
examples: text: Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
synonyms: genuine
heartfelt
sincere
antonyms: forced
insincere
restrained
rigid
stiff
glosses: spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
examples: text: Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.
ref: 2009, Russell Colling, Tony W. York, Hospital and Healthcare Security, page 346:
text: In an accident there will often be injuries, as people are unrestrained. But in the case of Sandilands, I don't think anyone would have foreseen the seven deaths and 62 injuries that occurred when the tram overturned [...].
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
synonyms: unbound
unconstrained
incontinent
antonyms: bound
constrained
restrained
glosses: Not subject to physical restraint.
Derived terms: unrestrainedly
unrestrainedness
Related terms: restrain
restrained
unrestrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrestrain
Related terms: rampant
unbridled
Xanadu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzænəduː/
Etymology: From Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū, “Upper Capital”). The first Romanized form comes from Marco Polo's writings in Italian as Shan-Du. In 1617, Purchas his Pilgrimage […] by Samuel Purchas was published in London, containing the phrase “In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace” on page 472. This was the inspiration for Coleridge's poem which uses the spelling Xanadu.
Senses: examples: text: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: The summer capital of the Yuan dynasty, now an archaeological site in Zhenglan, Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China.
Synonyms: Shangdu
ur
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
ur
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of your.
Derived terms: ur mom
ur mum
ur
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: coordinate_terms: u
r
glosses: Abbreviation of you're (you are).
nite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪt/
ipa: /nʌɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: knight
homophone: night
Forms: form: nites
form: night
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of night.
Derived terms: all-nite
goodnite
overnite
to-nite
tonite
coz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Forms: form: cos
Senses: examples: text: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: 1844, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "The Love Quarrel", in The Columbian Magazine Vol 1. Issue 1. page 6, col. 2, New York, Israel Post, ed John Inman
"I do not expect that, coz; nor do I desire it."
glosses: cousin (usually as a term of address)
coz
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
ipa: /kɒz/
ipa: /kəz/
rhymes: -ɒz
rhymes: -ʌz
homophone: cos
ipa: /kʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Forms: form: cos
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: of coz
childs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You have been… searching! For… a child. No, no, no – two childs! A fine big boy… and a strange little boy. No, no, no… ahhh… a girl! A girl. A boy and a girl.
ref: 1966, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, spoken by Pseudolus (Zero Mostel):
text: I remember one amusing episode: in a conversation with an engineer when responding to the usual Japanese enquiry in making social talk, "How many childs have you?"
ref: 1970, Freda Utley, Odyssey of a Liberal: Memoirs, page 103:
text: "It is as they say;" he clucks; "these childs are smoke the evil dope and the old ways of behave are forget.
ref: 1979, Spit in the Ocean, Volume 1, Issues 5-6, page 106
text: I can have many childs. Ten at a time at once.
ref: 2003, Richard Matheson, Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson, page 172:
text: Thus, the initial random vectors are all normalized and the childs are also normalized to unit vectors after any crossover or mutation operation.
ref: 2005, Stephan Olariu, Albert Y. Zomaya, Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications, pages 6–402:
text: It is poison that has kill our little Rosemarie – and all her life ahead! The doctor say so – and he say I cannot understand about the rich man, why he do it. But I understand that the childs are dying.
ref: 2006, Holman Day, The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot, page 192:
text: We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day.
ref: 2010, Jack Dazey, Dying For Her Love, page 114:
glosses: plural of child
Synonyms: word: children
childs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of child
with child
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Replaced earlier mid child. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.
Senses: examples: text: I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: [N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 118:
text: I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.
ref: 1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:
glosses: Pregnant.
Related terms: with young
in kid
gubernatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡ(j)uː.bə.nəˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌɡ(j)u.bɚ.nəˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“govern”), + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.
ref: 2025 June 21, Fredreka Schouten and Arit John, “The DNC’s cash crunch deepens as new filings show Republicans with a huge advantage”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a governor.
Hyponyms: presidential
Derived terms: gubernatorially
nongubernatorial
Related terms: govern
governor
gubernator
governmental
hentai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛntaɪ/
rhymes: -ɛntaɪ
Forms: form: hentai
form: hentais
Etymology: Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love
ref: 2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:
text: X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".
ref: 2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
hypernyms: anime
manga
coordinate_terms: ecchi
pornhwa
pornhua
glosses: A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
wikipedia: hentai
conversate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːn.vɚˌseɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.vəˌseɪt/
Forms: form: conversates
form: conversating
form: conversated
form: conversated
Etymology: Back-formation from conversation.
Senses: examples: text: Conversate for a few, 'cause in a few we gon' do / What we came to do, ain't that right, boo? (True)
ref: 1994, The Notorious B.I.G., The Isley Brothers, Chris Jasper, “Big Poppa”, in Ready to Die, performed by The Notorious B.I.G., track 13:
text: We don't just want to go to class and not conversate with the teachers.
ref: 2002, Gail L. Thompson, African-American Teens Discuss Their Schooling Experiences, Bergin Garvey/Greenwood, page 34:
text: Barry did grow up in a white neighborhood, you know, and he does know how to conversate, and he does know how to pronounce his vowels, he knows how to talk.
ref: 2003, Steven Travers, Barry Bonds: Baseballs Superman, Sports Publishing LLC, page 241:
text: I'll talk to them and conversate, but I won't pay no mind to the things that they do.
ref: 2005, Prudence L. Carter, Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Oxford University Press, page 37:
qualifier: now chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: To converse, to have conversation.
charset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charsets
Etymology: Clipped compound of character set. By surface analysis, char + set.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character set.
Related terms: char
charstring
counterpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪz/
Forms: form: counterpoises
Etymology: From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise.
Senses: glosses: A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight.
examples: text: This necessary counterpoise, the affectionate and simple-minded will readily conceive, would arise to Louisa from the absence of those "dear familiar faces" which had hitherto constituted her world.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence
synonyms: equiponderance
glosses: The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium
Derived terms: counterpoise-lift
counterpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪz/
Forms: form: counterpoises
form: counterpoising
form: counterpoised
form: counterpoised
Etymology: From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise.
Senses: examples: text: Weights, counterpoising one another.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
examples: text: So many freeholders of English […]will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To act against with equal power; to balance.
character set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character sets
Senses: examples: text: In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters.
ref: 1995 May 2, Dan Connolly, “Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft”, in HTML Working Group:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of characters together with a character encoding.
Related terms: charset
character encoding
repertoire
DRCS
UCS
fumarolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fumarole + -ic.
Senses: examples: 2003: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity — L.J. Wardell, P. Delmelle, T. Fischer, J.L. Lewicki, E. Malavassi, J. Stix, W. Strauch, Volcanic gas workshop features state-of-the-art measurement techniques.
glosses: Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
collusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈluːʒən/
Forms: form: collusions
Etymology: Dated from the 14th century C.E. as Middle English collusioun, collusion; from Old French collusion, from Latin collusio (“act of colluding”).
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, there is good reason for firms to try to collude without express communication, and thus find themselves dealing with less than full mutual understanding.
ref: 2012, Joseph E. Harrington, A theory of tacit collusion:
glosses: A private, cooperative agreement or arrangement between groups that otherwise maintain the pretense of competition, contention or non-cooperation.
examples: text: Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion
In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion;
Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: Hath brought nobil princes to extreme confuſion.
text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: So why is Japan going ahead with the Olympics, against the public’s objections, while the pandemic is still a major public health concern? The answer is familiar: collusion among the elites.
ref: 2021 March 25, Koichi Nakano, “The Olympics Are On! But Why?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Once derided as a nationalist conspiracy theory, collusion is by now an undeniable fact. The scale, however, remains unknown.
ref: 2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy.
Derived terms: anticollusion
noncollusion
postcollusion
precollusion
tacit collusion
Related terms: collude
MIE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of minimally invasive education.
imam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːmɑːm/
ipa: /ɪˈmɑːm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
Forms: form: imams
form: imaum
form: iman
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Senses: examples: text: Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an Imam. (footnote: The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached)
ref: 1901, John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp:
text: But then there's a Christian cleric and an imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department.
ref: 2001 May 10, London Review of Books:
text: In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.
ref: 2004 October 7, London Review of Books, page 3:
text: The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
ref: 2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.
Derived terms: imamate
imam bayildi
imamic
imamship
SUSY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SUSYs
Senses: examples: 2004: SUSY is a symmetry between particles of half-integer spin (fermions such as quarks and leptons) and those of whole-integer spin (bosons such as photons, gluons and other force carriers). — Scientific American, Sept 2004, p.58
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of supersymmetry.
Related terms: boson
fermion
gluon
lepton
photon
quark
spin
YTD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of year-to-date.
YTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of year to date.
offshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: off-shore
Etymology: From off- + shore.
Senses: glosses: Moving away from the shore.
examples: text: an offshore oil rig
text: Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.
ref: 1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 160:
text: The judges said that the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling for offshore oil, and that Norway did not legally carry the responsibility for emissions stemming from oil it has exported.
ref: 2020 December 22, Henrik Pryser Libell, Derrick Bryson Taylor, “Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2020:
glosses: Located in the sea away from the coast.
examples: text: American companies use offshore services for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor.
ref: 2000 June 15, Lisa Guernsey, “Offshore Scanners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018:
text: With pressure building in Europe and the United States for a systemwide crackdown on offshore tax havens the Caymans prefer to call themselves a tax-neutral portal Britain appears determined to make an example of a place that has become a symbol of secrecy and intrigue.
ref: 2009 October 3, Landon Thomas Jr, “Offshore Haven Considers a Heresy: Taxation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2018:
text: Moving the prisoners is an indispensable step toward closing an extra-legal offshore lockup that has stained this nation’s reputation and become a recruitment tool for terrorists.
ref: 2009 December 18, “Guantánamo Must Be Closed”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2020:
text: It begins with the anodyne name for the procedures — “offshore processing” — as if these desperate human beings were just an accumulation of data.
ref: 2016 May 23, Roger Cohen, “Australia’s Offshore Cruelty”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2018:
glosses: Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
Derived terms: offshorable
offshorer
offshore seahorse
offshorization
right-shore
right-shoring
offshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: off-shore
Etymology: From off- + shore.
Senses: glosses: Away from the shore.
glosses: At some distance from the shore.
offshore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: offshores
form: offshoring
form: offshored
form: offshored
form: off-shore
Etymology: From off- + shore.
Senses: examples: text: The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.
ref: 2005 July 25, Robert J. Samuelson, “The World Is Still Round”, in Newsweek, page 49:
text: India has become the leading destination for offshored services.
ref: 2009, Adjiedj Bakas, Beyond the Crisis: The Future of Capitalism, Meghan-Kiffer Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports.
ref: 2010, Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost, AK Press, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.
offshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: offshores
form: off-shore
Etymology: From off- + shore.
Senses: examples: text: This problem, so far as the offshores of the United States is concerned, is one that is eminently worthy of the attention of the United States Fish Commission and the support of Congress in its attempt to solve it.
ref: 1884, Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Washington: United States Bureau of Fisheries, page XXVI:
glosses: An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
examples: text: The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
ref: 1958 October 11, “Signs of improvement”, in Business Week, page 36:
glosses: An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
examples: text: If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
ref: 1984, Richard H. Blum, Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, New York: Praeger, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
ref: 2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
Related terms: deep-sea
inshore
nearshore
noshore
onshore
reshore
jibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jibbers
Etymology: From jib + -er.
Senses: glosses: A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short.
jibber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jibbers
form: jibbering
form: jibbered
form: jibbered
Etymology: From jib + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gibber.
bor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bors
Etymology: Possibly from Old English ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”)
Senses: glosses: man (not used for children).
Ferguson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːɡəsən/
ipa: /ˈfɝɡəsən/
Forms: form: Fergusons
form: Fergusson
form: Furgason
form: Furgerson
form: Furgeson
Etymology: From Fergus + -son, translation of Gaelic MacFhearguis, "son of Fergus".
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name originating in Scotland from Clan Fergusson and now widespread in the English-speaking world.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A tiny city in Marshall County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small home rule city in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
examples: text: Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?
ref: 2024, Too Black, Rasul A. Mowatt, “Conclusion”, in Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
glosses: A community in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Dardanup, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Ferguson effect
Fergusonian
Ferguson reflex
oi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: Variant of the interjection hoy with h-dropping in working class and Cockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portuguese oi and Japanese おい (oi).
Senses: examples: text: A way for Oi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves.
ref: 1997, David Schwarz, Listening subjects: music, psychoanalysis, culture:
text: Oi! is characterized by cleaner guitars and slower tempos than most punk music, and many Oi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.
ref: 2012, Tiffini Travis, Perry Hardy, Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture:
glosses: A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
oi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: Variant of oy, from Yiddish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oy.
oi
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes oi sits and thinks, and sometimes oi just sits.
text: Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?
ref: 1877, W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer, Act II:
qualifier: representing rural dialect pronunciation
glosses: I.
oi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from oyez, 2nd person plural imperative of the verb oir (“to listen”), as used as an interjection in duplicated form “Oyez, oyez” by public speakers of medieval times to draw attention before a public address; see oi oi.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oy.
wizard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭzʹəd
ipa: /ˈwɪz.əd/
enpr: wĭzʹərd
ipa: /ˈwɪz.ɚd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈwɪzə(ɾ)ɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /wɪˈzɑ(ɾ)ɖ/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún)).
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.
Senses: examples: text: "We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice.
ref: 1942, Quentin James Reynolds, Only the Stars are Neutral:
text: But he was a wizard flyer, that boy.
ref: 1943, Howard Macy Coffin and Walter Leslie River, Malta Story:
glosses: Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
wizard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭzʹəd
ipa: /ˈwɪz.əd/
enpr: wĭzʹərd
ipa: /ˈwɪz.ɚd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈwɪzə(ɾ)ɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /wɪˈzɑ(ɾ)ɖ/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: wizards
form: wizarding
form: wizarded
form: wizarded
Etymology: From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún)).
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.
Senses: glosses: To practice wizardry.
glosses: To conjure.
lubricant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlubɹəkənt/
ipa: /ˈluːbɹɪkənt/
ipa: /ˈljuːbɹɪkənt/
Forms: form: lubricants
Etymology: From lubricate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Before you apply the lubricant, be sure the chain gets a good cleaning with a stiff bristle brush and a good rub down in clean rags or shop towels.
ref: 2008 May 24, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 101:
text: She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound.
ref: 2013, John Sandrolini, One for Our Baby:
text: Food-grade lubricants are made for meat and poultry and other food-processing equipment. These lubricants are generally registered with the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF).
ref: 2011, Sibtain Hamid, “Food-grade hydraulic fluids”, in George Totten, editor, Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, 2nd edition, page 915:
glosses: A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.
glosses: A personal lubricant.
Synonyms: lube
Derived terms: biolubricant
loob
lube
personal lubricant
social lubricant
superlubricant
Related terms: lubricate
lubrication
lubricious
lubricity
lubricous
balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈluːn/
ipa: /bəˈlun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: balloons
form: ballooning
form: ballooned
form: ballooned
Etymology: 1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.
Senses: examples: text: His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
text: Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
text: For the franchise’s ballooning, unmanageable cast of mutants, picking sides now seems to have less to do with choosing between cooperation (which the recent movies implicitly distrust) and resistance, and more with whichever flashback-prone white dude’s overbearing savior complex works for you.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: ScotRail has long been run at a significant subsidy, with only the Edinburgh-Glasgow express line making a profit from fares, but government support has ballooned since the start of the pandemic.
ref: 2022 April 6, Conrad Landin, “ScotRail in the public eye...”, in RAIL, number 954, page 39:
glosses: To increase or expand rapidly.
glosses: To go up or voyage in a balloon.
glosses: To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
examples: text: A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Peach Scanties”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: To inflate like a balloon.
examples: text: After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.
ref: 2015, Steve Wilson, A View From The Terraces (part 2, page 138)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
examples: text: The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.
ref: 1961, Flying Magazine, volume 69, number 3, page 86:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: porpoise
glosses: Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
Related terms: airship
ball
ballonet
blimp
dirigible
gondola
zeppelin
rishathra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Generalized from the term coined by author Larry Niven in his Ringworld novels.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Sex between any two (or more) humanoids of different species.
Europa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹoʊpə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology.
Doublet of Europe.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon in Jupiter.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 52 Europa, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon.
Derived terms: Europan
Europa Point
Related terms: Europa regina
Europe
European
armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmd/
ipa: /ɑːmd/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹmɪd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
rhymes: -ɑːɹmɪd
Forms: form: more armed
form: most armed
Etymology: From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: nuclear-armed
glosses: Equipped, especially with a weapon.
glosses: Equipped, especially with a weapon.
Equipped with a gun.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Prepared for use; loaded.
raw_tags: of a weapon
examples: text: a distemper eminently armed from heaven
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
text: The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis.
ref: 1821, Sir William Herschel, Catalogue of Double Stars:
glosses: Furnished with something that serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having prickles or thorns.
Derived terms: armed and dangerous
armed bullhead
armed conflict
armed forces
armed merchantman
armedness
armed police
armed probe
armed rebellion
armed response
armed revolt
armed robbery
armed secession
armed struggle
armed to the teeth
biarmed
multiarmed
nonarmed
nuclear-armed
triarmed
unarmed
armed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmd/
ipa: /ɑːmd/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹmɪd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
rhymes: -ɑːɹmɪd
Etymology: From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arm
armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmd/
ipa: /ɑːmd/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹmɪd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
rhymes: -ɑːɹmɪd
Etymology: From arm (“the upper limb of the body”) + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: armless
coordinate_terms: legged#Adjective
glosses: Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
examples: text: the four-armed creature
text: the strong-armed man
text: His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
antonyms: armless
glosses: Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
raw_tags: of a creature
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.
raw_tags: of animals
Derived terms: cross-armed
long-armed squid
multi-armed
multi-armed bandit
one-armed
one-armed bandit
open-armed
tri-armed
two-armed
'm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əm/
ipa: /m̩/
other: /m/
Forms: form: ’m
Etymology: Contraction of am.
Senses: examples: text: what'm I gon' do?
text: “So how'm I not good?”
ref: 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Am, used especially in I'm.
examples: text: You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.
ref: 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:
text: "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."
ref: 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:
text: “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180:
glosses: Various forms of be.
Related terms: word: ’d
word: ’ll
word: ’re
word: ’s
word: ’ve
'm
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /əm/
ipa: /m̩/
other: /m/
Senses: examples: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop
glosses: Alternative form of 'em.
'm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əm/
ipa: /m̩/
other: /m/
Forms: form: ’m
Etymology: Contraction of madam/ma'am.
Senses: glosses: Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.
'll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əl/
ipa: [əl]
ipa: [l̩]
ipa: [ɫ̩]
ipa: [ʊ]
ipa: [ɯ]
Etymology: * Contraction of will.
* Contraction of shall.
Senses: examples: text: A little dab’ll do ya!
text: I’ll kill anybody who touches my little sis.
text: Shake, shake the ketchup bottle / First none'll come, and then a lot'll.
ref: 1949, credited to Richard Willard Armour, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The roast’ll be in the galley oven most of the day. Don't open the door to check on it. [Drack]
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dinner Tonight: Fine Grunnien Roast, Fresh Vegetables:
glosses: Will, shall (marking the future tense or other modal sense).
Derived terms: I’ll
he’ll
she’ll
it’ll
we’ll
you’ll
they’ll
there’ll
Related terms: word: ’d
word: ’m
word: ’re
word: ’s
word: ’ve
Kashubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/
Forms: form: Casubian
form: Cassubian
form: Cashubian
form: Kassubian
form: Kash.
Etymology: From Kashub + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Kashubian people and their language.
Kashubian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/
Forms: form: Casubian
form: Cassubian
form: Cashubian
form: Kassubian
form: Kash.
Etymology: From Kashub + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Pomeranian
glosses: A Slavic language spoken in the Pomeranian region of Poland.
Kashubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/
Forms: form: Kashubians
form: Casubian
form: Cassubian
form: Cashubian
form: Kassubian
form: Kash.
Etymology: From Kashub + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Kashubian people; a person from Kashubia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kashubian terms
dorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːm/
ipa: /dɔɹm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: dorms
Senses: glosses: Clipping of dormitory.
Derived terms: dormer
dormie
dormlike
dormmate
interdorm
dorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːm/
ipa: /dɔɹm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: dorms
form: dorming
form: dormed
form: dormed
Senses: examples: text: I haven't seen Emily since I dormed with her in our student days.
text: He spent a year at Wayne State University before transferring to Stanford to be with Chase. They dormed together at Crothers Hall, studied together at William Gould Hall and came home on vacations together.
ref: 2008, Veronica Hulan, One of Those Nice Guys, page 11:
glosses: To reside in a dorm.