cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Donovan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒnəvɪn/
/ˈdʌnəvɪn/
Forms: form: Donavan
Etymology: From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).
Senses: examples: text: Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan, researchers at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, documented how the campaign to inject IOTBW into the national consciousness through fliers was highly organized.
ref: 2023 February 28, Judd Legum, “Is it "OK to be white"?”, in Popular Information:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.
Derived terms: Donovan body
donovani
Donovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒnəvɪn/
/ˈdʌnəvɪn/
Forms: form: Donovans
form: Donavan
Etymology: From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).
Senses: synonyms: murphy
glosses: A potato.
darkener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkeners
Etymology: From darken + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which darkens.
darkeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkener
Sab.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Sabbath.
Sab.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sab. (“sable”).
diversificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diversificates
form: diversificating
form: diversificated
form: diversificated
Etymology: Hypercorrection of diversify, on the basis of Latin dīversificō + -ate (verb-forming suffix) with diversify being the regular derived form of Middle French diversifier, itself from Medieval Latin dīversificō, from Latin dīversus (“opposite, different”).
Senses: examples: text: Of the Andean countries, Colombia has been the most successful in diversificating manufactured exports.
ref: 1998, Harry Costin, Hector Vanolli, editors, Economic Reform in Latin America, Fort Worth, T.X. […]: The Dryden Press, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: Synonym of diversify.
synonyms: word: diversify
Related terms: diversification
diversified
Jace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: Jaces
form: Jase
Etymology: Shortening of Jason.
Senses: glosses: A twentieth century diminutive of the male given name Jason.
Jaime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /haɪmeɪ/
Forms: form: Jaimes
form: Jamie
Senses: examples: text: They call you "Jim", don't they?' 'No,' I replied, hiding my irritation. 'I prefer James. My father named me Jaime, but no one ever seemed to pronounce it right, so I changed it to James. Not legally,' I added.
ref: 1971, Charles Willeford, The Burnt Orange Heresy, page 220:
text: “We are social beings,” Jaime Blandino, a clinical psychologist in Decatur, Georgia, told CNN. “My most extroverted clients are having the hardest time.”
ref: 2020 March 23, Ryan Prior, “The extrovert’s guide to social distancing”, in CNN:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name from Spanish from the Spanish form of James.
examples: text: A few minutes later, Jaime stood and rubbed her shoulders. "You okay?" I asked. She made a noncommittal noise […]
ref: 2004, Kelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic, page 134:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name, variant of Jamie.
glosses: A unisex given name.
Alternative form of Jamie.
Related terms: James
Jamie
Jim
Jimmi
Jimmie
Jimmy
primal scream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primal screams
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A scream produced during primal therapy.
primal therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primal therapies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of psychotherapy based on the reliving of traumatic experiences.
Related terms: primal scream
Elliot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕlēət
ipa: /ˈɛliːət/
ipa: /ˈɛlɪjət/
Forms: form: Elliots
form: Elliott
form: Eliott
form: Eliot
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, a variant of Elliott.
examples: text: “I have been wanting this and working towards this for so many years,” Neilly wrote in the caption. “I’m so proud of Elliot and I am so grateful to the trans elders who risked everything to make this moment happen.”
ref: 2021 March 17, Oscar Holland, “Elliot Page becomes first trans man to appear on Time magazine cover”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, a variant of Elliott.
glosses: A coastal hamlet near Arbroath, Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6139).
glosses: A town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, named after Henry George Elliot.
Gregor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, a Scottish form of Gregory.
Garry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, a mostly British variant of Gary.
glosses: A river in Inverness-shire, Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Oich.
glosses: A river in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which joins the River Tummel.
Derived terms: Garry oak
Invergarry
at Her Majesty's pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Governor serves at Her Majesty's pleasure.
text: The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.
topics: law
glosses: indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment)
raw_tags: of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen
examples: text: He spent two years at Her Majesty's pleasure.
glosses: in prison
Coordinate terms: at His Majesty's pleasure
at the Governor's pleasure
Derived terms: live at Her Majesty's pleasure
melodica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodicas
Etymology: Possibly a blend of melodeon + harmonica.
Senses: examples: text: On “Seven by Seven” it was the reedy blend of two melodicas, played by Mr. Apfelbaum and Mr. Valera over a haunting drone.
ref: 2009 July 28, Nate Chinen, “From Babble to Rhythm, Cuban Style”, in New York Times:
glosses: A free-reed keyboard wind instrument, often played with a flexible plastic tube connected to the mouthpiece.
discontinua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discontinuum
James Bond villain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: James Bond villains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bond villain.
locura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish locura (“madness”).
Senses: glosses: Culture-bound syndrome
republican marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republican marriages
Senses: examples: text: Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them.
ref: 2006, Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre And the French Revolution, page 305:
text: "By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage."
ref: 1907, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World, page 330:
text: A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes ], of which [Jean Paul] Carrier was the presiding demon—Carrier, known in all nations as the inventor of that last of barbarous atrocities, the Republican Marriage, in which two persons of different sexes, generally an old man and an old woman, or a young man and a young woman, bereft of every kind of clothing, were bound together before the multitude, exposed in a boat in that situation for half an hour or more, and then thrown into the river.
ref: 1850, Archibald Alison, Edward Sherman Gould, History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, page 44:
glosses: An alleged form of execution during the French Revolution in which a man and woman were tied together naked, exposed to public view for a time in this condition, and then stabbed, shot, or thrown into a body of water to drown.
republican marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republican marriage
disponer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disponers
Etymology: From dispone + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who legally transfers their own property to another.
Related terms: disponee
menudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈnuːdəʊ/
Forms: form: menudos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish menudo. Doublet of minute and menu.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mexican soup made with tripe and chili peppers.
glosses: A traditional stew from the Philippines, made with sliced pork and calf's liver in tomato sauce.
directionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more directionally
form: most directionally
Etymology: From directional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: directionally correct   [= headed in the right direction]
text: It seems that at least 51% of voters support the notion that controlling who crosses a border into a freedom-of-movement zone (that is, into a federation or a supranational union) is, much like controlling who gets onto an airliner, directionally correct even though it presents the challenge of how to prevent abuses such as police brutality.
glosses: In a directional manner.
Derived terms: equidirectionally
homodirectionally
multidirectionally
Sacagawea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækəd͡ʒəˈwi.ə/
Forms: form: Sakakawea
form: Sacajawea
form: Sacajewea
Etymology: Borrowed from Hidatsa Cagáàgawia, from cagáàga (“bird”) + míà (“woman”).
Senses: glosses: The Native American girl who led explorers Lewis and Clark across the United States.
Derived terms: Lake Sakakawea
Sacagawea dollar
Sacagawean
Sacagawea River
Sacajawea peak
USS Sacagawea
Sacagawea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækəd͡ʒəˈwi.ə/
Forms: form: Sacagaweas
form: Sakakawea
form: Sacajawea
form: Sacajewea
Etymology: Borrowed from Hidatsa Cagáàgawia, from cagáàga (“bird”) + míà (“woman”).
Senses: glosses: A gold-colored dollar coin with an image of the girl Sacagawea on the obverse.
tactical intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Surveillance of the immediate surroundings using one's senses.
bullshitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bullshittier
form: bullshittiest
Etymology: From bullshit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This bullshitty movie makes no sense at all.
glosses: Characteristic of bullshit; nonsensical.
midget-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more midget-minded
form: most midget-minded
Senses: examples: 1949, John Joseph O'Neill, Engineering the New Age, I. Washburn, page 289,
Because of this situation we are producing year after year crops of intellectually-dwarfed and midget-minded graduates whose limitations make them easy victims for compliance with a continuation of the system.
1973 February 28, “The Destroyers Strike!”, editorial in The Advocate, number 106, quoted in Michael Bronski, Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility, South End Press (1984), →ISBN, page 148,
The midget-minded masochists among us, it seems, cannot bear even the slightest hint of progress toward law reform and justice for Gays.
1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Matters of the Heart, Island Nation Press LLC, →ISBN, page 212,
“ […] They’re the tedious little drones who refer, with fabricated ennui, to the tiresome habits of their midget-minded husbands. […] ”
2006, Gordon L. Patzer, The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness, Universal Publishers, →ISBN, page 123,
We respect people who “stand tall” or who possess “stature,” but we lower our expectations for the “midget-minded” or those with “Napoleon complexes” and castigate negative actions with promulgating biases about “stooping really low” or “belittling.”
glosses: Small-minded, stupid.
primigravid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: pregnant for the first time
Related terms: primigravidity
primiparous
primigravid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primigravids
Senses: glosses: A female during her first pregnancy
Synonyms: primipara
primigravida
primip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primips
Etymology: From primiparous/primipara by clipping.
Senses: glosses: A female during her first pregnancy
glosses: A female who has delivered a single offspring
Related terms: multip
primosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primosomes
Etymology: From Latin primus (“first”) + -some (“nucleic unit”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complex of proteins required for the initiation of bacterial DNA synthesis
princess cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princess cuts
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A garment style in which vertical panels of material are shaped to follow the outline of the figure.
topics: gemology
geography
geology
jewelry
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A square multi-faceted cut of a gemstone.
scaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scale
scaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪlɪŋ/
Forms: form: scalings
Senses: examples: text: The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids […]
ref: 1909, Swami Rama Tirtha, In Woods of God-realization: The pole star within, 7th edition:
glosses: The act of one who scales or climbs.
glosses: The removing of the scales of fish.
glosses: The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
glosses: The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
glosses: The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
glosses: The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
glosses: The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
Derived terms: autoscaling
Platt scaling
power scaling
scaling ladder
caged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Confined in a cage.
examples: text: Two thirds of the class decided that free-range eggs had more taste and flavour than caged eggs and one third liked the taste of caged eggs more than free range.
ref: 2017, Kathy Smith, John Loughran, Quality Learning: Teachers Changing Their Practice, page 45:
glosses: Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
raw_tags: of eggs
examples: text: It is lighter to handle and more manoeuvrable, and its three caged sides with web straps on the fourth prevent movement of the contents.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern Railways, page 300:
glosses: Resembling a cage.
glosses: Jailed, imprisoned, incarcerated.
Derived terms: noncaged
caged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cage
devolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devolution
hassled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hassle
punctured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puncture
Derived terms: punctured interval
punctured neighborhood
genericalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From generical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being generic.
genipap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genipaps
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jenipapo, from Old Tupi îanypaba. The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab (“fruit for painting”), yandi-ibá-pab (“fruit of the extremities for painting”), and without citation or explanation, “breast of an old woman”.
Senses: examples: text: Genipap is wild and cultivated in many parts of the Amazon, especially on floodplains, from the river's mouth to the Andean foothills in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
ref: 2023, Nigel Smith, Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1109:
glosses: The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae.
examples: text: Unripe genipap fruits are widely used by indigenous tribes to extract the blue pigment, exposing the inside part of the fruit to the air.
ref: 2019, Luzia Valentina Modolo, Mary Ann Foglio, editors, Brazilian Medicinal Plants, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 190:
synonyms: genip
glosses: The fruit of this tree, oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice, traditionally used as a colorant.
geniohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.ni.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˌniː.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: geniohyoideus
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin genīohyoīdeus, clipping of musculus genīohyoīdeus; from Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “the chin”) + Latin hyoīdēs (“U-shaped”) + Latin -eus (adjectival suffix); equivalent to genio- (“relating to the chin”) + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the geniohyoid muscle.
geniohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.ni.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˌniː.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.ni.oʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: geniohyoids
form: geniohyoideus
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin genīohyoīdeus, clipping of musculus genīohyoīdeus; from Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “the chin”) + Latin hyoīdēs (“U-shaped”) + Latin -eus (adjectival suffix); equivalent to genio- (“relating to the chin”) + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of geniohyoid muscle.
conciliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conciliary
form: most conciliary
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a council, particularly with respect to municipal government; issued by a council.
Derived terms: interconciliary
unpreparedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unprepared + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The presentation went badly due to the team's unpreparedness.
text: The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:
glosses: The state or quality of being unprepared.
torit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torits
form: toritting
form: torit
form: torit
Etymology: From Middle English toritten, torytten, equivalent to to- + rit.
Senses: glosses: To cleave or tear in pieces.
korin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: korins
Senses: examples: text: Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:
glosses: A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.
Synonyms: red-fronted gazelle
griskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griskins
Etymology: Considered by some dictionaries to derive from grice + -kin. Compare Irish gríscín.
Senses: glosses: A lean cut of meat from the loin of a pig.
glosses: The bones, particularly the spine, of a pig.
expending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expend
expending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expendings
Senses: examples: expendings of time and energy
glosses: expenditure
slumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slump
clouded leopard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clouded leopards
Senses: glosses: Any of the two species of felid in the genus Neofelis.
A mainland clouded leopard, a medium-sized, arboreal cat of species Neofelis nebulosa, found in Southeast Asia.
glosses: Any of the two species of felid in the genus Neofelis.
A Sunda clouded leopard, Neofelis diardi, native to Borneo and Sumatra.
Derived terms: Bornean clouded leopard
mainland clouded leopard
Sunda clouded leopard
boomtown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomtowns
Etymology: From boom + town.
Senses: examples: text: The mining boomtown she remembered was now a ghost town.
glosses: Alternative form of boom town.
butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly
butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And I wish that I could be with you tonight / 'Cause you give me butterflies
ref: 2001, “Butterflies”, in Invincible, performed by Michael Jackson:
text: I was apprehensive, feeling butterflies, pissed, the sun cracking the flags.
ref: 2005, Andrew Porter, Suicide Squad: The Inside Story of a Football Firm:
text: Trying to ignore his butterflies, he looks down at his watch just about every minute to make sure he has the right time.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Brown, Heavens Gate: Revelations, page 70:
text: I should be over all the butterflies / But I'm into you
ref: 2013, Hayley Williams, Taylor York, “Still Into You”, in Paramore, performed by Paramore:
text: I'm getting butterflies, like what the hell? / When I'm still feeling right all by myself
ref: 2020, 8485, “1:15”:
text: Attraction depends on several factors, including mystery and spontaneity—especially early on in the relationship. It’s what keeps those butterflies and the desire for more connection alive.
ref: 2023 August 22, Megan Schaltegger, “Hate to Say It: The "Find My" App Could Be Hurting Your Relationship”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Ellipsis of butterflies in one's stomach.
Derived terms: butterflies in one's stomach
butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of butterfly
moroseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morosenesses
Etymology: From morose + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: With the typical moroseness of a dipping twitcher he turned to me, looking cynically at my spotlight, and said, `I don't like your chances, mate.'
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 217:
glosses: Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
Synonyms: morosity
Iriomote cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iriomote cats
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small wild cat, Prionailurus iriomotensis, found only on the Japanese island of Iriomote. It has a long, dark brown coat with darker rows of horizontal spots.
dope fiends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope fiend
blogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blog
asprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aspirin.
sexological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexological
form: most sexological
Etymology: From sexology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sexology.
sexologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexologist
gumbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumbo
coaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coach
coaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachings
Senses: examples: text: While Promedica may indeed have been an unfair labor practice case, the salient issue involved whether coachings were disciplinary, and thus could be considered "discrimination" under Sec. 8(a)(3) of the Act.
ref: 2009, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board:
glosses: The process by which someone is coached or tutored; instruction.
glosses: The operation of horse-drawn coaches, especially as a business.
examples: text: With "smalls" by freight and parcels by coaching trains, said Mr. Osborn, the B.T.C. is not yet clear what local figures would be useful to management, as these services are on an all-line basis with uniform scales of charges.
ref: 1962 April, “Talking of Trains: The development of traffic costing”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
text: The town used to be a coaching stop on the old mail route from London to Holyhead.
ref: 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:
glosses: Relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches, also to railway carriages (or coaches).
examples: text: O thou all-pervading essence of Tom Arnold's birch and the Rugby Coaching-room! (unde derivatur "coaching-room" deponent sayeth not; but oh! most unflogged and non-Rugbyen reader! it signifieth neither more nor less than the flogging shop) […]
ref: 1848, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, volume 19, page 193:
qualifier: Rugby School
glosses: A flogging.
Derived terms: word: coaching inn
sense: rail
word: coaching stock
word: date coaching
word: empty coaching stock
word: life coaching
word: noncoaching
word: telecoaching
ex negativo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the Latin ex negativo.
Senses: glosses: From the negative.
bodywrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodywraps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body wrap.
body wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body wraps
Senses: qualifier: massage
glosses: The practice of wrapping the recipient of a massage in something resembling cellophane as a beauty treatment.
qualifier: massage
glosses: The air-permeable wrapping material used in this process.
body wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body wrap
circulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin circulus.
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A social group of reptiles where there is interaction and personal exchange between individuals.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: focus
annulus
glosses: A concentric growth ring found on the scales of fish. This ring develops around the focus of the fish's scale.
nyo
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: pronunciation or cutesy spelling of no.
obtainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈteɪn.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Forms: form: obtainments
Etymology: From obtain + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: From an old record it appears that Charles I. of England granted numerous monopolies for obtainment of money for his purposes, independently of the Parliamentary grants, among others the manufacture of paper.
ref: 1909, “Why Foolscap Paper Was So Called”, in Notions and Fancy Goods, volume 43, page 30:
glosses: The act of obtaining something; acquisition.
Synonyms: sense: act of obtaining
word: acquirement
sense: act of obtaining
word: acquisition
sense: act of obtaining
word: procuration
sense: act of obtaining
word: procurement
sense: act of obtaining
word: obtainance
outhit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: outhits
form: outhitting
form: outhit
form: outhit
Etymology: From out- + hit.
Senses: glosses: To hit something better or further than another, especially to score better in a game involving hitting a ball with a bat.
out-of-body
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Perceived as if from a position external to one's body; as if one's mind had separated from the body
Derived terms: out-of-body experience
out-of-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Opposition to closure from amenity and out-of-door societies has increased greatly in the last few months at both national and local level.
ref: 1961 December, “Letters to the Editor: The Barnard Castle-Penrith and Tebay line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
glosses: outdoor
out-of-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more out-of-doors
form: most out-of-doors
Senses: examples: text: Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
glosses: outdoors; outside.
out-of-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: outdoors
out-of-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out-of-doors
form: most out-of-doors
Senses: examples: text: Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire were seated two men, with red kerchiefs knitted round their close-curled dark hair. There was something in the complexions and the out-of-doors life that at once carried the Italians back to their own country.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Primarily in the open rather than under the cover of habitation.
out-of-state
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: out-of-state plates
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or originating in another state
examples: text: Out-of-state tuition is generally two to three times higher than in-state tuition for each of the years, regardless of institution type.
ref: 2007, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, What's Happening to Public Education? The Shifting Financial Burden, page 172:
glosses: Available to individuals from another state; available to individuals not from the current or relevant state
Derived terms: out-of-stater
number plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number plates
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of rectangular metal plates bearing an alphanumeric code, fixed to the front and rear of a motor car to show its identity as registered with the DVLA.
Synonyms: word: license plate
word: registration plate
word: licence plate
word: rego plate
alt: metonymy
word: plates
relater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: relaters
Etymology: From relate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of relator.
naufragate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naufragates
form: naufragating
form: naufragated
form: naufragated
Etymology: From Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie, Wealth, Prosperity of our Lacerated, Macerated, Naufragated Church and State; […]
ref: 1660, Thomas Fuller, A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace, […] John Williams […], page 48:
text: […] the reſtoring of collapſed Honour to the Nations, and of juſt Rights to all orders therein; ( which have been ſo many years obſtruded) the reviving of Trade, the eaſing of Preſſures,the reducing of theſe wofully toſſed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmneſs and Serenity again, […]
ref: 1660, Edward Reynolds, The Meanes and Method of Healing in the Church, […] Tho. Ratcliffe, for George Thomason, page 24:
text: And therefore although Gretſerus [k] be pleas'd to be diſpleas'd with this derivation thereof, yet it is ſuppoſed that others without the leaſt hazard of Naufragating their Art of Gloſſographie, may ſecurely caſt Anchor and ſafely acquieſce therein.
ref: 1661, John Godolphin, chapter I, in Συνήγορος θαλασσιος. A Vievv of the Admiral Jurisdiction, London, page 7:
text: And very few, if any, would they but weight aright, the vaſt diſproportion that is betwixt their preſent earthly ſhadows and this moſt ſubſtantial bleſſedneſs, would ever turn their backs on Chriſt, or Naufragate, and make Shipwrack of the Faith, to ſecure the former, and hereby deprive themſelves to eternity of the latter.
ref: 1673, John Hickes, A Discourse of the Excellency of the Heavenly Substance, London, page 28:
text: Clench's English, is of a piece with his Tuscan. For example, "Peter signifies an inexpugnable rock, able to evacuate all the plots of hell's divan, and naufragate all the lurid designs of empoisoned heretics."
ref: 1850, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, page 87:
text: Among others^([sic – meaning other]) lessons that could be derived from the Gulf War, this event showed the inner limits to ICT propaganda. The attempt to legitimise the war and to make it morally more acceptable by people because, thanks to ICT, it was an entirely new type of war, i.e. a “clean” and “quick” war without human killing naufragated clamorously, not only for the shame of military establishment but also of media that uncritically supported and propagated such a claim.
ref: 1993, Jacques Berleur, Colin Beardon, Romain Laufer, editors, Facing the Challenge of Risk and Vulnerability in an Information Society: […], IFIP, page 304:
glosses: To wreck (something).
Related terms: naufragous
amplificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm'-plĭfʹ-ĭk-āt
ipa: /ˌæmˈplɪf.ɪk.eɪ̯t/
rhymes: -ɪfɪkeɪt
Forms: form: amplificates
form: amplificating
form: amplificated
form: amplificated
Etymology: From Latin amplificatus, passive perfect participle of amplificō (“I enlarge, amplify”).
Senses: glosses: To amplify.
roll over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls over
form: rolling over
form: rolled over
form: rolled over
Senses: examples: text: The car rolled completely over.
text: That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy’s bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a rolling motion or turn.
examples: text: The mob rolled the car over.
glosses: To cause a rolling motion or turn.
examples: text: He doesn't meekly roll over to all her demands.
text: I'm not going to roll over this time.
text: Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.
ref: 2022 March 1, Joe Biden, State of the Union Address:
glosses: To give in to.
examples: text: Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S. Navy's side, both admirals were dead and only Helena and Fletcher stood any chance in further combat. Abe's remaining forces should've been able to roll straight over them, destroy Henderson Field, and the troop landings would be completed without any further interference.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:45 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022:
glosses: To easily overwhelm; to steamroller; to brush aside.
glosses: To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To reinvest funds from a lottery into a subsequent one, in the event that a prize was not won.
examples: text: In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the user rolls over it.
ref: 2004, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Macromedia Studio MX 2004:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To move the cursor over.
examples: text: […] to check if the system time has rolled over to the next second.
ref: 2001, Mark Lutz, Programming Python: Object-Oriented Scripting:
text: The dashboard clock rolled over to midnight, and a song lyric popped into my head: lonely midnight drivers, drifting out to sea.
ref: 2005, Michael Koryta, Tonight I Said Goodbye:
glosses: To increment, especially back to an initial value.
rodentology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rodent + -ology.
Senses: glosses: a branch of mammalogy for the study of rodents by a rodentologist.
darner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: darners
Etymology: From darn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who darns.
glosses: A needle used for darning, a darning needle.
glosses: Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a hawker.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aeshna spp.
word: blue darner
taxonomic: Aeshna multicolor
word: blue-eyed darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna muelleri
word: Carnarvon darner
taxonomic: Aeshna longipes
word: comet darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna subapicalis
word: conehead darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna eungella
word: Eungella darner
taxonomic: Anax strenuus
word: giant Hawaiian darner
taxonomic: Anax junius
word: green darner
taxonomic: Aeshna eremita
word: lake darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna multipunctata
word: multi-spotted darner
taxonomic: Aeshna umbrosa
word: shadow darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna sigma
word: sigma darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna christine
word: S-spot darner
taxonomic: Austroaeschna speciosa
word: tropical unicorn darner
darners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darner
daybed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪˌbɛd/
Forms: form: daybeds
Etymology: From day + bed.
Senses: examples: text: After this exhausting work was done Agnes would lie upon her daybed with her arms dangling, too fatigued to lift them.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 35:
glosses: A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.
glosses: A long chair for reclining.
daybeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daybed
daylights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪlaɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of daylight
examples: text: Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.
qualifier: chiefly fighting
glosses: Eyes.
examples: text: It scared the daylights out of us!
text: They beat the living daylights out of us.
glosses: mental soundness, wits, consciousness.
dazzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dazzlers
Etymology: From dazzle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When he announced that he was going to try his hand at professional baseball, few skeptics were bold enough to suggest that this career turn would be anything but another Jordanesque dazzler.
ref: 2009, Ric Merrifield, Rethink, page 62:
glosses: One who or that which dazzles; something spectacular.
Derived terms: bobby-dazzler
dago dazzler
razzle-dazzler
laser printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser printers
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer printer that uses a laser beam to produce an image on a rotating drum before transferring it to the paper.
Related terms: inkjet printer
laser copier
describable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹaɪbəbl̩/
Forms: form: more describable
form: most describable
Etymology: From describe + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being described.
Synonyms: word: articulable
word: describable
word: enunciable
word: expressible
word: pronounceable
word: sayable
word: speakable
word: utterable
word: verbalizable
Derived terms: describableness
nondescribable
Related terms: word: describability
word: comprehensible
dearness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪə(ɹ)nəs/
Forms: form: dearnesses
Etymology: From dear + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But brothers pass not into noble friendships upon the stock of that relation: they have fair dispositions and advantages, and are more easy and ready to ferment into the greatest dearnesses, if all things else be answerable.
ref: 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship:
glosses: The quality of having great value or price.
Related terms: costliness
deathlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deathlike
form: most deathlike
form: death-like
Etymology: From death + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.
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 205:
text: a deathlike silence
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of death.
glosses: Deadly.
Synonyms: deadlike
Related terms: deadliness
deathliness
deathwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθwɒtʃ/
Forms: form: deathwatches
Etymology: From death + watch.
Senses: glosses: A vigil beside a dying person
glosses: One who guards a condemned person before execution.
glosses: A deathwatch beetle.
debilitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more debilitating
form: most debilitating
Senses: examples: text: Akeley, Noyes hastened to inform me, was glad and ready to see me; although his sudden attack of asthma would prevent him from being a very competent host for a day or two. These spells hit him hard when they came, and were always accompanied by a debilitating fever and general weakness.
ref: 1931, H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: Causing a loss of energy or strength.
Derived terms: debilitatingly
nondebilitating
undebilitating
debilitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debilitate
decadency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decadencies
Senses: glosses: decadence.
decapitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkæpɪteɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decapitators
Etymology: From decapitate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who decapitates.
Synonyms: beheader
headsman
Coordinate terms: decapitatee
decapitee
Related terms: decapitate
demi-god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-gods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demigod.
white-knuckle ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-knuckle rides
form: white knuckle ride
Senses: examples: text: A newly-devised ‘white-knuckle’ ride in a funfair was named ‘the Braveheart ride’.
ref: 2003, Colin McArthur, Brigadoon Braveheart and the Scots, IB Tauris, page 139:
glosses: An extremely exciting ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
examples: text: They must be insane to think Judy Finnegan would retire from the daily white-knuckle ride that is live television with Richard Madeley.
ref: 2007, The Guardian, G2, 22 Jun., p. 3:
glosses: Any extremely exciting or nerve-racking experience.
white knuckle ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white knuckle rides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white-knuckle ride.
henotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more henotic
form: most henotic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑνωτικός (henōtikós, “serving to unite”), from εἷς (heîs, “one”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the production of peace and harmony; unifying
perish the thought
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Equivalent to "[may] the thought perish", with the verb in the subjunctive mood followed by its subject.
Senses: examples: text: What! was he to lose his hold over these boys, and that because he was unable to cope with a boy much smaller and younger than himself? Perish the thought!
ref: 1885, Horatio Alger, chapter 13, in Hector's Inheritance:
text: According to industry gossips, Richard and Judy may soon go their separate ways. Not maritally; no, perish the thought.
ref: 2007 June 22, Grace Dent, The Guardian, G2, p. 3:
glosses: May the thought perish; said of an idea or suggestion that is deeply undesirable.
Related terms: far be it
Aga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agas
Senses: examples: text: Le Creuset pots were expensive, including at David's shop, and you had to strengthen the floor to install a bloody Aga.
ref: 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of AGA (an AGA cooker).
Aga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
Related terms: Aginskoye
Aga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agas
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Norwegian Aga, a habitational surname of uncertain derivation.
* Borrowed from Turkish Ağa, an occupational surname from ağa (“lord; chief, boss”).
* Borrowed from Amharic አጋ (ʾäga).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
AGA saga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AGA sagas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Aga saga.
Lawrentian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒˈɹɛnʃən/
homophone: Laurencian
homophone: Laurentian
Forms: form: more Lawrentian
form: most Lawrentian
Etymology: From Lawrence + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Laurencian and Laurentian; compare also lawrencium.
Senses: examples: text: Once in Paris, Idriss meets the unlikely aristocrat Sigisbert de Beaufond, who regales him with a desert drama of Lawrentian proportions.
ref: 1999, David Platten, Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction, Liverpool, published 1999, page 150:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the author T. E. Lawrence or his works or style of writing.
examples: text: Head to the countryside, says Quickies, and have lots of sex in barns and stables that throb with Lawrentian promise.
ref: 2007 June 22, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, G2, p. 11:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the author D. H. Lawrence or his works or style of writing.
decapitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkæpɪteɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decapitate
decapitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapitator
dewclaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewclaws
form: dew claw
Etymology: Uncertain first element + claw. Compare dewlap. One suggestion, possibly a folk etymology, is that dewclaws brush dew away.
Senses: glosses: A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground.
dewclaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewclaw
limberjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limberjacks
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An American folk percussion instrument consisting of a dancing wooden doll and a flexible plank.
limberjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limberjack