cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃæ.ləp/
Forms: form: shallops
form: shaloup
Etymology: Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and sloop.
Senses: examples: text: Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop’s ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!
ref: 1767, David Crantz, “Of the Sciences of the Greenlanders”, in [John Gambold], transl., The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants: […], London: […] [F]or the Brethren’s Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, § 48, page 239:
text: The first event in the Indian wars of New England, as related to its settlement by our forefathers, occurred on the 8th of December, 1620, while a company of the Pilgrims were coasting along the shores towards Plymouth Bay, in their shallop.
ref: 1906, George Madison Bodge, “Introductory Chapter”, in Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620–1677, 3rd edition, page 1:
glosses: A kind of light boat; a dinghy.
glosses: A kind of large boat; a sloop.
shallops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shallop
unamiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unamiable
form: most unamiable
Etymology: From un- + amiable.
Senses: examples: text: Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals.
ref: 1876, Golden Hours: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 8, page 208:
glosses: Not amiable; not likable.
ranchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchmen
Etymology: From ranch + -man.
Senses: glosses: An owner or occupant of a ranch
glosses: A laborer on a ranch.
Related terms: ranchboy
ranchgirl
ranchwoman
ranchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchman
ineffaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ineffaceable
form: most ineffaceable
Etymology: From in- + effaceable.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.
ref: 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233:
text: […] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, pages 64–65:
text: Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.
ref: 1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775:
synonyms: indelible
glosses: Incapable of being effaced.
Derived terms: ineffaceably
irreligion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒən
Forms: form: irreligions
Etymology: From French irréligion, from Latin irreligiō. By surface analysis, ir- + religion.
Senses: examples: text: Lucretius' irreligion is too strong, / For early stomachs, to prove wholesome food […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
text: These often slangly letters censure modern irreligion and urge devotion to religion.
ref: 1940, Walter Romig, The Guide to Catholic Literature, page 566:
text: When we put this idea together with that of the other prescription, we see that what the two together demand is that, with respect to their religions and irreligions, all men shall stand before the government as equals.
ref: 1967, Theodor R. Sizer, Nicholas Wolterstoff, Religion and Public Education, page 5:
glosses: The state of being irreligious; irreligious sentiment or thought.
Related terms: unreligion
strategical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strategical
form: most strategical
Senses: glosses: Strategic.
yit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yet.
masterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastership
innocency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnəsənsi/
Forms: form: innocencies
Etymology: From Middle English innocencie, from Latin innocentia. Doublet of innocence.
Senses: examples: text: That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5:
glosses: Synonym of innocence:
Harmlessness.
glosses: Synonym of innocence:
Lack of deceit or guile; simplicity.
examples: text: The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.
ref: 1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler:
glosses: Synonym of innocence:
The state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
examples: text: It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies, than with dark human passions, […]
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: An innocent idea or thing; an innocence.
eyen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: Ayn
Forms: form: eyne
Etymology: From Middle English eyen, iȝen (plural of eie, besides rarer eyes), from Old English ēagan (nominative plural of ēage), from Proto-West Germanic *augōn (nominative plural of *augā), from Proto-Germanic *augōnō (nominative plural of *augô); equivalent to eye + -en (plural ending)
Senses: examples: text: While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, […]
ref: 1897, William Morris, “Chapter VII. Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005:
text: Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
ref: 1903, Florence Converse, Long Will: A Romance, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 138:
text: Sweet and benign mediatrix, / Thine eyen of grace on us thou cast, / Since thou art queen of paradise, / And let not our hope be in waste, / But show us thy Son at the last, / Since we do sing and say to thee, ‘Maria, spes nostra, salue.’
ref: 2001, James Ryman, “‘Meekly We Sing and Say to Thee’”, in Douglas Brooks-Davies, editor, Talking of Mothers: Poems for Every Mother (Everyman’s Poetry), London: Everyman Paperbacks, J.M. Dent, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: plural of eye
plissé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plissés
Etymology: From French plissé.
Senses: glosses: A narrow pleat made by gathering fabric with stitches, wetting the fabric, and setting by allowing it to dry under weight or tension.
Related terms: plisse
plisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plisses
Etymology: From French plissé.
Senses: glosses: A fabric treated so as to be permanently puckered or crinkled.
Related terms: plissé
plisse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French plissé.
Senses: glosses: Of a fabric, treated to give a permanent puckered or crinkled effect.
Related terms: plissé
plisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plisse
plissés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plissé
discomposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discomposures
Etymology: From dis- + composure.
Senses: examples: text: And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things[.]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: "The real reason is that some small element of danger is involved in our experiment, though it is not sufficient to justify the discomposure which I see upon many of your faces."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: The state of being discomposed.
examples: text: But this is wrought by emission , or suppression , or suffocation , of the native spirits ; and also by the disordination and discomposure of the tangible parts , and other passages of nature , and not by a conflict of heats
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Discordance; disagreement of parts.
arc-boutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc-boutants
form: arc boutant
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French arc-boutant.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of flying buttress.
synonyms: word: flying buttress
profit-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profit-takings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of profit taking.
doublés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doublé
coiffe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coiffes
form: coiffing
form: coiffed
form: coiffed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coif.
coiffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coiffe
coiffes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coiffe
race track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race tracks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of racetrack.
race tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race track
rabbitfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbitfish
form: rabbitfishes
Etymology: From rabbit + fish, from its mouth shape.
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the family Siganidae, native to shallow Indo-Pacific coastal waters and introduced to the eastern Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.
glosses: Any fish in the family Chimaeridae, cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes.
Derived terms: small-eyed rabbitfish
rabbitfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbitfish
cabmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabman
proportionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proportionable
form: most proportionable
Etymology: From proportion + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional.
glosses: In the correct proportion; proportional; commensurable.
Derived terms: proportionably
D&O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Abbreviation of directors and officers.
Related terms: E&O
E&O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E&Os
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Errors and omissions insurance.
ninepence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninepences
Etymology: From nine + pence.
Senses: examples: text: His wits were sent him for a token, \ But in the carriage crack'd and broken. \ Like commendation nine-pence, crookt \ With—to and from my love—it lookt.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies.
examples: text: I had sold it to her that morning for ninepence; the real price was a shilling, but it was somewhat shopworn.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 137:
glosses: Nine old pennies.
glosses: A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents.
Derived terms: commendation ninepence
neat as ninepence
nice as ninepence
right as ninepence
ninepences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninepence
footway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtˌweɪ/
Forms: form: footways
Etymology: From Middle English fotwei, equivalent to foot + way. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutwai, German Fußweg.
Senses: examples: text: On the right, as you enter from Whitechapel Road, is the public footway to Durward Street that will provide a new route across the railway during the day.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
glosses: A passage reserved only for pedestrians.
Synonyms: sense: passage for pedestrians
word: footpath
sense: passage for pedestrians
word: platform
sense: passage for pedestrians
word: pavement
sense: passage for pedestrians
word: sidewalk
footways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footway
superincumbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹɪnˈkʌmbənt/
Forms: form: more superincumbent
form: most superincumbent
Etymology: From Latin superincumbentem, present participle of superincumbere. By surface analysis, super- + incumbent.
Senses: examples: text: As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 61:
text: […] alas, on the contrary, what troops and populations of Phantasms, not God-Veracities but Devil-Falsities, down to the very lowest stratum, — which now, by such superincumbent weight of Unveracities, lies enchanted in St. Ives’ Workhouses, broad enough, helpless enough!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise, flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roar, but no crackle.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The older Verrucano must have travelled to its present position as it slid and ground its way on the back of the oppressed Lochseiten limestone, which buckled and churned under the superincumbent load.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 87:
topics: sciences
glosses: Lying or resting on something else; overlying.
TIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TINs
Senses: examples: text: The AOTC and/or LLC cannot be claimed if the TIN is issued after the due date of the return (including extensions).
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 43:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of taxpayer identification number.
Hyponyms: SSN
EIN
ITIN
ATIN
juryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurymen
Etymology: From jury + -man.
Senses: examples: text: When we speak of our eyes deceiving us, or of the testimony of our noses being suspect, we are talking as if we and our eyes are two parties in dispute, or as if our noses are in the witness-box while we ourselves are sitting down in the midst of our fellow jurymen.
ref: 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, pages 98–99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
glosses: One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.
twopenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * From two + penny.
* (head): George Orwell explains this in Down and Out in Paris and London as rhyming slang: head > loaf of bread > twopenny loaf > twopenny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of twopence.
examples: text: A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar-hogs-heads! and then your twopenny marquisates
ref: 1888, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, page 145:
text: As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
ref: 1940, Woman's Home Companion, volume 67, numbers 1-4, page 134:
glosses: Cheap; worthless; petty.
twopenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twopennies
Etymology: * From two + penny.
* (head): George Orwell explains this in Down and Out in Paris and London as rhyming slang: head > loaf of bread > twopenny loaf > twopenny.
Senses: examples: text: When the Gauls attacked Rome, he hit upon the plan of pelting the soldiers with twopennies to make them believe they had plenty to eat.
ref: 1852, Edward Litt L. Blanchard, Freaks and follies of fabledom, page 93:
glosses: A coin or stamp worth two pence.
glosses: Ale sold for two pence per quart.
examples: text: "It flew all to pieces; and didn't we get it! But look here, Merry, are you on?"
"Yes; tuck in your twopenny."
"No springing, mind."
ref: 1880, Our Boys' Paper, page 411:
glosses: A person's head.
Derived terms: twopenny-halfpenny
twopenny-ha'penny
twopenny rope
Twopenny Tube
Related terms: tuppenny
rivalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivalships
Etymology: From rival + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759:
text: Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: Rivalry.
rivalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivalships
Etymology: From rival + ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).
Senses: examples: text: it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so
ref: 2015 October 16, kat (@saItkath), Twitter:
text: where are my femslash rivalships/hateships i want girls who wanna DUEL before they smooch
ref: 2017 December 20, in the netherdeep (@NatRoze), Twitter:
text: I dont like kylo ren bc hes a bitch. Also r*ylo sucks because fuck rivalships she deserves better. Dont @ me
ref: 2019 March 6, may (@myosotiskills), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: hateship
glosses: A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.
rivalships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivalship
appetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăp′ĭ-tī′tĭv
enpr: ə-pĕt′ĭ-tĭv
ipa: /ˈap.ɪˌtaɪ̯.tɪv/
ipa: /əˈpɛt.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈap.ɪˌtʌi̯.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈap.ɪˌtəi̯.tɪv/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada
ipa: /ˈæp.ɪˌtaɪ̯.tɪv/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada
ipa: /əˈpɛt.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæp.ɪˌtʌɪ̯.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæp.ɪˌtɑe̯.tɪv/
ipa: /əˈpet.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛp.əˌtaɪ̯.təv/
ipa: /əˈpet.ə.təv/
ipa: /ˈap.ɪˌʈaj.ʈɪv/
ipa: /aˈpɛʈ.ɪ.ʈɪv/
rhymes: -æpɪtaɪtɪv
rhymes: -apɪtaɪtɪv
rhymes: -ɛtɪtɪv
Forms: form: more appetitive
form: most appetitive
Etymology: From appetite + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: appetitive behavior
text: appetitive signals
text: This is a novel that puts gay liberation to the test. It places before us the complex reality of a life of appetitive, atomistic sexuality. It calls into question all the optimism we ever felt about the liberating potential of free sexual expression, in particular, its redemptive potential for rich, white men.
ref: 1988 December 11, Tim Walton, “The Novel That Puts Gay Male Liberation — Through Sex — To The Test”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 9:
synonyms: desiring
glosses: Having the quality of desiring gratification.
Derived terms: appetitively
appetitiveness
nonappetitive
post game
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postgame.
post game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post games
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postgame.
rescript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːskɹɪpt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: rescripts
Etymology: From Latin rescriptum (“written reply”).
Senses: examples: text: "'In order that the people may know of my decision, I request you to prepare at once an imperial rescript that I may broadcast to the nation.'"
ref: 1985, Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun:
topics: law
glosses: A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
examples: text: Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.
ref: 1878, "Decretals" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VII, p. 22
qualifier: canon law
glosses: An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
glosses: A duplicate copy of a legal document.
glosses: A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
rescript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːskɹɪpt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: rescripts
form: rescripting
form: rescripted
form: rescripted
Etymology: From Latin rescriptum (“written reply”).
Senses: examples: text: We're rescripting some popular British TV shows for an American audience.
glosses: To script again or anew.
rescripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescript
dismission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: dismissions
Etymology: From dismiss + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Though Mrs Honour was principally attached to her own interest, she was not without some little attachment to Sophia. […] She no sooner therefore heard a piece of news, which she imagined to be of great importance to her mistress, than, quite forgetting the anger which she had conceived two days before, at her unpleasant dismission from Sophia’s presence, she ran hastily to inform her of the news.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).
examples: text: I told her […] that her dismission was intended for an indignity to me; that I was very sorry to be obliged to part with her, and hoped she would meet with as good a service.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Fairservice looked very blank at this demand, justly considering it as a presage to approaching dismission.
ref: 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
text: […]and if, upon finding his hopes with regard to Rosilia frustrated, she should be so fortunate as once again to bring him to renew his addresses to herself, how great would be her triumph in then giving him his final dismission.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Removal from office; termination of employment or services, or position in ones affections.
glosses: The setting aside (of something) from consideration.
dismissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismission
drop-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-off
dysmorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysmorphism
encephalographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalography
ethnophaulisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnophaulism
cave dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cave dwellers
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric human who lived in caves; a caveman or cavewoman.
glosses: One who behaves like a caveman, lacking culture and refinement.
Hyponyms: caveman
cavewoman
copaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copay
homelife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homelives
Etymology: From home + life.
Senses: examples: text: They marry, have children and a very "liberated" homelife — she teaches at a college and he stays home with the kids and writes. Everything goes well until Helen dallies with one of her graduate students.
ref: 1982 August 14, Michael Bronski, “If You Hated The Book You'll Loathe The Movie”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 10:
glosses: The manner in which a person conducts themselves at home, as opposed to how they act in a professional setting.
copaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copay
sea rover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea rovers
Etymology: Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.
Senses: glosses: A herring.
examples: text: Then down the brave man lay with his bolster
under his head and his whole company
of sea-rovers at rest beside him.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 23:
glosses: One who travels the ocean; one who spends a great deal of time at sea.
examples: text: 1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp. lvi-lvij,
[…] there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither place to inhabite in neither seketh any staye to liue by, but hauyng been either condempned of Felonies, & prison breakers, runne from the warres and sea rouers, departed from the kynges guarrisons, and loyterers, whereby thei become desperate persons […]
text: 1843 April 18, New York Insurance Co. et al., "To Commander A.S. Mackenzie", Niles National Register vol. 64 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZSqY7wD2xYgC, page 179, originally published in the New York American,
The turning of your ship into a sea-rover would have made the entire ocean a scene of outrage, rapine, and murder.
text: It was a ridiculous scheme, both as to the force which was to take the ship, and her employment as a buccaneer -- the state of the ocean and of navigation being such at that time as to leave a sea-rover, pursued as he would be by the fleets of all nations, without a sea to sail in, without a coast to land on, without a rock or corner to hide in.
ref: 1858, Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government, vol. 2, page 546:
glosses: A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.
Synonyms: sense: ocean-going marauder
word: pirate
word: corsair
word: pirate
bait car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bait cars
Senses: examples: 2008, "Be careful what you steal," The Norman Transcript (Oklahoma), 7 Feb. (retrieved 29 Feb. 2008),
The whole premise behind the police department's "bait car" program is to entice an auto thief to take the rigged automobile and get caught.
glosses: A vehicle used as a decoy by police to help apprehend car thieves, often equipped to be tracked by GPS and to be disabled remotely.
yapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæp.ə/
ipa: /ˈjæp.ɚ/
Forms: form: yappers
Etymology: From yap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Shut your yapper or I'll shut it for you!
glosses: A person's mouth, especially one that gossips or talks too much.
examples: text: If you want your pack to be a deterrent against burglars or muggers, forget about small dogs, yappers though they be. Focus on the larger breeds, particularly working stock with strong instinctual drives.
ref: 2004, Theresa Mancus, Who moved my bone?: a guide for multi-dog households, page 25:
text: I have to admit I would have a lot more tolerance for cell phone yappers on my one-hour train ride to and from work if they were actually learning — instead of yelling […]
ref: 2007, Training, volume 44, numbers 1-10, page 6:
glosses: One who yaps.
killer whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killer whale
ribbon seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribbon seals
Senses: glosses: A species (Histriophoca fasciata) of true seal (or earless seal) found in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean.
ribbon seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbon seal
five and dime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five and dimes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of five-and-dime.
dime store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dime stores
Senses: examples: text: In the dime stores and bus stations / People talk of situations / Read books, repeat quotations / Draw conclusions on the wall
ref: 1965, Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, in Bringing It All Back Home:
glosses: A store selling inexpensive items.
Synonyms: five-and-dime
ten-cent store
dollar store
ten-cent store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-cent stores
Senses: synonyms: word: variety store
word: dollar store
word: dime store
word: five-and-dime
word: pound shop
glosses: A store selling inexpensive items.
reprovisionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + provisionment.
Senses: glosses: The act of acquiring new provisions to replace used up supplies.
ordered pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordered pair
dollar store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollar stores
Senses: glosses: A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar.
glosses: A government-owned shop in Cuba that sold goods mainly to foreigners and solely in exchange for hard currency.
Derived terms: word: dollar-store
Related terms: word: dime store
word: pound shop
word: $2 shop
word: ten-dollar store
mushroom party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushroom parties
Etymology: Referring to the rapid growth of mushrooms.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A new political party that sprouts up quickly before an election, but proves to be short-lived.
billon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billons
Etymology: Borrowed from French billon, from Old French bille (“stick of wood”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.
Related terms: billet
bullion
ecocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecocultural
form: most ecocultural
form: eco-cultural
Etymology: From eco- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: That combines ecological and cultural elements.
Derived terms: ecoculturally
ecologically friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecologically friendly
form: most ecologically friendly
Senses: synonyms: word: eco-friendly
word: green
word: environmentally friendly
word: environment-friendly
word: eco-friendly
word: ecological
word: ecologically friendly
word: green
glosses: beneficial (or at least harmless) to the ecology of a region
downloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downloaders
Etymology: From download + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
examples: text: The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
ref: 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that assists with the downloading of files.
Related terms: download manager
uploader
uploader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uploaders
Etymology: From upload + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who uploads files.
glosses: A computer program that assists with the uploading of files.
Derived terms: reuploader
Related terms: downloader
flow cytometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A technique used to sort and classify cells by using fluorescent markers on their surface
levellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leveller
frostwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostworks
Etymology: From frost + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber.
ref: 1888, H. Thoreau, Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 343:
glosses: Any naturally occurring intricate pattern of ice crystals.
examples: text: More delicate frostwork, this time in the form of hairlike needles of calcite, occurs near the Pearly Gates. Here, as in all caves under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, you are asked not to touch or handle the cave formations.
ref: 1968, William Henry Matthews, A guide to the national parks: their landscape and geology, page 236:
glosses: Any pattern that resembles a frost formation.
fruit pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit pigeons
Senses: glosses: Any of several fruit-eating doves or pigeons.
stimulons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stimulon
factorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From factorize + -able.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be factorized.
raw_tags: of an integer or polynomial etc
Derived terms: factorizability
nonfactorizable
unfactorizable
factorisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more factorisable
form: most factorisable
Etymology: From factorise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of factorizable.
Derived terms: unfactorisable
calculant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calculant
form: most calculant
Etymology: From calculate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: His face is calm, down-sloped, calculant, concerned.
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 97:
glosses: calculating, reflective
Related terms: contemplative
objectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectants
Etymology: From object + -ant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of objector.
synonyms: word: objector
blagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blague
phagophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phagophores
Etymology: From phago- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A double membrane that encloses and isolates the cytoplasmic components during macroautophagy.
Derived terms: autophagophore
autophagosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autophagosomes
Etymology: From auto- + phagosome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A phagosome in which part of a cell's own cytoplasm is digested
Derived terms: macroautophagosome
preautophagosome
Related terms: autophagosomal
autophagosomic
macroautophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + autophagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of autophagy in which a membrane (the phagophore) forms around the material to be digested before it fuses with the lysosome
Related terms: microautophagy
microautophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + autophagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of autophagy in which the material to be digested fuses directly with the lysosome
Related terms: microautophagic
macroautophagy
subaquatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aquatic.
Senses: glosses: Located or living under water; submarine.
lipofuscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipofuscins
Etymology: From lipo- + fuscin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of pigmented lipid granules that accumulate in several body tissues.
Derived terms: lipofuscinogenesis
lipofuscinosis
neurolipofuscin
column density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: column densities
Senses: glosses: The total amount per unit area of a material suspended in a fluid or in a cloud in space, measured along the length of a column.
cryomicroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + microscopy.
Senses: glosses: microscopy carried out at low temperatures
Derived terms: electron cryomicroscopy
Related terms: cryomicroscope
cryomicroscopic
electron cryomicroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The electron microscopy of sensitive biological materials carried out at low temperature so as to limit damage to the structure of the material being examined
electron microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: microscopy carried out using an electron microscope
Derived terms: immunoelectron microscopy
scanning electron microscopy
Adélie penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adélie penguins
Senses: synonyms: Adélie
glosses: Alternative spelling of Adelie penguin.
green anole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green anoles
Etymology: From green + anole.
Senses: glosses: An arboreal lizard, Anolis carolinensis, native to the southeastern United States
Synonyms: sense: Anolis carolinensis
word: Carolina anole
sense: Anolis carolinensis
word: American chameleon
sense: Anolis carolinensis
word: American anole
sense: Anolis carolinensis
word: red-throated anole
Derived terms: dwarf green anole
ring road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring roads
form: ringroad
Senses: examples: text: Underground stations were also slated for closure, and there were plans for massive ring roads to cater for the ever-growing numbers of people commuting into town by car. […] However, it soon dawned on politicians that this was unsustainable. Much of London would have had to be demolished to make way for the ring roads, and parking was becoming an insuperable difficulty.
ref: 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 57:
synonyms: word: beltway
word: orbital motorway
glosses: A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation.
saignées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saignée
black as coal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: as black as coal
Etymology: From Middle English blak as cole.
Senses: examples: text: I wanna see it painted / painted black / black as night / black as coal
ref: 1966, The Rolling Stones, “Paint It, Black”, in Aftermath:
text: Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire,
And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire.
ref: 1975, “Island Girl”, in Bernie Taupin (lyrics), Rock of the Westies, performed by Elton John:
synonyms: pitch-black
black as tar
qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely black.
Synonyms: black
Derived terms: coal black
Honda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).
Senses: examples: text: they left on Sonnyʼs seventeenth birthday present — the Honda motorbike heʼd begged them to buy him
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 358:
glosses: A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda.
glosses: A brand of car manufactured by Honda.
Honda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hondas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).
Senses: examples: text: Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.
ref: 1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5:
text: Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 86:
text: It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.
ref: 2022 September 30, Miranda Wollen, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, iluvcupcakes29545.”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLV, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B4, column 5:
glosses: A car of the Honda brand.
glosses: A motorbike manufactured by Honda.
energy expenditure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy expenditures
Senses: glosses: The amount of energy, measured in calories, that a person uses (e.g. during a particular activity).
free as a bird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Having no ties; completely free.
teleoperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleoperations
Etymology: From tele- + operation.
Senses: glosses: The remote operation of a device
Related terms: teleoperate
teleoperational
étouffé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: étouffés
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of étouffée.
fakie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fakies
Etymology: From fake + -ie?
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
glosses: The act of riding a BMX bicycle backwards and pedalling with the sprocket movement while moving backwards, then turning the bars away from the desired direction and sliding out so as to ride forwards again.
glosses: A breast implant (almost always used in plural, as "fakies", because a woman has two of them).
fakie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fake + -ie?
Senses: glosses: Performed using the fakie stance.
raw_tags: of a trick
fakie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakies
form: fakieing
form: fakied
form: fakied
Etymology: From fake + -ie?
Senses: examples: text: He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.
ref: 1992, Troy Bannon, Mean Street, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To ride using a fakie stance.
étouffés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of étouffé
étouffées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of étouffée
statistical significance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statistical significances
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how unlikely it is that a result has occurred by chance.
Related terms: statistically significant
significance level
nutty as a fruit cake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nutty as a fruitcake.
drop shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop shots
form: dropshot
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A downward chopping shot used to extract a ball that lies deep in the grass.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: In first-person shooters, the act of quickly switching from a standing position to a prone position while shooting at an opponent.
glosses: Synonym of bomb shot (“type of mixed drink”).
synonyms: word: bomb shot
extra: type of mixed drink
significance level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: significance levels
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how likely it is to draw a false conclusion in a statistical test, when the results are really just random variations.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The probability, usually expressed as a percentage, of making a decision to reject the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is actually true; the probability of making a type I error.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see significance, level.
header file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: header files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A file, usually in the form of source code, that is automatically included in another source file by the compiler.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A file that contains declarations but no implementations.
dramatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dramatises
form: dramatising
form: dramatised
form: dramatised
Senses: examples: text: "I have been," muttered he, "dramatising the last week: as it cannot be a comedy, and end with a marriage, let it be a tragedy, and end with a death. I can be the tyrant—Evelyn the lover ordered to execution. Lord Avonleigh has a double part to sustain—the cruel father, and the minister of my vengeance; while Francesca can go mad in white satin."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 329:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dramatize.
Derived terms: dramatisable
overdramatise
underdramatise
undramatised
dramatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dramatise, an alternative spelling of dramatize
fossilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fossilise
stock loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock loan
remunerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmjuːn(ə)ɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more remunerable
form: most remunerable
Senses: glosses: Capable of being remunerated.
glosses: Capable of reparations being made by money.
Related terms: remunerability
rewove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reweave
remunerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remunerators
Senses: glosses: One who remunerates.