cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
schoolchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skōōlchīld
ipa: /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/
ipa: /ˈsku.əlt͡ʃaɪld/
Forms: form: schoolchildren
form: school-child
form: school child
Etymology: From school + child.
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: […] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.
ref: 1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “Interdistrict Transfer”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.
ref: 2011, Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals:
synonyms: pupil
student
schoolkid
glosses: A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
stench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: stenches
Etymology: From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).
Senses: glosses: a strong foul smell; a stink.
examples: text: the stench of political corruption
glosses: A foul quality.
examples: text: Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 432:
glosses: A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
Synonyms: sense: disagreeable smell
word: stink
sense: disagreeable smell
word: pong
word: fetor
word: funk
word: malodor
word: niff
word: nosesore
word: reek
word: stench
Hypernyms: word: smell
Hyponyms: word: acridity
word: empyreuma
word: mustiness
word: nidor
word: rancidity
Derived terms: stench bomb
stench trap
stench trench
stenchy
Related terms: word: asafoetida
word: garlic
word: polecat
word: skunk
word: stoat
word: malodorous
stench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: stenches
form: stenching
form: stenched
form: stenched
Etymology: From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).
Senses: examples: text: Dead bards stench every coast
ref: 1729, Edward Young, Imperium Pelagi:
glosses: To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
glosses: To stanch.
orange blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange blossoms
form: orange-blossom
form: orangeblossom
Etymology: From orange + blossom.
Senses: examples: text: "How beautiful are these orange flowers!" said Francesea, pointing to a superb stand of that most lovely shrub, where the golden fruit, the snowy flower, and the polished blossom, hung together.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: The fragrant white flower of the orange tree, Citrus sinensis.
Coordinate terms: napha water
neroli
Related terms: apple blossom
cherry blossom
orange blossom water
peach blossom
plum blossom
state flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state flowers
Etymology: See state and flower
Senses: glosses: The flower officially chosen as a symbol for a state of the United States.
atmospheric tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmospheric tides
Senses: glosses: Pressure waves in the atmosphere similar to the tides of the ocean, produced by the gravitational influence of the moon and by thermal expansion and contraction.
Related terms: gravitational tide
thermal tide
scrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɔːl/
ipa: /skɹɑːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: scrawls
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
Alternatively, from scrall, a contraction of scrabble.
Senses: glosses: Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
glosses: A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
glosses: Writing that lacks literary merit.
glosses: A broken branch of a tree.
glosses: The young of the dog-crab.
scrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɔːl/
ipa: /skɹɑːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: scrawls
form: scrawling
form: scrawled
form: scrawled
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
Alternatively, from scrall, a contraction of scrabble.
Senses: examples: text: She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.
glosses: To write something hastily or illegibly.
glosses: To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
examples: text: c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost
Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
glosses: To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
Derived terms: scrawl down
scrawl off
scrawl out
scrawl up
scrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɔːl/
ipa: /skɹɑːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: scrawls
form: scrawling
form: scrawled
form: scrawled
Etymology: From Middle English scraulen (“to crawl”), itself an alteration of crawlen (“to crawl”). More at crawl.
Senses: examples: text: we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get
ref: November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford
text: When I saw him scrawlen on the plain, My heart aw flacker'd for't, I was sae fain.
ref: 1797 (original possibly 1783), Josiah Relph, Poems by the Reverend Josiah Relph ... With the life of the author and a pastoral elegy on his death; by T. Sanderson, page 13
text: T'poor pig what had just scrawled through t'bottom o' t'cart,
ref: 1892, Clarke Tum Fowt Sketches, page 40, no. 3
text: 'Cut its throat,' I calls to him, but he didn't, just slashes its forepaw; but it dropt di-rekly, couldn't hardly scrawl out on the bank.'
ref: 1896, Francis Hindes Groome, Kriegspiel: The War Game, page 252:
glosses: To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
tide day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide days
Senses: glosses: The interval between two high tides at a given place that are around a day apart (equal to 1.03505010026781 days, or 1 day, 50 minutes, 28.33 seconds)
Related terms: lag of the tide
handwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɹaɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: handwritings
form: hand-writing
Etymology: From hand + writing, equal to handwrite + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
glosses: Text that was written by hand.
examples: text: He took up the letter: well did he know the delicate and graceful handwriting; but he saw that the characters were tremulous, and it had obviously been written at different times.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 284–285:
text: It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students.
ref: 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara:
text: In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult.
ref: 1893, Joseph B. Lightfoot, Essays on "Supernatural Religion":
text: Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings; to decipher monograms; to collect facts.
ref: 1914, P. S. Allen, The Age of Erasmus:
glosses: The characteristic writing of a particular person.
examples: text: And, my friend believes, Armedov is getting paid by...? Yes, our friends at Langley! CIA handwriting all over it, he reckons!
ref: 2013, Chris Payne, High Crimes And Low Stakes: Chris Payne, page 259:
text: The show needs to portray the designer's handwriting but it should also be innovative too.
ref: 2016, Nilgin Yusuf, Fashion's Front Line, page 112:
glosses: A characteristic trait or hallmark by which somebody may be recognised.
Synonyms: sense: the act or process of writing done by hand
word: longhand
sense: text written by hand
word: manuscript
sense: characteristic writing of a person
word: chirography
sense: characteristic writing of a person
word: autograph
sense: characteristic writing of a person
word: penmanship
Derived terms: handwriting on the wall
the handwriting is on the wall
Related terms: handwritten
handwrite
handwrit
cursive
handwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɹaɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: hand-writing
Etymology: From hand + writing, equal to handwrite + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handwrite
tide dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide dials
Senses: glosses: A sundial marking canonical hours.
glosses: An elliptical plate marking the state of the ocean tides.
Synonyms: sense: sundial
word: mass dial
sense: sundial
word: scratch dial
tide gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide gates
Senses: glosses: An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide moves in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate.
tide gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide gauges
form: tide gage
Senses: glosses: A gauge for showing the height of the tide, particularly one continuously updated.
tide lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide locks
Senses: glosses: A lock situated between an enclosed basin or a canal and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide
Synonyms: guard lock
Related terms: tidal lock
tide mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide mills
form: tidemill
Senses: glosses: A mill operated by tidal currents.
glosses: A mill for clearing lands of tide water.
Synonyms: tidal mill
tide rip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide rips
Senses: glosses: A body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents.
Related terms: rip tide
tide table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide tables
Senses: glosses: A table giving the time of when the tide will be high or low at a particular place.
Hypernyms: table
guideline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: guidelines
Etymology: From guide + line.
Senses: examples: text: He considered the Ten Commandments more as a guideline than a requirement.
text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
glosses: A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
glosses: A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
glosses: A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
Synonyms: sense: non-specific rule
word: rule of thumb
sense: plan or explanation
word: rule of thumb
Derived terms: guidelineless
nonguideline
guideline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: guidelines
form: guidelining
form: guidelined
form: guidelined
Etymology: From guide + line.
Senses: examples: text: Now we are not just guidelining the work, but implementing it as well. That extra step allows us to fully flesh out every element of the visual language and drive the strategy home.
ref: 2015, Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne, Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer (page 60)
glosses: To provide guidelines for.
tidewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidewaters
form: tide water
Etymology: From tide + water.
Senses: examples: text: Their mission in life was to tote bituminous coal out of the mountain fastness of West Virginia and move it west to the gateways of Deepwater, Columbus and Toledo and east to tidewater at Hampton Roads.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60:
glosses: Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
examples: text: She was born Mary Blair Rice, the daughter of a prominent tidewater Virginia family whose roots stretched back to the colonial era.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 100:
glosses: The seaboard.
topics: architecture
glosses: A structure or house with large wraparound porches and hip roofs designed for wet and hot climates.
tide wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide wheels
Senses: glosses: A water wheel operated by the ebb and flow of the tide.
guidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdəns/
Forms: form: guidances
form: guidaunce
Etymology: From guide + -ance. Displaced native Old English lādtēowdōm.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of guiding.
examples: text: divine guidance
text: The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.
ref: 2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Advice or counselling on some topic.
glosses: Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.
Derived terms: autoguidance
chemoguidance
e-guidance
guidance counselor
inertial guidance
marriage guidance
misguidance
multiguidance
postguidance
preguidance
space guidance
teleguidance
tide waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide waiters
form: tidewaiter
Senses: examples: text: "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter."
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
text: Great employments are and will be in the hands of Englishmen; nothing left for the younger sons of Irishmen, but vicarages, tidewaiters places, &c. therefore no reason to make them worse.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, Reasons against the Bill for settling the Tithe of Hemp, &c. by a Modus:
glosses: A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
glosses: A person who watches public opinion before declaring their own.
Related terms: tide surveyor
customs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌs.təmz/
Forms: form: customs
Etymology: Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.
Senses: examples: text: Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
glosses: The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
examples: text: Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.
glosses: The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
examples: text: They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.
glosses: The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.
examples: text: "You said someone from Cubetown was gonna meet us here at the airport?" "Yeah. We go through customs, then they'll meet us outside baggage claim."
ref: 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4922: Welcome To Canada:
glosses: The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.
Derived terms: Custom House
custom house
customhouse
customs and excise
customs clearance
customs declaration
customs duty
customs house
customshouse
customs officer
customs post
customs union
customs value
noncustoms
customs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌs.təmz/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of custom
customs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌs.təmz/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of custom
inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈspɛktə/
ipa: /ɪnˈspɛktɚ/
Forms: form: inspectors
form: inspectour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms.[…]
ref: 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
text: Martin had served as inspector general since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place.
ref: 2025 February 11, Jennifer Hansler, “USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency”, in CNN:
glosses: A person employed to inspect something.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police officer ranking below superintendent.
examples: text: Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]
ref: 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, page 166:
text: After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.
ref: 2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software tool used to examine something.
Derived terms: detective inspector
fire inspector
home inspector
inspectorate
inspector general
inspectorship
inspectress
school inspector
subinspector
tax inspector
ticket-inspector
ticket inspector
wallet inspector
weapons inspector
Related terms: inspect
inspection
seaport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaports
Etymology: From sea + port.
Senses: examples: text: For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.
ref: 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
glosses: A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɪlɪtiz/
ipa: /fəˈsɪlɪdiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of facility
facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɪlɪtiz/
ipa: /fəˈsɪlɪdiz/
Senses: glosses: Synonym of facility in certain contexts.
synonyms: word: facility in certain contexts
examples: text: I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door.
ref: 2002, Sue Grafton, Q Is for Quarry:
glosses: Facilities for urination and defecation: a toilet; a lavatory.
Synonyms: sense: toilet
word: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
seagoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sea-going
Etymology: From sea + going.
Senses: examples: text: a seagoing seal
glosses: Travelling out to sea.
examples: text: "Lord! They don't call that a sea-going craft, I hope!'
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
synonyms: seafaring
seaworthy
coordinate_terms: ocean-going
glosses: Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas.
cargo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Forms: form: cargos
form: cargoing
form: cargoed
form: cargoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.
Senses: glosses: To load with freight.
zampogna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zampognas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zampogna. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and symphony.
Senses: examples: text: “When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […]”
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, published 1861, page 178:
text: The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
ref: 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188:
glosses: A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
zampone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamponi
Etymology: From Italian zampone.
Senses: glosses: In Italian cookery, stuffed pig's trotter with spicy ground pork, usually dried and cured, often served with lentils.
thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: thinkings
Etymology: From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: What is your thinking on this subject?
text: But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: Thought; gerund of think.
Hyponyms: critical thinking
lean thinking
wishful thinking
Derived terms: convergent thinking
divergent thinking
group-thinking
smart thinking
thinking cap
thinking man
way of thinking
thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think + -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
text: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of think
Related terms: big-sky thinking
blue-sky thinking
design thinking
entrained thinking
forward-thinking
free-thinking
good thinking
hard of thinking
lateral thinking
magical thinking
negativity thinking
new political thinking
new thinking
not bear thinking about
positive thinking
right-thinking
self-thinking
thinking-cap
thinking distance
thinking machine
thinking man's crumpet
to one's way of thinking
train of thinking
tree thinking
what was someone thinking
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
Etymology: From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Senses: glosses: Glove; mitten
glosses: The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
glosses: The end of a pants leg when folded up.
glosses: A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.
Derived terms: cuffband
cuffless
cufflike
cufflink
double cuff
French cuff
handcuffs
intracuff
legcuff
leg cuff
mousquetaire cuff
off the cuff
on the cuff
pantcuff
pressure cuff
rotator cuff
shoot one's cuffs
tailcuff
trumpet cuff
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
form: cuffing
form: cuffed
form: cuffed
Etymology: From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish with cuffs.
Derived terms: cuffable
cuff up
uncuff
Related terms: cufflinks
turnup
off-the-cuff
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
Etymology: Clipping of handcuff.
Senses: glosses: A handcuff.
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
form: cuffing
form: cuffed
form: cuffed
Etymology: Clipping of handcuff.
Senses: glosses: To handcuff.
examples: text: cuffing season
text: This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀
ref: 2023 April 3, @SoraWasntHere, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: If your promiscuous, men who know females just date around could take advantage of that, plus a lot wouldn't want to cuff a female they know isn't doing pure things.
ref: 2023 December 14, u/No-Spot2923, “What exactly makes a woman only good enough for sex and flings but not actual commitment?”, in Reddit, r/dating_advice, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: After my last relationship I was so amped to be happy and single, but it's funny how when you are that it's as if potential SOs gravitate even more. It wasn't too long of that before I naturally got cuffed and I'm happy in a relationship but got damn I do wish I had more time happy and single
ref: 2024 March 11, u/MobyDukakis, “Being happy single is not celebrated half as much as being a happy couple.”, in Reddit, r/Showerthoughts, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: Whenever one of my boys cuffs a girl from the club, all I can do is chuckle and shake my head. We all know how it ends.
ref: 2024 May 23, @CzarCule, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
glosses: To enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone).
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
form: cuffing
form: cuffed
form: cuffed
Etymology: 1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
Senses: examples: text: I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: [They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
examples: text: While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fight; to scuffle; to box.
examples: text: cuffed by the gale
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: To buffet.
Derived terms: cuffable
cuffer
cuff out
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
Etymology: 1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
Senses: examples: text: The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:
text: many a bitter kick and cuff
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; 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 blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
Derived terms: Chinese thumb cuff
countercuff
cuff on the ear
fisticuff
cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌf/
ipa: /kɐf/
ipa: /kʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: cuffs
Senses: glosses: The scruff of the neck.
pound sterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd ˈstɜː(ɹ).lɪŋ/
Forms: form: pounds sterling
form: GBP
form: £
Etymology: The basic unit of currency in medieval England was the silver penny or sterling, weighing ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a tower pound. 240 of these coins made a "pound of sterlings". This term (shortened to "pound sterling" in later usage) continued to be used for a sum of 240 pence even after the sterling had ceased to circulate. The modern pound sterling is equivalent to 100 new pence.
Senses: examples: text: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
ref: 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
glosses: The currency of the United Kingdom.
wikipedia: tower pound
loupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: loop
Forms: form: loupes
Etymology: Borrowed from French loupe.
Senses: examples: text: Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:
text: pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
glosses: A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
Derived terms: under the loupe
Related terms: lens
magnifying glass
regularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: regʹyo͝oləli
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjʊləli/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjəli/
enpr: regʹyələrli
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚli/
Forms: form: more regularly
form: most regularly
Etymology: From regular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We regularly buy lottery tickets from the corner store.
text: Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 228:
glosses: With constant frequency or pattern.
examples: text: Noemi decided to dress regularly for the party, instead of going for an outrageous outfit.
text: The period of life at which initiation takes place is regularly puberty.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 358:
glosses: normally; ordinarily.
Synonyms: sense: normally
word: as a rule
word: routinely
word: normally
sesquiplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Surface form sesqui- (“one and a half”) + plicate (“fold”); by analogy with duplicate.
Senses: glosses: Magnified by one and one-half; in a ratio of three to two.
Coordinate terms: english: two times
translation: two times
word: duplicate
english: three times
translation: three times
word: triplicate
Related terms: word: sesquialteral
english: ratio of 3 to 2
translation: ratio of 3 to 2
word: sesquialterate: sesquialteral ratio
word: sesquiplicate proportion
word: sesquiplicate ratio
sense: subsesquiplicate
english: 2/3rd power of the ratio
translation: 2/3rd power of the ratio
word: subsesquiplicate ratio
word: half again
scamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæmpə/
ipa: /ˈskæmpɚ/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scampers
Etymology: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.
Senses: glosses: A quick, light run.
scamper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæmpə/
ipa: /ˈskæmpɚ/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scampers
form: scampering
form: scampered
form: scampered
Etymology: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.
Senses: examples: text: The dog scampered after the squirrel.
text: [W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
ref: 1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], published 1792, →OCLC, Act IV, scene [i], page 43:
text: The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.
ref: 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: word: scurry
word: ambulate
word: pedestrianize
word: raik
glosses: To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.
scamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæmpə/
ipa: /ˈskæmpɚ/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scampers
Etymology: From scamp + -er.
Senses: synonyms: skimper
glosses: One who skimps or does slipshod work.
gush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: gushes
Etymology: From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative.
Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.
Senses: examples: text: There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
glosses: A sudden rapid outflow.
repellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹiˈpɛlənt/
Forms: form: more repellent
form: most repellent
Etymology: From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.
text: People are rightly and justifiably terrified with our culture. Many aspects of it are destructive and repellant.
ref: 1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 11:
text: [Martin] Heidegger's repellent political beliefs do not contaminate his philosophical work.
ref: 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11:
glosses: Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
examples: text: All that fabric's supposed to be dust-repellent.
hyponyms: moisture-repellent
water-repellent
glosses: Resistant or impervious to something.
examples: text: These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Tending or able to repel; driving back.
repellent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/
ipa: /ɹiˈpɛlənt/
Forms: form: repellents
Etymology: From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: None of the mosquito repellents we've tried work.
glosses: A substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests.
examples: text: They applied dirt repellent to the sports car.
glosses: A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.
glosses: Someone or something that repels.
Derived terms: pussy repellent
water repellent
bagpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡˌpaɪps/
Forms: form: bagpipe
form: bagpipe
Etymology: From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag + pipes.
Senses: examples: text: Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.
text: “Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”
ref: 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 250:
glosses: A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.
Synonyms: sense: musical wind instrument
word: bagpipe
sense: musical wind instrument
word: pipes
sense: musical wind instrument
word: the pipes
Meronyms: sense: musical wind instrument
word: mouthpiece
sense: musical wind instrument
word: neck
sense: musical wind instrument
word: chanter
sense: musical wind instrument
word: chanter reed
sense: musical wind instrument
word: chanter reed protector
sense: musical wind instrument
word: bass drone
sense: musical wind instrument
word: tenor drone
Derived terms: bagpipe lung
bagpiper
Related terms: bota bag
musette
musical instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musical instruments
Etymology: From Middle English musical instrumentis pl, musicalle instrumentes pl.
Senses: synonyms: instrument
glosses: A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
Synonyms: word: musical instrument
Hypernyms: word: instrument
Hyponyms: word: See Appendix:Glossary of musical instrument classification
word: flute
word: harmonica
word: guitar
word: violin
word: cello
word: drum
word: piano
word: accordion
word: musical saw
Related terms: word: Appendix:Musical instruments
embonpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: äɴbôɴpwĕɴ
ipa: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/
Forms: form: embonpoints
Etymology: Borrowed from French embonpoint.
Senses: examples: text: She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
ref: 1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:
text: The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The patient's physicians had always allowed him to indulge a gargantuan appetite, countering his intake and regulating his embonpoint by a heroic diet of purges and enemas.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1:
glosses: Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
embonpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: äɴbôɴpwĕɴ
ipa: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/
Forms: form: more embonpoint
form: most embonpoint
Etymology: Borrowed from French embonpoint.
Senses: examples: text: "Though it is six years since I have seen you," exclaimed Anne, "you are not the least altered; instead of that, you are handsomer than ever; your being rather more embonpoint suits you, and your complexion is brilliant to a degree."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 294:
synonyms: word: ample
word: beer-bellied
word: big
word: bulky
word: chubby
word: chunky
word: embonpoint
word: fat
word: flabby
word: fleshy
word: full-figured
word: fulsome
word: gorbellied
word: gorrel-bellied
word: heavyset
word: love-handled
word: meaty
word: overnourished
word: paunchy
word: pleasantly plump
word: plump
word: plus-size
word: portly
word: potbellied
word: podgy
word: pudgy
word: roly-poly
word: rotund
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: swagbellied
word: thick
word: tubby
word: well-covered
word: well-padded
word: well-rounded
word: well-upholstered
word: wide
word: built
word: buxom
word: chubby
word: curvaceous
word: curvesome
word: curvy
word: embonpoint
word: full-figured
word: juicy
word: luscious
word: pneumatic
word: red-hot
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: thicc
word: thick
word: toothsome
word: voluptuous
word: well-endowed
word: well-proportioned
word: zaftig
glosses: Plump, chubby, buxom.
overhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hôl'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/
enpr: ō'və-hôlʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/
enpr: ōʹvər-hôl'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɔl/
enpr: ō'vər-hôlʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɔl/
enpr: ōʹvər-häl'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɑl/
enpr: ō'vər-hälʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: overhauls
Etymology: From over- + haul.
Senses: examples: text: The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.
text: One aim of the move [from Nine Elms] had been to speed up the overhaul of the company's locomotive stock and to reduce costs with more efficient workshop facilities, in what Dugald Drummond claimed to be "the most complete and up-to-date works owned by any railway company".
ref: 1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159:
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
coordinate_terms: facelift#Noun
makeover#Noun
rebuild#Noun
remake#Noun
reboot#Noun
revamp#Noun
glosses: A major repair, renovation, or revision.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.