cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: labs
Etymology: Clipping of laboratory.
Senses: examples: text: I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
He did the Mash
He did the Monster Mash.
ref: 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
text: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
ref: 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
text: The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.
ref: 2023 August 2, Ben Tinker, Meg Tirrell and Brenda Goodman, “New director named at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Fauci’s retirement”, in CNN:
text: Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.
ref: 2025 March 28, Andrea Fox, “Lab critical to medical device development 'DOGEd'”, in Healthcare IT News:
glosses: A laboratory.
examples: text: I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.
glosses: Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
Derived terms: biolab
clan lab
computer lab
drug lab
dry lab
dry-lab
fab lab
hacklab
homelab
hot lab
lab assistant
labbie
lab coat
lab dip
labful
lab-grown
lab lit
labmate
lab mouse
lab on a chip
lab rat
labside
lab tech
labware
lab work
language lab
medlab
meth lab
minilab
nonlab
photolab
prelab
science lab
sealab
skylab
Skylab
superlab
wet lab
wet-lab
lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: labs
Etymology: Clipping of Labrador retriever.
Senses: glosses: A Labrador retriever.
Derived terms: choco lab
sampi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαμπῖ (sampî).
Senses: glosses: The obsolete Greek letter Ϡ, ϡ (s).
glosses: The numeral 900.
Related terms: ϡ΄ (900)
cross country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross countries
form: cross countrys
form: cross-country
form: crosscountry
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A running sport popular in US high schools, colleges, etc., where participants race over varying terrain (e.g. golf courses, roads, etc.) in approximately 5- to 10-kilometre races. Abbreviated XC.
glosses: A phase of the equestrian sport of three day eventing, which the horse and rider travel over varied terrain and jump natural obstacles.
glosses: Flight between two points or aerodromes using navigational techniques.
Related terms: word: cross-country
word: cross-country skiing
word: Cross County
word: three day eventing
wordy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝdi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
homophone: wordie
Forms: form: wordier
form: wordiest
Etymology: From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).
Senses: examples: text: The story was long and very wordy.
text: And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
ref: 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:
glosses: Using an excessive number of words.
Synonyms: verbose
pleonastic
sesquipedalian
Wikipedia:Wordy
laconic
Derived terms: unwordy
wordily
wordiness
enormous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɔː.məs/
ipa: /ɪˈnɔɹ.məs/
ipa: /iˈnɔɹ.məs/
ipa: /ɪˈnoː.məs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məs
Forms: form: more enormous
form: most enormous
Etymology: From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].
ref: , New York 2001, p.105
glosses: Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
examples: text: how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Men would prove wolves and vipers; tigers and dragons mixt in one and the same person to each other. O bless God for this great gift of Princes and Judges to rule the wicked and enormous world and to sway the scepter of righteousness […]
ref: 1872, James Pillsbury Lane, Historical Sketches of the First Congregational Church, Bristol, R.I., 1689-1872, page 61:
text: Protestant Christian people are largely ignorant or indifferent to the wicked and enormous religious claims of Romanism. As a so-called religious organization, Romanism is not only the foe of Protestantism, but […]
ref: 1898, Christianity in Earnest, for Church Extension and Saloon Suppression, page 7:
glosses: Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
examples: text: The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
text: Piecing together Corbynomics is difficult, not least because it has evolved during Mr Corbyn’s time in charge of Labour. The gulf between the Labour leadership’s past positions and the milder proposals in the manifesto means that enormous uncertainty hangs over what a Corbyn-led government would do in office.
ref: 2018 May 17, “Corbynomics would change Britain—but not in the way most people think”, in The Economist:
glosses: Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
Synonyms: huge
gigantic
humongous
massive
tremendous
Hyponyms: big
large
Derived terms: enormance
enormously
enormous Lyman-alpha nebula
enormousness
ginormous
hunormous
superenormous
gigantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jī-găn'tĭk
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: more gigantic
form: most gigantic
form: gigantick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γιγαντικός (gigantikós), ultimately from γίγας (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Senses: examples: text: Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile)
Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood,
Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 1:
text: It is in solitude that the imagination exercises its gigantic power; and where are a woman's feelings nurtured but in solitude?
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 259:
glosses: Very large.
examples: text: This band is going to be gigantic.
glosses: Excellent; very good or exciting.
glosses: In the manner of a giant.
Synonyms: gigantesque
Derived terms: gigantically
giganticism
gigantic jet
giganticness
gigantification
gigantism
gigundous
ginormous
hugantic
supergigantic
ungigantic
Related terms: giant
govern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌv.ən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌv.ɚn/
rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: governs
Etymology: From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “I steer, drive, govern”).
Senses: glosses: The act of governing
performer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /pəˈfɔːmə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: performers
Etymology: From perform + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.
examples: text: the performer of an action
text: It is imperative that these forms are completed accurately for work performed by you bearing your unique performer number, […]
ref: 2014, Amit Rai, Dental Foundation Training, page 28:
synonyms: word: performant
glosses: One who performs or does anything.
Hyponyms: kinker
Derived terms: autoperformer
cyberperformer
nonperformer
performerly
street performer
exactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæk(t).li/
Forms: form: more exactly
form: most exactly
Etymology: From exact + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Measure exactly so we can be sure it is right.
text: The edge is not exactly straight.
text: He divided the coins exactly in half.
text: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
ref: 1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:
topics: manner
glosses: Without approximation; precisely.
examples: text: He did it that way exactly to prove the point.
text: His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list.
ref: 2012, Amlynn Smith, Lost and Found, page 18:
glosses: Precisely, used to provide emphasis.
Synonyms: sense: without approximation
word: accurately
word: exact
word: perfectly
word: correctly
word: dead-nuts
word: definitely
word: directly
word: even
word: exactly
word: fully
word: incisively
word: just
word: jump
word: on target
word: on the button
word: on the dot
word: on the mark
word: on the money
word: on the nose
word: plump
word: plunk
word: precisely
word: punctually
word: right
word: sharp
word: slap
word: slap bang
word: squarely
Hyponyms: word: bang on
word: completely
word: even so
word: minutely
word: smack-dab
word: verbatim
word: word for word
Derived terms: do exactly what it says on the tin
eggsactly
exacatically
exactically
exactually
my point exactly
not exactly
perxactly
perzackly
perzactly
prexactly
prezackly
prezactly
exactly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæk(t).li/
Etymology: From exact + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So you're saying that we have only three days left? — Yes, exactly!
glosses: Signifies agreement or recognition.
pronounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈnaʊns/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈnawns/
homophone: pronouns (some speakers)
rhymes: -aʊns
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of pronouns.
externality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkstəˈnælɪti/
ipa: /ɛkstɚˈnælɪti/
ipa: /ekstəˈnælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: externalities
Etymology: From external + -ity. In the economic sense coined by British economist Alfred Marshall in 1890.
Senses: examples: text: But according to the theory of the externality of relations, terms acquire from their new relations an added character, which does not either condition, or necessarily alter, the character which they already possess.
ref: 1916, Ralph Barton Perry, Present philosophical tendencies, page 319:
glosses: The state of being external or externalized.
glosses: A thing that is external relative to something else.
examples: text: Waste is a negative externality arising from consumption.
text: "(1) Each agency shall identify in writing the specific market failure (such as externalities, market power, lack of information) or other specific problem that it intends to address (including, where applicable, the failures of public institutions) that warrant new agency action, as well as assess the significance of that problem, to enable assessment of whether any new regulation is warranted."
ref: 2007, George W. Bush, Executive Order 13422:
text: Pigouvian taxes are meant to internalize ‘externalities’, generally understood to be positive or negative side-effects from economic production that are not reflected in the price of production.
ref: 2016, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky, editors, The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.
Derived terms: network externality
nonexternality
production externality
Related terms: collateral damage
offbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfbiːt/
ipa: /ɒfˈbiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: offbeats
form: off-beat
form: off beat
Etymology: From off- + beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence).
Senses: examples: text: The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The beats not normally accented in a measure.
examples: text: No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.
ref: 1977, Lyle W. Dorsett, The Queen City: A History of Denver:
text: Being an oddball, an offbeat, or a creative person, as Jourard sees the committed professional, is something all nurses should risk.
ref: 1980, Eleanor C. Hein, Communication in nursing practice, →ISBN, page 16:
text: In addition to creating a web of stories that will be passed through many generations, these offbeats usually strengthen the fiber of their particular hobby […]
ref: 2001, Andrew Yoder, Pirate Radio Stations:
synonyms: word: oddball
word: free spirit
word: heteroclite
word: individualist
word: nonconformist
word: eccentric
word: free spirit
word: heteroclite
word: individualist
word: maverick
word: misfit
word: nonconformist
word: offbeat
word: bizarro
word: coot
word: crackpot
word: crank
raw_tags: in US
word: eccentric
word: freak
word: glaik
word: hard case
word: kook
word: live one
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: oddball
word: oddity
word: odd bod
word: odd duck
word: odd fish
word: queerdo
word: queer fish
word: rum
word: strange bird
word: strange fish
word: strangeling
word: wack
word: wacko
word: weirdie
word: weirdling
word: weirdo
word: wild man
word: wingnut
glosses: An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
offbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfbiːt/
ipa: /ɒfˈbiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more offbeat
form: most offbeat
form: off-beat
form: off beat
Etymology: From off- + beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence).
Senses: examples: text: He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
synonyms: word: odd
word: peculiar
word: weird
word: aberrant
word: abnormal
word: alien
word: anomalous
word: as queer as Dick's hatband
word: bizarre
word: curious
word: deviant
word: discrepant
word: eerie
word: eldritch
word: errant
word: exceptional
word: extraordinary
word: fey
word: forby
word: freak
word: freakish
word: freaky
word: fremd
word: funny
word: heteroclite
word: hinky
word: incongruous
word: incongruitous
word: irregular
word: kooky
word: monstrous
word: nonstandard
word: odd
word: outlandish
word: out of the ordinary
word: outré
word: peculiar
word: quaint
word: queer
word: queer as a clockwork orange
word: queer as a nine bob note
word: queer as a three dollar bill
word: queer as a coot
word: queer as Dick's hatband
word: rare
word: rum
word: rummy
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: singular
word: strange
word: trippy
word: uncanny
word: uncommon
word: unconventional
word: unearthly
word: unexpected
word: unreasonable
word: unusual
word: unwonted
word: weird
word: weirdsome
word: yampy
glosses: Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
Derived terms: offbeatness
sesquipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).
Senses: glosses: Measuring or containing a foot and a half.
Derived terms: sesquipedalian
sesquipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquipedals
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).
Senses: synonyms: sesquipedalian
glosses: A long word.
bowdlerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊd.ləˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈbaʊd.ləɹˌaɪz/
Forms: form: bowdlerizes
form: bowdlerizing
form: bowdlerized
form: bowdlerized
form: Bowdlerize
form: bowdlerise
form: Bowdlerise
Etymology: From Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818, he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”
Senses: examples: text: The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
text: Mr. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. "There ought to be a Censorship of Books.[…]"
Ogilvy pursued his own topic. "I'm inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a matter of fact it was the expurgated 'Romeo and Juliet' did the mischief. […] All they left it was the moon and stars. And the balcony and 'My Romeo!'"
"Shakespeare is altogether different from the modern stuff. Altogether different. I'm not discussing Shakespeare. I don't want to Bowdlerise Shakespeare.[…]"
ref: 1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Ann Veronica Talks to Her Father”, in Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, § 6, page 30:
text: "Wadley sent a message: 'The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honour to come to their next meeting.' The answer was unprintable."
"You don't say?"
"Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favour if he would go to the devil.'"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Try your Luck with Professor Challenger’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, pages 23–24:
text: His critics take alarm only when it becomes apparent that he would bowdlerize Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 455:
text: Let me tell you about Madicken. (Mardie in English. Or Meg, but that’s in the American translation and that’s bowdlerized and you should never read it.)
ref: 2014 January 7, Market Chipping, “Why you should read the Madicken (Mardie) books”, in Market Chipping (blog), retrieved 08 Mar 2016:
glosses: To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
Derived terms: bowdlerization
bowdlerizer
Related terms: bowdlerism
censor
expunge
expurgate
redact
sanitize
toothsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuθ.səm/
ipa: [ˈtuθ.sm̩]
Forms: form: more toothsome
form: most toothsome
Etymology: From tooth + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’ Williams shouted back. ‘It poaches in the soup. Not unlike an Italian stracciatella. Singularly toothsome.[…]’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 41:
synonyms: word: luscious
word: ambrosial
word: appetizing
word: dainty
word: delectable
word: delicious
word: delish
word: exquisite
word: finger-lickin' good
word: flavorful
word: flavorous
word: flavorsome
word: gustful
word: lekker
word: lickerish
word: lip-smacking
word: luscious
word: moreish
word: mouthwatering
word: nummy
word: ono
word: out of this world
word: palatable
word: sapid
word: savory
word: scrummy
word: scrumptious
word: tasteful
word: tasty
word: to die for
word: toothful
word: toothsome
word: yummy
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
glosses: Delicious.
examples: text: In 1919 he had been waiting at a bus stop, en route to his initiation as a Freemason: a toothsome blonde had crossed his path, and he had stalked off after her instead.
ref: 1989, David John Cawdell Irving, Göring: a biography:
synonyms: word: juicy
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
qualifier: and by analogy to slang tasty
glosses: Sexually attractive.
raw_tags: of sense 1
examples: text: Once the pasta is firmly al dente (toothsome but not snappy), add it into the pan, with a bunch of cheese, and cook til it all becomes glossy.
text: Bagels are fine, but give me a warm bialy any time. With its crisp bits of onion nestled snugly into a golden pillow of toothsome chewiness, this is the ideal substrate for lox and a schmear—or just on its own.
coordinate_terms: al dente
biteable
chewable
chewy
glosses: Having a pleasing texture when bitten.
glosses: Showing lots of teeth; toothy.
horsey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: horsier
form: horsiest
Etymology: From horse + -ey (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The novels sold 11mn copes in the UK alone, came to typify the rise of the so-called bonkbuster, and introduced readers to the world of horsey high society.
ref: 2025 October 11, Alex Clark, “Obituary [Jilly Cooper]: Writer who created racy bonkbusters in Rutshire”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horsy.
Derived terms: unhorsey
horsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseys
Etymology: From horse + -ey (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: When he got in the house, if I'd left him to read his newspaper in quiet, then he'd play horsey with me, riding me around the house on his back; I'd put a pillow on his back for my saddle
ref: 2000, Anique Devoe, I'm Ready:
text: When you get down on the floor and play “horsey”, you are giving yourself a heck of a workout – and it is fun for the kids!
ref: 2003, Bill Phillips, Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horsy.
bricolage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹi.kəʊˈlɑːʒ/
ipa: [ˌbɹi.koʊˈlɑʒ]
Forms: form: bricolages
Etymology: Borrowed from French bricolage.
Senses: glosses: Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
glosses: Something constructed with whatever materials were available at the time.
examples: Near-synonyms: collage, montage
hypernyms: style#Noun
method
approach#Noun
glosses: A rhetorical style that brings together excerpts or samples of others' rhetoric in some constructive way (to produce, for example, synthesis, extension, or beauty).
examples: Near-synonyms: collage, montage
hypernyms: word: work#Noun
english: result
translation: result
glosses: An instance of this rhetorical style's use, or a work produced with its use.
Derived terms: bricolagist
fab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: fabber
form: fabbest
Etymology: From fabulous, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Fabulous (great or spectacular).
Derived terms: fabbo
fabby
fabness
fabtastic
subfab
fab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: fabs
Etymology: From fabricate and its derived terms, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: The chip fab will double its production next year.
glosses: A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
Synonyms: fabber
foundry
fab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: fabs
form: fabbing
form: fabbed
form: fabbed
Etymology: From fabricate and its derived terms, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: It uses digital data from a computer to “fab” products and models of new products.
glosses: To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
Derived terms: fabber
fab lab
fabless
prefab
Related terms: fabricate
fabrication
fabricator
fax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făks
ipa: /fæks/
homophone: facts stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: faxes
Etymology: From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).
Senses: glosses: The hair of the head.
examples: text: The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.
ref: 1710, Gawin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish verse, page 253:
qualifier: obsolete and derisively
glosses: The face.
Derived terms: faxed
Fairfax
Halifax
fax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făks
ipa: /fæks/
homophone: facts stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: faxes
form: faxxes
Etymology: Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.
Senses: examples: text: OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.
text: You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.
glosses: Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
glosses: A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Derived terms: black fax
cryptofax
e-fax
faxback
fax bomb
faxlore
fax modem
fax number
fax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făks
ipa: /fæks/
homophone: facts stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æks
Etymology: Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
Senses: synonyms: trufax#Noun
glosses: Nonstandard form of facts.
fax
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: făks
ipa: /fæks/
homophone: facts stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æks
Etymology: Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
Senses: synonyms: fax, no printer
trufax#Interjection
tru dat#Interjection
true dat#Interjection
true that#Interjection
glosses: Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
Related terms: 📠
cynocephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynocephali
Etymology: From Latin cynocephalus.
Senses: glosses: A creature with the head of a dog or jackal and human body.
glosses: An ape with the head of a dog.
spot market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot markets
Senses: examples: text: The price on the futures market depends in part on the price on the spot market.
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
glosses: A market in which commodities are bought and sold for immediate delivery, with delivery usually taking place in the same or next business day.
Related terms: on the spot
futures market
commodity
faux
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fō′
ipa: /ˈfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ/
homophone: foe
homophone: pho
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: fô′
note: Indic
ipa: /fɔ/
homophone: for
homophone: (horse–hoarse merger) four
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.
Senses: examples: text: faux pearls inlet in a brooch
text: He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
ref: 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry:
text: Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.
ref: 2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392:
text: Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
ref: 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page 196:
text: The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
ref: 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022:
text: Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.
ref: 2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2023:
synonyms: cod
mock
antonyms: genuine
glosses: Fake or artificial.
Derived terms: fauxcellarm
fauxcest
faux contact
faux Cyrillic
fauxgasm
faux gras
fauxgressive
fauxhawk
fauxhemian
fauxlanthropist
fauxlex
fauxligraphy
fauxlography
fauxmance
fauxminist
fauxmosexual
fauxnetic
Faux News
fauxpen
fauxpology
faux queen
fauxstalgia
fauxtato
fauxtatoes
fauxthentic
fauxtina
fauxtograph
fauxtography
fauxtomation
sourfaux
Related terms: faux ami
faux bois
faux pas
faux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fō′
ipa: /ˈfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ/
homophone: foe
homophone: pho
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: fô′
note: Indic
ipa: /fɔ/
homophone: for
homophone: (horse–hoarse merger) four
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: fauces
Senses: examples: text: […] the faux of the corolla […]
ref: 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, page 688:
text: […] the small door on the right of it is the faux, which also opens upon the peristyle at its further extremity.
ref: 1881, Anthony Rich, A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities, page 640:
glosses: singular of fauces
virus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vīʹrəs
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/
rhymes: -aɪɹəs
Forms: form: viruses
form: virusing
form: virused
form: virused
Etymology: From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just going to virus anyone who tries cheating on this game.
glosses: To send or infect an electronic device with a computer virus.
Related terms: prion
underwhelming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underwhelming
form: most underwhelming
Etymology: Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.
Senses: examples: text: If I grant you that the German language is spoken by the overwhelming majority of the German people you will agree with me that the best music of Germany has been composed by the underwhelming minority. Now, if the overwhelming majority of Germans are enemies, it follows that the underwhelming minority of Germans must be friendly.
ref: 1918 December 26, Musical Courier, volume 77:
text: Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.
ref: 1990 July 13, Rita Kempley, “‘Quick Change’ (R)”, in The Washington Post:
text: But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming.
ref: 2005 August 17, Edward Wyatt, “Sales Lag for Book on Deep Throat”, in New York Times:
text: When compared with the superb ÖBB Railjet or Italy's Frecciarossa (Red Arrow), to cite just two examples, the Government-procured Intercity Express Trains (IETs) are somewhat underwhelming.
ref: 2022 March 9, Ben Jones, “RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL, number 952, page 28 (supplement):
glosses: Failing to interest; not as exciting as promised or expected.
Synonyms: bland
blasé
insipid
disappointing
underwhelming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underwhelm
metro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛtɹoʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛʈ.ro/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: metros
form: métro
Etymology: From French métro, clipping of métropolitain (from Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”)), as in the Chemin de fer métropolitain, an early name for the Paris Métro. This name was a direct translation of "Metropolitan Railway", which was the original name of the earliest part of the London Underground, constructed in 1863.
Senses: examples: text: He is going to the stadium by metro.
text: Recalling that Davide Lungo returned the van at the airport, Pizo descended the nearby stairs to the underground metro, and boarded the next metro stopping there.
ref: 2000, Frederick Parkins, The NATO Opposition, →ISBN, page 27:
text: I hurry to the underground. ... I am waiting for the next metro; I'll take it.
ref: 2014, Lily Sergueiew, I Worked Alone: Diary of a Double Agent in World War II Europe, →ISBN:
text: What we entered into here was well lit and had clean silver curvy walls that ended in nice automatic elevators that took you underground. The walls are not infested with graffiti and advertisements; they were clean and shiny. We waited on nice benches until the metro arrived.
ref: 2017, Pam Taylor, 399 Days: Our European Escapade, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: subway
word: underground
word: underground railway
word: Tube
word: tube
glosses: A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
examples: text: Informs how long the passenger has to wait for the next metro
ref: 2006, C. A. Brebbia, V. Dolezel, Urban Transport XII: Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, page 227:
text: With the weather clear and warm for a change, I decided to catch the next metro to the outskirts of town by myself.
ref: 2008, Brandon Wilson, Along the Templar Trail: Seven Million Steps for Peace, →ISBN, page 75:
text: I boarded the Yellow Line Metro, beaming with confidence. I got down at Rajiv Chowk to continue my journey towards Noida City Centre (NCC). The next metro arrived.
ref: 2015, Pratyush Sinha, Love in Metro: Story of Love and Ego, →ISBN:
glosses: An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems.
Derived terms: metro aide
MetroCard
metroisation
metro station
Metro Toronto
nonmetro
premetro
semi-metro
metro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛtɹoʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛʈ.ro/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: metros
Etymology: Clipping of metropolitan.
Senses: examples: text: In an age of persistently high inequality, work in high-cost metros catering to the whims of the wealthy—grooming them, stretching them, feeding them, driving them—has become one of the fastest-growing industries. […] Relationships between the classes, once mediated through the household, are now managed through an app that serves a large metro area.
ref: 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2019:
glosses: A metropolitan area.
metro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛtɹoʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛʈ.ro/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: more metro
form: most metro
Etymology: Clipping of metropolitan.
Senses: glosses: metropolitan
Derived terms: Metro Vancouver
Related terms: metrosexual
palpebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpal.pɪb.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈpæl.pəb.ɹə/
ipa: /pælˈpi.bɹə/
rhymes: -iːbɹə
Forms: form: palpebrae
form: palpebræ
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”). Compare Middle English palpebre.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An eyelid.
Derived terms: palpebrofrontal
palpebronasal
Related terms: palpebral
palpebrate
oculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒk.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈɑk.jə.ləs/
rhymes: -ɒkjʊləs
Forms: form: oculi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin oculus (“eye”). Doublet of occhio.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
The central boss of a volute.
examples: text: One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome.
topics: architecture
glosses: A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
An opening at the apex of a dome.
thyrsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɜːsəs/
ipa: /ˈθɜɹsəs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səs
Forms: form: thyrsi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse, torse, and torso.
Senses: examples: text: 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar
In my hand I bear / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
text: As good to grow on graves / As twist about a thyrsus.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Second Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: The champagne was done, and she upturned the bottle to hold it like a thyrsus.
ref: 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
glosses: A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
Derived terms: thyrsiform
logorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logorrhœa
Etymology: From logo- + -rrhoea; see logorrhea.
Senses: examples: text: The baritone is angry, but still controlled: he does not indulge in compulsive over-rapid spurts of logorrhoeas but keeps to a 'chopped, short, hard, very pointed' staccato-like delivery, excited, but well articulated through interruptions of differing lengths.
ref: 1984, István Anhalt, Alternative Voices: Essays on Contemporary Vocal and Choral Composition, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 85:
text: The quantity of speech may be increased in mania and anxiety but reduced in dementia, schizophrenia and depression. [...] In logorrhoea, also called volubility, the speech is fluent and rambling, with the use of many words.
ref: 2011, Basant K. Puri, Ian H. Treasaden, “Classification, Aetiology, Management and Prognostic Factors”, in Textbook of Psychiatry, 3rd edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63, column 1:
text: His purchase of a Dictaphone no doubt encouraged his natural loquacity, his ingrained prolixity (which he himself logorrhoea).
ref: 2013, David Caute, “Preface”, in Isaac & Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
text: In many cases Philip [II of Spain] lapsed into a logorrhoea that not only revealed the thought processes that underlay his decisions but also shared details on his personal life – when and where he ate and slept; what he had just read; which trees and flowers he wanted to plant in his gardens (and where); how problems with his eyes, his legs or his wrist, or a cold or a headache, had made him fall behind with his paperwork.
ref: 2014, Geoffrey Parker, “Preface”, in Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page xiv:
glosses: Alternative spelling of logorrhea.
weakest link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weakest links
form: weak link
Etymology: The figurative sense comes by metaphor from the literal sense: the notion that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. (See historical details there.)
Senses: glosses: The part of a system that is most likely to cause problems or fail.
Synonyms: Achilles heel
weak point
Related terms: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
commons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏmʹənz
ipa: /ˈkɑmənz/
enpr: kŏmʹənz
ipa: /ˈkɒmənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of common
commons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏmʹənz
ipa: /ˈkɑmənz/
enpr: kŏmʹənz
ipa: /ˈkɒmənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of common
deliver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈlɪvɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛlɪvə(r)/
Forms: form: more deliver
form: most deliver
form: delivre
form: deliever
Etymology: From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin dē + līberō (“to set free”).
Compare typologically dispatch, analyzable as dis- + impeach, from Latin impedicō (also akin to impede).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore my policy and advice shall be this: That about the dead time of the night, when our enemies be most quiet at rest, there shall issue from us a number of the most deliverest soldiers to assault their camp; who shall give the assault right secretly, even directly against the entry of the camp, which is almost invincible.
ref: 1562, George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey:
text: "More skillful!" interrupted the host. "He is the most deliver at that exercise I have ever set eyes on."
ref: 1887, William Minto, The Mediation of Ralph Hardelot:
glosses: Capable, agile, or active.
decimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəmeɪt/
Forms: form: decimates
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1591, the noun in 1641; borrowed from Latin decimātus, perfect passive participle of decimō (“to kill one tenth; to tithe”) (see, from -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from decimus (“tenth”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).
Senses: glosses: A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
glosses: A tenth of something.
glosses: A set of ten items.
grieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: grieves
form: grieving
form: grieved
form: grieved
Etymology: From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravō, gravāre, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
For the meaning development compare Russian тяготи́ть (tjagotítʹ, “to be a burden (on), to oppress”), Russian тужи́ть (tužítʹ, “to experience grief”), related to тяжёлый (tjažólyj, “heavy, grave”), тя́жкий (tjážkij).
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesian 4:30–passage-Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.:
text: Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: sadden
word: upset
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To cause sorrow or distress to.
examples: text: to grieve one's fate
synonyms: word: bewail
word: lament
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
synonyms: word: besorrow
word: regret
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To experience grief.
synonyms: word: injure
word: wound
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
glosses: To harm.
examples: text: Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the … Board of Trustees.
ref: 2009, D'Amico, Rob (editor), Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14
glosses: To submit or file a grievance (about).
Derived terms: begrieve
engrieve
grievable
grieved
grieven
griever
grievesome
grievingly
grievor
misgrieve
un-grieve
ungrieve
ungrieving
Related terms: grief
grievance
grievous
grieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: grieves
Etymology: From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German grēve, grâve,
related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ġerēfa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.
Senses: glosses: A governor of a town or province.
examples: text: 1559-1566, John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland
[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or grieve, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
text: [T]heir children were horsewhipped by the grieve when found trespassing; […]
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Derived terms: grieveship
touring car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touring cars
Senses: glosses: A large open car seating four or more people and having a folding top. An automobile designed for touring; specifically, a roomy car, not a limousine.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
coordinate_terms: stock car
sports car
super car
GT
glosses: A type of race car based on a modified production car, that is a sedan or saloon car.
Related terms: GT
TCR