cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
persuades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of persuade
pesen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesens
Etymology: See pisane.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pisane.
pesen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See pease and that word's relevant plural form, peasen.
Senses: glosses: plural of pease
picotee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picotees
form: picketee
Etymology: Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.
picotees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picotee
second in command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seconds in command
Senses: examples: text: None of it amounts to much, particularly given that it’s all in the service of a man wanting to win a meaningless contest he doesn’t deserve to win, and the question of whether his noodlehead crew and his surprisingly competent second in command (Martin Freeman) will still respect him throughout.
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative spelling of second-in-command.
pincho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pincho.
Senses: glosses: A small snack served with drinks as an appetizer; a tapa.
Related terms: pintxo
lockdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒkˌdaʊn/
ipa: /ˈlɑkˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: lockdowns
form: lock-down
Etymology: Deverbal from lock down.
Senses: examples: text: At the time of writing, no decisions had been made by the Government as to when or how lockdown restrictions might begin to be lifted. However, discussions were taking place in the industry about how social distancing could be maintained on the railway if some patronage were to return soon.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 29:
text: Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
text: When a column of smoke appeared on Thursday over the Sitong Bridge overpass in the Haidian district of Beijing, it drew attention to a protester who had hung banners openly bashing China’s top leader by name and criticizing the country’s “zero Covid” policy, including one calling for “freedom and not lockdowns.”
ref: 2022 October 14, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Claire Fu, “China’s Internet Censors Race to Quell Beijing Protest Chatter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
examples: text: The rafts were made up of strings of logs about seventeen feet wide, held together by poles across them. Each log was pinned to the poles by wooden pegs and lockdowns.
ref: 1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24)
glosses: A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.
Derived terms: antilockdown
anti-lockdown
end lockdown
lift lockdown
lockdown browser
lockdown drill
lockdowner
lockdownism
lockdownist
locktail
locky D
postlockdown
prelockdown
pro-lockdown
prolockdown
Related terms: curfew
shelter-in-place
stay-at-home order
pintado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintados
form: pintadoes
Etymology: From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).
Senses: examples: a pintado quilt
glosses: A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
examples: text: We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.
ref: 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December
glosses: The Cape petrel, Daption capense.
glosses: A guinea fowl, especially as food.
glosses: Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.
pintas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinta
shrouded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrouded
form: most shrouded
Etymology: From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
examples: text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
text: I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
ref: 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:
glosses: Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
Derived terms: shrouded gear
shrouded propeller
shrouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shroud
piso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piso
form: pisos
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog piso.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peso (“currency of Philippines”).
pisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisans
Senses: examples: text: [Those] worth ten pounds a year in land, or more, shall have basnet, sallat (or helm without a crest,) white-hat, gorget or pisan, armour for the legs, sword, spear, and dagger: those of smaller incomes to arm accordingly.
ref: 1797, John Pinkerton, The History Of Scotland From The Accession Of The House Of Stuart To That Of Mary: With Appendixes Of Original Papers. In Two Volumes, page 406:
text: […] halbrik or brigantine, gorget or pisan with splents, knee.pans of mail and gauntlets of plate or mail; that unlanded gentlemen and yeoman have jacks of plate, halbriks, splents, sallat or steel bonnet with pisan or gorget […]
ref: 1889, Bernard Homer Dixon, The Border Or Riding Clans: Followed by a History of the Clan Dickson and a Brief Account of the Family of the Author, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, page 78:
text: Garret was the true “Ard Ri” of a large part of Ireland, and the chiefs to whom he presented the horses, coats of mail, gorgets and pisans recorded in the Rental looked on these as the customary stipends due from an over-king.
ref: 1923, Edmund Curtis, A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1110 to 1513, page 411:
glosses: Alternative form of pisane.
pisé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈzeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: pisés
Etymology: From French pisé, from piser (“to stamp, pound”).
Senses: examples: text: The above method of forming Pisé walling is different from the mode of building common in Devonshire and the West of England
ref: 1854, C. Bruce Allen, Cottage Building:
topics: architecture
glosses: A kind of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between moulds which are carried up as the wall rises.
Lambert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæmbɚt/
Forms: form: Lamberts
Etymology: From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (“land”) + *berht (“bright”). Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.
Senses: examples: text: At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene I:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
examples: text: Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).
ref: 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An inactive village in Scott County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A settlement in Richland County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota.
glosses: A crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater.
Derived terms: word: Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
word: Beer-Lambert law
word: Eaton-Lambert syndrome
word: Lambert-Beer law
word: Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
word: Lambert-Eaton syndrome
word: Lambertian
word: Lambertism
word: Lambertist
alt: L
word: lambert
word: Lambert pine
word: Lambert's cosine law
word: Lambert's emission law
word: Lambert series
word: Lambert's law
word: Lambert W function
word: Saint-Lambert
lambert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamberts
Etymology: From Lambert; Named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a cgs unit of luminance; the brightness of a surface that emits one lumen per square centimetre
wikipedia: en:Johann Heinrich Lambert
Synonyms: word: L
Derived terms: word: foot-lambert
word: L
word: microlambert
word: millilambert
pites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek πίτες (pítes).
Senses: glosses: plural of pita (“flatbread”)
pitara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitaras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pitarah.
pitaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitara
planchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plancha
Maud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːd/
ipa: /mɔd/
ipa: /mɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: mod (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: Maude
Etymology: From Old French Mahaut. Doublet of Matilda.
Senses: examples: text: Dromio of Ephesus. Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn!
Dromio of Syracuse. Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - - Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Come into the garden, Maud, / For the black bat, night, has flown, / Come into the garden, Maud, / I am here at the gate alone;
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Come into the Garden Maud:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9247).
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wabash County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Pottawatomie County and Seminole County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Bowie County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
Derived terms: Queen Maud Land
plancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planchas
Etymology: From Spanish plancha. Doublet of phalanx, phalange, planch, planche, and plank.
Senses: glosses: A type of flat-top grill used for cooking, composed of a thick plate of metal above the heating element to provide thermal mass and eliminate hot spots.
Maude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: mod (cot–caught merger)
Senses: examples: text: - - - he once more changed the subject of Maude's looks to her name, which he heard was really Matilda. She had been called Maude, Matty said, after one who was once a very dear friend both of herself and her husband.
"Then we will call her Matilda," said he, "as it is a maxim of mine never to spoil children by giving them pet names."
ref: 1860, Mary Jane Holmes, Cousin Maude, BiblioBazaar,LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 14:
text: "Fine," said Blanche, "but 'Maude' sounds anything but continental."
"Suppose we change her name to 'Meredith Meredro'," I suggested.
ref: 1957, Jesse L. Lasky, I blow my own horn, Doubleday, page 71:
glosses: A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.
planche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑːnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːnʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: planches
Etymology: Borrowed from French planche (“board”). Doublet of phalange, phalanx, planch, plancha, and plank.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A position where the gymnast is horizontal and face-down, using only the hands as support.
planches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planche
planchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planchens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planching.
Jonas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Iōnās, from Koine Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonah.
Senses: examples: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
planten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of plantain.
plasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma
plasmaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmarons
Senses: examples: text: Plasmarons have been observed in graphene and in elemental bismuth.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quasiparticle arising in a system that has strong plasmon-electron interactions.
Derived terms: magnetoplasmaron
plasmaronic
podo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees of the genus Afrocarpus or Podocarpus.
examples: text: Using only a mini-hatchet, he was smoothing the rough edges off a length of podo wood with the precision of a craftsman who had the tools of a modern workshop at hand.
ref: 2012, David Hurd, The Coconut Comes in Due Season, page 25:
glosses: The wood of these trees.
pode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podes
Etymology: From Middle English pode, pod, podde (“toad”), from a merger of Middle English pade, padde (“toad”) + tode (“toad”), equivalent to a blend of pad + toad.
Senses: examples: text: By God ye be a pretty pode […]
glosses: Toad.
glosses: A contemptible person; a vile, venomous, or loathsome individual.
Related terms: pad
paddock
shellpad
portas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portass.
portases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portas
posé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French posé (“placed, posed”).
Senses: examples: text: This perversion illustrates a tendency on the part of even educated people to call everything which is posé or exhibitional in action by the name of Delsarte.
ref: 1897 June, “Perversions of Delsarte”, in S.S. Curry, editor, Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and the Spoken Word:
text: Dégagé with the right foot, the left; posé on point: coupé with the right foot behind, left foot in fondu; small développé to the side with the left foot, the right foot posé on point;
ref: 1960, Dancing Times, page 352:
text: The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.
ref: 2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 19:
text: A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.
ref: 2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: ballet
glosses: Held in position for a prolonged period.
potencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potency
precava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precavae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praecava.
precises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precise
glosses: Alternative form of précises; third-person singular simple present indicative of precis
predestines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predestine
predetermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiː.dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/
ipa: /ˌpɹiːdɪˈtɝ.mɪn/
Forms: form: predetermines
form: predetermining
form: predetermined
form: predetermined
Etymology: From Latin praedēterminō; equivalent to pre- + determine.
Senses: examples: text: God's Counsel doth not predetermine the Will to any evil
ref: 1688, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves:
text: That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
ref: 2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
glosses: To determine or decide in advance.
glosses: To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
Synonyms: sense: determine in advance
word: foredetermine
sense: determine in advance
word: preplan
sense: determine in advance
word: designate
Related terms: predetermined
predetermines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predetermine
premia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premiums
Senses: glosses: plural of premium
premie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premies
Senses: examples: text: The mother can use massage/compression to increase the flow of milk, which will stimulate the baby to nurse actively again. This works especially well with premies, babies with Down syndrome, and other babies who are weak.
ref: 2013, Karin Cadwell, Cindy Turner-Maffei, Pocket Guide for Lactation Management:
glosses: Alternative spelling of preemie.
premie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premies
Etymology: From Prem + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: As telescoped conversationally by American premies, Guru Maharaj Ji's name is pronounced […]
ref: 1974, H W Wilson Company, Current biography:
text: Armed with the knowledge of his own private God, a premie should be able, according to the guru, to handle any situation with maturity […]
ref: 1977, Carroll Stoner, Jo Anne Parke, All gods' children: the cult experience—salvation or slavery?:
text: One premie described the sound as "loud rock and roll," […]
ref: 2004, Bob Larson, Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality:
text: All three premies sported close-cropped haircuts and wore sports jackets.
ref: 2008, Phil Polizatto, Hunga Dung: A True Novel:
glosses: A follower of the controversial spiritual leader Prem Rawat (born 1957).
premies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premie
glosses: plural of premy
prepares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prepare
call it a day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls it a day
form: calling it a day
form: called it a day
form: called it a day
Etymology: From earlier call it half a day, which first appears c. 1834, meaning to leave before the working day was over.
Senses: examples: text: We have been at this for hours; let’s call it a day and come back tomorrow when we are fresh.
text: “Do you often go looking for mice in other people’s rooms?” “I wouldn’t say often. Just when the spirit moves me, don’t you know?” “I see. Well…” When people say “Well” to you like that, it usually means that they think you are outstaying your welcome and that the time has come to call it a day. She felt, I could see, that Woosters were not required in her son’s sleeping apartment […]
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Jeeves in the Offing:
glosses: To cease an activity.
examples: text: After suffering massive losses for three years in a row, the boss decided to call it a day, and sold his company.
glosses: To retire.
examples: text: After he was reprimanded for slacking on the job, they decided to call it a day and fire Allen.
glosses: To end a period of activity, either because it is unsuccessful or because enough has been done.
Synonyms: call it
call it quits
call it stumps
Related terms: call it an early night
call it a night
call it quits
call time
anglicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglicisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Anglicism.
anglicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anglicism
Seb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Sebastian.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian.
Deb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: Debs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Related terms: Debbie
Debby
Deb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: Debs
form: Dev
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali দেব (deb).
Senses: examples: Radhakanta Deb, b. 1784
glosses: A transliteration of the Bengali surname দেব (deb).
examples: Sopan Deb, b. 1988
glosses: A surname from Bengali.
Related terms: Deo
Debby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Deborah + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Related terms: Deb
Debbie
presides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preside
Deborah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/
Forms: form: Deborahs
form: Debra
form: Debora
Etymology: From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.
Senses: examples: And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A judge of Israel.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A nurse of Rebecca.
examples: text: Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!
ref: 1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I:
text: He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.
ref: 1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256:
text: Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya
ref: 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
Related terms: Deb
Debs
Debbie
Debby
preste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of priest
Cerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Carys.
sneb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: snebs
form: snebbing
form: snebbed
form: snebbed
Etymology: Variant of snib.
Senses: examples: 16th c, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book II, 1725, The Works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, Kt., in Prose and Verse, Volume 1, 14th Edition, page 410,
Thou heard'ſt even now a young man ſneb me ſore, / Because I read him, as I would my ſon.
glosses: To check; to reprimand.
Synonyms: sense: check or reprimand
word: sneap
sense: check or reprimand
word: snib
sense: check or reprimand
word: snub
sneb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: snebs
Etymology: Variant of snib.
Senses: glosses: A snub or reprimand.
Jeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Jebediah.
examples: text: Jeb Stuart, "James Ewell Brown Stuart", a Confederate general
text: Jeb Bush, "John Ellis Bush", former governor of Florida
text: “Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
ref: 2019 January 19, Stephen Collinson and Maegan Vazquez, “Trump’s offer of temporary protection for immigrants to end shutdown is a ‘non-starter,’ say Democrats”, in CNN:
glosses: A nickname.
hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopper
cosmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmos
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: But if you’re looking to scream your head off with ten best friends and don’t want to hear boo about how you’re making too much noise, there’s no better place to get stupid than the Angie Dickinson room at Mary’s[…] With a cyclorama of Angie to spur you up and on, it’s bring on the Cosmos and pass the Pepper.
ref: 1997 April 14, “The Best of New York”, in New York, page 51:
text: There’s an incredible Tangerine Cosmo made in West Stockbridge, where the bartender, Jeremy Kenny, was inspired by the feminist symbolism on Passover.
ref: 2018, Natalka Burian, quoting Lenora Lapidus, A Woman’s Drink, page 141:
glosses: A cosmopolitan, a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice, and cranberry juice.
idiocies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiocy
tractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Senses: examples: text: This locomotive develops 130,000 pounds of tractive effort.
text: The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
ref: 1912, Flight:
synonyms: tractile
tractional
glosses: Pertaining to traction.
Derived terms: tractive effort
tractive force
tractiveness
Related terms: traction engine
tractor
minges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minge
Sino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪnɒ/
ipa: /ˈsɪnɒ/
Forms: form: sino-
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Sina (“China”) and Late Latin Sīnae (“the Southern Chinese; Southern China”), from Ancient Greek Σῖναι (Sînai), of uncertain etymology but likely from Sanskrit चीन (Cīna, “China”), possibly via Arabic صِين (Ṣīn, “China; the Chinese”) and usually held to ultimately derive from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin, “Qin”). See "Names of China" on Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet rivalry also spread to Africa and the Middle East.
text: He's a Sino-Kadazan: half Han, half Kadazan.
glosses: A combining form relating to China or the Chinese, in those terms' various senses.
Related terms: Sinim
under control
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don't worry; the police have been called and the situation is under control.
glosses: Being taken care of or being addressed.
examples: text: Throughout the turbulence encounter, the pilots kept the aircraft under control.
text: The control rods absorb neutrons in the reactor core, keeping the fission reaction under control and preventing it from going prompt critical.
qualifier: literal
glosses: Being actively controlled, or able to be actively controlled in its current state.
terminer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminers
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of determining.
Related terms: oyer and terminer
pareil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pareils
Etymology: Borrowed from French pareil.
Senses: examples: text: Among writers he was a man without pareil.
qualifier: quaint
glosses: An equal.
Derived terms: nonpareil
Pan-Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pan-Asian
Etymology: From pan- + Asian.
Senses: glosses: Covering or representing all of Asia, particularly with respect to events involving representatives of most or all Asian countries.
Related terms: pan-Asianism
Pan-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pan-American
form: most Pan-American
form: Panamerican
form: panamerican
form: pan-American
Etymology: From pan- + American.
Senses: synonyms: pan-Am
glosses: Covering or representing all of the Americas (both North America and South America), particularly with respect to events involving representatives of most or all countries in the Americas.
Derived terms: pan-Am
Pan-American Highway
Related terms: Pan-Americanism
pan-Indian
trans-Siberian
Pan-American
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panamerican
form: panamerican
form: pan-American
Etymology: From pan- + American.
Senses: glosses: An airline active in the United States from 1927 until 1991.
Related terms: Pan-Am
catamenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæ.təˈmiː.nɪ.əl/
ipa: /kæ.təˈmi.nɪ.əl/
Etymology: From catamenia + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: menstrual
glosses: Of or relating to the menses or menstruation.
Related terms: catamenia
mizithra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misíthra
Senses: examples: text: The man with whom we take shelter has his wife and children, and his sons’ wives and all their children, to the number of twelve or fifteen, in the tent. Milk and misíthra is their only food: “We have milk in plenty,” they tell me, “but no bread.” Such is the life of a modern Arcadian shepherd, who has almost reverted to the balanephagous state of his primitive ancestorsᵃ. The children, however, all look healthy, and are handsome, having large black eyes and regular features, with very dark complexions.
ᵃ Ἀρκάδες Ἀζᾶνες βαλανηφάγοι, οἳ φιγάλειαν Νάσσασθ’, &c. — Orac[ulum] Pyth[iæ] ap[ud] Pausan[ian de] Arcad[iâ in] c[apite] 42.
ᵃ Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who dwell in Phigaleia, &c. — Oracle of Pythia in the writings of Pausanias on Arcadia in chapter 42.
ref: 1830, William Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans, volume 1, chapter 11: “Messenia — Arcadia”, pages 487–488
glosses: A Greek unpasteurized cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk.
menses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.siːz/
Etymology: From Latin mēnsis (“month”), the plural being mēnsēs (“months”), corresponding to the monthly courses of women. Compare month.
Senses: glosses: The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.
Synonyms: menstruation
Related terms: menarche
menstrual cycle
menstruation
warmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmnesses
Etymology: From Middle English warmnesse, from Old English wearmnes (“warmness, warmth”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmnassī (“warmness, warmth”), equivalent to warm + -ness. Cognate with Scots warmnes (“warmness”), West Frisian waarmens (“warmness”), dialectal Dutch warmenesse, warmnis (“warmness”), German Low German Warmnis (“warmness”).
Senses: glosses: the state of being warm; warmth
warmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warmonger
warmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmongerings
Senses: glosses: bellicism; militarism
war-torn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more war-torn
form: most war-torn
form: war torn
form: wartorn
Senses: examples: text: The new government also had big plans for rejuvenating Britain's war-torn economy.
ref: 2021 August 11, Richard Foster, “A century of railway politics”, in RAIL, number 937, page 42:
text: A traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Changhua County has raised NT$555,000 in a two-day campaign drive to buy medical supplies, humanitarian aid materials and an ambulance for war-torn Ukraine.
ref: 2023 January 30, Huang Mei-chu, Jonathan Chin, “Clinic raises money for Ukraine”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: The video – posted by Trump on his Truth Social account last week – depicts a family emerging from the wreckage of war-torn Gaza into a beachside resort town lined with skyscrapers.
ref: 2025 March 6, Rachel Hall, “‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: war-ravaged
glosses: Extensively damaged as a result of war.
warty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wartier
form: more warty
form: wartiest
form: most warty
Etymology: From Middle English varty, equivalent to wart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a warty leaf
text: “Well that sounds like a good way; but that ain’t the way Bob Tanner done.” “No, sir, you can bet he didn’t, becuz he’s the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn’t have a wart on him if he’d knowed how to work spunk-water.[…]”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 66:
text: Strictly speaking, the term toad should be restricted to members of the family Bufonidae, of which the common European and natterjack toads are good examples. But common parlance has seen the name applied to any warty tail-less amphibian.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36:
synonyms: verrucose
glosses: Having warts.
examples: text: a warty excrescence
synonyms: verrucous
wartish
glosses: Similar to a wart.
Derived terms: word: Celebes warty pig
word: Sulawesi warty pig
word: warty thick-toed gecko
taxonomic: Venus verrucosa
word: warty venus
wash-and-wear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.
ref: 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary, page 319:
glosses: That requires no ironing after being washed and dried.
raw_tags: of clothing
glosses: Not requiring styling or special tools; able to be washed and naturally air-dried.
raw_tags: of a hairstyle
Related terms: ready-to-wear
washboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washboards
Etymology: From wash + board.
Senses: glosses: A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard.
examples: text: washboard road
text: Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup. As I jump in, he spins out and takes off up the road in the direction the plane came from, bouncing dangerously over washboards and ruts.
ref: 2009, Chinle Miller, Desert Rats: Adventures in the American Outback, page 35:
topics: road
transport
glosses: A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of washboard abs.
glosses: Baseboard; skirting board.
Derived terms: coconut washboard
washboard abs
washboardist
washboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washboards
form: washboarding
form: washboarded
form: washboarded
Etymology: From wash + board.
Senses: examples: text: Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.
ref: 1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker, page 515:
text: The rip that was generated by each change of tide had scoured the bottom white and washboarded the sand where it was still layered over the hardpan coral floor.
ref: 1992, Ocean Realm, page 17:
text: The low bass brruummmp of 20-mm slugs going out washboarded the bulkheads.
ref: 1997, David Poyer, The Passage: A Thriller, →ISBN:
text: She drove as fast as she dared, braking for the frost heaves that washboarded the blacktop and on her dirt road, bouncing in and out of the clay ruts cut by the flow of runoff.
ref: 2001, Phoebe:
glosses: To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
examples: text: It's almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human.
ref: 2008, The New Yorker, page 28:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play a washboard.
examples: text: Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.
ref: 2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, →ISBN, page 73:
text: This behaviour is believed to be associated with general cleaning activities but under what circumstances workers washboard is not known.
ref: 2015, Robert Owen, The Australian Beekeeping Manual, →ISBN, page 19-51:
qualifier: bees
glosses: To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
percussion instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percussion instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.
Mopelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maupihaa
Senses: glosses: a small atoll in the Society Islands
washbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washbowls
Etymology: From wash + bowl.
Senses: glosses: A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
synonyms: washbasin
coordinate_terms: washcloth
glosses: A basin for washing the face and hands.
Derived terms: my lady's washbowl
Related terms: dry sink
Society Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of islands in the South Pacific; part of French Polynesia.
washed-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more washed-out
form: most washed-out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of washed out.
washerwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washerwomen
Etymology: From washer + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I wish it would rain,’ continued she; ‘only we are going to have a six-week’s wash to-morrow, and that’s a heavy job for the poor creatures. La! don’t you pity washerwomen in hot weather; it’s the hardest work that’s done.’
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 123–124:
synonyms: laundress
coordinate_terms: washerman
glosses: A woman who washes people's laundry.
glosses: A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.
glosses: A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).
Derived terms: washerwomanly
washerwoman's itch
washrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washrags
Etymology: From wash + rag.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Glass abruptly leaned her weight forward, without getting up, and reached out and picked up something from the top of the laundry hamper. "Do you have a washrag back there?"she asked.
"The word is 'washcloth,' not 'washrag,' and all I want, God damn it, Bessie, is to be left alone in this bathroom.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
synonyms: face washer
flannel
washcloth
hypernyms: rag#Noun
coordinate_terms: dishrag
do-rag
;
dishcloth
glosses: A square piece of cloth for washing the face and body.
selcouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlˈkuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: more selcouth
form: most selcouth
Etymology: From Middle English selcouth, from Old English selcūþ, seldcūþ (“unusual, unwonted, little known, unfamiliar, novel, rare”), from seld- (“rarely”) + cūþ (“known”); equivalent to seld + couth.
Senses: examples: text: 'A selcouth novelty,' muttered the knight, 'to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed.'
ref: 1814, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Reprint edition, Penguin, published 2000, →ISBN, page 244:
text: The statements in either document are unique and selcouth.
ref: 2002, Edward Cline, Sparrowhawk II: Hugh Kenrick, Digitized edition (Fiction), MacAdam/Cage Pub., published 2011, →ISBN, page 318:
text: Left to its own devices and without the Web as a vehicle for misinforming others, the selcouth dogmas that forbade sexual relations ...
ref: 2007, Mark Youngblood Herring, “Caught in the Web”, in Fool's Gold: Why the Internet is no Substitute for a Library, McFarland, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvellous, wondrous.
Synonyms: sense: strange
word: bizarre
word: odd
word: weird
word: strange
word: infrequent
word: scarce
word: uncommon
word: rare
sense: wondrous
word: amazing
word: magnificent
word: stupendous
word: awesome
Related terms: little-known
washtub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washtubs
form: wash tub
Etymology: From wash + tub.
Senses: glosses: A tub used for washing clothes.
Derived terms: washtub bass
washtub bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washtub basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument (chordophone), used in American folk music, that uses a metal washtub as resonator.
Synonyms: gutbucket
Derived terms: washtub bassist
Related terms: tea chest bass
gutbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutbuckets
Etymology: From gut + bucket.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of washtub bass.
synonyms: word: washtub bass
waspishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From waspish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being waspish
wastefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wastefully
form: most wastefully
Etymology: From Middle English wastfully; equivalent to wasteful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Özil was narrowly wide with a free-kick after Nathaniel Chalobah fouled Danny Welbeck and Santi Cazorla shot wastefully over the bar, before Arsenal nearly managed to take the lead just before the half-hour.
ref: 18 April 2015, Paul Wilson, “Alexis Sánchez sends Arsenal into final after gallant Reading go the distance”, in The Guardian:
text: City carried little threat in the early stages and when they did work an opportunity on 10 minutes, Dzeko's replacement Balotelli shot wastefully over the bar.
ref: 2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a wasteful manner.
watchfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more watchfully
form: most watchfully
Etymology: From watchful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a watchful manner.
waywardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more waywardly
form: most waywardly
Etymology: From wayward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He waywardly wished for something, and he set about obtaining it like a child in a nursery.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a wayward manner.
watchband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchbands
Etymology: From watch + band.
Senses: examples: Holonym: watch
synonyms: watchstrap
hypernyms: wristband
wriststrap
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band#Noun
strap#Noun
related: word: watchcase
word: watch face
word: watchface
word: watchwork
glosses: A band of leather, metal, plastic, or other material that fastens a wristwatch to the wrist.
watchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From watch + making.
Senses: hypernyms: clockmaking
<
making#Noun
coordinate_terms: clockmaking
glosses: The making (and repairing) of watches.
Related terms: watchmaker
waterbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbeds
form: water bed
Etymology: From water + bed.
Senses: examples: text: When I ask to sleep over at my friends’ houses, I am told I am not allowed. Boys are not allowed. My friend Caitie’s mother argues about this on the phone with my mother. I realize my mother is not on my side. Later, my mother tells me Caitie’s mother is divorced, has a tattoo, and sleeps on a waterbed, the relevance of which doesn’t seem clear. I think Caitie’s mother is cool.
ref: 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:
glosses: A bed with a tough plastic mattress filled with water.
water bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waterbed.
waterbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbirds
Etymology: From water + bird.
Senses: hypernyms: bird#Noun
<
animal#Noun
<
organism#Noun
;
species#Noun
glosses: Any bird whose mode of life involves living on or next to bodies of water.
hypernyms: bird#Noun
<
animal#Noun
<
organism#Noun
;
species#Noun
glosses: Any bird whose mode of life involves living on or next to bodies of water.
Such a bird that inhabits a freshwater environment.
waterborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From water + -borne.
Senses: glosses: Transported or transmitted by water.
glosses: Floating on the water; afloat.
watercourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercourses
Etymology: From Middle English water course; equivalent to water + course.
Senses: glosses: Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
Synonyms: word: watercourse
Hypernyms: word: body of water
word: landform
Hyponyms: word: river
word: tributary
word: beck
word: bourne
word: brook
word: brooklet
word: burn
word: coulee
word: creek
word: freshet
word: headstream
word: kill
word: rill
word: rindle
word: rivulet
word: runnel
word: spruit
word: stream
word: streamlet
word: arroyo
word: draw
word: wadi
waterhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterholes
form: water-hole
form: water hole
Etymology: * water + hole.
* (astronomy): Coined by Bernard Oliver in 1971, in allusion to the idea that this part of the spectrum would be that used by extraterrestrial intelligence to communicate.
Senses: examples: text: From habit the sheep would head for the river, but, though it was early spring, the winter had been droughty, and the river was only a string of dangerous water-holes.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:
glosses: A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink.
glosses: A watering hole; a place where people meet to drink and talk.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quiet in terms of radio astronomy.
water-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waterhole.