cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salt pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt pans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.
synonyms: word: salt flat
extra: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt
glosses: Synonym of saltern: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.
synonyms: word: saltern
extra: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals
Synonyms: sense: evaporation pond
word: pan
Related terms: hardpan
salt pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt pan
UCMJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Code of Military Justice.
stithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪði/
Forms: form: stithies
form: stiddy
form: stythy
Etymology: From Middle English stithy, ultimately from Old Norse steði.
Senses: examples: text: how to forge his sword upon the stithy, as well as how to use it in battle
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: An anvil.
examples: text: As foul as Vulcan's stithy.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A blacksmith's smithy or forge.
stithy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪði/
Forms: form: stithies
form: stithying
form: stithied
form: stithied
form: stiddy
form: stythy
Etymology: From Middle English stithy, ultimately from Old Norse steði.
Senses: glosses: To form on an anvil.
heronsew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heronsews
form: handsaw
form: hernshaw
form: herneshaw
form: heronshaw
form: heronshew
Etymology: From Middle English heronsewe, from Old French haironcel, diminutive of heiron.
Senses: examples: text: As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Pages, with ready blade, were there, / The mighty meal to carve and share: / O'er capon, heron-shew, and crane, / And princely peacock's gilded train […].
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A heron (originally specifically when small or young).
seringa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seringas
form: serynga
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese seringa.
Senses: glosses: A rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis).
Related terms: seringal
bright as a button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You needn't plague yourself about her no how, because she's bright as a button, and knows all about what you want and what you don't wan't ^([sic]), as well as a sensible being.
ref: 1868, Sarah Stuart Robbins, Ned's motto, page 42:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very intelligent.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very cheery, energetic and upbeat.
Synonyms: bright as a new button
bright as a new coin
bright as a new dollar
bright as a new penny
bright as a new pin
coures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coure
slocken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈslɒkən/
Forms: form: slockens
form: slockening
form: slockened
form: slockened
Etymology: From Old Norse slokna (Swedish slockna).
Senses: glosses: To put out, extinguish (a fire).
examples: 1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough.
glosses: To quench; to allay; to slake.
Synonyms: sense: quench
word: slock
artificial sweetener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artificial sweeteners
Senses: examples: text: The World Health Organization on Monday warned against using artificial sweeteners to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases, saying that long-term use is not effective and could pose health risks.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of various food additives that attempt to duplicate the effect of sugar in taste but usually with fewer calories.
Synonyms: english: hypernymous by some definitions
translation: hypernymous by some definitions
word: sugar substitute
Hyponyms: acesulfame potassium
advantame
aspartame
neotame
saccharin
sucralose
artificial sweeteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial sweetener
izle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪzəl/
note: dialectally also
ipa: /ˈizəl/
ipa: /ˈɪzəl/
rhymes: -aɪzəl
Forms: form: izles
form: aizle
form: aizel
form: isel
form: izel
form: easle
form: eizel
Etymology: From Old English ysel, ysle. Compare Old Norse usli.
Senses: examples: text: Izles, Dust or ashes from the fire. "The furniture is covered with izles."]
ref: [1815, The Monthly Magazine, page 297
text: I hied me hame to my father's ha',
My dear auld mither to see;
But she lay ' mang the black izles
ref: 1880 (original 1810?), Robert Hartley Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, page 142
roman: Wi' the death-tear in her ee.
text: I've watched many fires / Since last I sat beside this hearth—good fires : / Coal, coke, and peat, but wood-fires in the main. / There's naught like izles for dancing flames and singing: / Birch kindles best, and has the liveliest flames : / […]
ref: 1922, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Krindlesyke, book II, "Bell Haggard", page 132
text: […] smoke rolled up into the atmosphere, candescent at the skyline where the red flames leaped up inside it, dancing with bright izles that flared and winked out.
ref: 2010, Ben Tripp, Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A spark, an ember, a hot ash or cinder.
duck-arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duck-arsed
form: most duck-arsed
form: duck arsed
form: duckarsed
Senses: examples: text: All the girls, with the exception of May Callan, were squat, and as the country phrase had it—"duck-arsed." They were made for work, for breeding.
ref: 1949, Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn: A Novel, Devin-Adair Co., page 78:
text: I'm delighted that you should admire Beecham. A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
ref: 1963, John Fowles, The Collector, Pan Books paperback ed. (1965), p. 178
qualifier: indelicate; sometimes insulting; indelicate; sometimes insulting
glosses: Having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.
glosses: Having or pertaining to a hairstyle of the type called a duck's arse.
lesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛsk/
rhymes: -ɛsk
Forms: form: lesks
form: lisk
Etymology: Apparently of Scandinavian origin: compare Swedish ljumske, Danish lyske.
Senses: glosses: The loin; flank.
glosses: The groin.
duck arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duck arsed
form: most duck arsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duck-arsed.
duckarsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duckarsed
form: most duckarsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duck-arsed.
set list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of setlist.
doorpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorposts
form: door-post
Etymology: From door + post.
Senses: examples: text: In every house a he-lamb was to be slain, and its blood to be sprinkled on the doorposts of the house.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:
glosses: Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel; doorjamb.
Derived terms: deaf as a doorpost
murim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorim
Etymology: Korean 무림(武林) (“moorim”)
Senses: glosses: the subculture of the martial arts community
Coordinate terms: jiang hu
gangho
gang ho
runaway bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runaway brides
Senses: glosses: A bride-to-be who runs away from a wedding shortly before the ceremony, often due to so-called cold feet.
borer bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borer bombs
Senses: glosses: A device used to eradicate pests, especially boring insects, by releasing toxic fumes.
Eridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈrɪdiən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: more Eridian
form: most Eridian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Greek goddess Eris.
examples: Dysnomia […] is the Eridian moon.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the dwarf planet named for Eris.
Eridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈrɪdiən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: Eridians
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: a theoretical inhabitant of the dwarf planet Eris
decaplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaplets
Etymology: From deca- (“ten”) + -ple (“multiply”) + -et (diminutive suffix); in ignorance of existence of decuplet.
Senses: examples: text: "Medical opinion is that reported instances of multiple [human] births in excess of seven must be looked on with great suspicion," they write sternly; yet they do not deny us a somehow tantalizing glimpse of Ann Birch who, in 1781, is alleged to have produced decaplets of whom one girl survived to marry a Mr. Platt of Leeds.
ref: 1956, Peter Fleming, My Aunt's Rhinoceros, and Other Reflections, page 78:
text: There have been three cases reported of decaplets - multiple births of 10 children.
ref: 1989 July 30, “For the Record”, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of decuplet.
Schnoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃnuːdl̩/
Forms: form: Schnoodles
form: schnoodle
Etymology: Blend of schnauzer + poodle.
Senses: examples: text: Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.
ref: 2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:
text: Puggles, poogles and schnoodles. Schnockers, dorkies and doodles. Dog lovers have hundreds of breeds to pick from when selecting a new family pet, and crossbreeds, sometimes called hybrids or designer dogs, offer unusual choices.
ref: 2008 March 30, Brenda Showalter, “Designer dog breeds collar attention”, in The Republic, Columbus, Ind., page C1:
text: “Dunder Mifflin? Yeah, they've been gone for a while. Phyll and Stanley keep in touch. We both have Schnoodles. Awesome dogs. Other than that... the "One and Done" guys are fine. Less drama, that's for sure.”
ref: 2025 September 4, Greg Daniels & Michael Koman, “Pilot” (0:45 from the start), in The Paper, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bob Vance (Robert R. Shafer):
glosses: A dog that is a hybrid between a poodle and a schnauzer.
duck-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duck-footed
form: most duck-footed
form: duckfooted
Senses: examples: text: I am tired of these duck-footed Leydeners, who daren't wink at a donkey lest he should bray.
ref: 1901, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 5, in Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch:
text: Texas Southern's Jim Hines, 20, is not the least bit pigeon-toed—in fact, he's just a little duck-footed, and it may be a good thing.
ref: 1967 June 9, “Inefficient But Fast”, in Time:
glosses: Having splayfoot; habitually standing or walking with the ends of the feet angled outward.
duckfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duckfooted
form: most duckfooted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duck-footed.
pigeontoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigeontoed
form: most pigeontoed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pigeon-toed.
decuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decuplets
Etymology: From decuple (“multiply by ten”) + -et (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of ten, particularly
A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of ten, particularly
A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
hypernyms: multiplet
glosses: One of a group of ten, particularly one of ten babies born to the same mother at one time.
Synonyms: decaplet
Derived terms: antidecuplet
Related terms: word: decuple
word: undecuplet
word: dodecuplet
sense: set of 10 items
word: decimate
word: decimal
white paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white papers
form: whitepaper
form: white-paper
Senses: topics: business
management
marketing
glosses: A document based on research informing and educating a reader regarding a topic, which may also promote a product or a solution.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A parliamentary document announcing or proposing a government policy or action.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, paper.
Related terms: green paper
grey literature
Noreen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Nóirín (diminutive of Nóra (“Nora”)).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Noreen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized from Arabic نُورٍ (nūrin, “light”, in the genitive case).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Norette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish of Irish origin.
gogol
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of googol.
discrete topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete topologies
Senses: examples: text: In the discrete topology all sets are open (but they are also all closed).
text: An infinite set with discrete topology is not compact.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A topology on a set consisting of all subsets of that set.
Related terms: discrete metric
Mongols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongol
stoppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpəbəl
Forms: form: more stoppable
form: most stoppable
Etymology: From stop + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That is why some say that Mr. Stewart is the toughest and least stoppable fullback in the oil field.
ref: 1927 March 14, “Chesty Child”, in Time:
text: “All the goals were stoppable,” Dave Jones, the Wolves manager, said.
ref: 2003 December 15, Bill Edgar, “Wolves' plight worsens”, in Times Online, UK:
glosses: Capable of being stopped.
Derived terms: stoppability
xylotypographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylo- + typographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to xylotypography.
funnel mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel marks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The identifying mark of a shipping company, displayed on the ship's funnel (smokestack).
Related terms: houseflag
Epos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epo
mongols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongol
anomal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomals
Etymology: From French anomal.
Senses: glosses: Something anomalous, especially an irregular word in a language.
anomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French anomal.
Senses: glosses: anomalous
Derived terms: isanomal
alkalimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalimetries
Etymology: From alkali + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The process of determining the strength of an alkali.
Related terms: alkalimeter
alkalimetric
estoile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈstɔɪl/
Forms: form: estoiles
form: etoile
Etymology: Old French, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of étoile, stella, and stelo; related to aster and star.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, as opposed to the straight lines of a mullet.
RELP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Acronym of residual excited linear prediction, a speech coding algorithm.
transmural care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The interface between primary and secondary care in medicine.
vasoarrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaso- + arrhythmia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by the irregular rhythm of muscle contraction in the vas deferens.
calefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælɪˈfækʃən/
Forms: form: calefactions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin calefactiō, calefactiōnem.
Senses: glosses: The act of warming or heating.
glosses: The state or condition of being heated.
Related terms: calefactive
calefactory
calefy
californite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: californites
Etymology: From California + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green vesuvianite found in California, resembling jade and used as a gemstone.
Synonyms: vesuvianite jade
Vesuvian jade
vesuvianite jade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: californite.
Vesuvian jade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: californite.
sizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizers
Etymology: From size + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
glosses: An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
glosses: Alternative form of sizar (“undergraduate who received an allowance”).
Spore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
thanatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θan.əˈtɒl.əd͡ʒ.i/
ipa: /ˌθæ.nəˈtɑl.əd͡ʒ.i/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: thanatologies
Etymology: From thanato- + -logy, from Ancient Greek θάνατος (thánatos, “death”).
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: mortuary science
text: The work is part of a growing field called comparative thanatology — the study of how different animals react to death.
ref: 2022 May 17, Elizabeth Preston, “Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families.
Related terms: word: thanatechnology
sense: health care specifically
word: end-of-life care
word: palliative care
synoecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈniːsɪzəm/
Forms: form: synoecisms
form: synœcism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνοικισμός (sunoikismós), from συνοικίζειν (sunoikízein, “to make live with, to unite under one city”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + οἰκίζειν (oikízein, “to colonise”).
Senses: examples: text: They always remained separate states and were never synoikised.
ref: 1886, English History Review, I, pg 636:
text: Legends...current before the villages were synoecised into Athens.
ref: 1887, Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual & Religion, I, pg 266:
text: When the town was first formed...by the synœcism of the neighboring villages.
ref: 1922, Ernest Arthur Gardner, Mantineia, Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XXX. 529/2:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
synœcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of synoecism.
reproval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprovals
Etymology: From reprove + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of reproving.
homologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homologizes
form: homologizing
form: homologized
form: homologized
Senses: glosses: To make something homologous.
glosses: To become homologous.
Derived terms: homologizer
anergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anergic
form: most anergic
Etymology: From anergy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of anergy.
Derived terms: anergically
nonanergic
anergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈænə(ɹ)dʒi/
Forms: form: anergies
Etymology: From New Latin anergia, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not, without”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Senses: examples: text: The maximum fraction of an energy form which (in a reversible process) can be transformed into work is called exergy. The remaining part is called anergy, and this corresponds to the waste heat.
ref: 2002, J. Honerkamp, Statistical Physics, page 298:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Dilute or disorganized energy, which cannot be transformed into work.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Deficiency of energy.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of immunity to an antigen.
Synonyms: bound energy
Derived terms: anergistic
Related terms: anergic
resistentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Latin res (“thing”) + resister + existentialism. Coined in 1948 by British humorist Paul Jennings.
Senses: glosses: The belief that some inanimate objects exhibit malice toward humans.
wikipedia: Paul Jennings (British author)
Hypernyms: animism
Derived terms: resistentialist
body shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body shops
form: bodyshop
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: panel beaters
glosses: A workshop in which damage to the bodywork of cars is repaired.
examples: text: Flouting employment discrimination laws, unethical body shops blatantly advertise in US publications for jobs that clearly target foreign nationals.
ref: 2013, Vivek Wadhwa, The Immigrant Exodus, page 53:
text: These body shops, they have a business model of spamming the H-1B lottery with lots of petitions because they don’t really care about which individuals are going to win the lottery. All that they care about is getting some number of visas so that they can then contract out those workers to third-party companies.
ref: 2025 September 26, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, quoting Jeremy Neufeld, “The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: business
glosses: A consultancy that recruits workers (generally in information technology) in order to contract out their services on a tactical short- to mid-term basis.
Related terms: auto body
body shopping
coronary artery disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAD
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: coronary heart disease
ischemic heart disease
glosses: Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium.
Hypernyms: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Related terms: heart attack
caraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caraffes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of carafe.
will power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of willpower.
district attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: district attorneys
Senses: examples: (initialisms)
topics: law
synonyms: DA
D.A.
D. A.
glosses: The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.
walk into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks into
form: walking into
form: walked into
form: walked into
Senses: examples: text: Mind you don't walk into that wall.
text: Watch where you're going. You nearly walked into that man.
glosses: To collide with by walking.
examples: text: The platoon walked into an ambush.
text: You really walked into that trap, didn't you?
glosses: To fall into (a trap or other situation), especially one that could have been avoided with more care.
synonyms: go into
glosses: To attack; to assault physically.
glosses: To storm at.
examples: text: Such a precious loud hymn, Sammy, while the tea was a brewing; such a grace, such eatin’ and drinkin’! I wish you could ha’ seen the shepherd walkin’ into the ham and muffins. I never see such a chap to eat and drink—never.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To eat heartily of.
walks into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk into
walking into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk into
walked into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk into
hemiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛmiˈoʊlə/
ipa: /himiˈoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: hemiolas
form: hemiolia
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἡμιόλιος (hēmiólios), "containing one and a half; half as much again; in the ratio of 3:2".
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time.
enharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin enharmonicus, from Late Latin enarmonius, from Ancient Greek ἐναρμόνιος (enarmónios), from ἐν (en)+ἁρμονία (harmonía).
Senses: examples: text: C sharp is enharmonic to D flat in twelve-tone equal temperament, but in most other tuning systems they are distinct pitches.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing two or more identical or almost identical notes that are written differently when in different keys. (Whether they are identical and what the exact equivalences are depends on the tuning used.)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tetrachord.
Derived terms: enharmonically
enharmonicism
heptatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + tonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a mode or scale that has seven pitches in an octave
wolde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of will. See would.
disamenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disamenities
Etymology: From dis- + amenity.
Senses: examples: text: The noise and dust from the steel works created substantial disamenity for the nearby retirement home.
text: Nordhaus and Tobin (1972) introduced a “Measure of Economic Welfare” that combines consumption and leisure, values household work, and deducts urban disamenities for the United States over time.
ref: 2016, Charles I. Jones, Peter J. Klenow, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time”, in American Economic Review, volume 106, number 9, →DOI, page 2428 of 2426--2457:
glosses: A disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location
shoot off at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots off at the mouth
form: shooting off at the mouth
form: shot off at the mouth
form: shot off at the mouth
Senses: examples: text: Don't let [presidential press secretary Ron] Ziegler shoot off at the mouth without our knowledge.
ref: 2003, Henry Kissinger, Crisis: The Anatomy Of Two Mojor Foreign Policy Crises, page 28:
glosses: To boast, or brag, or talk too much.
glosses: To disclose some information that was supposed to be secret.
Synonyms: mouth off
run off at the mouth
shoot from the lip
shoot one's mouth off
shoot off one's mouth
hexachordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexachord + -al.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hexachord
hexatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + tonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a mode or scale that has six pitches in an octave.
raisin bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raisin breads
Senses: glosses: Bread with raisins in it.
furzen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)zən/
Forms: form: more furzen
form: most furzen
Etymology: From furze + -en.
Senses: examples: text: furzen bush
ref: 1598, John Florio, A World of Words:
glosses: furzy; gorsy
Romanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanists
Etymology: From Roman + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This is enough & too much, that when the Romaniſts doe boaſt that their iuriſdiction is ſpirituall, it is eaſy to ſhewe that there is nothing more contrary to the order inſtitute of Chriſte, and that it hath no more likeneſſe to the auncient cuſtome than darkneſſe hath to light.
ref: 1587 [1536], John Calvin, translated by Thomas Norton, The Institution of Christian Religion, London: H. Midleton, translation of Institutio Christianae Religionis (in Latin), page 406:
text: In quarrels with the Pope if the Clergy ſhould diſown to be ſubject to that temporal Prince who conteſts with him, if they refuſe to contribute for the defence of the Nation, if they foment any ſecret deſigns at the Popes command, then the ſtricteſt Romaniſt would preſently ſee the inſecurity of that Kingdom.
ref: 1674, William Squire, Some more Considerations proving the Unreasonableness of the Romanists in Requiring us to Return to the Communion of the Present Romish-Church, H.M., pages 112-113:
text: The manner of the Romanists however hanging their Churches with red Damask, & making Musick in a regular Orchestra there—is a despicable Effort—and defeats its own purpose completely, by turning the house of God into a Theatre […].
ref: 1786 June 27, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: A Roman Catholic.
examples: text: The foundations of present views of Roman civil procedure were laid by the Austrian Romanist Moriz Wlassak [...]
ref: 1951, Hans Julius Wolff, Roman Law: An Historical Introduction, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 229:
topics: law
glosses: A scholar of Roman law and jurisprudence.
qualifier: humanities
glosses: A scholar of Roman history and culture.
examples: text: The principal magazines devoted to the subject are—Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur (ed. Wolff, Ebert, and Lembcke), later only für romanische Literatur; Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen (ed. Herrig), of a more popular character; Romania (a quarterly, ed. Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer, since 1872), contains ariticles of the most eminent Romanists; Revue des Langues Romanes (Montpellier, from 1870 onwards), chiefly devoted to Provençal; Romanische Studien (ed. Boehmer); Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ed. Gröber, since 1877); and Romanische Forschungen (ed. Vollmöller, since 1884).
ref: 1886, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 20, PRU-ROS, page 668:
coordinate_terms: Germanist
Slavicist
Orientalist
Sinologist
Arabist
Hebraist
qualifier: humanities
glosses: A scholar of Romance languages; a Romanicist.
topics: art
arts
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A painter of the 16th century Romanist school.
glosses: someone perceived to be in favor of Rome Rule in Ireland.
Romanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romanist
form: most Romanist
Etymology: From Roman + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Even in England the Romanist tradition not only remained alive but received strong new impulses in Oxford and Cambridge, where the teaching of the "civil"—i.e., Roman—law was never interrupted.
ref: 1951, Hans Julius Wolff, Roman Law: An Historical Introduction, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 207:
topics: law
glosses: Pertaining to Roman law and jurisprudence.
examples: text: The 'Germanist' view has been countered with the 'Romanist' or 'continuity' view, which holds that the Germanic barbarians created little that was new.
ref: 2005 [1995], “The Barbarian invasions”, in The New Cambridge Medieval History (The New Cambridge Medieval History), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: continuity
antonyms: Germanist
glosses: Pertaining to the school of thought which emphasises the continuity of legal and cultural institutions between Rome and later medieval Europe, downplaying the role of external influences or innovation in the decline of the Roman Empire.
Titograd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Titograd.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Podgorica (used between 1946 and 1992).
Japanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japan + -ology.
Senses: glosses: Japanese studies: The study of Japan, its language, culture and history
Derived terms: Japanological
Japanologist
basketball hoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketball hoops
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score
chans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chan
see the light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the light
form: seeing the light
form: saw the light
form: seen the light
Senses: examples: text: Once I was lost in darkness, but now I have seen the light.
text: I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin
I wouldn't let my Dear Saviour in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
Praise the Lord. I saw the light.
ref: 1948, Hank Williams, I Saw the Light, from Randal Myler, Hank Williams, Mark Harelik, Hank Williams: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, page 59
qualifier: religious
glosses: To undergo a spiritual conversion.
examples: text: Finally, near the end of the meeting, John saw the light and withdrew his objections.
glosses: To gain an understanding of something previously not understood, especially in a sudden insight.
examples: text: Never had his book seen the light …until now.
synonyms: see the light of day
glosses: To come into the world or to public notice.
Related terms: dawn on
daylight
the light of day
error of one's ways
nascent proteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nascent protein
nascent protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nascent proteins
Senses: glosses: A protein as it is being formed by a ribosome before it folds into its active shape.
dilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dillis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dilly (“a dilly bag”).
Djiboutians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Djiboutian
run about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs about
form: running about
form: ran about
form: run about
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, about.
examples: text: I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
glosses: To be very busy doing many different things.
Synonyms: run around
Derived terms: runabout
OEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of open-eye visual: a psychoactive effect seen with the eyes open.
runs about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run about
running about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run about
first among equals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firsts among equals
Etymology: Calque of Latin primus inter pares.
Senses: examples: text: The Orthodox consider the bishop of Rome to have always been merely a first among equals.
text: I wonder whether Margaret Thatcher, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone (going back in time) thought of themselves as mere firsts among equals.
ref: 2003, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, The Book I Won't be Writing and Other Essays, page 40:
glosses: A person or position that is formally of equal rank to others in a group, but nonetheless takes a leading role within that group.
ran about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run about
runs around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run around
running around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run around
ran around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run around
grey-winged trumpeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey-winged trumpeters
Senses: synonyms: agami
jacamin
glosses: Psophia crepitans, a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae, which occur only in the Amazon basin in tropical South America.
Belizeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belizean
run along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs along
form: running along
form: ran along
form: run along
Senses: examples: text: Well, I must be running along now or I'll be late for supper.
glosses: To leave; to make one's way somewhere else.
running along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run along
along the lines of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: I was thinking along the lines of writing to the local paper, to see if we can get some reaction.
text: "The railman on the platform, whom I knew well, looked a bit bemused and asked what I was doing. Thinking it a silly question, I said something along the lines of 'what do you think? I'm going home to bed'.
"He then said 'but you don't live here anymore'.
ref: 2022 September 7, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 965, page 71:
synonyms: on the lines of
glosses: Similar to, but not exactly equal.
examples: text: The shape is folded along the lines of symmetry.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see along, the, lines, of.
Related terms: along those lines
to the effect of
sublemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublemmas
form: sublemmata
Etymology: From sub- + lemma.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement proven for use in the proof of a more important statement, usually a lemma
Related terms: sublemmal
nullhomotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: null-homotopic
form: nulhomotopic
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Homotopic to a constant map.
raw_tags: of a map
nulhomotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: null-homotopic
form: nullhomotopic
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Homotopic to a constant map.
raw_tags: of a map
null-homotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nullhomotopic
form: nulhomotopic
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Homotopic to a constant map.
raw_tags: of a map
runs away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run away
running away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run away
ran away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run away
homotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: f and g are homotopic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Such that there is a homotopy (a continuous deformation) taking one to the other.
raw_tags: of two continuous maps
examples: text: In somatosensory cortex, homotopic connections would be limited to portions of representations devoted to the body midline.
ref: 2013, Alexander G. Reeves, David W. Roberts, Epilepsy and the Corpus Callosum 2, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Jones, Kozlowski, Schallert, and colleagues have demonstrated plasticity not just surrounding the injured cortex, but also in remote cortical areas, such as the homotopic cortex contralateral to injury.
ref: 2017, Mark J. Ashley, David A. Hovda, Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation, Treatment, and Case Management, Fourth Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 108:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Having to do with or being a part of the correspondent region in the other brain hemisphere.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Homorganic.
Derived terms: homotopically
homotopicity
nonhomotopic
null-homotopic
half bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half bathrooms
Senses: glosses: A residential bathroom with a toilet and usually a sink, but no shower or bathtub.
Synonyms: word: half bath
word: bathroomette
word: powder room
word: cloakroom
word: toilet
word: bathroom
Coordinate terms: english: with a bathtub
translation: with a bathtub
word: full bathroom
english: with a shower stall
translation: with a shower stall
word: three-quarter bathroom
full bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full bathrooms
Etymology: Coined to clarify the distinctions among a bathroom, a three-quarter bathroom, and a half bath.
Senses: glosses: A bathroom with a toilet, sink, and bathtub.
Synonyms: word: bathroom
word: bathroom
Coordinate terms: english: lacking a bath
translation: lacking a bath
word: half bathroom
english: lacking a bath but having a standing shower
translation: lacking a bath but having a standing shower
word: three-quarter bathroom
run away with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs away with
form: running away with
form: ran away with
form: run away with
Senses: examples: text: She ran away with my best friend.
glosses: To leave secretly with another person, often with the intention of getting married or of living together against the wishes of the family.
examples: text: The robber ran away with some valuable paintings.
glosses: To steal something and physically escape with it.
examples: text: Don't run away with the idea that this money will solve all your problems.
glosses: To be misled (by).
examples: text: He allowed his emotions to run away with him.
glosses: To overwhelm, get the better of.
examples: text: Team USA ran away with the medal count.
text: It had been suggested Napoli's fans struggle to form an attachment with the Italy team and their silence throughout the first half and reaction at half time suggested they could hardly wait to get back to throwing their passion and fire behind their own team as they run away with Serie A and chase the Champions League.
ref: 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To be superior or outstanding in something.
three-quarter bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quarter bathrooms
form: three-quarter bath
Senses: glosses: A bathroom with a toilet, sink, and shower stall but without a bathtub.
Synonyms: bathroom
Coordinate terms: english: containing a bathtub
translation: containing a bathtub
word: full bathroom
english: containing no shower
translation: containing no shower
word: half bathroom
Cayley graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cayley graphs
Etymology: Its definition is suggested by Cayley's theorem, named after Arthur Cayley.
Senses: glosses: A graph (collection of vertices and edges) encoding information about a group and its generators.
Cayley complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cayley complexes
Etymology: Named after Arthur Cayley.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 2-dimensional CW complex encoding information about a group and its presentation.
CW complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CW complexes
Etymology: The C stands for "closure-finite", and the W for "weak topology".
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A collection of balls of various dimensions, with higher-dimensional ones mapped along their respective boundaries to lower-dimensional ones.
Synonyms: cell complex
Derived terms: Cayley complex
Cayley table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cayley tables
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The analogue for a group of a multiplication table.
baltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baltic
form: most baltic
Senses: examples: text: 'We're staying out at the Lake of Menteith and it's baltic out there. They reckon the lake could freeze over again if this weather gets worse.'
ref: 2012, Craig Robertson, Cold Grave, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Baltic (“very cold”).
there you go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there ya go
Senses: examples: text: Attagirl! There you go! Keep it up! Now pass the ball back to me again!
text: 'There you go! It worked.' Toby got up, pleased with the result. 'We can hoist it back up now. Take the horses the other side Tad.'
ref: 2016, Tina Balli, Isabella Black Heart:
synonyms: well done
good job
glosses: You have done it, or are doing it, correctly.
examples: Kelly Collins, A Wilde Love Collection
To be honest, I didn't care for that side of the plan, but I needed their manpower to pull all this off, and someone owed me a favor, so there you go. It worked like a charm.
coordinate_terms: Q.E.D.#English:_extended use outside mathematics
;
Bob's your uncle
glosses: Used to explain or justify something, such as one's course of action.
examples: text: - Do you want to punish crime more severely?
- I'm not sure. I do want a lower crime rate...
- Well, there you go.
glosses: Expressing that the conclusion is the same as it was suggested before; the other party's statement actually implies the same thing as one's own idea.
examples: text: There you go, yelling again. Will you shut up?
glosses: Expressing exasperation.
examples: text: He told me to bring it back to you when I was done. There you go! Happy Friday!
synonyms: here you are
here you go
there you are
glosses: Used while giving someone something.
skirmishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirmish
skirmishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skirmish
nanobiometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + biometrics.
Senses: glosses: Part of nanobiomechanics; the measurement of the tiny forces that act on cells and may be related to diseases and their cure.
there ya go
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there you go.
weaponsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaponsmiths
Etymology: From weapon + smith.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at making edged weapons
Hypernyms: smith
Hyponyms: knifesmith
swordsmith
Derived terms: weaponsmithing
Related terms: weaponeer
armoursmith
bladesmith
web developer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web developers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: web dev
glosses: A person who develops applications designed to be used via the World Wide Web.
Related terms: web development
standing orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing order
web designer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web designers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who designs (and sometimes creates) web sites
woodturner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodturners
Etymology: From wood + turner.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at woodturning.
woodturning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wood + turning.
Senses: glosses: The craft of turning wood on a lathe to make useful or decorative objects.
Related terms: woodturner