cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of review
reviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reviewings
Senses: examples: text: Sleep came for me eventually, after many more reviewings of the long, involved and fractious day, and many more attempts to stop thinking about all the mysteries surrounding me.
ref: 1995, Iain Banks, Whit:
glosses: The act by which something is reviewed, or thought about again; a mental review.
overmastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈmɑːstəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmaster
overmastering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈmɑːstəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more overmastering
form: most overmastering
Senses: examples: text: Their overmastering fear of witchcraft
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 20:
text: Yet from my very earliest consciousness I sensed with savage unswerving certainty that other people were not seized by the same rapacious greed, insatiable hunger, overmastering desire, shivering lust and terrible, hurting need that had me in its grip almost every hour of every day.
ref: 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
glosses: Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering.
Derived terms: overmasteringly
overmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: overmasters
form: overmastering
form: overmastered
form: overmastered
Etymology: From over- + master.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Jasper started from his chair, ashamed of the sick fancies that had, for the moment, overmastered him.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 303:
text: Did I forget! Shall I ever . . . can I ever! Can any of us ever forget that terrible scene! Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance, but the pain overmastered her and she put her hands before her face, and shuddered whilst she moaned.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To overpower or overwhelm.
gade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gades
Etymology: Compare cod (“kind of fish”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
glosses: A pike.
Synonyms: sense: pike
word: gead
spathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: spathes
Etymology: From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”). Doublet of epee, spatha, and spade.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
Related terms: spadix
spadix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪdɪks/
rhymes: -eɪdɪks
Forms: form: spadixes
form: spadices
Etymology: Via Latin spādīx from Ancient Greek σπᾱ́δῑξ (spā́dīx, “palm branch”).
Senses: examples: text: The spadix of this plant is frequently quite white, or coloured, and the leaves liable to be streaked with white, and to have black, or scarlet blotches on them.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 148:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
examples: text: However, the shells of modern nautiluses show the opposite pattern—males are somewhat larger than females, with a wider aperture to accommodate the spadix.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.
Derived terms: spadiceous
Related terms: Araceae
spathe
spadices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadix
spathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spathe
Lorena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian and Spanish, by folk etymology associated with Laura. Henry Webster's title for his song was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore.
Senses: examples: text: We loved each other then, Lorena,
More than we ever dared to tell;
And what we might have been, Lorena,
ref: 1856 Henry Webster - Joseph Webster, Lorena (song)
roman: Had but our lovings prospered well --
text: She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls,
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XLII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Aimee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Forms: form: Aimees
form: Aimée
form: Amy
form: Amey
form: Amie
form: Amee
Etymology: Borrowed from French Aimée (“beloved”). A variation of the English Amy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: Amata
tendrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendril
invents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invent
javelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of javelin
margins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margin
samples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sample
samples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sample
ruminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruminate
sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
Forms: form: sandwichs
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich
sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sandwich
car boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car boots
Senses: glosses: a wheel clamp or Denver boot
glosses: the boot (trunk) of a car
glosses: a car boot sale
Derived terms: car-booter
gadflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadfly
sentence case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sentence + case, because it is the capitalization (letter case pattern) used in a typical English sentence.
Senses: synonyms: downstyle#Noun
coordinate_terms: all caps
alternating caps
camel case
initial caps
upstyle#Noun
headline style
title case
lowercase#Noun
glosses: The standard capitalisation of an English sentence, with the first letter uppercase and subsequent letter lowercase with exceptions such as proper nouns or acronyms.
Related terms: letter case
letter case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter cases
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The distinction between majuscule (uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letters.
glosses: A case (container) used for carrying letters (messages on paper).
Hyponyms: word: lower case
word: minuscule
word: small
word: upper case
word: capital
word: majuscule
english: in tall-man lettering
translation: in tall-man lettering
word: tall
word: ALL CAPS
word: AlTeRnaTinG cApS
word: Initial Caps
word: lowercase
word: Sentence case
word: Title Case
Coordinate terms: casing
Derived terms: alternating case
Mediterraneanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪni.ənaɪz/
Forms: form: Mediterraneanizes
form: Mediterraneanizing
form: Mediterraneanized
form: Mediterraneanized
form: Mediterraneanise
Etymology: From Mediterranean + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (someone or something) Mediterranean in behaviour or style.
Derived terms: Mediterraneanisation
Mediterraneanization
Mediterraneanised
Mediterraneanized
Mediterraneanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mediterraneanises
form: Mediterraneanising
form: Mediterraneanised
form: Mediterraneanised
form: Mediterraneanize
Etymology: From Mediterranean + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To make (someone or something) Mediterranean in behaviour or style.
Lesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leslie
Etymology: From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the 18th century. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-20th century.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
primary production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The organic matter produced from carbon dioxide by photosynthesis.
Gayheart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Thought to be a corruption of the German Gerhardt or a calque of the French Jolicoeur.
Senses: glosses: An American surname from German.
Gaylord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪˌlɔɹd/
Etymology: Derived from the Old French surname Gaillard (from gaillard (“strong”)), brought to England by the Normans. Compare Spanish Gallardo (from gallardo (“dashing, strapping, gallant”). Shaped by folk etymology into gay (“joyful”) + lord.
Senses: examples: text: Why should we Gaylords be above all the others, and why should I throw away the few short minutes I have to breathe in this world, throw it away on family pride and a seven-letter name? Gaylord. Gaylord. GAYLORD. A sound like an elm tree full of katydids.
ref: 1942, Stephen Longstreet, The Gay Sisters, Random House, page 81:
glosses: An American surname from Old French.
examples: text: Gaylord Ravenal elevated the right eyebrow and looked down his aristocratic nose at the capering little captain. "I am Gaylord Ravenal, of the Tennessee Ravenals. I failed to catch your name."
ref: 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 181:
text: He smiled often, he could make his knuckles crack like pistol shots, and he had the courtesy to address him as Gaylord, and not by some ridiculous title of his own.
ref: 1967, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the Moon, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A small city in Smith County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Otsego County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Sibley County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia, United States.
Gaillard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaillards
Etymology: From French Gaillard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, equivalent to English Gaylord
chimerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chimerical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chimerical manner.
geneology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of genealogy.
Gerhardt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerhardts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gerhardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Gerhardtian
gerhardtite
wheel clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel clamps
Senses: glosses: A device locked to the wheel of a motor car to prevent it from being driven; normally used to enforce payment of a traffic violation fine.
Synonyms: boot
Denver boot
Denver boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Denver boots
Senses: glosses: A device locked into place over the wheel of a road vehicle, immobilizing it.
Synonyms: word: boot
word: wheel clamp
car boot sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car boot sales
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boot fair.
synonyms: word: boot fair
Related terms: garage sale
rummage sale
flea market
swap meet
genealogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genealogy
hungriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hungry: most hungry
booby-trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby-traps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of booby trap.
booby-trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: booby-traps
form: booby-trapping
form: booby-trapped
form: booby-trapped
Senses: examples: text: Transport for London and the RMT union are united in their condemnation of anti-COVID vaccination extremists who are booby-trapping posters on the London Underground and other stations with razor blades.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:
text: Israeli soldiers who combed slowly through the village on Tuesday warned visiting journalists to stay out of homes that had not been cleared, warning they could be booby-trapped with explosives.
ref: 2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.
booby trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby traps
Etymology: From booby (“dunce, idiot”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.
glosses: A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.
glosses: An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.
Related terms: boobytrap
canary trap
honeypot
IED
boobytrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boobytraps
form: boobytrapping
form: boobytrapped
form: boobytrapped
Senses: glosses: To set a booby-trap.
glosses: To install a booby-trap in or on (a harmless object).
booby-trapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a hidden booby trap
raw_tags: of a harmless object
booby-trapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booby-trap
trapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trapped
form: most trapped
Senses: synonyms: snared
antonyms: untrapped
unsnared
glosses: Caught in a trap.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In a state of stagnation or despair; unable to move forward.
Related terms: booby-trapped
trapped-out
trapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trap
born-again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: born again
Etymology: From the New Testament: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.'" [John 3:3, Today's New International Version].
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Having been spiritually changed through faith.
examples: text: He proclaimed himself a born-again Christian during a church retreat.
text: And in both cases, a man named Rob Monster – an outspoken born-again Christian and the CEO of a tech company called Epik – made pointed restorations, republishing much of the New Zealand content and putting Gab back online. All in the name, he said, of free speech.
ref: 2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Having a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
examples: text: To many people a born-again philosophy is a fundamentalist philosophy.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or pertaining to evangelicalism.
examples: text: After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener.
glosses: Having a newly won zeal for some activity.
examples: text: Jack Scatalone might have been a born-again bastard during their training, but he was their bastard. And the Special Forces never abandoned one of their own.
ref: 2023, Cindy Dees, The Medusa Project:
glosses: Utter; out-and-out.
Derived terms: born-again virgin
Related terms: rebirth
reborn
born-again
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: born-agains
form: born again
Etymology: From the New Testament: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.'" [John 3:3, Today's New International Version].
Senses: glosses: Someone who has been spiritually changed through their (Christian) faith.
glosses: Someone who has a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
glosses: An evangelical Christian.
glosses: Anyone with a renewed commitment to any kind of cause or belief.
born again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of born-again.
bouzouki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈzuːki/
/buːˈzuːki/
Forms: form: bouzoukis
form: bazouki
form: bousouki
form: bouzoukia
form: buzuki
Etymology: From Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”). Doublet of buzuq.
Senses: examples: text: The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
Derived terms: baby bouzouki
bouzoukist
Irish bouzouki
boxcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxcars
form: box car
form: box-car
Etymology: From box + car.
Senses: examples: text: The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: covered goods wagon
raw_tags: in the UK
word: goods van
word: box van
word: van
glosses: An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
Hypernyms: railroad car
Derived terms: boxcar function
Related terms: flatcar
boxcar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxcars
form: boxcarring
form: boxcarred
form: boxcarred
form: box car
form: box-car
Etymology: From box + car.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To reduce to a boxcar function.
boxcar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boxcar
form: most boxcar
form: box car
form: box-car
Etymology: From box + car.
Senses: synonyms: word: gigantic
word: enormous
word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Extremely large.
boxcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxcars
form: box car
form: box-car
Senses: hypernyms: atrophic scar
glosses: A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.
raw_tags: followed by "scar"
goods van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goods vans
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An enclosed railway freight car, especially one with a sliding door.
Synonyms: word: boxcar
word: box van
boxwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxwoods
Etymology: From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).
Senses: glosses: The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
glosses: The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
glosses: Any tree of genus Buxus.
Synonyms: sense: Buxus sempervirens
word: common box
sense: Buxus sempervirens
word: European box
Derived terms: Cape boxwood
Knysna boxwood
Oregon boxwood
box tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box trees
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several trees, of the genus Buxus, often used as a hedge, for topiary, and as a source of boxwood
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any trees of diverse species in Lophostemon, Eucalyptus, or other genera native to Australia.
Synonyms: box
boxwood
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cydalima perspectalis
word: box tree moth
brain-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌdɛd/
Forms: form: more brain-dead
form: most brain-dead
form: brain dead
form: braindead
Etymology: From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
ref: 2010 February 22, Michael S. Schmidt, Karen Zraick, “Hit and Run in Brooklyn Leaves One Brain-Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
examples: text: "AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.
ref: 2003 May 13, Mark Baard, quoting Marvin Minsky, “AI Founder Blasts Modern Research”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.
brain-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌdɛd/
Forms: form: brain-deads
form: brain dead
form: braindead
Etymology: From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: "What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"
ref: 2015 October 6, Sarah J. Schmitt, It's a Wonderful Death, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: An unintelligent person.
Related terms: word: brain death
word: comatose
word: vegetative
alt: spoonerism
word: dain-bread
brain dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brain-dead.
brain death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
Related terms: brain-dead
clinical death
persistent vegetative state
coma
comatose
brainteaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌtizɚ/
Forms: form: brainteasers
form: brain teaser
form: brain-teaser
Etymology: From brain + teaser.
Senses: glosses: A difficult problem or puzzle.
Related terms: brainteasing
brakeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brakemen
Etymology: From brake + -man.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
Synonyms: brakesman
Related terms: brakewoman
brasserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasseries
Etymology: Borrowed from French brasserie, from brasser (“to brew”).
Senses: glosses: A small, informal restaurant that serves beer and wine as well as simple food.
Coordinate terms: bar
beer garden
beer house
beer parlor
beer parlour
pub
restobar
restopub
saloon
tavern
Related terms: brewery
microbrewery
breadline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛdlaɪn/
Forms: form: breadlines
form: bread line
Etymology: From bread + line. In sense 2, referring to the income level at which one can afford to buy bread, a staple food.
Senses: examples: text: I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God."
ref: 1975, Alex Baskin, The Unemployed (1930-1932), page 4:
text: Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape.
ref: 2010, Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines, page 183:
glosses: A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
examples: text: Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.
text: […] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 249:
text: It hurt him to see other good ex-servicemen working their socks off and making no-gooders comfortable while they remained just over the breadline.
ref: 2004, Toby Bishop, Cry Havoc, page 4:
text: It changed her. Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?
ref: 2015, Gail Brooking, Coping With Change:
text: For poor people that takes them near the breadline, but they still do it.
ref: 2020, Bernard Knight, Lost Prophecies, page 357:
glosses: The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
Derived terms: breadliner
below the breadline
on the breadline
Related terms: poverty line
soupline
bread line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breadline.
broadloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadlooms
Etymology: From broad + loom.
Senses: glosses: A wide loom.
examples: text: And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A carpet woven on a wide loom.
broadloom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broad + loom.
Senses: glosses: Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.
broad-spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: broadspectrum
Senses: examples: text: The most advanced models of neoreactionary social order on earth work like this (Hong Kong and Singapore), combining resilient ethnic traditions with super-dynamic techonomic performance, to produce an open yet self-protective, civilized, socially-tranquil, high-growth enclave of outstanding broad-spectrum functionality.
ref: 2014, N.N., IQ shredders:
glosses: Having a wide scope or range of activity (as against pathogens, pests, parasites, or other problems).
Derived terms: word: broad-spectrum antibiotic
alt: e.g., glyphosate
word: broad-spectrum herbicides
Related terms: broadband
wideband
burgh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɹə/
homophone: borough
rhymes: -ʌɹə
ipa: /ˈbʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /bɝɡ/
homophone: berg
homophone: burg
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: burghs
Etymology: From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”).
Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
examples: text: 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html
With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.
text: This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
Derived terms: Blythburgh
burghal
burghbote
burgher
burghmote
burgh of barony
burgh of regality
Edinburgh
Edithburgh
Musselburgh
Newburgh
parliamentary burgh
Petersburgh
Pittsburgh
police burgh
royal burgh
burlap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝlæp/
ipa: /ˈbɜːlæp/
Forms: form: burlaps
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since about 1695 in the spelling bore-lap, borelapp. Likely from burel (“a coarse woollen cloth”) + lap (“flap of a garment”), where the first element is from Middle English burel, borel. Others feel that "its character and time of appearance makes a Dutch origin very likely" (and the earliest references as to its importation from the Netherlands); the NED suggests derivation from Dutch boenlap (“coarse, rubbing linen or cloth”) with the first element perhaps confused with boer (“farmer, peasant”). Bense similarly suggests derivation from an unattested Dutch *boerenlap, where boeren would be used in the sense of “coarse” as in boerenkost (“coarse, heavy food as is eaten by farmers”) or boerenpraat (“coarse, rural speech”).
Senses: examples: text: “A ranger responded and found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring,” she said. A cooking pot was also found nearby.
ref: 2020 November 11, Johnny Diaz, Concepción de León, “3 Visitors Banned From Yellowstone After Cooking Chickens in Hot Spring”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: hessian
word: crocus
glosses: A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
Derived terms: burlap bag
burlappy
burlap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝlæp/
ipa: /ˈbɜːlæp/
Forms: form: burlaps
form: burlapping
form: burlapped
form: burlapped
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since about 1695 in the spelling bore-lap, borelapp. Likely from burel (“a coarse woollen cloth”) + lap (“flap of a garment”), where the first element is from Middle English burel, borel. Others feel that "its character and time of appearance makes a Dutch origin very likely" (and the earliest references as to its importation from the Netherlands); the NED suggests derivation from Dutch boenlap (“coarse, rubbing linen or cloth”) with the first element perhaps confused with boer (“farmer, peasant”). Bense similarly suggests derivation from an unattested Dutch *boerenlap, where boeren would be used in the sense of “coarse” as in boerenkost (“coarse, heavy food as is eaten by farmers”) or boerenpraat (“coarse, rural speech”).
Senses: glosses: To wrap or cover in burlap.
Related terms: sackcloth
soup kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soup kitchens
Senses: glosses: A place that is established to provide soup and other basic food as a charity or in time of disaster.
Related terms: soupmaker
breadline
homeless shelter
souper
soup kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soup kitchen
passion of a convert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the passion of a convert
Senses: examples: text: Jim showed the passion of a convert when he became a vegan.
glosses: extreme enthusiasm shown by a person who has recently taken a new task or set of beliefs.
legal pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal pads
Senses: examples: text: His mother and father, both Stanford Law professors, took turns scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad.
ref: 2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A large writing pad, made using yellow paper, especially one measuring 8½ by 14 inches and with a margin down the side of each page.
legal pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal pad
mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mouse
mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousings
Senses: glosses: The act of hunting mice (or similar prey), especially by pouncing on them from above.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
glosses: A ratchet movement in a loom.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Use of the mouse
Derived terms: mousing hook
mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mousing
form: most mousing
Senses: examples: text: mousing saints
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.
Derived terms: mousingly
moused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mouse
craig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craigs
Etymology: Variant of crag.
Senses: glosses: A rocky crag.
Derived terms: craig flounder
brontosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brontosaurs
form: brontosaurus
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Brontosaurus.
apatosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apatosaurs
Etymology: From scientific Latin Apatosaurus (genus name).
Senses: glosses: A large, herbivorous, gregarious sauropod dinosaur, of the genus Apatosaurus, from Jurassic North America; it had a long neck and tail.
Synonyms: word: brontosaurus
english: according to some scholars
translation: according to some scholars
word: brontosaur
brontosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brontosauruses
form: brontosauri
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -saurus.
Senses: glosses: One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; a Brontosaurus.
Synonyms: brontosaur
thunder lizard
busby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌz.bi/
Forms: form: busbies
form: busbys
Etymology: Various theories; probably from the surname Busby.
Senses: examples: text: […] many Khorassanis wearing huge sheepskin busbies, similar to the head-gear of the Roumanians and Tabreez Turks of Ovahjik and the Perso-Turkish border.
ref: 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter IV, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] , pages 71–72:
text: They were a fine lot of fellows, in their pale blue, tight-fitting jackets, jaunty busbys and white riding breeches with the double yellow stripe […]
ref: 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow:
text: His head was shaped like a busby, a high solid arrogant rock, covered with thick moss.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.
Coordinate terms: sense: fur hat
word: bearskin
Related terms: shako
constitutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɪt͡ʃuˌtɪv/
Forms: form: more constitutive
form: most constitutive
Etymology: From constitute + -ive.
Senses: glosses: having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something
glosses: having the power or authority to appoint someone to office
glosses: extremely important, essential
glosses: that forms a constituent part of something else
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of an enzyme) that is continuously produced at a constant rate
Derived terms: constitutive ablation
constitutively
constitutiveness
Related terms: constituency
constituent
constitution
constitutional
bon sao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bong sao
Etymology: From Cantonese 膀手 (bong2 sau2, literally “wing hand”).
Senses: glosses: A particular defensive move in Wing Chun.
BBB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies.
ref: 2015 September 30, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “How the Better Business Bureau rakes in millions”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
commerce
coordinate_terms: COC
chamber of commerce
commercial guild
glosses: Initialism of Better Business Bureau.
examples: text: While the SFC Bill had proposed significant phase-outs of the clean electricity tax credits (IRC §§ 45Y and 48E) for wind and solar projects that start construction in 2026 and later years, the Senate Bill instead eliminates the ability to claim such credits for wind and solar projects that start construction after the date of enactment of the BBB and that are placed in service after December 31, 2027.
ref: 2025 June 28, Don Lonczak, Elina Teplinsky, David McCullough, M.C. Hammond, Baylee Beeman, “Senate Votes to Advance the Big, Beautiful Bill – Latest on Renewable Energy Tax Credits”, in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman:
text: Indeed, it thinks these measures will “only” add 0.08 percentage points to core inflation next year, and reduce real GDP by a mere 0.1 per cent—and the latter will be offset by the BBB's fiscal boost.
ref: 2025 July 12, Gillian Tett, “Confusion reigns in American markets”, in FT Weekend, page 9:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: OBBB
glosses: Initialism of Big Beautiful Bill.
BBB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BBBs
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of blood-brain barrier.
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bundle branch block.
BBB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Such opposition to BBB completely mixes up the short-term and the long-term, and utterly confuses deficit spending to fight Covid-19 with fully paid-for spending to fund long-term reforms.
ref: 2021 November 13, Jeffrey Sachs, “US can fight inflation and still ‘build back better’”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of build(ing) back better.
Daivadnya brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daivadnya brahmins
Senses: glosses: A member of a caste predominantly found in Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka, traditionally known for being astrologers, and later involved in the jewellery trade.
Synonyms: Shett
firecall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firecalls
Etymology: From fire + call.
Senses: glosses: A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
examples: text: 1996 August, Computer Incident Response Guidebook, NAVSO P-5239-19, Department of the Navy
Firecall procedures must include provisions for verifying the identity of the person who needs a password or encryption key during an emergency.
text: Special procedures and audited “firecall” userids have been established for application, system, and network troubleshooting activities.
ref: 2001 December, Thomas R. Peltier, Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards, CRC Press, page 283:
text: All Privileged IDs should be treated as ‘check out’ or ‘firecall’ IDs.
ref: 2003 September, Terri Hill et al., HP NonStop Server Security, Digital Press, page 92:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A request for provision of emergency access to a computer system in order to fix a problem
Derived terms: on firecall
calcium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, white powder, Ca(OH)₂, obtained by the action of water on calcium oxide; slaked lime.
Synonyms: cal
slaked lime
Related terms: limewater
lime water
eye-opener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-openers
form: eye opener
form: eyeopener
Etymology: From eye + opener.
Senses: glosses: Something that causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes.
glosses: Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
examples: text: A visit to the slaughterhouse was a real eye-opener to anyone who thought they understood where their food came from.
text: That was a very big eye-opener for me, after being very cocooned, living most of my life in the city where I was born and raised.
ref: 2013, R. Heppner, The Lost Leaders: How Corporate America Loses Women Leaders:
glosses: A startling or shocking revelation.
examples: text: As soon as I got on the plane I asked the flight attendant for an eye-opener, but all he had to offer was orange juice.
coordinate_terms: pick-me-up#Noun
glosses: A strong alcoholic beverage, especially one consumed in the morning.
examples: text: Near-synonym: eye candy
text: Seems appropriate that Ann Miller should be in Columbia's "Reveille With Beverly." We've never seen anyone capable of "showing a leg" more attractively. At close range, too, she's an eye-opener.
ref: 1943 August 19, “It's high time you met ANN MILLER”, in Good Morning, number 106, London: Royal Navy Submarine Branch, →OCLC, page 1:
text: A woman cycling in a skirt was a hazard to herself and an eye-opener for men on the sidelines every time she raised a leg or fell off her bike.
ref: 1998, Charles Panati, Sexy Origins and Intimate Things, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 274:
qualifier: sometimes objectifying
glosses: An attractive woman.
Related terms: word: eye-opening
word: open someone's eyes
eye-openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-opener
Salt Lake City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Great Salt Lake.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the 484 Utah water systems that reported data in 2024, only 66 fluoridated their water, an Associated Press analysis showed. The largest was the state’s biggest city, Salt Lake City.
ref: 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press:
glosses: The capital city of Utah, United States, and the county seat of Salt Lake County.
beigeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beigeists
Etymology: From beige + -ist, coined by writer Mark Ames.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere in the cruise-control synapses of McFaul's beigeist brain, he senses that his arrest and trial is a real possibility.
ref: 1999 June, Mark Ames, “Arrest Michael McFaul”, in the eXile, number 11:
text: 2003+, Johnny Loftus, review of “Chariot” by Gavin DeGraw, All Music Guide
Gavin DeGraw's J Records debut is a strong showcase for his soulful wail and piano playing, even if it's occasionally grayed out by bells-and-whistles production that pushes it too strongly toward beigeist AAA accessibility.
text: 2005 May, Marianne M. Jennings, “Beige is not better”, Jewish World Review
Beigeists exist only to rein in those who disagree with leftists. The flaw in being a Beigeist is the assumption that beige is better.... A coup by the Beigeists would mean no decisions, no bottom lines, no criticisms, and no unwavering principles.... Colorful nonconformists frighten Beigeists.
glosses: A sellout; a conformist to bourgeois or corporate mediocracy.
Derived terms: beigeocracy
Related terms: kakistocracy
League of Nations
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the League of Nations
Senses: glosses: An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.
predestiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predestinies
Etymology: From pre- + destiny.
Senses: synonyms: word: destiny
word: doom
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: Predestination.
Derived terms: predestinarian
magic bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic bullets
Etymology: Calque of German Zauberkugel. Coined by physician Paul Ehrlich as an allusion to the opera Der Freischütz. Compare silver bullet, from werewolf lore.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, penicillin-based drugs have lost some of their magic bullet status due to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
text: History shows that there's no magic bullet for a global financial crisis.
glosses: A simple remedy for a difficult or complex problem, especially a cure for a disease.
wikipedia: Der Freischütz
Paul Ehrlich
Synonyms: sense: simple remedy for complex problem or disease
word: miracle
sense: simple remedy for complex problem or disease
word: panacea
sense: simple remedy for complex problem or disease
word: silver bullet
sense: simple remedy for complex problem or disease
word: wonder drug
magic bullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic bullet
circumventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumvent
Teton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtitɑn/
ipa: /ˈtiːtɒn/
rhymes: -iːtɒn
Forms: form: Tetons
form: Teton
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Thítȟuŋwaŋ (“Teton”). a general name for all seven Lakota tribes. from thíta (“a plain, prairie”) + tȟuŋwaŋ (“village”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the largest group of Sioux peoples.
Teton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtitɑn/
ipa: /ˈtiːtɒn/
rhymes: -iːtɒn
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Thítȟuŋwaŋ (“Teton”). a general name for all seven Lakota tribes. from thíta (“a plain, prairie”) + tȟuŋwaŋ (“village”).
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
glosses: A small city in Fremont County, Idaho.
glosses: The Teton River (Idaho), a tributary of the Snake River.
glosses: The Teton River (Montana), a tributary of the Missouri River.
Synonyms: Lakota
Teton Dakota
Teton Range
Teton Sioux
Tetons
Derived terms: Teton County
carjacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carjackers
Etymology: From carjack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The typical carjacker is most interested in an easy heist.
ref: 1993, Road & Rec, volume 5, number 3, page 15:
text: Note the direction in which the carjacker drove. Give officers a detailed description of the carjacker, including the type of weapon, if one was used.
ref: 2002, Holly Keegel, Janee Harteau, A Woman's Guide to Personal Safety:
glosses: One who engages in carjacking; one who steals an occupied automobile.
carjackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carjacker