cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scroll bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroll bars
form: scrollbar
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A graphical widget in the form of a horizontal or vertical bar, on the edges of a personal computer screen, that is used to move scrollable text or images.
topics: geography
hydrography
hydrology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A sandbar on the inside of a riverbend.
Synonyms: sense: graphical widget
word: slider
Coordinate terms: side bar
seasonal affective disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of depression associated with the lack of natural light during the winter months.
Synonyms: SAD
seasonal mood disorder
seasonal depression
Hyponyms: summer blues
summer depression
winter blues
winter depression
Related terms: sundowning
semi-skimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + skimmed.
Senses: glosses: of milk, from which about half of the cream has been removed
Derived terms: semi-skimmed milk
semi-skimmed milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Milk from which about half of the cream has been removed.
serial killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹɪəl ˌkɪlə/
ipa: [ˈsɪə̯ɹɪə̯ɫ ˌkʰɪlə]
ipa: /ˈsɪəɹiəl ˌkɪlɚ/
ipa: [ˈsɪ(ə̯)ɹiə̯ɫ ˌkʰɪɫɚ]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈsiɹiə̯ɫ ˌkʰiə̯ɫɚ]
ipa: /ˈseːɹial ˌkɪla/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: serial killers
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.
Derived terms: serial kill
serial killer glasses
serial killer van
Related terms: mass murderer
serial monogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: serial polygamy (derogatory)
text: Living together without marriage, [...], serial monogamy (with one divorce after another), [...] — these are all gropings toward some new form of man-woman relationship for the future.
ref: 1972, Carl R. Rogers, Becoming Partners: Marriage and its Alternatives, page 11:
text: For some adolescents, serial monogamy — or a succession of 'permanent' relationships — is the norm, confirming earlier findings with American adolescents reported by Sorensen (1973).
ref: 1993, Susan Moore, Doreen Rosenthal, Sexuality in Adolescence, page 127:
text: If serial monogamy is the norm, even if individuals have many partners over time, the virus is trapped within relationships and gets around slowly.
ref: 2008 March 1, “Sex and sensibility”, in The Economist:
text: Pawley was, of course, not the last man to suffer from Taylor's serial monogamy, with the Hollywood star marrying eight times in her life.
ref: 2011 March 30, The Guardian:
hypernyms: monogamy
coordinate_terms: polygamy
glosses: The practice of having a succession of (especially short) monogamous relationships with different people.
Related terms: serial monogamist
set-aside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setaside
Etymology: Deverbal from set aside.
Senses: glosses: Something (especially money) that is set aside for a specific purpose.
glosses: land that has been taken out of agricultural production to reduce crop surpluses
set-aside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: setaside
Etymology: Deverbal from set aside.
Senses: examples: text: The set-aside cake has been stored in refrigeration. The set date for the exhibition is Monday.
glosses: assigned for some purpose.
glosses: taken out of agricultural production
glosses: reserved or booked in advance
set aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets aside
form: setting aside
form: set aside
form: set aside
Senses: examples: text: Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
glosses: To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
examples: text: […] therefore setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.
ref: 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious; republished as “Sermon I”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, page 31:
glosses: To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
glosses: To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
examples: text: As is well-known, pikuaḥ nefesh [saving a life], sets aside all the commandments in the Torah except for idol worship, forbidden sexual relationships and murder.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Are Thee Ways Of Hidinng A Mezuzah In Times Of Danger?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 213:
glosses: To declare something invalid or null and void.
Synonyms: sense: reserve something for a specific purpose
word: allocate
word: earmark
word: set apart
sense: omit or neglect
word: put aside
sense: disagree with something
word: decline
sense: disagree with something
word: refuse
sense: disagree with something
word: turn down
sense: declare something invalid
word: annul
sense: declare something invalid
word: invalidate
sense: declare something invalid
word: rescind
Derived terms: word: set-aside
word: setaside
set-top box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-top boxes
Senses: glosses: A device that connects some source of signal to a television set, often decrypting a digitally encrypted signal from a communications satellite or cable network.
Synonyms: STB
Hypernyms: receiver
sex and shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of popular fiction in which characters with an affluent lifestyle have frequent explicit sexual encounters.
shock jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock jocks
Etymology: From shock + jock(ey).
Senses: examples: text: “To slam a movie about hate radio for fostering hate is like saying that a movie about the Ku Klux Klan will foster the Klan,” he says, adding that the death threats against Barry Champlain, “Talk Radio’s” shock jock, are not the imaginings of a feverish, Hollywood-inspired imagination.
ref: 1989 January 6, Robert Koehler, “The Word on 'Talk Radio' : Eric Bogosian Finds Story in the 'Fringe Element' of the Media”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: “We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers. “But then we had a shock president.”
ref: 2021 February 10, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson, Keith Collins, quoting Michael Harrison, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Appearing frequently on Japanese online shows in T-shirts, hoodies or casual jackets, and wearing signature eyeglasses with one round and one square lens, Dr. Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.
ref: 2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.
short sharp shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short sharp shocks
Etymology: Coined by W. S. Gilbert in the song "I Am So Proud" from The Mikado, referring euphemistically to a beheading.
Senses: examples: text: While COVID-19 has provided a short, sharp shock to the industry, the end hopefully appears to be in sight.
ref: 2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in Rail, page 47:
glosses: A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.
short-termism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From short-term + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Shifting from this to a situation where short-termism in access planning becomes the norm is not in passenger interests.
ref: 2020 August 12, Philip Haigh, “Short-term access planning is not in passengers' interest”, in Rail, page 55:
synonyms: short-sightedness
antonyms: long-termism
glosses: Concentration on obtaining immediate profit at the expense of long-term security.
Related terms: short-termist
ad hocery
longtermism
pshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʃɔː/
enpr: pshô
ipa: /ˈʃɔː/
enpr: shô
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: psshaw
form: pshah
form: psha
Senses: examples: text: Pshaw! I can't believe it!
text: "Pshaw! Why do ye bother yourself wid texts, man, about so small a matter?" interrupted the landlady
ref: 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, “chapter 13”, in The Pioneers:
text: 'Pshaw!' Ralph muttered, forcing a laugh.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 56, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: "Have a care, cousin," he whispered; "for the sake of the Virgin have a care, for you have angered him."
"Pshaw! fear not," the other answered in the same low tone.
ref: 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 22, in The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:
text: Pshaw! And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
ref: 1992, Wayne Campbell, Wayne's World:
glosses: Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
Synonyms: sense: indicating disapproval
word: pht
word: psh
word: pshh
word: phht
word: pssh
word: pssht
word: psht
word: pshht
word: feh
word: pooh
word: pish
word: bah
word: poh
sense: indicating disbelief
word: c'mon
word: poppycock
word: bullshit
pshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʃɔː/
enpr: pshô
ipa: /ˈʃɔː/
enpr: shô
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: pshaws
form: pshawing
form: pshawed
form: pshawed
Senses: glosses: To express disgust or contempt by saying "pshaw".
force out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces out
form: forcing out
form: forced out
form: forced out
form: force-out
form: forceout
Senses: examples: text: We are going to force out intolerance.
synonyms: extrude
oust
glosses: To cause something to be ejected
examples: text: Jones forced out Smith to end the inning.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground
force out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: force outs
form: force-out
form: forceout
Senses: examples: text: A force out was recorded on the scorecard.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of an out created by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
sacrifice bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækɹɪfaɪs ˈbʌnt/
ipa: /ˌsækɹəˌfaɪs ˈbʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: sacrifice bunts
Etymology: From sacrifice + bunt.
Senses: examples: text: The sacrifice bunt was fielded cleanly, but the only play was to first.
text: The manager will likely call for a sacrifice bunt here.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sacrifice
sacrifice hit
glosses: A play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners.
sacrifice fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrifice flies
Senses: examples: text: Jones' sacrifice fly brought in the tying run.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fly ball that allowed a runner to advance after it was caught
Synonyms: sac fly
crash course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash courses
Senses: examples: text: He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
text: Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
glosses: A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
101
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʌnəʊˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌnˌoʊˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: 101s
Etymology: From 1 + 0 + 1, from the method of numbering courses in United States colleges, the initial or introductory course commonly being numbered “101”; for example, “Biology 101”.
Senses: examples: text: I need you to give me a quick 101 on how you assemble the WIP reports.
text: […] quite well. (laughter)
 MS. O'CONNOR: I'm going to give you a quick 101 [on] cost and care management, and then I'm going to plug New Jersey EASE, always plug New Jersey EASE [Easy Access Single Entry, a program to help people find health care resources].
ref: 1999, New Jersey Advisory Council on Elder Care, quoting Ms. O'Connor, Council Meeting of New Jersey Advisory Council on Elder Care. Testimony Concerning Health Care and Caregiving for the Elderly: Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Piscataway, New Jersey, February 10, 1999, 1:00 P.M., New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, Public Information Office, Hearing Unit, page 25:
text: This is also the reason why 'Reshaping Environments' teaches you so many different styles of thinking or 'looking at the problem' throughout the course. It is why gaining an understanding of scale, interdisciplinary and systems thinking is important to understand within the course, because what they are really giving you is a different way to look at the same thing. So here is a quick 101, which I thought helped me with the different styles of thinking, and I hope you find them useful.
ref: 2012, Dorothy Meng, quotee, “Introduction”, in Helena Bender, editor, Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Hindu mythology is bursting at the seams with fabulous beasts and birds that are extraordinary versions of beasts and birds on earth. Unlike in western mythology, where many such fantastic creatures are considered 'evil', or at least a nuisance — dragons, for example, imprison princesses in towers, breathe fire and have to be destroyed by the hero of the story — there are no inherently 'evil' creatures in Hindu mythology. Here's a quick 101 on four fantastic beasts that Krishna mentions in this chapter of the Gita.
ref: 2015, Roopa Pai, The Gita For Children, Hachette India, →ISBN:
glosses: An introduction to a topic; a rundown of its basics.
101
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʌnəʊˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌnˌoʊˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
ipa: /ə ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/
ipa: /ə ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd(n̩)ˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌnəʊˈwʌn/
ipa: /ˌwʌnˌoʊˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Etymology: A variant of one hundred and one.
Senses: examples: text: [T]o offset the massive cost of learning 101 ways to embellish spatchcock, perhaps the readers may need 101 ways to cook two-minute noodles.
ref: 1996, Samela Harris, “Introduction”, in On a Shoestring: Recipes from the House of the Raising Sons, Kent Town, Adelaide, S.A.: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: Alternative form of one hundred and one (“a great many; numerous”).
svara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: svaras
form: swara
Etymology: From Sanskrit स्वर (svara).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A concept in Indian music, comparable to a note or tone.
taka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːkə/
Forms: form: takas
Etymology: From Bengali টাকা (ṭaka), from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka).
Senses: glosses: The official currency of Bangladesh, equal to 100 paisas. Symbol: ৳
glosses: Alternative form of tanka (“historical Central and South Asian currency”).
Related terms: tiki-taka
til
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
enpr: təl
ipa: /tɪl/
ipa: /təl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: 'til
Etymology: From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.
Senses: glosses: until, till
til
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
enpr: təl
ipa: /tɪl/
ipa: /təl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: 'til
Etymology: From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.
Senses: examples: text: I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up...
ref: 2004 Nov, Harper, Gary W., Gannon, Christine, Watson, Susan E., Catania, Joseph A., and Dolcini, M. Margaret, “The Role of Close Friends in African American Adolescents' Dating and Sexual Behavior”, in Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 4, pages 351–362:
text: Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again.
ref: 2008 Winter, Michael Copperman, “Gone”, in Arkansas Review, volume 39, number 3, Arkansas State University, pages 139–145:
text: EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE
ref: 2010 May, James Parker, “Revenge of the Wimps”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 305, number 4, page 38:
glosses: until, till
Derived terms: til to
til
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
enpr: təl
ipa: /tɪl/
ipa: /təl/
rhymes: -ɪl
ipa: /tiːl/
enpr: tĭl
enpr: təl
ipa: /tɪl/
ipa: /təl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: tils
form: teal
form: teel
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).
Senses: glosses: Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
glosses: Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Derived terms: til seed
locksmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑksmɪθ/
ipa: /ˈlɒksmɪθ/
Forms: form: locksmiths
Etymology: From Middle English loksmith; equivalent to lock + smith.
Senses: examples: text: Piccadilly, 12:30 o'clock.--Just before we reached Fenchurch Street Lord Godalming said to me, "Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty. For under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad for us to break into an empty house.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
glosses: One who practices locksmithing.
topics: gambling
games
synonyms: word: handcuff artist
glosses: Someone who only bets when they are sure they will win.
Derived terms: locksmithery
locksmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒkˌsmɪθɪŋ/
Etymology: From locksmith + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The science and art of making and defeating locks.
Lamaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈmɑz/
Senses: glosses: Natural childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.
Synonyms: psychoprophylaxis
malformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmælˈfɔːmd/
ipa: /ˌmælˈfɔɹmd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology: From mal- + formed.
Senses: glosses: Not formed correctly; misshapen; deformed.
Synonyms: deformed
misproportioned
misshapen
Derived terms: malformedness
nonmalformed
drag bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag bunts
Senses: examples: text: Jones fielded the drag bunt, but the runner beat out his throw for a single.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that has been hit by a batter who started to run towards first base while holding the bat back over the plate, typically in an attempt to get a hit rather than to sacrifice
examples: text: The drag bunt is a skill that few players perfect.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of bunting while running towards first base
drag bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drag bunts
form: drag bunting
form: drag bunted
form: drag bunted
Senses: examples: text: Jones drag bunted the pitch.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to bunt while running towards first base
examples: text: Smith often drag bunts if he sees the third baseman playing back.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to bunt while running towards first base
push bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push bunts
Senses: examples: text: The push bunt went between the pitcher and the first baseman who was charging too hard.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that has been hit with a bat which moves forward by a batter who is in an arms spread stance, usually in an attempt to bunt the ball past a charging infielder
examples: text: The push bunt is only used in certain situations.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of bunting with a bat that moves toward the ball
push bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push bunts
form: push bunting
form: push bunted
form: push bunted
Senses: examples: text: Jones push bunted the pitch.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball
examples: text: Smith push bunts if an infielder charges too aggressively.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball
greetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of greeting
greetings
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: Greetings and salutations. You a Heather?
ref: 1989, Daniel Waters, 11:50 from the start, in Michael Lehmann, director, Heathers, spoken by Jason Dean (Christian Slater):
glosses: Hello.
keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: plural of keep
keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: Only used in for keeps
keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep
indicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɪkeɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indicate
respectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/
Forms: form: more respectively
form: most respectively
form: resp.
Etymology: From respective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Serena Williams and Roger Federer won the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the 2010 Australian Open.
text: The 49th and 50th states of the United States of America are Alaska and Hawaii, respectively.
text: Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
ref: 1849, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Language”, in Nature, Boston, MA: James Munroe and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC; republished Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg, 2009 July 17:
text: If, as we have said, the sun were a ball nine feet across, our earth would, in proportion, be the size of a one-inch ball, and at a distance of 323 yards from the sun. The moon would be a speck the size of a small pea, thirty inches from the earth. Nearer to the sun than the earth would be two other very similar specks, the planets Mercury and Venus, at a distance of 125 and 250 yards respectively. Beyond the earth would come the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, at distances of 500, 1806, 3000, 6000, and 9500 yards respectively.
ref: 1920, H. G. Wells, “The Earth in Space and Time”, in The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, New York: The Macmillan company, →LCCN, →OCLC; republished Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg, 2014 April 12:
text: Two tao with three and five perforations, respectively, made of black jade, were found at the site of Shih-mao in Shensi, Yü-lin District, Shen-mu County. Their total lengths are 49 and 55 centimeters.⁴⁷
ref: 1986, Hsia Nai, “The Classification, Nomenclature, and Usage of Shang Dynasty Jades”, in K. C. Chang, editor, Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 228:
text: Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
text: Arriva and MTR, both private companies, are paid a fixed fee to operate Overground and Elizabeth line services respectively.
ref: 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 30:
glosses: In a relative manner; often used when comparing array lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given.
Related terms: irrespectively
respective
retrospectively
respectfully
respectably
specifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specifyings
Etymology: From Middle English specifieng, equivalent to specify + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of stating or describing something clearly and exactly.
specifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English specifienge, equivalent to specify + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of specify
seeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
homophone: seaming
homophone: seming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seem
seeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
homophone: seaming
homophone: seming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more seeming
form: most seeming
Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: seeming friendship
text: O, good my lord, you have lost a friend / And I dare swear you borrow not that face / Of seeming sorrow—it is sure your own.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm,
And what I have to do, consult the while,
And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.
ref: 1671, Aphra Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband, London: Thomas Dring, act II, scene 5, pages 32–33:
text: Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;
ref: 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays, London: W. Griffin, Essay 18, p. 150:
text: […] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]
ref: 1876, George Eliot, chapter 27, in Daniel Deronda:
text: […] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 10, in The Return of the King, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012:
text: All the A.C.V. four-wheel diesel railbuses are now stored in seeming disrepair at Derby Friargate.
ref: 1962 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 59:
text: Fields (or “camps”) enclosed by chest-high wire fences now contain thousands of ostriches in seeming harmony, sometimes spread out like feathered chess pieces, sometimes seated in clusters.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
synonyms: apparent
ostensible
glosses: Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).
Derived terms: seemingly
seemingness
seeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
homophone: seaming
homophone: seming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: seemings
Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: My loue is strengthned though more weake in seeming
 I loue not lesse, thogh lesse the show appeare,
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 102”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:
text: I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.
ref: 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 162:
glosses: Outward appearance.
examples: text: Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,
ref: 1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London: Preface, page 39:
text: […] in her ears the sound
Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d
With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 736-738:
glosses: Apprehension; judgement.
tends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tend
tries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of try
glosses: plural of trie
tries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of try
here's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɹz/
ipa: /hɪə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
homophone: hears
Senses: glosses: Contraction of here is.
examples: text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Contraction of here are.
Derived terms: here's hoping
here's looking at you
here's mud in your eye
here's to
dead-red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-reds
Senses: examples: text: The pitch was a dead-red.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A four-seam fastball
sit dead-red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits dead-red
form: sitting dead-red
form: sat dead-red
form: sat dead-red
Etymology: Popularized by broadcaster and former player Joe Morgan.
Senses: examples: text: If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: For a batter to look for a four-seam fastball.
fastball count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastball counts
Senses: examples: text: Batters will often sit dead-red when there is a fastball count.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch count such that a fastball is likely to be thrown, usually 3-0 or 3-1.
Haligonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhælɪˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌhælɪˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: Likely from a false folk etymology deriving Halifax from Old English hāliġ feax ("holy hair"), although it probably actually came from halh + ġefeaxe ("grassy corner"). To this root halig- was added the -onian suffix, probably with analogy to other British demonyms following a similar pattern such as Oxonian, Cantabrigian, Mancunian, Glaswegian, etc. The original demonym was Halifaxian from the Nova Scotian city's founding in 1749 until the early 19th century (around the third generation of residents), when Haligonian became preferred. The reason for the change may be in part due to a negative association with the original demonym.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Haligonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhælɪˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌhælɪˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Haligonians
Etymology: Likely from a false folk etymology deriving Halifax from Old English hāliġ feax ("holy hair"), although it probably actually came from halh + ġefeaxe ("grassy corner"). To this root halig- was added the -onian suffix, probably with analogy to other British demonyms following a similar pattern such as Oxonian, Cantabrigian, Mancunian, Glaswegian, etc. The original demonym was Halifaxian from the Nova Scotian city's founding in 1749 until the early 19th century (around the third generation of residents), when Haligonian became preferred. The reason for the change may be in part due to a negative association with the original demonym.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
examples: text: The Haligonian is "not known to Halifax Regional Police in any significant way," she said.
ref: 2007 May 17, “Suspect arrested in Nova Scotia gay murders”, in National Post, retrieved 30 May 2007:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Saskatchewanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saskatchewanites
Etymology: From Saskatchewan + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Synonyms: sense: preferred term
word: Saskatchewanian
Albertan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Alberta + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the province of Alberta, Canada.
Albertan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albertans
Etymology: From Alberta + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Alberta, Canada.
Albertan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Albertan
Etymology: From Alberta + -n.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Middle Cambrian epoch.
Calgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkælˈɡɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Calgary + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Calgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkælˈɡɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Calgarians
Etymology: From Calgary + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
adoptive father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoptive fathers
Senses: glosses: A man who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological father.
Hypernyms: adoptive parent
Coordinate terms: adoptive mother
adoptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɒptɪv/
Etymology: From adopt + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: My adoptive parents recently got to know my biological parents.
glosses: Related through adoption.
glosses: Pertaining to adoption.
Derived terms: adoptive father
adoptively
adoptive mother
adoptive parent
adoptive sibling
nonadoptive
swinging bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinging bunts
Senses: examples: text: The catcher fielded Jones' swinging bunt and easily threw him out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that travels a short distance as if it were bunted, but was produced by a full or checked swing.
bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bra
Spaniards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæn.jɚdz/
ipa: /ˈspæn.jədz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Spaniard
passages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of passage
passages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of passage
leagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡz/
rhymes: -iːɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of league
leagues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡz/
rhymes: -iːɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of league
masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mass
glosses: plural of masse
masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪz/
Senses: examples: text: The masses were mobilized not only to perform typical activities that are part of agricultural production, but also unusual ones such as killing sparrows and rats that were reportedly competing with humans for food. For instance, in 1958, the people of Tunliu County in Shanxi Province were determined to kill all sparrows and rats within their territory.
ref: 2009, Shiping Hua, “Reforms within Communism: China”, in Chinese Utopianism: A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought with Japan and Russia, 1898-1997 (Chinese Studies/Political Theory), Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
qualifier: generically
glosses: People, especially a large number of people; the general population.
examples: text: The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
text: Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ref: 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
glosses: The total population.
examples: text: […] the ignorant masses […]
text: Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.
ref: 2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN:
glosses: The lower classes or all but the elite.
Synonyms: sense: lower classes
word: unwashed
Derived terms: tyranny of the masses
unwashed masses
masses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mass
Related terms: unwashed masses
gifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪfts/
enpr: /ɡɪf(t)s/
rhymes: -ɪfts
Senses: glosses: plural of gift
gifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪfts/
enpr: /ɡɪf(t)s/
rhymes: -ɪfts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gift
pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: panes
Senses: glosses: plural of pain
pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: panes
Senses: examples: text: Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158:
text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:
glosses: Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
Derived terms: at pains
go to pains
painstaker
painstaking
painsworthy
take pains
take great pains
pains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: panes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pain
representations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of representation
representations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃənz/
Senses: examples: text: The British government has already made representations to the Spanish government concerning this matter.
glosses: Formal statements made to an authority to express discontent.
deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of deed
deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deed
desires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪəz/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪɹz/
Senses: glosses: plural of desire
desires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪəz/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪɹz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desire
staring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stare
staring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: starings
Senses: examples: text: Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space[…]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
glosses: The act of one who stares.
staring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more staring
form: most staring
Senses: glosses: Shining; vivid, garish.
glosses: Looking fixedly with wide-open eyes.
examples: text: “I fear, with regard to the world in general, she is utterly incorrigible, because it has neither pleasure nor advantage to offer, that can compensate for the deprivation of relating one staring story, or ridiculous anecdote.”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.8:
glosses: Sensational, lurid.
Derived terms: staring contest
staringly
staring spell
stark staring mad
Dorothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɹ.ə.θi/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.ə.θi/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.θi/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹ.ə.θi/
Etymology: The English form of Latin Dorothea, the name of a legendary saint, from Ancient Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: Piſt[ol]. Then, to you miſtris Dorothy, I will charge you. / Doro[thy]. Charge me? I ſcorne you, ſcuruy companion: […]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature [D4], recto:
text: "My name is Dorothy," said the girl, "and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the great Oz to send me back to Kansas."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “How Dorothy saved the Scarecrow”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 38:
text: Don't you think the world has gone steadily downhill ever since parents stopped naming their children Lucy and Dorothy and started naming them Samantha?
ref: 1990, Russell Baker, There's a Country in My Cellar, Morrow, →ISBN, page 418:
text: In recent years, Hillel chapters have also come under fire for withdrawing support from or further marginalizing queer Jewish student groups that participate in events co-sponsored by JVP, and for banning legendary civil rights activist Dorothy Zellner from speaking at campus chapters after she discussed her commitment to Palestinian human rights work in a speech at Harvard’s Hillel.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: doll
Dorothy bag
Dorothy Crater
Dorothy Dixer
Dorothy dollar
friend of Dorothy
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Dodie
sense: pet forms
word: Doll
sense: pet forms
word: Dolly
sense: pet forms
word: Dot
sense: pet forms
word: Dottie
word: Dora
word: Doreen
word: Dorothea
word: Thea
strangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of stranger
Greeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːks/
rhymes: -iːks
Senses: glosses: plural of Greek