cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
simplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈplɪsɪti/
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: simplicities
Etymology: From Middle English simplicite, from Old French simplicite, from Latin simplicitās, from simplex (“simple”). See simple. Partially displaced native English onefoldness.
Senses: examples: text: the simplicity of metals or of earths
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
examples: text: the simplicity of a machine
text: 2. Simplicity, with the least number of working parts, all readily visible and accessible.
ref: 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 438-439:
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
examples: text: simplicity of dress, of style, or of language
text: simplicity of diet
text: simplicity of life
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
examples: text: the simplicity of a doctrine
text: the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: The state or quality of being simple
Lack of complication; efficiency.
examples: text: speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An act or instance of foolishness.
Synonyms: simpleness
Derived terms: simplicity itself
Related terms: simple
intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚvəlz/
ipa: /ˈɪntəvəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of interval
earnestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝnɪstli/
ipa: /ˈɜːnɪstli/
Forms: form: more earnestly
form: most earnestly
Etymology: From Middle English ernestly, from Old English eornostlīċe (“earnestly, strictly”), equivalent to earnest + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness, […]
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 256:
text: One thing, however, I do most earnestly beg and entreat of you: […]
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19:
text: “This the only seat y’all got?” [Dank] Demoss, who also goes by Dajua Blanding, asks earnestly.
ref: 2025 February 11, Patrick Reilly, “500-pound rapper suing Lyft over ride denial asks for couch over chair at ‘Breakfast Club’ interview: ‘This is accommodation’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025:
glosses: In an earnest manner; being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort.
Synonyms: for real
honestly
procession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsɛʃən/
Forms: form: processions
form: processioning
form: processioned
form: processioned
Etymology: From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.
Senses: glosses: To take part in a procession.
glosses: To honour with a procession.
examples: text: To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.
ref: 1856, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary, PROCESSIONING:
topics: law
qualifier: North Carolina; Tennessee; North Carolina; Tennessee
glosses: To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
Synonyms: process
destined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛstɪnd/
Senses: examples: text: He is sure he is destined for fame.
text: When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
text: The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
ref: 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: destined
word: doomed
word: fated
word: fateful
word: fatidic
word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: predevote
word: preordained
word: weird
word: assured
word: certain
word: clear
word: confident
word: definite
word: doubtless
word: positive
word: sicker
word: sure
word: unambiguous
word: unequivocal
word: univocal
word: unwavering
word: wis
glosses: Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.
Derived terms: undestined
destined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛstɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destine
Afula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Israel.
somehow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmhaʊ/
ipa: /ˈsʊmhuː/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: From some + how.
Senses: examples: text: This problem has to be tackled somehow.
text: We don't know how he's still alive after the accident, but somehow he is.
text: December 1, 2016, Tom Donaghy writing in The New York Times, Tender Side of Edward Albee
It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other.
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Have I not loathed to live again and said
It would have been far better to be dead,
 And yet somehow, I know not why,
Remained afraid to die!
ref: 1895, William Dean Howells, Mortality:
text: Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
ref: 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
glosses: In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
Synonyms: somewise
someway
Derived terms: somehow or another
somehow or other
somehow or the other
bulbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌlbəs/
ipa: /ˈboʊlbəs/
Forms: form: more bulbous
form: most bulbous
Etymology: From bulb + -ous or alteration of Latin bulbosus.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
examples: text: A neon cacophony hung only a few feet above their heads, the popping and buzzing of the lights only occasionally drowned out by the shouts of the barkers, bulbous men whose doughy fat strained at their sweat-stained t-shirts[…]
ref: 2002, Michael Bracken, All White Girls, page 9:
glosses: Overweight and round in shape.
raw_tags: of a person
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
Derived terms: bulbous buttercup
bulbously
bulbousness
nonbulbous
pseudobulbous
futtock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌtək/
ipa: /ˈfʌtək/
ipa: [ˈfəɾək]
Forms: form: futtocks
Etymology: From Middle English futtek, votek, of uncertain origin; perhaps a compound of Old English fōt + hōc, or fut + -uc (foot hook or foot -ock), Old Dutch vot or fuot + hoek; or from timber jargon word butt + -ock (diminutive suffix). Alternatively from Middle Dutch voetkijn, diminutive of voet (“foot”), equivalent to foot + -kin; or Old English *fōtuc, meaning foot + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Perhaps came into Old English from Old Norse fótr, or fett / futt (big); + ek (timbr), or øks; giving Old Norse fót'ek, futtek or futtøks; equivalent Norwegian is fot haki, fett eik (tømmer), or fett øks; meaning foot hook, big oak (timber), or bold axe.
Senses: examples: text: The timbers (called also frames, or floors, first, second and third futtocks, where the lengths of the frames are in two, three, or more pieces) will be "double," that is, two timbers will be placed close together, or nearly close together, and act as one frame.
ref: 1884, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (Fourth Edition), page 12:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.
Derived terms: futtock band
futtock head
futtock hole
futtock lines
futtock plank
futtock plate
futtock rider
futtock shroud
futtock staff
futtock timber
ground futtock
spooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspuːki/
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: spookier
form: spookiest
Etymology: From spook + -y.
Senses: synonyms: eldritch
glosses: Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
examples: text: I thought it was nice, though I found it very quiet, and whenever I was alone in it, I felt spooky.
ref: 2011, Wilbur Page, I Had to Do It My Way!: One Man's Journey Through Life, page 88:
glosses: Spooked; afraid; frightened.
glosses: Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses).
Derived terms: ooky-spooky
spookily
spookiness
spooky action at a distance
spooky-ass
spooky PAC
spooky season
spoopy
outfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtfild/
Forms: form: outfields
Etymology: From out- + field.
Senses: examples: text: He hit a long fly ball to the outfield in the gap to left.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
glosses: The area outside a racetrack or running track.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Arable land continually cropped without being manured.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Any open field at a distance from the farmsteading.
Synonyms: sense: area of a baseball field
word: backfield
Derived terms: outfielder
outfield player
outfieldsman
outfield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtfild/
Forms: form: outfields
form: outfielding
form: outfielded
form: outfielded
Etymology: From out- + field.
Senses: examples: text: A special dispatch sent to The Cincinnati Enquirer on the game stated that the Buckeyes outfielded and outplayed the Grays at every point, and that had the Bucks run for first base instead of watching the ball after they hit it, they would have increased the score.
ref: 2005, William A. Cook, The Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877: The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League, McFarland, →ISBN, page 118:
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform better in defense (fielding).
flashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: flashings
Etymology: From flash + -ing.
* (weatherproofing): From original flashing material of copper or aluminum that reflects flashes of sunlight.
Senses: glosses: A sudden blazing or bursting, as of fire or water.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: Components used to weatherproof or seal roof system edges at perimeters, penetrations, walls, expansion joints, valleys, drains and other places where the roof covering is interrupted or terminated.
glosses: The process of getting rid of gaps on shelves by bringing products from the back of the shelf to the front to create a 'fuller' shelf.
examples: text: The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.
glosses: The blinking of a light source, such as a light bulb or computer's cursor.
glosses: The exposing of one's naked body, or part of it, in public briefly (the action of the verb to flash).
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: The use of rhodium plating to temporarily enhance a ring's durability and shine.
Derived terms: apron flashing
base flashing
cap flashing
channel flashing
chimney flashing
counterflashing
cyberflashing
cyber-flashing
flashing collar
flashing lane
skirt flashing
step flashing
flashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Etymology: From flash + -ing.
* (weatherproofing): From original flashing material of copper or aluminum that reflects flashes of sunlight.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flash
Related terms: streaking
blinking
flash mob
outfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outfielders
form: OF
form: OFer
Etymology: From outfield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The outfielder tracked down the long fly.
text: . I like to think that if I wasn't pitcher I could be an outfielder or a first baseman or something and play major league baseball anyway.
ref: 1973 January 4, Wells Twombly, “Now the 10th man”, in The New York Times:
text: The Twins are known for their fascination with toolsy and athletic outfielders, but Hicks has the most talent of any Twins draft pick since Joe Mauer in 2002.
ref: 2008 November 6, “Breaking down the draft, Part 1”, in The Hardball Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: infielder
coordinate_terms: left fielder
center fielder
right fielder
glosses: A player that plays in the outfield, which is the outer portion of the field.
infielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infielders
Etymology: From infield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The infielder run in to field the bunt.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: outfielder
glosses: A player who plays in the infield, which is the inner portion of the field.
Derived terms: corner infielder
middle infielder
home run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home runs
form: homerun
Senses: examples: text: The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: homer
longball
glosses: A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pesäpallo
sports
glosses: A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.
examples: text: I'm on the home run.
glosses: The portion of a journey that ends at home.
examples: text: The product was a home run.
glosses: A success, especially a popular success.
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
Derived terms: Chinese home run
hit a home run
Little League home run
Related terms: single
double
triple
grand slam
home stretch
smash hit
purview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
Forms: form: purviews
Etymology: From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The enacting part of a statute.
topics: law
glosses: The scope of a statute.
examples: text: Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
ref: 1788, James Madison, “The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution”, in The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, page 255:
text: Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 7:
text: Several air marshals have asked Congress to remove the program from T.S.A.’s purview and entrust it to a different agency, like Customs and Border Protection or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
ref: 2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:
text: It was 2015 when Jain—whose purview includes commissioning new series, acquiring the rights to foreign hits, and publicly answering for any perceived misdeeds of ITV—set out to overhaul the tepidly received Celebrity Love Island, a 12-person British popularity contest and ostensible matchmaker that disappeared after two seasons.
ref: 2022 June 2, Anna Peele, “Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols”, in Vanity Fair:
synonyms: responsibility
glosses: Scope or range of interest or control.
examples: text: Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.
ref: 1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, page 18:
glosses: Range of understanding.
Related terms: purvey
panoply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəpli/
Forms: form: panoplies
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).
Senses: examples: text: Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 459:
text: And you were waking / And day was breaking / A panoply of song / And summer comes to Springville Hill
ref: 2011, The Decemberists, “June Hymn”, in The King Is Dead:
glosses: A splendid display of something.
glosses: A collection or display of weaponry.
glosses: Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
glosses: A complete set of armour.
examples: text: [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way; all which, however, he, the man he was, could receive on thick enough panoply, or even rebound therefrom, and also go his way.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: Something that covers and protects.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: plenitude, plentitude, plenty, cornucopia
text: Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War.
ref: 2016 November, Eugene Rogan, “The First World War and its Legacy in the Middle East”, in Amal Ghazal, Jens Hanssen, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, →DOI:
glosses: A broad or full range or complete set.
Derived terms: empanoply
panoplied
panoplist
Related terms: hoplite
panoply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəpli/
Forms: form: panoplies
form: panoplying
form: panoplied
form: panoplied
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).
Senses: glosses: To fit out in a suit of armour
glosses: To array or bedeck
touchstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃstəʊn/
Forms: form: touchstones
Etymology: From touch + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone used to verify the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them in order to leave a visible trace.
examples: text: The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: "Expectation of life" is an elastic term: the touchstone here is rather the aggregate amount of work that the locomotive does during its working life.
ref: 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: Although there has not been very much direct treatment of the Holocaust in analytic moral philosophy, the Nazis appear again and again as examples or touchstones in the construction of moral theories.
ref: 2002 January, Eve Garrard, “Forgiveness and the Holocaust”, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, page 147:
text: In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
ref: 2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243:
text: Brokeback Mountain did take home three Oscars, including a prestigious best director prize for Ang Lee, and remains a beloved gay touchstone.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
glosses: A standard of comparison or evaluation.
Related terms: bellwether
benchmark
model
norm
exemplar
standard
capstone
cornerstone
keystone
tarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tarry
fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastballs
Etymology: From fast (adjective) + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A high-speed pitch of a baseball.
examples: text: The pitcher had a blazing fastball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
Synonyms: word: cheese
word: fireball
word: gas
word: heat
word: hummer
Derived terms: fastball count
fastballer
split-fingered fastball
Related terms: Bugs Bunny change-up
change-up
curveball
cut fastball
gyroball
knuckleball
screwball
sinker
slider
spitball
split-finger fastball
two-seam fastball
fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fastballs
form: fastballing
form: fastballed
form: fastballed
Etymology: From fast (adjective) + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Kevin pushed away from the desk and fastballed it into the other man’s chest.
ref: 2004, Richard Marinick, chapter 25, in Boyos: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Kate’s Mystery Books, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Wyatt spurred his horse to the middle of the stones, reached into the corpse’s chest, yanked out the heart, and fastballed it at a vine-covered tree stump.
ref: 2007 December 6, Jennifer Rardin, chapter 5, in Another One Bites the Dust (Jaz Parks; 2), New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 44:
text: He targeted a man standing a bit taller than the others and fastballed the lock in his direction. The lock somehow managed to miss everyone below and clattered against the pavement.
ref: 2014, Kenneth Calhoun, chapter 15, in Black Moon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, →ISBN, page 240:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw (something) at a high speed.
croquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krō'kā
enpr: krō'kē
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊki/
enpr: krōkā'
ipa: /kɹoʊˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: croquets
Etymology: Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
topics: games
glosses: A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
glosses: A croquette.
Derived terms: association croquet
croqueter
croquetlike
croquet mallet
golf croquet
roque
croquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krō'kā
enpr: krō'kē
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊki/
enpr: krōkā'
ipa: /kɹoʊˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: croquets
form: croqueting
form: croqueted
form: croqueted
Etymology: Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
curveball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curveballs
Etymology: From curve + ball.
Senses: examples: text: He bit on a curveball in the dirt.
text: Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
ref: 2025 June 11, “White Sox pitching prospect Grant Taylor makes jump from Double-A to perfect major league debut”, in The Associated Press:
text: Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals.
ref: 2025 June 6, Joe Harris, “Royals rookie Jac Caglianone gets first career hit and RBI”, in The Associated Press:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: curve
deuce
yakker
glosses: A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
examples: text: Life has thrown him a few curveballs.
text: The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched above the show’s expectations.
ref: 2015 March 10, David Sims, “Without Sam Simon, 'The Simpsons' Wouldn't Be What It Is Today”, in The Atlantic:
text: There are two curveball nominations, one perhaps a popularity bid and the other a credibility bid. The popular one is Bieber’s Purpose.
ref: 2016 December 6, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Culture Wars in the Grammy Album Nominations”, in The Atlantic:
text: But from time to time, June throws up a curveball, in the shape of unusual and hard to predict meteorological events.
ref: 2017 June 13, Stephen Moss, “June likes to throw a curveball now and again”, in The Guardian:
text: And I think that’s an example of where faced with a seemingly intractable political reality, technology produces a solution that is a total curveball and not that imaginable a few decades ago.
ref: 2021 June 11, Ezra Klein, “Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power” (32:37 from the start), in The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), spoken by Sam Altman:
synonyms: twist
glosses: An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
Coordinate terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: fastball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hardball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: slider
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: cut fastball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: two-seam fastball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: split-finger fastball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: sinker
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: screwball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: softball
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: knuckleball
Derived terms: curveballer
throw someone a curveball
Related terms: throw someone a curve
curveball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curveballs
form: curveballing
form: curveballed
form: curveballed
Etymology: From curve + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell.
ref: 2006, William F. McNeil, The Evolution of Pitching in Major League Baseball, McFarland, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The news curveballed him. He'd been hamstrung and schizzed all the preceding weeks. He brooded in his den.
ref: 2009, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Random House, →ISBN, page 566:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw a curveball.
Related terms: knee-buckler
bender
breaking pitch
yakker
passroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passrolls
Etymology: From pass + roll.
Senses: glosses: A shot in the game of croquet which consists of moving both the striker ball and the croqueted ball together at about the same distance and possibly having the striker ball move farther than the croqueted ball with the stroke.
in the cards
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Referring to the reading of tarot cards to foresee the future.
Senses: examples: text: I don't think another child is in the cards for them.
text: You will not sell enough to put in your eye. It is not in the cards.
ref: 1947, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Government Corporations Appropriation Bill for 1948, page 31:
text: Sometimes a trip to the spa is not in the cards, even if your gel manicure has seen waaaay better days. These polish remover tools help cut costs and keep your natural nails looking v nice.
ref: 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
cut fastball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut fastballs
Senses: examples: text: His cut fastball tends to break bats.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch thrown with an offset grip and a moderate amount of added pressure by middle finger yielding a combination of backspin and some sidespin, resulting in motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher with velocity only slightly diminished from that of a fastball
Synonyms: cutter
Related terms: curveball
fastball
slider
two-seam fastball
split-finger fastball
sinker
screwball
knuckleball
inroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnɹəʊdz/
ipa: /ˈɪnˌɹoʊdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of inroad
nog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒɡ/
ipa: /nɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: nogs
Etymology: Variant of knag.
Senses: examples: text: Within a wall,[…], we find vertical studs, nogs or blocking, top and bottom plates, perhaps some form of diagonal braces, and many nailed and screwed connections.
ref: 2014, Andrew Charleson, Structure As Architecture:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
examples: text: nogs and chocks are used to support the roof where waste material can not conveniently be obtained
ref: 1903, Gases Met with in Mines:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
mining
glosses: One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A treenail to fasten the shores.
nog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒɡ/
ipa: /nɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: nogs
form: nogging
form: nogged
form: nogged
Etymology: Variant of knag.
Senses: glosses: to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
nog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒɡ/
ipa: /nɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: nogs
Senses: glosses: Short for noggin.
nog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒɡ/
ipa: /nɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: nogs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eggnog.
examples: text: Walpole laid a quart of nog on't
He'd either make a hog or dog on't.
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, Upon the Horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin:
glosses: A kind of strong ale.
nog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒɡ/
ipa: /nɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: nogs
Etymology: Shortened from nig-nog.
Senses: glosses: A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
synonyms: noggie
glosses: A Vietnamese person.
sah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suh
Senses: examples: text: The door was opened by a long Negro in a white jacket, who grinned familiarly when Lord Lambeth asked for Mr. Westgate.
“He ain’t at home, sah; he’s downtown at his o’fice.”
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sir.
Related terms: yessah
ke-mo sah-bee
public health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My parents are both in public health now. They both work at the Tucson AIDS Project. I've got a sister who's a nurse, another one who works in a hospital, […]
ref: 1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: Pollution was no longer considered an isolated problem to be hashed out between individuals. Instead, it was treated as a menace to public health and the economy.
ref: 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
Derived terms: public health funeral
reckon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkən/
rhymes: -ɛkən
Forms: form: reckons
form: reckin
form: recken
Etymology: From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Senses: examples: text: Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'
ref: 2009, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, page 264:
text: I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.
ref: 2020, R. H. van de Weert, Reveille:
text: I have beckoned vigorously & my reckons have passed into a vast sea of stones, rearing the strong feelings, the dawn of light emerged; surfacing the depths of the deep & the depths was beckoning coldly.
ref: 2020, Marvin J. Everheart, The Vision of M.E.:
text: Here's my reckon on mass incarceration.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 37:
glosses: An impression or opinion.
reckon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkən/
rhymes: -ɛkən
Forms: form: reckons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).
Related terms: calculate
guess
earnest money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earnest moneys
form: earnest-money
Senses: glosses: Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate.
chassé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chassés
form: chasse
Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.
chassé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chassés
form: chasséing
form: chasséed
form: chasséed
form: chasséd
form: chasséd
form: chasse
Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé.
Senses: glosses: To perform this step.
examples: text: We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society.
ref: 1817, The Literary Gazette:
text: Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.
ref: 1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32:
glosses: To dismiss.
Related terms: sashay
subject pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subject pronouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence, such as "I", "he" "she" "they" or "we" in English.
Synonyms: word: subject pronoun
Hypernyms: word: pronoun
Related terms: object pronoun
object pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object pronouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pronoun that is used as the object of a sentence, such as "me", "him" or "us" in English.
Synonyms: word: object pronoun
Hypernyms: word: pronoun
Related terms: subject pronoun
sashay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæʃeɪ/
ipa: /sæˈʃeɪ/
homophone: sachet
rhymes: -æʃeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: sashays
Etymology: Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“I take”).
Senses: glosses: A chassé.
glosses: A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
artic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ(ɹ)ˈtɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪk
Forms: form: artics
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of articulated lorry; A semi-trailer truck.
glosses: Abbreviation of articulated bus
Related terms: HGV
lorry
truck
wagon
noggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑɡɪn/
ipa: /ˈnɑɡn̩/
ipa: /ˈnɒɡɪn/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪn
Forms: form: noggins
form: naggin
Etymology: Uncertain. First use appears c. 1588. Appears in publications in the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form naggin, the rare older Irish, Scottish and Northern English form noggan, used by Jonathan Swift, and the Wexford form nuggeen. Tomás S. Ó Máille and some older dictionaries like Skeat's derive it from Irish naigín, cnaigín, from cnagaire, cnag, but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that Irish naigín and Scottish Gaelic noigean instead derive from English. Compare nog.
Senses: examples: text: Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin, or a guinea a bottle…
ref: 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parson of Jackman's Gulch:
text: I needed some nails for to rivet them down...When you go to town you can buy the full noggin but beware you bring none of your fancibles home.
ref: 1999, “Bold Doherty”, in Midsummer's Night, performed by Dervish:
glosses: A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
examples: text: I don’t know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real, substantial, hospitable Scotch breakfast, and then went to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whisky to close up with.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
qualifier: dated outside dialects
glosses: A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
examples: text: Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.
ref: 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul:
text: She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.
ref: 2003, John Farris, The Fury and the Power:
glosses: The head.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
glosses: Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam; rough brick masonry”).
Derived terms: get the noggin joggin'
use one's noggin
homologous series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologous series
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any series of aliphatic organic compounds whose members differ only in the addition of a CH₂ group; for example, the carboxylic acids, CH₃(CH₂)ₙCOOH where n is any whole number
disjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: more disjoint
form: most disjoint
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Senses: examples: text: Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:
glosses: Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
Derived terms: disjointly
disjointness
disjoint set
disjoint union
disjoint union topology
disjointure
nondisjoint
pairwise disjoint
Related terms: disjunct
conjoint
disjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: disjoints
form: disjointing
form: disjointed
form: disjointed
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
text: to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
text: Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.
ref: 1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163:
text: As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.
ref: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543:
synonyms: disarticulate#Verb
antonyms: rejoint#Verb
rearticulate#Verb
glosses: To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
examples: a disjointed speech
glosses: To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
examples: text: But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:
glosses: To fall into pieces.
Related terms: unjointed
disjoin
spinning mule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning mules
Senses: glosses: A machine that spins thread from fibres.
Related terms: spinning jenny
spinning jenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning jennies
Senses: glosses: An early spinning machine having multiple spools.
Related terms: spinning frame
spinning mule
spinning frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning frames
Senses: glosses: a machine that draws and twists fibres and then winds it onto spools or spindles
spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnɪŋ/
Forms: form: spinnings
Senses: examples: text: these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
ref: 2005, Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension, page 258:
glosses: The motion of something that spins.
glosses: The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
synonyms: spin
glosses: Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle.
Derived terms: plate spinning
spinning bike
spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref: 2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
glosses: present participle and gerund of spin
Derived terms: fidget-spinning
head-spinning
money-spinning
pen spinning
ring spinning
spinning frame
spinning house
spinning jenny
spinning mule
spinning rod
spinning rust
spinning teacups
spinning top
spinning wheel
spinning wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning wheels
form: spinning-wheel
Senses: examples: text: Dobrunka always began the day by feeding the goats, then she prepared the breakfast, swept the kitchen, and when everything else was done she sat down at her spinning wheel and spun.
ref: 1919, Parker Hoysted Fillmore, Czechoslovak fairy tales, page 179:
glosses: A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot.
Hyponyms: charkha
great wheel
Related terms: spindle
cardioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardioids
Etymology: By surface analysis, cardi- + -oid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation ρ=1+ cos ,θ - approximately heart-shaped
Derived terms: subcardioid
cardioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cardioid
form: most cardioid
Etymology: By surface analysis, cardi- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having this characteristic shape
glosses: sensitive in front, but not behind or at the sides
raw_tags: of a microphone
Derived terms: cardioid catacaustic
cardioid condenser
cardioid coordinate
cardioid evolute
cardioid inverse curve
cardioid involute
cardioid microphone
hypercardioid
supercardioid
limaçon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limaçons
form: limacon
form: cedilla
Etymology: From French limaçon, ultimately from Latin limax (“snail”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A plane curve with polar equation ρ=a+b, sin ,θ or ρ=a+b, cos ,θ, of which the cardioid is a special case.
Synonyms: limaçon of Pascal