cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
metra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtrə/
Forms: form: metras
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέτρα (métra), plural of μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Senses: glosses: A pocket instrument combining a thermometer, level, plummet, and lens.
antiterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiterrorist
form: most antiterrorist
Etymology: From anti- + terrorist.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or counteracting terrorism, or reducing the threat from terrorism.
Related terms: antiterrorism
antiterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiterrorists
Etymology: From anti- + terrorist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes terrorism.
cocoa bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoa beans
Senses: synonyms: cacao
glosses: seed of the cocoa plant; used to make chocolate, cocoa and cocoa butter
Related terms: cabosside
fountainhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fountainheads
Etymology: From fountain + head.
Senses: glosses: A spring that is the source of a river.
glosses: An abundant source of knowledge, etc.
infuriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: infuriations
Etymology: From infuriate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: He had several long arguments with Annie, but to no purpose; and after his last interview with her, he returned to the saloon in a state little short of infuriation.
ref: 1849, Emma Jane, chapter 8, in Autobiography of Maude Bolingbroke, London: Wertheim and Macintosh, page 114:
text: Any compassion I felt for my middle school friend had evaporated, leaving little hard nuggets of infuriation.
ref: 2008, Sloane Crosley, “You On a Stick”, in I Was Told There’d Be Cake, New York: Riverhead Books, page 178:
synonyms: rage
fury
glosses: Extreme anger.
examples: text: 1923, T. E. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett dated 16 December, 1923, in David Garnett (ed.), Letters of T. E. Lawrence, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, p. 444,
He likes the chapters in which I ramble round among the cobwebs of my own mind—those you wanted cut! Quaint, isn’t it? He also likes others, which you praised.
That’s one infuriation of letters, of all artistic effort… their lack of an absolute.
text: […] spring’s infuriations over and a long way
To the first autumnal inhalations,
ref: 1942, Wallace Stevens, “Credences of Summer”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 372:
glosses: Something that causes extreme anger; an expression or instance of extreme anger.
flagship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡʃɪp/
Forms: form: flagships
Etymology: From flag + ship.
Senses: examples: text: After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued.
ref: 2022 April 21, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “With sunken warship, Russian disinformation faces a test.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: admiral
admiral ship
glosses: The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet.
examples: text: The retail company's store in London is their flagship.
text: Ars Technica’s Ron Amadeo considered the two smartphones together, and claimed them worthy flagships for Android: […]
ref: 2015 October 20, Stuart Dredge, “Google Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review roundup: impressive Android flagships”, in The Guardian:
text: Next year, Stella McCartney’s London flagship store will move from Bruton Street to a landmark Old Bond Street location. The move is the most prominent symbol of the label’s strong financial results.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in The Guardian:
text: Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground".
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Vere admits to Lords: IRP lacks information”, in RAIL, number 948, page 10:
text: The latest prime minister, the recently reappointed Sébastien Lecornu, may have bought himself a stay of execution on Tuesday, sacrificing Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pensions overhaul in exchange for opposition Socialist votes as the price for his government’s survival.
ref: 2025 October 15, Jon Henley, “France’s parliamentary permacrisis is the dawning of a new political reality”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: chief
primary
principal
showcase
glosses: The most important one out of a related group.
Derived terms: flagship species
flagship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡʃɪp/
Forms: form: flagships
form: flagshipping
form: flagshipped
form: flagshipped
Etymology: From flag + ship.
Senses: glosses: To act as a flagship for.
mantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæntlət/
Forms: form: mantlets
form: mantelet
Etymology: From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.
Senses: glosses: A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
examples: text: Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 779:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A mantelletta.
Related terms: gun mantlet
sheller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellers
Etymology: From shell + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a corn sheller
text: an oyster sheller
text: a sunflower seed sheller
glosses: One who, or that which, shells.
Derived terms: sea sheller
Prophets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A division of the Old Testament, comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The 21st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
barricade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌbɛɹɪˈkeɪd/
Forms: form: barricades
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
Senses: glosses: A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
examples: text: Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
text: Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.
ref: 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S.: The Frankfurter of Doom:
text: Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.
ref: 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
examples: text: I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.
ref: 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
glosses: A place of confrontation.
glosses: Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
Derived terms: barricade tape
Related terms: Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
barricade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌbɛɹɪˈkeɪd/
Forms: form: barricades
form: barricading
form: barricaded
form: barricaded
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
Senses: examples: text: I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.
ref: 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter X, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
glosses: To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.
Derived terms: nonbarricaded
rebarricade
unbarricade
unbarricaded
chavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chavish
form: most chavish
form: chavvish
Etymology: From chav + -ish.
Senses: glosses: in the manner of or typical of a chav.
chavvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chavvish
form: most chavvish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chavish.
hest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: hests
Etymology: From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English hǣs (“command”). Akin to Old English hātan "to command". More at hight.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4, column 1:
text: Fer[dinand]. […] VVhat is your name? / Mir[anda]. Miranda, O my Father, / I haue broke your heſt to ſay ſo.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 11, column 1:
glosses: Command, injunction.
Related terms: behest
prins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prin
sted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steds
form: stedd
Etymology: From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”).
Senses: examples: text: 1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome
They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.
text: And false Duessa in her sted had borne
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted
ref: 1927, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Myths of Greece and Rome, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
glosses: Obsolete form of stead.
sted
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: stedd
Etymology: From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”).
Senses: examples: text: (This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)
ref: 2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press, retrieved 25 Jul 2012:
text: Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.
ref: 2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 25 Jul 2012:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: short for instead of
po'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Poor.
Derived terms: po' boy
brain farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain farms
Senses: examples: text: [a. 1928] 1960, “Brains,” in Life and Works of Woodbridge N. Ferris, Roy Newton ed. http://www.ferris.edu/library/SpecCollections/WNF/Brains.html
Confidentially, most people have brains, but they are not using them. They have left their own brain farms and gone out into the highways and byways, slaves to the intelligence of those who they call bosses, the few owners of the earth.
text: 1995, Sailor Moon, Episode 5, “Computer School Blues” https://web.archive.org/web/20021118193404/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5976/transcripts/smcc005.txt
— I heard some new girl has transferred here, and she's a total brainiac.
— Yeah, she's from Brighton Academy.
— The brain farm?
text: To the parents and the students involved, the schools have one function. They are brain farms. The parents plant their children in the school because it has a reputation for turning out well-regarded college applicants.
ref: 1998, Jay Mathews, Class Struggle:
glosses: Any mass educational system of improving or providing conditions to increase the intellectual quality and yield of a population of (human) brains, e.g. a university or school.
maya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit माया (māyā).
Senses: qualifier: Hindu mythology
glosses: Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.
examples: text: Shankara prescribed meditative reflection, through which each individual could pierce the veil of maya and come to recognize the identity between his or her essence and the universal spirit.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 58:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.
Related terms: maya bird
RTHK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Radio Television Hong Kong: the government broadcaster of Hong Kong.
TVB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Television Broadcasts: a TV station in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
TVB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trivinylbenzene.
AFP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Australian Federal Police
examples: text: When asked about the legal proceedings, Durov reportedly told the AFP that he “trusts the French justice” system but refused to elaborate on the case.
ref: 2024 December 7, Zoltan Vardai, “Telegram founder Pavel Durov questioned in Paris court for first time: Report”, in Cointelegraph:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Initialism of Agence France-Presse.
glosses: Initialism of Association of Fundraising Professional.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Armed Forces of the Philippines.
AFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of alpha-fetoprotein.
AFP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: SIAFP (or AFP), selective immuno affinity purified
raw_tags: in biomedical research
Coordinate terms: word: FBI
word: RCMP
word: AP
word: CP
word: UPI
CBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Confederation of British Industry.
glosses: Initialism of Central Bureau of Investigation.
CBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of confidential business information.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of computer-based interlocking.
AFUE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of annual fuel utilization efficiency.
unconstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconstitutional
form: most unconstitutional
Etymology: From un- + constitutional.
Senses: examples: text: That recently passed political bill has been declared unconstitutional.
text: A California law that ensures many gig workers are considered independent contractors, while affording them some limited benefits, is unconstitutional and unenforceable, a California Superior Court judge ruled Friday evening.
ref: 2021 August 20, Kate Conger, “California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: anticonstitutional
antonyms: constitutional
glosses: Contrary to or violative of the constitution of a state or other sovereign institution.
Derived terms: unconstitutionality
unconstitutionally
Related terms: anticonstitutional
Nazarene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people.
examples: text: Holiness Today is a Nazarene magazine.
glosses: Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene.
Derived terms: Nazarenism
Related terms: Nazareth
Nazarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazarenes
Etymology: In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.
Senses: examples: text: While Jenin was starving under curfew, Nazarenes were only twenty minutes away, watching televised footage of their neighbours ‘in solidarity’.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 61:
glosses: A person from Nazareth.
examples: text: He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene.
synonyms: Nasaree
Nazaree
Nazoree
Nazorean
glosses: A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes.
qualifier: Aramaic and Indian contexts
glosses: A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
raw_tags: in Greek
examples: text: I have been a Nazarene for several years; I joined the church in 1946.
glosses: A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
Nazarene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Natzrati
form: Natzri
form: Natzraya
form: Nazaraean
form: Nazareite
form: Nazarite
form: Nazorean
Etymology: In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.
Senses: glosses: an epithet of Jesus Christ
raw_tags: as “the Nazarene”
Related terms: Nazir
Nazarite
Nasrani
LTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTCs
Senses: coordinate_terms: LTD
glosses: Initialism of long-term care.
glosses: Initialism of lieutenant colonel.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of last telecast.
cyanocarbon acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanocarbon acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a class of strong organic acids, only known as their salts in which the negative charge is stabilized by resonance.
cycloamylose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloamyloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of cyclic oligomers of glucose; they have a toroidal shape and bind tightly with many aromatic compounds, the guest molecule fitting into the cavity like a key and lock; they mimic the action of several enzymes
Synonyms: cyclodextrin
oligomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪ.ɡə.məɹ/
enpr: ə-ʹlĭ-gə-mər
Forms: form: oligomers
Etymology: From oligo- + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: molecule
;
compound
coordinate_terms: monomer
polymer
glosses: A compound intermediate between a monomer and a polymer, normally having a specified number of units between about five and a hundred.
Derived terms: word: cellooligomer
word: chitooligomer
word: cyclooligomer
word: glycooligomer
word: heterooligomer
word: homooligomer
word: mixmer
word: oligomerase
word: oligomeric
word: oligomerise
word: oligomerization
word: oligomerize
word: protomer
word: pseudooligomer
word: supraoligomer
word: xylooligomer
micturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪkt͡ʃəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: micturates
form: micturating
form: micturated
form: micturated
Etymology: First attested in 1842; irregular back-formation from micturition on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin micturiō (“to urinate”).
Related to Old English mīgan (whence Early Middle English miȝen (“to urinate”)
See also Mingere and meiere: urination.
Senses: examples: text: David Lynch himself uses the down-time between takes to confer with A.D.’s and producers and to drink coffee and/or micturate into the undergrowth, and to smoke American Spirits and walk pensively around the Mercedeses and camera truck’s technical fray, sometimes holding one hand to his cheek in a way that recalls Jack Benny.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: Jeffrey Lebowski: So every time -- I just want to understand this, sir -- every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the (owner) --?
ref: 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
glosses: To urinate.
Derived terms: micturator
Related terms: micturient
micturition
retromingent
maunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːndə/
ipa: /ˈmɔndɚ/
ipa: /mɑndɚ/
Forms: form: maunders
form: maundering
form: maundered
form: maundered
Etymology: From earlier maund (“to beg”).
Senses: examples: text: He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
text: "Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering. "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits […]"
ref: 1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen: v. 3, ch. V:
text: On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.
ref: 1871, Henry James, “ch. IV”, in A Passionate Pilgrim:
text: What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. XVII:
text: Whether Edwina [mother of Tennessee Williams] had sufficient self-awareness to recognize her own maundering about (say) "seventeen! – gentleman callers!" is doubtful, but she was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
examples: text: [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
ref: 1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: To wander or walk aimlessly.
glosses: To beg; to whine like a beggar.
Synonyms: sense: speak in a disorganized manner
word: babble
sense: speak in a disorganized manner
word: prattle
sense: speak in a disorganized manner
word: ramble
sense: walk aimlessly
word: ramble
sense: walk aimlessly
word: wander
Derived terms: maunderingly
Related terms: maunderer
maundering
maunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːndə/
ipa: /ˈmɔndɚ/
ipa: /mɑndɚ/
Forms: form: maunders
Etymology: From earlier maund (“to beg”).
Senses: glosses: A beggar.
sneakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnikɚz/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of sneaker
heis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hei
ci-devant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French ci-devant.
Senses: examples: text: Hastily Beatrice performed both her own and Emily's toilette; for what with fatigue and terror, her companion was almost powerless: still their celerity excited the praise of the ci-devant professor of the fine arts.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 262:
text: The ci-devant marquis was caught disguised in her apartment. She betrayed for him a good, easy friend of the people who had long loved her, and revenge is sweet.
ref: 1846, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Lucretia: Or The Children of Night. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:
text: Much they marvelled to see the wealth of the ci-devant blacksmith
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
text: The old patrician retreated noiselessly with a slow bow that was part of the ceremonious legacy left by a ci-devant aristocracy of the last century’s better days.
ref: 1952, Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part I: “The General”, chapter 1: ‘Search for Magicians’, page 10, ¶ 4
text: During art collecting tours in Italy, Townley worked with the eccentric scholar Baron d'Hancarville (ci-devant Pierre Françoise Hughes), a specialist in pornographic art […]
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 157:
glosses: Former, late.
historie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histories
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of history.
aspirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæspəɹənt/
ipa: /ɐsˈpaɪɹɐnt/
Forms: form: aspirants
Etymology: Borrowed from French aspirant.
Senses: examples: text: The company received dozens of applications from job aspirants.
text: Every aspirant actor dreams of making it to Broadway.
text: He was an aspirant to the presidency, though his chances were slim.
glosses: Someone who aspires (for high office, etc.)
aspirant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæspəɹənt/
ipa: /ɐsˈpaɪɹɐnt/
Forms: form: more aspirant
form: most aspirant
Etymology: Borrowed from French aspirant.
Senses: glosses: Seeking advancement.
glosses: Striving for recognition.
Derived terms: aspirant nation
aspirant nation-state
aspirant state
nonaspirant
finne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fin.
brev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brevs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bruv.
gutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gut.
all that
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: and all that, and that, and all, and stuff
text: Snuff, or the Fan, supply each Pauſe of Chat,
With ſinging, laughing, ogling, and all that.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Five Canto's. [sic], Second Edition, London: Bernard Lintott, Canto III, p. 20
text: He has been all among the worshippers of Fire in Persia and has seen Persepolis and all that.
ref: 1809, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 25 Jun 1809
synonyms: all that jazz
glosses: That and everything similar; all of that kind of thing; and so on; et cetera.
Derived terms: all that said
and all that
all that
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: She's not as smart as all that.
glosses: The exact amount, quantity, or level referred to.
all that
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How was the musical? ~ Not all that good. The star doesn’t sing all that well.
text: ... due to the fact that the operators on the third shift at Kennedy were not all that—you know, they weren't the A Team—they had gotten themselves in a sequence where they dropped power on the vehicle.
ref: 2000, John Aaron, Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
text: My muffin top is all that / whole-grain, low-fat / I know you want a piece of that / but I'm just here to dance / […] / So back up offa me / You're weirding me out
ref: 2006, Robert Carlock, “Jack-Tor”, in 30 Rock, season 1, episode 5:
glosses: Of especially good quality; particularly excellent.
Derived terms: all that and a bag of chips
all that
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We do not have all that much time to finish.
text: By now, I hope that you are getting the message that life really isn't all that complicated.
ref: 2023 March 8, James R. Schmalenberg, Life Really Isn’t All That Complicated: But You Do Have To Think, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Very.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
ostium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōstium.
Senses: glosses: A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
glosses: Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
glosses: The mouth of a river.
Derived terms: ostial
hork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: horks
form: horking
form: horked
form: horked
form: hoark
Etymology: Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.
Senses: examples: text: I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
examples: text: Can I hork that code from you for my project?
glosses: To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
glosses: To vomit, cough up.
glosses: To gulp
glosses: To gulp
Don't just hork it down!
Don't just hork it down!
examples: text: Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
glosses: To throw.
examples: text: I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
glosses: To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
examples: text: Go hork the kegs from out back.
glosses: To move.
Synonyms: sense: foul up
word: bork
sense: cough up
word: hawk
sense: cough up
word: hock
sense: gobble
word: gobble
sense: gobble
word: scarf
sense: gobble
word: scoff
take a chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a chance
form: taking a chance
form: took a chance
form: taken a chance
Senses: examples: text: He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist.
text: He took a chance on me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make.
ref: 2009 August 28, Ewan Murray, I owe my Rangers career to Sir David Murray, says Walter Smith, The Guardian:
text: […] say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing to take a chance on experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures.
ref: 1982 February 19, Harold C. Schonberg, “Cuts In Federal Arts Budgets To Hit Small Groups Hardest”, in The New York Times:
text: When we did not use the X-ray, if we broke a piece of root off in extracting a tooth, we took a chance, left it in, and expected it to work out.
ref: 1919, John Hugh McQuillen et al., The Dental Cosmos, V.61, page 728:
glosses: To risk doing something; to try something risky.
Synonyms: roll the dice
take a flyer
take a gamble
take a risk
in charge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in charge
form: most in charge
Senses: examples: text: He left his daughter in charge of watching her younger sisters.
glosses: Having the responsibility of leading or overseeing.
examples: text: This internet browser puts you in charge of your personal settings.
text: You show me the people who control the money, the land, and the weapons, and I'll show you the people in charge.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, “FIRST THINGS FIRST”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:
text: Ashley: You're Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon?
Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
glosses: Having the power of command or control.
examples: text: The suspect was given in charge and taken to the police station.
text: I have myself seen the wife of a mohout give a baby in charge to an elephant, while she was on some business, and have been highly amused in observing the sagacity and care of the unwieldy nurse.
ref: 1835, Robert Smith, The Friend, page 33:
text: The average number of children in charge is about 90. One hundred and fifty could be accommodated.
ref: 1873, Pennsylvania. Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania School Journal, page 34:
text: If the commitment be made on the petition of parents, guardian or persons having the child in charge, the judge may, in his discretion, require them to pay the whole or any part of the expense of his maintenance, according to their ability.
ref: 1878, Wisconsin. Legislature. Joint Special Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, page 20:
text: […] the steamer Fresleven commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe.
ref: 1899, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 165, page 199:
glosses: In the care, custody or command (of someone).
Synonyms: sense: in charge of a company or project
word: at the helm
Derived terms: large and in charge
aditus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.dɪ.təs/
ipa: /ˈæ.dɪ.tuːs/
Forms: form: aditus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aditus.
Senses: glosses: the entrance to a cavity or channel
Related terms: adit
stew in one's juices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stews in one's juices
form: stewing in one's juices
form: stewed in one's juices
form: stewed in one's juices
form: stew in one's own broth
form: stew in one's own gravy
form: stew in one's own grease
form: stew in one's own juice
form: stew in one's own juices
Senses: examples: text: "Nothin' like mystery to keep that rotten little camp up on its toes," he muttered. "I'll just leave that mess to stew in its own juices for a while."
ref: 1914, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 16, in The Long Chance:
text: [H]e had come to deliver young Kiner to the police station. There, he said, he was left to stew in his juices for an hour, during which he conjured visions of cruel and inhuman punishment.
ref: 1987 June 15, Joe Gergen, “Casey still striking out”, in The Sporting News, retrieved 21 Jun 2009:
text: Unable to run around a field or court, "these golfers are stewing in their juices," he said. '"They have nowhere to go but think about what might happen," he added.
ref: 2007 June 12, Damon Hack, “Golf: Pressure and Stress of Waiting”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2009:
glosses: To be alone and self-absorbed in an uncomfortable state of mind, especially while experiencing the unpleasant effects of one's own actions.
Synonyms: fret
fume
mope
Related terms: bring one's own hide to market
make one's bed and lie in it
reap what one sows
self-saucing
ictus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭkʹtəs
ipa: /ˈɪktəs/
homophone: ichthus
homophone: ichthys
enpr: ĭkʹto͞os
ipa: /ˈɪktuːs/
Forms: form: ictus
form: ictuses
form: ictusses
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“I hit, strike”).
Senses: glosses: The pulse.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.
Derived terms: ictogenic
nonictus
arteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: arteriae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā). Doublet of artery.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of artery.
synonyms: word: artery
Derived terms: arteria innominata
filesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of file sharing.
sunbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbeams
Etymology: From Middle English sonnebeem, sonne beem, from Old English sunnbēam, sunnebēam (“sunbeam”), equivalent to sun + beam.
Senses: examples: text: I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
ref: 1957, Rudolf Arnheim, Film as Art, page 90:
text: Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams, and thus all shadows, appear to converge there.[…]Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
ref: 2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, page 116:
text: I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing sunbeams had to be found.
ref: 2008, Lotte H. Eisner, translated by Roger Greaves, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, published 1952, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
glosses: An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.
glosses: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.
glosses: Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
examples: text: DOCTOR: You seem to be our best bet so far, don't you think so, Mel? Mel? Where's Mel?
DEPUTY: No, no, no, sunbeam. You're coming with us.
ref: 1987, Doctor Who (TV series), Paradise Towers (aired 5 October)
glosses: Synonym of sunshine (“ironic form of address to an inferior or troublemaker”).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Curetis acuta
word: angled sunbeam
taxonomic: Curetis bulis
word: bright sunbeam
taxonomic: Curetis saronis
word: Burmese sunbeam
taxonomic: Curetis thetis
word: Indian sunbeam
taxonomic: Curetis siva
word: Shiva's sunbeam
taxonomic: Curetis dentata
word: toothed sunbeam
Related terms: sunbeamed
follow through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows through
form: following through
form: followed through
form: followed through
Senses: examples: text: I don't appreciate salesmen who make promises and then fail to follow through.
text: They kicked around some ideas for doing their own thing, like moonlighting as music video producers, but they never followed through.
ref: 2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: To execute or complete a commitment.
antonyms: backswing
glosses: To continue moving the arms (and any held implements, such as a bat or club) or legs after striking e.g. a ball.
examples: text: It looked like he'd just farted and followed through.
ref: 2013, Dave Cousins, Waiting for Gonzo:
text: LORNA WYNDE: You cried so hard, you followed through in Oddbins.
ref: 2014, Toast of London (TV series), "Fool in Love" (episode)
glosses: To defecate unintentionally as a result of a cough or sneeze, etc.
Derived terms: word: follow-through
word: followthrough
Related terms: word: follow on
word: follow up
SSSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CCCP
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Russian СССР (SSSR). From Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Sojuz Sovetskix Socialističeskix Respublik, “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of USSR: Abbreviation of Soviet Union
ejection seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejection seats
Senses: glosses: A seat in an aircraft which can be ejected from the cockpit and thus save the pilot's life when a crash is imminent.
Synonyms: ejector seat
ejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
ipa: /iˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
ipa: /-t͡ʃən/
ipa: /-ɪn/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: ejections
Etymology: From Middle French éjection, from Latin eiectio.
Senses: examples: text: ejection seat
text: ejection of gases
text: forceful ejection
text: The referee ordered his ejection from the game.
text: The ejection of the pilot occurred seconds before impact.
glosses: The act of ejecting.
examples: text: Volcanic ejection covered the village in ash.
glosses: That which is ejected.
Derived terms: coronal mass ejection
dysphoric milk ejection reflex
ejection fraction
ejection seat
left ventricular ejection time
nonejection
optoejection
postejection
preejection
pre-ejection
treasure chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasure chests
Senses: glosses: A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
examples: text: They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]
ref: 1892, Joseph Jacobs, “Notes on the Jews of England under the Angevin Kings”, in The Jewish Quarterly Review, volume 4, page 634:
text: The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest.
ref: 1977, Richard Hyatt, The Carters of Plains, page 103:
text: When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide.
ref: 2006, D. M. Metcalf, “Inflows of Anglo-Saxon and German coins into the Northern lands c. 997–1024: discerning the patterns”, in Barrie Cook, Gareth Williams, editors, Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500–1250, →ISBN, page 364:
glosses: A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.
examples: text: a treasure chest of poems
synonyms: gold mine
glosses: Any source of something valuable or beautiful.
EOMB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of explanation of Medicare benefits.
Related terms: EOB
IDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /aɪ diː ɛs/
Forms: form: IDSs
form: IDSes
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of ideographic description sequence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intrusion detection system.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of infant-directed speech.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of infectious disease specialist.
IDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪ diː ɛs/
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Iain Duncan Smith.
POC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POCs
Senses: examples: text: PoC exploit
glosses: Initialism of proof of concept.
glosses: Initialism of point of contact.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of percentage of completion.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of point of care.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of port of call.
examples: text: Organizers didn’t think to invite even a single POC to speak.
text: The participation of POC in the ceremony.
text: Rapidly, knitters on Instagram started using hashtags such as #pocknitters and #diversknitty, and there were calls to support POC knitters by buying from them (if they owned a business) and following them, and to “buy them a coffee” by donating money to their Patreon accounts.
ref: 2019 February 17, Kathrine Jebsen Moore, “A Witch-hunt on Instagram”, in Claire Lehmann, editor, Quillette, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 02 Mar 2019:
coordinate_terms: BIPOC
MOC
NBPOC
WOC
glosses: Initialism of person of color or people of color.
glosses: Initialism of piece of crap.
POC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Philippine Olympic Committee.
mths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mth
HT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hyperthreading.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Initialism of handy talkie.
glosses: Initialism of hat tip.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of heart transplant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Holmes tremor.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of half time.
HT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hindustan Times, an Indian newspaper.
NAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of National Australia Bank.
glosses: Initialism of National Association of Broadcasters.
glosses: Abbreviation of National Accountability Bureau.