cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stateside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Stateside
Etymology: From state + -side.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be going stateside next month!
text: The gender equality picture stateside can also seem bleak, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting reproductive rights last summer. Women still make only 83 percent of what men do in the U.S.—a stat that has barely budged in the past 20 years.
ref: 2023 March 13, Naureen Khan, “Doug Emhoff Wants Men to Clear the Path for More Kamalas”, in Cosmopolitan:
qualifier: chiefly outside USA
glosses: In or to the United States, especially the lower forty-eight.
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: In or to the 48 contiguous states.
Related terms: down under
Mikov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Миков (Mikov).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Миков (Mikov).
overstated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsteɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more overstated
form: most overstated
Senses: glosses: Having been overstated; exaggerated; stated, displayed, or presented too grandly or prominently.
Derived terms: overstatedness
overstated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsteɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstate
puzzlehunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzlehunts
form: puzzle hunt
Etymology: From puzzle + hunt. Coined by Bruce Leban in 1998 for the Microsoft Puzzlehunt.
Senses: glosses: A game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of a hidden treasure or allow the teams to accomplish a final goal. The puzzle answers are frequently combined in a metapuzzle.
getaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of getaway
metapuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapuzzles
form: meta-puzzle
Etymology: From meta- + puzzle.
Senses: glosses: A compound puzzle formed by several lesser puzzles. In contrast to a regular puzzle, a metapuzzle is missing data that is essential to solving it, and which can only be obtained by solving other sometimes entirely unrelated puzzles. Metapuzzles are frequently used in puzzlehunts.
mastectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæsˈtɛktəmi/
ipa: /ˌməsˈtɛktəmi/
rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: mastectomies
form: masectomy
Etymology: From mast- + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.
ref: 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: An estimate of U.S. “gender-affirming” double mastectomies published in 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 3,125 cases of “breast or chest procedures” in patients ages 12 to 18 between 2016 to 2020.
ref: 2024 December 8, Leor Sapir, “A Consensus No Longer”, in City Journal:
synonyms: mammectomy
glosses: The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
Hypernyms: top surgery
Derived terms: mastectomee
mastectomize
postmastectomy
premastectomy
radical mastectomy
gastrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: gastrectomies
form: gasterectomy
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: gastr- + -ectomy, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal or partial removal of the stomach
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: esophagogastrectomy
mini sleeve gastrectomy
postgastrectomy
Related terms: gastrectomize
lazy evaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy evaluations
Senses: examples: text: By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.
ref: [2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.
Related terms: lazy initialisation
demystify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈmɪstɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: demystifies
form: demystifying
form: demystified
form: demystified
Etymology: From French démystifier, or de- + mystify.
Senses: examples: text: The article was written to demystify the mechanics of the internal combustion engine.
text: “Our goal is to demystify and hold accountable those new technologies to avoid some of the mistakes of the past,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “Congress failed to meet the moment on social media.”
ref: 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, quoting Richard Blumenthal, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To remove the mystery from something; to explain or clarify.
Derived terms: demystification
demystifier
day-to-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: day to day
Senses: examples: text: One has to deal with the day-to-day chores.
text: “The book is about guilt, adultery, murder, a chase through the mountains — you know, the usual day-to-day stuff,” Babcock said wryly.
ref: 2025 August 2, Maureen Dowd, quoting Richard Babcock, “Attention, Men: Books Are Sexy!”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Ordinary, mundane, or everyday.
examples: text: I would like to know about the day-to-day workings of the business.
text: High manganese material is three times more costly, but its expectation of life is five years; in addition, it offers a big saving in day-to-day maintenance.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
text: Most of those working so hard to find a peace formula carried no major day-to-day responsibilities in Vietnam or Southeast Asia. This lack enabled them to take a detached, above-the-battle stance.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
text: "After a year of patchy performance, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat."
ref: 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: Happening every day, everyday.
examples: text: He has an ankle sprain and his status is day-to-day.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Subject to daily redetermination.
Coordinate terms: sense: Related terms
word: biennium-to-biennium
sense: Related terms
word: century-to-century
sense: Related terms
word: decade-to-decade
sense: Related terms
word: hour-to-hour
sense: Related terms
word: millennium-to-millennium
sense: Related terms
word: minute-to-minute
sense: Related terms
word: month-to-month
sense: Related terms
word: quadrennium-to-quadrennium
sense: Related terms
word: quarter-to-quarter
sense: Related terms
word: quinquennium-to-quinquennium
sense: Related terms
word: second-to-second
sense: Related terms
word: triennium-to-triennium
sense: Related terms
word: week-to-week
sense: Related terms
word: year-to-year
Related terms: day to day
at the coal face
front line
day-to-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more day-to-day
form: most day-to-day
form: day to day
Senses: examples: text: The cost of gasoline is determined day-to-day.
glosses: On a daily basis.
Coordinate terms: sense: Related terms
word: century-to-century
sense: Related terms
word: decade-to-decade
sense: Related terms
word: hour-to-hour
sense: Related terms
word: minute-to-minute
sense: Related terms
word: month-to-month
sense: Related terms
word: quarter-to-quarter
sense: Related terms
word: second-to-second
sense: Related terms
word: week-to-week
sense: Related terms
word: year-to-year
day-to-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day to day
Senses: examples: text: People come here to escape the day-to-day.
glosses: Ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane.
dead center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead centers
form: dead-center
form: deadcenter
form: dead centre
form: dead-centre
Etymology: The sense referring to a piston position was originally a variant of earlier dead-point. The adjective carries two of its senses at once in this construction: both "exact" and "without force imparted". As the piston passes through dead center, there is an instant when it is neither being pushed nor being pulled.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dead point: the position at which a crank is in a direct line with a connecting rod.
synonyms: word: dead point
extra: the position at which a crank is in a direct line with a connecting rod
glosses: A nonrevolving center in a lathe.
examples: ref: 1894, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, the Dead-Center Shot:
glosses: The exact center.
Synonyms: sense: exact center
word: bullseye
Derived terms: bottom dead center
top dead center
dead center
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead-center
form: deadcenter
form: dead centre
form: dead-centre
Etymology: The sense referring to a piston position was originally a variant of earlier dead-point. The adjective carries two of its senses at once in this construction: both "exact" and "without force imparted". As the piston passes through dead center, there is an instant when it is neither being pushed nor being pulled.
Senses: examples: text: Dead center on its back was the design of a large, blue eye that somehow looked familiar.
ref: 2000, L. R. Manley, Thrillseekers.Com: A Novel:
text: It was this side of new, set back from the street in a lot dead center at the end of a cul-de-sac.
ref: 2015, Sybil Bartel, Impossible Promise:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
dead center
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dead-center
form: deadcenter
form: dead centre
form: dead-centre
Etymology: The sense referring to a piston position was originally a variant of earlier dead-point. The adjective carries two of its senses at once in this construction: both "exact" and "without force imparted". As the piston passes through dead center, there is an instant when it is neither being pushed nor being pulled.
Senses: examples: text: Now, the Ouija board sat dead center.
ref: 2013, Ellie James, Broken Illusions:
text: Damascus White sat dead center in the back of the booth.
ref: 2013, Jaye Wells, Rusted Veins: A Sabina Kane Novella:
text: I give it a flick, so the daisy charm swings back and forth like a pendulum, dead center in the middle of his windshield.
ref: 2013, Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian, Fire with Fire:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
dead centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead centres
Senses: examples: text: […] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dead center.
Day-Glo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dayglo
form: day-glo
form: dayglo
Etymology: Coined by the Day-Glo Color Corp., originally as a trademark, from day + glow.
Senses: examples: text: Cool shades and Day-Glo tears / All hide your sixteen years
ref: 1980, “Spring Collection”, in New Clear Days, performed by The Vapors:
glosses: A luminous paint that glows in a variety of brilliant colours, most commonly red or orange; used especially for outdoor advertising.
Synonyms: blacklight ink
blacklight-reactive ink
luminous paint
fluorescent paint
Day-Glo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Dayglo
form: day-glo
form: dayglo
Etymology: Coined by the Day-Glo Color Corp., originally as a trademark, from day + glow.
Senses: examples: text: Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]
ref: 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days:
text: The chip smells like nothing, but tastes like a smörgåsbord that’s both confusing and arousing, like Steve Buscemi. Flecks of spring green – the kind generated from radioactive waste – coat the unwieldy triangles. The seasoning is a kaleidoscope of Day-Glo dust particles that perishes under saliva and tongue.
ref: 2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Very bright and luminous in colour.
vermicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermicious
form: most vermicious
Etymology: From Latin vermis (“worm”).
Senses: examples: text: "I wish to dress according to the station in which Providence has pleased to place me. We are but worms, worms," said Mrs. Vivian, shaking her head mournfully.
"You don't look much like one yet," said her son, with wonderful gravity; "and I wish you would not make vermicious allusions at luncheon-time, Mamma, for it spoils my appetite."
ref: 1870, Mary Allan-Olney, Estelle Russell, volume I, Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 278:
text: With what peace of mind would the contemplative disciple of Isaac Walton pursue his charming vocation if he knew that the vermicious bait upon his hook was slowly struggling itself into eternity?
ref: 1882 April, “Illogical Philosophy”, in The Virginia University Magazine, volume XXI, number 7, page 403:
text: Amongst vermicious pests the following have been received : […]
ref: 1899, Journal, numbers 8-12, page 63:
text: Bots are a frequent cause of lack of condition in our horses in Jamaica and other types of vermicious pests are undoubtedly of frequent occurrence.
ref: 1903, Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, volumes 1-2, page 57:
text: The strength of the sheep during the vermicious attack must be sustained by good feeding, so that the invaded animal may be able to withstand the extra strain on its system.
ref: 1905, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, volume 3, page 47:
text: Dealing with the lowest layers of psychological life, she presents her characters in terms we associate with protozoan or vermicious creatures.
ref: 1962, Laurent Le Sage, The French New Novel: An Introduction and a Sampler, Pennsylvania State University Press, page 34:
text: "If I were a lawyer telling someone how I could be useful to them, I would say, 'Everybody out here is going to take whatever they can and the only way to protect your interest is to have someone as vermicious as the next guy and I promise you that I will push everything right to the edge to make sure that I look after yours.' […]
ref: 2004, Sherri L. Burr, William D. Henslee, Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials on Film, Television, and Music, Thomson/West, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of worms.
hearses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearse
hearses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hearse
maternal deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal death
tour of duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tours of duty
Senses: examples: text: Almost every Marine in Viet Nam carries a short-timer’s calendar of his tour of duty—the usual 365 days—plus a bonus of 20 days for being a Marine.
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A period of time spent on a specific assignment, especially on an overseas mission.
trailer park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailer parks
Senses: synonyms: mobile home park
trailer court
glosses: An area containing mobile homes for rent or places to station them if owned; normally providing utilities and services.
Derived terms: trailer parker
Related terms: caravan park
trailer trash
caravan park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caravan parks
Senses: glosses: An area containing caravans either for holiday rental, or for holiday use by their owners.
glosses: An area where caravans and recreational vehicles may be parked for a short period.
Derived terms: caravan parker
Related terms: holiday park
trailer park
Bermuda grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda grasses
form: bermudagrass
Etymology: Not native to Bermuda, but abundant and an invasive species there.
Senses: synonyms: Bahama grass
devil grass
dogtooth grass
doob grass
doob
scutch grass
star grass
glosses: A perennial grass, Cynodon dactylon, native to Africa and Asia, used in warm areas of the world for pasture, lawn and making hay.
lawn chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn chairs
Senses: glosses: Any chair designed to be used outdoors, especially a folding chair with aluminum frame, armrests, and interwoven ribbon mesh seat and back, used on backyard lawns.
Hyponyms: Muskoka chair
Adirondack chair
Derived terms: fold like a lawn chair
Related terms: deck chair
patio chair
patio furniture
funeral parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeral parlors
Senses: glosses: A mortuary or funeral home.
funeral home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeral homes
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: mortuary
synonyms: funeral parlor
coordinate_terms: deadhouse
morgue
glosses: A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects.
synonyms: undertaker's
funeral parlor
glosses: Business that provides interment and funeral services for the dead.
Related terms: funeral director
funereal
deathcare
windowfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowfronts
Etymology: From window + front.
Senses: glosses: A large window on the street-side of a shop or restaurant
windowfront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From window + front.
Senses: glosses: Next to the window overlooking the street
raw_tags: of a seat in a restaurant
thrill-seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrill-seekers
Senses: glosses: A person who enjoys thrilling situations, or who engages in dangerous sports
tract house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tract houses
Senses: glosses: Any of many houses, of a similar or identical plan and design, built on a tract of land.
Synonyms: tract home
double adaptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double adaptors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double adapter.
double adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double adapters
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices that allow two electrical items to be plugged into a single power outlet.
Holy Roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holy Rollers
Etymology: From the practice of some devout Pentecostals who would roll on the floor of the church in response to the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Senses: examples: text: I attended a worship service where I was astounded to see holy rollers convulsing on the floor and speaking in tongues.
text: Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out / And they holler, they jump and they shout / Give your money to Jesus, they say / He will cure all diseases today
ref: 1911, “The Preacher and the Slave”, Joe Hill (music):
text: Also there are the "Holy Rollers" and "Holy Jumpers", ghastly sects which cultivate the religious hysterias, and have spread like a plague among the women of our lonely prairie farms and desert ranches.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
text: He told her the Methodist had at last broken down and cut the strip of grass himself. Mother believed it but wasn't pleased; she talked all the rest of the day and off and on all week about suing the old holy-roller.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 20:
text: At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies.
ref: 1969 January 17, “Essay: Are the WASPS Coming Back? Have They Ever Been Away?”, in Time, →ISSN:
text: They took advantage of her, these holy rollers. When she was at death's door, they preyed on her faith and her fear. When she was no longer able to make rational decisions, persuaded her to give away our land for that amusement park.
ref: 1989, Leon Capetanos, Fletch Lives, spoken by Hamilton Johnson (Hal Holbrook):
coordinate_terms: Holy Jumper
glosses: A member of any Christian church characterized by ecstatic behaviour; especially of the Pentecostal Church.
examples: text: She's such a holy roller that she steers every conversation around to the joys of religion.
glosses: A devoutly religious Christian person.
Related terms: Holy Ghoster
room service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The provision of food, drink, and other refreshments to a guest room.
glosses: The department of a hotel that provides such a service.
sports jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports jackets
form: sport jacket
Senses: glosses: A tailored jacket that is not part of a suit; especially one of a sturdy fabric originally designed for outdoor sports.
Derived terms: sports-jacketed
social worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social workers
Senses: examples: text: I had a visit from my social worker last week.
text: These are but a few instances of the benefits conferred by him as a social worker; but until these can be fully recorded, let us bear in mind as no small part of the debt we owe to the truly noble man[…]
ref: 1887 January 14, “To the Editor of ’The Times’”, in The Times (Letters section), number 31969, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Mr. J. W. Martin of London, England, will deliver a series of lectures in St. Louls this week. Mr. Martin is a member of the famous Fabian Society of London, and an educator and social worker of note in his own country.
ref: 1899 March 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 50, number 202, St. Louis, Missouri, →OCLC, Mr. Martin of London Here: He Will Deliver a Series of Lectures on Social Subjects, page 24:
text: Professor Virchow, as chairman of the commemoration committee, opened the proceedings in a speech in which he recalled the services which Herr Schulze had rendered Germany as a social worker and as a politician.
ref: 1899 August 5, “Germany”, in The Times (Latest Intelligence section), number 35900, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: There canʼt have been many social workers at that troubled time who heard an expression of gratitude.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 274:
glosses: A person, usually employed by the state, that supports the welfare of individuals or groups, especially those that are socially disadvantaged.
Related terms: social work
social work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ʃəl wɜːk/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.ʃəl wɝk/
Senses: glosses: Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to members of the community.
Derived terms: social worker
Bernese Oberland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Alpine area of Switzerland in Bern canton.
moonscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonscapes
Etymology: From moon + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A view of an area of the Moon.
examples: text: In the Australian outback, industrial activity — notably open-pit coal mining — has turned verdant areas into moonscapes seemingly overnight, and the suicide rate in the region has skyrocketed.
ref: 2007 December 20, Clive Thompson, “Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds”, in Wired Magazine, number 16.01, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
text: Looking across the recently flattened, desolate moonscape of this former 52-acre Great Western depot and industrial area, south of Willesden Junction in west London, it's hard to imagine it will be home to the UK's largest, busiest and best-connected new railway station since Victorian times.
ref: 2020 July 15, Marion Gourlay, “Old Oak Common: no ordinary station”, in Rail, page 48:
text: They made their way to a geological formation called Kap Kobenhavn, a series of bare hills as desolate as a moonscape.
ref: 2022 December 7, Carl Zimmer, “Oldest Known DNA Offers Glimpse of a Once-Lush Arctic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: They had never managed to host many events on their property, in part because some of the surrounding area remained a moonscape. The cork oak where Phillip wanted his ashes spread had burned down in the last fire.
ref: 2025 January 19, Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff, “They Built a Home to Fend Off California Wildfires. But Will They Stay?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A desolate or devastated landscape.
unhung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hung.
Senses: examples: text: "You've heard of Linden?" "Linden, the professional medium. Yes, I've been told he is the greatest blackguard unhung." "Ah, well, they usually talk of them like that."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Not selected for exhibition.
raw_tags: of a painting
glosses: Cooked without being hung to mature.
raw_tags: of game
portraitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portraitists
Etymology: From portrait + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: portraitor
glosses: A painter or photographer who makes portraits.
portulaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portulacas
Etymology: From the genus name Portulaca.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant in the genus Portulaca
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers
Synonyms: purslane
postseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postseasons
Etymology: From post- + season.
Senses: examples: text: If Rodriguez slumps and the Yankees stumble, pressure will mount on a manager who failed to guide the team to the playoffs in 2008, the first time the Yankees missed the postseason in a nonstrike year since 1993.
ref: 2009 February 13, Tyler Kepner, “Before Arriving, Rodriguez Rules the Conversation”, in The New York Times:
text: Suárez has only two more starts in the regular season to convince the Phillies he deserves a longer leash than in previous postseasons.
ref: 2024 September 17, Matt Gelb, “Can Ranger Suárez recapture some of the Phillies’ trust before October?”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The period after the end of the normal sports season during which extra games are held (such as playoffs or championships).
Derived terms: postseasonal
postseason
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + season.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to such a period.
postulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postulations
Senses: glosses: The act of postulating or something postulated.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
glosses: The act of claiming for oneself; solicitation.
Derived terms: postulational
repostulation
posturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posturings
Senses: examples: text: With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.
ref: 1990, Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature:
text: Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit I don't like is getting home at 0100 or 0200 in the morning because the opposition have been fruitlessly arguing for a long time."
ref: 2025 October 1, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister at the heart of rail reform”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 35:
glosses: The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
glosses: The behavior of some birds as a means of signalling etc.
posturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posture
Derived terms: posturingly
postwar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + war.
Senses: examples: text: Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had.
ref: 2012 November 2, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post-war.
potability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being potable
potables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Potable liquids.
glosses: Beverages.
potbellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potbellied
form: most potbellied
form: pot-bellied
Etymology: From pot + bellied.
Senses: synonyms: paunchy
glosses: having a potbelly
Derived terms: potbellied pig
pot-bellied seahorse
potbellied stove
potentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌtɛnʃiˈælɪti/
ipa: /pəˌtɛn(t)ʃiˈæləti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: potentialities
Etymology: From potential + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: filled with potentiality
text: A new year is filled with potentiality.
synonyms: potency
glosses: The quality of being or having potential.
examples: text: any and all potentialities
text: We've been prepping for years, and we like to hope that we're ready for all potentialities — as ready as one can be.
glosses: An instance of potential: any given possibility.
glosses: An inherent capacity for growth or development.
glosses: An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Quantum potential.
Derived terms: bipotentiality
equipotentiality
isopotentiality
nonpotentiality
Related terms: potence
potency
potent
potentate
potential
potful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potfuls
form: potsful
Etymology: From Middle English potful; equivalent to pot + -ful.
Senses: glosses: as much as a pot will hold
Related terms: coffeepotful
potherb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒt.hɜː(ɹ)b/
Forms: form: potherbs
Etymology: From pot + herb.
Senses: glosses: Any plant whose leaves, stems or flowers may be used as a culinary herb.
Related terms: oleraceous
potholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potholders
form: pot-holder
form: pot holder
Etymology: From pot + holder.
Senses: glosses: An insulated pad used for handling hot cooking utensils
Related terms: oven glove
pothook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pothooks
Etymology: From pot + hook.
Senses: glosses: An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
examples: text: An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.
potpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potpies
form: pot-pie
form: pot pie
Etymology: From pot + pie.
Senses: coordinate_terms: shepherd's pie
cottage pie
glosses: A pie, having pastry sides and bottom and (usually also) top, and filled with savory fillings, such as meat, root vegetables, or (often) both.
coordinate_terms: shepherd's pie
cottage pie
glosses: A pie, having pastry sides and bottom and (usually also) top, and filled with savory fillings, such as meat, root vegetables, or (often) both.
Especially, such a pie that is small, that has crust made entirely of flaky pastry, and that is baked in its own pie tin, usually for one person (single-serve).
glosses: A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings.
poofter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poofters
form: poof
form: poofster
form: poofta
form: pooftah
Etymology: From poof + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another man told me he was a "poofter," but I never was able to get a definition of this word from him.
ref: 1908 November 20, Sydney Montgomery, “Paranoia with some Cases”, in Australasian Medical Gazette, volume 27, number 11, Australasian Medical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 598–602:
text: Hallucinations, again, are the expression of repressed systems of ideas and desires; for example a man who has strong repressed homo-sexual tendencies may hear voices calling him a poofter.
ref: 1943, John Bostock, Evan Jones, The nervous soldier: a handbook for the prevention, detection and treatment of nervous invalidity in war, page 11:
text: "You pommy poofter. You give me any more of that liberal crap and I'll have your balls for a bow tie." Bond said mildly, "What's a poofter?" "What you'd call a pansy. No," Dikko Henderson got to his feet and fired a string of what sounded like lucid Japanese at the man behind the bar,[…].
ref: 1964, Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice, page 36:
text: I just ignored them because I didn't think what I did made me a poofter. Me and Dwayne were best friends, and it was only because there were no girls around, and I liked it. My father taught me that homosexuality was unnatural, and that poofters were men who couldn't form relationships with women because they were horrifying, repulsive queers.
ref: 2007, John Mendoza, Mad Blue Smoke, Melbourne, Australia: Pasini Press, page 113:
synonyms: faggot
qualifier: Pacific Islands
glosses: A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
glosses: A pansy, an effeminate man.
Synonyms: sense: male homosexual
word: friend of Dorothy
word: omi-palone
word: male homosexual
sense: effeminate man
word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
Derived terms: poofterdom
poofterhood
poofterism
woofter
subornation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subornations
Etymology: From suborn + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of suborning
glosses: The procuring of someone to do a criminal act, especially to commit perjury
Related terms: bribery
corruption
incitement
inducement
leading astray
poundage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poundages
Etymology: From pound + -age.
Senses: glosses: A charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
glosses: A charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.
glosses: A weight measured in pounds.
examples: text: Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.
text: Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Weight, especially body weight.
poundage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poundages
form: poundaging
form: poundaged
form: poundaged
Etymology: From pound + -age.
Senses: glosses: To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
poundage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poundages
Etymology: From pound + -age.
Senses: glosses: a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release
glosses: the keeping of an animal in a pound
pouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouters
Etymology: From pout + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss
glosses: A breed of pigeon with an enlarged crop that it can inflate.
poverty-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poverty-stricken
form: most poverty-stricken
Senses: examples: text: The small village was poverty-stricken, with many families struggling to afford even basic necessities like food and water.
synonyms: word: almsless
word: arm
word: badly off
word: bankrupt
word: beggared
word: beggarly
word: boracic
word: broke
word: broken
word: broker than the Ten Commandments
word: destitute
word: dirt poor
word: disadvantaged
word: down and out
word: down at heel
word: down on one's luck
word: down on one's uppers
word: empty-handed
word: feeling the pinch
word: flat
word: hard up
word: impecunious
word: impoverished
word: in need
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: lower-class
word: necessitous
word: needy
word: oofless
word: pauperized
word: penniless
word: penurious
word: pinched
word: pok kai
word: poor
word: poor as a church mouse
word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: possessionless
word: poverty-ridden
word: poverty-stricken
word: shillingless
word: skint
word: stone-broke
word: stony-broke
word: strapped
word: stuck
word: threadbare
word: unwealthy
word: wealthless
glosses: Very poor.
anthropomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropo- + -morphous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anthropomorphic.
synonyms: word: anthropomorphic
Derived terms: anthropomorphously
Related terms: anthropomorphic
ashamedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ashamedly
form: most ashamedly
Etymology: From ashamed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: with shame
asininity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asininities
Etymology: From asinine + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He speaks of certain actions of the president of the cabinet as throwing an ugly light upon his character; he calls an apparently dishonest vote of another member of the cabinet “rotten” (hundsföttisch, which is even stronger and not translatable); and he mentions, without comment, “Lenz’s asininity”—not an unduly strong term, for Lenz, his gifted but mentally unsound Strassburg friend, had for Goethe's sake been hospitably received at the Weimar court and had had committed an indiscretion which made him quite impossible there.
ref: 1929, Hugo Karl Schilling, Goethe in His Diaries, page xvi:
glosses: The quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity
glosses: An asinine remark, behaviour, etc.
aslant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈslænt/
ipa: /əˈslɑːnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Etymology: From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: askance
text: As for the manner and fashion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alwaies to be aslant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may settle and rest thereupon, but that euery shower may soon shoot off:
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVII.] 22.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 533:
text: But their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; nor from down to up, like the Cascagians; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 94:
text: Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a house.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 81, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 400:
text: Now she stands musing on the beach, leg locked, pelvis aslant, thumb and forefingers propped along the iliac crest and lightly, propped lightly as an athlete.
ref: 1961, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer, New York: Avon, published 1980, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 107:
synonyms: askew
aslope
atilt
diagonal
oblique
slanted
;
nonorthogonal
unperpendicular
antonyms: orthogonal
perpendicular
nonoblique
glosses: Slanting.
Derived terms: aslantwise
aslant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈslænt/
ipa: /əˈslɑːnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Etymology: From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.
Senses: examples: text: The Shaft that slightly was impress’d,
Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d,
Drove through his Neck, aslant,
ref: 1700, “The Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses”, in John Dryden, transl., Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, page 447:
text: It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 65:
text: 1914, Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1917, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 321,
A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.
text: […] he was looking aslant and not directly at me; more of a gaze to the side of me.
ref: 2018, Anna Burns, chapter 3, in Milkman, London: Faber & Faber:
synonyms: aslope
atilt
diagonally
obliquely
glosses: At a slant.
aslant
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈslænt/
ipa: /əˈslɑːnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Etymology: From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.
Senses: examples: text: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
text: I oft have passed your cottage, and still prais’d
Its beauty, and that trim orchard-plot, whose blossoms
The gusts of April shower’d aslant its thatch.
ref: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya, London: Rest Fenner, published 1817, Scene 1, p. 45:
text: But aslant this particular glass reclined a single, white, wintry rose, possibly the last rose ever, its invalid complexion infused with a delicate transcendent green.
ref: 1979, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, Penguin, published 1981, Part 2, p. 209:
synonyms: aslope
athwart
atilt
glosses: Diagonally over or across.
asocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsəʊʃəl/
ipa: /eɪˈsoʊʃəl/
Forms: form: more asocial
form: most asocial
Etymology: From a- + social; in the sense of “antisocial” and as a noun, appears to be a calque of German asozial / Asozialer.
Senses: examples: 1974, Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form, New York: Schocken Books, 1975, Chapter 5, pp. 127-128,
All media operations are in effect desocialised […] . But it is then interesting that from this wholly unhistorical and asocial base McLuhan projects certain images of society […]
glosses: Not social, not relating to society.
examples: text: Mrs Alphen, from her deck chair, would call at him brightly, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, being so selfish and neglecting us ladies and all!” and she would gesture at the deck chair beside her, but he would only smile and scuttle away, realizing that he was asocial and a scoundrel.
ref: 1938, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 36, in The Prodigal Parents, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, page 268:
text: In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.
ref: 1967, Joan Didion, “7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, New York, N.Y.: Dell, published 1968, page 72:
text: She herself was already asocial at the age of six months and stiffened in her mother’s arms at this time, and such reactions, common in autism, she also finds inexplicable in terms of theory of mind.
ref: 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, page 291:
text: And it’s maybe because of math’s absolute, wholly abstract Truth that so many people still view the discipline as dry or passionless and its practitioners as asocial dweebs.
ref: 2000, David Foster Wallace, “Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama”, in Both Flesh and Not, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2012:
glosses: Not sociable; having minimal social connections with others; not inclined to connect with others socially.
examples: text: Contrasting with the complete haphazardness with which the inmates are selected are the categories, meaningless in themselves but useful from the standpoint of organization, into which they are usually divided on their arrival. In the German camps there were criminals, politicals, asocial elements, religious offenders, and Jews, all distinguished by insignia.
ref: 1951, Hannah Arendt, “Totalitarianism in Power”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, part 3 (Totalitarianism), page 449:
text: The so­cial worker speaks of asocial behavior. The term is familiar to the young criminal. The social worker is able to explain the causes of this asocial behavior. But the delinquent could do it too, and in the very same terms.
ref: 1977, Saul Bellow, “The Jefferson Lectures”, in It All Adds Up, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 1994, page 130:
glosses: Antisocial.
Derived terms: asocialise
asociality
asocialize
asocially
asocial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsəʊʃəl/
ipa: /eɪˈsoʊʃəl/
Forms: form: asocials
Etymology: From a- + social; in the sense of “antisocial” and as a noun, appears to be a calque of German asozial / Asozialer.
Senses: examples: text: “Remember, there was no on-paper legislation against blacks, so they were often admitted to work camps on trumped-up charges and under various crimes. Some were interned as Communists, or as immigrants, who wore the blue badge. Or as homosexuals, who wore the pink badge, or as repeat criminals, who wore the green badge, or asocials, who wore the black badge.”
ref: 2011, Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues, Toronto: HarperCollins, published 2013, Part 2, pp. 49-50:
glosses: A person considered to be antisocial or to exhibit antisocial behaviour, especially as a classification used by the Nazi regime in Germany.