cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
conduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: conductions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct + -ion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
examples: text: Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who aſſiſted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: The act of leading or guiding.
examples: text: every man has his beginning and conduction
ref: c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The act of training up.
Derived terms: aberrant conduction
A-H conduction time
a-h conduction time
chondroconduction
conductional
conduction band
conduction time
electroconduction
HV conduction time
intra-atrial conduction time
macroconduction
microconduction
nonconduction
osteoconduction
P-A conduction time
P-H conduction time
photoconduction
radioconduction
semiconduction
sinoatrial conduction time
superconduction
surface-conduction electron-emitter display
Related terms: conduct
conductivity
conductor
bunch of fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunches of fives
Senses: glosses: A fist.
glosses: A punch; a blow with the fist.
glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: examples: text: Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: Of eyes: glistening but not focusing on anything in particular; showing no liveliness.
examples: text: a glazed ham
text: a glazed doughnut
glosses: Having a glaze (a coating).
examples: text: a shelter at the bus stop with glazed sides and rear
text: a glazed garden shed
topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Having glass in the windows.
Derived terms: double-glazed
glazed curd
glazedly
glazedness
lead-glazed
nonglazed
semi-glazed
semiglazed
tin-glazed
Related terms: sense: of eyes
word: glassy-eyed
glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glaze
glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Forms: form: glazeds
Senses: examples: text: Krispy your Kremes with fresh, non-corporate cakes and glazeds in such flavors du jour as Pistachio, Tres Leches, Meyer Lemon, and Blackout (a nod to the star attraction of the long-gone Ebinger's Bakery).
ref: 2010, Ayun Halliday, Zinester's Guide to New York, page 65:
text: She had to herd them into Bruce's Coffee and Doughnut and stuff them with chocolate glazeds to get the story […]
ref: 2012, Patricia Bow, The Starry Window, page 34:
text: And since I know you probably didn't have breakfast, I left a couple of glazeds on a napkin on your sorry excuse for a desk.”
ref: 2014, Marilyn Baron, Homecoming Homicides:
glosses: A glazed donut, one with a coating such as sugar or chocolate.
grasping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ/
Forms: form: more grasping
form: most grasping
Senses: examples: text: Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.
ref: 1990, Robert Fagles, transl., The Iliad:
glosses: Greedy, eager for wealth.
Derived terms: graspingly
graspingness
overgrasping
straw-grasping
grasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grasp
grasping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ/
Forms: form: graspings
Senses: examples: text: These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings.
ref: 2009, Jed McKenna, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment:
glosses: The act of one who grasps or covets.
gracefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsfəli/
Forms: form: more gracefully
form: most gracefully
Etymology: From graceful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm:
text: What happens then is kids are “deprived of grandmothers (maybe increasingly grandfathers, too) who are comfortable in their own skin, aging gracefully and being a good role model to kids, showing that growing old is not the worst thing that can happen to a woman.”
ref: 2015 April 28, Kelly Wallace, “Older parents face ‘grandparent deficit’”, in CNN:
glosses: In a graceful manner.
Derived terms: degrade gracefully
fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of five
fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of fives.
coordinate_terms: ones
twos
threes
fours
glosses: The cells located on the fourth floor.
examples: text: Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Shares at a rate of five percent.
Related terms: 5's
5s
bunch of fives
glimmered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glimmer
glimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glimmer
glimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glimmerings
Senses: examples: text: The pale, chill glimmering of earliest morning was faint in the east, from which the clouds were slowly breaking; there was just light enough to enable her to find her way.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 366:
text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her. Moreover, from her earliest days the bairn had some glimmerings of grace.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A glimmer.
Derived terms: glimmeringly
unglimmering
glimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glimmer
glimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glimmer
glimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glimmers
Etymology: From Middle English glimeren, glemeren (“to glimmer”), equivalent to glim (“to shine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with German Low German glimmern (“to glimmer”), German glimmern (“to glimmer”), Danish glimre (“to glimmer”), Swedish glimra (“to glimmer”). Doublet of glimpse.
Senses: examples: text: The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.
glosses: A faint light; a dim glow.
glosses: A flash of light.
examples: text: a glimmer of hope
synonyms: glimpse#Noun
glosses: A faint or remote possibility (as it were a flash of light).
glosses: Mica.
Synonyms: sense: flash of light
word: sparkle
sense: flash of light
word: shimmer
Derived terms: flimmer
glimmer-gowk
glimmer of hope
glimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glimmers
form: glimmering
form: glimmered
form: glimmered
Etymology: From Middle English glimeren, glemeren (“to glimmer”), equivalent to glim (“to shine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with German Low German glimmern (“to glimmer”), German glimmern (“to glimmer”), Danish glimre (“to glimmer”), Swedish glimra (“to glimmer”). Doublet of glimpse.
Senses: examples: text: the glimmering dawn    a glimmering lamp
text: The fireflies glimmered in the dark.
text: The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
synonyms: word: flicker
word: glimpse
word: shimmer
word: twinkle
word: coruscate
word: flash
word: gleam
word: glitter
word: glisten
word: luster
word: sheen
word: shimmer
word: shine
word: sparkle
glosses: To shine with a faint, unsteady light.
Derived terms: aglimmer
glimmerite
glimmersome
glimmery
flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkə/
ipa: /ˈflɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
homophone: Flickr
Forms: form: flickers
Etymology: From Middle English flikeren (“to flutter”), from Old English flicerian, flicorian (“to flutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *flikurōn.
Akin to Saterland Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”),
West Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), Dutch flikkeren (“to flicker, flutter”), German Low German flickern (“to light up, flash, flicker”). Compare Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”), German flackern (“to flicker, flutter”), Old English flēogan (“to fly”).
Senses: examples: text: the flicker of the dying candle
text: the flicker of an old movie
glosses: An unsteady flash of light.
examples: text: a flicker of hope
text: a flicker of recognition passed through my mind.
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A short moment.
Derived terms: flicker fixer
flickerless
flicker noise
flicker show
flickersome
flicker wheel
flickery
flimmer
flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkə/
ipa: /ˈflɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
homophone: Flickr
Forms: form: flickers
Etymology: 1808, American English, probably echoic of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker. It is also true that the bird vigorously flicks away treebark, woodchips, and ground detritus while feeding, which may possibly explain the name.
Senses: hypernyms: woodpecker
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glosses: Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Colaptes rupicola
word: Andean flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes oceanicus
word: Bermuda flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes campestris
word: Campo flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus
word: Caribbean flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes pitius
word: Chilean flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes fernandinae
word: Fernandina's flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes chrysoides
word: gilded flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes auratus mexicanoides
word: Guatemalan flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes campestris
word: Pampas flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes auratus
word: northern flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes auratus cafer
word: red-shafted flicker
taxonomic: Colaptes auratus auratus
word: yellow-shafted flicker
flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkə/
ipa: /ˈflɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
homophone: Flickr
Forms: form: flickers
Etymology: From flick + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who flicks.
Derived terms: bean flicker
flea flicker
flickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flicker
flickers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flicker
flickering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkəɹɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
ref: 1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494:
glosses: shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)
Derived terms: flickeringly
nonflickering
unflickering
flickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flicker
flickering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪkəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: flickerings
Senses: examples: text: Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.
glosses: A short, uncertain burst.
flickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flicker
gentleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩nəs/
Forms: form: gentlenesses
Etymology: From Middle English gentilnesse; equivalent to gentle + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he [Sabrina, a water nymph] reviv'd, / And undervvent a quicke, immortall change / Made goddeſſe of the river; ſtill ſhe retaines / Her maiden gentleneſſe, […]
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 29:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: Willie spends his bus money home playing a song to dance to on the jukebox in an effort to comfort Sam, and unlike Hally, who struck out at his old friend when his life began to go wrong, Sam does not pass down Hally's hatefulness, but instead treats Willie with the same gentleness he has shown toward him throughout the play.
ref: 1983 March 12, Andrea Loewenstein, “Racism Denounced in a Powerful Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 20:
synonyms: douceur
sweetness
glosses: The state of being gentle.
gains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of gain
examples: text: Like everyone else who lifts weights, I wanted to maximize my gains and give myself the best chance to succeed.
ref: 2011, Robert Cheeke, Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness, →ISBN:
text: But it is impossible to prepare for competition and make the same kinds of gains as you would if you were training with full intensity and not dieting. When you're training to compete, you have to focus on details, bringing out small muscles, separation. And it's obvious that you can't make maximum gains while you are restricting your food intake.
ref: 2012, Arnold Schwarzenegger, The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, →ISBN:
text: If you’re starting off skinny, you can probably get newbie gains for several months.
ref: 2024 September 13 [2023 March 31], Shane Duquette and Marco Walker-Ng, “The Newbie Gains Guide for Skinny Guys”, in Bony to Beastly:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Increase in muscle mass.
gains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gain
frankness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋknɛs/
Forms: form: franknesses
Etymology: From frank + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: complete frankness
text: speak with frankness
text: a moment of frankness
text: She appreciated his frankness about the situation.
text: With disarming frankness, he admitted his mistakes.
glosses: The state of being frank; candour; honesty.
fractional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frăkʹshənəl
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃən.əl/
Forms: form: more fractional
form: most fractional
Etymology: From fraction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a fraction.
glosses: Divided; fragmentary; incomplete.
examples: text: The two women exchanged a glance, then a fractional nod of agreement.
ref: 1987, Bill Knox, A Flight from Paris, page 93:
glosses: Very small; minute.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation.
Synonyms: sense: fragmentary
word: partial
sense: fragmentary
word: partite
sense: fragmentary
word: demi-
sense: fragmentary
word: semi-
Derived terms: fractional calculus
fractional crystallization
fractional distillation
fractional freezing
fractional ideal
fractionalism
fractionalist
fractionality
fractionalization
fractionalize
fractionally
fractional number
fractional reserve banking
fractional rig
fractional volume
hypofractional
interfractional
intrafractional
multifractional
nonfractional
fractional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frăkʹshənəl
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃən.əl/
Forms: form: fractionals
Etymology: From fraction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In English, most ordinals double as fractionals — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional is "half".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An expression of a fractional number.
examples: text: A fractional is much more expensive than a traditional timeshare, but to many people, it's worth it.
glosses: Partial ownership of a property, such as real estate or a chartered airplane, such that each partial owner has use of the property for only a portion of the time.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a fraction in a material distillation or separation process.
foundations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /faʊnˈdeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of foundation
forecastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səl/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.kæ.səl/
Forms: form: forecastles
form: focastle
form: fo'castle
form: fo'c'stle
form: fo'c's'le
Etymology: From Middle English forecastel, forcastel, (whence also Anglo-French forechasteil), equivalent to fore- + castle. Compare Dutch voorkasteel.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
text: My knife was at my hip. I returned to my hut for the shotgun, made sure it was loaded, and went down to the Ghost. With some difficulty, and at the expense of a wetting to the waist, I climbed aboard. The forecastle scuttle was open. I paused to listen for the breathing of the men, but there was no breathing.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: aftcastle
aftercastle
related: word: well deck
word: foredeck
word: afterdeck
word: poop deck
glosses: A raised part of the upper deck at the front of a ship; the structure of this part of the ship; the crew's quarters located within it.
Derived terms: forecastled
forecastle lamp
forecastleman
monkey forecastle
forearm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːˌɹɑːm/
ipa: /ˌfɔːˈɹɑːm/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹˌɑɹm/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹˈɑɹm/
Forms: form: forearms
Etymology: From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady.
Synonyms: sense: part of the arm
word: antebrachium
sense: part of the arm
word: lower arm
sense: part of a weapon
word: forestock
sense: part of a weapon
word: handguard
Coordinate terms: sense: part of the arm
word: brachium
sense: part of the arm
word: upper arm
sense: part of the arm
word: aftarm
Derived terms: forearm bone
forearm crutch
forearm jerk
forearm smash
forearm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːˌɹɑːm/
ipa: /ˌfɔːˈɹɑːm/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹˌɑɹm/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹˈɑɹm/
Forms: form: forearms
form: forearming
form: forearmed
form: forearmed
Etymology: From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).
Senses: examples: text: But in so far as they were able to forearm themselves against the anxieties of bereavement, the loss may have been that much easier to face.
ref: 2013, Peter Marris, Widows and Their Families, page 20:
glosses: To arm in preparation.
fragmentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fragmentary
form: most fragmentary
Etymology: From fragment + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Fragmentary evidence suggests that he died in a foreign country.
glosses: Consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
Synonyms: word: fractional
word: fragmentary
Hypernyms: word: disconnected
word: divided
word: incomplete
word: separate
Hyponyms: word: broken
word: scattered
Derived terms: fragmentarily
fragmentariness
fragnet
interfragmentary
multifragmentary
nonfragmentary
unfragmentary
experiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənts/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənts/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənts/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of experiment
experiments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənts/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənts/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənts/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of experiment
flowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
rhymes: -aʊəɹi
homophone: floury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: flowerier
form: more flowery
form: floweriest
form: most flowery
form: flow'ry
Etymology: From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Senses: examples: text: “Sir you are mistaken—I am not——.” But before he could say ‘a girl,’ this ancient period-strumpet of a bedizened man (upon a pattern drawn from a time of swords and silk, when men were in their floweriest scent—savagely tattooed with braid—intoxicated with their own snuff—forever on tiptoe—disgusted with the mannish—wooing Woman after the fashion of women) burst in and silenced him, […]
ref: 1930, Wyndham Lewis, “Dan at the Assembly”, in The Apes of God, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, published 1932, →OCLC, part XII (Lord Osmund’s Lenten Party), page 464:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
examples: text: At last she reached a flowery knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.
ref: 1879, William Henderson, Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders:
synonyms: flowerful
glosses: Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
examples: text: My accusers, then, as I maintain, have said little or nothing that is true, but from me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language like theirs, decked out with fine words and phrases; […]
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19:
synonyms: bombastic
verbose
glosses: Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
examples: text: Although flowery actions are used in the plays of the 1890s, waving arms, wringing hands, and pleading with outstretched arms would be unsuitable in plays about modern life.
ref: 1972, Miriam A[nna] Franklin, “Use of Hands and Feet”, in Rehearsal: The Principles and Practice of Acting for the Stage, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, part II (Sharpening Theater Tools), chapter 4 (Language of Action), page 60:
text: “Miss, it would be my great pleasure to escort you and your uncle to supper this evening.” Sasha stifled her desire to roll her eyes at his flowery actions, but the fact that he omitted inviting Jim irritated her.
ref: 2007, Vickie McDonough, “A Wealth Beyond Riches”, in Oklahoma Brides: Dreams Come Full Circle in Three Prairie Romances, Uhrichsville, Okla.: Barbour Publishing, published [2008], →ISBN, chapter 7, page 275:
text: He kissed her hand in a way she found just a little flowery.
ref: 2016 April, Jo Beverley, chapter 39, in The Viscount Needs a Wife (Company of Rogues; 16), New York, N.Y.: Signet Select, →ISBN, page 336:
glosses: Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
Derived terms: flowerily
floweriness
Flowery Field
unflowery
flowery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
rhymes: -aʊəɹi
homophone: floury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: floweries
Etymology: From flower + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Hearken these blissful birdies how they sing, / And see the freshé floweries, how they spring!”
ref: 1925, “Chanticleer and Pertelote: Retold from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale by [Geoffrey] Chaucer”, in Olive Beaupré Miller, editor, Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse (My Bookhouse; 2), Chicago, Ill.: The Bookhouse for Children, →OCLC, page 84:
text: That pottie’s too wee for six, Minnie, lassie. Go ben to the room press and you’ll see a big brown one with blue floweries on it.
ref: 1963, Jane Duncan [pseudonym; Elizabeth Jane Cameron], chapter 10, in My Friend Madame Zora, London: Pan Books, published 1966, →OCLC, page 208:
text: I wore a white dress with yellow, grey and black floweries on it and a large white hat.
ref: 1966 June 23, Sybil Thorndike, letter; quoted in John Casson, “‘When We Are Old, Are Old’”, in Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir, London: Collins, 1972, →ISBN, page 320:
text: Us was goody goody garden workers… us growed pretty floweries for our fairy.
ref: 2023, Vivian French, “An Enchanted Garden”, in Bibi and the Box of Fairy Tales, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Diminutive of flower.
flowery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
rhymes: -aʊəɹi
homophone: floury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: floweries
Etymology: From flower + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Poppies make very showy floweries and should be planted lightly in the spots where they are intended to be grown.
ref: 1914 April, Grasmere [pseudonym], “April Days on Canada’s Farms”, in Farmer’s Magazine, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:
text: I have visited the rose gardens of California and basked in the artificial floweries of Luther Burbank, but back in my heart’s country, ’twixt the cave and the thorn tree, one may pluck a tulip or an old-fashioned “Jack in the Pulpit” scattering incense and pollen of the fairest flower of all the springtime.
ref: 1919, Harry Collins Spillman, “The Old Home Town”, in Personality: Studies in Personal Development, New York, N.Y.: The Gregg Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 110:
text: Charles River Basin, classical Technology, the West Bridge, ivy-hung walls of Charles River Square and Brimmer Street, rollicking children and green embankment failed on hot May days to charm away the consciousness of an apartment home, paved streets and brick walls, noises and gas and smoke, and a few dejected flowers in a single bowl which represented all of living beauty that a limited flower budget could encompass. (We always passed the opulent floweries of Boylston Street with the empty longing of a hungry child whose nose is flattened against a caterer’s window.)
ref: 1925, Frances S. Burns, “A Woodland Meadow”, in Stone & Webster Journal, volume 37, Boston, Mass.: Stone & Webster, →OCLC, page 607:
text: While Men were foraging in the floweries and picking nuts and flowers and seeds and other such small foraging items while having to escape from other kind of predators, it is their running that still shows the kind of balance needed to speed on hard(er) surfaces.
ref: 2012 February 28, Fabrizio J Bonsignore, “Women run differently from Men, dont they? And flowers...”, in ny.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
glosses: A place where flowers grow.
flooring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔːrɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: floorings
Etymology: From Middle English floring.
Senses: examples: text: Every day we are exposed to low doses of phthalates in food containers, perfumes, hairsprays, floorings, paints, toys and medical devices.
ref: 2008 May/Jun, Erin Barnes, “Glossed Over”, in E: The Environmental Magazine, volume 19, number 3, page 21:
glosses: A floor.
examples: text: Now that it owns the best-known brand names in residential carpet, don't be surprised if Mohawk Industries sails into new waters - tile, resilient or even wood floorings - Chairman David Kolb hinted Wednesday.
ref: 1994 April 14, Susannah Vesey, “Investment Conference”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta:
glosses: A material used to make floors.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.
Derived terms: flooring nailer
laminate flooring
subflooring
underflooring
flooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔːrɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English floring.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floor
fawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɔnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɑnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of fawn
fawning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɔnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɑnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Shylock: How like a fawning publican he looks ![…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile.
Derived terms: fawningly
fawningness
unfawning
fawning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɔnɪŋ/
ipa: /fɑnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: fawnings
Senses: examples: text: Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
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 III, scene ii]:
text: Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him,
Lurking behind your honours and rewards;
Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings.
ref: 1818, Hannah More, The Inflexible Captive:
glosses: Servile flattery.
fellowship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛləʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʊʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛloʊʃɪp/
Forms: form: fellowships
form: fellowshipping
form: fellowshiping
form: fellowshipped
form: fellowshipped
form: fellowshiped
form: fellowshiped
Etymology: From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”), and Old Swedish fælaghskap (“fellowship”)
Senses: examples: text: The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
text: The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.
text: Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.
ref: c. 1524, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum, first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of Gesta Romanorum by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135
glosses: To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
examples: text: The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
text: After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
text: Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.
Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.
ref: c. 1410, Hans Kurath quoting Nicholas Love (translator), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, fifth edition (1989), quoted in Middle English Dictionary, translation of Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventura, (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463
qualifier: now chiefly religious
glosses: To join in fellowship; to associate with.
raw_tags: in Canada
Derived terms: unfellowship
relatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relatednesses
Etymology: From related + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Such mixture can be customized in the inference phase by simply adjusting an input vector that encodes the relatedness to different domains.
ref: 2018 December 13, Rui Gong, Wen Li, Yuhua Chen, Luc Van Gool, “DLOW: Domain Flow for Adaptation and Generalization”, in arXiv, page 2478:
glosses: The state of being related, especially by kinship.
exhibited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪbɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhibit
excretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːʃən
Forms: form: excretions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.
Senses: glosses: The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
examples: text: […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.
ref: 1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32:
synonyms: excrement
excretum
glosses: Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
Derived terms: hyperexcretion
overexcretion
postexcretion
underexcretion
Related terms: excrete
secretion
environs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From environ + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of environ: the environment, the surroundings.
environs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From environ + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of environ
emerging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: more emerging
form: most emerging
Etymology: By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
Derived terms: emerging adult
emergingly
emerging market
nonemerging
unemerging
emerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emerge
emerging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: emergings
Etymology: By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district[…]
ref: 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
glosses: Emergence.
electrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more electrically
form: most electrically
Etymology: From electric + -ally, electrical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Solar storms drive currents of millions of amps through the electrically conductive upper layer of our atmosphere (known as the ionosphere). These currents, which can fluctuate rapidly, drive powerful magnetic disturbances at the Earth's surface that in turn induce electrical currents in the planet's crust.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: By means of electricity.
examples: text: The concert was electrically exciting.
glosses: In an electric manner.
examples: text: an electrically symmetric atom
glosses: In terms of electrons.
Derived terms: optoelectrically
effectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈfɛkt͡ʃuəl/
Forms: form: more effectual
form: most effectual
form: effectuall
Etymology: From Middle English effectual, effectuel, from Old French effectuel, from Late Latin effectualis.
Senses: examples: text: Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: In the living state, the body is observed to […] adopt most effectual measures for the permanent continuance of its species.
ref: 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:
glosses: Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
Derived terms: effectual calling
effectuality
effectualization
effectualize
effectually
effectualness
noneffectual
uneffectual
Related terms: effect
effective
effectivity
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
dreamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹiː.mi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: dreamier
form: dreamiest
Etymology: From dream + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's so dreamy / Oh, fantasy free me / So you can't see me
ref: 1973, Richard O'Brien, “Time Warp”, in The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
synonyms: dreamish
dreamlike
oneiric
glosses: As in a dream; resembling a dream.
examples: text: I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!
text: He is dreamy, sex-bomb cute.
ref: 1999, Shana Larsen, 200 Cigarettes (motion picture), spoken by Lucy (Courtney Love):
synonyms: word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
glosses: Sexy; handsome; attractive.
examples: text: That place was so dreamy!
glosses: Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere.
examples: text: Cocktails and moonlit nights / That dreamy look in your eye / Give me a tropical contact high
ref: 1988, “Kokomo”, in Still Cruisin', performed by The Beach Boys:
synonyms: moony
glosses: Tending to dream or daydream.
Derived terms: dreamily
dreaminess
dreamy Daniel
undreamy
Related terms: dreamboat
database analyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: database analysts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a person who is responsible for the logical and physical design of databases
Related terms: database administrator
discarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɑɹdɪd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɑːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discard
describes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈskɹaɪbz/
rhymes: -aɪbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of describe
declining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decline
declining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: declinings
Senses: examples: c. 1572', John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament
For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.
glosses: decline
deaden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdən/
rhymes: -ɛdən
Forms: form: deadens
form: deadening
form: deadened
form: deadened
Etymology: From dead + -en. Compare Dutch doden (“to kill”), West Frisian deadzje (“to kill”).
Senses: examples: text: deaden the pain
text: deaden sound
text: deaden the senses
text: Painkillers helped to deaden the pain.
text: Thick curtains deaden the sound of traffic.
text: Routine can deaden one’s enthusiasm.
glosses: To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
glosses: To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
examples: text: to deaden a wall or a floor
glosses: To make soundproof.
Derived terms: deadener
deadeningly
undeadened
deadens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deaden
deadening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Until, of course, the war and its aftermath came to lay their deadening hand on all railway progress.
ref: 1948 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
text: So, how are we going to persuade the current government that command-and-control is a deadening leadership style which can never deliver the financial results of a liberated rail industry?
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Green, “Empowered...energised... and managing for success”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 22:
glosses: present participle and gerund of deaden
deadening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadenings
Senses: examples: text: The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.
ref: 2012, Daniel Sapen, Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche, page 38:
glosses: The process by which something is deadened.
glosses: A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.
deadened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deaden
darkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑɹkənd/
ipa: /ˈdɑːkənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of darken
darkened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑɹkənd/
ipa: /ˈdɑːkənd/
Senses: glosses: Made dark or lightproof by the exclusion of light.
examples: text: Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
synonyms: word: embrowned
glosses: Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.
Derived terms: gravity-darkened
limb-darkened
predarkened
semidarkened
undarkened
crumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmblɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: That crumbles; that breaks into small pieces or particles.
glosses: In a state of decline.
crumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmblɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crumble
crumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmblɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
Forms: form: crumblings
Senses: examples: text: Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time[…]
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers:
synonyms: word: chip
word: fragment
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
crumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crumble
Derived terms: uncrumbled
crumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crumble
crumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crumble