cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌp.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˈnʌp.t͡ʃ(ʊ)əl/
Forms: form: more nuptial
form: most nuptial
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”), from nūbō (“I marry, I take as husband”).
Senses: examples: text: To prevent the erosion of his own authority, Basil is persuaded to re-enact his father's crime — to unflower the servant girl on her nuptial night.
ref: 1988, Contemporary Dramatists, page 390:
glosses: Of or pertaining to wedding and marriage.
glosses: Capable, or characteristic, of breeding.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to wedding and marriage
word: bridal
sense: pertaining to wedding and marriage
word: spousal
Derived terms: antenuptial
inter-nuptial
internuptial
midnuptial
mid-nuptial
nuptial act
nuptial crest
nuptiality
nuptialize
nuptially
nuptial plumage
nuptials
nuptial season
nuptial stone
postnuptial
prenuptial
preternuptial
Related terms: connubial
nubile
slacken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæ.kən/
rhymes: -ækən
Forms: form: slackens
form: slackening
form: slackened
form: slackened
Etymology: From Middle English slakenen, equivalent to slack + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The pace slackened.
text: He seemed tired, and the Rat let him rest unquestioned, understanding something of what was in his thoughts; knowing, too, the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship, when the weary muscles slacken and the mind marks time.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: The action moves at lightening ^([sic]) pace, never slackening for a moment.
ref: 1984 April 28, Bill Kreidler, “Farcical Improbability”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
examples: text: slacken the rope
text: During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation: […]
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat[…]
ref: 1986, Mari Sandoz, The Horsecatcher:
synonyms: ease
glosses: To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
examples: text: to slacken lime
glosses: To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
Derived terms: slacken off
Related terms: slack
slacker
trenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian trenette.
Senses: glosses: A form of pasta from Liguria, similar to narrow, thick tagliatelle.
graciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪʃəsli/
Forms: form: more graciously
form: most graciously
Etymology: From Middle English graciously, graciousliche; equivalent to gracious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.
Related terms: grace
gracious
graciousness
scaffolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaffolders
Etymology: From scaffold + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who erects and dismantles scaffolding.
examples: text: The default site that is created by the Visual Studio project scaffolder uses Bootstrap by default.
ref: 2016, William Penberthy, Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015, page 71:
text: React has a scaffolder tool called create-react-app, which […] saves countless hours for React developers […]
ref: 2017, Christoffer Noring, Pablo Deeleman, Learning Angular:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A software tool that creates the basic framework or template for a new project.
glosses: A spectator in the gallery of a theatre.
tractability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractabilities
Etymology: From tractable + -ity, from Latin tractabilitas.
Senses: examples: text: At the expense of some realism, these simplifying assumptions afford a great deal of tractability, which allows us to make clear statements about optimal policy.
ref: 2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947
glosses: The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
tractably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tractably
form: most tractably
Etymology: From tractable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tractable manner; with compliance or docility.
scaffolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scaffold
scaffolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaffolded
form: most scaffolded
Senses: glosses: supplied with erected scaffolding
raw_tags: of a building or similar structure
scaffoldage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scaffold + -age.
Senses: glosses: The amount of scaffolding needed, or supplied for a specific installation.
frustrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌfɹʌsˈtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈf(ɹ)ʌsˌtɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈf(ɹ)ʌʃˌt͡ʃɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
Forms: form: more frustrating
form: most frustrating
Etymology: From frustrate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.
Synonyms: discouraging
Derived terms: frustratingly
frustrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌfɹʌsˈtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈf(ɹ)ʌsˌtɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈf(ɹ)ʌʃˌt͡ʃɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
Etymology: From frustrate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frustrate
trottole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian for "spinning tops".
Senses: glosses: A type of pasta in a shape supposed to resemble spinning tops.
governable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more governable
form: most governable
Etymology: From govern + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:
synonyms: controllable
manageable
ruleable
obedient
glosses: Capable of being governed or subjected to authority; amenable to law or rule.
Synonyms: tractable
Derived terms: governably
Related terms: governability
governableness
governableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From governable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being governable.
screaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːmɪŋ/
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:scream.
glosses: present participle and gerund of scream
screaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːmɪŋ/
Forms: form: more screaming
form: most screaming
Senses: glosses: Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
glosses: Obvious; distinct.
examples: text: All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.
ref: 1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569:
glosses: First-rate; splendid.
examples: text: a screaming farce
glosses: Hilariously funny; calculated to make people roar with laughter.
examples: text: Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!
topics: LGBT
glosses: Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.
Synonyms: screeching
shrieking
Derived terms: no screaming hell
screamingest
screamingly
screaming meemies
screaming sixties
screaming trots
screaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːmɪŋ/
Forms: form: screamings
Senses: examples: text: The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.
ref: 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland:
glosses: A scream.
Derived terms: screaming match
spinning top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning tops
Senses: examples: text: Patel says the muons behave a bit like a child’s spinning top, in rotating around the axis of the magnetic field. However, as the muons move, they wobble.
ref: 2023 August 11, Nicola Davis, “Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: humming top
spin-top
top
glosses: A toy with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis, either with a built-in pump-action handle, with the fingers or with a string.
intoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪk(ə)nt/
Forms: form: intoxicants
Senses: examples: text: Alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants.
glosses: Something which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent.
glosses: Poison.
Related terms: toxicant
intoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪk(ə)nt/
Senses: glosses: Intoxicating.
Derived terms: autointoxicant
nonintoxicant
featured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːt͡ʃə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more featured
form: most featured
Etymology: From feature + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This month's featured products are on the first page of the catalogue.
glosses: displayed with special treatment
examples: text: the broad-featured son of a farmer
glosses: Having features of a particular kind.
Derived terms: full-featured
hard-featured
misfeatured
multifeatured
nonfeatured
sunken featured building
underfeatured
unfeatured
featured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːt͡ʃə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From feature + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past participle of feature
Synonyms: depicted
displayed
intoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intoners
Etymology: From intone + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who intones.
intolerantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intolerantly
form: most intolerantly
Etymology: From intolerant + -ly.
Senses: examples: Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana
glosses: In an intolerant manner; without toleration.
zitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zitones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zitoni.
intolerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intolerably
form: most intolerably
Etymology: From intolerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intolerable manner; beyond endurance.
secondi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondo
intolerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intolerable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 13:
glosses: The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
intolerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intolerabilities
Etymology: From Latin intolerabilitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being intolerable; intolerableness.
ssh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Be quiet or reduce the volume.
ssh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sshes
form: sshing
form: sshed
form: sshed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shush.
synonyms: word: shush
ssh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of secure shell.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program and protocol for securely logging in to and running programs on remote machines across a network, with encryption to protect the transferred information and authentication to ensure that the remote machine is the one desired.
ssh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sshes
form: sshing
form: sshed
form: sshed
Etymology: Abbreviation of secure shell.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use ssh to connect to a remote computer.
insupportableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insupportable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
insupportably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insupportably
form: most insupportably
Etymology: From insupportable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insupportable manner.
supportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supportable
form: most supportable
Etymology: From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support + -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.
Senses: examples: text: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
ref: 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
examples: text: [...]supportable
To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
Than you may call to comfort you, for I
Have lost my daughter.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
Derived terms: supportableness
supportably
supportableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supportable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being supportable.
supportably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supportably
form: most supportably
Etymology: From supportable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supportable manner.
insufferableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insufferable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being insufferable.
insufferably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insufferably
form: most insufferably
Etymology: From insufferable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.
ref: 2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In an insufferable manner.
sufferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more sufferable
form: most sufferable
Etymology: PIE word
 *upó
From Middle English sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”), from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)), from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). Sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as suffer + -able.
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: tolerant
patient
antonyms: insufferable
coordinate_terms: permissive
glosses: Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
examples: text: Greek philosophers put it bluntly: "The best thing in the world is not to be born; but the second best is to die." Up to the point of suicide the suffering continues to be sufferable.
ref: 2001, Walter Prytulak, On Pain Suffering: Reminiscences, Musings and Reflections, page 58:
synonyms: endurable
tolerable
permissible
allowable
antonyms: insufferable
unendurable
intolerable
impermissible
unallowable
glosses: Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.
Related terms: sufferableness
sufferably
sufferableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sufferable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being sufferable.
sufferably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sufferably
form: most sufferably
Etymology: From sufferable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sufferable manner.
unendurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: more unendurable
form: most unendurable
form: unindurable
Etymology: From un- + endurable.
Senses: glosses: Not to be endured; intolerable.
Related terms: unendurability
unendurableness
unendurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unendurably
form: most unendurably
Etymology: From unendurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unendurable manner; intolerably.
unending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unending
form: most unending
Etymology: From un- + ending.
Senses: examples: text: At any rate I was very sure that I would not attempt to attain unending life.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: As he looked back and thought of the recurrent seasons falling upon the world it seemed to him that they had come to the count, over and over, of Hard Times, Hard Times, Hard Times, more monotonous, more unending, than the count of the soldiers, muttering as they marched, years before, in the town which had before been called only the crossroads.
ref: 1930, John Donald Wade, The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius; republished as Donald Davidson, editor, Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade, 1966, page 26:
glosses: Not ending; having no end; eternal.
Synonyms: sense: having no end
word: termless
word: endless
Related terms: end
ending
unendingly
unendingness
unendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unending + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine God in Heaven surrounded by the choirs of adoring angels singing hosannahs unendingly.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 24:
glosses: Without end; eternally; in an unending manner.
Synonyms: ceaselessly
incessantly
nonstop
continuously
unendingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unending + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unending.
Synonyms: endlessness
perpetuity
sweetbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetbread.
intimidatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intimidatingly
form: most intimidatingly
Etymology: From intimidating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stared intimidatingly at John. John, feeling threatened, ran off.
glosses: In an intimidating manner.
intestacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛstəsi/
Forms: form: intestacies
Etymology: From intestate + -cy.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.
creamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːmd/
rhymes: -iːmd
Etymology: See cream (verb)
Senses: examples: text: The other team was so good! We were creamed, and rightly so.
glosses: simple past and past participle of cream
creamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːmd/
rhymes: -iːmd
Etymology: See cream (verb)
Senses: glosses: prepared with cream.
raw_tags: of a food
Derived terms: creamed corn
creamed honey
uncreamed
have a go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a go
form: having a go
form: had a go
form: had a go
Senses: examples: text: I've never tried karate before, but I'm willing to have a go.
glosses: To make an attempt; to try.
examples: text: I heard you had a go at Jack the other night.
text: 'Yes, me and Marty had a go when he didn't believe me about the girl.'
ref: 2008, John Chalmers, The Lady on the Rocks, page 27:
text: But there were occasions when someone or other had a go — when I was going to have a drink from the fountain, for instance, and had to stand on tiptoe at the side to reach the jet of water. Then it was that the clever dogs saw their chance to do something tough atmy expense […]
ref: 2004, Lars Saabye Christensen, Kenneth Steven, The Half Brother, page 314:
glosses: To attack someone physically; to have a fight.
examples: text: My teacher had a go at me earlier, just for missing one sodding homework. I was fuming.
text: Except her dad had a go last time, the last time she'd brought home a detention slip for him to sign.
ref: 2008, Stella Duffy, Mouths of Babes, page 10:
text: He had a go because I'm on the dole and I had a go back because he deals pills and robs kids.
ref: 2016, Luke Barnes, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song:
glosses: To tell off (especially unnecessarily or excessively), to criticise.
Derived terms: have-a-go hero
intimidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intimidate
intimidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intimidated
form: most intimidated
Senses: glosses: Subjected to intimidation.
Derived terms: unintimidated
interviewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/
ipa: /ˈɪntəvjuːə/
Forms: form: interviewers
Etymology: From interview + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”
ref: 2001, Foster Hirsh, quoting Woody Allen, Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen:
text: "I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline. Is it not the oldest in Scotland?" an interviewer asks John Conacher, General Manager of the North British Railway, in 1898.
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 54:
glosses: One who interviews.
Derived terms: intervieweress
Related terms: english: a person who is interviewed
translation: a person who is interviewed
word: interviewee
interventionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interventionisms
Etymology: From French interventionnisme. By surface analysis, intervention + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
antonyms: noninterventionism
glosses: The political practice of intervening in a sovereign state's affairs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The medical practice of trying to prolong someone's life.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The idea that a person develops cognition through explicit instruction by others, and not merely by being nurtured and allowed to develop individually.
Coordinate terms: topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: horticulturalism
Derived terms: economic interventionism
Related terms: interventionist
interventionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do / But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you
ref: 1997, “Into My Arms”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), The Boatman’s Call, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
text: And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.
ref: 2016 August 31, Tal Kopan, “Will Hillary Clinton’s GOP outreach alienate progressives?”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
interventionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interventionists
Etymology: Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The liberal interventionists and neoconservatives who have accused the administration of failing to lead never laid out an effective case as to what the relationship between U.S. military action and the political end state in Syria would be.
ref: 2014 January 23, Aaron David Miller, “Syria conflict is tragic, but U.S. can’t fix it”, in CNN:
text: Senior players were sceptical to begin with, startled by Conte’s aggressively interventionist training sessions, practice constantly stopped by that barking voice, points of positional detail brutally drilled.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who practices or defends interventionism.
Derived terms: interventionistic
neurointerventionist
noninterventionist
pro-interventionist
Related terms: interventionalist
prolongment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈlɒŋmənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈlɔŋmənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈlɑŋmənt/
ipa: /pɹoʊ-/
Forms: form: prolongments
Etymology: From prolong + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of prolonging, or the state of being prolonged; prolongation.
prolonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolongers
Etymology: From prolong + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It imparts a sweetness to the breath, is a valuable medicine in all nervous complaints, and is esteemed as a prolonger of life and an exciter of venery.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 173:
glosses: One who or that which prolongs, or lengthens in time or space.
prolongation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊləŋˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒləŋˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹoʊˌlɔŋˈ(ɡ)eɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹəˌlɔŋˈ(ɡ)eɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹoʊˌlɑŋˈ(ɡ)eɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹəˌlɑŋˈ(ɡ)eɪʃən/
Forms: form: prolongations
Etymology: From Middle English prolongacioun, from Old French prolongation, from Late Latin prōlongātiō, from prōlongātus, perfect passive participle of Latin prōlongō, from prō + longus.
Senses: glosses: The act of prolonging.
glosses: That which has been prolonged; an extension.
Synonyms: sense: act of prolonging: extending in space
word: stretching
sense: act of prolonging: extending the duration of
word: continuance
word: prolongment
word: prorogation
word: protraction
sense: act of prolonging: putting off to a distant time
word: deferral
word: procrastination
word: deferment
prolongable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prolongable
form: most prolongable
Etymology: From prolong + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being prolonged, extended, or lengthened.
interspersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interspersions
Etymology: From intersperse + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The state of being interspersed.
glosses: The act of interspersing.
Related terms: dispersion
salmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salmis
Etymology: From French salmis, from Italian salame, from sale (“salt”).
Senses: examples: text: She went downstairs to the kitchen and actually cooked little dishes for him. "Isn't it a good salmi?" she said; "I made it for you. I can make you better dishes than that, and will when you come to see me."
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A rich stew or ragout, especially of game.
Related terms: salmagundi
walking patient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking patients
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A patient whose injuries and/or illness are relatively minor, permitting the patient to walk and not require a litter.
Related terms: alt: JP 4-02
word: slightly wounded
wanted cargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In naval control of shipping, a cargo which is not immediately required by the consignee country, but will be needed later.
ossobuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of osso buco.
rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbit
rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rabbit
piet-my-vrou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪtmeɪfɹəʊ/
Forms: form: piet-my-vrous
Etymology: From Afrikaans piet-my-vrou, literally ‘Peter my wife’, supposed representation of the bird’s call.
Senses: glosses: A red-chested cuckoo, of species Cuculus solitarus.
warden system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warden systems
Senses: glosses: An informal method of communication used to pass information to US citizens during emergencies.
Related terms: alt: JP 3-07.5
word: noncombatant evacuation operations
intransient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + transient.
Senses: glosses: Not transient; not passing away; permanent.
war game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war games
form: wargame
form: war-game
Senses: examples: text: Well, the WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, WarGames, spoken by Paul Richter:
text: On the other hand, war games in the Weimar era did not first develop into a political instrument when they began to incorporate political entities. Rather, only war games were able to approximate exactly the situation that was to be avoided at all costs.
ref: 2012, Philipp Von Hilgers, War Games: A History of War on Paper, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: In a sort of blooper reel, I will go over some of the things that occurred in a few of the wargames but we left out when collating the overall timeline.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 29:29 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: military exercise
training exercise
glosses: A simulation (by whatever means, physical or digital), for training and strategy purposes, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.
glosses: A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.
war game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: war games
form: war gaming
form: war gamed
form: war gamed
form: wargame
form: war-game
Senses: examples: text: Together Britain, the United States and Ukraine conducted an assessment of the new plan, trying to war game it once more.
ref: 2022 September 13, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, “The Critical Moment Behind Ukraine’s Rapid Advance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To run a military simulation of this kind.
Wilhelmine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Wilhelm + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the period of German history 1871-1918, or to the German Emperors of that period.
golden sombrero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden sombreros
Senses: examples: text: Jones got a golden sombrero last night; he had a hat trick (three strikeouts) going into the ninth inning, then struck out for the fourth time.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A humorous verbal "award" given to a batter who has struck out four times in a single game.
Related terms: hat trick
platinum sombrero
platinum sombrero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum sombreros
Senses: examples: text: Mike had to witness his dad achieve a platinum sombrero last night.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A humorous verbal "award" given to a batter who has struck out five times in a single game.
Related terms: hat trick
golden sombrero
Sulawesi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Indonesia, the world's eleventh-largest island.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Celebes
Derived terms: Sulawesi civet
Sulawesi crested macaque
Sulawesi palm civet
entrepreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜːʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: entrepreneurships
Etymology: From entrepreneur + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
ref: 2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34:
glosses: The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
glosses: The quality of being an entrepreneur.
Derived terms: intrapreneurship
microentrepreneurship
regulatory entrepreneurship
social entrepreneurship
technoentrepreneurship
furthermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English forthirmaste, forþermaste, furthermost; equivalent to further + -most.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of further: most further; the most especially forward, ahead or (figurative) progressed
glosses: superlative form of far: most far; farthest
Related terms: farthermost
gateman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatemen
Etymology: From gate + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:
text: The carriages - or cars - had gated platforms at the end, where 'gatemen' stood and controlled the flow of passengers on and off the trains in the absence of automatic doors. […] When each gateman had secured his doors and gate, he rang a bell, then the conductor rang his bell as the signal for the driver to set off.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate.
greybeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greybeards
form: graybeard
Etymology: From grey + beard; men of advanced age would be expected to have a grey beard.
Senses: synonyms: word: antiquity
word: codger
word: gadgie
word: gaffer
word: geezer
word: gramps
word: greybeard
word: old codger
word: old fart
word: old man
word: whitebeard
glosses: An old man.
synonyms: longbeard
oldbie
old-timer
veteran
glosses: Any of the members of a group who have been there the longest, often implying experience.
synonyms: longbeard
glosses: A coarse earthenware vessel for holding liquor; a bellarmine.
glosses: A powerful wave in the vicinity of Cape Horn.
orge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orges
form: orging
form: orged
form: orged
Senses: glosses: To indulge in riotous jollity.
Related terms: orgy
ionospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ionosphere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
Derived terms: ionospherically
ionospherist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionospherists
Etymology: From ionosphere + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies the ionosphere.
Related terms: ionospheric
interrupter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrupters
Etymology: From interrupt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The interrupter bowed, smiled, stroked his beard, and relapsed into his chair.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: One who or that which interrupts.
glosses: A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
examples: text: The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'
ref: 2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans:
text: The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. […] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the interpreter managed to calm him down.
ref: 2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle:
glosses: An interpreter (person who interprets speech in a foreign language).
Derived terms: arc-fault circuit interrupter
interrupter gear
opto-interrupter
photointerrupter
interrogator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrogators
Etymology: From Latin interrogātor. By surface analysis, interrogate + -or.
Senses: synonyms: inquisitor
inquirer
questioner
antonyms: word: interrogatee
word: questionee
word: asker
word: interrogator
word: interviewer
word: questioner
word: querier
glosses: One who interrogates; a person who asks questions, especially one who is adversarial.
examples: text: Any RFID interrogator within 30 meters can read an RFID tag in active mode.
ref: 2002, Mark Beaulieu, Wireless Internet applications and architecture, page 126:
glosses: A device that requests data from another device.
Derived terms: interrogatress
interrogatrix
Related terms: interrogable
interrogate
interrogation
interrogative
interrogatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interrogative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
interscholastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + scholastic.
Senses: synonyms: interschool
glosses: Involving two or more schools.
Derived terms: interscholastically
winnowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnowings
Senses: examples: text: If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
ref: 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
text: At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device.
ref: 2007 October 20, Thomas C. Cooper, “How Green Is My Garden?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act of separating chaff from grain.
winnowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of winnow
Derived terms: winnowing basket
winnowing fan
winnowing-fan
winnowing-fork
winnowing fork
winnowing machine
winnowing shovel
winnowing-shovel
whorl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wôrl
enpr: wûrl
ipa: /(h)wɔː(ɹ)l/
ipa: /(h)wɜː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)l
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: whirl
Forms: form: whorls
Etymology: From alteration of whirl (verb).
Senses: glosses: Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
glosses: A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
Derived terms: whorl foot
whorl snail
whorl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wôrl
enpr: wûrl
ipa: /(h)wɔː(ɹ)l/
ipa: /(h)wɜː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)l
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: whirl
Forms: form: whorls
form: whorling
form: whorled
form: whorled
Etymology: From alteration of whirl (verb).
Senses: examples: text: “Waves Against the Sand,” to music by Martinu, which opened the program, filled the stage space with whorling patterns of dancers surging with the gentle but ceaseless momentum of the sea.
ref: 2008 February 12, Jennifer Dunning, “Modern Style, Old-Fashioned Virtues”, in New York Times:
glosses: To form a pattern of concentric circles.
drawee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawees
Etymology: From draw + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque.
Related terms: drawer
Pooterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pooter + -ism, from the character in Diary of a Nobody.
Senses: examples: text: Although the word blog suggests attitude and subversion, it's really just a hi-tech kind of diary and carries the identical risk of Pooterism.
ref: 2005, Mark Lawson, BBC:
text: The Daily Telegraph
In his letter, Morgan obligingly, but probably unwittingly, demonstrated a wonderfully neat example of "Pooterism".
text: NY Times
[P]rivacy would be a prime value in the world of Pooterism and the semi-detached villa on a suburban line.
text: The Daily Telegraph
Yes, the element of Pooterism is fantastically strong, taking yourself grotesquely seriously.
glosses: Taking oneself grotesquely seriously.
wikipedia: Diary of a Nobody
merdivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɜːˈdɪvəɹəs/
Forms: form: more merdivorous
form: most merdivorous
Etymology: From Latin merda (“excrement”) + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: Dung-eating, coprophagous.
wind up one's bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winds up one's bottoms
form: winding up one's bottoms
form: wound up one's bottoms
form: wound up one's bottoms
Senses: examples: 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 February 5 http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#banks
Myself and the Dr went ashore today to wind up our bottoms
glosses: To finish a job.
new math
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Math
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A dramatic and short-lived change in the teaching of mathematics in grade schools in the 1960s, focusing on abstract topics such as symbolic logic, to the detriment of simple arithmetic etc.
examples: text: She quickly calculated the tip to be $45.00 on the restaurant tab of $110.50, apparently using new math.
glosses: The methodology used to arrive at an unreasonably incorrect answer for a mathematical calculation.
Related terms: reform mathematics
George's Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after King George III by Samuel Wallis.
Senses: glosses: Tahiti.
wikipedia: Samuel Wallis
Synonyms: King George the Third's Island
Otaheite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From (misinterpretation of) Tahitian 'o Tahiti.
Senses: examples: text: The custom of eating dogs at Otaheite being mentioned, Goldsmith observed, that this was also a custom in China […].
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 525:
glosses: Tahiti.
Otaheite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Otaheite
form: most Otaheite
Etymology: From (misinterpretation of) Tahitian 'o Tahiti.
Senses: examples: text: ...and two Otaheite princes, nearly seven feet, swathed in white calico, with naked arms and legs, would stand on each side, holding a laurel crown over the heads of the fair cherubs, with a massive club in their right hands, threatening destruction to all who approached.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 175:
qualifier: now only in compound terms
glosses: Tahitian.
Derived terms: Otaheitan
Otaheite apple
Otaheite arrowroot
Otaheite cane
Otaheite gooseberry
Otaheite orange
Otaheite plum
Otaheite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (misinterpretation of) Tahitian 'o Tahiti.
Senses: examples: text: I found Omai seated on the Great Chair, and my Brother next to him, and talking Otaheite as fast as possible.
ref: 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December
glosses: The Tahitian language.
glosses: A Tahitian.
allusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈluː.sɪv/
ipa: /əˈljuː.sɪv/
ipa: /əˈluː.sɪv/
homophone: elusive
Forms: form: more allusive
form: most allusive
Etymology: From Latin allūs-, past participle stem of allūdere (“to joke, jest”; see allude) + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: English poetry is compelled by the stubbornness of the language continually to renounce the too obviously poetic: but in seeking to be more precise, more dense and more allusive, Russian poetry has never had to give up the straightforward traditional intoxications of sound and rhyme.
ref: 1984, John Bayley, Two pieces on translating Mandelstam: Selected Essays, page 149:
text: The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations.
ref: 2010, James Matthews, “Late Modernism and the Marketplace”, in Edwina Keown, Carol Taaffe, editors, Irish Modernism, page 172:
text: 2013, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou (translators and editors), Introduction, Unknown author, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds, [14th c, Παιδιόφραστος διήγησις τῶν ζῴων τῶν τετραπόδων], page 87,
The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator.
text: Around they go, taking in the poem's allusive system of images and its narrative density, the emotional heat of its subject matter, its increasing cultural salience re: women, re: trauma, re: bodies, re: life at the end of the world.
ref: 2023, Brandon Taylor, chapter 1, in The Late Americans, pages 1-2:
synonyms: suggestive
glosses: that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)
Derived terms: allusively
allusiveness
allusivity
unallusive
Related terms: allude
allusion
causerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causeries
Etymology: From French causerie.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I have yet to learn that my verses and my art causerie are of second-rate quality,’ said Mrs. Thundleford with acerbity.
ref: 1919, Saki, “Fate”, in The Toys of Peace:
glosses: An informal conversation, or casual short written article, especially on a serious topic.
synth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnθ/
rhymes: -ɪnθ
Forms: form: synths
Etymology: Clipping of synthesizer.
Senses: glosses: A musical synthesizer.
Derived terms: dungeon synth
keller synth
synth bass
synth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnθ/
rhymes: -ɪnθ
Forms: form: synths
form: synthing
form: synthed
form: synthed
Etymology: Clipping of synthesizer.
Senses: examples: text: Les Miserables couldn't tour the road circuit affordably today if Seann Alderking hadn't reduced its pit-people requirements by masterfully synthing large portions of its sound, and with a range of sonic effects that makes Svengali sound like something played on a nursery xylophone.
ref: 1991, Theater Week, volume 4, page 38:
text: There's some synthing, but mostly real strings and horns. And a remarkable acoustic piano solo, "Jacqueline," in memory of the modern sophisticated lady.
ref: 1995, Jazz Times, volume 25, numbers 1-5:
glosses: To play on a musical synthesizer.
Derived terms: synth pad
synth-pop
synth rock
voice synth
synth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnθ/
rhymes: -ɪnθ
Forms: form: syn
Etymology: Clipping of synthetic.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of synthetic.