cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
get into one's stride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets into one's stride
form: getting into one's stride
form: got into one's stride
form: got into one's stride
Senses: examples: text: Tottenham were slow to get into their stride in a first 45 minutes characterised by Arsenal's defensive discipline - but once they moved through the gears the Gunners simply could not live with them.
ref: 2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:
text: As the passenger franchises got into their stride, remarkable levels of growth were recorded.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: To become familiar with something
Related terms: hit one's stride
dab hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dab hands
Etymology: From dab (“ an expert; an adept”) + hand.
Senses: examples: text: She's a dab hand in the kitchen.
glosses: An expert; a very skilled person.
Derived terms: dab-handed
dab-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dab-handed
form: most dab-handed
Etymology: From dab (“an expert; an adept”) + handed (“having the hand of”).
Senses: examples: He is dab-handed at cricket.
glosses: very proficient
Related terms: dab hand
lattice window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lattice windows
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: a window with strips of metal holding small pieces of glass
electrostrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + strong.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: describing the combination of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces
Related terms: electroweak
megaflood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafloods
Etymology: From mega- + flood.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sudden discharge of an exceptionally large volume of water
calmodulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calmodulins
Senses: examples: text: Two distinct anti-allergic drugs, amlexanox and cromolyn, bind to the same kinds of calcium binding proteins, except calmodulin, in bovine lung extract.
ref: 2006, Journal of the National Cancer Institute:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells
Derived terms: apocalmodulin
soya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪ.ə/
rhymes: -ɔɪə
homophone: sawyer (some accents)
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch soja; from the Satsuma dialectal Japanese そや (soya), which is the topicalized form of 醤油 (そい, soi) (cognate to standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu)), from Late Middle Japanese 醤油 (しやうゆ, shiyauyu), orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw), from 醬 (tsjangᴴ, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soy.
Derived terms: soya bean
soya sauce
take away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes away from
form: taking away from
form: took away from
form: taken away from
Senses: examples: text: Even the rain couldn't take away from the excitement of the match.
synonyms: detract from
glosses: To subtract a quality from; make something seem not so good or interesting.
romaja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹoʊˈmɑːd͡ʒə/
Forms: form: Romaja
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 로마자(字) (romaja, from 로마 (Roma, “Rome, Roman”) + 자(字) (ja, “letter, character”), literally “Roman letters”).
Senses: glosses: A representation of Korean in Latin script.
Hypernyms: romanization
Coordinate terms: hangul
hanja
Related terms: romaji
starosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starostas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of starost.
buttonholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buttonhole
buttonholing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonholings
Senses: glosses: The act of detaining someone in conversation against his or her will.
significative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkətɪv/
ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪˌkeɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more significative
form: most significative
Etymology: Latin sīgnificātīvus: compare French significatif.
Senses: examples: text: The holy Symbols, or Signs, are not inanes significationes, barely significative.
ref: 1614, Edward Brerewood, Enquiries touching the diversity of languages and religions, through the chief parts of the world:
glosses: That tends to signify or indicate; indicative
raw_tags: followed by of
examples: text: Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words.
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: That has meaning or significance; significant
Derived terms: significatively
significativeness
partial pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial pressures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The pressure that one component of a mixture of gases would contribute to the total pressure.
partial pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial pressure
conflab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.flæb/
Forms: form: conflabs
form: confab
Etymology: Clipping of confabulation with an epenthetic l, which may be a humorous alteration done to suggest the word flab.
Senses: glosses: A discussion.
air terminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air terminal
air flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air flow
airflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airflow
double tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double taps
form: double-tap
form: doubletap
Senses: glosses: A tactical shooting technique of pulling the trigger of a weapon twice in quick succession to deliver two shots to the same target zone.
examples: text: “You said yourself that it looked like a professional hit with a double tap to the head. She could have hired it done and what better alibi than to be in another state when the murder took place,” Danny said.
ref: 2013 July 31, Gary J. Crawford, Double Tap: A Sam Mccloud Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: Two shots or bullets fired in such a way.
examples: text: Perhaps initially in Afghanistan, the double tap was useful as al-Qa'ida or Taliban members would collect the bodies.
ref: 2016, Christine Sixta Rinehart, Drones and Targeted Killing in the Middle East and Africa: An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A bombing strategy where the same target is attacked twice, with the second attack targeting rescuers and mourners.
double tap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double taps
form: double tapping
form: double tapped
form: double tapped
form: double-tap
form: doubletap
Senses: glosses: To shoot twice in rapid succession.
examples: text: Peitz tapped the screen and scrolled through a variety of drink icons. He double tapped a couple of others to add the extras and the comm dinged once it registered the final selection.
ref: 2020 June 27, Chad V. Holtkamp, The Spook & Goon Space Adventures Series: Missions 4-6 (The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures Series Boxset), CVH Group, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: To open an app, tap an item or toggle a switch by choosing the item and then double tapping the screen. When the selected item is double tapped, it will invoke the command as desired.
ref: 2015 October 29, Stewart Melart, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus for Seniors: The Complete Guide (1), Conceptual Kings:
glosses: To click twice on a touchscreen.
double taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double tap
double taps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double tap
amen curlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amen curler
car bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car bomb
legalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legalism
self-defeating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-defeating
form: most self-defeating
Etymology: From self- + defeating (present participle of defeat).
Senses: examples: text: Cutting off your nose to spite your face is self-defeating.
text: [...] to make commuter operations profitable, a 70 per cent fare rise would be necessary. The president admitted that an increase of this magnitude would be self-defeating and suggested that the commuter himself should not have to bear the whole burden because the service was not exclusively for his benefit, but largely for that of the community concerned.
ref: 1960 April, “Talking of Trains: The U.S. commuter problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 201:
text: The strike will win few friends as the capital tries to woo commuters and shoppers back after the pandemic. And the fewer the people using the Tube, the lower the fare revenue. The lower the fare revenue, the sterner the job cuts could be. Many people therefore see the industrial action as self-defeating.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 49:
qualifier: action
glosses: Containing elements that will cause it to fail; destined not to succeed by its very nature.
raw_tags: of a plan
Derived terms: self-defeating prophecy
legalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈli.ɡəl.ɪst/
Forms: form: more legalist
form: most legalist
Etymology: From legal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to legalism, in its various senses.
Synonyms: sense: theological doctrine
word: justiciary
sense: theological doctrine
word: justiciar
legalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈli.ɡəl.ɪst/
Forms: form: legalists
Etymology: From legal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “Don’t say anything! Oh, don’t say anything,” cried the atheist cobbler, dancing about in an ecstasy of admiration of the English legal system. For no man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Hammer of God”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: One who adheres to legalism, in its various senses.
Synonyms: sense: theological doctrine
word: justiciary
legalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legalist
self-denial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-denials
Etymology: From self- + denial.
Senses: synonyms: self-abnegation
self-sacrifice
glosses: Action that sacrifices one's own benefit for the good of others.
legalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more legalistically
form: most legalistically
Etymology: From legalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a legalistic manner; in a manner promoting legalism.
underdo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdoes
form: underdoing
form: underdid
form: underdone
Etymology: From Middle English underdon, from Old English underdōn (“to put under”), from Proto-Germanic *under + *dōną (“to put”). Equivalent to under- + do. Cognate with German unterthun (“to put under, subject”).
Senses: examples: text: Sorry to say, I've underdone the pot roast. I think we'd better put it back in the oven for a bit.
text: Sorry to say, I've underdone the downspout repair. I think we'd better hire someone to replace the whole thing.
antonyms: word: overdo
word: ;
english: of foods
translation: of foods
word: overcook
glosses: To do something insufficiently; especially, to undercook.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: (of tasks) half-ass, shortchange, phone in
text: We warned him not to underdo it. This customer expects attention to detail.
antonyms: word: overdo
word: ;
english: of foods
translation: of foods
word: overcook
glosses: To do something insufficiently; especially, to undercook.
To do less than is requisite.
examples: Near-synonyms: underachieve, slack off
antonyms: word: overdo
word: ;
english: of foods
translation: of foods
word: overcook
glosses: To do something insufficiently; especially, to undercook.
To act below one's abilities; do less than one can.
glosses: To put under, subject.
off one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I try as much as possible not to judge other parents, but when, after midnight, you see a baby in ear defenders being hauled in a cart through a crowd of adults, all of whom are off their faces, while the infant cowers under a blanket, it doesn’t really seem in their best interests.
ref: 2023 June 30, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, “I’ll never be a true hippie parent, but I can learn a lot from summer festival-goers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: off one's head
glosses: Extremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.
Syd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Syds
form: SYD
form: Syd.
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the unisex given name Sydney.
glosses: Abbreviation of Sydney (a city in Nova Scotia, Canada and New South Wales, Australia).
Related terms: sense: given name
word: Sid
Vic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Victor.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.
glosses: Alternative form of Vic.: Abbreviation of Victoria: a state of Australia.
examples: text: My next part at the Vic was Macbeth, with Judith Anderson. This play has a proverbial reputation for bad luck.
ref: 1949, Five Seasons of the Old Vic Theatre Company, page 5:
glosses: The Royal Victoria Theatre, in London (now called the Old Vic to distinguish it from the New Vic Theatre in Staffordshire).
Vic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: Vics
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A Ford Crown Victoria automobile.
knob cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Smegma which is secreted between the glans penis and foreskin.
serated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of serrated.
all rights reserved
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.
Derived terms: all rights reversed
no rights reserved
some rights reserved
sea elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea elephants
form: sea-elephant
Senses: glosses: The elephant seal.
skipjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skipjacks
form: skipjack
Senses: glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A common bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
An alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A bonito (Sarda spp. etc.)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A butterfish
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A cutlass fish (Trichiuridae spp.)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A jurel (Caranx or Trachurus)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A runner (Elagatis pinnulatis)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A saurel (Trachurus spp.)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A saury (Scomberesocidae spp.)
glosses: Any of several not closely related fish.
A threadfish (Alectis spp.)
examples: text: Tag-rag or other, hogen mogen, vanden, skip-jacks or chouses.
ref: 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial:
glosses: An upstart.
glosses: An elaterid; a click beetle.
glosses: A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Related terms: skipjack tuna
star sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star signs
Etymology: Compound of star + sign.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the twelve astrological signs.
Synonyms: astrological sign
Related terms: air sign
earth sign
fire sign
water sign
astrological sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrological signs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of twelve signs, corresponding to constellations, that are used as the basis of astrology
Synonyms: word: star sign
word: astrological sign
see off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees off
form: seeing off
form: saw off
form: seen off
Senses: examples: text: Many friends came to see me off.
text: We saw off a close friend at the airport.
text: During the interval my friend, who was seeing me off, observing a wheel-tapper at his work, and having the incredulity which decides that there can be no practical outcome of this mysterious operation, asked me what did happen if the wheel-tapper discovered anything amiss.
ref: 1939 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
glosses: To accompany someone to a point of departure; to ensure someone departs safely.
examples: text: A salesman came to my door, but the dogs soon saw him off.
text: Jon Walters and Rory Delap scored late goals as Stoke continued their unbeaten home start by seeing off Fulham with a dominant second-half display.
ref: 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
text: Only four units (455704/726/736/740) are yet scrapped, but the new Class 701s will soon see them all off.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 40:
text: You Keep Fucking Me is one of the highlights of a new exhibition of her paintings, all of them created since her diagnosis with a cancer that should, by rights, have seen her off.
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To defeat; to get rid of.
stringed instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringed instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: string instrument
string
chordophone
coordinate_terms: wind instrument
glosses: Any musical instrument in which taut strings are plucked, bowed or struck in order to produce a sound.
Related terms: fidicinal
snakehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakeheads
Etymology: From snake + head.
Senses: examples: text: Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.
ref: 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
examples: text: Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.
ref: 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10:
text: […] but snakeheads involved in air smuggling may venture into sea smuggling. A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both.
ref: 2011, David Kyle, Rey Koslowski, Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (page 190)
glosses: A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people.
glosses: A black person.
glosses: A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
glosses: Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Channa micropeltes
word: giant snakehead
taxonomic: Channa argus
word: northern snakehead
fossicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossickers
Etymology: From fossick + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There was also, I think, brisk trafficking in metaphysics around the traps since it was widely believed that opal was found not by geologists, by fossickers, but by the dedicated, the single-minded, the pure in heart.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 12:
glosses: Someone who fossicks.
Derived terms: fossicking
ultraviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra-violence
Etymology: From ultra + violence.
Senses: examples: text: I gave them the ultra-violence, the crasting, the dratsing, the old in-out in-out, the lot, right up to this night's veshch with the bugatty starry ptitsa with the mewing kots and koshkas.
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Sam and Max are Freelance Police, irreverent and slightly insane, toting guns and determined to bring outrageous ultraviolence and fluffy kittens to the world. They also happen to be a dog and rabbit, respectively.
ref: 2008, Gene Kannenberg, 500 Essential Graphic Novels, Ilex Press, →ISBN, page 15:
text: But by the early 2000s, we were seeing fewer games like DOOM that dealt in the fantasia of ultraviolence and more games that tried to replicate the everyday violence of military encounters.
ref: 2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector:
glosses: Unnecessary, unprovoked (usually brutal) violence; violent acts simply for the thrill and entertainment of it.
speedcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speed + -core.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A very fast type of hardcore techno.
540
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 540s
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of spinning 540 degrees in the air, making 1½ turns.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 3 turns
translation: 3 turns
word: 1080
english: 2-1/2 turns
translation: 2-1/2 turns
word: 900
english: 2 turns
translation: 2 turns
word: 720
english: 1 turn
translation: 1 turn
word: 360
english: 1/2 turn
translation: 1/2 turn
word: 180
1960s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1960's
Senses: examples: text: Sixty other former ASNA raiders, captured by the Communists while conducting commando activities on the mainland in the early 1960s, were released on the same day from Amoy to Tatan, an offshore island just off the mainland.
ref: 1975 October 26, “Propaganda behind commando release”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XVI, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2, 3:
english: 自由中國週報
translation: 自由中國週報
text: The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.
ref: 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:
text: Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring “Your body, my choice” at women online and on college campuses.
ref: 2024 November 30, Christine Fernando, “Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election”, in Associated Press:
glosses: The decade beginning in 1960 and ending in 1969.
Synonyms: '60s
60s
sixties
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
1960s
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 1960s
form: most 1960s
form: 1960's
Senses: examples: text: My father was a classic 1960s hippie who used to smoke marijuana.
glosses: Designating popular culture and major events that occurred in this decade, or anything manufactured in this decade.
insiduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of insidious.
criticiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criticisers
Etymology: From criticise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criticizer.
criticisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticiser
Synonyms: criticizers
rud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Etymology: From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).
Senses: glosses: redness; blush
glosses: ruddle; red ochre
rud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: ruds
form: rudding
form: rudded
form: rudded
Etymology: From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).
Senses: glosses: To become red; redden.
examples: text: Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Epithalamion”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make red.
Related terms: ruddy
rud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: ruds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rudd (“fish”).
moralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moralistic
form: most moralistic
Etymology: From moral + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: She was glad to escape her judgmental and moralistic parents.
glosses: Characteristic of or relating to a narrow-minded concern with the morals of others; self-righteous
Derived terms: amoralistic
antimoralistic
moralistically
moralistic therapeutic deism
nonmoralistic
unmoralistic
Related terms: morals
morality
moralist
moralism
distinction without a difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distinctions without a difference
form: distinctions without differences
Senses: examples: text: "'The Active Inquirer' is the present name, though when we supported Mr. Adams it was called 'The Active Enquirer,' with an E."
"A distinction without a difference; I like that," interrupted Captain Truck.
ref: 1831, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 14, in Homeward Bound:
text: I said . . . I did not speak English at all—I only spoke American. He laughed, and said it was a distinction without a difference. I said no, the difference was not prodigious, but still it was considerable.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, Concerning the American Language, being part of a chapter which was crowded out of A Tramp Abroad:
text: The fact that the sit-in convictions were under state rather than federal law, ruled last week's majority, is "a distinction without a difference."
ref: 1964 December 25, “Obliterating the Effect”, in Time:
text: "Obscene" is a higher standard than "indecent," although it seems like a distinction without a difference.
ref: 1996 June 13, “Editorial: A setback for attempts to censor the Internet”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
text: The Bush Administration attempted to distinguish the current case from Flast. . . . Judge Richard Posner, writing for the court of appeals, responded that this was a distinction without a difference. In the end, all money is appropriated by Congress.
ref: 2007 June 29, Cass R. Sunstein, “The Supreme Court's conservative divide”, in The New Republic Online:
text: [Attacking European Jews while claiming to avenge Palestinian deaths], of course, collapses the distinction between Israeli Jews and those from European countries, making a mockery of the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. For the terrorists, it is a distinction without a difference.
ref: 2018, The Jews: A History, John M Efron, Steven Weitzman, and Matthias B Lehmann:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: A linguistic or conceptual distinction which is of no practical importance or which has no effect on meaning; a perceived difference where there is no actual difference.
Related terms: all one
all the same
much of a muchness
of a piece
same difference
patters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patter
Akubra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkuːbɹə/
Forms: form: Akubras
Etymology: Proprietary name, of unknown origin. Sometimes said (without any apparent evidence) to be from an Australian Aboriginal language (Birrpayi [Term?]).
Senses: examples: text: He had to hold his Akubra at a rakish angle to keep from being blinded by the light.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 61:
text: Frank was wearing the large akubra (cowhand hat) that we had bought for our son and toting both carry-on bags.[…]We both looked back to see Frank trying to run with a heavy bag in each hand and yet not lose the akubra perched on his head.
ref: 2004, Heather Campbell, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, page 59:
text: It was alright for a while, then I got the message that I wasn't quite the real Slim Dusty without my Akubra, so I put the old Sundowner back where it belonged.
ref: 2007, Slim Dusty, Joy McKean, Another Day, Another Town, page 272:
synonyms: Akubra hat
glosses: A brand of Australian hat, especially a broad-brimmed model similar to a fedora, traditionally worn by Australian stockmen.
Derived terms: Akubra hat
tp'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tp
tp's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tp
tp'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tp
potch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: potches
form: potching
form: potched
form: potched
Etymology: From Old French pocher (“to poke”); akin to poach.
Senses: examples: text: I'll potch at him some way, / Or wrath or craft may get him.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene x]:
glosses: To thrust.
examples: text: Afterwards, the second pasture should be treated in the same manner, and the rest in course, feeding the wettest pasture after the driest, that the soil may be less potched.
ref: 1837, John Orville Taylor, The Farmer′s School Book, page 116:
text: The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
ref: 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:
glosses: To trample.
potch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Senses: examples: text: 1982, Gemmological Association of Great Britain, The Journal of Gemmology, Volume 18, page 432,
Discusses the difference between potch opal and common opal. The terms are often used synonymously, but this writer shows that potch is found only in association with precious opal and differs from common opal in its structure quite substantially.
text: She set them down with precision, she set them down with the same kind of care that Bernie took when he and his underlings cut opal, or when they polished the rough stones, or when they bonded opal veneer on to potch.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 75:
text: 2006, Michael O'Donoghue, Gems: Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification, 6th Edition, Elsevier, UK, page 321,
Likewise, a thin piece of good opal on potch (opal with no play of colour) may be cut so that the potch acts as a backing.
topics: chemistry
gemmology
gemology
geography
geology
jewelry
lifestyle
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
potch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: potches
form: potching
form: potched
form: potched
Senses: glosses: To bleach rags in paper-making.
examples: text: a Potched Egge
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
text: The Yolks of Eggs are of themſelves ſo well prepared by Nature for nourishment, as (ſo they be Potched, or Rear boyled) they need no other preparation or mixture; yet they may be taken alſo raw, when they are new laid, with Malmſey or Sweet Wine.
ref: 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries, published 1670, page 14:
text: 1849, Ambroise Paré, Thomas Johnson (translator), Adriaan van den Spiegel (additional tractates), Concerning the Plague, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambroſe Parey, page 553,
Eggs potched and eaten with the juice of Sorrel, are verie good. Likewiſe Barlie-water ſeaſoned with the grains of a tart Pomgranat, and if the Fever bee vehement, with the ſeeds of white Poppie.
text: And if a man should break his fast with a light and nourishing meate, then I say there is nothing better than a couple of egges potched, or the yolkes of two egges sodden rere and put in one shell, seasoned with a little pepper, butter and salt, supped off warme, drinking after it a good draught of claret wine.
ref: 1860, “The Medical Times and Gazette”, in Notes and Queries, volume 1, page 167:
glosses: Obsolete form of poach (“to cook in simmering water”).
Related terms: hotchpotch
shit sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit sandwiches
Senses: examples: text: People are starting to realize Thursday night is like a big double-decker shit sandwich with three good pieces of bread, and in between ... don't print that.
ref: 1997 April 17, David Wild, “'News Radio': Series creator Paul Simms talks about the highly likely cancellation of the NBC sitcom”, in Rolling Stone, retrieved 19 Feb 2017:
text: Life is a shit sandwich: the more bread you have, the less shit you eat.
ref: 2012 April 30, Fred R. Shapiro, “13 Crazy, Dirty Modern Proverbs”, in Daily Beast, retrieved 19 Feb 2017:
text: After Michael Flynn resigned/was fired as National Security Advisor, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the top prospect to replace him turned out to be Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward. . . . Harward pulled out, reportedly calling the offer a "shit sandwich."
ref: 2017 February 17, Kevin Drum, “K.T. McFarland Is Too Much to Swallow, So Robert Harward Turns Down NSA Position”, in Mother Jones, retrieved 19 Feb 2017:
synonyms: poop sandwich
dirt sandwich
booger sandwich
glosses: Something highly undesirable that is rendered more acceptable or palatable by the addition of more tolerable or agreeable components.
Related terms: nothing sandwich
shit show
shit soup
shitstorm
soup sandwich
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
shit sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit sandwich
unforgettably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unforgettably
form: most unforgettably
Etymology: From unforgettable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unforgettable manner; very memorably.
traffic-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic-lights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of traffic light.
traffic-lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traffic-light (alternative spelling of traffic lights).
gassier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gassy: more gassy
gassiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gassy: most gassy
nothogenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothogenera
Etymology: From notho- + genus.
Senses: glosses: A genus denoting a hybrid or cross.
Related terms: nothospecies
tie-dye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪˌdaɪ/
Forms: form: tie-dyes
form: tie-dyeing
form: tie-dying
form: tie-dyed
form: tie-dyed
Senses: examples: text: Sebastian adds that he’s been living in California, in a tent, where he met a lady who tie-dyes – “a cloth house is all you need if you’ve got love.”
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To tie strings around (fabric or clothing) and then dye it, in such a manner that the tied parts do not get colored.
tie-dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪˌdaɪ/
Forms: form: tie-dyes
Senses: synonyms: tie and dye
glosses: The use of this dyeing technique.
examples: text: I threw on jeans and a tie-dye and went to the concert.
glosses: A shirt that has been tie-dyed.
malt sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maltose
tunnel vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some people experience tunnel vision during a panic attack.
text: It took some time for him to get used to the tunnel vision he experienced while looking through a periscope.
text: Often people with AD have a form of tunnel vision and don't see obstacles […]
ref: 2000, Mark L. Warner, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's—Proofing Your Home, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 378:
text: The most frequent visual distortion was “tunnel vision,” in which the officer became so focused on one object that everything else at the scene went unnoticed. This phenomenon is frequently experienced by victims of a terrifying event as well.
ref: 2008, Curt R. Bartol, Anne M. Bartol, Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Research and Application, SAGE, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A restricted field of vision, especially as the result of looking through some type of object or a medical condition.
examples: text: After Mark fell victim to tunnel vision, nothing you could say to him would change his mind.
text: Having friends that are too much like yourself force you to have a tunnel vision. I believe tunnel vision is a form of blindness. Your span of thinking becomes too narrow, and you close yourself off of so many other great ways of thinking in life.
ref: 2014, Paul Nijar, Everything I Thought I Was & What I Came to Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 209:
synonyms: one-track mind
glosses: The tendency to focus one's attention on one specific idea or viewpoint, to the exclusion of everything else.
TL/DNR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tl;dr.
psychosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: The X-Men films have made an explicit connection between the mutants’ powers and pubescent self-discovery, but perhaps it’s necessary to address the last few movies’ psychosexual subtext.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag.
ref: 1980 February 18, Frank Rich, “Cop Out in a Dark Deminmonde”, in Time:
glosses: Of or relating to the psychological aspect or aspects of sexuality.
Derived terms: psychosexual development
uv
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: That gives them an advantage over their better-known peers, the Invisible Scratch Pickles: on the recent single "Invisbl Skratch Piklz vs. da Klamz uv Deth" the San Franciscans can spin heads with their superathletic scratching, but the side-length cut doesn't hold up as a piece of music.
ref: 1997 October 17, Peter Margasak, “Return of the Turntable/ Reich and Wrong”, in Chicago Reader:
text: On the scale of linguistic complexity, basic leet is about on a par with pig Latin, and with five minutes' practice just about anyone can crank out elegant prose such as: y c@N' p30p13 R3kO9nIZ3 eh 834UTy uv 1337???
ref: 2003 January 10, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of of.
no skin off one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: This saying has been attributed to originating in boxing as a minor blow taking no skin off. See: The American Heritage Dictionary Of Idioms, Second Edition Paperback – February 26, 2013 by Christine Ammer and Random House Dictionary of America's Popular Proverbs and Sayings: Second Edition Paperback – April 18, 2000 by Gregory Titelman.
Senses: examples: text: You can be as critical of them as you like. It's no skin off my nose.
text: There was no skin off our nose; however the LAC [local area commander] had different ideas.
ref: 2022, Trevor Carroll, The Cops: Not Just a Job:
glosses: No harm to one.
Synonyms: no skin off one's back
no skin off one's teeth
lift up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lifts up
form: lifting up
form: lifted up
form: lifted up
Senses: examples: text: In short, all those whom the gentry had despised, those whom they had trodden into the dirt, people with no place in society, people with no right to speak, have now audaciously lifted up their heads. They have not only lifted up their heads but taken power into their hands.
ref: 1954 [1927 March], Mao Tse-tung, “Report on an Investigation on the Peasant Movement in Hunan”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: To elevate to a higher position.
examples: text: Ending the evening with an Abba song really lifted up the crowd.
glosses: To exalt the mood of someone.
examples: text: The congregation lifted up their voices in praise.
glosses: To raise the volume of (one's voice).
Derived terms: word: liftup
Related terms: lift down
lift off
uplift
uplifting
wipe away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wipes away
form: wiping away
form: wiped away
form: wiped away
Senses: examples: text: Let me wipe away your tears.
coordinate_terms: wipe down
wipe off
wipe out
wipe up
glosses: To remove or erase with a wiping motion.
sur-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭr
ipa: /sɚ/
ipa: /sʌ˞/
Etymology: From Middle English sur-, from Old French sur-, sour-, sor-, soure-, a syncopic form of the Latin super. Doublet of super-, over-, and hyper-.
Senses: examples: surreach, surrebutter, surreine, surreined, surrejoinder, surreply, surreverently, surroyal
glosses: A syncopic variant of super-.
raw_tags: not currently productive
Synonyms: sense: above
word: on-
sense: above
word: en-
sense: above
word: epi-
sense: above
word: super-
sense: above
word: supra-
sense: above
word: hyper-
bring forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings forth
form: bringing forth
form: brought forth
form: brought forth
Etymology: Analytic form of the earlier forthbring.
Senses: examples: text: Their orchard brings forth magnificent fruit.
text: Gon. […]Treaſon, fellony, / Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine / Would I not haue : but Nature ſhould bring forth / Of it owne kinde, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people.
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 II, scene i], page 7:
glosses: To produce, bear as fruit.
examples: text: Queen Anne Boleyn brought forth daughters but no male heir.
text: Knoweſt thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth? or canſt thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 39:1:
text: When a woman is in hard labour and cannot bring forth, they call in a magician to her aid. He looks at her and says, “ The child is bound in the womb, that is why she cannot be delivered.” On the entreaties of her female relations he then promises to loose the bond so that she may bring forth.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 295:
glosses: To give birth.
examples: text: He has the ability to bring forth new ideas when they are needed.
glosses: To create, generate, bring into existence.
examples: text: Against all expectations, the accused managed to bring forth convincing evidence of his innocence.
glosses: To adduce, bring forward.
Synonyms: word: forthbring
Related terms: bring about
bring in
bring on
by means of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
text: Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
ref: 1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:
glosses: By using (an object or an approach).
Synonyms: sense: by using
word: by dint of
word: via
word: by
word: by means of
word: through
word: by way of
Hyponyms: word: by the agency of
word: with the aid of
word: through the medium of
word: by use of
Related terms: word: because of