cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
engendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engendered
form: most engendered
Senses: examples: text: The professor's study is perhaps the novel's most engendered space, yet it is in a way different from its other settings.
ref: 1999, John P. Anders, Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition, page 106:
text: In her study of women lawyers in America, historian Virginia Drachman has maintained that "more than any other profession women sought to enter in the nineteenth century, law was the most engendered and closed to women.”
ref: 2006, Jeanne E. Abrams, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail, page 153:
text: To the ancient Romans, wool work obviously represented a very engendered issue and on an ideological level it may be seen as representing a polarization of male and female spheres in society.
ref: 2007, Marie-Louise Nosch, C. Gillis, Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society:
glosses: Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
examples: text: After a longer period, of six or eight months, the engendered disease was so mild that all the animals speedily recovered and regained health and strength.
ref: 1882 March, J. Risdon Bennett, “Jenner and his Successors”, in Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, volume 35, number 3, page 402:
text: Without going into the details of these matters, the engendered feelings seemed to have culminated in the fact that appellant claimed that there had been a settlement between them, and deceased owed him $ 200, which was admitted by the deceased .
ref: 1911, Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 552:
text: To place oneself in the position of the engendered being, and to describe birth, rather than fecundity, brings to the surface another meaning of mortality.
ref: 2019, Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, page 67:
glosses: Having been produced or begotten.
Derived terms: engendered reliance
unengendered
engendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engender
cushioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cushion
cushioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushionings
Senses: examples: text: Beneath them lay the calm sleeping waters of the lake, dotted with its beautiful islands […] while away in the distance, like a silver thread among the richest cushionings, the little river itself flowed peacefully onward in its course.
ref: 1872, L. R. E, The Pace that Kills: A Tale of the Day, volume 2, page 51:
glosses: Material used to cushion something.
qualifier: social media
glosses: The act or practice of someone entertaining other potential romantic options while in a committed relationship.
Related terms: breadcrumbing
ghosting
zombieing
cushioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cushion
cushioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cushioned
form: most cushioned
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a cushion or cushions; padded.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having cushion tires.
Derived terms: noncushioned
uncushioned
cementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cement
cementing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cementings
Senses: examples: text: Two stage cementing is quite indispensable for deep hole cementings and brings good results.
ref: 1971, Petroleum Geology of Taiwan, volumes 9-11, page 201:
glosses: An instance of affixing something with cement.
cemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cemented
form: most cemented
Senses: glosses: Bonded by cement or a similar substance.
Derived terms: noncemented
uncemented
cemented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cement
falconed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of falcon
narrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
glosses: Present participle and gerund of narrow.
narrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: narrowingly
narrowingness
narrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrowings
Senses: examples: text: narrowings of the road
text: Owing to the war, it was not thought advisable to carry out repairs to this pier, as this would have involved the temporary narrowing of the channel, and it was not until 1919 that it was decided to proceed with the construction of a steel-pile coffer dam round the south pier.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: The High Level Bridge, Newcastle: Strengthening and Repairs”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
glosses: The process of becoming narrow.
examples: text: It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings, should be, at the least, equal to twice the width of the top...
ref: 1858, Margaret Maria Gordon, Household economy, page 60:
glosses: The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
Derived terms: narrowing conversion
renarrowing
roughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌft
homophone: ruffed
homophone: ruft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rough
vomited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vomit
stilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of still
stilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillings
Senses: examples: text: Rivette's interdiction on the tracking shot in Kapò contrasted with the double structure of arrests/stillings of image and spectator in Night and Fog served as an ethico-political talisman for all Daney's mature film criticism.
ref: 2011, Griselda Pollock, Maxim Silverman, Concentrationary Cinema:
glosses: The act by which something is made still.
stilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillings
Etymology: Compare Low German Stelling, German stellen (“to set, to place”).
Senses: glosses: A stillion.
carburettors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carburettor
solenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solenoid
planked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plank
planked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A rough-planked one-room shack
ref: 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Made of planks of a specific type or number.
Derived terms: carvel-planked
mocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mock
mocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mock
hillward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hill + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a hill; toward the hills
hillward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hill + -ward.
Senses: glosses: which faces a hill; which faces the hills
tangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tangle
tangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangle
mildewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mildew
mildewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mildew
mildewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mildewed
form: most mildewed
Senses: examples: text: On opening the mildewed door, he flashed a tunnel of light down the passage, uncarpeted and dreary, which ended in a broad, straight, wooden staircase leading to the upper floor.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Covered with mildew.
Derived terms: unmildewed
outages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outage
floored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floor
floored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more floored
form: most floored
Senses: glosses: Covered or furnished with a floor.
glosses: Struck down or leveled with the floor.
glosses: Hung near the base of a wall.
glosses: Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
glosses: Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
glosses: Brought to the ground.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Set to a lower bound.
glosses: Finished; done for.
glosses: Amazed or greatly surprised.
glosses: Overpowered.
Derived terms: multifloored
unfloored
gendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gender
gendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genderings
Senses: examples: text: Each of these genderings of the pedagogical relation specifically and profoundly inflects the question of authority.
ref: 2002, Jane Gallop, Anecdotal Theory, page 25:
glosses: The assignment of gender to something or somebody.
gendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)
examples: text: "...or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors, Urnes, Coins, and Sculls in the ground...
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, page 11
glosses: simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”)
gendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more gendered
form: most gendered
Senses: examples: text: Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having grammatical gender.
raw_tags: of a language
examples: text: Not surprisingly this differentiation of children by means of gendered clothing both reflects and reinforces traditional gender representations and identities already dominant within our contemporary society.
ref: 1996, Pat Kirkham, The Gendered Object, page 103:
glosses: Having attributes associated with gender.
examples: text: In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.
glosses: Divided by gender.
Synonyms: genderised
genderized
Derived terms: agendered
ambigendered
bigendered
cisgendered
genderedness
hypergendered
intergendered
multigendered
nongendered
omnigendered
pangendered
polygendered
postgendered
transgendered
ungendered
voided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of void
voided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: With the centre cut out.
mothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moth
schooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of school
intercourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercourse
profiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of profit
profiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profitings
Senses: glosses: The making of a profit.
glosses: Gain; advantage.
sweated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweat
sweated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweated
form: most sweated
Senses: examples: text: “Do you like jennying?” he asked.
“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
“Is it sweated?”
“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]
ref: 1920, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III:
glosses: Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
snowballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snowball
fractioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fraction
fractioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fractioned
form: most fractioned
Senses: glosses: separated into fractions by fractionation; fractionated
Derived terms: unfractioned
belting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: You'll have a belting time!
text: She cooks belting good food.
glosses: Very good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially)
belting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Forms: form: beltings
Senses: glosses: A beating with a belt.
examples: text: He said recent nail-biting finals had renewed interest in the end-of-season contests, after a series of one-sided beltings earlier this decade.
ref: 2009 August 24, Matt Johnston, “Race for the eight as AFL finals approach”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A thorough defeat; a thrashing.
glosses: A system of beltwork, as in a conveyor or other mechanical device.
glosses: The material from which belts for machinery are made.
examples: text: I could hear you perfectly all the way in the back of the audience! I wish my belting were as good as yours.
text: Traditionally belting was used by certain character roles in musicals, usually the funny, quirky or feisty female roles.
ref: 2015, Gillyanne Kayes, Singing and the Actor, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Kristin Vigard was originally chosen to play Annie, but after only a few performances, she was replaced by Andrea McArdle, who gave the role a tougher veneer (reminiscent of the Our Gang kids) while conveying vulnerability without sentimentality. And McArdle's belting exceeded everyone's wildest imagination. She transformed the writers' initial conception of Annie as a spirited but vocally average little girl into a Broadway diva.
ref: 2020, James Leve, “Little girls, big voices: Annie”, in Donelle Ruwe, James Leve, editors, Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice.
belting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belt
belted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltɪd/
rhymes: -ɛltɪd
Etymology: From belt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belt
belted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltɪd/
rhymes: -ɛltɪd
Etymology: From belt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
ref: 1952 April 7, “The Way Things Are”, in Time:
text: She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
ref: 2025 February 21, Leah Dolan, “How the Superman ‘S’ became fashion’s favorite logo”, in CNN:
glosses: Fitted with a belt.
raw_tags: of a garment
examples: text: How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
ref: 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry):
glosses: Wearing a belt.
examples: text: Belted Dutch cattle
text: Belted Galloway
text: the belted kingfisher
glosses: Characterized by a white band around the body.
raw_tags: of animals etc.
Derived terms: bebelted
belted cable
belted earl
belted kingfisher
belted knight
belted l
belted magnum
belted plaid
tie-belted
unbelted
blackboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackboard
blackboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackboard
constants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constant
scalars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalar
jested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪd/
rhymes: -ɛstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jest
Byzantines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byzantine
fathomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fathom
Derived terms: unfathomed
signaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signalling
Senses: examples: text: He was signaling his readiness to undertake daring tasks.
glosses: present participle and gerund of signal
signaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalings
form: signalling
Senses: examples: text: A lot of visual signaling happens on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
text: The handkerchiefs were tied together, and ordering the men to stand between himself and the main body, he began a series of signalings, as if communicating with some one in the ravine, from whence they had just come.
ref: 1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie, page 319:
text: It arises as a consequence of the multiple interactions that occur after a ligand triggers a receptor to initiate a signaling cascade and it ensures that false signals do not propagate to completion.
ref: 2008, Alexander Sigalov, Multichain Immune Recognition Receptor Signaling, page 82:
text: This may be due to the fact that gp130 expression is very low on this subpopulation or that signalings from gp130 alone cannot maintain survival or proliferation in these cells.
ref: 2012, Nader G. Abraham, Molecular Biology of Hematopoiesis 6, page 157:
glosses: The sending of a signal (often with reference to a biochemical signal).
Derived terms: cab signaling
in-band signaling
neuroendocrine signaling
out-of-band signaling
vice signalling
virtue signalling
Related terms: chemical messenger
toxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxin
fronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of front
fronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Forms: form: more fronted
form: most fronted
Senses: examples: text: fronted brigades
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Formed with a front; drawn up in line.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Pronounced in the front manner.
glosses: Having a particular front.
Derived terms: bifronted
black-fronted dotterel
blue-fronted jay
bow-fronted
fire-fronted bishop
greater white-fronted goose
lesser white-fronted goose
red-fronted coot
red-fronted tinkerbird
speckle-fronted weaver
unfronted
white-fronted goose
white-fronted tit
Related terms: Y-fronted
reputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reputation
congealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of congeal
congealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congealed
form: most congealed
Senses: examples: text: Yet still he wasted, as the snow congealed, / When the bright sunne his beams thereon doth beat [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Frozen.
glosses: Viscid, coagulated; jelly-like, unusually thick (of a liquid).
Derived terms: congealedness
congealed salad
uncongealed
carburetors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carburetor
crappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapper
tartans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹtn̩z/
ipa: [-ɾn̩z]
ipa: /ˈtɑɹt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtæɹ-/
Etymology: From tartan + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).
Senses: examples: text: [A] chief in Highland pride; / His shoulders bear the hunter's bow, / The mountain dirk adorns his side, / Far on the wind his tartans flow […]
ref: 1798 (date written; published 1800), “Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald’s Coronach”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: […], volume II, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] James Ballantyne, for T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A[rchibald] Constable, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Imitations of the Ancient Ballad), page 384:
text: [T]hou shalt see a darksome man, / Who boasts him Chief of Alpine's clan, / With tartans broad and shadowy plume, / And hand of blood, and brow of gloom, […]
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto IV. The Prophecy.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 181:
glosses: Clothes made from tartan fabric; specifically, full Highland dress.
tartans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹtn̩z/
ipa: [-ɾn̩z]
ipa: /ˈtɑɹt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtæɹ-/
Etymology: From tartan + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: plural of tartan
tartans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹtn̩z/
ipa: [-ɾn̩z]
ipa: /ˈtɑɹt(ə)nz/
ipa: /ˈtæɹ-/
Etymology: From tartan + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tartan
tartaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tartan
tartaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tartan
tartaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: betartaned
glosses: Dressed or decorated in tartan.
outsmarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsmart
thumbnails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbnail
thumbnails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thumbnail
belching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belch
belching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: belchings
Senses: examples: text: The remains of depraved Digestion shew themselves in loathing of food, foulness of the mouth, impure belchings, heart-burn, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, dyspnaea, &c.
ref: 1816, Joseph Lieutaud, Synopsis of the Universal Practice of Medicine:
glosses: The art of producing a belch.
Derived terms: belchingly
belched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛlt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛlt͡ʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belch
PINs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIN
wreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wreak
wreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːkɪŋ
Forms: form: wreakings
Senses: examples: the wreakings of revenge
wreakings of the vengeance of a wrathful God against His own creatures
glosses: The act by which something is wreaked.
wreaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wreak
adopts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adopt
brides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of bride
brides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bride
spearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spear
spearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: spearings
Senses: examples: text: These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.
ref: 2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297:
glosses: The stabbing of something with a spear.
spearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: spearing
Senses: glosses: An Atlantic silverside, a fish of species Menidia menidia.
speared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spear + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I must add, that a speared horseman, who said he had been sent to kill us, demanded ransom. The soldier coming up mediated. We compromised and the man got his fee. Perhaps, having a horse and spear, he was doing a job on his own account: if not, he got double pay.
ref: 1832 May 17, F[rancis] W[illiam] Newman, “Letter LIII.”, in Personal Narrative, in Letters, Principally from Turkey, in the Years 1830-3, London: Holyoake and Co., […], published 1856, page 84:
text: Taken any way one can, an army on paper is not a satisfactory profession. […] those who shape its destinies are so ready to direct it against matchlock monarchs and speared soldiery; […]
ref: 1873, W[illiam] F[rancis] Butler, “The Situation at Home.—The West again.—A Land of Silence.”, in The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with Dogs, Across Northern North America, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, […], page 3:
text: The curtain on the third act was about to go up when we went back, and we were very surprised, as we stood there and gawked, to see a handful of gigantic hillbillies in overalls, red kerchiefs and straw hats mixed in casually with the gypsies, booted soldiers and speared warriors who were about to stride on.
ref: 1942 November 28, Marcia Winn, “Front Views and Profiles”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 285, Chicago, Ill., page 17, column 5:
glosses: Wielding a spear.
speared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From spear + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spear
meowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meow
meowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meowings
Senses: examples: text: the constant meowings of the neighbour's cats
text: Asked about the most memorable reaction to the meowing he has witnessed, Davis recalled presenting the 1996 erotic drama “Szamanka” with its director, the late Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski.
ref: 2024 January 8, Alison Foreman, “Why Do Audiences at Fantasia Fest … Meow?”, in IndieWire:
glosses: The act of uttering a meow.
meowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meow
cawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caw
cawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: cawings
Senses: examples: text: Whilst the proceedings of the Rooks seemed to be regulated with order and system, their cawings were significant of a good understanding, and the musical tones mentioned by the Editor of "The Naturalist," no one could fail to distinguish.
ref: 1858, The Naturalist, volume 8, page 147:
glosses: The act of producing a caw sound.
cawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caw
herpetologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpetologist
crescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crescent
biers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bier
crotchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotchet
quadriliterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadriliteral
lording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lordings
Senses: examples: text: How now my Lords of Egypt & Zenocrate?
Now muſt your iewels be reſtor’d againe:
And I that triumpht ſo be ouercome.
How ſay you Lordings, Is not this your hope?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: A lord.
glosses: A lordling; a little lord.
lording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lord
lorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lord
toasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toast
toasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toastings
Senses: glosses: The action of making a toast (celebratory call to drink).
glosses: The heating of oak panels used to make wine barrels.
examples: text: You only have a grill and space for 2 pieces of bread under it. So it takes 4 toastings to do 3 slices on both sides. Or does it? Can you toast 3 pieces of bread on both sides in less than 4 toastings?
ref: 2011, Johnny Ball, Ball of Confusion: Puzzles, Problems and Perplexing Posers, page 129:
glosses: The process by which something, such as bread, is toasted.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The art of accompanying a reggae backing track with the act of talking or rhythmic chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a riddim. It can either be improvised or pre-written.
Derived terms: toasting fork
toasting-iron
socking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔ.kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɒ.kɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sock
socking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔ.kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɒ.kɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: At the time of this photo, Royal Marine Gunner Bryan Gasson is pretty much dead center in this photo, and yes, that means HE IS LITERALLY INSIDE THAT SOCKING GREAT FIREBALL as the magazines detonate.
ref: 2021 March 14, Drachinifel, 1:05:17 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 137, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022:
glosses: Very, extremely.
socked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sock
socked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Wrapped in thick knitting, scarfed, gloved, socked and booted I feel nothing.
ref: 1985, New Writing Scotland, number 3, page 24:
glosses: Wearing a sock or socks.
Derived terms: bobby-socked
approbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approbation
techs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: plural of tech
techs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tech
dieting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diet
dieting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietings
Senses: examples: text: They found out that dieting can harm you if you do it wrong. She advised them to talk with a doctor before doing anything too extreme.
text: […] they think that diet cures chronic diseases, placed under the homoeopathic physician's care, though, under their care, with all their dietings, these very diseases were so intractable.
ref: 1850, John Epps, Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained, page 133:
glosses: The practice of following a diet.
Derived terms: antidieting
nondieting
undieting
yo-yo dieting
dieted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diet
demarcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demarcation
false cognates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false cognate
Abkhazians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abkhazian
inveighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inveigh
inveighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inveighings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who complains or censures.
inveighed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈveɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: invade
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inveigh
resigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resign
bulwarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulwark
bulwarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having bulwarks
Derived terms: unbulwarked
bulwarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulwark
solders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solder
solders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solder
spirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiral
spirals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spiral
fragmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fragmentation
Derived terms: multifragmenting
fragmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fragment
lidos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lido
flays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flay
flayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: Circumcised.
Derived terms: unflayed
flayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flay.
avering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aver
avered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aver
mirroring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mirror
mirroring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirrorings
Senses: examples: text: Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.
ref: 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, page 183:
glosses: A reflection or inversion.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The behavior in which one person consciously or subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another.
mirrored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mirror
mirrored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing mirrors.
Derived terms: mirroredness
nonmirrored
unmirrored
cumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cumber
heavenward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Heavenward
Etymology: From Middle English hevenward, heveneward, hefneward, equivalent to heaven + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward heaven.
examples: text: She rolled her eyes heavenward in exasperation.
glosses: Toward the heavens: skyward; starward.
heavenward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Heavenward
Etymology: From Middle English hevenward, heveneward, hefneward, equivalent to heaven + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: ⁠Thy spirit ere our fatal loss
⁠Did ever rise from high to higher;
⁠As mounts the heavenward altar-fire,
As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Leading or rising toward heaven.
Synonyms: heavenbound
heavenwards
Heavenwards
Derived terms: heavenwardly
heavenwardness
normals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normal
slandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slander
slandering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slanderings
Senses: examples: text: Here are the slanderings, too, going on at home; for, while the husbands are assembled, it would be hard if the wives were not to do the same; and the very least that is to be expected is, that the tea-pot should keep pace with the porter-pot […]
ref: 1862, William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women:
glosses: The act of committing slander.
slandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slander
millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millet
garbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garb
garbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garbed
form: most garbed
Senses: glosses: dressed
Derived terms: ungarbed
garbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garb
weys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wey
mordanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mordant
modeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: modelled
Senses: glosses: Formed or constructed based on a particular model.
Derived terms: nonmodeled
unmodeled
modeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of model
guying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guy
guying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: guyings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who guys; mockery, ridicule.
glosses: The use of guys (support ropes or cables).
magnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnet
corseting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corset
corseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corset + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’
ref: 1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23:
glosses: Wearing a corset.
Derived terms: uncorseted
corseted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From corset + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corset
scorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scorn
scorning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scornings
Senses: examples: text: But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
ref: 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:
glosses: The act of one who scorns.
tomahawking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tomahawk
tomahawked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3:
glosses: Carrying or bearing a tomahawk.
tomahawked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tomahawk
blunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blunt
blunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Forms: form: bluntings
Senses: examples: text: Even those productions that mean to “bring Lear home” to the audience seem always to involve fresh bluntings and blurrings of the full effect.
ref: 2015, Michael Goldman, Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama, page 95:
glosses: The process by which something is made blunt.
blunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blunt
blunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Forms: form: more blunted
form: most blunted
Senses: examples: text: I was blunted when I came, puffin' marijuana blends
ref: 2009 March 31, “Allison James”, in Slaine (lyrics), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (music), Decalogue, New York City: Babygrande Records:
glosses: high on cannabis
Derived terms: unblunted
hazarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hazard
hazarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazardings
Senses: examples: text: The possessors of some of the homes on the Drive were more than mere names to him; for he had been a guest at an occasional semi-public entertainment in certain of the mansions he passed. But it never occurred to Gregg to dream of owning one of them; indeed, his hazardings of his future were altogether too vague to picture himself founding a family.
ref: 1922, Edwin Balmer, The Breath of Scandal:
text: You see the vague speculations of Democritus becoming precise in Dalton, the cloudy hazardings of Pythagoras set solid in figures by Kepler; here is the balance, there is the yard-stick; number one is the principle of all things; […]
ref: 1931, Lionel Britton, Hunger and Love, page 301:
glosses: Something hazarded or ventured; a guess or speculation.
hazarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hazard
hazarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] par 72 golf course, hazarded with lakes and palm trees […]
ref: 1973, Esquire, volume 79, page 51:
text: With two 18-hole courses hazarded by plenty of ponds and gracefully sloped bunkers, […]
ref: 2000 December, Indianapolis Monthly, page 134:
glosses: Having hazards.
Derived terms: unhazarded
deflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deflower
deflowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deflower
balking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baulking
Etymology: By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balk
balking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balkings
form: baulking
Etymology: By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]
ref: 1928, Daniel Bell Leary, Modern Psychology, Normal and Abnormal: A Behaviorism of Personality:
glosses: A frustration or disappointment; a check.
balked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balk
bitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bittings
Senses: glosses: the part of a key that engages the tumblers to activate the lock
Synonyms: key bit
bitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bit
glosses: present participle and gerund of bitt
Related terms: biting
bitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bit
glosses: simple past and past participle of bitt
bitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a bitted horse
text: a double-bitted axe
glosses: Having a bit (in various senses).
Derived terms: unbitted
cozened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cozen
doffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doff
doffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doffings
Senses: examples: text: Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
ref: 2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd:
glosses: The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.
doffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doff
hasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hasp
lacunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacuna
neaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neap
neaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neap