cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpɪŋ/
Forms: form: slippings
Senses: examples: text: slippings and slidings
text: Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.
ref: 1956 May, “Eliminating Slipping of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
text: The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:
glosses: The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
antinode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinodes
form: anti-node
Etymology: From anti- + node.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A region of maximum amplitude situated between adjacent nodes of a vibrating body, such as a string.
Derived terms: antinodal
contortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contortions
Etymology: From Middle French contortion.
Senses: glosses: The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
glosses: A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
Derived terms: contortionate
contortionism
contortionist
vocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊˈkælɪk/
ipa: /voʊˈkælɪk/
Etymology: Borrowed from French vocalique.
Senses: coordinate_terms: consonantal
glosses: Pertaining to a vowel.
Derived terms: intervocalic
nonvocalic
prevocalic
semivocalic
vocalic R
Related terms: semivowel
vocal
vowel
Griko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grico
Etymology: From the Greko dialect Greek Γκρίκο (Gkríko) and Γρῆκος (Grîkos).
Senses: glosses: An ethnically Greek people of southern Italy and Sicily, descended from Byzantine and ancient Greek colonies.
glosses: The dialect of Greek used by these people, combining Koine Greek, Byzantine Greek, and various Italian dialects.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: Grecanici
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Grecanic
Salento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Salento, from Salentino dialect Salentu, of uncertain origin, possibly from Latin salum (“(surrounded by) sea”).
Senses: glosses: A small peninsula at the south-eastern tip of Italy, sometimes described as the "heel"; principal cities are Lecce and Otranto.
chickenshit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: more chickenshit
form: most chickenshit
form: chicken-shit
form: chicken shit
Etymology: From chicken + shit.
Senses: glosses: Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
examples: text: How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
text: "How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 807:
glosses: Cowardly.
chickenshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: chickenshits
form: chicken-shit
form: chicken shit
Etymology: From chicken + shit.
Senses: examples: text: Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
text: I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." Johnson was amazing.
ref: 2010 December 15, A.J. Jacobs, “George H.W. Bush*: What I've Learned”, in Esquire:
glosses: A petty and contemptible thing or things.
examples: text: I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
glosses: A coward.
examples: text: That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, shit: chicken manure.
Synonyms: sense: coward
word: coward
word: chicken
word: pussy
word: wuss
word: shithouse
sense: petty or contemptible thing
word: shit
word: crap
word: bullcrap
word: bullshit
word: junk
word: trash
word: dogshit
word: Irish bull
word: horseshit
monomyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomyths
Etymology: From mono- + myth. Borrowed by Joseph Campbell from Finnegans Wake.
Senses: examples: text: Most male epics follow Joseph Campbell's monomyth pretty neatly; can we expect Barrett Browning to do the same? Is the monomyth a male construct, the “male-myth” rather than the unified myth that speaks for all, […]
ref: 2008, E. L. Risden, Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry, McFarland, →ISBN, page 143:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A cyclical journey or quest undertaken by a mythical hero.
wikipedia: Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Derived terms: monomythic
Related terms: Belly of the Whale
wines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
homophone: whines
Senses: glosses: plural of wine
wines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
homophone: whines
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wine
after all
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After all, they never come home for Christmas.
text: Of course he won't give you credit. After all, his first and last concern is his company's profit margin.
text: “What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 705–706:
text: 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
I’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies.
glosses: anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.
examples: text: They won't be coming home for Christmas after all.
text: Then the idea returned to her that, after all, her son might not be innocent in the Ellen matter—and this was so interesting that she felt bound to get as near the truth as she could.
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter XL, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: in the end, however; used in referring to something that was believed to be the case, but is not; or to an outcome that is not what was expected or predicted.
examples: text: Of course he's coming to the party. After all, he did promise.
glosses: Introduces information that supports the preceding statement.
well, well
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Well, well. What have we here?
text: (with sarcasm) Well, well. Look who's back. And they said we'd never see him again.
text: Wel, wel (Meander) thou art deepely read:
And hauing thee, I haue a iewell ſure:
Go on my Lord, and giue your charge I ſay,
Thy wit wil make vs Conquerors to day.
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 II, scene ii:
text: Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and skittles; […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
qualifier: current in UK; but dated in the US and Canada; current in UK; but dated in the US and Canada
glosses: Synonym of well, well, well.
synonyms: word: well
word: well
word: well
Related terms: hmm
claim to fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claims to fame
Senses: examples: text: Her only claim to fame is being married to a socialite.
text: It seems to me that "grass seed capital of the world" is a fairly shaky claim to fame.
text: Ryde Pier's claim to fame is being the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier, with construction starting in 1813.
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line to reopen to Ryde Pier in June... possibly”, in RAIL, number 979, page 24:
glosses: That for which one has bragging rights; one’s reason for being well-known or famous.
yoohoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːˌhuː/
Forms: form: yoo-hoo
form: yoo hoo
Senses: examples: text: Yoohoo! I think you dropped this.
text: Xavier's Father: Son, it was you who killed me.
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What kind of stupid name is "Yoohoo"? Well, when I find that demon, I shall slay him -- to death! Yoohoo! Yoohoo!
ref: 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 10:
glosses: Used to get attention.
Synonyms: oi
yo
hey
yoohoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːˌhuː/
Forms: form: yoohoos
form: yoohooing
form: yoohooed
form: yoohooed
form: yoo-hoo
form: yoo hoo
Senses: glosses: To give a cry of "yoohoo".
Related terms: hey
ahoy
yahoo
run-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-ins
Etymology: Derived from the verb run into.
For the meaning "end-phase", it presumably comes a marathon race, where in the final part the runners run into the stadium and complete a lap.
Senses: examples: text: During that time he had two more run-ins with the law. One involved the sale of stolen property. The other was for a series of hot checks.
ref: 2004, Pamela Morsi, Suburban Renewal, page 95:
glosses: An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
examples: text: Yahoo Sport's Leicester City blogger Helen Nutter gets ready for the Premier League run-in knowing her side - incredibly - still have a great chance of being crowned champions
text: But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: The end-phase of a competition etc.
run-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run-in
form: most run-in
Etymology: Derived from the verb run in.
Senses: examples: text: These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.
topics: communications
editing
journalism
literature
media
publishing
typography
writing
antonyms: free-hanging
glosses: (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.
examples: text: A well run-in engine is likelier to consume less crankcase oil over the course of its working life.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: broken in
glosses: (sometimes comparable) Having been run in to seat the parts.
old-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-timers
form: old timer
form: oldtimer
Senses: examples: text: A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer?   B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am!   A: It takes one to know one, after all.
glosses: One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
An elder.
synonyms: word: oldster#Noun
word: oldie#Noun
word: senior citizen#Noun
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
hypernyms: person#Noun
examples: text: Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.
text: It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?
ref: 2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
A veteran.
synonyms: old hand
warhorse
hypernyms: person#Noun
Related terms: old-timer's disease
old timer's disease
old-timey
timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmɚ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: timers
Etymology: From time (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: start the timer when you hear the gunshot
glosses: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
A device used to measure amounts of time.
synonyms: timepiece
glosses: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.
glosses: Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
A person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event.
synonyms: timekeeper
Derived terms: chess timer
egg timer
egg-timer
kitchen timer
sand timer
self timer
sprinkler timer
watchdog timer
Related terms: all-timer
two-timer
programmable
stopwatch
time switch
timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmɚ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: timers
Etymology: From time (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: third-timer
glosses: One who has done something a certain number of times.
glosses: One characterized by a certain time or time frame, such as their work hours.
Derived terms: big-timer
first-timer
full-timer
good-timer
half-timer
nine-timer
old timer
part-timer
short-timer
small-timer
whole-timer
Related terms: one-timer
old-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-time
form: most old-time
Etymology: From old + time.
Senses: examples: text: He likes to listen to old-time music.
glosses: From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned.
examples: text: Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 97:
glosses: Ancient; persisting since ancient times.
Derived terms: old-time country
old-timely
old-timer
old-timey
old-timy
cover one's bases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers one's bases
form: covering one's bases
form: covered one's bases
form: covered one's bases
form: cover all of one's bases
form: cover all the bases
form: cover the bases
Senses: examples: text: She eats a balanced diet, but takes vitamin pills anyway, to cover her bases.
glosses: To be thorough; to prepare thoroughly or completely.
break up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breakup.
puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzle
puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puzzle
patriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪtɹi.eɪt/
Forms: form: patriates
form: patriating
form: patriated
form: patriated
Etymology: Canadian English. Back-formation from repatriate.
Senses: examples: text: Canada moved to patriate its constitution from the United Kingdom in 1982.
glosses: To assume control of (a governmental power) from a former mother country.
Related terms: patriation
prophetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/
Forms: form: prophetical
form: prophetick
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
glosses: Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
examples: text: And fears are oft prophetic of the event.
ref: 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Predicted, as by a prophecy.
Derived terms: prophetic week
propheticness
all-powerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From all- + powerful.
Senses: examples: text: Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 235:
text: The friendless Italian was a much safer person than the niece of the all-powerful minister, whose ambition would not stop but at the throne. Francesca might be allowed to detach him from Mademoiselle Mancini, and could then be easily flung aside.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 241:
text: "Why, dost thou believe that I, who am all-powerful, I, whose loveliness is more than the loveliness of the Grecian Helen, of whom they used to sing, and whose wisdom is wider, ay, far more wide and deep than the wisdom of Solomon the Wise [...] why, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.
ref: 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Having unlimited power; omnipotent.
Synonyms: almighty
omnipotent
glowworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glowworms
form: glow-worm
Etymology: From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow + worm.
Compare German Glühwurm.
Senses: examples: text: The glowworm shows the matin to be near
And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: 1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607,
Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine,
That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
text: Glories (like glowe-wormes) a farre off, shine bright,
But look’d to neere, haue neither heate, nor light.
ref: 1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Ye Glo-worms, whose officious Flame
To wandring Mowers shows the way,
That in the Night have lost their aim,
And after foolish Fires do stray;
ref: 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Mower to the Glo-Worms”, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, page 44:
text: 1819, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,
Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night
Propitious to your earth-born light!
text: Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.
ref: 1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood […] , New York: New Directions, page 1:
glosses: The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
glosses: A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lampyris noctiluca
word: common glowworm
Related terms: firefly
glow-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glow-worms
Senses: examples: text: One device obtained great admiration: small lights were scattered on the ground, in some of the winding paths of turf, to emulate glow-worms.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
glosses: Alternative spelling of glowworm.
deathwatch beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathwatch beetles
form: death-watch beetle
Etymology: Compound of death + watch + beetle. The sound the beetles make is said to resemble a ticking watch, and is sometimes believed to herald death. Attested (as death watch) from the late 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch:
Because like a watch it always cries click;
Then woe to those in the house who are sick,
ref: 1819, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A New Cabinet Cyclopedia, page 38:
text: A very deadly enemy to woodwork in churches and other buildings is the creature known as the Death Watch beetle (anobium tessellatum, or rufovillosum).
ref: 1895, J. Hautenville Cope, “The death watch beetle”, in The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæological Journal, page 85:
glosses: Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae, now usually included in family Ptinidae, especially Xestobium rufovillosum, that bore into wood and make a tapping sound.
detestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detestations
Etymology: From Middle French détestation.
Senses: glosses: Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
examples: text: Neckties are a real detestation for them.
text: “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Something detested.
ring pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring pulls
form: ring-pull
Senses: examples: text: When I tried to open a tin of soup, the ring pull broke off, and I had to use a tin opener instead.
text: A steward tackles the ring pull on a can of Carlsberg Pilsner in 1966.
ref: 2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47, photo caption:
glosses: A ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.
DOG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
glosses: Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
cooey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooee.
cooey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooee.
cooey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cooeys
form: cooeying
form: cooeyed
form: cooeyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooee.
fantom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of phantom.
fantom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantoms
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of phantom.
shoarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoarmas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shawarma.
shwarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃwɑɹmə/
Forms: form: shwarmas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shawarma.
blue-on-blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Friendly fire.
Related terms: blue force
fratricide
green-on-green
red force
anapestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæ.nəˈpiː.stɪk/
Forms: form: more anapestic
form: most anapestic
form: anapaestic
form: anapestick
Etymology: From anapest + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest.
glosses: of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern.
glosses: of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick).
glosses: of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration.
anapestic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæ.nəˈpiː.stɪk/
Forms: form: anapestics
form: anapaestic
form: anapestick
Etymology: From anapest + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A verse that contains anapestic feet
anapest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.nə.piːst/
ipa: /ˈæ.nə.pɛst/
Forms: form: anapests
form: anapaest
form: anapæst
Etymology: From Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back, reversed [relative to dactyl]”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + παίω (paíō, “I strike”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: In qualitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two unstressed and the last one stressed.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: In quantitative meter, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short, then one long.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter.
Synonyms: antidactylus
Derived terms: anapestic
anapestical
froghopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: froghoppers
Etymology: From frog + hopper.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small insects of the superfamily Cercopoidea that feed on plant sap and whose larvae produce cuckoo spit.
Synonyms: froth-fly
froth-hopper
spittlebug
spitbug
cuckoo spit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appearing on plants at around the time that cuckoo birds return in the spring.
Senses: synonyms: cuckoo-spittle
frog spit
toad-spit
glosses: A frothy mass of white liquid that is secreted onto plants by froghopper larvae and serves as a protective covering.
Related terms: spitbug
spittlebug
KCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kowloon-Canton Railway.
KCRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
TST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tsim Sha Tsui.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong.
TST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TSTs
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of tunnel seismic tomography: a tunnel geological prediction technique.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tuberculin skin test: a test for tuberculosis infection.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ternary search tree: a type of trie.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of total story time.
pilgrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪm/
Forms: form: pilgrims
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine.
The change of /r…r/ to /l…r/ is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian pellegrino.
Senses: examples: text: strangers and pilgrims on the earth
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:13:
glosses: One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
examples: text: "I wouldn't unfork that horse yet, pilgrim. I want a good look at ya first."
ref: 2014, W.R. Benton, War Drums:
glosses: A newcomer.
glosses: A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.
Derived terms: bepilgrimed
nonpilgrim
pilgrimage
pilgrim badge
pilgrim bottle
pilgrimdom
pilgrimess
pilgrimhood
pilgrimize
pilgrimless
pilgrimlike
pilgrimwise
pilgrim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪm/
Forms: form: pilgrims
form: pilgriming
form: pilgrimed
form: pilgrimed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine.
The change of /r…r/ to /l…r/ is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian pellegrino.
Senses: examples: text: For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
text: [T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
glosses: To journey; to wander; to ramble.
intervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
ipa: /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: interventions
Etymology: From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
topics: law
glosses: A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
glosses: An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
examples: text: As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
ref: 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
text: “It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”
ref: 2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
Derived terms: sense: With prefixes
word: cointervention
sense: With prefixes
word: counterintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: immunointervention
sense: With prefixes
word: interventionable
sense: With prefixes
word: macrointervention
sense: With prefixes
word: microintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: neurointervention
sense: With prefixes
word: nonintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: non-intervention
sense: With prefixes
word: postintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: postvention
sense: With prefixes
word: preintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: prointervention
sense: With prefixes
word: reintervention
sense: With prefixes
word: teleintervention
sense: With suffixes
word: interventional → interventionally
sense: With suffixes
word: interventionism
sense: With suffixes
word: interventionistic
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: crisis intervention
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: currency intervention
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: divine intervention
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: humanitarian intervention
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: percutaneous coronary intervention
coincidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/
ipa: /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/
ipa: /kəʉˈɪnsɪdəns/
Forms: form: coincidences
form: coïncidence
form: coincidency
form: quincidence
Etymology: From French coïncidence. By surface analysis, coincide + -ence.
Senses: glosses: Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
examples: text: That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.
text: It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
glosses: Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A coincidence point.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
Synonyms: sense: of objects and time
word: concurrentness
word: synchronicity
word: simultaneousness
sense: in analysis
word: coincidence point
Derived terms: anthropic coincidence
anticoincidence
cohencidence
cohencidental
coincidence method
coincidence point
coincidence technique
coincidence theorist
coincidence theory
coinkydink
divine coincidence
incoincidence
index of coincidence
Lefschetz coincidence theorem
noncoincidence
Related terms: coincide
coincident
coincidental
coincidentally
quenchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quenchless
form: most quenchless
Etymology: From quench + -less.
Senses: examples: text: To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!
ref: 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel:
glosses: That cannot be quenched; unquenchable.
frog march
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frog marches
form: frog marching
form: frog marched
form: frog marched
form: frogmarch
form: frog-march
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frogmarch.
frog march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frog marches
form: frogmarch
form: frog-march
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frogmarch.
Synonyms: frog's march
Related terms: perp walk
tone-deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tone-deaf
form: most tone-deaf
form: tone deaf
Senses: examples: text: Although he was tone-deaf, he was a great lyricist.
text: This is a distinction unavailable to the tone-deaf.
glosses: Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes.
glosses: Having little or a shallow or banal appreciation of music, whether or not as a result of tone deafness.
examples: text: a politician's tone-deaf remarks about the price of bread
text: The elected official's tone-deaf remarks about the operations of the clerk’s office were disappointing.
glosses: Out of touch with the experience of ordinary people.
examples: text: Otherwise, saying “N-word” is plenty accurate; I knew exactly what you meant. And arguing for your need to use an explosive term, when a common euphemism will do, makes you seem defensive and tone-deaf.
ref: 2023 May 24, Philip Galanes, “I Used a Slur for Accuracy When Repeating a Joke. Why Is Everyone Upset?”, in The New York Times:
text: The campaign – which Fast Company described as “eyebrow-raising”, “controversial” and “tone-deaf” – did not land well.
ref: 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Insensitive and offensive as a result of not noticing the current social context.
Derived terms: tone-deafly
tone-deafness
Related terms: amusia
can't carry a tune in a bucket
have Van Gogh's ear for music
stone deaf
tin ear
mockup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mockups
Etymology: See mock-up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mock-up.
well-dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-dressed
form: best-dressed
Senses: examples: text: The man was about thirty-five, very handsome, extremely well-dressed, with striped trousers, a black Homburg and a Burberry raincoat.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
glosses: Clothed or outfitted in fashionable or attractive personal apparel and attire.
Synonyms: word: dapper
word: natty
sense: Good-looking, well dressed, fine, fashionable
word: smart
word: spiffy
word: well-tailored
togetherness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: togethernesses
Etymology: From together + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My hope is that the fair will not only raise money for the drama club, but also - kind of - foster a spirit of togetherness among the multicultural community here at Roxbury.
ref: 2005, Kimberly Joyce, Pretty Persuasion:
text: Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final.
ref: 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: The state or quality of being together.
glosses: The result or product of being together.
Synonyms: collectedness
community
unity
underfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚˈfʊt/
ipa: /ʌndəˈfʊt/
Etymology: From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).
Senses: glosses: Situated under one's foot or feet.
examples: text: We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.
ref: 2006, Whitney Balliett, American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song, page 199:
text: You ask a lot of questions, Morty. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an [belch] under [belch] underfoot figure.
ref: 2013, Rick and Morty: Pilot:
glosses: In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
glosses: Downtrodden; abject.
underfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚˈfʊt/
ipa: /ʌndəˈfʊt/
Etymology: From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).
Senses: examples: text: The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.
text: The green turf was velvet underfoot.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
text: With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
ref: 1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494:
glosses: Under one's foot or feet.
examples: text: It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.
text: If you're not going to help, at least get out from underfoot.
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
glosses: In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.
underfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚˈfʊt/
ipa: /ʌndəˈfʊt/
Forms: form: underfoots
Etymology: From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).
Senses: examples: text: In the early stages of fishing, storage space for wet fish was extremely limited, as three pounds on either side, and most of the staging and underfoots, contained ice, leaving only two empty pounds for stowage.
ref: 1957, Report on an Experiment Into the Freezing of Fish at Sea, page 30:
text: All too often saithe are put away with an inadequate amount of ice on them, or stowed in deep shelves or underfoots, where they become badly squashed and spoil more rapidly.
ref: 1970, Torry Advisory Note - Issues 43-69, page 5:
text: Progress was very slow owing to heavy floes and deep underfoots, which necessitated frequent stoppages of the engines.
ref: 1999, Ernest Shackleton, South: The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.
underfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚˈfʊt/
ipa: /ʌndəˈfʊt/
Forms: form: underfoots
form: underfooting
form: underfooted
form: underfooted
Etymology: From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).
Senses: examples: text: A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses.
ref: 1856, The Scottish Jurist:
text: The two courses which were open to them were, — on the one hand, to underfoot the building ; and, on the other, to take it down, with the view of its being re-erected on the same site, or elsewhere ; if they should have the means of doing so.
ref: 1870, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Etc.:
text: The result was to bring out the fact, which is now established beyond all doubt by the proof, that any attempt to underfoot the steeple would have been an entire mistake.
ref: 1904, Sir John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports, page 774:
glosses: To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
examples: text: Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts.
ref: 1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140:
text: Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations.
ref: 1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50:
text: In manually balancing the cash receipts journal prior to posting to the ledgers, it is quite possible to underfoot or overfoot columns deliberately in order to manipulate the account records to cover cash shortages.
ref: 1983, Accounting and information systems: instructor's manual, →ISBN, page 258:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.
courtliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtlinesses
Etymology: From courtly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being courtly; refinement of manners.
rotunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/
Forms: form: rotundas
form: rotundae
form: Rotunda
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
Senses: examples: text: The rotunda begun but never completed by Abbot Wulfric (1047–59) at St Augustine’s Abbey as a link between the church of St Mary and that of St Peter and St Paul is an unusual and ambitious example of mid-eleventh-century English architecture which partly survives (fig. 4.6, top). […] Many of these rotundae are known to have had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury).
ref: 1976, Bridget Cherry, “Ecclesiastical architecture”, in David M[ackenzie] Wilson, editor, The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, →ISBN, pages 188–189:
text: The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.
ref: 1998, “Antiquity”, in Bruce Almberg, Charles Earle, Michael Robinson, Katja Steiner, transl., edited by Stefan Grundmann, The Architecture of Rome: An Architectural History in 400 Individual Presentations, Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:
text: Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold the shafts; […]
ref: 2014 December, Mary Mills, “Foot Tunnels beneath the River Thames”, in Nick Catford, editor, Subterranea, number 37, Ascot, Berkshire: Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN, page 66, column 2:
topics: architecture
glosses: A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: frequently capitalized
glosses: A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
examples: text: TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.
glosses: Alternative spelling of rotonda.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.
Derived terms: band rotunda
Related terms: fenestra rotunda
r rotunda