cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bow and scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaʊ ən ˈskɹeɪp/
Forms: form: bows and scrapes
form: scrape and bow
Senses: examples: text: [H]e took off his Highland bonnet, and performed a bow and scrape.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground.
Related terms: kowtow
CPCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPCMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of certified professional contracts manager.
tight-lipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tight-lipped
form: most tight-lipped
form: tightlipped
Etymology: From tight + lipped.
Senses: examples: text: He would have sprung upon Captain Blood, who stood aloof, alert, tight-lipped, and watchful.
ref: 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, chapter XXV
text: Gaining the dak, they were joined on the veranda by four tight-lipped men.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 162:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Having the lips pressed tightly together, hence, not speaking.
examples: text: The open access operator has remained tight-lipped over what may have caused the driver to suddenly apply the brake, but stressed that safety was its priority.
ref: 2022 May 4, “Network News: RAIB looking into emergency brake application of train at Peterborough”, in RAIL, number 956, page 12:
glosses: Unwilling to divulge information.
Synonyms: sense: unwilling to divulge information
word: closemouthed
sense: unwilling to divulge information
word: discreet
sense: unwilling to divulge information
word: secretive
Derived terms: tight-lippedness
Related terms: tight lips
interactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəɹækˈtɪvɪti/
Forms: form: interactivities
Etymology: By surface analysis, inter- + activity, or, by surface analysis, interactive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interactive.
Derived terms: interpassivity
noninteractivity
Related terms: interactability
interactable
chomping at the bit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: champing at the bit
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chomp at the bit
tight lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After M. de Kercadiou came M. de Vilmorin, very pale and self-contained, with tight lips and an overcast brow.
ref: 1921, Rafael Sabatini, chapter II, in Scaramouche:
glosses: Of a person, silence or reticence.
Related terms: tight-lipped
motorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of motorize
motorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of motorize
aficionados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aficionado
delimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪmɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: With specified conditions.
glosses: Within set boundaries or limits.
Synonyms: sense: within set boundaries
word: bounded
sense: within set boundaries
word: demarcated
Hyponyms: brace-delimited
Derived terms: delimited continuation
nondelimited
undelimited
delimited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪmɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delimit
Related terms: limited
vinho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: viʹñô
ipa: /ˈviːnjəʊ/
ipa: /ˈvinjoʊ/
Forms: form: vinhos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese vinho (“wine”); compare vino. Doublet of wine and vine.
Senses: glosses: Portuguese wine.
johnny cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johnny cakes
Senses: examples: text: The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353:
text: The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.
ref: 1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”).
orang utan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orang utans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orangutan.
cetaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cetacean
wiglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiglets
Etymology: From wig + -let.
Senses: examples: text: TV personality Shari Lewis, proud skipperess of a new Owens cruiser. demonstrates a bit of legerdemain with wiglets — small hairpieces that, properly twined, will solve nautical grooming problems.
ref: 1964 July 24, Motorboating, volume 114, number 1, page 68:
glosses: A small wig.
wigwag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡwaɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɪɡˌwæɡ/
homophone: WGWAG (General American)
Forms: form: wig-wag
Etymology: From wig (“to wag, waggle”) + wag (“to swing”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: With a wigwagging or to-and-fro motion.
wildcatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldˌkætə(ɹ)/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: wildcatters
Etymology: From wildcat + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who drills for oil speculatively.
glosses: A worker who participates in a wildcat strike.
examples: text: Roy Weatherby began his career in the firearms industry as a “wildcatter”, developing his revolutionary ideas about rifle cartridge performance and design.
ref: a. 2005, “Ammunition”, in Weatherby, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2005:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them.
Peer Panja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Bhatiore region of Punjab, Pakistan.
MOD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Ministry of Defence; also MoD.
MOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MODs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of ministry of defense (not retricted to the British War Ministry).
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of maximum operating depth.
examples: text: Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash
ref: 2023 February 28, Teudoongie Shop (@TeudoongieShop), Twitter:
related: word: mod
glosses: Initialism of method of delivery.
MOD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mesio-occlusal-distal.
Related terms: DOD
DND
MSc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MScs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Master of Science.
glosses: Message sequence chart, an interaction diagram.
p&p
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: P&P
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Pen-and-paper, usually specifically in reference to the term "pen-and-paper role-playing game", an alternate term for a tabletop role-playing game.
p&p
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P&P
Senses: synonyms: P&H
S&H
glosses: Initialism of postage and packaging, postage and packing, or processing and packing.
glosses: Initialism of policies and procedures.
General American
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.əl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
Forms: form: GA
form: GenAm
Senses: glosses: The form of pronunciation of the English language considered to be typical of the United States, largely derived from a Midwestern accent.
wikipedia: General American
Synonyms: Standard American
Hypernyms: American English
North American English
IDGI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: idgi
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I don't get it, used to express confusion.
Related terms: IDG
writhed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of writhe
two bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Based on the old monetary bit, which was one eighth of an old Spanish dollar (or 12½ cents in more modern usage).
Senses: examples: text: As the old song goes, shave and a haircut, two bits!
glosses: Twenty-five cents, or a quarter.
wikipedia: Spanish dollar
Related terms: long bit
short bit
two-bit
pieces of eight
two bob
Justice of the Peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Justices of the Peace
Senses: synonyms: word: JP
word: J.P.
alt: abbreviation
glosses: A judicial officer with varying responsibilities depending on the jurisdiction.
broken chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chord whose notes are played in sequential descending or ascending order
Related terms: arpeggio
Legionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Legionnaires
Etymology: From Legion + -aire.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of legionnaire.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the American Legion.
Derived terms: legionella
Legionella
Legionnaires' disease
Legionnaires'
legionellosis
keyhole limpet hemocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole limpet hemocyanins
form: KLH
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A carrier for making antigens. Because of its large size and distant relation to humans and many test animals, KLH causes a large antigenic response. When paired with a hapten, the hapten also becomes immunogenic.
snidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snide: most snide
ARIN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of American Registry for Internet Numbers.
applique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpliː.keɪ/
ipa: /ˌæ.plɪˈkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈæ.plɪ.keɪ/
Forms: form: appliques
form: appliqué
Etymology: Borrowed from French appliqué.
Senses: examples: text: Has anybody seen a dog dyed dark green / […] / And designer jeans with appliques on it?
ref: 1980, “Quiche Lorraine”, in Wild Planet, performed by The B-52's:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A decorative design made by cutting pieces of material and applying them to the surface of another for decoration.
Derived terms: Hawaiian applique
applique
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpliː.keɪ/
ipa: /ˌæ.plɪˈkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈæ.plɪ.keɪ/
Forms: form: appliques
form: appliqueing
form: appliqued
form: appliqued
form: appliqué
Etymology: Borrowed from French appliqué.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: To decorate something in this way.
appreciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appreciators
Etymology: From appreciate + -or and Latin appreciātor.
Senses: examples: text: I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
ref: 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 142:
text: […] I speak as an appreciator of not just the architecture but the way you have preserved its atmosphere,
ref: 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, New York: HarperCollins, page 448:
glosses: Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially:
Someone who values something highly.
examples: text: Let no chicaning intermediate agent but suffered to pass between the manufacturers and the Company’s warehouse-keepers and sorters, except the sworn appreciators and examiners, according to standard samples, secreted from the view, and from every possible communication with the owners.
ref: 1779, William Thomson, Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, London: J. Murray, published 1782, Letter 47, p. 120:
text: 1794, Review of The Age of Infidelity, in The English Review, Volume 24, p. 124,
that respectable collector and appreciator of religious evidence, Archdeacon Paley
text: I like to keep myself well within the field of the microscope, and, with as much detachment as I can muster, to watch myself live, to report my observations of what I say, feel, think. In default of others, I am myself my own spectator and self-appreciator―critical, discerning, vigilant, fond!—my own stupid Boswell, shrewd if silly.
ref: 1919 March 31, W[ilhelm] N[ero] P[ilate] Barbellion [pseudonym; Bruce Frederick Cummings], “[1915] March 4”, in The Journal of a Disappointed Man, London: Chatto & Windus, published 27 April 1920 (5th impression), →OCLC, part II (In London), pages 179–180:
text: Always, as I wrote, I was both reader and writer, both the conceiver of the action and the appreciator of it.
ref: 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, page xxxi:
glosses: Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially:
Someone who assesses or appraises the value of something.
arithmetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arithmetically
form: most arithmetically
Etymology: From arithmetical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Over the past decade the business has grown arithmetically, which shows that it is serving a demand successfully; but because it has not grown exponentially, its growth is viewed by some investors as "not good enough."
coordinate_terms: geometrically
exponentially
glosses: In a way characterized by addition (of increments) rather than multiplication (by factors) or exponentiation (by exponents): by an arithmetic progression.
raw_tags: of the nature of increases or decreases
examples: text: The two terms are arithmetically equivalent, but they are not equally intuitive regarding what phenomenon they represent in the real world.
glosses: In terms of arithmetic.
Related terms: arithmetic
arithmetical
Sodomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒ.də.maɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.də.maɪt/
Forms: form: Sodomites
Etymology: From Sodom + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The story of the people of Lot related in the Quran is often taken to mean that God condemns sodomites
ref: 2012, Samar Habib, Female Homosexuality in the Middle East, chapter 3
glosses: An inhabitant of Sodom, or (by extension) a descendant of one.
Derived terms: Sodomitish
Related terms: Sodom
sodomite
fashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fash
fashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fash
given names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of given name
Royal Marines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The amphibious force or marine corps of the United Kingdom.
Royal Marines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Royal Marine
jigamaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigamarees
Senses: glosses: A maneuver or cunning trick.
glosses: A trivial, ridiculous or worthless fancy.
glosses: A thingamabob; an object of uncertain name.
antiderivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiderivatives
Etymology: From anti- + derivative.
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: primitive
integral
antonyms: derivative
glosses: A function whose derivative is a given function; an indefinite integral
antibonding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bonding.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Only used in antibonding orbital.
antibonding orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibonding orbitals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an atomic or molecular orbital whose energy increases as its constituent atoms are brought closer together - thus generating a repulsive force that hinders bonding
underachieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)əˈt͡ʃiːv/
Forms: form: underachieves
form: underachieving
form: underachieved
form: underachieved
Etymology: From under- + achieve.
Senses: glosses: To achieve less than expected; to fail to fulfil one's potential.
Synonyms: punch below one's weight
underperform
Derived terms: underachiever
antre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæn.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈæn.(ɾ)ɚ]
rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: antres
Etymology: From Middle French [Term?], from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron). Doublet of antrum.
Senses: examples: text: Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold, / Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told, / With all its lines abrupt and angular: / Out-shooting sometimes, like a meteor-star, / Through a vast antre;
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II:
text: 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy,
Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
text: Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"
ref: 1888, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 16:
glosses: Cavern; cave.
underachiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underachievers
form: under-achiever
Etymology: From underachieve + -er or under- + achiever.
Senses: examples: text: Woody Allen has provided what is probably the best theological answer to the problem of evil: God is not evil; He is just an underachiever.
ref: 1990 September 23, Wendy Doniger, “Why the Body Is Disgusting”, in The New York Times:
text: Bart: (reading his permanent record) "Underachiever and proud of it." How old is this thing?
ref: 2000, “Skinner's Sense of Snow”, in The Simpsons, season 12 (television production):
text: For the TLC undertaking, he employs only underachievers, cronies who have been hired for their ability to make the work site madcap and, therefore, filmable.
ref: 2005 March 11, Ned Martel, “The Unlikely Progress of a Barely Motivated Underachiever”, in The New York Times:
text: This unsung, underrated, under-appreciated / The one them underachievers had underestimated / Finally graduated, I'm one of the most hated
ref: 2010, “Doin' It Again”, in How I Got Over, performed by The Roots:
antonyms: overachiever
glosses: One who underachieves, i.e. performs less well than expected.
instate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsteɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: instates
form: instating
form: instated
form: instated
Etymology: From in- + state.
Senses: examples: text: Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 175:
glosses: To install (someone) in office; to establish.
Derived terms: instatement
reinstate
pulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌlʃn̩/
Forms: form: pulsions
Etymology: Borrowed from French pulsion, from Latin pulsio.
Senses: examples: text: The same applies to the tempestuous rows within internet communities, where toxic pulsions of identification and disidentification generate passionate solidarities and sudden explosions of hostilities.
ref: 2020 [2019], Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: The act of driving forward; propulsion.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: A subconscious drive or impulse.
death wish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death wishes
Etymology: From death + wish. Calque of German Todeswunsch.
Senses: examples: text: Does Trump suffer from some kind of political death wish? If so, we must hope his fall comes quickly. It is hard to think of any precedent for such a calamitous display of insensitivity, historical ignorance and uncomprehending political stupidity.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer:
text: Wait, Kris! What the HELL was that!??!?! Why would NOELLE?? Ask ME?? To do HOMEWORK?? With HER?!?? Deathwish much? Does she WANNA fail?
ref: 2021 September 17, Toby Fox, Deltarune, Windows, level/area: Chapter 2:
text: "I reiterate: outside is death." Brenda squeezed her hand. "You won't make it far by yourself."
ref: 2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else.
sangsue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangsues
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A leech of the former genus Sanguisuga.
cretinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cretinous
form: most cretinous
Etymology: From cretin + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a cretin; very stupid.
Synonyms: idiotic
moronic
stupid
Derived terms: cretinously
cric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Cricothyrotomy; cricothyroidotomy.
prunelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prunelles
Etymology: From French, diminutive of prune.
Senses: glosses: a kind of small and very acid French plum, especially when stoned and dried, from Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, sloe).
crimine
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of criminy.
crine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krīn
ipa: /kɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: crines
form: crining
form: crined
form: crined
Etymology: From Scots crine (“to shrivel”), from Scottish Gaelic crìon (“withered”), from Old Irish crín.
Senses: glosses: To wither, wilt, shrivel.
crine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krīn
ipa: /kɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: crines
Etymology: From Middle French crine (whence also French crin), Italian crine, or directly from Latin crīnis (“hair of the head, lock of hair, plume”).
Senses: glosses: Hair of the head.
crine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krīn
ipa: /kɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of crying, representing African-American Vernacular English
volet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volets
Etymology: Borrowed from French volet.
Senses: glosses: A shutter on a window.
examples: text: Painted on panel, and possibly the central volet of a triptych, it showed an enthroned Madonna rescuing from Satan a young man whom she clutches by the wrist.
ref: 2009, Mario Buhagiar, Essays on the Knights and Art and Architecture in Malta, 1500–1798, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Either wing of a triptych.
Cristo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cristos
Etymology: Borrowed from Romance (either Spanish Cristo, Portuguese Cristo or Italian Cristo).
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages.
Related terms: Santo Cristo
mamelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamelons
Etymology: Borrowed from French mamelon.
Senses: glosses: A hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A structure resembling a small bump found on the outer surface of stromatoporoids.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A protrusion on a newly erupted tooth.
malaxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malaxers
Etymology: From malax + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of malaxator.
synonyms: word: malaxator
nurturing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nurturing
form: most nurturing
Derived terms: nonnurturing
unnurturing
nurturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nurture
indolency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndələnsi/
ipa: /ˈɪndəˌlənsi/
Forms: form: indolencies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”) (see further at indolence) + English -ency (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indolence.
Habitual laziness or sloth.
examples: text: [T]he sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
ref: 1689, [John Locke], translated by [William Popple], A Letter Concerning Toleration: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of indolence.
A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
glosses: Synonym of indolence.
A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
atelectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ.tɪˈlɛk.tə.sɪs/
rhymes: -ɛktəsɪs
Forms: form: atelectases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτελής (atelḗs, “incomplete”) + ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “to extend”). By surface analysis, atel- + ectasis.
Senses: examples: text: Atelectasis means a non-expansion of the lungs.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 46:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The collapse of a part of or the whole lung caused by inner factors rather than a pneumothorax.
Derived terms: aeroatelectasis
atelectatic
atelectrauma
fibroatelectasis
Related terms: atelectotrauma
bronchiectasis
dystelectasis
ectasia
ectasis
microatelectasis
Karlovac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karlovačka
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the administrative center of Karlovac County, in central Croatia.
glosses: A county of Croatia. County seat: Karlovac.
wild-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wild-eyed
form: most wild-eyed
Senses: examples: text: “Wild-eyed and disheveled, King Hrethel roamed every night through his throne room, which was empty and still.”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 43:
text: A better study it seems to me could be about why some heteros are so wild-eyed obsessed with us, their hate, the kind of leaders they choose to follow in their greed and prejudice, and their need for someone to persecute.
ref: 1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:
text: In the mirror a wild-eyed, peroxided stranger who had clearly gone insane stared back at me.
ref: 2004, Scott Westerfeld, So yesterday:
glosses: Having a glaring expression suggesting madness or terror.
wildflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildflowers
form: wild flower
Etymology: From wild + flower.
Senses: glosses: A wild (uncultivated) flowering plant.
glosses: A flower from such a plant.
wilds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild
examples: text: The Clintons, who once seemed banished to the wilds of Westchester County, are once again the most powerful family in Democratic politics, with talk of another Clinton presidency already rife in Washington.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: wilderness
wilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wild
daren't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛənt/
rhymes: -ɛənt
Etymology: dare + -n't
Senses: examples: c1865, 1998, Leo N. Tolstoy, War and Peace, page 161 -
"The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren't say so."
glosses: Contraction of dare not.
glosses: Contraction of dared not.
Synonyms: word: dassn't
sense: 2nd meaning
word: daredn't
sense: 2nd meaning
word: durstn't
word: dursn't
word: dursen't
willfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willfulnesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wilfulness.
will-o'-the-wisp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of will o' the wisp.
willowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪləʊi/
ipa: /ˈwɪloʊi/
Forms: form: willowier
form: willowiest
Etymology: From willow + -y.
Senses: synonyms: willowish
willowlike
glosses: Resembling a willow.
examples: text: The lovely face grew rigid, and the gracious willowy form seemed to erect itself.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Probably the biggest gasp in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial last week came when two sales clerks in a row testified that the willowy actress had asked them to fetch her Coca-Colas from the Saks Fifth Avenue cafeteria.
ref: 2002 November 3, Rick Lyman, “For the Ryder Trial, a Hollywood Script”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: lithe
word: slim
word: svelte
word: gaunt
word: gracile
word: lank
word: lean
word: leansome
word: lithe
word: lithesome
word: lissome
word: rangy
word: sleek
word: slender
word: slight
word: slim
word: slinky
word: svelte
word: swack
word: sylphlike
word: willowy
glosses: Tall, slender and graceful.
raw_tags: of a person
synonyms: willowed
glosses: Having willow trees.
raw_tags: of a place
wimpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wimpish
form: most wimpish
Etymology: From wimp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a wimp.
windblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndˌbloʊn/
Forms: form: more windblown
form: most windblown
Etymology: From wind + blown.
Senses: glosses: growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.
raw_tags: of a tree
examples: text: In a patch of sunlit windblown water a fish leaped from the surface.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 168:
qualifier: leaves etc
glosses: dispersed by the wind.
raw_tags: of seeds
glosses: having disheveled hair blown about by the wind.
raw_tags: of a person
windburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndbɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: windburns
Etymology: From wind + burn.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: sunburn
glosses: An irritation of the skin caused by exposure to the wind.
glosses: Damage to a plant caused by cold and windy conditions that dry out the leaves.
windburned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windburned
form: most windburned
form: windburnt
Etymology: From wind + burned.
Senses: examples: text: 1916, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe’s War Book, New York: George H. Doran, ‘What to Send “Your Soldier”,’ p. 55,
Vaseline is a good gift. It can be used for may purposes. It serves as a lubricant. It eases feet that have marched far. It is good for burns. It relieves the pain of sunburnt or windburnt skin.
text: A more vivid red mounted the boy’s windburned face.
ref: 1925, Zane Grey, chapter 13, in Captives of the Desert, Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black:
text: I am woken by a pounding on the door of my apartment. It is a man with a lantern, windburnt, gaunt, out of breath, in a solder’s greatcoat too large for him.
ref: 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1982, Chapter , p. 193:
glosses: Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
examples: text: The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff,
Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.
ref: 1870 July, Charles Warren Stoddard, “Sail Ho!”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 5, number 1, page 30:
text: […] the same general rules apply to wind-burned trees as to those injured by frost. You should wait until the full extent of the injury is apparent before cutting back.
ref: 1939 November, California Garden, volume 31, number 5, page 7:
text: 2005, Anne and Simon Harrap, Orchids of Britain and Ireland, London: A&C Black, 2nd edition, “Lindisfarne Helleborine,” p. 124,
By flowering time many leaves are wind-burnt, grazed or otherwise damaged.
glosses: Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.
windchill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windchills
Senses: examples: text: The windchill enters my body, slips under my shirt right to my belly button.
ref: 2022, Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling, Bloomsbury, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of wind chill.
windiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪnəs/
Forms: form: windinesses
Etymology: From windy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t conduceth helpe to the crudities, humidities, and vvindineſſe of the ſtomacke and belly, and to helpe the ſhortneſſe of breath and coughes: […]
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, “Cyperus dulcis rotundus esculentus, Trasi dulce vocatus. The Most Delicate Sweet Cyperus, or Rush Nut.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: The state of being windy; the state of there being wind
windiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈwaɪndɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈwɪndɪnəs/
Forms: form: windinesses
Etymology: From windy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being winding or twisting; twistiness
Synonyms: sinuosity
windless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndləs/
homophone: windlass
Forms: form: more windless
form: most windless
Etymology: From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods, / Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness: […]
ref: 1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals), page 150:
text: “[…] It’s for life, Miss Archer, it’s for life,” Lord Warburton repeated in the kindest, tenderest, pleasantest voice Isabel had ever heard, and looking at her with eyes charged with the light of a passion that had sifted itself clear of the baser parts of emotion—the heat, the violence, the unreason—and that burned as steadily as a lamp in a windless place.
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter XII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 147–148; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: [W]hen the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth’s excrement. But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter II, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
glosses: Devoid of wind; calm.
examples: text: [B]eing almost windles, by running after ſenſuall pleaſures too feircely, they [the gentry] are glad (for keeping them-ſelves in breath ſo long as they can) to fal to Ferret-hunting, yͭ is to say, to take vp commodities.
ref: 1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Of Ferreting. The Manner of Vndooing Gentlemen by Taking vp of Commodities.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, page 230:
text: Then came others one after another, windless with running, crying out and saying, that all was gone: and that every where the souldiers goods were rifled, ransacked and carried clean away.
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book VIII]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: Out of breath.
Related terms: breathless
windless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndləs/
homophone: windlass
Forms: form: windlesses
Etymology: From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
Senses: examples: text: The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]
ref: 1661, “Of making cloth with sheeps wool”, in The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, volume I, London: A. Millar, published 1756, page 62:
text: 1724, Daniel Defoe (attributed), A General History of the Pirates, London: T. Warner, 2nd edition, Chapter, pp. 114-115,
[…] the Boatswain immediately called to his Consorts, laid hold of the Captain, and made him fast to the Windless, and there pelted him with Glass Bottles, which cut him in a sad Manner […]
glosses: Alternative form of windlass.
window-dress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: window-dresses
form: window-dressing
form: window-dressed
form: window-dressed
Senses: glosses: To decorate the window of a shop
glosses: To give something superficial attractiveness
premieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premiere
premieres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premiere
zappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Forms: form: zappier
form: zappiest
Etymology: From zap + -y.
Senses: glosses: Lively or energetic.
acetominophen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acetaminophen.
banana split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈnɑː.nə splɪt/
enpr: bə-nă'nə
ipa: /bəˈnæ.nə splɪt/
Forms: form: banana splits
Senses: glosses: A dessert or sundae containing a banana cut in half lengthwise (split), ice cream and various toppings which may include sauces, nuts or fruit.
glosses: Euphemistic form of bullshit (“card game”).
Derived terms: fried banana split
presale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presales
Etymology: From pre- + sale.
Senses: glosses: The sale of something privately, before it is available to the public
glosses: The sale of a property before it is built
dal tarka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dal tadka
form: daal tarka
form: daal tadka
form: dhal tarka
form: dhal tadka
form: tarka dal
form: tadka dal
form: tarka daal
form: tadka daal
form: tarka dhal
form: tadka dhal
form: tarka dahl
Etymology: From Hindi दाल तड़का (dāl taṛkā); see dal + tarka.
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish of lentils cooked with tarka.
channa dahl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chana dal.
masoor dal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masoor daal
form: masoor dhal
form: masoor dahl
Etymology: From Hindi मसूर दाल (masūr dāl); see masoor + dal.
Senses: glosses: Split red or orange lentils.
glosses: An Indian dish of such lentils cooked with onion, garlic, tomatoes and spices.
dhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dal.
pigeon pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon peas
form: pigeonpea
Etymology: So called as they are used as feed for domesticated pigeons.
Senses: glosses: A tropical African plant, Cajanus cajan, formerly Cajanus indicus.
examples: text: Pigeon peas are like hard brown pills specially grown to condition small bodies that are all feather, bone, muscle, head and heart.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 85:
synonyms: word: Congo pea
word: gandul
word: gungo pea
word: red gram
word: togari
word: toor
word: toovar
word: dal
english: British colonial administration
translation: British colonial administration
glosses: The edible seed of this plant.
pulpitum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpitums
form: pulpita
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.
Senses: glosses: A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
duotheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + theistic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to duotheism.
alm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːm/
ipa: /ɑm/
ipa: /ɑlm/
ipa: /ɔlm/
ipa: /æm/
ipa: /am/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɑːlm
rhymes: -ɔːlm
homophone: arm (most non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: alms
Etymology: Back-formation from alms.
Senses: examples: text: An alm to the poor is a work of charity. Una limosna a los pobres es obra de caridad.
ref: 1992, Orlando B. Cuartocruz, Zamboanga Chabacano Folk Literature, page 26:
text: If in doubt, you rarely go wrong giving an alm to the poor, and you might feel better about it.
ref: 1992, Bobb Biehl, The Question Book, Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN:
text: “An alm for the love of God,” cries the beggar. Don Juan stops, reaches in his pocket and holds out his last gold coin above the outstretched arms of the [beggar].
ref: 2015, Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 78:
text: He wanted to offer it to you, as an alm for the Church, but I told him you would never agree to that. But if you wish to pay one guilder per month, I think he would accept that.
ref: 2020, Melanie Dickerson, The Peasant's Dream, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Something given to the poor as charity: a singular gift of alms.
CFML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ColdFusion Markup Language.
indissoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈsɒljʊbəl/
Forms: form: more indissoluble
form: most indissoluble
Etymology: From Middle French indissoluble, from Latin indissolubilis.
Senses: examples: text: It connected in one indissoluble bond.
text: They have an indissoluble friendship.
synonyms: insoluble
undissolvable
antonyms: dissoluble
soluble
dissolvable
glosses: Lasting; indestructible; not possible to dissolve, disintegrate or break up.
Derived terms: indissolubility
indissolubleness
indissolubly
haply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈhæpli/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English happely, hapliche, happeliche; equivalent to hap + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: By accident or luck.
examples: text: "O my lord the Sultan," said the other [the Wazir], "verily women be weakly of wits, and haply this goodwife cometh hither to complain before thee against her goodman or some of her people."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: "Ha," quoth he to himself, "I will go and inquire into this business, for it may haply be that yonder black knight shall not find it to be so easy to deal with a knight of the Round Table as with those other three knights."
ref: 1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 28:
text: Arise, and lift up your voices, that haply they that are fast asleep may be awakened.
ref: 1935, Baháʼu'lláh, translated by Shoghi Effendi, Gleanings from the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh, Bahá'í Publishing Trust, section CVI:
glosses: Perhaps; by chance.
panted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pant + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pant
panted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pantsed
Etymology: From pant + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: From six large buildings, along six different pathways, walk, hobble, or shuffle nearly 250 white-coated and blue-panted figures to the great Central Hall.
ref: 1915, “Our Sumatra Leper Colony”, in All the World, volume XXXVI, page 576:
text: An inside contact reports that fashion artists are being told to draw their panted women to "look like lesbians."
ref: 1964, The Ladder, Arno Press, page 16:
text: The long-haired hippie, unwashed and unshaved, walked into Imelda’s drawing room, or the leather-panted woman striding in with the air of one who had ridden through cowboy country and tied her sweating horse at the Palace gate:[…]
ref: 1969, Kerima Polotan, ““Madama” in the Palace”, in Imelda Romualdez Marcos, The World Publishing Company, page 217:
glosses: Synonym of trousered.
synonyms: word: trousered
Related terms: bepanted
hot-panted
bared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare