cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctums
form: puncta
Etymology: From Latin pūnctum. Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punt, and punto.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.
ref: 1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume representing a single tone.
Derived terms: lacrimal punctum
punctum caecum
punctum delens
punctum proximum
punctum remotum
punctum saliens
punctum stans
punctum vasculosum
punctum vegetationis
Related terms: punctal
punctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctums
form: puncta
Etymology: Coined in 1980 by French literary theorist Roland Barthes in his book Camera Lucida.
Senses: examples: text: […]the punctum is something that is seen by the viewer, without it being shown to them by the photographer. As such, it functions, according to Fried, as an “ontological guarantee” (553) of a given photograph’s nontheatricality.
ref: 2007, Photography theory, page 87:
text: Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]
ref: 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A detail in a photograph that captures the viewer's attention and evokes an emotional response or personal connection beyond the intended subject.
tradesperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradespersons
form: tradespeople
Etymology: From trade + -s- + person.
Senses: synonyms: tradie
hypernyms: blue-collar worker
<
worker
<
person
coordinate_terms: laborer
;
white-collar worker
pink-collar worker
glosses: A skilled manual worker.
Related terms: trade union
trades union
artisan
craftsperson
craftsman
craftswoman
journeyperson
journeyman
journeywoman
master
master craftsman
tradesman
tradeswoman
journeyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝnimən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːnimən/
Forms: form: journeymen
Etymology: From Middle English jorneman; from journe (from Old French jornee (“a day's work, a journey”)) and mon; equivalent to journey + -man.
Senses: examples: text: […] toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
ref: 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
glosses: A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
glosses: A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.
examples: text: The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.
Derived terms: journeymanship
journeyman's piece
Related terms: apprentice
masterman
master
master tradesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master tradesmen
Senses: glosses: A skilled and experienced tradesman, especially one who has submitted a masterpiece to his guild.
Related terms: journeyman
punctum caecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the blind spot in the eye
punctum proximum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: near point
Related terms: punctum remotum
punctum remotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: far point
Related terms: punctum proximum
punctum vegetationis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: the terminal cell of a leaf bud or stem from which new growth originates
punctum vasculosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any small drop of blood seen as a spot in sections of the brain.
DXM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DM
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dextromethorphan.
tradesman's entrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradesman's entrances
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: back door, backdoor, back passage
antonyms: front door#Noun
foyer#Noun
hypernyms: entrance
entryway
glosses: The entrance to a large house, used by tradesmen to deliver goods and services; usually at the side or rear.
synonyms: word: back door#Noun
word: backdoor#Noun
word: back passage#Noun
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
hypernyms: entrance
entryway
glosses: The anus.
tradesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradesman
partakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of partake
trade unionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade unionists
Etymology: From trade union + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: unioneer
glosses: A member of a trade union.
trade war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade wars
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: trade barrier, barrier to trade
text: But for weeks Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has said Beijing believes there is no winner in a trade war.
ref: 2025 February 3, Léonie Chao-Fong, “Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Mexico, China and Canada”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: free trade
freedom of trade
economic freedom
glosses: The practice of nations creating mutual tariffs or similar barriers to trade.
Related terms: currency war
pulsate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlˈseɪt/
ipa: /ˈpʌl.seɪt/
ipa: /ˈpʌl.seɪt/
rhymes: (UK) -eɪt
Forms: form: pulsates
form: pulsating
form: pulsated
form: pulsated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pulsātus, from pulsō (“I strike repeatedly”), from pellō (“I strike”). Doublet of push.
Senses: glosses: To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
examples: text: The party pulsated with revellers.
glosses: To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
glosses: To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
Derived terms: pulsatile
pulsation
pulsator
pulsatory
Related terms: pulsar
trading stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trading stamps
Senses: glosses: A small paper coupon, given by a retailer to a customer, that may be saved up and redeemed for goods.
Related terms: green stamp
traducian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traducians
Etymology: From Late Latin traducianus, from tradux (“a shoot for propagation”).
Senses: glosses: One who believes that a child's soul is inherited from its parents.
traducian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin traducianus, from tradux (“a shoot for propagation”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the belief that one's soul is inherited from one's parents.
Derived terms: traducianism
Varangian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹæn.d͡ʒi.ən/
Forms: form: Varangians
Etymology: Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Βάραγγος (Bárangos), from Medieval Latin Varingus, from Old Norse væringi, from várr (“pledge”) or værr (“pledge”), which is cognate with Old English wǣr (“fidelity, loyalty”), + Old Norse gangi (“companion”). Cognate with Old English wærgenga.
Senses: synonyms: Varyag
glosses: A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
examples: text: The Byzantines continued to recruit elite warriors from the north, not merely from Rus’ but directly from far-off Scandinavia; from the end of the tenth century, they referred to them as ‘Varangians’.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 506:
glosses: A member of the imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955.
Varangian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹæn.d͡ʒi.ən/
Etymology: Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Βάραγγος (Bárangos), from Medieval Latin Varingus, from Old Norse væringi, from várr (“pledge”) or værr (“pledge”), which is cognate with Old English wǣr (“fidelity, loyalty”), + Old Norse gangi (“companion”). Cognate with Old English wærgenga.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Varangians.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Varanger Peninsula in Norway.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a period of intense glaciation during the late Proterozoic eon.
traducianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdjuːsɪənɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From traducian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 37n
text: Tertullian suggested that the human soul is transmitted by parents to their children and is therefore inescapably associated with continuing human sin: this doctrine of ‘traducianism’ underlay the pessimistic view of the human condition and its imprisonment in original sin which was presented in an extreme form by that later theological giant from North Africa, Augustine of Hippo.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 145:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.
Synonyms: generationism
Related terms: traduce
traducian
marines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of marine
marines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marine corps.
marines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marine
dextromethorphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛk.stɹoʊ.məˈθɔɹˌfæn/
Etymology: From dextro- + methorphan.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: DXM
DM
dex
drank
orphan tears
glosses: An opioid that is used as an antitussive drug, found in many over-the-counter cold and cough preparations, and as an NMDA blocker used to treat pseudobulbar affect.
Hypernyms: methorphan
opioid
Related terms: racemethorphan
robohead
robotrip
when push comes to shove
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if push comes to shove
Senses: examples: text: He is not a particularly talented builder, but when push comes to shove, he can usually get the job done.
text: While most chose at that time either to disband or to join the APC rally several blocks north in McPherson Park, several hundred mostly young DC-area blacks and a sizable number of militant Palestinians continued to demand their right to confront the Klan. Push somehow came to shove and the face-off began. Several hours of street fighting followed.
ref: 1982 December 18, David France, “Protests Drive Klan Rally Out Of Washington”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 1:
text: "We've demonstrated that when push comes to shove, we can be really fast, we can be agile, we can do things more slickly.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 35:
glosses: When the pressure is on; when the situation is critical or urgent; when the time has come for action, even if it is difficult.
Related terms: in a pinch
nut-cutting time
when the chips are down
when the gloves come off
trafficator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trafficators
Etymology: From traffic + -ator.
Senses: examples: text: There were vehicles following me, of course, but was any of them trailing me? […] Without any warning, and without signalling with the trafficator, I took a sudden right turn, hoping to shake off my trailer.
ref: 2014, Chris Ekpekurede, Laughing Over Serious Matters: Stories to Make You Laugh and Reflect:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: blinker
word: directional
word: directional signal
word: direction indicator
word: indicator
word: turn indicator
word: turn signal
glosses: A blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which it is about to turn.
glosses: A semaphore device with a steady light that served the same purpose on early vehicles.
dares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛəz/
ipa: /dɛɹz/
ipa: /deːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /deəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /diəz/
ipa: /deɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: dears (cheer–chair merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of dare
dares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛəz/
ipa: /dɛɹz/
ipa: /deːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /deəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /diəz/
ipa: /deɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: dears (cheer–chair merger)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dare
romp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒmp/
ipa: /ɹɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: romps
form: romping
form: romped
form: romped
Etymology: Probably a variant of ramp.
Senses: examples: text: When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
glosses: To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
examples: text: If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
text: Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
glosses: (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
examples: text: England romped to an easy win over Australia.
text: Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To win easily.
examples: text: We romped along with the wind astern.
text: From Crewe, of course, the ten-coach load of 347/370 tons was a laughably easy proposition for the two engines, between them in effect making up Class "11" power, and they fairly romped away with the train.
ref: 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:
glosses: To move with little effort relatively quickly.
raw_tags: with adverb
examples: text: This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style
ref: 1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:
text: Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.
ref: 2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:
text: One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.
ref: 2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: To engage in playful or illicit sex.
romp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒmp/
ipa: /ɹɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: romps
Etymology: Probably a variant of ramp.
Senses: examples: text: I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
glosses: A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit.
glosses: An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.
Derived terms: romper room
rompers
romper suit
romp home
romping good
romp in the hay
rompy
Related terms: rumpus
traffic circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic circles
Senses: glosses: an intersection with a circular shape and, usually, a central island
Synonyms: word: rotary
word: roundabout
Coordinate terms: english: triangular traffic island
translation: triangular traffic island
word: pork chop island
when the chips are down
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the game of poker, in which chips laid down on the table are staked.
Senses: examples: text: He wasn't a very talented musician but, when the chips were down, he played well.
text: When the chips are down, you need to make tough decisions.
text: The armed forces of North Korea, which borders on and is allied with Russian Manchuria, marched into the U. S.-sponsored South Korea Republic over the week-end — and the chips are down for American prestige throughout the Far East.
ref: 1950 June 26, Alex H. Washburn, “Korea — Sound of War”, in Hope Star, volume 51, number 214, Hope, Ark., page 1, column 1:
text: They say that when the chips are down, girl
Your love won't stay so long, my friend
But they don't know that your sweet loving, babe
Has been around through thick and thin
ref: 1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder, “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder, Tamla Records:
text: “Lucian and Monte basically said to me, ‘Whatever you turn in, we will be proud to put out. We give you 100% creative freedom and trust.’” It was exactly what she needed to hear most when the chips were down.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
glosses: When the pressure is on; when the situation is urgent or critical.
Related terms: in a pinch
when push comes to shove
when the gloves come off
traffic jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic jams
Senses: examples: text: Victorian Londoners did not speak of 'traffic jams' - that term came from America after the First World War. They spoke rather of traffic 'locks' or 'blocks', and their prevalence would be one reason why Pearson began to direct his thoughts underground.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Driving in London next week ? Then watch out for the big traffic-jam spots – the places where you may well face a wait if you cannot go another way.
ref: 1965 October 8, “If you are driving next week... these are the black spots to avoid”, in The Evening News and Star:
synonyms: snarl-up
hypernyms: jam
jam-up
glosses: A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
Related terms: phantom jam
tailback
gapers' block
gridlock
snarl-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snarl-ups
Senses: glosses: a traffic jam
prosody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒzədi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒsədi/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊzədi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑzədi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑsədi/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊzədi/
Forms: form: prosodies
Etymology: From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: An accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek Language is so necessary an accompaniment of true scholarship, that any attempt to advocate its claims to the notice of the student would be entirely superfluous.
ref: 1838, Charles Anthon, A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, Harper & Brothers, page v:
text: The aim of this book is to answer the question WHAT DID GREEK PROSODY SOUND LIKE? The study of prosody stands at the intersection of a number of quite disparate disciplines, as illustrated in the diagram overleaf.
ref: 1994, A. M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, The Prosody of Greek Speech, Oxford University Press, page v:
text: 2007, Jackson T. Gandour, Neural substrates underlying the perception of linguistic prosody, Tomas Riad, Carlos Gussenhoven (editors), Tones and Tunes, Volume 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, De Gruyter (Mouton de Gruyter), page 3,
Brain imaging data shows us moreover that we have to go beyond linguistic units themselves to gain a full understanding of how prosody is processed in the brain.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
examples: text: But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.
ref: 1894, Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody, Oxford University Press, page 30:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.
Derived terms: prosodeme
prosodic
Related terms: diction
scansion
DM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DMs
form: DMing
form: DMed
form: DMed
form: DM'd
form: DM'd
Senses: examples: text: Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me.
ref: 2021 August 2, Tyrone Mings, quotee, “Tyrone Mings Opens Up over Mental Health Struggles ahead of Euro 2020”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021:
glosses: To communicate by direct message, usually on a social media website.
synonyms: GM
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To dungeon master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
DM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Daily Mail, a national newspaper.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Distributed Morphology.
traffic light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæˌfɪk laɪt/
Forms: form: traffic lights
Senses: examples: text: In Sydney you'd better be riding the clutch and completely in sync with the traffic lights so that your car is already moving as they turn green.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 65:
coordinate_terms: railway signal
glosses: A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
examples: text: How do I get to the hospital? ~ You go straight on to the traffic lights, then turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right.
coordinate_terms: railway signal
glosses: A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
A road intersection controlled by one or more such devices.
examples: text: The Department of Health recommends that food packaging display the recommended daily intake with a traffic light system, for ease of understanding.
glosses: A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
Synonyms: sense: signaling device
word: robot
sense: signaling device
word: stop light
sense: signaling device
word: traffic signal
sense: intersection
word: lights
sense: intersection
word: signals
topics: philately
hobbies
lifestyle
word: registration mark
Meronyms: amber light
green light
red light
yellow light
Derived terms: traffic light coalition
traffic light party
Related terms: 🔴
🟡
🟢
judeophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Judeophobia.
diehard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diehard
form: most diehard
form: die-hard
Etymology: Deverbal from die hard.
Senses: glosses: Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
glosses: Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
examples: text: For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.
text: The libertarian right of the Consservative Party, many of them diehard Europhobes, privately referred to the health minister and his advisers as "the Gestapo" for their faith in enforced lockdowns.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 644:
glosses: Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.
glosses: Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.
Derived terms: diehard test
Twihard
diehard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diehards
form: die-hard
Etymology: Deverbal from die hard.
Senses: examples: text: I should like my Scottish correspondent to see recent statements by leading officers of certain American railways which both have been among the most extreme diehards for steam, and also have developed the most powerful and outstanding steam locomotive designs—[…].
ref: 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in RailwAy Magazine, page 13:
glosses: A person with such an attitude.
built in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of built-in.
get cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets cracking
form: getting cracking
form: got cracking
form: got cracking
form: gotten cracking
Senses: examples: text: If I'm going to finish my homework by Thursday, I'd better get cracking.
glosses: To get started; to get busy.
depreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹiːʃi.eɪtɪd/
ipa: /dɪˈpɹiːsi.eɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: The currency depreciated sharply in 2001 and 2002, which contributed to a dramatic current account adjustment; in 2003 to 2005, Brazil ran record trade surpluses and recorded its first current account surpluses since 1992.
ref: 2006, The World Factbook:
glosses: simple past and past participle of depreciate
hunker down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hunkers down
form: hunkering down
form: hunkered down
form: hunkered down
Senses: examples: text: That test is worth half your grade, so you'd better hunker down and start studying.
text: Imagine that you are in a storm; you would not shake your fists at the clouds and the rain and yell, “Stop it, stop it NOW! This is unacceptable.” You would hunker down for safety and wait until it passes.
ref: 2016 June 29, Meghan Leahy, “A tween’s mood swings and tantrums are driving Mom crazy”, in Washington Post:
text: If you are on a higher level and can't get to a lower apartment, hunker down in the breezeway of the apartment building
ref: 2020 March 3, "Tornado Safety" on WHAS
text: If you didn’t secure a partner before coronavirus hit, you’re staring down weeks without snuggles or kisses “until further notice,” as the shuttered eateries and storefronts ominously posted.¶ “I have no one to hunker down with,” I texted my mom.
ref: 2020 April 30, Sophie Sills, “No One to Hunker Down With”, in New York Times:
text: Early in the pandemic, there was speculation that the major changes in the life of American families could lead to a recovery in the birthrate, as couples hunkered down together.
ref: 2021 May 5, Sabrina Tavernise, “The U.S. Birthrate Has Dropped Again. The Pandemic May Be Accelerating the Decline.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.
ref: 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To take shelter; to prepare oneself for some eventuality; to focus on a task.
glosses: To stubbornly hold to a position.
Related terms: buckle down
bunker down
knuckle down
knobkierie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knobkieries
form: knobkerry
form: knobkierrie
form: knopkierie
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans knopkierie, from knop (“knob”) + kierie (“stick”).
Senses: glosses: A fighting stick, usually with a knob on the end.
glosses: A bludgeon.
Related terms: Kierie
nulla nulla Australian
casse-tetê Canadian
big rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big rigs
Senses: examples: text: Driving on the interstate at night, you will see less traffic, but more big rigs.
glosses: A large truck, an 18-wheeler.
Derived terms: semi rig
knuckle down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knuckles down
form: knuckling down
form: knuckled down
form: knuckled down
Etymology: 1864 in American English, from the game of marbles.
Senses: examples: text: You should knuckle down and do your homework!
text: As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
ref: 1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1:
glosses: To get to work; to focus on a task.
glosses: To submit; knuckle under.
Synonyms: sense: get to work
word: belly up to the bar
sense: get to work
word: get one's act together
sense: get to work
word: pull up one's socks
sense: get to work
word: roll up one's sleeves
sense: get to work
word: shape up
Related terms: hunker down
buckle down
divvy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪv.i ˈʌp/
Forms: form: divvies up
form: divvying up
form: divvied up
form: divvied up
form: divy up
Etymology: A diminutive form of the phrasal verb divide up.
Senses: examples: text: We can divvy up the last piece of cake and each have a little dessert.
glosses: To divide up: to divide, particularly into separate shares for distribution.
Synonyms: divide
die out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies out
form: dying out
form: died out
form: died out
Senses: examples: text: The dinosaurs died out a long time ago.
text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: I thought you always needed another species to serve as one of the parents.
Liara: Think about it, Shepard. If we were not able to mate with our own species, we would have died out long before we ever mastered space flight and left our homeworld.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Med Bay Lab, SSV Normandy:
synonyms: die off#Verb
glosses: To become extinct.
examples: text: The prejudice has died out.
text: However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
coordinate_terms: die down#Verb
glosses: To cease gradually.
frump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: frumps
Etymology: Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpylle (“wrinkle”), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- + rump + -le.
Senses: examples: text: You look like such a frump today!
text: Using the ideal of French female beauty as a stick with which to beat Britain's supposedly sexless frumps is a stereotype centuries old.
ref: 2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.
ref: 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
examples: text: Get that frump off – it's horrid!
glosses: Unattractive, dowdy clothes.
glosses: A bad-tempered person.
glosses: A flout or snub.
Derived terms: frumpery
frumpish
frumpy
frump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: frumps
form: frumping
form: frumped
form: frumped
Etymology: Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpylle (“wrinkle”), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- + rump + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!
ref: 1617, John Fletcher, “The Chances”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
examples: 1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I told the guy "Well, now all I can do is come up with excuses" & told him I had to babysit. He frumped like, "Oh, shame!" and asked if I'd be there later.
glosses: To assume a countenance or demeanor indicating irritation, ill-humor, or disapproval.
Derived terms: frumper
predictiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From predictive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the ability to predict
Kathy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cathi
form: Cathie
form: Cathy
form: Kathi
form: Kathie
Etymology: From Kath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy […] At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt […] When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.
ref: 1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Katherine or Kathleen, also used as a formal given name.
Roberta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It was many years before the house on Maple Street was forgotten as "The Quimby Place" and called by its now correct name of "The Carter House", and it was many years before Mrs. Carter succeeded in making Peyton Place call her "Roberta" instead of the frivolous and, to her, harlotish-sounding name of "Bobbie".
ref: 1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Two, Chapter 7:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Robert.
Related terms: Bobbi
Bobbie
Robbi
Robby
Robin
Robyn
Robby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Etymology: Clipping of Robert, Roberta + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
examples: text: Robby is contemplating macramé.
ref: 2020 October 19, Thunderbox Entertainment, Tsuro - The Game of The Path:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Related terms: Bob
Bobby
Rob
Robbi
Robbie
go from strength to strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes from strength to strength
form: going from strength to strength
form: went from strength to strength
form: gone from strength to strength
Senses: examples: text: The Internet continues to go from strength to strength as it matures, finding new ways to better itself.
text: They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. (King James Version); They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. (New International Version) - Psalms 84:7
text: From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country.
ref: 1946 November and December, “George Westinghouse, 1846-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 375:
glosses: To continue to get stronger, more and more successful.
raiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪmənt
Forms: form: raiments
Etymology: Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Senses: examples: text: For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. / And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. / And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 4:2–4:
text: Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
With silk to wear on hands and feet
ref: 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Aholibah, lines 11-12:
text: They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat.
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings):
text: Many men, women and children, clothed in bright raiment for the Sabbath, saw with a faint flicker of interest and surprise a very white man on a trishaw, and the driver pedalling with unseemly haste.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 379:
text: We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion...
ref: 2006 December 24, PZ Myers, “The Courtier's Reply”, in Pharyngula, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2012:
glosses: Clothing, garments, dress, material.
Synonyms: array
get someone's back up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets someone's back up
form: getting someone's back up
form: got someone's back up
form: got someone's back up
form: gotten someone's back up
Senses: examples: text: That joke really got my boss's back up.
text: Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.
ref: 1970, James N. Casavis, Principal's Guidelines for Action in Parent Conferences, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: To annoy or anger someone.
Synonyms: annoy and Thesaurus:enrage
Related terms: have one's back up
off-the-shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlf
Forms: form: off the shelf
Senses: examples: text: We can build a specialized part for you, but an off-the-shelf product will probably cost less.
glosses: As purchased or as commonly available, without modification or customization.
Related terms: COTS
on the shelf
revulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvʌlʃən/
ipa: /ɹəˈvʌlʃən/
Forms: form: revulsions
Etymology: Partly from Middle French révulsion and partly from Latin revulsiō.
Senses: glosses: Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
glosses: A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
examples: text: To run on in deſpight of the Revulſions and Pul-backs of ſuch Remora’s aggravates our tranſgreſſions.
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] X”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 91:
text: The recent financial revulsion has revealed the feeble basis on which credit now stands, […]
ref: 1858, “Our Window”, in Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, volume 6, page 329, column 1:
glosses: A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
examples: text: We resolve, and our resolutions melt away with a word and a look: we are the toys of an emotion. And yet I think Norbourne was right in his sudden revulsion in favour of his uncle. We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Result”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 234:
text: A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the parliament and in the country, followed.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 108–109:
glosses: A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
Related terms: revulsive
over the counter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: over-the-counter
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Through direct trade; outside a standard stock exchange.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: Able to be obtained without a doctor's prescription.
coordinate_terms: under the counter
glosses: Legitimately.
put someone's back up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone's back up
form: putting someone's back up
form: put someone's back up
form: put someone's back up
Senses: examples: text: You really put her back up there, John.
text: [T]hat is exactly the kind of remark that is guaranteed to put certain masters' backs up, isn't it?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 25:
glosses: Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.
synonyms: word: get someone's back up
extra: to annoy someone
Gulf of Finland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An arm of the Baltic Sea that separates the European countries of Estonia and Finland. On its eastern end, the Neva at the Russian city of St. Petersburg empties into it.
crags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:
glosses: plural of crag.
debit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛb.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɛbɪt
Forms: form: debits
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.
Senses: examples: text: A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.
glosses: In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
glosses: A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
Derived terms: agency debit memo
debit account
debit balance
debit card
debit note
direct debit
on the debit side
Related terms: debenture
debitor
debt
credit
debit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛb.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɛbɪt
Forms: form: debits
form: debiting
form: debited
form: debited
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.
Senses: examples: text: The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 217:
glosses: To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
examples: text: We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.
text: We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.
glosses: To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
Derived terms: debitable
redebit
debit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛb.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɛbɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to process of taking money from an account
glosses: of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function
Derived terms: debit card
charrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: charrettes
form: charette
form: charret
Etymology: Borrowed from French charrette, from Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete, from char + -ete (“diminutive”), from Latin carrus. Sense “work to meet a deadline” from French, probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition.
Senses: glosses: A period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.
Related terms: chariot
charret
tralatitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tralaticious
form: translatitious
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trālātīcius.
Senses: glosses: transferred
glosses: metaphorical
raw_tags: of words or phrases
glosses: passed down; transmitted from one to another
glosses: passed around; common
Related terms: tralation
tralatition
tram driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram drivers
Senses: glosses: A person who drives a tram. (This entry is a translation hub.)