cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
log in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logs in
form: logging in
form: logged in
form: logged in
Etymology: By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.
Senses: examples: text: I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: log on#Verb
sign in#Verb
sign on#Verb
log into#Verb
antonyms: log off#Verb
log out#Verb
sign off#Verb
sign out#Verb
glosses: To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
examples: text: Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: To be placed at a certain ranking.
Derived terms: word: log-in
word: login
word: log into
Related terms: word: logoff
word: log-on
word: logon
word: logout
password
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæswɝd/
ipa: /ˈpɑːswɜː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈpæswɜːd/
rhymes: -æswɜː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɑːswɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: passwords
form: pass-word
Etymology: From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.
Senses: examples: text: Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: security
glosses: A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
examples: text: A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.
Synonyms: sense: word used to gain admittance
word: watchword
sense: word used to gain admittance
word: underword
sense: cryptographic key
word: passcode
word: keyword
word: abbreviations: pw
word: pwd
word: pword
word: pass
Coordinate terms: sense: cryptographic key
english: coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords
translation: coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords
word: passkey
sense: cryptographic key
word: passphrase
sense: cryptographic key
english: used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces
translation: used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces
word: keyphrase
Derived terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: counter-password
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: password child
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: password salting
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: password wallet
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: what is the Wi-Fi password
word: passwordable
word: passwordless
word: passwordlike
Related terms: passphrase
password
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæswɝd/
ipa: /ˈpɑːswɜː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈpæswɜːd/
rhymes: -æswɜː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɑːswɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: passwords
form: passwording
form: passworded
form: passworded
form: pass-word
Etymology: From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To protect with a password.
Related terms: login
passphrase
PIN
teek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tēk
ipa: /tiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: teeks
Etymology: From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).
Senses: examples: text: The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.
ref: 1794–95, Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:, Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir, page 885:
glosses: Obsolete form of teak.
teek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tēk
ipa: /tiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: teeks
Etymology: Clipping of telekinetic.
Senses: examples: text: She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?
ref: 2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
Synonyms: telekinetic
teek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tēk
ipa: /tiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: teeks
form: teeking
form: teeked
form: teeked
Etymology: Clipping of telekinetic.
Senses: examples: text: Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.
ref: 1957 April 23, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If, page 27:
text: With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.
ref: 2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 44:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.
Related terms: english: telepathy
translation: telepathy
word: teep
outage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈaʊ.ɾɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: /ˈaʊ.təd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈæɔ.tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈæɔ.ɾɪd͡ʒ]
rhymes: -aʊtɪdʒ
Forms: form: outages
Etymology: From out + -age, on the model of shortage.
Senses: examples: text: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: blackout
power cut
glosses: A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
glosses: The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
Derived terms: power outage
sun outage
Related terms: blackout
brownout
dropout
power cut
plea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: pleas
Etymology: From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure.
Senses: examples: text: Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
ref: 1981 December 1, George D. Johnson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 18:
text: a plea for mercy
text: make a plea
glosses: An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
examples: text: Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
ref: 1668, Sir John Denham, Poems and Translations with The Sophy, “The Sophy”, Actus Primus, Scena Segunda, page 6:
glosses: An excuse; an apology.
glosses: That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
topics: law
glosses: That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
topics: law
glosses: An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
topics: law
glosses: The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
examples: text: they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
ref: 1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434
topics: law
glosses: A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
Synonyms: plaidoyer
Derived terms: Alford plea
cop a plea
counterplea
declinatory plea
interplea
Kennedy plea
plea-bargain
plea bargain
plea bargaining
plea deal
plea in abatement
plea of the crown
pleas of the crown
West plea
Related terms: plead
pleasant
please
pleasurable
pleasure
plea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: pleas
form: pleaing
form: pleaed
form: pleaed
Etymology: From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure.
Senses: examples: text: With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
glosses: To plead; to argue.
demurrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmʌɹə/
Forms: form: demurrers
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman demurrer, form of Old French demourer (“to demur”), infinitive used as noun.
Senses: examples: text: In a demurrer filed on 28 February to the Los Angeles county superior court, Franco’s lawyers asked that the lawsuit filed in October by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal be dismissed, saying none of the alleged events detailed had happened, and the statute of limitations had passed for the accusations.
ref: 2020 March 3, Andrew Pulver, “(please specify the article title)”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further.
Derived terms: demurrer to evidence
Related terms: demur
demurrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmʌɹə/
ipa: /dɪməːɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmʌɹə/
Forms: form: demurrers
Etymology: From demur + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who demurs.
et al.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛtˈɔːl/
ipa: /ɛtˈɑːl/
ipa: /eɪˈtɑːl/
ipa: /ɛtˈæl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: & al.
form: et al
Etymology: From Latin, abbreviation of et aliī (“and others”) (English: et alii) and its forms and derivatives.
Senses: examples: text: The total area of mangrove on Tutuila and Aunu'u was estimated at 91 ha by Amerson et al. (1982) and at 52 ha by Cole et al. (1988).
ref: 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 16:
glosses: And others; to complete a list, especially of persons, as authors of a published work.
Derived terms: Dysart et al
Related terms: english: and others
translation: and others
word: et alia
raw_tags: used of things
english: and others
translation: and others
word: et aliae
raw_tags: used of females
english: and elsewhere
translation: and elsewhere
word: et alibi
english: and others; used of males, or groups of mixed gender; masculine plural
translation: and others; used of males, or groups of mixed gender; masculine plural
word: et alii
english: and others; used of people, unless exclusively of female gender
translation: and others; used of people, unless exclusively of female gender
word: et alios
english: et cetera, and the rest
translation: et cetera, and the rest
word: etc.
english: et cetera, and the rest
translation: et cetera, and the rest
word: &c.
english: et uxor, and wife
translation: et uxor, and wife
word: et ux.
word: inter alia
word: i.a.
word: inter al.
word: inter alios
et al.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛtˈɔːl/
ipa: /ɛtˈɑːl/
ipa: /eɪˈtɑːl/
ipa: /ɛtˈæl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: & al.
form: et al
Etymology: From Latin, abbreviation of and other places (English: et alibi).
Senses: glosses: And elsewhere; to complete a list of places.
Related terms: et alibi
mop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒp/
ipa: /mɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: mops
form: mopping
form: mopped
form: mopped
Etymology: From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.
Senses: examples: text: to mop (or scrub) a floor
text: to mop one's face with a handkerchief
glosses: To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
examples: text: By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]
ref: 2013, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks, page 111:
glosses: To shoplift.
Derived terms: mop down
moppable
mopper
mop the floor with someone
mop up
remop
unmopped
mop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒp/
ipa: /mɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: mops
Etymology: From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).
Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.
Senses: glosses: The young of any animal.
glosses: A young girl; a moppet.
examples: text: What mops and mowes it makes! --
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
text: Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'
And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'
Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and mow.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A made-up face; a grimace.
mop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒp/
ipa: /mɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: mops
form: mopping
form: mopped
form: mopped
Etymology: From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).
Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.
Senses: examples: text: Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures.
ref: 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
glosses: To make a wry expression with the mouth.
Derived terms: moppet
scrub
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: skrŭb
ipa: /skɹʌb/
ipa: /skɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: more scrub
form: most scrub
Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.
Senses: examples: text: How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
ref: 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann:
text: No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:
glosses: Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
scrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrŭb
ipa: /skɹʌb/
ipa: /skɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: scrubs
Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.
Senses: examples: text: oak scrub
text: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
glosses: Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
qualifier: stock breeding
glosses: One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
examples: text: A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
text: We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly
And is also known as a buster
Always talkin' about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass […]
ref: 1999, TLC (band), "No Scrubs" (song)
glosses: One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
examples: text: Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!
glosses: One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
Derived terms: scrub brush
scrubby
scrub jay
scrub turpentine
vine scrub
brigalow scrub
scrubbable
scrub baseball
scrub bird
scrub board
scrub dasher
scrub game
scrub gun
scrub hare
scrubland
scrub oak
scrub pine
scrub race
scrub rider
scrub robin
scrub turkey
scrub typhus
scrub wallaby
streaked scrub warbler
trail ridge scrub grasshopper
scrub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skrŭb
ipa: /skɹʌb/
ipa: /skɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: scrubs
form: scrubbing
form: scrubbed
form: scrubbed
Etymology: From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).
Senses: examples: text: to scrub a floor
text: to scrub your fingernails
glosses: To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
glosses: To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
examples: text: to scrub hard for a living
glosses: To be diligent and penurious
examples: text: Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
glosses: To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
examples: text: The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: seek
qualifier: video
glosses: To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
Derived terms: scrubbed
scrubber
scrubbing
scrub down
scrub in
scrub off
scrub out
scrub up
scrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrŭb
ipa: /skɹʌb/
ipa: /skɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: scrubs
Etymology: From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).
Senses: glosses: An instance of scrubbing.
examples: text: Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]
ref: 1988, AIAA 26th Aerospace Sciences Meeting: January 11-14:
glosses: A cancellation.
examples: text: A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita.
ref: 1752, Robert Ainsworth, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius:
glosses: A worn-out brush.
coordinate_terms: scrubber
glosses: One who scrubs.
coordinate_terms: scrubber
glosses: That which scrubs.
coordinate_terms: scrubber
glosses: That which scrubs.
An exfoliant for the body.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clothing worn while performing surgery.
examples: text: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
ref: 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
glosses: Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
examples: text: The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub."
ref: 1876, “Hightum, Titum, and Scrub!”, in The Leisure Hour:
text: For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."
ref: 1920, E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia:
glosses: Informal attire or dress code; morning dress
Synonyms: sense: clothing worn during surgery
word: surgical gown
Derived terms: bug scrub
hand scrub
scrub nurse
byproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byproducts
form: by-product
Etymology: From by- + product.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by-product.
moisturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: moisturizes
form: moisturizing
form: moisturized
form: moisturized
Etymology: From moisture + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: moisturize your skin
glosses: To make more moist.
glosses: To make more humid.
Synonyms: moisten
moisturise
humidify
Derived terms: moisturization
moisturizer
remoisturize
unmoisturized
humid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːmɪd/
rhymes: -uːmɪd
Forms: form: humider
form: more humid
form: humidest
form: most humid
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky.
Senses: examples: text: humid earth
text: Evening cloud, or humid bow.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 132–133:
synonyms: word: damp
word: moist
word: bewatered
word: damp
word: drenched
word: dripping
word: drunk
word: humid
word: irriguous
word: madid
word: moist
word: moisty
word: overwatered
word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: sodden
word: soggy
word: spewy
word: spongy
word: squidgy
word: thoan
word: thone
word: undried
word: watered
word: waterlogged
word: watery
word: wet
word: wetter than an otter's pocket
word: wiery
glosses: Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
Derived terms: humid heat
humidification
humidify
humidistat
humidly
humidness
humidor
hyperhumid
perhumid
semihumid
subhumid
superhumid
unhumid
Related terms: humidity
moisture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: moistures
Etymology: From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.
Senses: examples: text: drops / beads of moisture
text: I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: And some [seed] fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:6:
text: […] Nicholas Nickleby’s eyes were dimmed with a moisture that might have been taken for tears.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: […] as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter III, page 39:
text: The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds.
ref: 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 6, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 65:
glosses: That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
examples: text: […] all Exclusion of Open Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, and Moisture:
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 84:
text: Such was the discord, which did first disperse
Forme, order, beauty through the universe;
While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists,
All that we have, and that we are subsists:
ref: 1643, John Denham, Coopers Hill, page 7:
text: [The organs of touch are excited] by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the atmosphere;
ref: 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 7, I.1, p. 39:
synonyms: dampness
humidity
moistness
wetness
glosses: The state of being moist.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
Synonyms: weakiness
Derived terms: antimoisture
moistured
moisture equivalent
moistureless
moistureproof
moisture-repellent
moisture scan
moisturization
overmoisture
Related terms: moist
moisten
moistness
moisturise
moisturize
moisturiser
moisturizer
charade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shərädʹ
ipa: /ʃəˈɹɑːd/
enpr: shərādʹ
ipa: /ʃəˈɹeɪd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: charades
form: charading
form: charaded
form: charaded
Etymology: From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not trying to say: let's try to get away from power rituals because power manifestation is a very important part of sex. It is when it takes the form of charading gay punishment, punishing one of our own in order to allow him a gay contact.
ref: 1977 April 30, David Holland, John Rechy, “The Politics of 'The Sexual Outlaw'”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: She flaps her hands and arms, eyes glaring, head shaking – charading Non, non, NON!
ref: 2015, Graeme Fife, Tour de France: The History, The Legend, The Riders:
text: Private, wholesome family time could no longer charade as being either private or wholly wholesome.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.
Derived terms: charader
backlash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/
Forms: form: backlashes
Etymology: From back- + lash.
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.
examples: text: The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.
glosses: A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
examples: text: ... the word "backlash" is used in the extended sense in which it is understood in Lancashire and Yorkshire , including not only backlash proper , but also break of contact between the working faces of the teeth of the two wheels when the driven wheel overruns the driver without actual backlash . To place rope or belt drums of any considerable size upon shafts driven by spur gearing is nearly always dangerous.
ref: 1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 541
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
examples: text: In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running.
ref: 1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 54
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: lash
play
glosses: The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
Derived terms: antibacklash
backlasher
bikelash
blacklash
forelash
frontlash
greenlash
techlash
whitelash
wokelash
backlash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/
Forms: form: backlashes
form: backlashing
form: backlashed
form: backlashed
Etymology: From back- + lash.
Senses: examples: text: 1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII
Thrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a "long shop" with three hundred, a "top shop" with a hundred, a "back shop" with fifty-three, and a "little shop" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and "backlashed" all over the place.
text: Just as it began to get dusk and the shadows from the trees deepening the twilight that had already spread over the lake, giving a peculiarly lonesome effect that water always has upon the approach of night, Uncle succeeded in getting out the longest cast he had yet made — about seventy-five feet. Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately, his reel over-ran and backlashed for him. Patiently he set about untangling his line; I resting the oars and holding the boat stationary.
ref: 1895 W. C. Kepler. Uncle and the Bass The American Angler - Volume 25 - Page 226
text: 1909 La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique v. Hayes. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 16, 1909.) No. 205.
There was testimony that but for the orders of these men, or one of them, the case would have been properly backlashed before being lowered into the hold and that the anxiety of the foreman to get the cargo in quickly induced him to order this case sent down without being properly safeguarded.
text: May 2, 1922, locomotive 2469 , Hornell, N. Y. Screw reverse gear backlashed due to latch spring too weak to hold it in place ; 1 injured
ref: 1922 Interstate Commerce Commission. Fifth Annual Report. Chief Inspector of Locomotive Boilers. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector. Bureau of Locomotive Inspection. To the Interstate Commerce Commission
text: I have the faculty of getting more backlashed in less casts with more kinds of guaranteed anti-backlash reels than any man who reads this sad confession. I am letter-perfect at it. Yet I do sometimes catch fish.
ref: 1936 Gifford Pinchot. Two's Company. The Rotarian April 1936
glosses: To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.
lash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: lashes
form: lashing
form: lashed
form: lashed
Etymology: From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
Senses: examples: text: We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: A lesbian who was lashed as a teenager for saying she was gay.
ref: 1994 October, “Lesbian Launches Transkei Gay Group”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
examples: text: Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
examples: text: He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
synonyms: berate
glosses: To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
glosses: To ply the whip; to strike.
examples: text: In the final minute of six added on, Colombia would undo their good work, though, Pérez fumbling the ball allowing Hemp to lash into the empty net.
ref: 2023 August 12, Suzanne Wrack, “England hit back to beat Colombia and set up World Cup semi with Australia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To strike vigorously; to let fly.
examples: text: To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To utter censure or sarcastic language.
examples: text: With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
raw_tags: of rain
glosses: Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
Synonyms: sense: to whip or scourge
word: whip
Derived terms: belash
lasher
lash off
outlash
overlash
taplash
tolash
tongue-lash
unlash
windlashed
wind-lashed
lash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: lashes
form: lashing
form: lashed
form: lashed
Etymology: From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”).
Senses: examples: to lash something to a spar
lash a pack on a horse's back
glosses: To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
Derived terms: lash oneself to the mast
lash together
lash up
lash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: From Old French lasche (French lâche).
Senses: examples: text: setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters
text: excessive lash in the gear train
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: backlash#Noun
play#Noun
lost motion#Noun
glosses: Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mɑɹk/
ipa: /mäː(ɾ)k/
ipa: /mæɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: Marc
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque
homophone: mock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: marks
form: marke
form: merk
form: marc
Etymology: From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.
Senses: glosses: A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
examples: text: As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.
ref: 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:
glosses: Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
examples: text: George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 42:
text: He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 167:
glosses: A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
glosses: Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
Synonyms: sense: Spanish unit of mass
word: marco
sense: Spanish unit of mass
word: Spanish mark
sense: Portuguese unit of mass
word: marco
sense: Portuguese unit of mass
word: Portuguese mark
Derived terms: convertible mark
mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mɑɹk/
ipa: /mäː(ɾ)k/
ipa: /mæɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: Marc
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque
homophone: mock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: mark
form: marks
form: marke
form: merk
form: marc
Etymology: From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.
Senses: examples: text: Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.
ref: 1928 November, “Reviews”, in The Occult Review, volume XLVIII, number 5, London: Rider & Co., page 356:
glosses: A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
Synonyms: Deutschmark
Deutsche Mark
German mark
Reichsmark
Coordinate terms: pfennig (1
100 mark)
Derived terms: Euromark
mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mɑɹk/
ipa: /mäː(ɾ)k/
ipa: /mæɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: Marc
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque
homophone: mock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: marke
form: merk
form: marc
Etymology: An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.
Senses: examples: text: Mark time, mark!
text: Forward, mark!
qualifier: marching
glosses: Alternative form of march.
substituent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt]
Forms: form: substituents
Senses: examples: text: Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
ref: 1951, Apollonia Frances Olson, Helen G. Tibbitts, A Study of Head Nurse Activities in a General Hospital, 1950, page 163:
text: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
ref: 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
text: In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pro-form.
Related terms: constituent
substitute
forever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /fəˈɹɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɚˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: for ever
form: fore'er
form: for e'er
form: Forever
Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Senses: examples: text: I shall love you forever.
text: Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
ref: 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95:
text: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
topics: duration
time
glosses: For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
examples: text: We had to wait forever to get inside.
text: That was forever ago.
text: She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.
ref: 1988, Anne Tyler, chapter 1, in Breathing Lessons:
text: Anything in the world of transport takes forever to do, and costs far too much.
ref: 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 35:
topics: duration
time
glosses: For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
examples: text: You are forever nagging me.
text: Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
qualifier: frequency
glosses: Constantly or frequently.
Synonyms: word: 5ever
word: ad infinitum
word: all the time
word: always
word: aye
word: continually
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: ever
word: ever after
word: evermore
word: fivever
word: for good
word: forever
word: forevermore
word: for evermore
word: for ever and ever
word: for ever more
word: in perpetuity
word: in saecula saeculorum
word: incessantly
word: lastingly
word: neverendingly
word: permanently
word: perpetually
word: sempiternally
word: until hell freezes over
word: until Kingdom come
Hypernyms: word: period
word: time
Derived terms: best friend forever
fivever
forever after
forever alone
forever and a day
forever and ay
forever and ever
forever and forever
forever chemical
forever home
foreverhood
forever house
foreverness
forever stamp
live-for-ever
live-forever
liveforever
speak now or forever hold your peace
Related terms: word: ever
word: everlasting
word: evermore
word: every
word: everyday
word: never
word: nevermore
word: whatever
word: whenever
word: whoever
word: eternal
word: eternity
word: endlessness
forever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /fəˈɹɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɚˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: forevers
form: for ever
form: fore'er
form: for e'er
form: Forever
Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Senses: examples: text: I haven't seen him in forever!
text: It took me forever to make up my mind.
text: Don't spend forever on the phone!
text: She should've been here five forevers ago!
text: It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback.
ref: 2001 September, Michael Knisley, “The Braves' last stand”, in Sporting News, volume 225, number 36, page 12:
text: In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers, the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull.
ref: 2007, Ruth O'Callaghan, Where acid has etched:
glosses: An extremely long time.
examples: text: Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
glosses: A mythical time in the future that will never come.