cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frenzy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnzi/
Forms: form: frenzies
form: frenzying
form: frenzied
form: frenzied
form: phrenzy
form: phrensy
Etymology: From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.
Senses: examples: text: Both goaded on to strife by frenzying hate.
ref: 1833, James Anthony Froude, Fraser's Magazine - Volume 7, page 456:
text: Then there is the absorbing, not to say frenzying, interest, which attends our important elections.
ref: 1865, Gerrit Smith, Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith, page 14:
glosses: To render frantic.
examples: text: The fresh smell of salt air, the sound of the crashing swell, the soothing immersion in the water, the sight of dolphins playing and fish frenzying beneath my board.
ref: 2009, Louise Southerden, Surf's Up: The Girl's Guide to Surfing, →ISBN:
glosses: To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.
imprecise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmpɹɪˈsaɪs/
ipa: /ɪmpɹəˈsaɪs/
ipa: /ɪmpɹəˈsɑɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: more imprecise
form: most imprecise
Etymology: From im- + precise.
Senses: examples: text: Rushdie oxymoronically notes that Hobson-Jobson ‘can be wonderfully imprecise at times’ (1985: 82).
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 486:
synonyms: inexact
antonyms: precise
glosses: Not precise or exact; containing some error or uncertainty.
Derived terms: imprecisely
impreciseness
bildungsroman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪl.dʊŋzˌɹoʊ.mən/
/ˈbɪl.dʊŋz.ɹoʊˌmɑːn/
Forms: form: bildungsromans
form: bildungsromane
form: Bildungsroman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung (“education, formation”) + -s- + Roman (“novel”).
Senses: examples: text: English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? These books have a good claim to have founded two of the major genres of the modern novel—respectively, the Bildungsroman and the novel of adultery.
ref: 2016 January 25, Adam Kirsch, “What’s great about Goethe?”, in The New Yorker:
text: Goethe's honorific assignment to the vanguard of a uniquely German novelistic tradition of the bildungsroman simultaneously places him outside the mainstream of the development of the novel.
ref: 2020, Frederick Amrine, Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
round number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round numbers
Senses: examples: text: A well-known anecdote says that the first scientifically precise measurement of Mount Everest's height was purposely misreported to the public as 29,002 feet merely because the actual result, figured at 29,000 feet precisely, sounded like a round number.
glosses: A number whose decimal representation ends in one or more zeroes, especially when it is because the number has only a few significant digits.
examples: text: a nice round number
text: We don't yet know the exact cost, but 20 million dollars sounds like a nice round number.
text: In round numbers, the population of the nearest city is about 90,000.
glosses: A rough approximation, especially one whose decimal representation ends in one or more zeroes.
Related terms: round down
rounding error
round off
round up
approximation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
note: of Canada
ipa: /əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
note: of Canada
ipa: [əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
note: of the US
ipa: /əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
note: of the US
ipa: [əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /əˌpɹɒk.səˈmæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌpɹɔ̟k.səˈmæɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: approximations
Etymology: From approximate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: At the back of the cupboard, you find your interview skirt, the one you bought when you had cash to purchase an approximation of the fashion spreads you mulled over in magazines.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 5:
glosses: The act, process or result of approximating, as
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
synonyms: coaptation
coordinate_terms: imbrication
examples: text: For some loanwords borrowed from French into English, the standard English pronunciation is an approximation of the French, as with denoument.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
Hyponyms: Born–Oppenheimer approximation
stationary phase approximation
Stirling's approximation
Wien approximation
Derived terms: approximation algorithm
approximation error
approximation problem
approximation property
approximation theory
misapproximation
overapproximation
over-approximation
pseudoapproximation
reapproximation
to a first approximation
underapproximation
Related terms: interpolation
goo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: goos
Etymology: American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
Senses: examples: text: I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
synonyms: gloop
goop
gunge
gunk
glosses: Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
examples: text: […] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 694–695:
synonyms: mawkishness
saccharinity
sugariness
glosses: Excessive, showy sentimentality.
Synonyms: word: gleet
word: gloop
word: glop
word: goo
word: gook
word: goop
word: gunge
word: gunk
word: gum
word: ick
word: muck
word: ooze
word: paste
word: slop
word: sludge
word: slime
Hypernyms: word: liquid
word: semisolid
Derived terms: goo to you by way of the zoo
girl goo
goo ball
gooey
gooeyness
goo-gob
goolike
grey goo
guck
man goo
goo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: goos
form: gooing
form: gooed
form: gooed
Etymology: American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
Senses: examples: text: They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
glosses: To apply goo to something.
goo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: goos
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of baby talk.
Senses: examples: text: The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.
glosses: A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
Synonyms: word: gleet
word: gloop
word: glop
word: goo
word: gook
word: goop
word: gunge
word: gunk
word: gum
word: ick
word: muck
word: ooze
word: paste
word: slop
word: sludge
word: slime
Hypernyms: word: liquid
word: semisolid
goo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: goos
form: gooing
form: gooed
form: gooed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of baby talk.
Senses: examples: text: The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
text: The baby gooed but didn't let go; instead he decided he would taste it. Lou quickly tried to get the baby to release his trophy but to no avail.
ref: 2010, Frances Gaddy Stegall, Rafter T Ranch, page 179:
text: The baby gooed. Danny smiled.
ref: 2013, Susan Meier, A Father for Her Triplets: Her Pregnancy Surprise, page 359:
glosses: To produce baby talk.
Related terms: gaga
ga-ga
goo-goo
goo goo ga ga
goo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: See go.
Senses: examples: text: Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.
ref: 2021 August 2, Neil Davidson, “Kyle Lowry era over in Toronto as Raptors great signs with Miami Heat”, in CBC:
glosses: Elongated form of go.
examples: text: Well, then, things are settled, an' I'll goo an' finish yond pigs off," said my new employer, rising from his chair, and flapping his crush hat upon his head as if he was killing flies.
ref: 1886, w:Benjamin Brierley, Cast Upon the World - The Story of a Waif, Heywood, →ISBN, page 218:
text: I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.
ref: 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, page 18:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of go.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: moo goo gai pan
gunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: gunks
Etymology: Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.
Senses: examples: text: I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.
text: Don't get gunk on me. I took a bath last Saturday and I'm all clean.
ref: 1989 May 18, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.
glosses: A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.
glosses: A member of the gunk subculture.
Synonyms: goo
goop
gunge
muck
grime
Derived terms: degunk
degunking
eye gunk
gamer gunk
gook
gunkhole
gunkholing
gunkless
gunk up
gunky
ungunk
gunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: gunks
form: gunking
form: gunked
form: gunked
Etymology: Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.
Senses: glosses: To soil or make dirty.
round up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rounds up
form: rounding up
form: rounded up
form: rounded up
Senses: examples: text: The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
text: They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions.
glosses: To collect or gather (something) together.
examples: text: In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
glosses: To collect or gather (something) together.
To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
examples: text: During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
text: Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
glosses: To collect or gather (something) together.
To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
examples: text: The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.
topics: arithmetic
antonyms: round down#Verb
hypernyms: round off#Verb
glosses: To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
Synonyms: word: aggregate
word: aggroup
word: bring together
word: collect
word: confer
word: congregate
word: gather
word: gather up
word: group
word: herd
word: mass
word: round up
word: team
word: team up
word: togetherize
Hyponyms: word: amass
word: ensemble
word: impanel
word: muster
word: pile
word: rally
Derived terms: word: rounder-upper
word: roundup
Related terms: word: assemble
gunk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gunks up
form: gunking up
form: gunked up
form: gunked up
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to gunk up my new shoes, so I'll wear the old ones in the garden.
text: The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.
text: [Your intake valve] is looking pretty gunked up. No wonder you're not getting any juice.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:
glosses: To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
round down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rounds down
form: rounding down
form: rounded down
form: rounded down
Senses: examples: text: The total is $25,715, but to keep the figures simple, I'll round it down to $25,000.
topics: arithmetic
antonyms: round up#Verb
hypernyms: round off#Verb
glosses: To round (a number) to the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
Related terms: round out
mess up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: messes up
form: messing up
form: messed up
form: messed up
Senses: examples: text: The afternoon breeze messed up my hair.
text: […] kwatumas, those aggressive and sharp-toothed eels that so thoroughly mess up one's tackle when hooked […]
ref: 1962, S. Schoeman, Strike!: A Handbook of Angling in South African Coastal Waters, page 58:
glosses: To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
examples: text: The change messed something up, and it's not working anymore.
glosses: To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
examples: text: Well, I messed up my solo, but otherwise it was a good concert.
glosses: To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
examples: text: He has a hard time getting started because he's afraid he'll mess up.
text: She messed up on her final exam.
glosses: To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
examples: text: Stop bumping me! You keep messing me up!
glosses: To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
examples: text: He messed up his elbow at the track meet.
glosses: To damage; injure.
examples: text: Her brother's friends messed him up a little after he cheated on her.
glosses: To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
examples: text: That girl totally messed me up, man. I'm not sure who I am anymore.
glosses: To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
Synonyms: sense: make a physical mess of
word: fuck up
english: gum up
translation: gum up
word: gum
sense: cause an error or problem in
word: fuck up
sense: cause an error or problem in
word: jack up
sense: cause an error or problem in
word: louse up
sense: cause an error or problem in
word: screw up
english: gum up
translation: gum up
alt: botch, bungle
word: gum
word: foul up
word: fuck up
word: screw up
sense: intransitive: make a mistake, perform poorly
word: fuck up
word: make a mistake
sense: cause (another) to make mistakes
word: screw up
sense: damage, injure
word: fuck up
sense: damage, injure
word: jack up
sense: damage, injure
word: screw up
sense: manhandle, rough up
word: fuck up
sense: discombobulate, throw into mental disarray
word: fuck up
Derived terms: word: messup
word: mess-up
word: unmessupable
Related terms: word: messed up
breech birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breech births
Senses: glosses: A birth in which the baby comes through the birth canal posterior (buttocks), feet, or knees first, instead of the more usual position of headfirst.
Related terms: breeches
footling
mastitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsˈtaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: mastitides
form: mastitises
Etymology: From French mastite, derived from Ancient Greek masto- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a breast.
Synonyms: mammitis
garget
Derived terms: cystic mastitis
masto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mast-.
oncology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: oncologies
Etymology: First attested 1857. By surface analysis, onco- + -logy, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Derived terms: biooncology
cardiooncology
dermatooncology
gyneco-oncology
neuro-oncology
oncologically
oncologic
oncological
oncologist
psychooncology
radiooncology
Related terms: oncogene
oncogenesis
oncogenetic
oncogenetics
oncogenic
oncogenics
oncogenome
oncogenomic
oncogenomics
oncoprotein
oncoproteogenome
oncoproteome
oncoproteomic
oncoproteomics
proto-oncogene
proto-oncogenic
stumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: stumbles
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).
Senses: examples: text: I went to his aid. As he said, a board in the floor was loose. His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
examples: text: She owns up to early stumbles, such as bottles being mislabeled.
ref: 2022 July 21, Emily Hell, “TikTok’s Pink Sauce chef defends her viral condiment”, in Washington Post:
glosses: An error or blunder.
examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: A clumsy walk.
Synonyms: sense: a blunder
word: blooper
sense: a blunder
word: blunder
sense: a blunder
word: boo-boo
sense: a blunder
word: defect
sense: a blunder
word: error
sense: a blunder
word: fault
sense: a blunder
word: faux pas
sense: a blunder
word: fluff
sense: a blunder
word: gaffe
sense: a blunder
word: lapse
sense: a blunder
word: mistake
sense: a blunder
word: slip
sense: a blunder
word: thinko
stumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: stumbles
form: stumbling
form: stumbled
form: stumbled
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).
Senses: examples: text: He stumbled over a rock.
text: Last night, you drunkenly stumbled to the front door, waking up the whole house.
text: He stumbled up the dark avenue.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
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.
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: To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
examples: text: I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
text: […] they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre in vision, they stumble in iudgement.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:7:
synonyms: blunder
glosses: To make a mistake or have trouble.
examples: text: Slowly, I turned around and the shock of it stumbled me back a few steps.
ref: 2017, Jacqueline Druga, Sleepers, page 39:
glosses: To cause to stumble or trip.
examples: text: False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
examples: text: It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]
ref: 1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
ref: 1754, Christopher Smart, Snake:
glosses: To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
Derived terms: stumble across
stumble against
stumble-drunk
stumble into
stumble on
stumble onto
stumble upon
Related terms: stumbling block
whole shooting match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare whole shitting match. Perhaps that term is a vulgarization of this term, or this term is a bowdlerization of that term.
Senses: examples: text: It started raining on their picnic and they had to move the whole shooting match inside.
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: Everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity.
blazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Forms: form: more blazed
form: most blazed
Senses: examples: text: I could tell by his bloodshot eyes that he was pretty blazed.
text: That's when they asked the fatal question. Can I use the car for a minute? I was reluctant, but so blazed that I let them.
ref: 2012, The Shy-Tiger, Dressed Up Garbage Can, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32:
text: "Just kidding. I wanna get blazed out of my mind, eat every muffin in this place, and yell about how much I love everyone."
ref: 2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4257: How To Party:
synonyms: word: stoned
word: baked
word: reefed
word: lifted
word: high
word: lit
word: blitzed
word: up there
word: baked
word: blazed
word: blitzed
word: chemically impaired
word: chopped
word: cut
word: drugged
word: drugged-out
word: fuckered up
word: fried
word: gassed
word: geeked
word: high
word: high as a kite
word: hepped up
word: hopped up
word: monged
word: munted
word: trolleyed
word: toasted
word: lifted
word: lit
word: off one's box
word: out of one's box
word: reefed
word: spaced-out
word: stoned
word: up there
word: wasted
word: whacked
word: zooted
word: zorched
glosses: Under the influence of marijuana, usually at a relatively high dose.
Derived terms: unblazed
blazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blaze
old saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old saws
Senses: examples: text: He's full of old saws, but he's not much for original advice.
text: Never believe the old saw, "If you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there". Barry Miles remembers the 60s in vivid detail, down to the dress with "zebra stripes" that George Martin's wife wore at a dinner party given by Paul McCartney and Jane Asher in 1967, and he certainly was there.
ref: 2010 March 20, James Campbell, “Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live'”, in The Guardian:
text: Cooke and Eve Best deliver a verbal showdown that’s twice as thrilling as the Kingsguard swordfight. Alicent brings out all the old saws: Supporting Rhaenyra has left Rhaenys with two dead children, bastards for grandsons, and a grievously wounded husband. “We do not rule, but we may guide the men who do,” the queen finishes.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:
synonyms: word: old chestnut
word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: A cliché, saying, or overused expression; especially a proverb or maxim.
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
form: you can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink
form: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make her drink
Senses: glosses: You can show someone how to do something, but you can't make them do it.
Related terms: there are none so blind as those who will not see
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: A form of (obsolete) “An old dog will learn no tricks”.
Senses: glosses: It is impossible to change people's habits, traits, or mindset.
Related terms: a leopard cannot change his spots
old habits die hard
there's life in the old dog yet
you can't put an old head on young shoulders
you can't judge a book by its cover
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you can’t tell a book by its cover
form: don’t judge a book by its cover
Senses: glosses: It is not possible to make reliable judgments about things or people by considering external appearances alone.
Synonyms: clothes don't make the man
the cowl does not make the monk
all that glitters is not gold
looks can be deceiving
appearances are deceptive
don't just scratch the surface
anything essential is invisible to the eyes
one sees clearly only with the heart
falling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfaːlɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔlɪŋ/
enpr: fälʹĭng
ipa: /ˈfɑlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: a falling leaf
text: the falling prices of luxury goods
text: Of these, nine were on the Forfar-Perth section, eight were over the sharply-falling grades from Gleneagles to Perth, [...].
ref: 1941 March, “Notes and News: Fastest Runs in Scotland, 1940 and 1941”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
glosses: present participle and gerund of fall
Derived terms: deviation of a falling body
downfalling
everfalling
falling action
falling band
falling collar
falling diphthong
falling-disease
falling-door
falling dunes
falling-evil
falling factorial
falling film evaporator
falling front or back
falling-gate
falling-hinge
falling houses
falling-ill
falling-in
falling knife
falling leaf
falling limb
fallingly
falling-mold
falling number
falling-off
falling palate
falling rhythm
falling-rising
falling ruff
falling scream
falling sequential product
falling sickness
falling-sluice
falling sphere
falling star
falling stone
falling tide
falling tone
falling weather
falling weight deflectometer
in-falling
rising-falling
shortfalling
tear-falling
unfalling
wall-falling
falling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfaːlɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔlɪŋ/
enpr: fälʹĭng
ipa: /ˈfɑlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ
Forms: form: fallings
Senses: examples: text: Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: verbal noun of fall
Derived terms: downfalling
falling asleep
falling axe
falling-off
falling of the leaf
falling of the womb
falling rope
falling saw
falling-short
falling sickness
falling weather
falling wedge
infalling
intelligent falling
off-falling
outfalling
motto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ.toʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒ.to/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtoʊ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: mottos
form: mottoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c.. Doublet of mot.
Senses: examples: text: You have to be in it to win it — that's my motto.
glosses: A personal slogan.
examples: text: ‘Gentlemen, I can tell you what the new queen will take as her motto. It is Bound to Obey and Serve.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 10:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
examples: text: It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... Serve God, and be cheerful.
ref: 1715 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Wednesday, May 25. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
glosses: A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
Derived terms: mottoless
mottolike
mottoware
motto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ.toʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒ.to/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtoʊ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: mottos
form: mottoing
form: mottoed
form: mottoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c.. Doublet of mot.
Senses: examples: text: The singularity of his epigraphic strategy notwithstanding, Emerson does not draw attention to his own mottoing. One exchange suggests that his practice was a convention imposed from without.
ref: 2003, Nineteenth Century Prose, volume 30, page 304:
glosses: To compose mottos.
binary number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary numbers
Senses: examples: text: Thirteen is 1101 as a binary number.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number represented by the binary digits 0 and 1.
characterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈkæɹəktəɹaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of characterize
Derived terms: noncharacterized
uncharacterized
undercharacterized
decimal number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decimal numbers
Senses: examples: 13+¹⁄₄ is 13.25 as a decimal number.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number expressed in the decimal system (base ten), (particularly) fractional numbers so represented.
Synonyms: decimal
denary
base-ten number
Related terms: fraction
decommissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: That project would mean reinstating 5½ miles of decommissioned line between Tavistock, where a new single-platform railway station would be built alongside the 750-home housing estate currently under construction, and Bere Alston.
ref: 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:
glosses: simple past and past participle of decommission
soda bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soda breads
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: Irish soda bread
glosses: Bread made using sour milk and bread soda (baking soda) as a raising agent, rather than yeast; common in Ireland.
Related terms: soda water
baking soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baking sodas
Etymology: From its use in baking.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: baking powder, soda bread
synonyms: sodium bicarbonate
sodium hydrogencarbonate
sodium bicarb
bread soda
cooking soda
bicarb soda
bicarbonate of soda
bicarb
glosses: Sodium bicarbonate.
serial number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serial numbers
Senses: synonyms: S/N
glosses: A unique identifier, consisting of numbers, letters or other typographical symbols, assigned to a particular unit of some product in order to identify it.
Hyponyms: frame number
Derived terms: file off the serial numbers
sodium bicarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium bicarbonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid, NaHCO₃.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid, NaHCO₃.
This salt used in cooking as a raising agent, as an antacid, a cleaner, etc.
Synonyms: bicarbonate of soda
baking soda
bicarb soda
bread soda
E500
sodium hydrogen carbonate
Related terms: soda bread
soda siphon
soda water
yeast
transfinite number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfinite numbers
Senses: examples: text: It will be recalled that Cantor called the first transfinite number ℵ₀. He called the second transfinite number—the one describing the set of all real numbers— C. It has not been proved whether C is the next transfinite number after ℵ₀ or whether another number exists between them.
ref: 1961, Jane Muir, Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Let R be a bicompact of dimensionality #92;operatorname#123;ind#125;(R)#92;le#92;alpha. If #92;alpha is an isolated transfinite number, than ^([sic]) at any point x#92;inR there exist arbitrarily small neighborhoods Vx with boundaries of dimensionality #92;operatorname#123;ind#125;#92;overline#123;Vx#125;#92;le#92;alpha-1.
ref: 1968, B. T. Levšenko, “Spaces of transfinite dimensionality”, in Fourteen Papers on Algebra, Topology, Algebraic and Differential Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., →ISBN, page 141:
text: After all, it was the ordinals that made precise definition of the transfinite cardinals possible. And until Cantor had introduced the order types of transfinite number classes, he could not define precisely any transfinite cardinal beyond the first power.
ref: 1990, Joseph Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 180:
text: For example, does there exist a transfinite number that is strictly bigger than ℵ₀ and strictly smaller than ℵ₁? In this case an instance of this in between number is too big to be put into one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers, and too small to be put into one-to-one correspondence with the set of real numbers.
ref: 2009, John Tabak, Numbers: Computers, Philosophers, and the Search for Meaning, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:
text: Having demonstrated the existence of a one-to-one correspondence, we can conclude that the class of the squares of all the natural numbers has the same transfinite number as the class of all the natural numbers! This result is not what might have been anticipated, seeing that the second class is a proper subset of the first.
ref: 2012, Benjamin Wardhaugh, A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 136:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Any cardinal or ordinal number which is larger than any finite, i.e. natural number; often represented by the Hebrew letter aleph (ℵ) with a subscript 0, 1, etc.
Hyponyms: aleph-null
aleph-one
ω
aleph number
beth number
Related terms: hyperreal number
infinitesimal
aleph-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The second of the transfinite cardinal numbers; according to the continuum hypothesis, it corresponds to the number of real numbers.
Related terms: aleph-null
aleph-zero
ℵ₀
pix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: picks
homophone: pics
homophone: pyx
Forms: form: pic
Etymology: Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
Senses: examples: text: Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.
ref: 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82
text: Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.
ref: 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4
text: "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."
ref: 1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers:
text: He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:
[…]
take pix of damage afterward
ref: 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
glosses: plural of pic (“picture”)
examples: text: Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive.
ref: [1916 December 8, “News of the film world”, in Variety, volume XLV, number 2, page 27:
glosses: Motion pictures; movies.
Related terms: pixel
pix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: picks
homophone: pics
homophone: pyx
Forms: form: pixes
form: pixing
form: pixed
form: pixed
Etymology: A variant of pyx.
Senses: examples: text: The bread that was left of this consecration or breaking, which was so holy as the other, was neither housed nor churched, boxed nor pixed, but remained there still to the householders, to be eaten of whomsoever lusted.
ref: 1545, John Bale, “[The Image of both Churches, Being an Exposition of the Most Wonderful Book of Revelation of St John the Evangelist.] The Twenty-second Chapter.”, in Henry Christmas, editor, Select Works of John Bale, […] (Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church; 1), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] The University Press, published 1849, →OCLC, page 628:
text: Christ ordained the supper to be a taking matter, an eating matter, a distributing and remembering matter: contrary our mass-men make it a matter, not of taking, but of gazing, peeping, pixing, boxing, carrying, re-carrying, worshipping, stooping, kneeling, knocking, with "stoop down before," "hold up higher," "I thank God I see my Maker to-day," etc. Christ ordained it a table-matter: we turn it to an altar-matter.
ref: 1583, John Foxe, “The Preface to the Reader”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe. […], 3rd edition, volume VI, London: George Seeley, […], published 1870, →OCLC, book X (The Beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary), page 361:
text: [W]hen the money is coined it is not allowed to go out of the mint until pixed; that is, until it had been ascertained, by the assay of one piece taken out of each journeyweight of coin, that it is of standard purity: […]
ref: 1842, “ASSA′Y”, in W[illiam] T[homas] Brande, assisted by Joseph Cauvin, editors, A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 95, column 2:
text: The ascertaining whether coin is of the proper standard is in England called "pixing" it; and there are occasions on which resort is had for this purpose to an ancient mode of inquisition called the "trial of the pix," before a jury of members of the Goldsmiths' Company.
ref: 1891, Henry Campbell Black, “PIX”, in A Dictionary of Law […], St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 899:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pyx.
porringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porringers
Etymology: Alteration of Middle English potynger, potager (“small dish for stew”), from Old French potage. See also porridge.
Senses: examples: text: There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.
ref: 1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca:
glosses: A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
examples: text: Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her
pinck'd porrenger fell off her head
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: A headdress shaped like such a dish.
Derived terms: porringerful
Betelgeuse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtldʒuːz/
ipa: /ˈbiːtldʒuːs/
ipa: /ˈbidlˌdʒus/
ipa: /ˈbɛdlˌdʒus/
ipa: /ˈbidlˌdʒuz/
ipa: /ˈbɛdlˌdʒuz/
Forms: form: Beetlejuice
Etymology: Ultimately from an alteration of the Arabic يَد الجَوْزَاء (yad al-jawzāʔ, “hand of the central one”), from يَد (yad, “hand”) + جَوْزَاء (jawzāʔ, “central one”).
Jawzā, ‘the central one’, initially referred to Gemini among the Arabs, but at some point they decided to refer to Orion by that name. During the Middle Ages the first character of the name, yā’ (ي, with two underdots), was misread as a bā’ (ب, with one underdot) when transliterating into Latin, thus *Yedalgeuze became Bedalgeuze. This was then misinterpreted during the Renaissance as deriving from a corruption of an original Arabic form إِبْط الجَوْزَاء (ʔibṭ al-jawzāʔ, “armpit of the central one”).
Senses: examples: text: Even if you don’t know it by name, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse is one of the most familiar sights in the heavens above—a gleaming ruddy dot at the shoulder of the constellation Orion. Although already quite difficult to overlook, Betelgeuse has become even more eye-catching across the past few years because of major changes in its appearance—unexpected fluctuations in its brightness that remain poorly understood.
ref: 2023 May 15, Meghan Bartels, “Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 15 May 2023:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Alpha Orionis
glosses: A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.
Danophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Danophones
Etymology: From Dano- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks the Danish language either natively or by adoption.
Danophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Dano- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Speaking Danish.
Dutchophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Dutch + -o- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Able to speak Dutch (of a person)
glosses: In which the majority of the population speaks Dutch (of a place)
Synonyms: Batavophone
Netherlandophone
Dutchophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutchophones
Etymology: From Dutch + -o- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Someone who speaks Dutch.
Synonyms: Batavophone
Netherlandophone
Finnophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɒfəʊn/
Etymology: From Finno- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Finnish-speaking; speaking the Finnish language, either natively or by adoption.
Finnophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɒfəʊn/
Forms: form: Finnophones
Etymology: From Finno- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A Finnish-speaker; a person who speaks Finnish.
germanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Germanophone.
germanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germanophones
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Germanophone.
Lusophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsəˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈlusəˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: lusophone
Etymology: From Portuguese lusófono (“Portuguese-speaking”), from Lusitania (“the Roman province in what is now Portugal”), in the form of Luso- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Portuguese-speaking.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Portuguese-speaking.
raw_tags: of a place
Lusophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsəˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈlusəˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: Lusophones
form: lusophone
Etymology: From Portuguese lusófono (“Portuguese-speaking”), from Lusitania (“the Roman province in what is now Portugal”), in the form of Luso- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese speaker.
prompter's box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The raised box in the apron of a stage, opening towards the actors. The prompter sits inside with the prompter's book, ready to give cues for missed or forgotten lines.
Synonyms: prompt box
Russophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Russophone
form: most Russophone
Etymology: From Russo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Russian-speaking.
Russophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russophones
Etymology: From Russo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks Russian.
Sinophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sinophone
Etymology: From Sino- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Speaking one or more Sinitic or Chinese language(s), Chinese-speaking.
Sinophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sinophones
form: sinophone
Etymology: From Sino- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks one or more of the Sinitic or Chinese language(s), usually natively; a Chinese-speaking person.
Related terms: Cantophone
winter rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter rats
Etymology: Believed to have originated in or around Syracuse, New York.
Senses: glosses: An old, unattractive automobile, purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season.
Synonyms: beater
clunker
junker
jalopy