cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hammond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmənd/
Forms: form: Hammonds
Etymology: A patronymic surname from the Anglo-Norman given name Hamo, Hamon, from Germanic names beginning with a derivative of Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home”), such as descendants of *Haimarīks (“Henry”).
The river in New Brunswick is named after British politician and colonial governor Sir Andrew Hamond, 1st Baronet (1738 - 1828). The civil parish is named after a settlement, named in turn after the river.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
examples: text: The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond.
ref: 1937, Clara Studer, Sky storming Yankee, Stackpole sons, published 1937, page 19:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A town in Mount Remarkable council area and Orroroo Carrieton council area, South Australia; named for William Henry Hammond Jervois, son of South Australia Governor William Jervois.
glosses: A parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A river in New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A neighborhood of Fresno, California.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A village in Piatt County, Illinois; named for railroad official Charles Goodrich Hammond.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Lake County, Indiana; named for Detroit butcher George H. Hammond.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A township in Spencer County, Indiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas; named for a family of early settlers.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; named for Swedish immigrant and founder Peter av Hammerdal (anglicized to Peter Hammond).
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A township in Polk County, Minnesota.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Wabasha County, Minnesota; named for landowner Joseph Hammond.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carter County, Montana.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town and village therein, in St. Lawrence County, New York; named for landowner Abijah Hammond.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Robertson County, Texas; named for landowner Dr. B. F. Hammond.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town and village therein, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin; named for landowner R. B. Hammond.
Derived terms: Stoke Hammond
Hammond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmənd/
Forms: form: Hammonds
Etymology: A patronymic surname from the Anglo-Norman given name Hamo, Hamon, from Germanic names beginning with a derivative of Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home”), such as descendants of *Haimarīks (“Henry”).
The river in New Brunswick is named after British politician and colonial governor Sir Andrew Hamond, 1st Baronet (1738 - 1828). The civil parish is named after a settlement, named in turn after the river.
Senses: glosses: A Hammond organ.
Johnston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒn.stən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑn.stən/
Forms: form: Johnstons
Senses: glosses: A Scottish habitational surname. from a place in Dumfriesshire, meaning "John's town".
glosses: An English surname, variant of Johnson.
glosses: A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9310).
glosses: A suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: A city in Polk County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
glosses: A town in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Johnston County
Johnston's organ
St Johnston
Related terms: Johnstown
Johnstone
Warner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Warners
Etymology: * English, Norman, and German surname, all corresponding to German Werner. Also see Warrener.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Murnáin; see Murnane.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval given name, from Germanic war, warin "cautious; heedful; wary; watchful" + her, heri "army", modern German Werner.
glosses: A surname.
A surname originating as an occupation, reduced from Warrener.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
glosses: A placename:
A municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada; in full, the County of Warner No. 5.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Alberta, within the above county.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Brown County, South Dakota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, named after James Warner (surveyor).
Reginald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪnəld/
Etymology: From Latin Reginaldus, Latinization of names deriving from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz.
Senses: examples: text: Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror. For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. - - - He was shy, and unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name. In his signature he used only the initial R., and imparted what it really stood for, to none but chosen friends, under the seal of confidence.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Book 1, Chapter 4”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages derived from a Latinized form of Reynold.
Derived terms: Reg
Reggie
Related terms: Reynold
Ronald
Hubert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjubɚt/
Forms: form: Huberts
form: Hubertus
form: Hubbart
Etymology: From Old French Hubert, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”). See Saint Hubert.
Senses: examples: text: An if an angel should have come to me
And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes
I would not have believed him; no tongue but Hubert's.
ref: Act IV, Scene I
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, borne by an 8th-century bishop of Liège, patron saint of hunters.
glosses: A surname.
rehearses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehearse
rehearsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehearse
rehearsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehearsings
Senses: examples: text: Monday was devoted entirely to final rehearsings, the soloists having arrived meantime, Albani, Brema, Edward Lloyd, and Plunket Green among them.
ref: 1900, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine:
text: More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 55:
glosses: A rehearsal.
rehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehearse
rehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rehearsed
form: most rehearsed
Senses: examples: text: I don't trust him. His story seems rehearsed.
glosses: Contrived; dishonestly formulated so as to appear authentic.
Cornelius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹˈniliəs/
ipa: /kɔːˈniːlɪəs/
rhymes: -iːliəs
Etymology: From Latin Cornēlius.
Senses: examples: text: There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:1-2:
text: The intern will not call me 'Cornelius―(in fact, that dowdy old name isn't my actual name nor, at the present time, my nom de guerre)―but 'Dr. Hinton*―or 'sir'―will do.
ref: 2014, Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Related terms: word: Cornelia
Tristram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪstɹəm/
enpr: trĭstrəm
enpr: trĭsträm
enpr: trĭstrăm
rhymes: -ɪstɹəm
Senses: examples: text: But of all names in the universe he had the most unconquerable aversion for Tristram;--he had the lowest and most contemptible opinion of it of any thing in the world,--thinking it could possibly produce nothing in rerum natura, but what was extremely mean and pitiful: - - - --In a word, to behold such a one, in his old age, ill-fitted for troubles, ten times in a day suffering sorrow;--ten times in a day calling the child of his prayers Tristram!-- Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven.
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 1:XIX:
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.
glosses: A surname.
unobserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobserved
form: most unobserved
Etymology: From un- + observed.
Senses: examples: text: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, [...]
ref: 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Not seen or observed.
unobserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unobserved
form: most unobserved
Etymology: From un- + observed.
Senses: glosses: whilst not being seen or observed
unmoved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmoved
form: most unmoved
Etymology: From un- + moved.
Senses: synonyms: word: inert
word: motionless
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
glosses: Not physically moved.
examples: text: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
ref: 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
synonyms: word: indifferent
word: unconcerned
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Not affected emotionally, or not showing emotion.
examples: text: Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1 – 0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
text: Historic England was unmoved by the design changes, insisting that it would "strongly object" when the plans are formally submitted in April.
ref: 2023 February 8, Paul Stephen, “Heritage group opposes Liverpool Street revisions”, in RAIL, number 976, page 26:
synonyms: word: hardhearted
word: unfeeling
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Not sympathetic; uncaring.
Derived terms: unmoved mover
defied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defy
circulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circulate
circulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: distributed about a circuit
Derived terms: uncirculated
depleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplete
depleting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depletings
Senses: glosses: Depletion.
renewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnjuː.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more renewable
form: most renewable
Etymology: From renew + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Under the pilot project, the private sector will supply, install, operate and maintain e-vehicle charging stations; monitor and verify the energy efficiency, performance and savings in using renewable energy; and optimize the use of clean energy.
ref: 2023 January 19, Kris Crismundo, “RE-powered e-vehicle charging hubs eyed”, in Philippine News Agency:
antonyms: non-renewable
glosses: Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
examples: text: renewable resource
text: renewable energy
text: renewable sources of energy
text: Solar and wind power are renewable, but coal is not.
antonyms: non-renewable
glosses: Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply.
raw_tags: of a resource
Derived terms: renewability
renewable energy
renewably
renewable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnjuː.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: renewables
Etymology: From renew + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A thing that is renewable
A renewable resource or source of energy.
examples: text: You'll find the link can be removed from a "Union" Renewable and replaced before most fuses can be taken apart.
ref: 1920, Textile World:
text: It is a pretty safe bet that he can show you where you are using fuses of the wrong type (renewables for non-renewables and vice versa ) -or where fuses that ought to be good for twenty or more renewals are ready for the scrap
ref: 1923, Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers, Association of Iron & Steel Electrical Engineers Monthly ...: Devoted to the Advancement of the Application of Electricity to the Iron and Steel and Allied Industries ...:
text: Here is a newly designed All-Purpose Superfuse. Use it wherever you need One-Times, Renewables or Dual Element fuses.
ref: 1953, Electrical World:
glosses: A thing that is renewable
A renewable fuse; a fuse which can be opened in order to replace the element.
windowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English wyndowles, equivalent to window + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Billionaire Charlie Munger’s controversial plans for a massive, windowless dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara has left many wondering – how is this even possible?
ref: 2021 November 2, Ramishah Maruf, “Here’s what it’s like to live in one of Charlie Munger’s windowless dorms”, in CNN Business:
text: "There are windowless seats / wheelchair spaces at each end of the coach where the (exterior) sliding door slides between the exterior skin and the interior trim. [...] "My photo is in coach G, the Standard buffet coach, where there's an even longer windowless section."
ref: 2022 March 23, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 953, page 71:
glosses: Having no windows, especially no external windows.
Synonyms: unfenestrated
Coordinate terms: unglazed
window-shopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-shoppers
Senses: glosses: A person who window-shops.
Related terms: window-shop
window-shopping
shopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒp.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃɑ.pɚ/
note: Pakistani English
ipa: /ˈʃɑː.pəɾ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shoppers
Etymology: From shop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
text: On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: A person who shops.
glosses: A free local newspaper containing advertisements for local shops etc; sometimes includes discount coupons.
examples: text: Every conceivable type of cycle's represented; modern stripped down carbon fibre race bikes, state of the art touring machines and humble shoppers, tandems, tandem trikes, racing trikes and shopping trikes, mountain and BMX bikes.
ref: 2010, Malc Cowle, The Adventures of a Bicycle Frame Builder:
glosses: A kind of bicycle suited to riding short distances.
glosses: A plastic shopping bag.
Derived terms: comparison shopper
e-shopper
mystery shopper
personal shopper
secret shopper
vaccine shopper
window-shopper
Related terms: open-shopper
windproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windproof
form: most windproof
Etymology: From wind + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Providing protection from the wind.
windproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windproofs
form: windproofing
form: windproofed
form: windproofed
Etymology: From wind + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to the wind.
vicinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪsɪnəl/
Etymology: From Latin vīcīnālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a neighborhood; neighboring.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing identical atoms or groups attached to nearby (especially adjacent) atoms in a molecule.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place.
Derived terms: vicinal diol
Related terms: vicinality
vicine
vicinity
geminal
windsock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windsocks
form: wind sock
Etymology: From wind + sock.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed, used especially at smaller airfields.
Synonyms: sense: conical, open-ended tube that indicates wind direction
word: air sock
sense: conical, open-ended tube that indicates wind direction
word: air sleeve
sense: conical, open-ended tube that indicates wind direction
word: air cone
sense: conical, open-ended tube that indicates wind direction
word: wind cone
sense: conical, open-ended tube that indicates wind direction
word: wind sleeve
Related terms: weathercock
weathervane
weather vane
Winsock
Winsock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Windows + sockets.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The Windows interface to TCP/IP.
Related terms: windsock
windstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndstɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: windstorms
Etymology: From wind + storm.
Senses: glosses: A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.
Derived terms: European windstorm
fart in a windstorm
windsurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndsɜː(ɹ)f/
Forms: form: windsurfs
form: windsurfing
form: windsurfed
form: windsurfed
Etymology: From wind + surf.
Senses: examples: text: Stella spent the morning windsurfing in the sea.
glosses: To ride a surfboard that has an attached sail
Derived terms: windsurf board
Related terms: windsurfer
windsurf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndsɜː(ɹ)f/
Forms: form: windsurfs
Etymology: From wind + surf.
Senses: glosses: An act of windsurfing.
windsurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windsurfers
Etymology: From wind + surfer or windsurf + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who windsurfs.
wine-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wine-colored
form: most wine-colored
form: wine-coloured
Senses: glosses: Having the rich, deep red color of red wine.
wine-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wine-coloured
form: most wine-coloured
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wine-colored.
winemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪnˌmeɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈwaɪnˌmeɪkə/
Forms: form: winemakers
Etymology: From Middle English wynmaker; equivalent to wine + maker.
Senses: synonyms: winegrower
vintner
vigneron
glosses: A person or company that makes wine.
Related terms: winemaking
winemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winemakings
Etymology: From wine + making.
Senses: glosses: The process of making wine.
Synonyms: vinification
Related terms: winemaker
enology
oenology
mouldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊldi/
rhymes: -əʊldi
Forms: form: mouldier
form: more mouldy
form: mouldiest
form: most mouldy
form: moldy
Etymology: From mould + -y.
Senses: synonyms: rotten
glosses: Covered with mould.
synonyms: disused
neglected
glosses: Showing signs of neglect; disused.
examples: text: 'Go cuddle up to your mouldy old papers,' she shouted at him. 'See how warm they'll keep you.' She slammed the door and made to walk off.
ref: 2014, Patricia Combs, Café Paradise:
glosses: Worthless; lousy; rotten.
examples: text: Let him be great, as e'er he will, / He's rotten at the heart's core still; / Yet counsel from his mouldy pate, / Supports the trembling chair of state, / And scatters with unsparing hand, / A thousand miseries o'er the land; […]
ref: 1820, Satirical and Political Pamphlets, page 27:
glosses: Gray-headed, whether from age or hair powder.
Derived terms: mouldily
mouldiness
Related terms: mould
get onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets onto
form: getting onto
form: got onto
form: got onto
form: gotten onto
Senses: examples: text: You should get onto the manufacturers and complain.
glosses: To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.
examples: text: With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster.
glosses: To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.
examples: text: My father got onto me for taking the car without asking.
glosses: To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone.
examples: text: My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks.
glosses: To introduce someone to something.
examples: text: Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together.
text: “Get onto the bloke with the face fringe.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
glosses: To take a look at someone or something.
glosses: To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something.
examples: text: The child will get onto the merry-go-round.
text: That cat's on the house again. How does it get onto the roof?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.
Synonyms: sense: to move onto an object
word: board
sense: to connect to a network
word: log on
sense: to scold
word: reprimand
sense: to scold
word: scold
Related terms: get into
get on
pitch woo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitches woo
form: pitching woo
form: pitched woo
form: pitched woo
Senses: examples: text: We don't make a party out of lovin' / We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo
ref: 1969, Merle Haggard, Okie from Muskogee:
glosses: To court; to make romantic advances.
glosses: To flatter.
Synonyms: sense: to court
word: solicit
word: woo
Zelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛldə/
rhymes: -ɛldə
Forms: form: Zeldas
Etymology: Shortened from Griselda.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Zelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛldə/
rhymes: -ɛldə
Forms: form: Zelda
form: Zeldas
Etymology: Shortened from Griselda.
Senses: examples: text: The Wind Waker is the best Zelda I’ve played since Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo.
ref: 2003, Ken Ayers, letter to the editor, Play, July 2003, page 8
text: The blurring of distinctions between theory and evidence, between agent and tool, and between individual and group knowledge are seen in fan discussions about Zelda like they are in the practices of science.
ref: 2008, Luke Cuddy, editor, The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am, Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: Unlike previous Zeldas, Breath of the Wild doesn't hold your hand.
ref: 2017, Tim Wilkus, in "Big & little Reviews: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", Little Player: Video Game Magazine for Kids, May/June 2017, page 25
text: When developing Zelda games, director Hidemaro Fujibayashi thinks about the main hook of the game play before digging deeper into how it will out in combat or puzzles.
ref: 2018, The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN:
text: For better or worse, Ocarina was the perfect fan service for kids and adults who'd spent years closing their eyes and imagining how cool a 3D Zelda was going to be.
ref: 2020, Gabe Durham, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, unnumbered page:
text: The small motifs that [Jason] Brame identifies are used in the Hyrule Field to provide a sonic connection to earlier Zelda games but primarily avoid direct quotation.
ref: 2021, Tim Summers, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: A Game Music Companion, Intellect, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: Ellipsis of Legend of Zelda.
Derived terms: Zeldaesque
Zelda-like
Related terms: Hyrule
trotting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑtɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Not all horses are trotting horses.
glosses: Of an animal that trots.
trotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑtɪŋ/
Forms: form: trottings
Senses: examples: text: Trotting along the avenue was relaxing.
glosses: The action of the verb trot.
glosses: The sport of harness racing.
trotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trot
belemnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛləmˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: belemnites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon, “dart, arrow”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter VIII, in The Time Machine:
text: The guts of fossilized marine reptiles are packed with belemnites, and it's been theorized that some prehistoric sharks even died from the overconsumption of heavy belemnite shell guards.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
Synonyms: belemnoid
ceraunite
elf-bolt
thunderbolt
Derived terms: belemnite battlefield
belemnitic
liverworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liverwort
Edison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɪsən/
Etymology: A name whose meaning is "son of Edward", equivalent to Ed or Eddy + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith.
glosses: Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor and businessman.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A small city in Calhoun County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in Furnas County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, renamed after Thomas Edison, who had his main laboratory here, in 1955.
glosses: A village in Morrow County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Skagit County, Washington, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada, near modern Westlock; named after Thomas Edison.
Derived terms: edisonade
Edison bulb
Edison effect
Edisonian
Edison screw
Edison's medicine
like it's going out of fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: as if it had been going out of fashion
form: as if it is going out of fashion
form: as if it's going out of fashion
form: as if it was going out of fashion
form: as if it were going out of fashion
form: as if it will go out of fashion
form: like it is going out of fashion
form: like it were going out of fashion
Senses: glosses: Synonym of like it's going out of style.
synonyms: word: like it's going out of style
calm before the storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the calm before the storm
form: calms before storms
Senses: examples: text: The meeting may be peaceful now, but this is only the calm before the storm.
text: Calm before the storm, Marines. Enjoy it.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:
synonyms: lull before the storm
glosses: A period of peace before a disturbance or crisis; an unnatural or false calm before a storm.
on the air
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on-the-air
Senses: examples: text: Are we starting? We're starting.
Looks like it.
Are we on the air? No one even told me we're on the air.
We're not on the air.
We're not on the air, you're sure?
No.
Can someone tell us- are we on the air? Someone know?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows. Nobody knows if we're on the air. Anyway, this is Penn Jillette, in Las Vegas, not even knowing if we're on the air. They just snuck up on us like that. But it's after 11.
It's 11 o'clock, we must be on the air.
Which is 2 o'clock in New York and 1 o'clock in Chicago, and I guess we're on the air.
ref: 2006 January 3, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 0:04 from the start, in Penn Radio, number 1:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Synonym of on air.
synonyms: word: on air
coprolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprolite
outlasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlast
inundated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: flooded
Derived terms: uninundated
inundated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inundate
reconstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconstitute
reconstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: constructed anew
disquieting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquieting
form: most disquieting
Etymology: From disquiet + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
text: Sir, it is very disquieting to read from time to time that some of our citizens, who should be promoting the welfare of this country in their hearts and in practice, are taking the currency out of this country illegally. It is equally disquieting to hear that some of our citizens may export some of the goods from this country, undervalue those goods and when they import some goods from abroad, they are over-valued with the object of keeping part of that money outside this country.
ref: 1985 May 29, W. Kisiero (Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry), “The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill (The Attorney-General on 23rd May, 1985) (Resumption of Debate Interrupted on 28th May, 1985)”, in The Republic of Kenya: The National Assembly Official Report … Third Session: Tuesday, 19th March, 1985 to Thursday, 6th June, 1985, volume LXV, [Nairobi?]: National Assembly of Kenya, →OCLC, column 1561:
glosses: Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
Derived terms: disquietingly
disquieting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From disquiet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disquiet.
disquieting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disquietings
Etymology: From disquiet + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience […]
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
intermarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intermarry
overexploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + exploitation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive and damaging exploitation.
interisland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəɹˈaɪlənd/
Etymology: From inter- + island.
Senses: examples: text: interisland shipping
text: Travel in Vanuatu has always had a significant element of danger. Most inter-island transport before World War II was by boat. Many of those vessels were only able to be registered in countries which had very lax shipping rules. Woodburn writes of the dramatic sinking of the inter-island vessel, Makambo, at her moorings in Vila harbour while being re-coaled.
ref: 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Between islands.
revenue bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenue bills
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a bill that levies taxes
chleb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish chleb. Doublet of khleb and loaf.
Senses: examples: text: Upstairs at the Polish Club / Among plastic palms and gossip, / While Wujiu Jerzy / Sells kielbasy and chleb—[…]
ref: 1997, Noëlle Janaczewska, “Historia”, in Peta Tait, Elizabeth Schafer, editors, Australian Women’s Drama: Texts and Feminisms (Currency Plays), Sydney, N.S.W.: Currency Press, →ISBN, page 280:
text: […] dough for the chleb beaten down with imprints of her fists and knuckles […] the moist ferment staring at her in anticipation of being molded baked buttered into something fantastic succulent artistic slices of chleb […]
ref: 2000, Tarisa Ann M. Matsumoto, “Zoltan’s Food”, in Shadowgraph and Zoltan’s Food, Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University, →DOI, →OCLC, section “Advent of Red”, page 55:
text: Mountains of chleb teetered on plates.
ref: 2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:
text: In the safety of her bedroom, with a litre of water and a slice of chleb inside her, things felt better again.
ref: 2008, Polly Courtney, chapter 15, in Poles Apart, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 81:
text: The diner where the soup was almost free (three zloty, with chleb and margarine) has closed, dumping its coarse clientele into history.
ref: 2016 July 7, Michel Faber, “Since You Last Visited Sopot”, in Undying: A Love Story, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Polish bread.
turbidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbidities
Etymology: From Latin turbiditās. By surface analysis, turbid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The variables we considered include solar irradiance and turbidity, which are relevant to the symbiont photosynthesis and yearly minimum temperature, representing potential limiting factors for the holobiont.
ref: 2015 August 13, Christiane Schmidt et al., “Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: The state of being turbid; turbidness.
examples: text: Over a 5 days period beginning on November 21, 2011 and ending on November 26, 2011 we deployed an array of hydrodynamic and sediment dynamic sensors on a tripod frame, including two turbidity sensors, two pore water pressure sensors, one sea gauge wave tide recorder, one kinemometer, and one acoustic erosion measuring instrument (Fig. 21.2).
ref: 2014, Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, Jacques Locat, Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: The measure of transparency of a fluid (units of measurement include Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU)).
Derived terms: immunoturbidity
turbidity current
Related terms: turbulence
Tristan da Cunha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha (1460–1540).
Senses: glosses: A remote archipelago and constituent part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Derived terms: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Tristan albatros
Tristan klipfish
Tristan moorhen
Tristan thrush
British overseas territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British overseas territories
Senses: glosses: Any of about fourteen overseas territories which are not part of the United Kingdom but are subject to its sovereignty.
bbiaf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of (I'll) be back in a few (minutes).
Related terms: brb
winery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪnəɹi/
Forms: form: wineries
Etymology: From wine + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine.
Derived terms: bonded winery
Related terms: vintry
vineyard
bbiafm
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of be back in a few minutes.
Related terms: bbiaf
winglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winglike
form: most winglike
Etymology: From wing + -like.
Senses: glosses: having the characteristics of a wing
Synonyms: alar
wingspread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingspreads
Etymology: From wing + spread.
Senses: synonyms: wingspan
glosses: The distance between the extreme tips of the wings of a bird, insect or aircraft.
Related terms: spread one's wings
winnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winnable
form: most winnable
form: winable
Etymology: From win + -able.
Senses: examples: text: No winnable seat has been found for Mr. H. L. Nathan, a powerful recruit from the Liberal ranks, and poor Mr. Wedgwood Benn, an invaluable sniper for a party in Opposition, has been out of Parliament now since 1931.
ref: c. 1934, The Living Age, volume 351, page 30:
glosses: Able to be won or achieved.
Related terms: losable
winningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winningly
form: most winningly
Etymology: From winning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The preteen stars develop an organic and winningly uncool rapport, that shared language of misfit middle-school camaraderie.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
text: Smiling winningly, Francis described himself as an outsider, someone “from the end of the world”, who wanted to “walk together and work together” with the crowds who greeted him, rather than tell them what to do.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a winning manner.
winsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winsomely
form: most winsomely
Etymology: From winsome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Yeah, wading down into the comments. "Winsomely compelling cop-aganda," says C-Rob-69. Oh, wait, that was me.” “Drivel for the unwashed. The Bard, how he weeps.”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (1:34 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: In a winsome manner.
wishfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wishfully
form: most wishfully
Etymology: From wishful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wishful manner.
witheringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more witheringly
form: most witheringly
Etymology: From withering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a withering manner.
witlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more witlessly
form: most witlessly
Etymology: From witless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a witless manner
wittily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wittily
form: most wittily
Etymology: From Middle English wittily, wyttyly, wittiliche, equivalent to witty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a witty manner; using wit
wittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtɪŋli/
Forms: form: more wittingly
form: most wittingly
form: weetingly
Etymology: From Middle English wetandly, wettanly, wetyngly, witandly, witingeliche, wittandly, wittingli, wittingly, wityngli, wityngly, witynly, wytindeliche, wytyngly, equivalent to witting + -ly. Cognate with German wissentlich.
Senses: examples: text: It muſt be ſo offended, it cannot be els, for heere lyes the poynt, if I drowne my ſelfe wittingly, it argues an act, & an act hath three branches, it is to act, to doe, to performe, or all; ſhe drownd her ſelfe wittingly.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature M, verso:
synonyms: witfully
antonyms: unwittingly
glosses: in a witting manner, intentionally, on purpose.
Griselda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grissel
form: Grizel
form: Grizzel
Etymology: From the Old English elements *grīs (“gray”) + hild (“battle”), meaning “gray battle-maid”.
Senses: glosses: The long-suffering wife of a nobleman in a medieval tale.
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages used in Middle Ages, but rather rare today.
Griselda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Griseldas
form: Grissel
form: Grizel
form: Grizzel
Etymology: From the Old English elements *grīs (“gray”) + hild (“battle”), meaning “gray battle-maid”.
Senses: examples: text: Husbands, be not so hardy as to assail
The patience of your wives in hope to find
Griseldas, for you certainly will fail.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Chaucer's Envoy to the Clerk's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
glosses: A woman of exemplary gentleness and patience.
Derived terms: Zelda
remunerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmjuːn(ə)ɹətɪv/
Etymology: From remunerate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Joan found the work not only pleasant, but remunerative, as well.
glosses: Offering compensation, usually financial; rewarding; lucrative.
miche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mitch.
bampots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bampot
collops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collop
collops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collop
fettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fettle
fettles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fettle
fashin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fash
fashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fash
fashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fash
tectorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectoria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tēctōrium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A covering.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The tectorial membrane that covers the cochlear duct.
Related terms: tectorial
tectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: See tectorium.
Senses: glosses: serving to cover something
glosses: of or pertaining to the tectorium
Derived terms: tectorial membrane
winsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winsomenesses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English winsomnesse, wynsumnesse, from Old English wynsumness (“pleasantness, agreeableness, delight”), equivalent to winsome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She cocked her head to one side, attempting winsomeness.
ref: 2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety, Doubleday, page 98:
glosses: The quality of being winsome.