cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: h
enpr: wăk ôf
note: h
enpr: wăk ŏf
Forms: form: whacks off
form: whacking off
form: whacked off
form: whacked off
Senses: examples: text: Did I mention that when I was fifteen I took it out of my pants and whacked off on the 107 bus from New York?
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, “Cunt Crazy”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Random House:
text: […] why is it that I am discomfited by the bizarre fact that the one thing she will do, though in a pleasureless and rather perfunctory way, is to whack me off hour after hour until I am a lifeless and juiceless stalk, exhausted and even humiliated by this dumb pursuit?
ref: 1979, William Styron, chapter 14, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House:
synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
enjoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪz/
ipa: /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪz/
ipa: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enjoy
as soon as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: soon as
Senses: examples: text: I came as soon as I could.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon.
examples: text: As soon as he arrived, everyone gasped.
text: […] that eye which watches guilt
⁠And goodness, and hath power to see
⁠Within the green the moulder’d tree,
And towers fall’n as soon as built— […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 43:
synonyms: immediately
once
glosses: At the moment when; immediately (after); instantly; directly.
examples: text: I'd jump out the window as soon as not.
text: He was a bad guy. He would hit you with a chunk of pipe as soon as look at you.
ref: 2003 Oct. 12, William Safire (quoting 1913 New York City court records), "The Way We Live Now," New York Times (retrieved 19 Sep 2015)
text: "[T]hey are the worst of the worst and they will shoot you just as soon as say Hello."
ref: 2013 April 5, David Hathaway, “Your 2nd Amendment Cop Buddy Will Take Your Guns”, in LewRockwell.com, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
glosses: Used to indicate that the first action mentioned is as likely as, or is preferred to, the second action mentioned.
Derived terms: word: as soon as look at someone
alt: ASAP
word: as soon as possible
as soon as
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: soon as
Senses: examples: text: He might arrive as soon as three o'clock.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon.
chinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: chinkier
form: more chinky
form: chinkiest
form: most chinky
Etymology: From chink (“crack”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies.
ref: 1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose:
text: The door was knockerless and chinky, and creaked dismally as I inserted the key.
ref: 1884, The Australian Journal:
glosses: Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
examples: text: The money made a chinky sound as I shook the purse.
glosses: Resembling a chink sound.
chinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: more chinky
form: most chinky
form: Chinky
form: Chinkee
Etymology: From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a Chinese person or Chinese style or culture.
glosses: Possessing attributes of, or similar to, an East Asian person or an East Asian style or culture.
chinky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: chinkies
form: Chinky
form: Chinkee
Etymology: From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What this means for young Chinese people growing up and serving behind the counter is captured in Pui Fan Lee’s autobiographical play Short, Fat, Ugly and Chinese, broadcast on Radio 5 in 1992. She remembers her childhood: ‘But most of all I hated the shop. The takeaway. Or, as the locals called it, “The Chinky”[…]
ref: 2005, David Parker, Cool Places: Geographies of youth cultures, page 70:
glosses: A Chinese takeaway restaurant.
examples: text: I've had a Chinky, a Chic Murray and, afore ye came tae collect me, I had some fuckin' fancy Italian pasta dish. It was pure dead brilliant, by the way!
ref: 2013, Harry Morris, Yer Never Gonnae Believe It:
glosses: A meal of Chinese food.
glosses: A Chinese person.
examples: text: Oh my chinky she's so kinky got me hot like Nagasaki
ref: 1996, “Yellow Fever”, in One Fierce Beer Coaster, performed by Bloodhound Gang:
glosses: An East Asian person.
examples: text: Since I come from the North-eastern part of India myself and belong to a minority race, I too have suffered from racism, at least in its milder forms. I’ve been called "chinky", "momo", "chowmein", and more.
ref: 2017 May 23, Alana Golmei, “Let’s talk about racism”, in Hindustan Times, Delhi:
text: However, what matters to them is the intention of such a question, especially when they are invectively referred to as chinky and other remarks that are considered to be derogatory
ref: 2021, Thongkholal Haokip, “From ‘Chinky’ to ‘Coronavirus’: racism against Northeast Indians during the Covid-19 pandemic”, in Asian Ethnicity, page 356:
glosses: A person from Northeast India.
Synonyms: chink
chocolatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chocolatey: more chocolatey
glosses: comparative form of chocolaty: more chocolaty
chocolatier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolatiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French chocolatier.
Senses: examples: text: The chocolatier's gorgeous creations wooed the surrounding neighbourhood.
coordinate_terms: chocolatière
glosses: A producer of chocolate.
clamdiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam diggers
form: clam-diggers
Etymology: From clam + diggers.
Senses: glosses: Waders; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging for clams with a clam rake.
synonyms: capri pants
coordinate_terms: pedal pushers
;
flood pants
;
shorts#Noun
glosses: A kind of short trousers for women, usually ending at midcalf.
glosses: A non-auger posthole digger of a hand tool type with hinged operation.
clamdiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clamdigger + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of clamdigger
cleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleeves
Etymology: From Irish cliabh (“basket”).
Senses: glosses: A large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.
cleverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛvɚnəs/
ipa: /ˈklɛvənəs/
Forms: form: clevernesses
Etymology: From clever + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1. Stuckism is the quest for authenticity. By removing the mask of cleverness and admitting where we are, the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression.
ref: 2011, Billy Childish, Charles Thomson, “The Stuckist Manifesto”, in Alex Danchev, editor, 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The property of being clever.
glosses: Something clever, or done cleverly.
Related terms: cunning
acumen
closed-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closed-minded
form: most closed-minded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of close-minded.
Derived terms: closed-mindedly
closed-mindedness
cloud on title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clouds on title
form: cloud of title
Senses: examples: text: "Although the laws of a State cannot affect the equity jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts, when the former afford rules as to what shall be deemed clouds on title, the Circuit Courts of equity, in the exercise of an ancient chancery jurisdiction, may remove such clouds."
ref: 1856, “Bayerque v. Cohen et al.”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Districts of California, page 113:
text: "A cloud on title is an instrument which may be used vexatiously or injuriously against the owner of land, or which may cast suspicion on the validity of his title so as to render his land unsaleable at its full value."
ref: 1914, Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth, Modern American Law, page 88:
text: "Clouds on title are usually revealed by a title search and may be removed from the record by a quitclaim deed or a quiet title proceeding initiated by the property owner."
ref: 2000, John W. Reilly, The Language of Real Estate, page 71:
topics: law
property
glosses: An encumbrance or claim on a title (ownership) to real property sufficient to interfere with title transfer until the problem has been resolved.
Related terms: clear title
coffin nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffin nails
Etymology: In reference to the deadly health effects of smoking.
Senses: synonyms: cancer stick
glosses: A cigarette.
Related terms: another nail in one's coffin
final nail in the coffin
colporteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒlpɔː(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: colporteurs
form: colporter
Etymology: Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from Latin comportō (English comport).
Senses: glosses: A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
Related terms: colportage
colport
conduit bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conduit benders
Senses: synonyms: hickey
glosses: A tool used in conjunction with a very long lever to bend angles in a conduit that electric wires are placed into.
incunabulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.kjʊˈnæb.jʊ.ləm/
Forms: form: incunabula
Etymology: From Latin incūnābulum (“cradle, origin”).
Senses: examples: text: Sebastian, a profound student of such lore, had long believed that the book was a mere medieval legend; and he had been startled as well as gratified when he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula.
ref: August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Treader of the Dust”, in Weird Tales:
text: Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.
ref: 2004, Luisa Graves, The Shadow of the Wind, translation of original by Carlos Ruiz Zafón:
topics: media
printing
publishing
related: word: incunable
synonyms: fifteener
glosses: A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
glosses: The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something.
Related terms: incunabular
incunabulist
constant speed drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constant speed drives
Senses: qualifier: airplanes
glosses: Something that aims at ensuring that the electric generator produces a constant frequency.
construction paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: construction papers
Senses: examples: text: Sam ran over to his little desk in the corner and started to trace his hand onto a sheet of yellow construction paper.
ref: 2013, Stuart Stutzman, Marginally Fictitious:
glosses: Thick colored paper that can be cut to make designs, models, etc
Related terms: cartolina
art paper
contact inhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Inhibition of cell division in normal (noncancerous) cells when they contact a neighboring cell.
contestant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛstənt/
ipa: [kənˈtʰɛstənt]
Forms: form: contestants
Etymology: From French contestant, present participle of contester.
Senses: synonyms: competitor
glosses: A participant in a contest; specifically, a person who plays a game, as on a TV game show.
coordinate_terms: contestee
glosses: One who brings a legal challenge.
Related terms: contender
controlling image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controlling images
Senses: glosses: An image or metaphor that runs throughout and determines the form or nature of a literary work.
corral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹæl/
ipa: /kəˈɹɑːl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: corrals
Etymology: From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
Senses: examples: text: We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
glosses: An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
examples: text: Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
glosses: An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
examples: text: The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
glosses: A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
Synonyms: sense: livestock enclosure
word: pen
sense: livestock enclosure
word: stockade
Derived terms: fish corral
turtle-corral
Related terms: word: crawl
word: kraal
corral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹæl/
ipa: /kəˈɹɑːl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: corrals
form: corraling
form: corralling
form: corraled
form: corraled
form: corralled
form: corralled
Etymology: From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
Senses: examples: text: Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: By the end of this year the work of 168 coal depots scattered throughout the Birmingham Division will have been coralled [sic] into about two dozen concentration depots.
ref: 1964 March, “News and Comment: Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:
text: They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.
ref: 2019 November 16, Austin Ramzy, Chris Buckley, “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims”, in New York Times:
glosses: To capture or round up.
examples: text: After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
glosses: To place inside of a corral.
examples: text: The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
glosses: To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
Derived terms: corraler
corraller
counteroffensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteroffensives
Etymology: From counter- + offensive.
Senses: examples: text: As the war slogs on, a growing flow of Western weapons over the summer is now playing a key role in the counteroffensive, helping Ukraine significantly boost its precision strike capability.
Since the counteroffensive began, Ukraine said, its forces have reclaimed more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region.
ref: 2022 September 11, Yuras Karmanau, “Ukraine pushes major counteroffensive as war marks 200 days”, in AP News, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022:
glosses: US spelling of counter-offensive.
counteroffensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counteroffensive
form: most counteroffensive
Etymology: From counter- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of counter-offensive.
Derived terms: counteroffensively
counterword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterwords
Etymology: From counter- + word.
Senses: glosses: A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function.
glosses: Such a word (or a word that has gone through a similar change) when not used as a reflex-like answer.
daytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtaɪm/
Forms: form: daytimes
form: day-time
Etymology: From day + time.
Senses: examples: text: In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.
ref: 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
glosses: The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.
Synonyms: word: day
word: daylight
word: daylength
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: daytime
word: photoperiod
topics: biology
natural-sciences
Hyponyms: word: afternoon
word: evening
word: midday
word: morning
Meronyms: word: prime
topics: Christianity
word: terce
topics: Christianity
word: tierce
topics: Christianity
word: sext
topics: Christianity
word: nones
topics: Christianity
word: none
topics: Christianity
Derived terms: daytimer
daytimes
daytime serial
nondaytime
predaytime
Related terms: word: daily
word: diurnal
word: twilight
daytime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtaɪm/
Forms: form: day-time
Etymology: From day + time.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.
examples: text: daytime television
glosses: Happening during the day.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to daytime
word: day
sense: happening during the day
word: day
Derived terms: daytime drama
country bumpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country bumpkins
Senses: synonyms: boor
churl
hick
hillbilly
rustic
yokel
glosses: An unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country.
Synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
Hypernyms: word: bumpkin
word: idiot
word: rural dweller
Hyponyms: word: blowsabella
Related terms: word: fall off the turnip truck
word: roughneck
word: roustabout
clinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cling
Synonyms: word: attachment
word: clingy
word: adherent
word: adhesive
clinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/
Forms: form: clingings
Senses: examples: text: The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.
ref: 2013, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics, page 217:
glosses: The act of one who clings.
clinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Yes, very clinging; my cousin has a delightful figure, and can stand it.
ref: 1894, Ludovic Halévy, Parisian Points of View, page 182:
text: He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.
ref: 2008, John Bowlby, Attachment:
text: It is a greyish white, high melting metal, very clinging, not very ductile and with difficulty malleable.
ref: 2016, Ferenc Szabadváry, R. Belcher, L. Gordon, History of Analytical Chemistry, page 15:
glosses: clingy.
Derived terms: word: clingingly
word: clingingness
word: unclinging
sense: please verify
roman: eo
word: alkroĉiĝa
coy dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coy dogs
form: coydog
form: coy-dog
Senses: glosses: A cross between a coyote and a wild or domestic dog.
creamery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creameries
Etymology: From French crémerie, reformed as cream + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where dairy products are prepared or sold.
glosses: An ice cream parlor.
Derived terms: creameryman
crouton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːtɒn/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɹutɑn/
note: of Canada
ipa: /kɹuˈtɑn/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɹutɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɹʉːtɔn/
ipa: /ˈkɹʉːtɒn/
ipa: [ˈkɹʉːtɔ̟n]
rhymes: -uːtɒn
Forms: form: croutons
form: croûton
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French croûton.
Senses: glosses: A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A Glock switch.
Derived terms: water crouton
Related terms: canapé
crufty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cruftier
form: cruftiest
Etymology: From cruft + -y. Arose after 1959, presumably mid-1960s. Perhaps influenced by cruddy, crusty.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to or containing cruft.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.
examples: text: All these years I been living with you we en't go nowhere. You want a beast of burden, not a woman. Because you is a big, crufty, niggerman with the strength of an ox and a mind big and empty like midday sky you think me is the same.
ref: 1972, Jan Carew, The wild coast:
text: I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure.
ref: 2013, Richard Bowker, The Portal (An Alternative History Novel), page 1614174636:
glosses: Unrefined, dirty or worn.
Derived terms: cruftiness
crux simplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin; specifically, Medieval Latin, as this collocation to name the pole used by the ancient Romans comes from Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) rather than from their own use of Latin (Classical Latin).
Senses: glosses: A single beam or pole without a cross bar for executions.
glosses: The simple pole or stake with which in the Roman Empire common criminals were executed either by being impaled with it or being attached to it, typically with the feet resting on a block to avoid a rapid death by asphyxia and using, for economy, only one nail through the hands (below the palm).
Coordinate terms: sense: ancient execution structures
word: cross
sense: ancient execution structures
word: crucifix
sense: ancient execution structures
word: crux ordinaria
sense: ancient execution structures
word: gallows
sense: ancient execution structures
word: gibbet
Related terms: word: crux ansata
word: crux decussata
word: crux gammata
word: crux immissa
ctenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.nɔɪd/
Forms: form: more ctenoid
form: most ctenoid
Etymology: From cteno- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having a toothed margin, usually fish scales
glosses: Comb-like in shape.
ctenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.nɔɪd/
Forms: form: ctenoids
Etymology: From cteno- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A ctenoidean.
confront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
ipa: /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/
Forms: form: confronts
form: confronting
form: confronted
form: confronted
Etymology: From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
Senses: examples: text: It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
synonyms: oppose
challenge
glosses: To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
examples: text: confront a problem
synonyms: tackle
glosses: To deal with.
examples: text: We should confront him about the missing money.
glosses: To bring someone face to face with something.
examples: text: Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
glosses: To come up against; to encounter.
glosses: To engage in confrontation.
glosses: To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
glosses: To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
Derived terms: carefront
confrontable
confrontation
confrontational
confrontative
confronter
confrontment
confront one's demons
reconfront
unconfronted
Related terms: topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: confronté
confronter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confronters
Etymology: From confront + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something which confronts.
confrontational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃənˈəl/
Forms: form: more confrontational
form: most confrontational
Etymology: From confrontation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It was Liverpool who once again carried the momentum after the break and the recalled Rio Ferdinand was booked for a foul on Suarez, whose confrontational approach and brilliant natural ability was proving hard to handle.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: confrontal
confrontative
glosses: Pertaining to a confrontation; characterized by, or given to initiating hostile encounter; in-your-face.
Derived terms: anticonfrontational
confrontationalism
confrontationalist
confrontationality
confrontationally
nonconfrontational
unconfrontational
confrontment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confrontments
Etymology: From confront + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Confrontation.
cosmetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French cosmétologie. By surface analysis, cosmetics + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The science of cosmetics.
examples: text: While still in high school, Mr. Niami took night classes to get his cosmetology license, then learned how to do special-effects prosthetics for horror films.
ref: 2017 December 23, Candace Jackson, “Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The profession of a cosmetologist or beautician.
Derived terms: cosmetological
cosmetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmetologists
Etymology: From cosmetology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I think cosmetologist is pushing it. Even esthetician has its drawback - sounds too much like "Esteelauder."
ref: 1990 June 10, William Safire, “On Language; Cosmetological Chartist”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
text: The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
ref: 2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who advises people (normally women) on cosmetics and other beauty treatments; a beautician.
Related terms: cosmetological
cosmetologically
cosmetology
EMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMTs
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)
text: “I am an E.M.T., and I have a tourniquet!” she shouted as she neared the crowd. “Get back!”
ref: 2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: technician#Noun
first responder#Noun
<
worker#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: EMR
qualifier: emergency medical services
glosses: Initialism of emergency medical technician.
glosses: Initialism of epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
hypernyms: conduit
tubing#Noun
glosses: Initialism of electrical metal tubing (“a type of conduit for electrical wiring; zinc-plated steel tubing”).
Derived terms: EMT-I
indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɛksɪz/
Senses: examples: text: A tensor has then the property that when it is summed over one index (with a vector), it gives a new vector; and when it is summed over both indexes (with two vectors), it gives a scalar.
ref: 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 31, Tensors”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume II:
glosses: plural of index
indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɛksɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of index
phrasal verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrasal verbs
Senses: examples: text: In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
text: In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
examples: text: Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing it as a Phrasal Verb). Thus, facts about GAPPING lend yet further support to analysis (125).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 98:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: more loosely
glosses: A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
Coordinate terms: word: phrasal noun
word: phrasal preposition
word: phrase
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: phrase
Related terms: idiom
spunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌŋki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: spunkier
form: spunkiest
Etymology: From spunk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Spirited or plucky.
examples: text: I'm not the kind of girl you want to come across / Yo, it's Josh T with his spunky sauce
ref: 2016 May 5, “Thinking He's Hard (Little T Reply)”, performed by Soph Aspin:
glosses: Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).
glosses: Stained with semen.
glosses: Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking.
spunky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌŋki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: spunkys
form: spunkies
Etymology: From spunk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But every Friday night up at the Harbord Diggers disco he'd be holding court, three or four spunkys hanging off each arm[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 83:
glosses: A good-looking person.
plucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: pluckier
form: pluckiest
Etymology: From pluck (“nerve, persistence”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, / Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
ref: 1890, W. S. Gilbert, “The Modern Major-General”, in Songs of a Savoyard:
text: "Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that. I kept that copper talking...give you a chance. By George, you did it perfectly."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 231:
text: At the start of the hearing, Mr. Bezos introduced himself as a lucky and humble example of the success of American democracy — the son of a plucky mother and a supportive, immigrant father who “fostered my curiosity and encouraged me to dream big.”
ref: 2020 July 29, “Lawmakers From Both Sides Take Aim at Big Tech Executives”, in New York Times:
synonyms: brave
spunky
feisty
glosses: Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
Derived terms: pluckily
pluckiness
holotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holotypes
Etymology: From holo- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: The holotype of this species is subglobular in shape and ammoniticonic in its mode of growth.
ref: 1938, A. K. Miller, Devonian Ammonoids of America, Geological Society of America, page 75:
text: The surface of the holotype bears seven rounded annulations which slope very slightly orad from the venter.
ref: 1942, E. O. Ulrich, Aug. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller, A. G. Unklesbay, Ozarkian and Canadian Cephalopods: Part III: Longicones and Summary, Geological Society of America, page 77:
text: Primary types include holotypes, lectotypes, and neotypes, while all other types (e.g., paratypes) are secondary types. A holotype is a unique, name-bearing type specimen designated by the original author. The holotype is the single individual of a species that serves as a voucher for a given species name. A holotype can be designated only by the original author and in the publication in which that author established its name.
ref: 2005, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press, page 35:
text: The species to which the holotype belongs is then referred to by the name proposed by the author, at least when the same name has not previously been applied to another species.[…]If his specimen is not the same species as any of the holotypes preserved in museums, he should prepare a description of his specimen and have it published with his proposed name for the new species or give it to a specialist who is interested in doing this.
ref: 2008, Charles W. Heckman, Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Zygoptera, Springer, page 3:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference.
Derived terms: holotypic
Related terms: allotype
epitype
isotype
lectotype
neotype
paratype
syntype
conserved type
type species
interconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interconversions
Etymology: From inter- + conversion.
Senses: examples: text: Tautomerism is chemical isomerism characterized by relatively easy interconversion of isomeric forms in equilibrium.
glosses: Reciprocal or mutual conversion.
Related terms: interconvert
agriglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agriglyphs
Etymology: From agri- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: A crop circle.
motivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
ipa: [ˈmoʊ.ɾɪ.veɪt]
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.təˌveɪt/
ipa: [ˈmoʊ.ɾəˌveɪt]
Forms: form: motivates
form: motivating
form: motivated
form: motivated
Etymology: From motive + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French motiver.
Senses: examples: text: The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
text: Armor-piercing shells were heading up the shell hoists, but this procedure took a few minutes, allowing the battered American flagship to reply in kind, the gunners somewhat motivated to set new records for the rate of fire as the cruiser raked the larger ship from stem to stern in response.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 17:51 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
synonyms: word: drive
word: spur
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
antonyms: demotivate
discourage
dissuade
glosses: To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
examples: text: He was motivated purely by self-interest.
text: Steam-motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
synonyms: drive
move
push
antonyms: demotivate
halt
stop
glosses: To animate; to propel; to cause to take action.
Derived terms: motivatable
motivation
motivative
remotivate
unmotivate
Related terms: mismotivate
motivated
motivator
motive
hypochondria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndriə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndriə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpəˈ-/
Forms: form: hypochondry
Etymology: From New Latin hypochondria (the morbid condition so called, supposed to have its seat in the upper part of the abdomen), from hypochondrium (see English hypochondrium for more).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: hypochondriasis
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: disorder#Noun
disease#Noun
<
condition#Noun
glosses: A formerly defined psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. No longer a current medical diagnosis; see hypochondriasis for more.
examples: text: Such labours as these, if they do not shorten life, are calculated to make it wretched, for hypochondria invariably follows close upon them.
ref: 1833, Richard Robert Madden, The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, page 96:
text: His own temperament appears to have been neither purely sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, nor melancholic [...] not melancholy, since he is entirely free from hypochondria, thinks rapidly, and has an active will.
ref: 1845, Life of G. W. von Leibnitz. On the basis of the German work of ... G. E. Guhrauer, page 275:
text: Nux likewise corresponds to hypochondria caused by rich and excessive living. In general, Nux is the best remedy for hypochondria arising from a morbid condition of the abdominal nerves ; after dinner, the patients generally experience a feeling of malaise and langour.
ref: 1849, Franz Hartmann, Charles Julius Hempel, Theory of acute diseases, and their homoeopathic treatment, page 200:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Melancholy; depression.
Derived terms: compucondria
cyberchondria
hypochondric
Related terms: chondro-
hyperchondria
hypo-
hypochondriac
hypochondriacal
hypochondriasis
hypochondrium
hypochondria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndriə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndriə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpəˈ-/
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondrium
soo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sow.
soo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of so.
Related terms: soo wee
tactful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæktfəl/
Forms: form: more tactful
form: most tactful
Etymology: From tact + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I once found myself listening to a gay man who was saying wistfully, "I wish there was someplace you could go, maybe a club, where only masculine men would be allowed in." […] Ever tactful, I did not point out to him that if such a place existed, he probably would not be allowed into it.
ref: 1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9:
antonyms: tactless
glosses: Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.
Derived terms: tactfully
tactfulness
whiskbroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskbrooms
Etymology: From whisk + broom.
Senses: glosses: A small hand broom, with a short handle, for brushing clothes.
commiserated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commiserate
Prevost reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prevost reactions
Etymology: From the chemist C. Prevost.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The trans oxidation of an alkene, to form a dihydric alcohol, catalyzed by iodine and silver benzoate.
Alison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælɪsən/
Forms: form: Alisons
form: Allison
form: Alyson
form: Allyson
Etymology: From Old French Alison, brought to England by the Normans (from Anglo-Norman Alison, from Norman Alison), diminutive of Aliz, equivalent to English Alice, from Old High German Adalhaid (“of noble kind”). Became Middle English Alisoun.
Senses: examples: text: He came up close and kneeling gently down
He said, "My love, my dearest Alison,
So help me God, I never again will hit
You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
text: “Fun Home” may have won several awards for author Alison Bechdel, but some Duke University freshmen were not impressed.
ref: 2015 August 24, Todd Leopold, “Duke students reject award-winning book over gay themes”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A semi-rural suburb in Central Coast council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Al
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Ali
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Alie
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Alli
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Allie
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Ally
sense: Diminutives of the female given name
word: Aly
word: Emison
cimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more cimmerian
form: most cimmerian
Etymology: From Cimmerian.
Senses: examples: text: There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
ref: 1631, Milton, L'Allegro:
text: As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
ref: 1740, George Frideric Handel, Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato:
text: ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
ref: 1820, Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry:
text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
The glimpse of blue vault far above only heightened the cimmerian gloom of the canyon, and the frowning rocks, which rose abruptly gave one the impression that they were on the point of crashing into the ravine.
glosses: Perpetually dark or gloomy.
examples: text: The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.
ref: 1770, Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature:
glosses: Mentally dark; ignorant; benighted.
Derived terms: cimmerianism
cimmerianize
policy mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy mixes
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: the combination of fiscal and monetary policies, especially their perceived relative importance
hypochondrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondria
Etymology: From New Latin hypochondrium, from Ancient Greek ὑποχόνδριον (hupokhóndrion, “the soft part of the body below the cartilage and above the navel”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + χόνδρος (khóndros, “cartilage”). See also hypochondria, hypochondriac, and Wikipedia at hypochondriasis § Etymology.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper region of the abdomen, covering the upperribs, at each side of the epigastrium.
wikipedia: hypochondriasis#Etymology
Related terms: hypochondria
hypochondriac
hypochondriasis
catastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈtæstəsɪs/
Forms: form: catastases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “settling, appointment”).
Senses: examples: text: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: The object of the meta-theatre is precisely that – to allow the participants to see through their first roles in it. But that is only the catastasis.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
glosses: In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe.
glosses: The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed.
Related terms: protasis
epitasis
catastrophe
Cimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Cimmerians
Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands
With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun
Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,
ref: 1791, Homer, translated by William Cowper, The Odyssey of Homer:
text: On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals."
ref: 1900, Jack London, The Shrinkage of the Planet:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.
examples: text: Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian
Doth make your honour of his body's hue,
Spotted, detested, and abominable.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century B.C. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia
ref: 1902, Encyclopedia Britannica:
text: 1910, Herodotus (484 B.C.E.–425 B.C.E.), History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson
In his reign the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomads of Scythia, entered Asia and captured Sardis
glosses: One of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.
examples: 1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 C.E.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher
Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian...
glosses: The prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.