cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quitline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quitlines
Etymology: From quit + line.
Senses: examples: text: Have you thought about calling the smoking quitline?
glosses: A helpline offering advanced treatment for addiction and behavior change.
quitlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quitline
helplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helpline
customer service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of providing services to customers before, during and after a purchase.
glosses: A department that provides services to existing customers.
Synonyms: customer support
client service
client service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: customer service
line out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line outs
Senses: glosses: an audio jack that produces an unamplified signal
glosses: Alternative form of lineout.
glosses: Alternative form of line-out.
Related terms: line in
line out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lines out
form: lining out
form: lined out
form: lined out
Senses: glosses: to appear in a lineout
glosses: to take part in a sports event
glosses: To create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.
glosses: To plant in a line.
raw_tags: of trees
qualifier: etc. on a list
glosses: To remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off.
raw_tags: of a number
glosses: To chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.
raw_tags: of a church leader
glosses: To outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing.
glosses: To generally and briefly predict or describe (something).
glosses: To line up; to form a line.
glosses: To move or hurry away.
examples: text: Some distance north of both stations was a rather small and tumbledown shed for Great Central engines, and there was generally one or more goods tank engines outside it, painted black and lined out in red.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: To form a contrasting border to another colour.
examples: text: Jones lined out to second.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.
powder one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powders one's nose
form: powdering one's nose
form: powdered one's nose
form: powdered one's nose
Etymology: From the use of a lavatory as a place to apply makeup.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be right back. I just have to powder my nose.
text: C'mon girls; let's go powder our noses.
text: "...Where's the ladies' in this joint? I've to powder me nose."
ref: 1996, Deirdre Purcell, Roses After Rain, page 335:
qualifier: typically of women
glosses: To visit a lavatory to use a toilet, reapply makeup, (when used of a group of women) engage in private conversation, etc.
examples: text: The cokehead couldn't go more than a couple hours without powdering his nose.
text: Well I'll tell you what, I'll go to the bathroom and powder my nose, while you sit here and think of something to say.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman):
glosses: To snort cocaine or other types of drugs through one's nose.
Related terms: powder room
take a powder
brevitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛˈvɪtɪk/
Senses: examples: text: If the life of some animals is short, so is their office small. The frame of a living thing seems proportional in duration, elegance, and strength, to the object of its life. The more perfect, according to our notions, the mechanism of a creature, the more important seems its operations. Some live but one summer ; some only a day ; many are born, grow old, and die, all in the space of an hour. Still how important, in the whole, may these brevitic existences be !
ref: 1838, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 233:
text: 1931: Francis W. Chapman, Great Pyramid of Ghizeh from the Aspect of Symbolism and Religion, reprint edition (1997 September 1), page 139 (Kessinger Publishing Co; →ISBN
And, indeed, we must believe that Cheops, often anciently called “ the glorious,” in a graphic but wordless suggestiveness aims to convey this ; and as Paul did convey until his word “ eirene,” no doubt for euphonic and brevitic advantage, was inadequately translated in its present abbreviated form.
glosses: Embodying brevity.
pearl-necklace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the walls are sculptured caskets, screens, pearl-necklaces, perfume-pots, strong boxes, and hoods enriched with precious stones.
ref: 1801, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1800, page 411:
text: A very profligate Turk of my acquaintance, to whom I once gave, because it caught his eye when he came to present me with a hare, a false pearl-necklace for his wife, […]
ref: 1823, Sir William Gell, Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, page 398:
text: Ramcheri presented her pearl-necklace to the subjects and got a pond constructed, which was called 'Cheri Tal'.
ref: 2015, Sachin Sinhal, Queen Durgavati:
text: As Vivien explains,
this rhyme
Is like the fair pearl-necklace of the Queen,
That burst in dancing, and the pearls were spilt; […]
ref: 2019, Barbara Barrow, Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry:
glosses: Alternative form of pearl necklace.
/
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: The sound sequence /rd/, /rt/, or /rk/ (whether spelled ⟨rk⟩ or ⟨rc⟩).
glosses: The suffix or sequence -ward.
Jesus Prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Jesus Prayer
Senses: examples: text: The old monk tells him that the one prayer acceptable to God at all times, and 'desired' by God, is the Jesus Prayer—'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' […]
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 111
topics: Christianity
glosses: A short formulaic prayer entreating mercy from Jesus Christ.
post-operative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postoperative.
human beings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of human being
unfresh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfresh
form: most unfresh
Etymology: From un- + fresh.
Senses: examples: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139,
"You told me that bit last night. I don't want any unfresh reminiscences this morning, buddy," Zooey said, and resumed looking out of the window.
glosses: Stale, not fresh.
go chase yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: One of the boys nudged him and said,
"Hey! Your sister's followin' us."
"Yeah," agreed Neeley. The boy turned around and yelled at Francie:
"Go chase yourself!"
ref: 1943, Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, HarperCollins, published 2005, →ISBN, page 18:
text: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 147,
"This is what I was trying to get at last night. Before you told me to chase myself...."
glosses: Go away (and stop bothering me).
Related terms: go climb a tree
go fly a kite
go jump in the lake
trousseaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trousseau
beaverboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbivɚˌbɔɹd/
ipa: /-ˌboɹd/
ipa: /ˈbiːvəˌbɔːd/
Forms: form: beaverboards
Etymology: From beaver + board, probably from Beaver Manufacturing Company, probably from Beaver Falls (“hamlet in New York”). Originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 176,
Instead, he turned around and deliberately faced a sheet of what had once been snow-white beaverboard that was nailed uncompromisingly to the back of the door.
glosses: A form of fiberboard made of wood pulp compressed into sheets.
wet dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet docks
Senses: examples: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 90,
It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A dock that has a constant level of water in which a vessel floats despite the tide; usually achieved by separating the dock from the sea by a lock.
one-two-three
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 91,
...when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.
glosses: Quickly.
boy friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy friends
Senses: examples: text: "Lane Coutell. He's only been Franny's boy friend for a whole year. ..."
"The expression in Franny's 'young man,'" he said, "not her 'boy friend.' Why are you so out of date, Bessie? ..."
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 96
glosses: Dated spelling of boyfriend.
orange stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange sticks
Senses: examples: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 114,
Zooey suddenly turned around, opened the medicine cabinet, replaced his nail file, and took down a remarkably stubby-looking orange stick.
glosses: A thin stick used in manicuring, with one tapered and one pointed end.
inscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inscapes
Etymology: By surface analysis, in + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac.
ref: 1957 May 4, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Zooey”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32 (start of article):
glosses: A landscape of an indoor setting.
glosses: The distinctive design that constitutes individual identity; a concept derived by Gerard Manley Hopkins from the ideas of the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.
undutiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undutiful
form: most undutiful
Etymology: From un- + dutiful.
Senses: examples: text: I know my duty; you are all undutiful:
Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,
And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all
I am your better, traitors as ye are:
And thou usurp’st my father’s right and mine.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: 1652, George Herbert, A Priest to the Temple, or, The Countrey Parson, reproduced in George Herbert Palmer (ed.), The English Works of George Herbert, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905, Volume 2, Chapter 6. The Parson Praying, p. 27,
Besides his example, he, having often instructed his people how to carry themselves in divine service, exacts of them all possible reverence, by no means enduring either talking, or sleeping, or gazing, or leaning, or halfe-kneeling, or any undutifull behaviour in them, but causing them when they sit, or stand, or kneel, to do all in a strait and steady posture, as attending to what is done in the Church, and every one, man and child, answering aloud both Amen and all other answers which are on the Clerk’s and people’s part to answer […]
text: The doctor retired into the kitchen, where, addressing himself to the landlady, he complained bitterly of the undutiful behaviour of his patient, who would not be blooded, though he was in a fever.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
text: I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children.—Not that I have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 20, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: For myself, I felt so much self-reproach and contrition for my part in what had happened, that nothing would have enabled me to keep back my tears but the fear that Steerforth, who often looked at me, I saw, might think it unfriendly—or, I should rather say, considering our relative ages, and the feeling with which I regarded him, undutiful—if I showed the emotion which distressed me.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: The son of a merchant in a city of Hindostan, having been driven from his father's house on account of his undutiful conduct, assumed the garb of a Kalenderee or wandering Derweesh, and left his native town.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 20:
glosses: Not dutiful.
Derived terms: undutifully
undutifulness
mixt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
Etymology: Alternative spelling of Early Modern mix'd, probably influenced by the synonymous Latin mixtus.
Senses: examples: text: The upper part thereof was whey,
 The nether orange, mixt with grey.
ref: 1859, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, page 14:
glosses: Archaic spelling of mixed, simple past and past participle of mix.
mixt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
Forms: form: more mixt
form: most mixt
Etymology: Alternative spelling of Early Modern mix'd, probably influenced by the synonymous Latin mixtus.
Senses: examples: text: …whether the ſaid pleas be real, perſonal, or mixt…
ref: 1790, Constitution of Massachusetts:
glosses: Archaic spelling of mixed.
Derived terms: mixtly
unmixt
hybrid vigor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid vigour
Senses: glosses: A property of some hybrids that are more likely to outperform either purebred parent in surviving.
Synonyms: heterosis
outbreeding enhancement
hybrid vigour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: UK, Australia, and Canada spelling of hybrid vigor.
purchasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purchaser
prayeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pray
macs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: macks
homophone: max
Senses: glosses: plural of mac
non compos mentis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin non (“not”) + compos (“in control, having mastery”) + mentis (“of mind”).
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: but also seeing wider use
glosses: Insane; not of sound mind; not in control of oneself.
Related terms: compos mentis
nincompoop
overbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbridges
Etymology: From over- + bridge.
Senses: examples: text: No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks.
ref: 1951 May, “Track Layout at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:
text: On the subject of permanent structures, the NYMR has Grosmont Tunnel (lined throughout), but only five overbridges, three of the last-named being the County Councils's ^([sic]) reponsibility for repair.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
glosses: A bridge that allows traffic to pass over a road, river, railway etc.
Related terms: underbridge
overpass
overbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbridges
form: overbridging
form: overbridged
form: overbridged
Etymology: From over- + bridge.
Senses: glosses: To form a bridge over; to overarch.
underbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbridges
Etymology: From under- + bridge.
Senses: examples: text: As to underbridges, the policy is to wait until the small underline bridges become due for renewal when they will be replaced by prestressed concrete structures.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
text: Additionally, NR has been given permission to alter highway rights at the underbridge at Littleport station.
ref: 2020 December 2, “Network News: Green light for NR to close crossings”, in Rail, page 23:
glosses: A bridge that allows traffic to pass under a road, river, railway etc.
glosses: The underneath of a bridge.
Related terms: overbridge
unheralded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɛɹəldɪd/
Etymology: From un- + heralded.
Senses: examples: text: Union trainmen stopped traffic on six midcontinent railroads with an unheralded strike yesterday, but some railroads said they expected to resume service by early today.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: Without prior warning; unexpected or unannounced.
examples: text: We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Not greeted with excitement or acclaim.
Related terms: herald
reinvigorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinvigorate
reinvigorated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinvigorated
form: most reinvigorated
Senses: examples: text: I slept peacefully that night, dreaming of cruising the starways with Andrea. The next morning, I awoke feeling reinvigorated, revitalised, and many years younger.
ref: 2015, Frank George, Time's Well: A Chronicle in Three Parts, Bloomington, I.N.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: revitalized or rejuvenated
reinvigorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinvigorates
form: reinvigorating
form: reinvigorated
form: reinvigorated
Etymology: From re- + invigorate.
Senses: examples: text: The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information...
ref: 1997, Nan Ellin, Architecture of fear, page 292:
text: Dynamic typography reinvigorates the storytelling genre by anthropomorphizing fonts, defibrillating calligraphy, creating rhythmic, ambient moodscapes without sacrificing speed or lushness.
ref: 1999, Artbyte, volume 2:
text: And it's probably not a coincidence that the time they evoke was also the beginning of the heyday of Asian commercial cinema, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were reinvigorating moribund movie genres with wild kineticism and an almost insolent indifference to the niceties of narrative logic.
ref: 2008 August 24, Terrence Rafferty, “Images With impact, and with a debt to the late 1980s”, in The New York Times:
text: Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.
ref: 2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To give new life, energy or strength to someone or something; to revitalize.
Related terms: reinvigoration
love potion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love potions
Senses: examples: text: One love potion was composed of the powdered navel string of a new-born baby boy.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 82:
text: I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
 You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
 She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
 Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.
ref: 1959, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Love Potion No. 9”, performed by The Clovers:
text: Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:
glosses: A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person.
Synonyms: love philtre
philtre
philter
dichloro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + chloro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two chlorine atoms in a molecule.
Derived terms: bromodichloromethane
clometocillin
dichloroacetamide
dichloroaniline
dichlorodifluoromethane
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
dichlorofluoromethane
dichlorophenol
dichlorosilane
dicloxacillin
diloxanide
loviride
raclopride
trichloroethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichloroethanes
Etymology: From trichloro + ethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric halogenated hydrocarbons, CH₃-CCl₃ or CH₂Cl-CHCl₂, that are used in several industrial applications, especially as solvents
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many derivatives of these compounds
Derived terms: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
trichloro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + chloro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three chlorine atoms in a molecule.
anaesthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anaesthetize
untangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untangle
untangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untanglings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is untangled.
frogspawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frog spawn
Etymology: From frog + spawn.
Senses: glosses: A gelatinous mass of frogs' eggs, laid in ponds and ditches.
gasman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasmen
Etymology: From gas + man.
Senses: examples: text: I spent all morning waiting for the gasman to call.
glosses: A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc.
glosses: A man employed in the manufacture of gas.
glosses: The man who controls the lights of the stage.
glosses: A worthless person (male)
Related terms: gasfitter
perching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From perch.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perch
perching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perchings
Etymology: From perch.
Senses: examples: text: When we take a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is the different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
ref: 1892, William James, The Stream of Consciousness:
glosses: The act of something that perches.
Derived terms: perching duck
perching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perch (“a rack over which cloth is suspended for inspection”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Inspection of cloth before finishing.
pickling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: picklings
Senses: glosses: An instance of processing something in brine or in vinegar.
glosses: A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) or other metallic objects is chemically removed by strong acids.
Derived terms: pickling lime
pickling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pickle
parrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parry
parrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parryings
Senses: examples: text: The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
ref: 1973, Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel, page 253:
glosses: The act of one who parries.
guv'nor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guv'nors
Senses: examples: text: “Now we have to get out of here before the fuzz start sniffing around. Fingers, get the Rolls resprayed and change the number plates in case they trace it.”
“Yes, guv’nor.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An informal form of address to a man; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house.
initialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: initialises
form: initialising
form: initialised
form: initialised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialize.
Derived terms: initialisation
uninitialised
sackbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackbutts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sackbut.
libertarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libertarian
oversleeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversleep
legislated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of legislate
legislated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Created through legislation.
Derived terms: nonlegislated
unlegislated
runlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runlets
Etymology: From run + -let. Compare runnel.
Senses: examples: text: The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 255:
text: She followed the dry runlet to where a jutting shoulder formed a nook matted with briars.
ref: 1931 February 9, William Faulkner, Sanctuary (The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books; no. 61), New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: A small brook or stream.
runlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runlets
form: rundlet
Etymology: From Middle English roundelet, from Old French rondelet (“roundlet”). More at roundlet.
Senses: examples: text: […]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 266–267:
glosses: A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons.
maund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːnd/
ipa: /mɔnd/
ipa: /mɑnd/
rhymes: -ɔːnd
Forms: form: maunds
form: mand
form: mande
form: mawn
form: mond
Etymology: From Middle English maunde, maundie, borrowed from Old French mande, borrowed from Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch *manda, from Proto-West Germanic *mandu.
Senses: glosses: A wicker basket.
glosses: A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
glosses: A handbasket with two lids.
Derived terms: Mander
maundful
maund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːnd/
ipa: /mɔnd/
ipa: /mɑnd/
rhymes: -ɔːnd
Forms: form: maunds
form: mun
form: man
Etymology: From Hindi मन (man) / Urdu من (man), and their source, Persian من, from Middle Persian, from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû). The -d is probably from assimilation with Etymology 1 above, or from comparison with pound.
Senses: examples: text: Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In Flood Time”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410:
text: One mann or maund is approximately 37.32 kilograms.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 146:
glosses: A unit of weight in south and west Asia, whose value varies widely by location.
maund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːnd/
ipa: /mɔnd/
ipa: /mɑnd/
rhymes: -ɔːnd
Etymology: Unclear, but possibly from French mendier or quémander (“to beg”). Compare Romani mang (“to beg”).
Senses: glosses: begging
maund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːnd/
ipa: /mɔnd/
ipa: /mɑnd/
rhymes: -ɔːnd
Forms: form: maunds
form: maunding
form: maunded
form: maunded
Etymology: Unclear, but possibly from French mendier or quémander (“to beg”). Compare Romani mang (“to beg”).
Senses: examples: text: He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell:
text: You must hereafter maund on your own pads
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: to beg
glosses: To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.
metering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meterings
form: metring
Senses: examples: text: light metering
text: The museum curator went to the shelf and pulled down an ancient metering device.
glosses: The act of using a meter for measurement.
glosses: The process of marking a stamp with a meter.
glosses: The marking itself; franking.
Derived terms: net metering
metering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meter
metered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metred
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meter
metered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a meter, such as a gas meter, parking meter, etc.
Derived terms: metered-dose inhaler
nonmetered
unmetered
test bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test beds
Senses: examples: text: Since that set of articles is already fairly complete, they might serve as a good test bed for the different organizational systems we want to try.
text: Although its wheel size and arrangement seem far from ideal for a high-powered modern motive power unit, No. GT3 is clearly intended as far more than just another travelling test-bed.
ref: 1961 March, “English Electric gas turbine locomotive begins trials”, in Trains Illustrated, page 152:
text: It was taken out of passenger service in early 2013, for conversion into a test bed for the commissioning of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on the Hertford Loop and elsewhere.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of testbed.
scratch one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches one's head
form: scratching one's head
form: scratched one's head
form: scratched one's head
Etymology: scratch + one's + head
Senses: examples: text: Faced with a box full of hundreds of small parts and forty pages worth of assembly instructions, he could do little more than stand there and scratch his head.
text: But Sunderland will be left scratching their heads at the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period.
ref: 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:
glosses: To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.
Related terms: word: head-scratcher
word: head scratcher
word: head-scratching
word: head scratching
english: scratching my head
translation: scratching my head
word: SMH
word: smh
two for two
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From (baseball).
Senses: examples: He's two for two tonight.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In baseball, meeting two out of two attempts at-bat. Specifically, it means the batter has reached base safely two out of two times.
glosses: Successful at both of two efforts.
Synonyms: bat one thousand
bat a thousand
hyaloplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaloplasms
Etymology: From hyalo- + plasm.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structureless fluid in cells; cytosol
Related terms: hyaloplasmatic
stand to reason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstænd tə ˈɹiːzn̩/
ipa: /ˌstænd tə ˈɹiz(ə)n/
rhymes: -iːzən
Forms: form: stands to reason
form: standing to reason
form: stood to reason
form: stood to reason
Etymology: From stand (“(archaic or obsolete) to be consistent; to accord, agree”) + to + reason.
Senses: examples: text: It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
ref: 1966, M[argaret] I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, San Francisco, Calif.: Tri-Ocean Books, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:
text: But if the saying that those who want to govern, shouldn’t, applies here, does it really stand to reason that reluctant, brooding, can’t-be-bothered-to-say-goodbye-to-Ghost-the-good-boy types should?
ref: 2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
glosses: To seem logical, rational, or reasonable; to make sense.
Related terms: go without saying
scouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scout
bear out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɛəɹ ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: bears out
form: bearing out
form: bore out
form: borne out
Etymology: From Middle English beren out, dissimilated from earlier Middle English outberen, equivalent to bear + out.
Senses: examples: text: It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.
text: Time has borne McCarthy out; but see Schank (1983) for a plea that learning should now be reactivated as a central research topic.
ref: 1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255:
text: But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know.
ref: 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
examples: text: It is company only that can bear a man out in an ill thing
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light ; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun ; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God !
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
examples: That horse always bears out on the turns.
glosses: To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.
raw_tags: of a horse
laugh off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs off
form: laughing off
form: laughed off
form: laughed off
Senses: synonyms: laugh away#Verb
coordinate_terms: play off#Verb
glosses: To respond to (a negative situation) lightheartedly, as though it were a joke.
barge in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barges in
form: barging in
form: barged in
form: barged in
Senses: examples: text: What makes you think you can just barge in and make demands of the CEO?
text: Don't barge in on us like that again; we are presently having a meeting.
text: According to a Fox News source speaking to the Daily Beast, Simmons barged in on a staff meeting, unbuttoned his shirt and exposed his torso, shouting: “Hey chicks, sue me!”
ref: 2017 November 17, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Gene Simmons banned for life from Fox News over his behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To intrude; to enter or interrupt suddenly and without invitation.
like crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She stayed late, working like crazy to get the project done before the deadline.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To a great or excessive degree; with great speed, output, enthusiasm, etc.
Synonyms: like mad
Related terms: as if there were no tomorrow
like a house on fire
like billy-o
like it's going out of style
like nobody's business
megapixels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megapixel
mess around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: messes around
form: messing around
form: messed around
form: messed around
Senses: examples: text: The kids sat there messing around with leaves and blades of grass because they were bored.
text: These guys don't mess around! They finished the whole job in ten minutes.
glosses: To fiddle idly.
examples: text: Hey, don't take it personally. I was only messing around.
text: Don't mess around with electricity if you don't understand it.
glosses: To joke, kid, or play.
examples: text: Rumor has it that he's messing around with his secretary.
text: She grew up as the pretty young thing / Let them look up her skirt on the backyard swing, oh no / And Daddy told you to stay indoors / And I can understand how a girl gets bored / Too old to play and too young to mess around
ref: 2016, Lucy Dacus, “Troublemaker Doppelgänger”, in No Burden, Matador Records:
glosses: To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To dance.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: mess about
sense: fiddle idly
word: faff about
sense: fiddle idly
english: American
translation: American
word: dick around
sense: fiddle idly
word: waste time
Related terms: mess with
surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgery
inventories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inventory
inventories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inventory
radiochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from radiochemistry.
Senses: glosses: A chemist who specializes in radiochemistry
safeguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of safeguard
safeguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safeguardings
Senses: examples: text: The necessity of contractual safeguardings in PPPs was emphasized by most interview partners.
ref: 2018, Thomas S. Konrad, Management Control in Public-Private Partnerships, page 305:
glosses: Synonym of protection.
synonyms: word: protection
examples: text: We cannot have a culture that sees safeguarding as a separate add-on. It needs to be part of our DNA, as an expression of our love for one another and our commitment to the Gospel.
ref: 2022 October 24, Past Cases Review 2, National Safeguarding Steering Group of the Church of England, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024, page 4:
glosses: Policies and actions for the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
refuelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refueling
Senses: examples: text: Pending the installation of four 7,000-gal. diesel fuel tanks, temporary refuelling facilities have been provided by the adaptation of a 3,000-gal. oil tank wagon.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
glosses: present participle and gerund of refuel
refuelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refuellings
form: refueling
Senses: examples: text: The DMUs [diesel multiple units] used on the branch (mainly Class 158s) are based at Heaton depot in Newcastle; with a 1,500 mile range, the DMUs have to visit for refuelling once every three days.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:
text: Another site of early railway enterprise to be upgraded to 2* before benefiting from restoration (which would remove it from the 2024 at-risk register) is the S&DR [Stockton & Darlington Railway] coal drops, located in Shildon's Locomotive museum. After it was upgraded in 2021 […], 2022 research by Historic England found that the drops, constructed in 1847, were the world's first attempt at mechanising locomotive refuelling. The drops worked by chaldron wagons being taken up the incline, and their loads dropped down chutes into tenders of steam locomotives waiting below.
ref: 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 54:
glosses: The provision of more fuel to replace that used up.
revolutionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revolutionize
answer print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: answer prints
Etymology: From answer + print.
Senses: examples: text: The studio bosses were unwilling to approve the answer print of the novice director's debut.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The first graded print of an edited film combining sound and picture, which is created for the client to view and approve; his answer decides when the rest of the copies of the film are printed or not.
speckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speckle
speckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specklings
Senses: glosses: A pattern of small spots
glosses: ticking (the fabric)
fayalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fayalites
Etymology: From Fayal (“Faial Island in the Azores”) + -ite. Named in 1840.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe₂SiO₄.
Derived terms: fayalitic
descriptive statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile.
binom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binoms
Etymology: From bi- + -nom.
Senses: examples: text: Where you would expect to hear AN na N you may instead find, especially in written Japanese, AN no N. The latter, somewhat stiffer, version appears to enjoy particular favor when the AN is a binom of Chinese origin modifying another Chinese binom and the two words are either optionally combinable into a compound noun (by dropping the copula nó/ná together with its juncture and applying the proper accentuation) or look as if they might easily so combine.
ref: 1975, Samuel Elmo Martin, A Reference Grammar of Japanese; republished Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2004, →ISBN, page 766:
text: It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phonograms against 7).
ref: 2013, P. Kümmel, Formalization of Natural Languages, →ISBN:
text: The prototypical Sino-Japanese word is a binom, that is, a word written with two kanji, each kanji representing a Sino-Japanese morph. It is not difficult to find examples of rendaku affecting Sino-Japanese binoms, and a few are listed in (23).
ref: 2015, Haruo Kubozono, Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology, →ISBN, page 419:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A compound word.
Boolean functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boolean function
Boolean variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boolean variable
decimal numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decimal number
nominal variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominal variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: metrics
glosses: A variable with values which have no numerical value, such as gender or occupation.
Synonyms: categorical variable
Coordinate terms: ordinal variable
cardinal variable
interval variable
ratio variable
Related terms: dummy variable
MECE
nominal scale
Cartesian products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartesian product
ratio variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratio variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable with the features of interval variable and, additionally, whose any two values have meaningful ratio, making the operations of multiplication and division meaningful.
Hypernyms: cardinal variable
Coordinate terms: categorical variable
nominal variable
interval variable
Related terms: ratio scale
catheti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.θɪˌtaɪ/
/kəˈθɪ.taɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of cathetus
fishing rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing rods
Senses: synonyms: anglerod
fishing pole
glosses: A rod, often made in sections, which carries a line used for angling and is used to support both the line and the reel and to cast the line.
right triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right triangle
right-angled triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-angled triangle
interval variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interval variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An ordinal variable with the additional property that the magnitudes of the differences between two values are meaningful.
Synonyms: sense: variable with meaningful differences
word: equal-interval variable
Hypernyms: cardinal variable
Coordinate terms: categorical variable
nominal variable
ordinal variable
ratio variable
Related terms: interval scale