cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪdələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɪdlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fiddlers
Etymology: From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddl(e) + -er.
* (capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the fiddle.
examples: text: We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
ref: 2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html)
glosses: One who fiddles; a cheat.
examples: text: The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.
ref: 2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:
glosses: One who fiddles or tweaks.
glosses: A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
glosses: The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
glosses: A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
glosses: A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.
examples: text: Whereupon you shake hands with him […] and make room for him by your side in the "Fiddler," when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.
ref: 1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The capstan-house on a steamer.
Synonyms: word: fiddlist
word: fiddleist
Derived terms: bass fiddler
bull fiddler
drunk as a fiddler
fiddler crab
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler's Ferry
Hardanger fiddler
kiddy fiddler
pay the fiddler
pay the fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays the fiddler
form: paying the fiddler
form: paid the fiddler
form: paid the fiddler
Senses: examples: text: The three-day party had been a lot of fun, but now it was time to pay the fiddler.
glosses: To face the consequences of one's actions.
examples: If you want to dance, you’ve got to pay the fiddler
glosses: To contribute in order to participate.
Synonyms: pay the piper
svelte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlt
ipa: /ˈsvɛlt/
ipa: /ˈsfɛlt/
Forms: form: svelter
form: sveltest
Etymology: From French svelte, from Italian svelto (“stretched out”), past participle of svellere (“to pluck out, root out”), from Vulgar Latin *exvellere, from ex + vellere (“to pluck, stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: Psychoanalytic theory[…]seemed to promise to introduce a certain becoming amplitude into discussions of what different people are like — only to turn, in its streamlined trajectory across so many institutional boundaries, into the sveltest of metatheoretical disciplines, sleeked down to such elegant operational entities as the mother, the father, the preoedipal, the oedipal, the other or Other.
ref: 1990, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, published 2008, page 24:
text: Clearly the producers of “The Producers” were so little inclined to tinker with a winning formula that they chose not to excise a few lines of dialogue to accommodate the svelter physique of their new leading man, preposterous though it is that anyone in a fit of pique would deride a fellow as “once-husky.”
ref: 2007 January 19, Charles Isherwood, “Welterweight Bialystock Treads Softly on Big Shtick”, in New York Times:
text: My first priority was to help Trumps lose her pudgy look and gain a healthier, svelter size.
ref: 2009, Kim Bloomer, Animals Taught Me That, page 73:
text: If her dream of being naked in front of Simon were to come true – and she knew, somehow, that it would – she needed to be the sveltest version of herself that had ever existed. Fries wouldn't help peel away those pounds.
ref: 2010, M. S. Simpson, Kabuki in a G-String, page 158:
glosses: Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
examples: text: Peering down from the cockpit at grazing elephant, you have the feeling that what you are beholding is wonderful, but not authentic. It is not only incongruous in the sense that animals simply are not as big as trees, but also in the sense that the twentieth century, tidy and svelte with stainless steel as it is, would not possibly permit such prehistoric monsters to wander in its garden.
ref: 1942, Beryl Markham, West with the Night:
text: At 61, Bryant looks good – smart and svelte in an electric blue suit, youthful, a full head of hair except for a white scar at the back that looks like a side door into his brain.
ref: 2023 August 5, Simon Hattenstone, “Labour MP Chris Bryant on cleaning up parliament, and why he’s not afraid to pick a fight: ‘I’ve got in more scrapes than most people’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Refined, delicate.
Synonyms: sense: attractively thin
word: lithe
word: slim
word: willowy
word: slender
sense: refined
word: elegant
sense: refined
word: gentle
hen's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen’s teeth
form: hens' teeth
Senses: glosses: plural of hen's tooth
A-sharp major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key ais\major ais' bis' cisis dis eis fisis gisis ais}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The theoretical major key with A-sharp as its tonic and the notes A#, B#, C𝄪, D#, E#, F𝄪, and G𝄪.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of A-sharp.
treacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: treachers
Etymology: From Middle English trecher, from Old French trecheor (modern tricheur), from trechier, tricher (“to cheat, trick”). Compare English trick.
Senses: examples: text: “Fruits and treachers,” he said. “Nothin' in there but treachers and fruits. I see 'em goin' in and out all day, in their tammyshanters and their fur-covered shoes. Fruits and treachers, the place is full of 'em.”
ref: 1968, Stewart Alsop, The Center: People and Power in Political Washington:
glosses: A traitor or deceiver.
Derived terms: treacherer
treachersome
Related terms: treacherous
treachery
A major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key a \major a' b' cis d e fis gis a2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with A as its tonic, with the notes A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯, the key signature of which has three sharps.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of A.
A-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key aes \major aes' bes' c des es f g aes2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with A-flat as its tonic, with the notes A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G, the key signature of which has four flats.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of A-flat.
phonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
ipa: [fəˈnɛɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /fəˈnet.ɪk/
ipa: [fəˈneɾ.ɪk]
homophone: phenetic
homophone: fanatic (only in certain topolects with the met–mat merger)
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
examples: text: All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.
glosses: Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
Derived terms: antiphonetic
dysphonetic
ideophonetic
international phonetic alphabet
morphophonetic
NATO phonetic alphabet
nonphonetic
phonetical
phonetically
phonetic alphabet
phonetic determinative
phonetic erosion
phoneticism
phoneticist
phoneticize
phonetic name
phonetic spelling alphabet
phonetic symbol
phonetic symbolism
prephonetic
psychophonetic
sociophonetic
unphonetic
Related terms: fauxnetic
phone
phoneme
phonemic
phonetics
phonology
semiphonetic
phonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
ipa: [fəˈnɛɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /fəˈnet.ɪk/
ipa: [fəˈneɾ.ɪk]
homophone: phenetic
homophone: fanatic (only in certain topolects with the met–mat merger)
Forms: form: phonetics
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: I suspect that 田 dien is the original character and true phonetic of the whole group.
ref: 1887–88, J. Edkins, “The character 眞 true”, in The China Review, volume 16, page 306:
text: In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as the phonetic.
ref: 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy:
text: Or, the semantic may wrap around the phonetic, or position within the phonetic.
ref: 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
B-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key bes \major bes c' d' es' f' g' a' bes'2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with B-flat as its tonic, with the notes B♭, C, D, E♭, F, G, and A, the key signature of which has two flats.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of B-flat.
lepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
homophone: leper
Forms: form: leppers
Senses: examples: text: He's the king of all the leppers that was ever seen to lep,
A five-foot fence -- he'd clear it in a hop!
ref: 1899, Banjo Paterson, Father Riley's Horse:
glosses: A horse that jumps well.
qualifier: cattle
glosses: A type of Texas Longhorn, a subgroup of Butler cattle.
lepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
homophone: leper
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of leper.
schlepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schleppers
Etymology: From schlep + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tell the schlepper to take it up to your hotel room.
glosses: A servant who carries things; a porter.
schlepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schleppers
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שלעפּער (shleper).
Senses: examples: text: I can't interest the little schlepper in doing his homework.
glosses: One who wanders aimlessly.
examples: text: He's just a schlepper!
glosses: Any manual laborer, or other lowly employee.
Related terms: schlep
schmuck
statist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪst/
rhymes: -eɪtɪst
Forms: form: statists
Etymology: From state + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of statism.
glosses: A statistician.
examples: text: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]
ref: 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […].
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3:
glosses: A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence.
statist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪst/
rhymes: -eɪtɪst
Forms: form: more statist
form: most statist
Etymology: From state + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable.
ref: 2006 January, David Garcia, “Learning the Right Lessons”, in Mute, →ISSN:
text: By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.
ref: 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:
text: Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.
ref: 2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Jonathan Freedland: Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:
text: This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
ref: 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Pertaining to statism.
E flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-flat major
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of E-flat major.
resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: resorts
Etymology: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Senses: examples: text: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
glosses: A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
examples: text: to have resort to violence
text: Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 81, column 2:
glosses: Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
examples: text: Far from all reſort of mirth,
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
topics: government
glosses: A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
Derived terms: court of last resort
drug of last resort
health resort
lender of last resort
letter of last resort
resort charge
resorter
resort fee
resort town
seaside resort
Silverado Resort
ski resort
summer resort
resort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: resorts
form: resorting
form: resorted
form: resorted
Etymology: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Senses: examples: text: The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
text: He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.
ref: 1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 767:
text: The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.
ref: 1959 November, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification retrospect”, in Trains Illustrated, page 544:
text: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref: 2012 January 24, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60:
glosses: To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
examples: text: But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion.
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Course of Descents in England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 211:
text: I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: To fall back; to revert.
examples: text: The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: To make one's way, go (to).
Derived terms: last resort
resort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: resorts
form: resorting
form: resorted
form: resorted
Etymology: From re- + sort.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)
resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: resorts
Etymology: From re- + sort.
Senses: examples: text: "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.
ref: 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16
glosses: Alternative spelling of re-sort.
resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: resorts
Etymology: From French ressort.
Senses: examples: text: Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Active power or movement; spring.
B major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key b \major b cis' dis' e' fis' gis' ais' b'2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with B as its tonic, with the notes B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯, the key signature of which has five sharps.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of B.
tantamount
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt]
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt]
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt]
rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt
Forms: form: more tantamount
form: most tantamount
Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).
Senses: examples: text: Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin; […]
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “French Invasion of Ireland, and Second Rebellion”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 270:
text: […] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.
ref: 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 90:
text: In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.
ref: 2003 March 3, Philip Gourevitch, “The Optimist”, in The New Yorker:
text: Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.
ref: 2022 March 16, Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “Defendants’ representations to this Court that Mr. Musk is not running DOGE are tantamount to legal gaslighting,” CREW said.
ref: 2025 March 30, Tierney Sneed, “Is DOGE actually an agency? The answer could have major ramifications”, in CNN:
glosses: Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.
tantamount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt]
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt]
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt]
rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt
Forms: form: tantamounts
form: tantamounting
form: tantamounted
form: tantamounted
Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?
ref: a. 1657, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy, By Divine Institution, Apostolical Tradition, and Catholick Practice”, in Συμβολον Ἠθικο-Πολεμικον: or a Collection of Polemical and Moral Discourses, R. Royston, page 126:
glosses: To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
tantamount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt]
ipa: /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt]
ipa: [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt]
rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt
Forms: form: tantamounts
Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).
Senses: examples: text: For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
ref: 1977, Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett, page 42:
glosses: Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
A-minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-minors
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor key with A as its tonic
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of A
yaar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaars
Etymology: From Hindustani یار (yār) / यार (yār), from Classical Persian یار (yār).
Senses: examples: text: Help me, yaar!
text: ‘I'm going to make the most of my life now, yaar,’ he said.
ref: 1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: A friend, pal, or buddy.
glosses: lover
Related terms: yaari
's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: ’s
form: ’s
Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s.
Senses: examples: text: The dog’s running after me!
glosses: Contraction of is.
examples: text: The dog’s been chasing the mail carrier again.
glosses: Contraction of has.
examples: text: It’s a beautiful day yesterday so I’s at the park.
glosses: Contraction of was.
examples: text: What’s he do for a living?
text: What’s it say?
text: How’s it work?
text: Where’s the n in Javanese come from?
glosses: Contraction of does (used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words).
Derived terms: so's
Related terms: apostrophe
contraction
'd
’d
'll
’ll
'm
’m
're
’re
-'s
-’s
've
’ve
's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: ’s
form: ’s
Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s.
Senses: examples: text: What are you guys waiting for? Let’s go!
text: Wee'le part the time betweene's then: and in that
Ile no gaine-ſaying.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 277, column 2:
glosses: Contraction of us (found in the formula let’s which is used to form first-person plural imperatives).
's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: ’s
form: ’s
Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s.
Senses: examples: text: Duncan’s in ’s grave
glosses: Contraction of his.
's
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: ’s
form: ’s
Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s.
Senses: examples: text: All’s he wanted was to go home.
glosses: Contraction of as (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that").
Derived terms: all's
so's
's
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: ’s
form: ’s
Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s.
Senses: examples: text: He takes his bottle of whisky a day and gets drunk’s a lord in the evening.
ref: 1922, E. F. Benson, Negotium Perambulans:
glosses: Contraction of as.
skid mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skid marks
form: skidmark
Senses: glosses: A black mark left on a road surface from the sliding or skidding tires of a motor vehicle that has lost traction.
examples: text: The ladder that slipped left a skid mark across the tile floor.
text: The girl had skid marks on the knees of her jeans.
glosses: Any other mark or stain left on a surface from a sliding or rubbing object.
glosses: A visible feces stain left on underpants, trousers, or sometimes the toilet bowl.
glosses: A mark of a soiled finger wiped on a surface.
glosses: Any burn on the skin caused by scraping the skin against a surface.
acinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acinose.
Derived terms: periacinous
polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/
ipa: [ˈpəʊləʊ]
ipa: [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: polos
Etymology: From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
Senses: examples: text: There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 227:
glosses: A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
glosses: The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
examples: text: Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.
ref: 2007 February 22, Mike Albo, “Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: A polo shirt.
Derived terms: auto polo
canoe polo
cycle polo
elephant polo
ice polo
kayak polo
polocrosse
poloist
polo neck
polo-neck
polo neck sweater
polo player
polo pony
polo shirt
polo-stick
tennis polo
water polo
polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/
ipa: [ˈpəʊləʊ]
ipa: [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Etymology: From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/
ipa: [ˈpəʊləʊ]
ipa: [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: polos
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A dress shirt.
polo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/
ipa: [ˈpəʊləʊ]
ipa: [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Etymology: From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.
Senses: coordinate_terms: marco
marco polo
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Polo.
et al
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of et al.
Islamonazism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Islamo- + Nazism.
Senses: examples: ref: 1989 December 28, “Bumiputra and Islamonazism”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):
text: From the river to the sea, the whole land will one day be free — free of all the terrorist factions, and free for people of every religious faith to live without fear of Islamonazism, in all its perverse variations.
ref: 2002 December 5, Dave Kopel, “A Rich Tradition”, in The National Review:
ref: 2010 October 6, “Islamonazism and its historic, systematic and continue persecution of Christians ("Christains" to some)”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):
glosses: Islamist Nazism, Nazi Islamism: a real or imagined conflation of Nazism and Islamism.
Related terms: Islamofascism
womanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/
Forms: form: more womanish
form: most womanish
form: womannish
Etymology: From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: […] Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 113, column 1:
text: The Fence was a proper Park paling in excellent condition; with clusters of fine Elms, or rows of old Thorns following its line almost every where.—Almost must be stipulated—for there were vacant spaces & through one of these, Charlotte as soon as they entered the Enclosure, caught a glimpse over the pales of something White & Womanish in the field on the other side;—it was a something which immediately brought Miss B. into her head—& stepping to the pales, she saw indeed—& very decidedly, in spite of the Mist; Miss B—seated, not far before her, at the foot of the bank which sloped down from the outside of the Paling & which a narrow Path seemed to skirt along;—Miss Brereton seated, apparently very composedly—& Sir E. D. by her side.
ref: 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 167–168:
english: Sanditon
translation: Sanditon
text: I don't very much wonder at her fright. We have met before; but I owe her no grudge, and we must not wait for womanish fear.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 259:
text: Friends are a comfort in misfortune, but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy, as is done by women and womanish men.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, “Aristotle’s Ethics”, in History of Western Philosophy […], London: George Allen and Unwin, →OCLC, book 1 (Ancient Philosophy), part 2 (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), page 202:
text: Perhaps he did too, for he turned scarlet and turned his face away to the wall, with a womanish gesture of shyness.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 753
glosses: Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine.
examples: text: And gan recomfort her in her rude vvyſe, / VVith vvomaniſh compaſſion of her plaint, / VViping the teares from her ſuffuſed eyes, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 496:
glosses: Carried out by or pertaining to a woman.
Related terms: old-womanish
womanly
womanish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/
Forms: form: womanishes
form: womanishing
form: womanished
form: womanished
form: womannish
Etymology: From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to dread death.”
ref: 1907, “Book First”, in Rossiter Johnson, Dora Knowlton Ranous, editors, The Courtier (Il Cortegiano) (The Literature of Italy, 1265–1907), [New York, N.Y.]: The National Alumni, →OCLC, page 75:
text: [T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme [performe]: […]
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 17
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
text: He [Stubbes] complains of music “being used in public assemblies and private conventicles as a directory to filthy dancing;” and that “through the sweet harmony and smooth melody thereof, it estrangeth the mind, stirreth up lust, womanisheth the mind, and ravisheth the heart.”
ref: [1857], W[illiam] Chappell, “Puritanism, in Its Effects upon Music and Its Accessories”, in Popular Music of the Olden Time; a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. […], volume II, London: Cramer, Beale, & Chappell, […], page 406:
synonyms: effeminate#Verb
femalize
femininize
feminize
woman#Verb
womanize
glosses: To make womanish.
Related terms: girlish
ladyish
pela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese 白蠟.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we have the myrtle wax of America extracted from the berries of the myrica cerifera, and the pela of the Chinese.
ref: 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Pantologia:
glosses: Chinese wax
artemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artemons
Etymology: From Latin artemōn (“foresail”).
Senses: examples: text: A small square sail, an artemon, was slung under the bow to act as a headsail.
ref: 1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 34:
glosses: A square foresail on a Roman oared ship.
electromagnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromagnets
form: electro-magnet
Etymology: From electro- + magnet.
Senses: examples: text: Hold the electromagnet near something made of iron and push the switch (S2). […] Large electromagnets are used to move things around at factories and junkyards.
ref: 2010, “Electromagnetism”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 1:
glosses: A magnet which attracts metals only when electrically activated.
Coordinate terms: solenoid
Derived terms: Bitter electromagnet
electromagnetic
magnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mägnĕtĭzm
ipa: /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/
Forms: form: magnetisms
Etymology: From magnet + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of being magnetic.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
glosses: Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
examples: text: Mediums [...] should also realise that it is essential to lead a particularly abstinent life, and to conserve their magnetism.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:
glosses: Animal magnetism.
Synonyms: sense: property of being magnetic
word: magneticness
Derived terms: altermagnetism
animal magnetism
antiferromagnetism
archaeomagnetism
biomagnetism
chromomagnetism
diamagnetism
directional magnetism
electromagnetism
femtomagnetism
ferrimagnetism
ferromagnetism
galvanomagnetism
geomagnetism
gravitomagnetism
gyromagnetism
heliomagnetism
magnetism-based interaction capture
metamagnetism
micromagnetism
mictomagnetism
nanomagnetism
neuromagnetism
palaeomagnetism
paleomagnetism
paramagnetism
photomagnetism
phrenomagnetism
piezomagnetism
pyromagnetism
thermomagnetism
thermoremanent magnetism
zoomagnetism
ratline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹætlɪn/
Forms: form: ratlines
form: ratlin
form: rattlin
form: rattline
Etymology: Apparently a corruption of raddling by folk-etymological reanalysis as rat + line.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.
examples: text: [H]e laid hold of the first ratline with his right hand, then sprung to the second, with his left, and so on alternately, right and left, up to the last, close to the futtock shrouds.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 80
text: That meant it was not possible to use ratlines — that is, to make rope ladders out of the shrouds by adding small connecting pieces of ropes.
ref: 1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 34:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the cross ropes between the shrouds, which form a net-like ropework, allowing sailors to climb up towards the top of the mast.
examples: text: Marc Masurovsky, of the European Shoah Legacy Institute, has a remarkable knowledge of the Nazi ratlines and Allied intelligence.
ref: 2015, Gerald Posner, God's Bankers, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 515:
glosses: A system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
Derived terms: ratline stuff
girlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ
Forms: form: more girlish
form: most girlish
Etymology: From girl + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act 1:
text: April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
ref: 1898, William Watson, “Song”, in The Hope of the World and Other Poems, London: John Lane, page 41:
glosses: Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
examples: 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html
This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .
glosses: Of or relating to girlhood.
Derived terms: girlishly
girlishness
little-girlish
ungirlish
Related terms: schoolgirlish
boyish
womanish
sharpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑɹpən/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːpən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pən
Forms: form: sharpens
form: sharpening
form: sharpened
form: sharpened
Etymology: From Middle English scharpenen, scharpnen, equivalent to sharp + -en.
Senses: examples: text: to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note
text: He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
glosses: To make sharp.
examples: text: The organizers said they had found themselves "more involved in the web of social convulsions and violence that is tormenting our country. The present economic crisis, the grave political instability and the rapidly sharpening violence have finally overtaken […] our wishes.
ref: 1990 February 4, Jennie McKnight, “Peruvian Politics Threaten Encuentro”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 2:
glosses: To become sharp.
Synonyms: english: figurative sense
translation: figurative sense
word: hone
word: whet
Derived terms: sharpener
sharpen up
sharpener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pənə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: sharpeners
Etymology: From sharpen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.
glosses: A device for making things sharp.
examples: text: “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […]
ref: 1795, Hannah More, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain:
text: The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.
ref: 1872, Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts:
glosses: That which makes something sharp.
glosses: An alcoholic drink taken at the start of the day, or just before a meal.
Derived terms: pencil sharpener
Related terms: sharp
sacar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacars
Senses: examples: text: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
ref: 1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] and B[ernard] A[lsop] for Roger Iackſon, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of saker (cannon).
punta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.
debater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbeɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: debaters
Etymology: From debate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: William is a great debater.
text: Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."
ref: 2009, Patsy Clairmont, All Cracked Up: Experiencing God in the Broken Places:
text: Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)
ref: 2017 September 26, Jack McCordick, “The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics”, in America, New York, N.Y.: America Press Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023:
synonyms: word: arguer
word: arguee
glosses: One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.