paws

text: You fine folks here, particularly Joanne (mom to 14 rats) and Paghat, posted very passionate and informative articles, which gave me paws (pun intended) to think twice about the "advice" my vet had given me about pine shavings being safe for rattie's bedding.

ref: 2003 November 24, Mark Mestman <guitarmakermark@yahoo.com>, “Trying Aspen Bedding.......”, in alt.pets.rodents.rats (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2026:

text: Watch a cat named Milo sabotage a purrfectly peaceful yoga routine in a video posted by a user named "jahzyoga" a "yoga teacher" and "jazz vocalist." Dare we suggest, maybe he was trying to hit the "paws" button?

ref: 2014 March 13, Olivia B. Waxman, “WATCH: Cat Interrupts Yoga Session, Ruins the Mew-d”, in Time, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN:

text: His life just got put on paws.

ref: 2017, Brian Tallerico, editor, Magill's Cinema Annual 2017 36th Edition: A Survey of the films of 2016, Gale, →ISBN, page 306:

text: [Title:] Press paws and relax at the best dog-friendly places in Britain

ref: 2019 November 30, Alastair Sawday, “Press paws and relax at the best dog-friendly places in Britain”, in The Daily Telegraph, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 7:

text: [Title:] Furry influencers will make you hit paws

ref: 2023 January 9, Sara Moniuszko, “Furry influencers will make you hit paws”, in USA Today, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN:

links: pause pause

raw_glosses: (informal, humorous) pause, used in contexts of animals with paws

etymology_text: Pun on pause sounding identical to paws (plural of paw).


paws

text: If you paws the game at a right moemnt you ger really interesting ScarSimba position results ;)^([sic])

ref: 1998 June 28, Sichi/Sarafina <sichi@lionking.org>, “Re: (fwd) Stuck in Lion King Game "Be Prepared" (fwd)”, in alt.fan.lion-king (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2026:

type: quotation

text: The Amazing Puppy Wizard has pawsed to think of EVERY THING, abHOWET dogs and behavior.

ref: 2004 December 1, The Puppy Wizard <ThePuppyWizard@earthlink.net>, “Re: Re: 1 and a half year old german shepherd is afraid of our new house”, in rec.pets.dogs.misc (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2026:

text: After exchanging greetings with these two, I made my way slowly down the corridor to Phyllis Wallace's room, pawsing as usual at every wheelchair for the outstretched hands to pat my silky head.

ref: 2011, Lynda Reynolds Fisher, “CHURCH DOG'S VISIT TO LIFE CARE CENTER, CHRISTMAS WEEK 2009”, in E-Mails From The Church Dog: Lessons From A Therapy Dog For The Ministry, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 162:

text: [Title:] Paws and Reflect: Assessing the Impact of User Reviews and Ratings on Pet Food E-commerce Purchase Decisions

ref: 2024 July 21, Ronnel Relao, Paula Sharmaine Delos Santos, “Paws and Reflect: Assessing the Impact of User Reviews and Ratings on Pet Food E-commerce Purchase Decisions”, in SEISENSE Business Review, volume 4, number 1, SEISENSE, →DOI, →ISSN, page 118:

raw_glosses: (informal, humorous) to pause, used in contexts of animals with paws

pos: verb

en-verb

expansion: paws (third-person singular simple present pawses, present participle pawsing, simple past and past participle pawsed)

forms:
pawses (present singular third-person)
pawsing (participle present)
pawsed (participle past)
pawsed (past)

ipa: /pɔːz/

ipa: /pɑːz/

homophone: pause

homophone: pores

homophone: pours (non-rhotic)

rhymes: -ɔːz

rhymes: -ɑːz


paws

links: kissing kissing

links: kiss kiss

pos: noun

forms: pawsa (feminine singulative)

etymology_text: Inherited from Arabic بَوْس (baws).

ety

acy

:inh

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Cypriot Arabic", "term" : "paws", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "acy" }" data-lang="acy" data-title="paws">
Inherited from Arabic بَوْس (baws).


entré

links: entrar entrar#Asturian

glosses: first-person singular preterite indicative of entrar

head

ast

verb form

expansion: entré


entré

links: hall hall

links: hallway hallway

links: enter enter

links: appearance appearance

links: appear appear

links: debut debut

glosses: The action of appearing or entering for the first time, a debut.

links: admission admission

links: entrance entrance

links: fee fee

da

noun

g: c

singular definite

entréen

f1accel-form: def|s

plural indefinite

entréer

f4accel-form: indef|p

expansion: entré c (singular definite entréen, plural indefinite entréer)

da-noun

en

er

forms:
entréen (definite singular)
entréer (indefinite plural)
entré (indefinite nominative singular)
entréen (definite nominative singular)
entréer (indefinite nominative plural)
entréerne (definite nominative plural)
entrés (genitive indefinite singular)
entréens (definite genitive singular)
entréers (genitive indefinite plural)
entréernes (definite genitive plural)
entre (alternative)

da-noun-infl-base

sg-indef: entré

sg-def: entréen

pl-indef: entréer

pl-def: entréerne

gen-sg-indef: entrés

gen-sg-def: entréens

gen-pl-indef: entréers

gen-pl-def: entréernes

etymology_text: From French entrée.

bor

fr

entrée

expansion: French entrée


entré

links: entrer entrer#French

fr-past participle

expansion: entré (feminine entrée, masculine plural entrés, feminine plural entrées)

forms:
entrée (feminine)
entrés (masculine plural)
entrées (feminine plural)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-entré.wav

note: Brétigny-sur-Orge

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-entré.wav


entré

head

lou

verb

etymology_text: From French entrer (“to enter”), compare Haitian Creole antre.

inh

entrer

to enter

expansion: French entrer (“to enter”)

cog

ht

antre

expansion: Haitian Creole antre


entré

head

nb

g: m

definite singular

or

entreen

indefinite plural

entréer

or

entreer

definite plural

entréene

or

entreene

expansion: entré m (definite singular entréen or entreen, indefinite plural entréer or entreer, definite plural entréene or entreene)

forms:
entréen (definite singular)
entreen (definite singular)
entréer (indefinite plural)
entreer (indefinite plural)
entréene (definite plural)
entreene (definite plural)


entré

nn

entréar

entrear

entréane

entreane

expansion: entré m (definite singular entréen or entreen, indefinite plural entréar or entrear, definite plural entréane or entreane)

forms:
entréen (definite singular)
entreen (definite singular)
entréar (indefinite plural)
entrear (indefinite plural)
entréane (definite plural)
entreane (definite plural)


entré

links: entrar entrar#Spanish

es


entré

glosses: entrance; the action of entering, or going in

glosses: entrance; the place of entering, as a gate or doorway

sv

nouns

expansion: entré c

sv-noun

c

forms:
entré (indefinite nominative singular)
entrés (genitive indefinite singular)
entrén (definite nominative singular)
entréns (definite genitive singular)
entréer (indefinite nominative plural)
entréers (genitive indefinite plural)
entréerna (definite nominative plural)
entréernas (definite genitive plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from French entrée.

ipa: /anˈtreː/

ipa: /aŋˈtreː/

rhymes: -eː


murders

links: murder murder#English

head

noun form

expansion: murders

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-murders.wav


murders

glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of murder


savaient

links: savoir savoir#French

glosses: third-person plural imperfect indicative of savoir

fr

expansion: savaient

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-savaient.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-savaient.wav


investigations

links: investigation investigation#English

expansion: investigations


investigations

links: investigation investigation#French

g: f

expansion: investigations f


adventurers

links: adventurer adventurer#English

expansion: adventurers


prizes

links: prize prize#English

expansion: prizes

ipa: /ˈpɹaɪzɪz/

rhymes: -aɪzɪz


prizes

glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prize


ambitions

links: ambition ambition#English

expansion: ambitions

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-ambitions.wav


ambitions

links: ambition ambition#French

expansion: ambitions f


ambitions

links: ambition ambition#Swedish

glosses: indefinite genitive singular of ambition


alterations

links: alteration alteration#English

expansion: alterations


ponies

links: pony pony#English

links: poney poney#English

expansion: ponies


ponies

text: I wanted that car. Also, these things are crazy on the road. Front wheel suspension, tons of ponies, but best of all, it has a tape deck.

ref: 2016, Greg Universe, “Beach City Drift”, in Steven Universe:

links: automotive automotive

links: Horsepower horsepower#English

text: My husband is forever throwing away money on the ponies.

type: example

text: Around here, back then, the mob ran both the ponies and the numbers. [two forms of gambling]

links:
Horse racing
horse racing#English

links: racehorse racehorse

raw_glosses: (slang, with "the") Horse racing or racehorses.

en-noun

p

expansion: ponies pl (plural only)


ponies

links: pondre pondre#Catalan

glosses: second-person singular imperfect indicative of pondre

head

ca


Protestants

links: Protestant Protestant#English

expansion: Protestants


Protestants

links: Protestant Protestant#German

de

expansion: Protestants m


étiez

links: être être#French

glosses: second-person plural imperfect indicative of être

expansion: étiez

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-étiez.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-étiez.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-étiez.wav

rhymes: -e


apparut

links: apparaître apparaître#French

glosses: third-person singular past historic of apparaître

links: apparaitre apparaitre#French

glosses: third-person singular past historic of apparaitre

expansion: apparut

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-apparut.wav

note: Shawinigan


merging

links: merge merge#English

expansion: merging

rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ


merging

links: merged merged

glosses: The act, or the result, of being merged.

en-noun

expansion: merging (plural mergings)

forms: mergings (plural)


multiplying

links: multiply multiply#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of multiply

head

expansion: multiplying


multiplying

links: multiplication multiplication

en-noun

expansion: multiplying (plural multiplyings)

forms: multiplyings (plural)


reciting

links: recite recite#English

head

expansion: reciting


reciting

text: During these public recitings (and performances) of verse, an audience (sometimes a jury of experts and a lay audience) judges the performers.

ref: 2021, Hans-Peter Wagner, A History of British, Irish and American Literature, page 387:

links: recitation recitation

en-noun

expansion: reciting (plural recitings)

forms: recitings (plural)


repelling

links: repel repel#English

head

expansion: repelling


repelling

links: repulsion repulsion

glosses: An act by which something is repelled; repulsion.

en-noun

expansion: repelling (plural repellings)

forms: repellings (plural)


requesting

links: request request#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of request

head

expansion: requesting


restoring

links: restore restore#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of restore

expansion: restoring


selecting

links: select select#English

expansion: selecting


selecting

text: […] selectings and rejectings of a few founders.

ref: 1914, The New Age, page 280:

text: 'He had gained the most privileged access to Stratford-on-Avon church under unique conditions. […] The portions under repair may be screened off if he requires it, and there is no reason to suppose that he cannot introduce workmen of his own selecting.

ref: 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

links: selection selection

en-noun

expansion: selecting (countable and uncountable, plural selectings)

forms: selectings (plural)


sharpening

links: sharpen sharpen#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of sharpen

head

expansion: sharpening


sharpening

text: There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.

ref: 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4:

glosses: The act by which something is sharpened.

links: debris debris

links: pencil pencil

raw_glosses: (in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.

en-noun

expansion: sharpening (plural sharpenings)

forms: sharpenings (plural)

ὄξυσμα

code: grc

sense: one who vexes

roman: óxusma

ἀκόνησις

roman: akónēsis


slaughtering

links: slaughter slaughter#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of slaughter

head

expansion: slaughtering


slaughtering

text: Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.

ref: 1970, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 1, page 129:

en-noun

expansion: slaughtering (plural slaughterings)

forms: slaughterings (plural)


squeaking

links: squeak squeak#English

head

expansion: squeaking


squeaking

text: Then he paused a while, and Adrian seemed to hear certain strange squeakings proceeding from the walls.

ref: 1901, H. Rider Haggard, Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch:

en-noun

expansion: squeaking (plural squeakings)

forms: squeakings (plural)


homing

links: home home#English

head

expansion: homing

ipa: /ˈhoʊmɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈhəʊmɪŋ/

rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ


homing

text: Watch out for the boss's last attack — the blue bullets are homing.

links:
video game
video game

links: self- self-

links: adjusts adjusts

links: trajectory trajectory

links:
home in
home in

raw_glosses: (video games, of a projectile) That self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.

links: military military

raw_glosses: (military, of a projectile) Fitted with a guiding electronic device that allows it to find and hit a target.

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: homing (comparative more homing, superlative most homing)

forms:
more homing (comparative)
most homing (superlative)


outsourcing

links: outsource outsource#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of outsource

head

expansion: outsourcing

ipa: /ˈaʊtˌsɔː.sɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-outsourcing.wav

rhymes: -aʊtsɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ

parts: out sourc ing


outsourcing

links: business business

links: management management

links: transfer transfer

links: function function

links:
service provider
service provider

raw_glosses: (business, management) The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

en-noun

expansion: outsourcing (countable and uncountable, plural outsourcings)

forms: outsourcings (plural)

аутсо́рсинг

roman: autsórsing

аутсо́рсинг

roman: autsórsynh

تَعْهِيد m أَوْتْسُورْسِينْغ

code: ar

sense: transfer of business function to external party

roman: taʕhīd

աութսորսինգ

code: hy

roman: autʻsorsing

արտապատվիրում

roman: artapatvirum

аўтсо́рсынг

code: be

roman: awtsórsynh

аўтсо́рсынґ

roman: awtsórsyng

externalització

code: ca

外包

code: cmn

roman: wàibāo

委外

roman: wěiwài

外判

roman: wàipàn

外購 /外购

english: purchase from outside

translation: purchase from outside

roman: wàigòu

outsourcing

code: da

uitbesteding

code: nl

ulkoistaminen

code: fi

externalisation

code: fr

externalización

code: gl

Outsourcing

code: de

מיקור חוץ

code: he

आउटसोर्सिंग

code: hi

roman: āuṭsorsiṅg

kiszervezés

code: hu

útvistun

code: is

outsourcing

code: it

アウトソーシング

code: ja

roman: autosōshingu

아웃소싱

code: ko

roman: autsosing

बाह्यस्रोत

code: mr

roman: bāhyasrot

برونسپاری

code: fa

roman: borun-sepâri

outsourcing

code: pl

terceirização

code: pt

аутсо́рсинг

code: ru

сда́ча в субподря́д

roman: sdáča v subpodrjád

подря́д

roman: podrjád

субподря́д

roman: subpodrjád

izmještanje

code: sh

externalización

code: es

அவுட்சோர்ஸிங்

code: ta

roman: avuṭcōrsiṅ

аутсо́рсинг

code: uk

аутсо́рсинґ

roman: autsórsyng

thuê ngoài

code: vi

ipa: /ˈaʊtˌsɔː.sɪŋ/


outsourcing

links: outsourcing outsourcing#English

raw_glosses: (uncountable, business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

head

outsourcing

da-noun-infl-base

sg-indef: outsourcing

sg-def: outsourcingen

pl-indef: outsourcinger

pl-def: outsourcingerne

gen-sg-indef: outsourcings

gen-sg-def: outsourcingens

gen-pl-indef: outsourcingers

gen-pl-def: outsourcingernes

forms:
outsourcing (indefinite nominative singular)
outsourcingen (definite nominative singular)
outsourcinger (indefinite nominative plural)
outsourcingerne (definite nominative plural)
outsourcings (genitive indefinite singular)
outsourcingens (definite genitive singular)
outsourcingers (genitive indefinite plural)
outsourcingernes (definite genitive plural)

etymology_text: Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

ubor

en

outsourcing


outsourcing

raw_glosses: (business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

it-noun

m

expansion: outsourcing m (uncountable)

it

expansion: Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing


outsourcing

glosses: outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

pl-noun

m-in

expansion: outsourcing m inan

pl-decl-noun-m-in

tantum: s

forms:
outsourcing (nominative singular)
outsourcingu (genitive singular)
outsourcingowi (dative singular)
outsourcing (accusative singular)
outsourcingiem (instrumental singular)
outsourcingu (locative singular)
outsourcingu (singular vocative)

ety

pl

:ubor

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#unadapted_borrowing|Unadapted borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "ubor" } ], "lang_name" : "Polish", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "pl" }" data-lang="pl" data-title="outsourcing">
Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

rhymes: -ɔrsiŋk


outsourcing

pt

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#unadapted_borrowing|Unadapted borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "ubor" } ], "lang_name" : "Portuguese", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "pt" }" data-lang="pt" data-title="outsourcing">
Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.


outsourcing

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#unadapted_borrowing|Unadapted borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "ubor" } ], "lang_name" : "Spanish", "term" : "outsourcing", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "es" }" data-lang="es" data-title="outsourcing">
Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

ipa: /autˈsoɾθin/

ipa: /autˈsoɾsin/

rhymes: -oɾθin (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

rhymes: -oɾsin (Latin America, Philippines)


witnessing

links: witness witness#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of witness

head

en

expansion: witnessing


witnessing

text: false witnessings

links:
bearing witness
bear witness

en-noun

expansion: witnessing (plural witnessings)

forms: witnessings (plural)

témoignage

code: fr

sense: bearing witness

Zeugnis

code: de

свиде́тельствование

roman: svidételʹstvovanije


lessening

links: lessen lessen#English

head

expansion: lessening


lessening

links: reduction reduction

links: decrease decrease

glosses: A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.

en-noun

expansion: lessening (plural lessenings)

forms: lessenings (plural)


amounting

links: amount amount#English

head

expansion: amounting

ipa: /əˈmaʊntɪŋ/


grappling

text: […] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.

ref: 2007 December 21, Bernard Holland, “Yielding to Youths Fierce Enthusiasms”, in New York Times:

links: grapple grapple

raw_glosses: (gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.

links:
grappling hook
grappling hook

links:
grappling iron
grappling iron

links: anchor anchor

links: grapnel grapnel

en-noun

expansion: grappling (plural grapplings)

forms: grapplings (plural)

grijpen

code: nl

sense: act in which something is grappled

cebelleşerek

code: tr

enpr: grăpʹ(ə-)lĭng

ipa: /ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-grappling.wav

rhymes: -æplɪŋ

rhymes: -æpəlɪŋ

parts: grap pling


grappling

links: grapple grapple#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of grapple

head

expansion: grappling

ipa: /ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ/


deviating

links: deviate deviate#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of deviate

expansion: deviating


watering

text: The plants receive regular waterings.

links: water water

links: diluting dilute

links: liquid liquid

glosses: An act of watering, that is, pouring water on something, or diluting a liquid.

links: art art

links: process process

links: wavy wavy

links: ornamental ornamental

links: appearance appearance

glosses: The art or process of giving a wavy, ornamental appearance to something.

en-noun

expansion: watering (plural waterings)

forms: waterings (plural)

поли́ване

code: bg

sense: act of pouring water on something

roman: polívane

vanding

code: da

kastelu

code: fi

vanning

code: nb

vatning

code: nn

поли́в

roman: polív

طالغه

code: ota

english: on silk

translation: on silk

roman: dalga, dalğa

разреждане с вода

sense: act of diluting a liquid

roman: razreždane s voda

aallotus

sense: act of giving wavy appearance


watering

links: water water#English

head

expansion: watering


watering

links: wetering wetering#Dutch

nl-noun

f

-en

expansion: watering f (plural wateringen, diminutive waterinkje n)

forms:
wateringen (plural)
waterinkje (diminutive neuter)

etymology_text: From Middle Dutch wateringe, from Old Dutch weteringa. By surface analysis, wateren + -ing.

inh

nl

dum

wateringe

expansion: Middle Dutch wateringe

odt

weteringa

expansion: Old Dutch weteringa

surf

wateren

-ing

expansion: By surface analysis, wateren + -ing

ipa: /ˈʋaː.təˌrɪŋ/

parts: wa te ring


intersecting

links: intersect intersect#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of intersect

head

expansion: intersecting


conferring

links: confer confer#English

expansion: conferring


conferring

text: His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings.

ref: 1921, Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association:

links: confer confer

en-noun

expansion: conferring (plural conferrings)

forms: conferrings (plural)


heaping

links: heap heap#English

head

expansion: heaping

ipa: /ˈhiːpɪŋ/

rhymes: -iːpɪŋ


heaping

text: a heaping teaspoon of sugar

text: a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice

links: heaped heaped#English

raw_glosses: (especially US, Canada) Containing a heap (of something). (Compare heaped.)

en-adj

expansion: heaping (not comparable)


aggravating

links: aggravate aggravate#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of aggravate

head

expansion: aggravating


aggravating

text: aggravating circumstances

links: worse worse

links: Annoying annoying

en-adj

expansion: aggravating (comparative more aggravating, superlative most aggravating)

forms:
more aggravating (comparative)
most aggravating (superlative)


virent

text: the roots of Canes, Bryony and other plants: for in these yet fresh and virent

ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

links: green green

links: unwithered unwithered

raw_glosses: (obsolete) green in color, or unwithered

expansion: virent (comparative more virent, superlative most virent)

forms:
more virent (comparative)
most virent (superlative)

etymology_text: From Latin virens, present participle of virere (“to be green”).

uder

la

virens

expansion: Latin virens

ipa: /ˈvɪɹənt/


virent

links: virer virer#French

glosses: third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of virer

head

expansion: virent

ipa: /viʁ/

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-virent.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-virent.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-virent.wav

homophone: vire

homophone: vires


virent

links: voir voir#French

glosses: third-person plural past historic of voir


virent

links: vireō vireo#Latin

glosses: third-person plural present active indicative of vireō

la


perdait

links: perdre perdre#French

glosses: third-person singular imperfect indicative of perdre

expansion: perdait

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-perdait.wav


Freddy

links: diminutive diminutive

links:
given name
given name

links: Frederick Frederick#English

glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.

links: Fredericton Fredericton

pos: name

en-proper noun

expansion: Freddy

etymology_text: From Fred + -y.

ety

:af

Fred

-y

expansion: From Fred + -y.

ipa: /ˈfɹɛdi/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Freddy.wav

rhymes: -ɛdi

forms: Freddie (alternative)


Freddy

head

da

proper noun

etymology_text: From English Freddy.

bor

Freddy

expansion: English Freddy


Freddy

head

no


Freddy

sv

genitive

Freddys

expansion: Freddy c (genitive Freddys)

forms: Freddys (genitive)


pensais

links: penser penser#French

glosses: first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of penser

verb form

expansion: pensais

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-pensais.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-pensais.wav


pensais

links: pensar pensar#Galician

raw_glosses: (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of pensar

qualifier: reintegrationist norm

gl


pensais

links: pensar pensar#Portuguese

glosses: second-person plural present indicative of pensar


getroffen

links: treffen treffen#Dutch

nl-past-ptc

expansion: getroffen

forms:
getroffen (adverbial predicative)
getroffen (feminine indefinite masculine singular)
getroffen (indefinite neuter singular)
getroffen (indefinite plural)
getroffen (definite)
getroffens (partitive)


getroffen

links: treffen treffen#German

head

past participle

ipa: [ɡəˈtʁɔfn̩]

parts: ge trof fen


getroffen

links: hit hit

links: struck struck

links: met met

links: taken taken

links: made made

de-adj

expansion: getroffen (strong nominative masculine singular getroffener, not comparable)

forms:
getroffener (masculine nominative singular strong)
getroffen (masculine predicative singular)
getroffen (feminine predicative singular)
getroffen (neuter predicative singular)
getroffen (plural predicative)
getroffener (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
getroffene (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
getroffenes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
getroffene (nominative plural strong without-article)
getroffenen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
getroffener (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
getroffenen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
getroffener (genitive plural strong without-article)
getroffenem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
getroffener (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
getroffenem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
getroffenen (dative plural strong without-article)
getroffenen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
getroffene (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
getroffenes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
getroffene (accusative plural strong without-article)
der getroffene (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die getroffene (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das getroffene (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die getroffenen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des getroffenen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der getroffenen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des getroffenen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der getroffenen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem getroffenen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der getroffenen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem getroffenen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den getroffenen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den getroffenen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die getroffene (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das getroffene (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die getroffenen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein getroffener (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine getroffene (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein getroffenes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
getroffenen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine getroffenen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines getroffenen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer getroffenen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines getroffenen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
getroffenen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner getroffenen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem getroffenen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer getroffenen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem getroffenen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
getroffenen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen getroffenen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen getroffenen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine getroffene (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein getroffenes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
getroffenen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine getroffenen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)


singed

links: singe singe#English

glosses: simple past and past participle of singe

head

expansion: singed


sacrificing

links: sacrifice sacrifice#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of sacrifice

expansion: sacrificing


chasing

links: chase chase#English

expansion: chasing

ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɪŋ/

rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ


chasing

text: gold with chasings of silver

en-noun

expansion: chasing (countable and uncountable, plural chasings)

forms: chasings (plural)


enlarging

links: enlarge enlarge#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of enlarge

head

expansion: enlarging


enlarging

text: They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.

ref: 1849, William Jay, Sermons:

en-noun

expansion: enlarging (plural enlargings)

forms: enlargings (plural)


beaming

text: The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.

ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

text: The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.

ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:

links: Smilingly smilingly

links: happy happy

en-adj

expansion: beaming (comparative more beaming, superlative most beaming)

forms:
more beaming (comparative)
most beaming (superlative)

radiante

code: gl

sense: showing happy emotion

renīdens

code: la


beaming

text: The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things […]

ref: 1826, Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt:

links: beam beam

glosses: The act of someone or something that beams.

links: music music

raw_glosses: (music) The use of beams (horizontal bars) to group notes and indicate metric value.

en-noun

expansion: beaming (countable and uncountable, plural beamings)

forms: beamings (plural)


relieving

links: relieve relieve#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of relieve

head

expansion: relieving

etymology_text: From relieve + -ing.

ety

relieve

-ing

expansion: From relieve + -ing.

ipa: /ɹɪˈliːvɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-relieving.wav


relieving

text: Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.

ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 24:

date: from 16th c.

links: relief relief

en-adj

expansion: relieving (comparative more relieving, superlative most relieving)

forms:
more relieving (comparative)
most relieving (superlative)


relieving

text: Purple flowers are commonly contrasted with centres or variegations of bright yellow, as blue flowers are with like relievings of orange […]

ref: 1850, George Field, Rudiments of the Painters' Art, page 68:

text: The light—divested of its aching brilliancy, lies sweetly upon the floor, checkered as that old man's life, in its quaint, yet charming relievings of shadow.

ref: 1855, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volume 5, page 42:

links: monotony monotony

raw_glosses: (archaic) A change in colour, texture, etc. that relieves monotony.

en-noun

expansion: relieving (plural relievings)

forms: relievings (plural)


withdrawing

links: withdraw withdraw#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of withdraw

head

expansion: withdrawing


withdrawing

text: The first gold transaction, to four-fifths of its amount, would be by direct withdrawings of coin or bullion from the Bank of England.

ref: 1870, Patrick Barry, Wealth and Poverty considered, page 143:

links: withdrawal withdrawal

en-noun

expansion: withdrawing (plural withdrawings)

forms: withdrawings (plural)


venido

links: venir venir#Spanish

es-past participle

expansion: venido (feminine venida, masculine plural venidos, feminine plural venidas)

forms:
venida (feminine)
venidos (masculine plural)
venidas (feminine plural)

ipa: /beˈnido/

rhymes: -ido


jerking

text: The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).

ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

links: jerk jerk

en-noun

expansion: jerking (plural jerkings)

forms: jerkings (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-jerking.wav


jerking

links: jerk jerk#English

head

expansion: jerking


recognizing

links: recognize recognize#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of recognize

expansion: recognizing

ipa: /ˈɹɛk.əɡˌnaɪ.zɪŋ/


quoting

links: quote quote#English

expansion: quoting


quoting

text: Nevertheless, in many variations, quotings, and paraphrasings, gigantic assertions gained currency.

ref: 2012, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry 1945-1960:

links: quote quote

en-noun

expansion: quoting (plural quotings)

forms: quotings (plural)


proposing

links: propose propose#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of propose

head

expansion: proposing


pruning

links: removal removal

glosses: A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.

links: twig twig

raw_glosses: (countable) Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.

links:
computer science
computer science

links: enumeration enumeration

links:
decision tree
decision tree

raw_glosses: (computer science) A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.

en-noun

expansion: pruning (countable and uncountable, plural prunings)

forms: prunings (plural)

poda

code: ca

sense: action of pruning

prořezávání

code: cs

κλάδεμα

code: el

roman: kládema

poda

code: pt

проре́живание

code: ru

roman: proréživanije

обрезка растений

roman: obrezka rastenij

orezivanje

code: sh

beskärning

code: sv

hitatag

code: tl

prořezávání

sense: method of enumeration

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English prune
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English pruning
From prune + -ing.

ety

prune

-ing<id:gerund noun>

expansion:
Etymology tree
English prune
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English pruning
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From prune + -ing.

ipa: /ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pruning.wav


pruning

links: prune prune#English

head

expansion: pruning

etymology_text: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


beckoning

links: beckon beckon

en-adj

expansion: beckoning (comparative more beckoning, superlative most beckoning)

forms:
more beckoning (comparative)
most beckoning (superlative)

ipa: /ˈbɛkənɪŋ/


beckoning

links: wave wave

links: similar similar

links: action action

en-noun

expansion: beckoning (plural beckonings)

forms: beckonings (plural)


beckoning

links: beckon beckon#English

head

expansion: beckoning


frying

links: fry fry#English

expansion: frying

rhymes: -aɪɪŋ


frying

text: Mr. Pemoulie said the chefs tried various types of flour, multiple fryings, turning the batter into foam, and adding vodka to it (that idea stuck).

ref: 2009 October 7, Julia Moskin, “Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:

text: There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.

ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:

links: fry fry

en-noun

expansion: frying (plural fryings)

forms: fryings (plural)


identifying

links: identify identify#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of identify

head

expansion: identifying


identifying

text: identifying characteristic

links: easily easily

links: uniquely uniquely

links: distinguish distinguish

glosses: Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

en-adj

expansion: identifying (comparative more identifying, superlative most identifying)

forms:
more identifying (comparative)
most identifying (superlative)


identifying

text: There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.

ref: 2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page 49:

links: identification identification

en-noun

expansion: identifying (plural identifyings)

forms: identifyings (plural)


inclining

links: incline incline#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of incline

head

expansion: inclining


inclining

text: The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…]

ref: 1836, J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain, page 690:

text:
185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.

links: inclination inclination

en-noun

expansion: inclining (plural inclinings)

forms: inclinings (plural)


dijeron

links: decir decir#Spanish

glosses: third-person plural preterite indicative of decir

head

es

expansion: dijeron

etymology_text: From Old Spanish dixieron, from Latin dīxērunt, form of the verb dicō (“to say”).

inh

osp

dixieron

expansion: Old Spanish dixieron

dīxērunt

expansion: Latin dīxērunt

ipa: /diˈxeɾon/

rhymes: -eɾon

forms:
digeron (alternative obsolete)
dijieron (alternative nonstandard)


attaching

links: attach attach#English

head

expansion: attaching

ipa: /əˈtæt͡ʃɪŋ/


arresting

text: There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic.

ref: 2001, New York Times Theater Reviews, The New York Times Film Reviews, 1999-2000, page 146:

text: This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.

ref: 2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025:

links: Striking striking

links: gripping gripping

en-adj

expansion: arresting (comparative more arresting, superlative most arresting)

forms:
more arresting (comparative)
most arresting (superlative)

ipa: /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-arresting.wav


arresting

links: arrest arrest#English

head

expansion: arresting


appreciating

links: appreciate appreciate#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of appreciate

expansion: appreciating


appreciating

text: Gentle, affectionate, full of those small courtesies so endearing in daily life, generally silent, but such an appreciating listener, so unworldly, so young, and so lovely—Emily attached those with whom she lived, more than themselves suspected.

ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 211:

links: Appreciative appreciative

links: appreciation appreciation

glosses: Appreciative: having or showing appreciation.

en-adj

expansion: appreciating (comparative more appreciating, superlative most appreciating)

forms:
more appreciating (comparative)
most appreciating (superlative)


appreciating

text: There are so many underlinings, so many exclamation points in the margins, and so much highlighting from my many readings and appreciatings that it looks like a case of severe book abuse. It is not; these are marks of love.

ref: 2005, Theodore Cheney, Getting the Words Right, page 238:

en-noun

expansion: appreciating (plural appreciatings)

forms: appreciatings (plural)


apologizing

links: apologize apologize#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of apologize

head

expansion: apologizing


apologizing

text: There were appeals and apologizings and beseechings then, but they were on the other side and he did not respond; something was frozen away inside that never unthawed in the heat of their renewed association.

ref: 2014, Allen Drury, Advise & Consent:

links: apology apology

en-noun

expansion: apologizing (plural apologizings)

forms: apologizings (plural)


counteracting

links: counteract counteract#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of counteract

head

expansion: counteracting


eliminating

links: eliminate eliminate#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of eliminate

expansion: eliminating


solving

links: solve solve#English

expansion: solving


gelernt

links: lernen lernen#German

expansion: gelernt


gelernt

links: skilled skilled

links: trained trained

links: learnt learnt

links: learned learned

de-adj

expansion: gelernt (strong nominative masculine singular gelernter, not comparable)

forms:
gelernter (masculine nominative singular strong)
gelernt (masculine predicative singular)
gelernt (feminine predicative singular)
gelernt (neuter predicative singular)
gelernt (plural predicative)
gelernter (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
gelernte (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
gelerntes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
gelernte (nominative plural strong without-article)
gelernten (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
gelernter (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
gelernten (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
gelernter (genitive plural strong without-article)
gelerntem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
gelernter (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
gelerntem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
gelernten (dative plural strong without-article)
gelernten (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
gelernte (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
gelerntes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
gelernte (accusative plural strong without-article)
der gelernte (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die gelernte (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das gelernte (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die gelernten (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des gelernten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der gelernten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des gelernten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der gelernten (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem gelernten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der gelernten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem gelernten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den gelernten (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den gelernten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die gelernte (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das gelernte (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die gelernten (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein gelernter (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine gelernte (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein gelerntes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
gelernten (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine gelernten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines gelernten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer gelernten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines gelernten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
gelernten (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner gelernten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem gelernten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer gelernten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem gelernten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
gelernten (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen gelernten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen gelernten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine gelernte (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein gelerntes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
gelernten (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine gelernten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)


parvint

links: parvenir parvenir#French

glosses: third-person singular past historic of parvenir

head

fr

expansion: parvint


enfance

links: childhood childhood

fr-noun

expansion: enfance f (plural enfances)

forms: enfances (plural)

etymology_text: Inherited from Old French enfance, borrowed from Latin īnfāntia, from īnfāns (“unable to speak”).

yesno

i

I

expansion: I

glossary

Inherited

expansion: Inherited

inh

fro

enfance

expansion: Old French enfance

inh+

expansion: Inherited from Old French enfance

bor

īnfāntia

expansion: Latin īnfāntia

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-enfance.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-enfance.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-X-Javier-enfance.wav

note: Massy


enfance

fro-noun

expansion: enfance oblique singular, f (oblique plural enfances, nominative singular enfance, nominative plural enfances)

forms:
enfance oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
enfances (oblique plural)
enfance (nominative singular)
enfances (nominative plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin īnfāntia.

fro


contenta

links: contentu contentu#Asturian

head

ast

adjective form

expansion: contenta


contenta

links: content content#Catalan

ca

g: f-s

expansion: contenta f sg


contenta

links: contenter contenter#French

glosses: third-person singular past historic of contenter

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-contenta.wav


contenta

links: contento contento#Italian

it


contenta

links: contentare contentare#Italian

glosses: third-person singular present indicative

glosses:
inflection of contentare:
second-person singular imperative


contenta

links: contentus contentus#Latin

glosses:
inflection of contentus:
nominative/vocative feminine singular

participle form


contenta

head: contentā

expansion: contentā

forms: contentā (canonical)


contenta

links: contento contento#Portuguese


contenta

links: contentar contentar#Portuguese

glosses:
inflection of contentar:
second-person singular imperative


contenta

links: contento contento#Spanish

ipa: /konˈtenta/

rhymes: -enta


contenta

links: contentar contentar#Spanish


passent

links: passer passer#French

glosses: third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of passer

expansion: passent

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-passent.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-passent.wav

rhymes: -as


passent

links: pāscō pasco#Latin

glosses: third-person plural pluperfect active subjunctive of pāscō

head: pāssent

expansion: pāssent

forms: pāssent (canonical)


guarding

links: guard guard#English

expansion: guarding

ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈɡɑːdɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-guarding.wav

rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ


guarding

links: guard guard

text: Guardings and balustrades should be designed to minimize the risk of wheelchair users catching their feet between balusters […]

ref: 2012, James Holmes-Seidle, Barrier-Free Design, page 58:

links: guardrail guardrail

links: medicine medicine

links: Tensing tense

links: muscle muscle

links: abdomen abdomen

links: minimise minimise

links: movement movement

links: agitation agitation

links: internal internal

links: inflamed inflamed

links: organ organ

raw_glosses: (medicine) Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.

en-noun

expansion: guarding (countable and uncountable, plural guardings)

forms: guardings (plural)

vakt

sense: The duty of one who guards.

défense musculaire

code: fr

sense: Tensing of the muscles, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.

Abwehrspannung

code: de


Crimea

text: Many Russians who had planned to spend their summer vacations in Crimea, a favorite holiday destination, changed their plans.

ref: 2026 June 26, Ivan Nechepurenko, Nataliya Vasilyeva, “Ukrainian Attacks Spur State of Emergency Declaration in Crimea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

links: peninsula peninsula

links:
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe#English

links:
Black Sea
Black Sea

links:
de facto
de facto

links: republic republic

links: Russia Russia#English

links: Ukraine Ukraine#English

raw_glosses: A geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; de facto occupied and annexed in 2014 as a republic of Russia, but internationally recognized as an autonomous republic of Ukraine:

links:
Crimean peninsula
Crimean peninsula#English

links:
Republic of Crimea
Republic of Crimea#English

text: The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

ref: 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, page 393:

links:
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Autonomous Republic of Crimea#English

glosses: Ellipsis of Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

text: According to Zimin, this individual was in the service of Prince Fedor Vasili'evich Riazanskii as early as 1498, two years after his service on the embassy to the Crimea.

ref: 1987, Robert M. Croskey, Muscovite Diplomatic Practice in the Reign of Ivan III, page 96:

text: On its return journey in 1633 the Tatar embassy was arrested by the Muscovite government, which was already at war with the Crimea, and only after several months was it released as a result of an appeal by Sweden[.]

ref: 1995, Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630-1635, →ISBN, page 73:

text: As late as 1665, the Crimea's demand for continued and increased tribue from Moscow was one of the conditions leading to a peace treaty between a khan and tsar („kaznu v Krym prodolzhat' prisylat' s pribyl'iu“). Notwithstanding Moscow's rhetorical exercises, the Russian government was acutely aware that as long as Russia's military force remained ineffective against the Crimea, peace with Crimea could only be purchased.

ref: 2004, Andreas Kappeler, Die Geschichte Russlands im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, →ISBN, page 371:

links:
Crimean Khanate
Crimean Khanate#English

links: historical historical

links: country country

links:
Crimean Peninsula
Crimean Peninsula#English

links: Europe Europe#English

raw_glosses: (historical) Synonym of Crimean Khanate: A historical country in Crimean Peninsula, Europe. The Crimean Khanate, which for much of its history controlled most of the Crimean peninsula and various adjacent areas of the mainland.

Crimean Khanate

links:
Crimean Republic
Crimean Republic#English

raw_glosses: (historical) Ellipsis of Crimean Republic.

links:
Crimean People's Republic
Crimean People's Republic#English

raw_glosses: (historical) Ellipsis of Crimean People's Republic.

en-proper noun

expansion: Crimea or the Crimea

forms:
Crimea (canonical)
the Crimea (canonical)

Chersonesus Taurica

sense: peninsula (historical)

Krim

sense: peninsula

Кърым

code: ab

sense: peninsula — see also Crimean peninsula

Ҟрым

roman: Qʼrəm

Krim

code: af

Krimeja

code: sq

ክሪሜያ

code: am

roman: kərimeya

القِرْم

code: ar

roman: al-qirm

كريميا

code: arz

roman: krimiyā

القرم

code: acw

roman: algirim, alqirim

Ղրիմ

code: hy

roman: Ġrim

Crimea

code: ast

Krım

code: az

Ҡырым

code: ba

roman: Qırım

Крым

code: be

roman: Krym

ক্রিমিয়া

code: bn

roman: krimiẏa

Крим

code: bg

english: Krim

translation: Krim

ခရိုင်းမီးယား

code: my

Крым

code: bua

Крим

code: rue

etymology_text: Through Italian Crimea, from Crimean Tatar Qırım.


Crimea

links: peninsula peninsula

glosses: Crimea (a geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; de facto occupied and annexed in 2014 as a republic of Russia, but internationally recognized as an autonomous republic of Ukraine :)

ca-proper noun

expansion: Crimea f

etymology_text: From Crimean Tatar Qırım.

der

crh

Qırım

expansion: Crimean Tatar Qırım


Crimea

links:
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe#English

rhymes: -ɛa


Crimea

links:
Black Sea
Black Sea

ipa: /kɾiˈmea/

rhymes: -ea


foretaste

links: taste taste

text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

text: About two weeks ago I had another foretaste of success and immediately on it a veritable disaster.

ref: 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

links: anticipation anticipation

links: experience experience

links:
in advance
in advance

glosses: A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.

en-noun

expansion: foretaste (plural foretastes)

forms: foretastes (plural)

предвкусване

sense: taste taken in advance

roman: predvkusvane

forsmag

code: da

voorproefje

code: nl

esimaku

code: fi

avant-goût

code: fr

Vorgeschmack

code: de

ízelítő

code: hu

presentimento

code: it

forsmak

code: nb

forsmak

code: nn

abansgost

code: oc

Väaschmak

code: pdt

przedsmak

code: pl

предвкуше́ние

code: ru

roman: predvkušénije

försmak

code: sv

etymology_text: From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).

inh

enm

fortaste

expansion: Middle English fortaste

prefix

fore

taste

pos2: noun

expansion: fore- + taste (noun)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-foretaste.wav


foretaste

links: enjoy enjoy

raw_glosses: (transitive) To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.

text: [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise lost:

en-verb

expansion: foretaste (third-person singular simple present foretastes, present participle foretasting, simple past and past participle foretasted)

forms:
foretastes (present singular third-person)
foretasting (participle present)
foretasted (participle past)
foretasted (past)

предвкусвам

code: bg

sense: to taste beforehand

roman: predvkusvam

предвкусвам

sense: to enjoy by anticipation

prelibar

code: pt

etymology_text: From Middle English fortasten, equivalent to fore- + taste (verb).

inh

fortasten

expansion: Middle English fortasten

pos2: verb

expansion: fore- + taste (verb)


laissez

links: laisser laisser#French

glosses:
inflection of laisser:
second-person plural present indicative

glosses:
inflection of laisser:
second-person plural imperative

head

expansion: laissez

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-laissez.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-laissez.wav


plunging

links: plunge plunge#English

expansion: plunging

rhymes: -ʌndʒɪŋ


plunging

links: descend descend

glosses: Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.

links: low-cut low-cut

raw_glosses: (of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut.

en-adj

expansion: plunging (not comparable)


plunging

glosses: An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.

text: Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].

ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or The Whale:

text: Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.

ref: 1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete:

text: It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:

glosses: A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.

en-noun

expansion: plunging (plural plungings)

forms: plungings (plural)


scraping

text: We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.

ref: 2003, Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places, page 30:

links: sound sound

links: action action

links: scrape scrape

glosses: The sound or action of something being scraped.

text: the scrapings of roads and ditches

text: […] the tables in the refectory would be laid out with plates of bread and scrapings of butter, with bowls ready for the saltless and slightly burned porridge, with the dark wells of golden syrup that served a universal purpose in early Australian cookery.

ref: 1987, Joan Colebrook, “In the Cubicle”, in A House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 75:

links: remove remove

text: The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.

ref: 2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

links: computing computing#Noun

links: Automated automate

links: collection collection

links: data data

links:
data scraping
data scraping

raw_glosses: (computing) Automated collection of data, data scraping.

expansion: scraping (plural scrapings)

forms: scrapings (plural)

rāsus

code: la

sense: action of scraping

стърготина

sense: material removed when something has been scraped

roman: stǎrgotina

ξύσμα

code: el

roman: xýsma

απόξεσμα

roman: apóxesma

απόξυσμα

roman: apóxysma

ψῆγμα

code: grc

roman: psêgma

खुरचन

code: hi

roman: khurcan

kotakota

code: mi

peladura

code: es

etymology_text: From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.

inh

scrapinge

expansion: Middle English scrapinge

suffix

scrape

ing

expansion: scrape + -ing


scraping

links: scrape scrape#English

head

expansion: scraping

nonlemma

expansion: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


permitting

links: permit permit#English

text: We'll come if we can, weather, health, and car permitting.

ref: 1979 December 8, “Uno Uno Uno”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 18:

glosses: Used in an absolute clause to indicate that the statement modified by the clause (typically an expression of intent) will only be fulfilled if not impeded by the noun.

head

expansion: permitting

lo permite

sense: used in an absolute clause


permitting

text: How do we jump over that last hurdle before we start most of the permittings being done?

ref: 2003, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Energy production on federal lands: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, to receive testimony regarding federal energy development on public lands, February 27, 2003:

text: Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.

ref: 2022 September 21, Emily Cochrane, Lisa Friedman, “Manchin’s Gas Pipeline Deal Irks Both Parties, Snarling Spending Bill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

glosses: An act or instance of permitting something.

en-noun

expansion: permitting (plural permittings)

forms:
permittings (plural)
permiting (alternative uncommon)

permisión

sense: an act or instance of permitting something


overpowering

links: overpower overpower#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of overpower

head

expansion: overpowering


overpowering

text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

text: The fact that approximately 40% of spoken language at the cafeteria was not English, suggests that the effect of the near 100% English signage is far from overpowering.

ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:

glosses: That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.

en-adj

expansion: overpowering (comparative more overpowering, superlative most overpowering)

forms:
more overpowering (comparative)
most overpowering (superlative)


overpowering

text: Each of these concepts can be used, and is used, to justify the various overpowerings and abuses that are typical of capitalism as we know it, pace the Enlightenment thinkers and any other ideal model.

ref: 2012, Andrea Micocci, Moderation and Revolution, page 327:

glosses: The process of something being overpowered.

en-noun

expansion: overpowering (plural overpowerings)

forms: overpowerings (plural)


unreasoning

text: When we consider the enormous amount of suffering and disease, both of mind and body, arising from the sex-suppression of which I have just spoken, especially among women, we see that mere unreasoning taboos - which possibly had their place and use in the past - can be tolerated no longer.

ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 196:

links: reason reason

en-adj

expansion: unreasoning (comparative more unreasoning, superlative most unreasoning)

forms:
more unreasoning (comparative)
most unreasoning (superlative)

bezrozumny

sense: Translations

etymology_text: From un- + reasoning.

ety

un-

reasoning

expansion: From un- + reasoning.


staggering

links: stagger stagger#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of stagger

head

expansion: staggering

ipa: /ˈstæɡəɹɪŋ/


staggering

text: The army suffered a staggering defeat.

text: It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.

ref: 1960 December 23, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:

text: Binance may be the biggest crypto house exposed, but it is simply the latest in a long line of financial institutions whose lack of money laundering oversight — and willingness to look the other way — has drawn in staggering amounts of illicit wealth and attracted the world’s leading criminal rings and kleptocratic regimes.

ref: 2023 December 2, Casey Michel, “Opinion: Why crypto was the perfect tool for criminals and kleptocrats”, in CNN:

links: Incredible incredible#English

links: overwhelming overwhelming

links: amazing amazing

links: Lurching lurching#English

links: floundering floundering

en-adj

expansion: staggering (comparative more staggering, superlative most staggering)

forms:
more staggering (comparative)
most staggering (superlative)

зашеметяващ

sense: incredible, overwhelming, amazing

roman: zašemetjavašt

замайващ

roman: zamajvašt

поразителен

roman: porazitelen

ällistyttävä

code: fi

uluitor

code: ro

ошеломляющий

roman: ošelomljajuščij

потряса́ющий

roman: potrjasájuščij

taumelnd

code: de

sense: lurching, floundering


staggering

text: There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]

ref: 1837, “Memoirs of Mirabeau”, in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436:

links: stagger stagger

text: But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory[…]

ref: 1738, Ebenezer Erskine, The Annals of Redeeming Love:

links: staggered staggered

links: amazed amazed

glosses: The condition of being staggered or amazed.

text: As a result of the recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport, a Government-sponsored scheme for the staggering of working hours in London has been announced.

ref: 1955 July, “Traffic Congestion in London”, in Railway Magazine, page 444:

glosses: The spacing out of various actions over time.

glosses: In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort

en-noun

expansion: staggering (countable and uncountable, plural staggerings)

forms: staggerings (plural)


smuggling

links: smuggle smuggle#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of smuggle

head

expansion: smuggling

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-smuggling.wav


smuggling

links: smuggle smuggle

en-noun

expansion: smuggling (countable and uncountable, plural smugglings)

forms: smugglings (plural)

kontrabandë

code: sq

sense: an act of something being smuggled

تَهْرِيب

code: ar

roman: tahrīb

մաքսանենգություն

code: hy

roman: makʻsanengutʻyun

qaçaqmalçılıq

code: az

кантраба́нда

code: be

roman: kantrabánda

контраба́нда

roman: kontrabánda

走私

code: yue

roman: zau² si¹

走私

code: cmn

roman: zǒusī

pašeráctví

code: cs

smugling

code: da

smokkel

code: nl

kontrabando

code: eo

salakaubavedu

code: et

trafique

code: fr

contrabando

code: gl

კონტრაბანდა

code: ka

roman: ḳonṭrabanda

λαθρεμπόριο

roman: lathrempório

तस्करी

roman: taskarī

csempészet

code: hu

smygl

code: is

penyeludupan

code: id

contrabando

code: ia

contrabbando

code: it

密輸

code: ja

alt: みつゆ

roman: mitsuyu

密航

alt: みっこう

roman: mikkō

контрабанда

code: kk

roman: kontrabanda

밀수

code: ko

roman: milsu

alt: 密輸

밀항

roman: milhang

alt: 密航

контрабанда

code: ky

kontrabanda

code: lv

kontrabanda

code: lt

криумчарење

code: mk

roman: kriumčarenje

шверцање

roman: švercanje

penyeludupan

code: ms


smuggling

links: smuggling smuggling#English

head

nouns

expansion: smuggling c

sv-noun

c

forms:
smuggling (indefinite nominative singular)
smugglings (genitive indefinite singular)
smugglingen (definite nominative singular)
smugglingens (definite genitive singular)

etymology_text: smuggla + -ing

suffix

smuggla

id2: verbal noun

expansion: smuggla + -ing


lapping

text: Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.

ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 220, about Hanmer, Wales:

links: lap lap#English

head

expansion: lapping

etymology_text: From Middle English lappinge, wlappynge, equivalent to lap + -ing.

inh

lappinge

expansion: Middle English lappinge

af

lap

-ing

expansion: lap + -ing

ipa: /ˈlæpɪŋ/

rhymes: -æpɪŋ


lapping

text: the iron roller is previously wound round with from 20 to 30 thicknesses of a strong twilled woollen cloth , which is called by the machine printer the lapping , which protects both the calico and the copper roller

ref: 1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts:

links: machine machine

links: blanket blanket

links: wrap wrap

links: material material

links: calico calico

links: printer printer

glosses: A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

glosses: The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.

glosses: The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.

links: accounting accounting#Noun

links: fraud fraud

links: payment payment

links: delay delay

links: divert divert

links: theft theft

raw_glosses: (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.

links: firearm firearm

raw_glosses: (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.

links: lutherie lutherie

links: Lengths length#Noun

links: fine fine#Adjective

links: silk silk#Noun

links: metal metal#Adjective

links: wire wire#Noun

links: whalebone whalebone

links: wrapped wrap#Verb

links: tightly tightly

links: stick stick#Noun

links: bow bow#Noun

links:
string instrument
string instrument

links: adjacent adjacent#Preposition

links: leather leather#Adjective

links: part part#Noun

links:
bow grip
bow grip

links: heel heel#Noun

raw_glosses: (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.

glosses: The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.

en-noun

expansion: lapping (countable and uncountable, plural lappings)

forms: lappings (plural)

garniture

sense: winding of a bow

plaŭdado

code: eo

sense: gentle, rhythmic sound of water

etymology_text: From Middle English lapping, lappyng, lappinge, equivalent to lap + -ing.

inh

lapping

expansion: Middle English lapping


locking

text: She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years.

ref: 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 7th scene (St. Crux-in-the-Marsh), pages 254–255:

links: lock lock#English

links: act act#Noun

links: locked lock#Verb

glosses: gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.

lock

extra: the act by which something is locked

links: computing computing#Noun

links: use use#Noun

links: lock lock#Noun

links: mutex mutex

links: restrict restrict

links: access access#Noun

links: code code#Noun

links: process process#Noun

raw_glosses: (computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.

en-noun

expansion: locking (plural lockings)

forms: lockings (plural)

lukitus

code: fi

sense: act by which something is locked

Locking

code: de

låsning

code: sv

kilitleme

code: tr

zárolás

sense: the use of a lock to restrict access to a part of a code

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English locking
From lock + -ing.

ety

lock

expansion:
Etymology tree
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Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English locking
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From lock + -ing.

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locking

head

expansion: locking


imagining

text:
1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]

text: Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.

ref: 2006, Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines, Writer's Digest Books, page 15:

text: Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.

ref: 2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60:

glosses: Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

en-noun

expansion: imagining (plural imaginings)

forms: imaginings (plural)


imagining

links: imagine imagine#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of imagine

links: imagin imagin#English

head

expansion: imagining


robbing

text: Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.

ref: 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141:

links: robbery robbery

en-noun

expansion: robbing (countable and uncountable, plural robbings)

forms: robbings (plural)


hiking

links: hike hike#English

head

expansion: hiking

ipa: /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hiking.wav

rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ


hiking

text: To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.

text: Consulting the data provided by ARPS to the county, the county discovers that ARPS has erroneously stated that the parking area too was on solid ground when in fact the earth was ill suited to anything other than hikings.

ref: 1993, Bill P. Clark, State-of-the-art Mapping: 13-15 April 1993, Orlando, Florida, page 94:

links: Walking walking

glosses: Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.

text: Like in previous years, Government policies with regard to restraining price hikings have been dealing with curtailing credit supplies and bank liquidities […]

ref: 1984, Indonesia: An Official Handbook, page 125:

glosses: The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.

en-noun

s

expansion: hiking (usually uncountable, plural hikings)

forms: hikings (plural)

ハイキング

roman: haikingu

하이킹

roman: haiking

تَمَشٍّ

code: ar

sense: walking

roman: tamaššin

تَنَزُّه

roman: tanazzuh

արշավ

code: hy

roman: aršav

senderisme

code: ca

行山

code: yue

roman: haang⁴ saan¹

遠足 /远足

roman: jyun⁵ zuk¹

徒步旅行

code: cmn

roman: túbù lǚxíng

健行

roman: jiànxíng

遠足 /远足

roman: yuǎnzú

vandring

code: da

wandelen

code: nl

randonnée pédestre

code: fr

ლაშქრობა

code: ka

roman: laškroba

πεζοπορία

code: el

roman: pezoporía

túrázás

code: hu

fánaíocht

code: ga

등산

roman: deungsan

alt: 登山

pedestrianismo

code: pt

drumeție

code: ro

пе́ший тури́зм

code: ru

roman: péšij turízm

пешехо́дная экску́рсия

roman: pešexódnaja ekskúrsija

english: instance

translation: instance

экску́рсия

roman: ekskúrsija


puffing

links: puff puff#English

text: It's called "puffing," when drivers start their car and then leave it unattended while running.

ref: 2011 December 6, TRI-102.5 Staff, “‘Puffing’ is Illegal in Colorado (Warming Up Your Car Unattended)”, in TRI-102.5:

raw_glosses: (US) Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.

head

expansion: puffing


puffing

text: the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train

text: Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns[…]

ref: 1825, The Ladies' Monthly Museum, volume 21, page 50:

links: law law#English

links: opinion opinion

links: judgment judgment

links: seller seller

links: property property

links: potential potential

links: buyer buyer

links: representation representation

links: fact fact

raw_glosses: (law) An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.

en-noun

expansion: puffing (plural puffings)

forms: puffings (plural)


analyzing

links: analyze analyze#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of analyze

head

expansion: analyzing


galloping

links: gallop gallop#English

expansion: galloping


galloping

text: But the dreams came upon him too: gallopings and shouts through a windy sky, wingbeats, cruel beaks and claws, a feeling of loss unspeakable and unbounded.

ref: 1973, Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga:

en-noun

expansion: galloping (plural gallopings)

forms: gallopings (plural)


contending

links: contend contend#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of contend

head

expansion: contending


contending

text: in the midst of some contendings in the Church, about the government of his house

ref: a. 1752, Ralph Erskine, The Lamb in the midst of the Throne (sermon)

links: contention contention

en-noun

expansion: contending (countable and uncountable, plural contendings)

forms: contendings (plural)


stifling

text: The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

text: The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.

ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 365-366:

text: Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty? Not he.

ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 119:

links: stifle stifle

en-adj

expansion: stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)

forms:
more stifling (comparative)
most stifling (superlative)

boğanaq

code: az

sense: that stifles

задушлив

code: bg

roman: zadušliv

subpremanta

code: eo

abafante

code: gl

stickig

code: de

soffocante

code: it

pongere

code: mi

enj

code: pdt

уду́шливый

roman: udúšlivyj

sofocante

code: es

kvävande

code: sv

بوغان

code: ota

roman: boğan

خانق

roman: hanık

ipa: /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stifling.wav


stifling

links: stifle stifle#English

head

expansion: stifling


stifling

text: Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.

ref: 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century, page 507:

text: Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.

ref: 2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64:

en-noun

expansion: stifling (plural stiflings)

forms: stiflings (plural)


offending

links: offend offend#English

head

expansion: offending

ipa: /əˈfɛndɪŋ/

rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ


offending

text: There are, besides, other corporations and individuals more or less connected in the activities of the other defendants, that are alleged to be instruments or accomplices in their activities and offendings[…]

ref: 2004, Rebecca S. Shoemaker, The White Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy, page 249:

links: offence offence

en-noun

expansion: offending (plural offendings)

forms: offendings (plural)


offending

text: Something in the fridge smelled terrible. The offending article was soon identified and removed.

text: According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.

ref: 2017 November 10, Aaron Mak, “This Hilarious Chatbot Messes with Scammers for You”, in Slate:

links: Responsible responsible

links: blame blame

en-adj

expansion: offending (not comparable)


redeeming

text: His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.

text: There are few redeeming features, if any, about the London Midland Region winter timetable.

ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 592:

expansion: redeeming (comparative more redeeming, superlative most redeeming)

forms:
more redeeming (comparative)
most redeeming (superlative)

redentor

sense: Compensating for the faults of someone or something. Able to save people from sin, error or evil.


redeeming

links: redeem redeem#English

head

expansion: redeeming


redeeming

links: redemption redemption

en-noun

expansion: redeeming (plural redeemings)

forms: redeemings (plural)


punishing

text: Upon Amelia's return from the West Coast in October, George presented her with a punishing schedule of lectures and appointments to promote the new book and solidify her position as America's foremost woman aviator.

ref: 2010, Kathleen C. Winters, Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 90:

text: Regardless of the punishing heat and physicality, restaurant cooking is a calling many Chinese chefs cannot deny.

ref: 2013, Grace Young, Alan Richardson, The Breath of a Wok, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 100:

text: They took off at a punishing speed, making London in less than half a day.

ref: 2016, Tamara Gill, Only an Earl Will Do, Entangled: Select Historical

links: punish punish

links: arduous arduous

links: gruelling gruelling

links: demanding demanding

glosses: That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.

text:
1999, Edward Gonzalez, Richard Nuccio, Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, The Rand Forum on Cuba, Rand Corp
Others argued that the worst of all outcomes after 40 years of a punishing embargo would be for the United States to adopt policies that might extend the life of a dictatorial regime.

text: Public debt of this magnitude can provoke punishing tax rates and crowd out private investment.

ref: 2010, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Globalization at Risk, Yale University Press, →ISBN:

text: The apparent punishing effect of naloxone may be mediated through the withdrawal reaction that it produces[.]

ref: 2016, David J. Sanger, Derek E. Blackman, Aspects of Psychopharmacology, Routledge, →ISBN:

text: a punishing blow

links: Debilitating debilitating

links: harsh harsh

en-adj

expansion: punishing (comparative more punishing, superlative most punishing)

forms:
more punishing (comparative)
most punishing (superlative)

puna

sense: that punishes

ipa: /ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-punishing.wav


punishing

text: We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts[…]

ref: 2011, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, page 303:

links: Punishment punishment

en-noun

expansion: punishing (plural punishings)

forms: punishings (plural)


punishing

links: punish punish#English

head

expansion: punishing


semblant

text: But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]

ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

links: appearance appearance

en-noun

expansion: semblant (plural semblants)

forms:
semblants (plural)
semblaunt (alternative obsolete)

etymology_text: Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

root

ine-pro

*sem-

bor

fr

semblant

expansion: French semblant

doublet

simulant

expansion: Doublet of simulant

ipa: /ˈsɛmblənt/


semblant

text:
their eyes survey
The semblant shade

ref: 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

text: [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.

ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

links: apparent apparent

en-adj

expansion: semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)

forms:
more semblant (comparative)
most semblant (superlative)
semblaunt (alternative obsolete)


semblant

links: similar similar

text: No és lícit de recórrer a semblants mitjans.

translation: It's not right to resort to such means.

english: It's not right to resort to such means.

links: such such

ca-adj

expansion: semblant m or f (masculine and feminine plural semblants)

forms: semblants (feminine masculine plural)

etymology_text: Inherited from Late Latin similantem, present active participle of similāre (“resemble”), a verb based on Latin similis (“similar”). By surface analysis, semblar + -ant.

yesno

expansion: I

glossary

expansion: Inherited

inh

la-lat

similans

similantem

expansion: Late Latin similantem

inh+

expansion: Inherited from Late Latin similantem

der

la

similis

t: similar

expansion: Latin similis (“similar”)

surf

semblar

-ant

expansion: By surface analysis, semblar + -ant

ipa: [səmˈblan]

ipa: [səmˈblant]

ipa: [semˈblant]

ipa: [semˈblan]

audio: LL-Q7026 (cat)-Marvives-semblant.wav

note: Barcelona


semblant

links: semblar semblar#Catalan

head

gerund

expansion: semblant

yesno

i

I


semblant

links: sembler sembler#French

head

present participle

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-semblant.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-semblant.wav


semblant

links: semblance semblance

fr-noun

m

expansion: semblant m (plural semblants)

forms: semblants (plural)


treading

links: tread tread#English

head

en

verb form

expansion: treading

etymology_text: From Middle English tredynge, tredyng; equivalent to tread + -ing.

inh

tredynge

expansion: Middle English tredynge

af

tread

expansion: tread + -ing

rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ


treading

text: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.

ref: 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:

en-noun

expansion: treading (plural treadings)

forms: treadings (plural)

inh

enm


joking

links: joke joke#English

text: Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!

raw_glosses: (UK, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.

head

expansion: joking

ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊkɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/


joking

text: No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility[…]

ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:

glosses: The act of telling or engaging in jokes.

en-noun

expansion: joking (plural jokings)

forms: jokings (plural)


guiding

text: The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.

ref: 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

text: That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.

ref: 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:

links: guide guide#English

head

expansion: guiding

ipa: /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/

rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ


guiding

text: Butler was ready to consider any proposition which would save her; but it must be a sound one—one not open to her whimsical moods or the guidings or leadings of romance.

ref: 1912, Theodore Dreiser, The Financier:

links: Guidance guidance

text: Daisy Gordon Low then established two Girl Guide troops in poor sections of central London. Her belief was growing that guiding could serve many beneficial ends.

ref: 2002, Robert T. Grimm, Notable American Philanthropists, page 189:

links:
Girl Guiding
Girl Guiding

en-noun

expansion: guiding (countable and uncountable, plural guidings)

forms: guidings (plural)


moaning

text: the moanings of the wounded men

text:
But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
The sound of streams that swift or slow
Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]

ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:

links: moan moan

expansion: moaning (plural moanings)

forms: moanings (plural)

Stöhnen

sense: the utterance of a moan

μυχμός

code: grc

roman: mukhmós

jęk

code: pl


darkening

links: darken darken#English

head

expansion: darkening


darkening

text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

text: NEGATIVE FLASHES — Brief darkenings of a light that is otherwise steadily on.

ref: 1978, Gerald Leonard Howett, Kenneth Low Kelly, E. Thomas Pierce, Emergency vehicle warning lights: state of the art:

en-noun

expansion: darkening (countable and uncountable, plural darkenings)

forms: darkenings (plural)

تَسْوِيد

code: ar

sense: act of something becoming darker

roman: taswīd

ἀμαύρωσις

roman: amaúrōsis


grumbling

links: grumble grumble#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of grumble

head

expansion: grumbling


grumbling

text: the grumblings of a bad-tempered man

text: The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”

ref: 1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:

links: complaining complaining

links: rumbling rumbling

en-noun

expansion: grumbling (plural grumblings)

forms: grumblings (plural)

nurina

code: fi

sense: complaining

𐌱𐌹𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃

code: got

roman: birōdeins

γογγυσμός

roman: gongusmós

cnáimhseáil

code: ga

gannītus

code: la

негодување

code: mk

roman: negoduvanje

gaccan

code: gv

nurina

sense: rumbling


grumbling

en-adj

expansion: grumbling (comparative more grumbling, superlative most grumbling)

forms:
more grumbling (comparative)
most grumbling (superlative)


parfum

text: Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration?

ref: 1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42:

text: For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums.

ref: 1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111:

text: WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports.

ref: 1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232:

links: cosmetics cosmetics

links: Fragrance fragrance

links: perfume perfume

links: perfumery perfumery

raw_glosses: (perfumery) A solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds.

qualifier: perfumery

en-noun

expansion: parfum (usually uncountable, plural parfums)

forms: parfums (plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from French parfum. Doublet of perfume.

bor

parfum

expansion: French parfum

doublet

perfume

expansion: Doublet of perfume

ipa: /pɑɹˈfum/


parfum

text: Essence van rozen en diverse andere bloemen is zeer gegeerd voor natuurlijke parfums.

translation: Essence of roses and various others flowers is in high demand for natural perfumes.

links: luxury luxury

links: fragrant fragrant

glosses: a perfume, a luxury product providing a fragrant scent

text: De roos Friesia verspreidt een hemels parfum.

translation: The rose Friesia gives out a heavenly scent.

links: scent scent

nl-noun

n

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expansion: parfum n (plural parfums, diminutive parfumpje n)

forms:
parfums (plural)
parfumpje (diminutive neuter)
parfuum (alternative)

etymology_text: Borrowed from Middle French parfum, from parfumer.

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frm

expansion: Middle French parfum

ipa: /pɑrˈfʏm/

rhymes: -ʏm

parts: par fum