cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bakkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæki/
ipa: /ˈbʌ-/
rhymes: -æki
rhymes: -ʌki
homophone: baccy
Forms: form: bakkies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans bakkie, and then either:
* from Northern Dutch bakkie (informal), from Dutch bakje (“container; drinking vessel; (archaic) carriage for passengers”), from bak (“container; drinking vessel; vehicle; part of a vehicle for carrying loads; part of a carriage for carrying passengers”) (see further at that entry) + -je (diminutive suffix); or
* from Afrikaans bak (“container; part of a vehicle for carrying loads”) (from Dutch bak; see above) + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet.
ref: 1901 October 11, F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 16, Pietermaritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, paragraph 21, page 492, column 2:
text: [S]he passed around a bakkie of home-made chocolate biscuits to all the girls.
ref: 2007, Bree O’Mara, Home Affairs, Johannesburg, Gauteng: 30°South Publishers, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: A small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container.
topics: road
transport
glosses: A small pick-up truck or ute, generally open and sometimes fitted with a removable canopy, but distinct from an enclosed van and a large truck.
nationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nationalist
pocketful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocketsful
form: pocketfuls
Etymology: From pocket + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: White came to City Hall on Monday morning, entering through a basement window, with a gun and a pocketful of bullets.
ref: 1978 December 9, George Mendenhall, “Harvey Milk, Mayor Moscone Slain in Shooting”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 1:
glosses: The amount that a pocket would hold.
examples: text: This Government came in with a pocketful of promises. Every time the Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) saw two farmers at a crossroads he had five more promises to make.
ref: 1986, Canada. Parliament, House of Commons Debates, Official Report:
text: Much more than a pocketful of fun awaits in this collection of rhymes and poems!
ref: 2003, James Marshall, Pocketful of Nonsense:
glosses: A small or moderate amount.
emotionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃənli/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃənəli/
ipa: /iˈmoʊʃənəli/
Forms: form: more emotionally
form: most emotionally
Etymology: From emotional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
glosses: In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
examples: text: Physically, it was easy, but emotionally it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
glosses: Regarding emotions.
Derived terms: emotionally unstable personality disorder
like shit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: to hurt like shit
text: to treat someone like shit
text: If you drink a whole bottle of vodka in one night, you'll feel like shit all day the next day.
synonyms: like hell
glosses: Very badly.
one o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bar closes at one o'clock (= "The bar closes at 1:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the second hour of the day; 1:00 a.m. (01:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at one o'clock (= "The next train comes at 13:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the fourteenth hour of the day; 1:00 p.m. (13:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at one o'clock.
glosses: A position ahead and slightly rightward (horizontal clock orientation) or almost directly above (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 1 mark on a clock face)
glosses: A dandelion.
Derived terms: like one o'clock
like one o'clock half struck
two o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bar closes at two o'clock (= "The bar closes at 2:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the third hour of the day; 2:00 a.m. (02:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at two o'clock (= "The next train comes at 14:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the fifteenth hour of the day; 2:00 p.m. (14:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at two o'clock.
glosses: A position ahead and rightward (horizontal clock orientation) or above and rightward (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 2 mark on a clock face)
three o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The front desk closes at three o'clock (= "The front desk closes at 3:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the fourth hour of the day; 3:00 a.m. (03:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at three o'clock (= "The next train comes at 15:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the sixteenth hour of the day; 3:00 p.m. (15:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at three o'clock.
glosses: To the right (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 3 mark on a clock face)
five o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The breakfast buffet opens at five o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 5:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the sixth hour of the day; 5:00 a.m. (05:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at five o'clock (= "The next train comes at 17:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the eighteenth hour of the day; 5:00 p.m. (17:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at five o'clock.
glosses: A position behind and slightly to the right (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 5 mark on a clock face)
Derived terms: five o’clock shadow
it's five o'clock somewhere
four o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-o'clock
Senses: examples: text: The breakfast buffet opens at four o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 4:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at four o'clock (= "The next train comes at 16:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the seventeenth hour of the day; 4:00 p.m. (16:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at four o'clock.
glosses: A position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)
glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon.
glosses: The friarbirds (Philemon spp.); so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mirabilis jalapa
word: garden four o'clock
taxonomic: Mirabilis multiflora
word: Colorado four o'clock
hurry up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hurries up
form: hurrying up
form: hurried up
form: hurried up
Senses: glosses: To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
Synonyms: word: get a move on
word: get one's skates on
word: hurry up the cakes
Derived terms: hurry up and wait
hurry-up offense
hurry-up wagon
on the hurry up
posthumously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: post-humously
Etymology: From posthumous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In his boyhood that posthumously libelled sovereign lady, Anne, had terribly prevailed among the dwellings on this highway; […]
ref: 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home. And he did, although posthumously.
ref: 2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 Holocaust victims, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.
ref: 2017 December 21, “Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptised by Mormons”, in The Guardian:
text: In the following month, driver Ben Gimbert and fireman Jim Nightall (posthumously) were awarded the George Cross, the highest honour the King could give civilians.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: After death.
Synonyms: post mortem
post obitum
golden boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden boys
Senses: examples: text: Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.
glosses: A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.
examples: text: He was the golden boy of Montana politics.
glosses: A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
Synonyms: child prodigy
Hypernyms: golden child
Related terms: golden girl
six o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six o’clock
Senses: examples: text: The breakfast buffet opens at six o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 6:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the seventh hour of the day; 6:00 a.m. (06:00).
examples: text: The next train comes at six o'clock (= "The next train comes at 18:00").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the nineteenth hour of the day; 6:00 p.m. (18:00).
examples: text: We've got some bogeys at six o'clock.
text: You've got a bogey on your six o'clock.
text: I've got your six.
translation: I've got your back.
english: I've got your back.
text: Check your six.
translation: Watch your back.
english: Watch your back.
glosses: A position behind (horizontal clock orientation) or below (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 6 mark on a clock face)
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A pose in which the lower leg and raised upper leg form a vertical line.
six o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She had the straight, flat figure which Bianca would have described as "a six-o'clock girl, straight up and straight down", and I thought how clever it was of Mascarenhas to have picked her to be in attendance, […]
ref: 1992, Edith Templeton, Murder in Estoril, Fourth Estate Classic House:
text: His shoulders were no wider than his hips; he had what is called a six o'clock figure, straight up and straight down, a skimped and scanty physique, as though the fairy of miserliness had presided over his conception.
ref: 2004, Édith Templeton, Gordon: A Novel, Vintage, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Rena Mae was still an attractive woman, but now she was considered a six o'clock woman instead of a woman with big hips, […]
ref: 2011, Creasie M. Washington, The Crossing of Yamacraw, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Her body was void of pliable curves; instead, [she] was hard and angular, what dirty-minded high school boys once called “a six o'clock figure.” As for the rest of Tish, what should have been, just wasn't. Her hair (blonde? brown?) was frizzy, ...
ref: 2016, Donald L. Kaufmann, O Brave New Eve: Genetic Fantasy, →ISBN:
qualifier: especially black slang
glosses: Straight up and down, without curves, like the hands of a clock.
raw_tags: of a woman
seven o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The breakfast buffet opens at seven o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 7:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the eighth hour of the day; 7:00 a.m. (07:00).
examples: text: Supper was served at seven o'clock (= "Supper was served at 7:00 p.m.").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the twentieth hour of the day; 7:00 p.m. (19:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at seven o'clock.
glosses: A position behind and slightly to the left (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 7 mark on a clock face)
eight o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The breakfast buffet opens at eight o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 8:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the ninth hour of the day; 8:00 a.m. (08:00).
examples: text: Supper was served at eight o'clock (= "Supper was served at 8:00 p.m.").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the twenty-first hour of the day; 8:00 p.m. (20:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at eight o'clock.
glosses: A position to the left and behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 8 mark on a clock face)
ten o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The morning coffee break starts at ten o'clock (= "The morning coffee break starts at 10:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the eleventh hour of the day; 10:00 a.m. (10:00).
examples: text: Supper service ends at ten o'clock (= "Supper service ends at 10:00 p.m.").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the twenty-third hour of the day; 10:00 p.m. (22:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at ten o'clock.
glosses: A position to the left and slightly ahead (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 10 mark on a clock face)
eleven o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Breakfast service ends at eleven o'clock (= "Breakfast service ends at 11:00 a.m.").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the twelfth hour of the day; 11:00 a.m. (11:00).
examples: text: Supper service ends at eleven o'clock (= "Supper service ends at 11:00 p.m.").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the twenty-fourth hour of the day; 11:00 p.m. (23:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at eleven o'clock.
glosses: A position ahead and slightly to the left (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 11 mark on a clock face)
glosses: Moss-rose purslane, a flowering plant of species Portulaca grandiflora
twelve o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelve o'clocks
Senses: examples: text: The next train comes at twelve o'clock (= "The next train comes at noon").
qualifier: In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock
glosses: The start of the thirteenth hour of the day; noon (noontime); 12:00 p.m. (12:00).
examples: text: The bar closes at twelve o'clock (= "The bar closes at midnight").
qualifier: Only in the 12-hour clock
glosses: The start of the first hour of the day; midnight; 12:00 a.m. (00:00).
examples: text: We've got a bogey at twelve o'clock (= "We've got a bogey straight in front of us").
glosses: A position straight ahead (horizontal clock orientation) or above (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 12 mark on a clock face)
Advaitism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अद्बैत (adbaita, literally “not two”) and -ism.
Senses: glosses: The "non-dualist" school of Vedanta founded by the 8th-century Indian philosopher Sankaracharya.
Mitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Mitte (“middle”).
Senses: glosses: The most central borough of Berlin.
undecillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undecillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number undecillion
undecillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecillionths
Etymology: From undecillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the undecillionth position.
glosses: One of an undecillion equal parts of a whole.
duodecillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duodecillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number duodecillion
duodecillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecillionths
Etymology: From duodecillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the duodecillionth position.
glosses: One of a duodecillion equal parts of a whole.
stib-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: stibio-
Etymology: From Latin stibium, from στίβι (stíbi).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: antimony
Derived terms: stibamyl
stibane
stibdiamyl
stibethyl
stibmethyl
stibocaptate
stibophen
stibtriamyl
stibtriethyl
stibtrimethyl
stibio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: antimony
Derived terms: stibioferrite
stibiogalenite
stibiolite
stibiopalladinite
stibiotantalite
stibiotriethyl
stibiotrimethyl
Related terms: stib-
vigintillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vigintillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: What is called the proper understanding of human life is the realization that we are merely acting out the vigintillionth act...
ref: 1956, Qing Hua Xue Bao [清華學報], Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, Guo Li Qing Hua Da Xue [National Tsing Hua University, 國立清華大學], Hsin-chu Shih [Hsinchu City, 新竹市], Taiwan, page 177
glosses: The ordinal form of the number vigintillion
vigintillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigintillionths
Etymology: From vigintillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the vigintillionth position.
examples: text: 1892 June–November, Stone, An Illustrated Magazine, volume v
[…] it seems to show that the trend of mechanical thought is toward simplicity of design rather than complexity, and that the sober second thought of the power user has rather discredited the profits to be made by saving the “vigintillionth” of a pound of coal per horse power per hour by an outlay of several thousand dollars.
text: But on some real choice property the matter of any ownership at all was so valuable that bidders bid one-millionth, one-billionth, one-trillionth, etc., even up to one-vigintillionth! ...some courts held that one-vigintillionth was a legally recognizable incumbrance.
ref: 1898, C. Amryc, Pantheism: The Light and Hope of Modern Reason, page 205:
glosses: One of a vigintillion equal parts of a whole.
antimonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antimony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or containing antimony.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing pentavalent antimony.
Derived terms: antimonate
antimonic acid
antimonic chloride
antimonic oxide
antimonic pentoxide
pyroantimonic
sulfantimonic acid
sulphantimonic acid
sulfoantimonic acid
sulphoantimonic acid
Related terms: antimonious
antimonous
antimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antimonous
Etymology: From antimony + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or containing antimony.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing trivalent antimony.
Derived terms: antimonious acid
antimonious chloride
antimonious cyanide
antimonious hydride
antimonious oxide
Related terms: antimonic
antimonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimonous
form: most antimonous
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of antimonious.
mathematicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mathematician
unfathomably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfathomably
form: most unfathomably
Etymology: From unfathomable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfathomable manner; beyond understanding.
spectators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectator
shock site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock sites
Senses: glosses: A website intended to offend or shock, containing frightening and/or distasteful content of a pornographic, scatological, or grotesquely violent nature. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or image galleries.
Feucht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Feucht.
Senses: glosses: A market town and municipality of Bavaria, Germany.
glosses: A surname from German.
chick lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪk ˌlɪt/
Forms: form: chick-lit
form: chicklit
Etymology: From the English slang words chick (“girl, woman”) and lit (“literature”).
Senses: examples: text: Hello, my name is Michele and I'm proud to be a chick-lit author. I write the kind of novel that gets spattered with margarita and suncream rather than soaked in Booker-type praise. You know the books I mean. You need only look for their pastel covers, or follow the trail that leads to one of their many detractors – for they make some women spit with gender-bashing venom.
ref: 2010 August 5, Michele Gorman, “The chick-lit debate: light doesn't have to mean stupid”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Literature perceived to appeal to, or be marketed at, young women, typically concerning romantic dilemmas.
Coordinate terms: dick lit
manfiction
Related terms: chick flick
hydrogenetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogenated; hydrogenized
hydrogen gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogen
Synonyms: hydrogen air
hydrogeniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more hydrogeniferous
form: most hydrogeniferous
Etymology: From hydrogen + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing or producing hydrogen
baulk end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baulk ends
form: balk end
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The end of a snooker table where the green, brown and yellow balls are initially placed
Related terms: baulk line
baulk line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baulk lines
form: balk line
form: balkline
form: baulkline
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The line at the baulk end of a snooker table, upon which the green, yellow and brown balls are initially placed.
glosses: Any of a number of similar lines in certain carom billiards games.
cue ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cue balls
form: cueball
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
synonyms: white
glosses: The white ball which, stricken by the cue, collides with the other balls to achieve the object of the particular game.
synonyms: baldy
glosses: A bald person.
solen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊlən/
Forms: form: solens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σωλήν (sōlḗn).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cradle, as for a broken limb.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen; a razor clam.
epexegesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpˌɛksɪˈd͡ʒisɪs/
Forms: form: epexegeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπεξήγησις (epexḗgēsis), from ἐπεξηγέομαι (epexēgéomai, “I explain in detail”), from ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai, “I narrate, describe”).
Senses: glosses: An additional explanation or explanatory material.
Related terms: exegesis
ladylove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyloves
form: lady love
Etymology: From lady + love.
Senses: examples: text: The knight went on a quest to prove his quality to his ladylove.
text: the picture of halcyon days where a young gentleman in the costume they used to wear then with a threecornered hat was offering a bunch of flowers to his ladylove with oldtime chivalry through her lattice window
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A woman who is loved by someone; a female object of desire.
ladyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.di.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: ladyships
form: Ladyship
Etymology: From Middle English ladyship; equivalent to lady + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "Her ladyship will be unable to attend tonight," he said, with a wink because he hadn't said why.
text: York got down and said very respectfully, "I beg your pardon, my lady, but these horses have not been reined up for three years, and my lord said it would be safer to bring them to it by degrees; but if your ladyship pleases, I can take them up a little more."
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 104–105:
glosses: Term of respect for a woman of the peerage without using her title.
glosses: Formal form of address for a lady judge (as opposed to the informal "judge").
Related terms: lordship
la-di-da
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more la-di-da
form: most la-di-da
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lah-di-dah.
la-di-da
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lah-di-dah.
vellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vellies
Etymology: Clipping of veldskoen + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: In the cool of evening I noticed Army officers were wearing slacks and vellies but no socks.
ref: 2005, Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer, Winds of Destruction, page 116:
glosses: Veldskoen.
MST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mountain Standard Time.
MST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSTs
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of minimum spanning tree.
MST
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɛm ˌɛs ˈtiː/
Forms: form: MSTs
form: MSTing
form: MSTed
form: MSTed
form: MiST
Etymology: From the sci-fi comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, commonly known as MST3K, which features an audience of fictional characters (a man stranded in space and his robot companions) riffing real B movies.
Senses: examples: text: But you can't quote large chunks, and MSTing a story would seem to me to be across the line into infringement.
ref: 1998 September 26, Brandon Ray, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Maybe that's why its^([sic]) considered bad etiquette to MST without permission.
ref: 2002 August 3, ForwardPast, “Re: Blanket Permission To MST 3”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
text: Look it up and see if you don't agree that this story deserves to be MSTed, if not completely erased from existance^([sic])...
ref: 2003 April 5, Frank White, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To mock a work (typically a fanfic) by inserting satirical commentary.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from MST (verb)
word: MSTability
sense: terms derived from MST (verb)
word: MSTable
sense: terms derived from MST (verb)
word: MSTer
sense: terms derived from MST (verb)
word: MSTing
MST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛm ˌɛs ˈtiː/
Forms: form: MSTs
form: MiST
Etymology: From the sci-fi comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, commonly known as MST3K, which features an audience of fictional characters (a man stranded in space and his robot companions) riffing real B movies.
Senses: examples: text: The commentary in the MSTs may have been nasty and uncalled for; but it was not plagiarism.
ref: 1999 March 10, Teddi Litman, “Re: THE ACID DESK: Vol 1, No 9 - Plagarism^([sic]) Proof”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: The only MSTs I've seen (on alt.drwho.creative) have been of perfectly good fan fiction, deliberately cut about to make it look silly (truncating a character's words in the middle to create an^([sic]) non-existent innuendo, for example) - and those were *with* the authors' permission.
ref: 2003 April 8, Igenlode W., “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Goodbye Catherine! Come back soon! We'll all miss your unique style of MSTs! I know i will!! ;_;
ref: 2003 June 18, Craig McMartin, “Re: Hasta!”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A parody fanfic created in this manner.
MDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MDTs
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of multidrug therapy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: Initialism of model-driven testing.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of multidisciplinary team.
glosses: Initialism of mobile data terminal.
glosses: Initialism of mode deactivation therapy.
MDT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mountain Daylight Time.
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: EDCA
glosses: Initialism of Mutual Defense Treaty (United States-Philippines).
verbal diarrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbal diarrhoea
Senses: examples: text: When greeting foreign leaders he prefers the pomp and circumstance / Then vomits verbal diarrhea to satisfy his sycophants.
ref: 2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:
glosses: logorrhea
my eye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Apparently a shortening of all my eye.
Compare French mon œil.
Senses: glosses: Expression of disapproval, disregard, disdain, disgust, or disbelief.
Synonyms: my ass
my arse
my fat aunt
my foot
my rear
bullshit
Related terms: bah
harumph
pshaw
Liesegang ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liesegang rings
Etymology: Named after Raphael Eduard Liesegang (1869-1947), researcher.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the secondary rings or bands resulting from rhythmic precipitation in a gel, or within a fluid-saturated rock.
buka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukas
Etymology: From Javanese [Term?].
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
buka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukas
form: boka
Senses: glosses: A kangaroo-skin cloak traditionally worn by the Noongar people of southwestern Australia.
Related terms: buka puasa
buka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukas
form: bukka
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba búkà or Hausa búkkàa.
Senses: examples: text: I made a noncommittal noise and looked round the buka. It was a Saturday afternoon. The place was empty, with the bare plastic tables showing oil and grease stains.
ref: 2012, Chibundu Onuzo, The Spider King’s Daughter, Faber and Faber (2013), page 164:
glosses: an inexpensive, quick, road-side restaurant serving Nigerian food.
kapal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kappal (“ship”).
kaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɑjə/
Forms: form: kayas
Etymology: From Japanese 榧 (カヤ, kaya).
Senses: glosses: Torreya nucifera, the Japanese nutmeg tree.
glosses: Torreya grandis, the Chinese nutmeg yew.
kaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɑjə/
ipa: /ˈkɑjɑ/
ipa: /-ə/
ipa: [ˈkʰ-]
ipa: [ˈk-]
ipa: /ˈkaɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɑjə/
Etymology: From Malay kaya, from kaya (“rich”).
Senses: examples: text: So they ate sliced Chinese white bread […] spread thickly with sweet brown kaya.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 125:
glosses: A fruit curd made from a base of coconut milk, eggs and sugar, popular in Southeast Asia.
Derived terms: kaya toast
scientific notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10
examples: The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10⁻³ or as 2.36E-3.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an alternative format of such a decimal number immediately followed by E and an integer
religiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religiose
form: most religiose
Senses: examples: text: Verdi's Mass seems more religiose than religious.
glosses: Superficially religious, especially in an affected or sentimental way.
Related terms: religious
religion
higab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higabs
Etymology: From Egyptian Arabic حِجَاب (higāb).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hijab.
capillary action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The drawing of a liquid (often against gravity) into or up narrow interstices due to surface tension
Synonyms: sense: drawing of liquid often against gravity
word: capillarity
Related terms: wick
put the cat among the pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the cat among the pigeons
form: putting the cat among the pigeons
form: put the cat among the pigeons
form: put the cat among the pigeons
form: set the cat among the pigeons
Senses: examples: text: Professor Stephen Hawking put the cat among the pigeons last week with his cheery remarks about comet Machholz-2, which some astronomers believe could be heading our way.
ref: 1994 September 19, The Times:
text: In any event, this professorial detonation, especially coming as it does from hardline Federalist Society constitutional originalists, has set the cat among the Republican pigeons.
ref: 2023 September 2, Simon Schama, “The real Rino”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
glosses: To cause alarm, fuss, or agitation.
Related terms: flutter in the dovecote
syncline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪn.klaɪn/
ipa: [ˈsɪŋˌklaɪn]
rhymes: -ɪnklaɪn
Forms: form: synclines
Etymology: From syn- + -cline.
Senses: examples: text: Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, is the deepest known karst spring, -315 m. Lower parts were explored by a robot submersible. It is probably the ascending limb of a single loop in a syncline.
ref: 1988, Noel P. James, Philip W. Choquette, editors, Paleokarst, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A concave-upward fold in rock strata
monocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoclines
Etymology: From mono- + -cline.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata
Related terms: syncline
anticline
flutter in the dovecote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflʌtə ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɒt/
ipa: /ˌflʌtɚ ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɑt/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
Etymology: Probably from flutter the dovecote, possibly from Coriolanus (written c. 1608–1609; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Act V, scene vi (spelling modernized): “[L]ike an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volcians in Corioles.”
Senses: examples: text: I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote.
ref: 2001 November 15, Avi Shlaim, “Israel Confronts Its Past”, in St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (Conflict, Justice, and Collective Memories: How Countries Deal with Difficult Pasts [lecture series]), archived from the original on 25 Sep 2006:
glosses: A disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited.
wikipedia: Coriolanus
William Shakespeare
Related terms: flutter the dovecot
flutter the dovecote
flutter the dovecotes
put the cat among the pigeons
kerfuffle
oras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ora
osmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒzˈmɒtɪk/
ipa: /ɒsˈmɒtɪk/
ipa: /ɑzˈmɑtɪk/
ipa: /ɑsˈmɑtɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Senses: examples: text: We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
glosses: Relating to, or powered by, osmosis.
Derived terms: chemiosmotic
electroosmotic
electro-osmotic
endoosmotic
endosmotic
equiosmotic
exosmotic
hydroosmotic
hyperosmotic
hypoosmotic
iso-osmotic
isosmotic
microosmotic
miniosmotic
nonosmotic
normoosmotic
osmolarity
osmotically
osmotic pressure
osmotic pump
osmotics
osmoticum
dilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈljuːʃən/
ipa: /daɪˈluʃən/
ipa: /dɪˈluʃən/
Forms: form: dilutions
Senses: glosses: The process of making something dilute.
glosses: A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.
glosses: The process of bringing in unskilled workers to replace skilled ones, for example during wartime.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Ellipsis of share dilution.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Ellipsis of trademark dilution.
Derived terms: antidilution
biodilution
coat color dilution lethal
dilutional
dilutionary
dilutionist
hemodilution
isotope dilution
isotopic dilution
macrodilution
microdilution
nondilution
overdilution
postdilution
predilution
subdilution
thermodilution
underdilution
undilution
bili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪli/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of bilirubin.
Derived terms: bili light
arsenic trihydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound arsine.
trihydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihydrides
Etymology: From tri- + hydride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydride containing three atoms of hydrogen per molecule
Derived terms: arsenic trihydride
arsenous hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound arsine.
arsenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arsenic + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, related to, or derived from arsenic, especially in an oxidation state of three; arsenious
Derived terms: arsenous hydride
arsinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or derived from an arsinic acid.
hydroplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹəʊˌpleɪn/
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹoʊˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: hydroplanes
form: hydroplaning
form: hydroplaned
form: hydroplaned
Etymology: From hydro- + plane.
Senses: glosses: To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
examples: text: Don't drive too fast on wet roads or the car may hydroplane and cause you to lose control of the vehicle.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: aquaplane
glosses: For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking.
hydroplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹəʊˌpleɪn/
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹoʊˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: hydroplanes
Etymology: From hydro- + plane.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing.
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A seaplane; any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hydrofoil (“boat type”)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hydrofoil (“hydrodynamic surface”)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The wing of a submarine, used to help control depth
arsinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsinic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid H₂As(=O)OH.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrocarbyl derivative of this acid.
Related terms: word: arsenic acid
english: the conjugate base
translation: the conjugate base
word: arsinate
word: arsinite
word: arsinous acid
word: arsonic acid
word: diarsinic acid
word: triarsinic acid
tawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawas
form: tava
Etymology: From Hindi तवा (tavā).
Senses: examples: text: Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:
glosses: A frying pan or griddle.
tawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawas
Etymology: From Maori.
Senses: glosses: Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.
hydrocarbyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocarbyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical, derived from a hydrocarbon, such as methyl or phenyl.
Related terms: alkyl
aryl
cycloalkyl
heterocyclyl
hydrocarbylene
organoheteryl
organyl
tinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tindas
Etymology: From Hindi टिंडा (ṭiṇḍā).
Senses: examples: text: Peel tindas and cut a slice off the stalk end.
ref: 2000, Priti Narain, The Essential Delhi Cookbook:
synonyms: Indian squash
round melon
Indian round gourd
apple gourd
Indian baby pumpkin
glosses: A squash-like cucurbit grown for its immature fruit.
cycloalkyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloalkyls
Etymology: From cyclo- + alkyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from a cycloalkane by removal of an atom of hydrogen
Related terms: cycloaliphatic
heterocyclyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocyclyls
Etymology: From heterocycle + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any univalent radical derived from a heterocycle be removal of an atom of hydrogen from any ring atom
Related terms: cycloalkyl
organyl
organoheteryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any univalent radical, containing carbon, but which has its free valence at an atom other than carbon
Related terms: organyl
organyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organyls
Etymology: From organic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any univalent radical having its free valence at a carbon atom
Related terms: organoheteryl
saponification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saponifications
Etymology: From French saponification, from saponifier (“saponify”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrolysis of an ester under basic conditions to form an alcohol and the salt of the acid.
glosses: The reaction of a metallic alkali (base) with a fat or oil to form soap.
Derived terms: saponification number
saponification value
acene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪsiːn/
rhymes: -eɪsiːn
Forms: form: acenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing a rectilinear arrangement of fused benzene rings.
Hyponyms: polyacene
oligoacene
Derived terms: azaacene
circumacene
haloacene
heptacene
hexacene
nonacene
oligoacene
pentacene
polyacene
tetracene
Related terms: anthracene
naphthalene
polyphene
tetracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracenes
Etymology: From tetra- + acene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; the acene containing four fused rings, isomeric with tetraphene; any derivative of this compound.
pentacene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentacenes
Etymology: From penta- + acene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; the acene containing five fused rings.
Derived terms: bipentacene
dibenzpentacene
perfluoropentacene
grotesquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grotesquely
form: most grotesquely
Etymology: From grotesque + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Till the grotesquely angry scene was interrupted by the arrival of Mina, who came asking for Andrew.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 209:
text: Anything more appalling than this jumbled mass of the remains of a departed race I cannot imagine, and what made it even more dreadful was that in this dry air a considerable number of the bodies had simply become desiccated with the skin still on them, and now, fixed in every conceivable position, stared at us out of the mountain of white bones, grotesquely horrible caricatures of humanity.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Slowly, the grotesquely large lady made her way up the steps, the ladder creaking under her considerable weight.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: In a grotesque manner; disgustingly.
amniotic fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm′-nē-ŏ′-tĭk flo͞o′-ĭd
ipa: /ˌæm.niˈɑ.tɪk ˈflu.ɪd/
Forms: form: amniotic fluids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.
Synonyms: word: water
english: among humans
translation: among humans
word: waters
Derived terms: amniotic fluid embolism
principals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of principal
juster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From just (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of just: more just
juster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justers
Etymology: From just (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jouster.