cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæk/
Forms: form: chacks
form: chacking
form: chacked
form: chacked
Etymology: From Michael Chack, an American figure skater whose bronze-medal-winning performance at the 1993 US National Championships was not broadcast on televsion because the producers did not think he would win a medal.
Senses: examples: text: Michael Chack pulled WAY up in the standings in his long [skate event]...but was chacked while we saw five guys skate worse!!
ref: 1998, Louis Epstein, “US National Men's Final RESULTS”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure (Usenet):
text: I'm hoping ABC doesn't chack her performance...how could they??
ref: 2002, Jonas, International Skating Union Discussion Boards: Figure Skating: Yukari Nakano, the reigning world jr silver medalist, landed a triple axel:
text: Did they chack Kostner's skate because of the fluff piece on the Russian pairs or not? I kind of like her and wanted to see her.
ref: 2004, Rex, “The Rest of Skate Canada: Phaneuf Rocks! The First Time I saw the Two Canadian Pairs Skate!”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure (Usenet):
qualifier: ice-skating
glosses: To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
chack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæk/
Forms: form: chacks
form: chacking
form: chacked
form: chacked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Fieldfares which chacked as they rose from berried hedgerows and isolated thorns were in their winter quarters; they had yet to face a long sea crossing to nest.
ref: 1967, A year with the curlews: life on the Northern Pennines, page 16:
glosses: Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
chack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæk/
Forms: form: chacks
Senses: glosses: A snack or light hasty meal.
webpreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɛb.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌwɛb.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌwɛb.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: webpreneurs
Etymology: From web + -preneur.
Senses: examples: text: The New Breed of Internet Geek, proclaims a caption, Rockstar Webpreneur.
ref: 2014, The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram, Maya Sloan, “Prologue”, in Rich Kids of Instagram, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: An entrepreneur whose venture relates to the World Wide Web.
production record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production records
Senses: glosses: An album or single featuring original music production, typically electronic music pieces where a music producer is the primary contributing artist.
admonitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of admonition
storylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storyline
diesel generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesel generators
Senses: glosses: Any electricity generator powered by a diesel engine
blatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatherers
Etymology: From blather + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who blathers.
March fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: March flies
form: march fly
form: marchfly
form: Marchfly
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Bibionidae of dark hairy flies.
examples: text: Leo crushed a couple of March flies to death on his splendid mahogany thigh and looked at her speculatively.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 130:
text: There were other, less pleasant forms of life, too; March flies with a spike-like proboscis I thought would have no trouble going through a pine board.
ref: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 237:
glosses: Any of the bloodsucking horseflies of family Tabanidae.
glosses: Tipula hortulana (syn. Bibio hortulanus), now of family Tipulidae of crane flies.
Coordinate terms: cleg
deer fly
forest fly
gadfly
yellow fly
zimb
gimme a five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gimme five
Senses: glosses: A request to receive a high five.
be there or be square
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: See square (“conventional, boring”).
Senses: examples: text: There's a huge party on Saturday night; be there or be square.
glosses: Used to encourage someone to attend an event.
Derived terms: be there and be square
breathe down someone's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breathes down someone's neck
form: breathing down someone's neck
form: breathed down someone's neck
form: breathed down someone's neck
Senses: examples: text: My boss never lets me get on with my work. He's always breathing down my neck and checking up on me.
glosses: To follow or supervise someone too closely, causing discomfort for that person.
Related terms: cramp one's style
bounce back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bounces back
form: bouncing back
form: bounced back
form: bounced back
Senses: examples: text: We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital.
text: Chelsea bounced back from the disappointment of losing at Wolves in midweek to end City's 21-game unbeaten league run stretching back to April, and a sequence of 14 unbeaten games away from home.
ref: 2018 December 8, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
text: The current Coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an effect on the line's traffic, but I have little doubt that the numbers will bounce back sooner or later because the ELL has proved too vital a link for both business and leisure travel.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
glosses: To recover from a negative situation without seemingly any damage.
glosses: Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, back.
Derived terms: bounceback
bouncebackability
bouncebackable
bounce back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounce backs
Senses: examples: text: After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises.
ref: 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of bounceback.
bust one's butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts one's butt
form: busting one's butt
form: busted one's butt
form: busted one's butt
form: bust one's butt
form: bust one's butt
Senses: examples: text: I've been busting my butt getting the tent fixed, while you're just sipping cocoa. Give me a hand.
text: I have several friends who are public defenders. They are competent, hard working attorneys who bust their butts every day to give these people the best defense available at any price.
ref: 1987 December 13, anonymous author, “Asinine Policy Of Supporting Prisoners”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 4:
text: Those flings, those strings you've got to cut / So get out on the streets, girls, and bust your butts
ref: 1995, Jewel, “Who Will Save Your Soul”, in Pieces of You:
glosses: To work exceptionally hard.
Synonyms: bust one's ass
bust one's neck
sweat blood
pergola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːɡələ/
ipa: /pɜːˈɡɐʉlə/
Forms: form: pergolas
form: pergole
form: pergolo
form: pergula
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.
Senses: examples: text: The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
text: While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.
ref: 2000, Gordon Bock, "Pergolas in perspective", Old-House Journal, July/August 2000
text: When I first saw the movie, Chocolat, my favorite element wasn't the plot or the character development or even the cinematography. It was the cloth-draped pergola under which a very special birthday dinner was served.
ref: 2009, Jerri Farris, Creating Garden Accents: Step-by-Step Instructions for 22 Projects, Creative Publishing International, published 2002, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
glosses: Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
Derived terms: pergolaed
pergolalike
call the shots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls the shots
form: calling the shots
form: called the shots
form: called the shots
Etymology: From sports.
Senses: examples: text: In today's health care system, insurance companies call the shots. They pick whom they cover and how they cover them. They can cut off your benefits when you need your coverage the most. They are in charge.
ref: 1994 January 25, Bill Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton's Second State of the Union Address:
text: Myanmar's Shan state, which borders both China and Thailand, is the wild wild east. And in many parts of the state, it's well-armed ethnic militias, not Myanmar's military, who call the shots.
ref: 2019 July 4, Michael Sullivan, “In Myanmar, Methamphetamine, Synthetic Drug Production Soars”, in NPR.org:
text: The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Iran’s elections are insignificant. Regardless of who wins, the argument goes, in the end, it’s the supreme leader who calls the shots.
ref: 2021 June 22, Ali Vaez, Dina Esfandiary, “The Hard-Liners Won in Iran. That’s Not All Bad News.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: call the tune
glosses: To make the decisions; to be in charge; to give orders.
Derived terms: shot caller
Related terms: rule the roost
call up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls up
form: calling up
form: called up
form: called up
Senses: examples: text: I remember looking in the card catalogue of the main Public Library under "Homosexuality" and not daring to call up the books because "they" might think I was one.
ref: 1976 April 17, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: The Emoji Movie takes place in “Textopolis,” where emojis maintain their assigned expression with no deviation, waiting to be called up for their on-screen appearance as needed.
ref: 2017 July 27, Tony Leondis, “The Emoji Movie is Inside Out crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
examples: text: “I don’t know if I’ll go to war or not, I don’t know what process the guys who are being called up are going through,” he wrote. “At the moment, our army is fully coping with the offensives of Russian soldiers and equipment.”
ref: 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To summon (someone) to report for military service.
examples: text: Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.
glosses: To select e.g. to a sports squad.
examples: text: You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer. It’s a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn't the kind of a guy I'd want to call up, that's all.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 25:
text: The other night, you wouldn't believe
The dream I just had about you and me
I called you up, but we both agree
It's for the best you didn't listen
ref: 2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.:
synonyms: ring up
glosses: To call on the telephone.
Derived terms: word: call-up
word: callup
Related terms: commandeer
effectuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effectuate
of the essence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: time is of the essence
text: speed is of the essence
glosses: Important, indispensable, crucial.
macaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɑːkə/
ipa: /məˈkækə/
Forms: form: macacas
Etymology: From the genus name Macaca, from Portuguese macaca, feminine of macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque and macaco.
Senses: examples: text: This process of the temporal bone varies in size, and may occur on one or both sides. A similar formation is common among gorillas, chimpanzees, macacas, magots (Inuus), and baboons.* It is less frequent among orangs,† gibbons, marmosets, and American species (howlers, hooded apes, etc.).
ref: 1886, Robert Hartmann, Anthropoid Apes (The International Scientific Series; 52), New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 111:
glosses: Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca; a macaque.
Derived terms: macaca moment
antagonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antagonise
antagonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antagonise
antagonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antagonise
antagonised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antagonised
form: most antagonised
form: antagonized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antagonized.
Barnsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)nsli/
Forms: form: Barnsleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Beorn + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3406).
glosses: A number of other places:
A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0705).
glosses: A number of other places:
A hamlet in Worfield parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO7592).
glosses: A number of other places:
A township west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A number of other places:
A locality in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A number of other places:
An unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Swindonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪnˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /swɪnˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Swindonians
Etymology: From Swindon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Swindon, a town in Wiltshire, England.
Swindonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪnˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /swɪnˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Swindon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the town of Swindon.
Alice B. Toklas brownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alice B. Toklas brownies
Etymology: Named after American artist Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967; the life partner of Gertrude Stein), whose The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) included a recipe for fudge containing cannabis.
Senses: glosses: A sweet cake or biscuit made with cannabis.
wikipedia: Gertrude Stein
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
Synonyms: hash brownie
747
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛvənfɔːˈsɛvən/
ipa: /ˌsɛvənfɔɹtiˈsɛvən/
Forms: form: 747s
Etymology: From translingual (Boeing) 747, the model number of the plane line.
Senses: examples: text: I dreamed of 747s / Over geometric farms / Dreams Amelia—dreams and false alarms
ref: 1976, Joni Mitchell, “Amelia”, in Hejira:
text: Just move yourself
and glide like a 747,
and lose yourself
in the sky, among the clouds in the heavens, 'cause [...]
ref: 1981 November 14, “Let's Groove”, in Raise!, performed by Earth, Wind & Fire:
synonyms: jumbo jet
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A Boeing airplane, model number seven forty-seven, sold to airlines for passenger or cargo transportation.
whackjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wækd͡ʒɑb/
ipa: /ˈwækd͡ʒɒb/
Forms: form: whackjobs
form: wackjob
form: whack job
Etymology: * whack(y) + job(bie)
Senses: examples: text: "He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does."
ref: 1992, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch:
text: One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.
ref: 2003, Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War:
text: 2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie
Ronald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs.
glosses: A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
Synonyms: sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: basket case
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: freak
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: loony
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: nutjob
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: nutter
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: screwball
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: wacko
sense: crazy, possibly dangerous person
word: wingnut
wackjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wackjobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whackjob.
horoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horoscope
washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃ.ɪz/
ipa: /ˈwɑʃ.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of wash
washes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃ.ɪz/
ipa: /ˈwɑʃ.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash
user experience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: user experiences
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: UX
glosses: The desired, expected, or actual experience of a user interacting with a product, especially as it relates to the design of the product's user interface.
enjoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enjoinders
Senses: glosses: A request or demand from an authority.
Synonyms: imposition
injunction
oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil
oils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oil
Scheherazade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/
ipa: /ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
rhymes: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: Scheherezade
form: Shahrazad
form: Shahrzad
form: Sheherazade
Etymology: Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد (šahrāzād), alternative form of شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād); either a reborrowing from Arabic شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād) from Middle Persian *čihrāzād⁠, equivalent to New Persian چهر (čihr /čehr, “lineage”) + آزاد (āzād /âzâd, “noble”), or a compound of شهر (šahr, “city”) + زاد (zād /zâd, “child of”), in which case there was likely no reborrowing through Arabic involved.
Given name popularized by the fictional character below.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian.
glosses: A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.
Derived terms: Scheherazadean
oiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oil
Derived terms: self-oiling
oiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilings
Senses: glosses: An application of oil.
oiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oil
dustman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustmen
Etymology: From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman’s hat
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
ref: 1960, Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman:
glosses: A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Synonyms: word: bin man
word: garbage collector
word: garbage man
word: garbo
word: refuse collector
word: sanitation engineer
word: trashman
word: garbage collector
Coordinate terms: sense: gender
word: dustwoman
nail polish remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail polish removers
form: nail-polish remover
form: nail-polish-remover
Senses: synonyms: polish remover
glosses: A solvent used to remove nail polish, usually mostly acetone.
snoek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snook
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348,
Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast
text: My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for snoek the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pâté. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek—a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda—triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood.
ref: 2004, Calvin Trillin, The strange attraction of snoek: The New Yorker, volume 80, page lxxxvi:
text: Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling.
ref: 2005, Alicia Wilkinson, Complete South African Fish & Seafood Cookbook, page 58:
glosses: An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
qualifier: Natal
glosses: The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
glosses: Any of several species of barracuda.
Synonyms: word: barracouta
Derived terms: smoor snoek
snoeking
lip gloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip glosses
Senses: examples: text: I took a beating when you wrote me those letters / And every time I remembered the taste of your lip gloss
ref: 1992, “Enid”, in Gordon, performed by Barenaked Ladies:
glosses: A cosmetic product applied to the lips to make them look shinier.
Related terms: lipstick
hair gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair gels
Senses: glosses: A hairstyling product in gel form that hardens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.
Related terms: hair spray
hair wax
pomade
brilliantine
hair spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair sprays
form: hairspray
Senses: glosses: A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.
hair spray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hair sprays
form: hair spraying
form: hair sprayed
form: hair sprayed
form: hairspray
Senses: glosses: To spray with this product.
Related terms: hair gel
hair wax
look and feel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looks and feels
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: operating system
glosses: The combination of the visual design and behaviour of a user interface.
raw_tags: of an application
Nantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑːnts/
Etymology: From French Nantes.
Senses: glosses: The prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.
glosses: A municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Mulhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈluːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Milhouse, from Alemannic German Milhüsa or its source Middle High German Mülnhūsen, from Old High German Mulinhūson; compare German Mülhausen (literally “mill house”). Doublet of millhouse.
Senses: glosses: A city in Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
Cherbourg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cherbourg, from Old French Chieresburg, probably from Old Norse kjarr (“thicket”) + borg (“fort”). Compare Old English Kiǣresburh.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin commune, Manche department, Normandy, France.
glosses: A town and local government area (the Aboriginal Shire of Cherbourg, which is surrounded by South Burnett Region) in Queensland, Australia.
Cannes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: can
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cannes, from Occitan Canas or Occitan Cànoas (alternative spelling of Canas).
Senses: glosses: A city in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France.
Mamoudzou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune and capital city of the overseas department of Mayotte, France.
fully briefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of an action before a court: for which the lawyers for both sides have presented all the arguments which they are permitted to present, and for which nothing further remains but the ruling of the court.
briefed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːft/
rhymes: -iːft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brief
Derived terms: nonbriefed
prebriefed
unbriefed
boinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boink
onetime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From one + time.
Senses: examples: text: "Nay," said he, stoutly, "I be no Lord and I be no Prince, but I be as good as thou. For am I not the son of thy onetime very true comrade and thy kinsman […]?
ref: 1891, Howard Pyle, chapter 19, in Men of Iron:
text: A G.C. line parcels train, headed by Class B1 4-6-0 No. 61163, approaches Chesterfield on July 29, 1961 past the remains of the bridge carrying the onetime G.C. line to Chesterfield Market Place.
ref: 1962 June, “Main line in the shadows—the Great Central”, in Modern Railways, page 370, photo caption:
text: Francisco Pignatari, a wealthy Brazilian industrialist and onetime international playboy, died today in a São Paulo hospital.
ref: 1977 October 28, “Francisco Pignatari, 61, Onetime Brazilian Playboy Prospered as Industrialist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: A onetime special […] forces officer, he had worked with Albright when she was ambassador to the United Nations and had served on the NSC staff with Clarke.
ref: 2004, The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4
glosses: Alternative form of one-time (“former; past”).
examples: text: So far as manufacturers, traders, and lawyers use the savings banks, they are very generally of the poorer classes; and these probably own a great majority of the larger onetime deposits.
ref: 1896, Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist:
text: The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase) […]
ref: 2004, The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 6
text: One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time.
ref: 2005, Osvaldo Gervasi et al., editors, Computational Science And Its Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 526:
glosses: Alternative form of one-time (“occurring once”).
game of chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: games of chance
Senses: examples: text: The state fair offers many family-friendly amusements, including tasty foods, games of chance, a petting zoo, and more.
text: Some religious sects frown upon any games of chance, even if no gambling is involved.
topics: games
mathematics
probability
sciences
hypernyms: game#Noun
coordinate_terms: game of skill
strategy game
glosses: A game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables (chance and luck) rather than strictly by strategy.
Synonyms: word: game of chance
Hypernyms: word: game
Hyponyms: word: lotto
word: bingo
word: roulette
word: two-up
Related terms: gambling
comforter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmfətə/
ipa: /ˈkʌmfəɹtɚ/
Forms: form: comforters
Etymology: From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.
Senses: examples: text: Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The comforters, relaxed in sarongs after the day's work, kicked off their sandals at the top of Syed Omar's steps and made their obeisances to the wives, to the elder children, and to the gloomy head of the house.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 511:
text: There are 157 men with AIDS/ARC in the small unit where I am housed. Many of us are abandoned by friends, family, lovers and spiritual comforters. And this is why I am reaching out to you.
ref: 1988 April 9, Kevin Blackburn, “Penpals Needed for Prisoners with AIDS”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
synonyms: consoler
glosses: A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
examples: text: A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 185:
synonyms: duvet
(continental) quilt
glosses: A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
examples: text: […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 29”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
ref: 1881 June, Felix L. Oswald, “Physical Education”, in Popular Science Monthly, page 148:
text: “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: A woollen scarf for winter.
synonyms: word: binky
word: bink
word: bo-bo
word: comforter
word: dodie
word: dummy
word: nookie
word: paci
word: piece
word: pippy
word: soother
glosses: A pacifier.
Derived terms: comfortress
Job's comforter
Comforter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmfətə/
ipa: /ˈkʌmfəɹtəɹ/
Forms: form: the Comforter
Etymology: A translation of the Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos, “comforter”), used in several verses of the New Testament.
Senses: examples: text: In these words, with which the Gospel for this day commences, He speaks of the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, and of the Father, and of Himself
ref: 1832, John Hall, Expository discourses on the Gospels for every Sunday in the year, page 33:
text: That this high- priestly office belongs only to the bishops, either to seal or to transmit the Comforter Spirit, is proved not only by Church usage
ref: 1904, Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, Confirmation, page 43:
text: By the Spirit, He said, He would manifest Himself to them. "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you
ref: 2005, Ellen G White, The Desire of Ages, page 670:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
Synonyms: Holy Spirit
beefsteak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːfˌsteɪk/
Forms: form: beefsteaks
Etymology: From beef + steak. Doublet of bifshtek and bistek.
Senses: examples: text: Fa la la la
Fa la la lee
Now let me go, my honey oh
back to Tennessee
It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
whiskey when I'm dry, and
sweet heaven when I die
It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
whiskey when I'm dry, and
sweet heaven when I die
ref: 2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest, performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:
glosses: (A) steak cut from a cattle beast (e.g., cow, steer).
glosses: Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
glosses: Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
examples: text: I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. I faithfully watered them every day and the little plants quickly shot up to an impressive height.
ref: 2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life:
glosses: Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
glosses: Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
glosses: A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
Derived terms: beefsteak club
beefsteak mushroom
beefsteak Nazi
beefsteak tomato
Florentine beefsteak
hibiscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈbɪskəs/
ipa: /haɪˈbɪskəs/
Forms: form: hibiscuses
form: hibisci
Etymology: From Late Latin hibiscus, from Latin hibiscum, from Ancient Greek ἰβίσκος (ibískos, “marsh mallow”), probably ultimately from Gaulish.
Senses: examples: text: There were red hibiscus flowers splashed all over it, yellow dots quivering at the stamens.
ref: 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 231:
glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea.
glosses: A cocktail made with champagne and cranberry juice.
Derived terms: Chinese hibiscus
cottonwood hibiscus
sea hibiscus
cauda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of cauda equina.
Related terms: bagna cauda
cauda galli
ay, chihuahua
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: !
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: Ay, chihuahua! I didn't hear you coming.
glosses: An expression of surprise or shock.
examples: text: Ay, chihuahua! The computer crashed and I'm going to have to start all over again.
glosses: An expression of dismay, annoyance, or resignation.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of dismay
word: dammit
Related terms: ay, caramba
whoa
Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After William Thurston, American mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of certain properties of multidimensional spaces.
redwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redwood
giant sequoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant sequoias
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Sequoiadendron giganteum, the world's largest trees.
giant sequoias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant sequoia
shape memory alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shape memory alloys
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of metallic materials that can return to a previously defined shape, after being deformed, by being heated.
Synonyms: memory metal
memory alloy
smart metal
smart alloy
muscle wire
Hyponyms: spring steel
shipping fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A severe inflammation of the lungs of cattle, caused by a bacterium of the genus Pasteurella, sometimes seen following the stress of transport to market under poor conditions.
dashpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dashpots
Etymology: From dash + pot.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers.
aliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əliːˈjɑː/
/əˈliːjə/
Forms: form: aliyahs
form: aliyot
form: aliyoth
form: aliyos
form: aliya
form: 'aliyah
Etymology: From Hebrew עלייה / עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”).
Senses: glosses: The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
examples: text: In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 53:
glosses: The immigration of Jews to Israel.
glosses: One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.
aliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əliːˈjɑː/
/əˈliːjə/
Forms: form: aliyahs
form: aliyahing
form: aliyahed
form: aliyahed
form: aliya
form: 'aliyah
Etymology: From Hebrew עלייה / עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”).
Senses: examples: text: Anti-Semitism is a method of fooling Jews into aliyahing to Israel, the homeland, the sanctuary, in the pretence they will be safe. In the last 50 years how many Jews have died in Israel as a result of anti Jewish attacks....and how many have died in the diaspora?
ref: 2004 February 13, Paul Abelest, “Why Zionists love anti-Semitism”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
glosses: To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.
yerida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeridas
form: yeridot
form: yeridah
Etymology: From Hebrew יְרִידָה (yeridá, “descent”).
Senses: glosses: The emigration of Jews from Israel.
amah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mə/
ipa: /ˈɑː.mɑ/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
Forms: form: amahs
form: ama
Etymology: From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
examples: text: Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20:
glosses: A female domestic helper; a maid.
Related terms: amma
proa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊə
Forms: form: proas
form: parao
form: perahu
form: prahu
form: prau
form: prow
Etymology: From Malay perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
I noticed that on the sea were numerous fantastically shaped canoes—or rather boats—like Malay proas, or the canoes used by many of the South Sea islanders.
text: Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 231:
glosses: A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.
balance of payments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balances of payments
Senses: glosses: A measure of all flows of money into and out of a country including payments for goods and services and capital flows.
glosses: The systematic record of such transactions.
Related terms: trade deficit
black-water rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An informal sport in which participants use tyre inner tubes as rafts and ride them on rivers through caves
inner tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner tubes
form: innertube
Senses: glosses: An inflatable rubber tube with a valve inserted into the casing of a pneumatic tyre.
glosses: Synonym of swim ring.
synonyms: word: swim ring
Related terms: tubeless
blogzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogzines
Etymology: From blog + zine.
Senses: glosses: An online magazine in blog format.
extensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˌstɛn.səˈbɪ.lə.ti/
Forms: form: extensibilities
Etymology: From extensible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The capability of being extended
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A quality of design that takes possible future advances into consideration and attempts to accommodate them
Derived terms: hyperextensibility
periodontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “a tooth”).
Senses: glosses: surrounding a tooth
glosses: Relating to the periodontium
examples: text: Recently it has been shown that the bacterial flora of endodontic and periodontal abscesses differ in certain aspects. Thus, in an endodontic abscess, the number of spirochetes is between 0 and 10%, whereas in a periodontal abscess the spirochete count is about 40%.
ref: 2002, Leif Tronstad, Clinical Endodontics: A Textbook, page 70:
glosses: Relating to periodontics
Derived terms: endoperiodontal
nonperiodontal
periodontal curette
periodontal disease
periodontality
periodontal ligament
periodontal pocket
periodontal scaler
Related terms: periodontally
periodontics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + odonto- + -ics.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: periodontology
glosses: The study of supporting structures of teeth, including the gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament, and the diseases and conditions that affect them.
Related terms: periodontal
periodontally
periodontist
periodontitis
periodontogenesis
periodontological
periodontologist
periodontology
Pinteresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pinteresque
form: most Pinteresque
Etymology: From Pinter + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the playwright Harold Pinter or his works.
Saddlebred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saddlebreds
Senses: glosses: A horse of the American Saddlebred breed.
American Saddlebred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Saddlebreds
Senses: glosses: A breed of horse that originated in Kentucky by crossing Thoroughbreds, Morgans, and standardbreds.
gonangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonangia
Etymology: From gon- (“reproduction”) + Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel”)
Senses: glosses: A capsule which encloses the blastostyle of some hydroids
Synonyms: gonotheca
teleophore
UCLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌju.si.ɛlˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: examples: text: Representatives from UCLA are Sunny Merrill and Ken Gallagher who will appear tonight on Peter Potter’s “College Corner” program, which will poll the most popular record according to West Coast collegiennes on KHJ from 10:30 to 11.
ref: 1947 December 3, Daily Bruin, volume XXXII, number 51, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California at Los Angeles, page 1:
text: State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.
ref: 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:
text: Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA, said the shortages among burger-flippers and cashiers is notable “because those low-end jobs more typically have a labor surplus.”
ref: 2021 September 7, Ben Finley, Tom Krisher, “Amid labor shortage, union workers feeling emboldened: Organized workers bargaining for higher pay, improved benefits”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., page B4, column 5:
text: None of the processing happens out in the open ocean, said Gaurav Sant, an Equatic founder and professor of sustainability at UCLA, “this is important because it allows you to measure everything that you’re doing perfectly.”
ref: 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN:
text: A 2021 academic study led by UCLA academics identified Pinker as one of the “political centrists” who have “played a role in legitimizing the ideas of the human biodiversity movement” in a way that has benefited white nationalists, despite not being core proponents themselves.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of University of California, Los Angeles.
Hypernyms: UC
UVA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If she liked UVA enough, sheʼd stay and get a second degree.
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 87:
glosses: Initialism of University of Virginia.
UVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultraviolet A.
Coordinate terms: IR
FIR
NIR
Related terms: UVB
UVC
FUV
EUV
UV
ultraviolet
ultra-
violet
LSU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.
ref: 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: Initialism of Louisiana State University.
LSU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of livestock unit.
FIU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Florida International University
FIU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FIUs
Senses: glosses: Financial Intelligence Unit
Financial Intelligence Unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Financial Intelligence Units
Senses: glosses: A government agency found in many countries, responsible for investigating and preventing criminal manipulation of finance systems.