cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
specific heat capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific heat capacities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
synonyms: word: specific heat
glosses: The heat capacity per unit mass.
plotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plotter
plinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plinth
patron saints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patron saint
perianths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perianth
periodicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩s/
Senses: glosses: plural of periodical
right-angled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a right angle.
Derived terms: right-angled triangle
geobag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geobags
Etymology: From geo- + bag.
Senses: glosses: A large sandbag used for geocontainment.
Hypernyms: geocontainer
D+
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: D+ was my final grade in honors algebra 2, so I passed.
glosses: An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than a D and slightly worse than a C-.
Coordinate terms: D−
D
D+
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Disney+.
C−
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than a D+ and slightly worse than a C.
D−
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D−'s
Senses: glosses: An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than an E+ and slightly worse than a D. D minuses are sometimes the lowest passing grades.
Coordinate terms: D+
D
F+
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than an F and slightly worse than an E−.
Related terms: E+
F-
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of F minus.
garg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹɡ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːɡ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: gargs
Etymology: Clipping
Senses: glosses: A gargoyle.
major-league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more major-league
form: most major-league
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of major league.
physicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicist
polkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polka
polkas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polka
pediophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, a traumatic experience or some kind of negative experience with the phobic object is what triggers specific phobias like pediophobia.
ref: 2024 January 8, Michelle C. Brooten-Brooks, “What Is Fear of Dolls (Pediophobia)?”, in Verywell Mind:
glosses: A fear of dolls.
geotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɒt.ɹəˌpɪz.əm/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑt.ɹəˌpɪz.əm/
Forms: form: geotropisms
Etymology: From geo- (“earth”) + -tropism, due to growth towards or away from the earth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: gravitropism
glosses: The movement of a plant in response to gravity (either downwards or upwards).
Derived terms: diageotropism
hydrotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotropisms
Etymology: From hydro- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of a plant (or other organism) in response to water, either towards or away from water.
Related terms: hydrotropic
the end
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðiː ɛnd/
ipa: /ði ɛnd/
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; […] remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
the end.
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Used traditionally at the end of a story or film.
examples: text: I have no idea where this conversation is going. Shall we head it off the page and say this is The End.
ref: 2007, Kathryn M. Hilton, Artificial Intelligence Is Fun!: Conversations with a Computer, page 240:
glosses: Used to indicate the termination of something.
Related terms: fin
game over
crêperie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crêperies
Senses: examples: text: It was shortly after my forty-fifth that I stopped in Hampstead to buy, on a whim, a mushroom crêpe from a crêperie stall.
ref: 1992, Maureen Lipman, When's it Coming Out?, →ISBN, page 73:
text: One of the strongest popularizing forces was Hungarian expatriate Leslie Fono who, with his wife, Paulette, opened one of the first crêperies in San Francisco, the Magic Pan, in 1965.
ref: 1995, Sylvia Lovegren, Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, →ISBN, page 312:
text: The square directly across from Monet’s house, as well as the adjacent street, has many little cafes and crêperies. […] If you’re looking for a light lunch, you’ll enjoy this little crêperie located in a square in the center of town.
ref: 2003 June 6, France For Dummies, →ISBN, pages 229, 351:
text: There is an art to making a good Breton crêpe which, along with the choice of fillings and decor, is why some crêperies are much better than others. You will find crêperies in every corner of Brittany and they are generally reliably cheap places to eat.
ref: 2002, Philippe Barbour, Brittany, Cadogan Guides, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Srdjan Djokovic and his wife, Dijana, both accomplished skiers, gave lessons at the resort and ran three side-by-side businesses in the village: a crêperie, a clothes shop and a pizzeria.
ref: 2013 January 2, Will Swanton, The Slams, Random House Australia, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of creperie.
cider house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cider houses
Senses: glosses: A public house that sells a selection of draught ciders rather than beer.
raw_tags: of England
bijouterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijouteries
form: bijoutry
Etymology: From French bijouterie.
Senses: examples: text: Is not Howel and James's shop filled with all that human art can invent, or human taste display—bijouterie touched with present sentiment, or radiant with future triumph?
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87:
text: The finer kinds of perfumery, prettily cut-glass bottles, and all sorts of bijouterie for the toilet or drawing-room table, good plaister casts, and in fact every thing ornamental, as far as the pecuniary means can afford, should be taken.
ref: 1850, The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook:
text: The first objects to attract attention are the large stands in the centre of the hall containing Mr. Simonton's brilliant display of bronze, painted china, and pretty bijouterie; the exquisite laces of Forrest and Allen; and the large collection of preparations for the toilet exhibited by Fred. Lewis.
ref: 1853, William Frederick Wakeman, Dublin: What's to be Seen, and how to See it:
text: The women cultivate and plant the ground, and after feeding their husbands, expend the surplus products in the beads and baubles which compose their bijouterie.
ref: 1861, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London:
glosses: Small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
Related terms: bijou
twinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twinkle
cobaltate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaltates
Etymology: From cobalt + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several crystalline materials, containing a triangular lattice of CoO₂ˣ⁻ anions, that are electrical conductors and have unusual magnetic and thermoelectric properties.
thermoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermoelectric
form: most thermoelectric
Etymology: From thermo- + electric.
Senses: examples: text: The obtained low and anisotropic thermal conductivity, and feasibility of synthesis, in addition to other reports on high electron mobility, make arsenene a promising material for a variety of applications, including thermal management and thermoelectric devices..
ref: 2015, M. Zeraati, S. M. Vaez Allaei, I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari, M. Pourfath, D. Donadio, “Highly Anistoropic Thermal Conductivity of Arsenene: An ab initio Study”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting thermoelectricity
Coordinate terms: electrocaloric
pyroelectric
Derived terms: nuclear-thermoelectric rocket
Related terms: thermoelectricity
thermoelectrics
thermoelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + electricity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The direct conversion of heat into electricity
Coordinate terms: pyroelectricity
Related terms: thermocouple
thermoelectric
thermoelectrics
Peltier effect
Seebeck effect
Thomson effect
striatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striatums
form: striata
Senses: examples: text: Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).
ref: 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure.
Synonyms: corpus striatum
Meronyms: sense: in primates
word: ventral striatum
sense: in primates
word: dorsal striatum
Derived terms: dorsal striatum
ventral striatum
prickle cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickle cells
Senses: glosses: A polyhedral cell in the epidermis having many spines that form intercellular bridges.
Derived terms: prickle cell layer
intercellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Located between, or connecting, cells
Derived terms: intercellular adhesion molecule
intercellular bridge
intercellular canaliculus
intercellular cement
intercellular junction
intercellularly
intercellular plexus
intercellulary
London weighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: London weightings
Senses: glosses: An allowance paid to staff of a national organization working in London to help offset the additional expense of living in the capital.
chieftainship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chieftainships
Etymology: From chieftain + -ship. Piecewise doublet of captainship.
Senses: examples: text: 1852 Commission to Inquire into the Past and Present State of the Kafirs
Shortly after the death of his father, Chaka obtained the chieftainship of the Zulu nation, through the influence of his patron.
text: First as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway, and then as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the L.N.E.R., his chieftainship bridges not merely 28 years of great events in the railway world, but has also witnessed a complete transition from the old operating methods, when engines were nursed and groomed like racehorses, to the stringent economic conditions of today.
ref: 1941 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part 1—G.N.R. 1911-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
glosses: The state of being a chieftain
examples: text: They exist in chieftainships, each head of which has his own local jurisdiction, civil and criminal.
ref: 1847, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, The Red Race of America:
glosses: The area ruled by a chieftain
childbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childbearings
Etymology: From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge. By surface analysis, child + bearing.
Senses: examples: text: From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.
ref: 1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ..., volumes 26–30, page 243:
glosses: The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.
childbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge. By surface analysis, child + bearing.
Senses: examples: text: Women in the latter stages of childbearing should not be permitted to attend the toll of the manufactories.
ref: 1836, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, England and the English:
text: In these cases, fish intake rates specific to females of childbearing age are most appropriate when assessing exposures to developmental toxicants.
ref: 2000, Methodology for deriving ambient water quality criteria for the protection of human health:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth.
examples: text: Hips that in the old country would be considered good childbearing hips, but in this country are too wide.
ref: 2004, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Stephanie Marston, Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife, page 256:
glosses: Attractively wide.
raw_tags: of a woman's hips
Derived terms: nonchildbearing
childcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childcares
form: child-care
form: child care
Etymology: From child + care.
Senses: examples: text: Today most childcare centres are woefully understaffed with poorly paid and underqualified personnel. Child care workers in both the USA and UK are in the lowest tenth of all wage earners.
ref: 1993, Amitai Etzioni, The parenting deficit:
hypernyms: caregiving
glosses: The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
glosses: A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians.
truthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːθinəs/
Etymology: From truthy + -ness. Modern sense coined by American comedian and writer Stephen Colbert in October 17, 2005 on his show The Colbert Report.
Senses: examples: text: Truly may it be said, that her valuable qualities have been sanctified ; whilst her play of character has not been lost, but has been rendered more interesting than before. Every one who knows her is aware of her truthiness, and appreciates her kindness ; […]
ref: 1824, Joseph John Gurney, “Amelia Opie”, in Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney, volume 1, Norwich: Fletcher and Alexander, published 1854, →OL, page 242:
glosses: Truthfulness.
examples: text: 'Cause you're looking at a straight-shooter, America. I tell it like it is. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. I will speak to you in plain simple English. And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.
ref: [2005 October 17, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, season 1, episode 1 (television production):
text: Even in the halls of Congress, economic arguments against immigration are losing their aura of truthiness, so pro-enforcement types are focusing on national security.
ref: 2006 August/September, “Immigration now, immigration tomorrow, immigration forever: reason's guide to reality-based reform”, in Reason, Reason Foundation, →ISSN:
text: Like the contemporary urban myth, tales of stomach frogs and "bosom serpents" persisted because they have truthiness.
ref: 2013, Mary Roach, chapter 8, in Gulp:
synonyms: truthlikeness
verisimilitude
glosses: Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.
examples: text: Usually, when you are receiving a Boolean value, you are most interested in checking its truthiness rather than its type.
ref: 2020, James Padolsey, Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 181:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
Related terms: untruthiness
alternative fact
cognitive dissonance
cognitive relativism
ring of truth
wikiality
chiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chillers
Etymology: From chill + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that chills
a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.
glosses: Something that chills
a heat exchanger between a coolant and a refrigerant, to transfer heat from the coolant loop into the refrigeration system
glosses: Something that chills
A machine that removes heat from the working fluid in a refrigeration cycle
glosses: A frightening dramatic work, such as a book or film
Derived terms: spine-chiller
chiller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From chill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With the setting of the sun a strong breeze, every blast of which was chiller and chiller, had begun to blow, rustling with a low continuous hum . . .
ref: 1844, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal:
glosses: comparative form of chill: more chill
electrostatic painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A technique for painting metal structures that have many holes or cavities; paint is sprayed through a grid of wires that forms one electrode onto the structure to be painted which forms the other electrode, and to which the paint particles are attracted.
kines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of kine
comae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coma (“cometary nuclear dust cloud”)
inspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inspirit
inspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inspiriting
form: most inspiriting
Senses: examples: text: I would willingly therefore write to you, if I might; the rather as it would be more inspiriting to have some end in view in what I write; some friend to please; besides merely seeking to gratify my passion for scribbling.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 210:
text: All honour to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renunciation they contribute worthily to increase the amount of happiness in the world; but he who does it, or professes to do it, for any other purpose, is no more deserving of admiration than the ascetic mounted on his pillar. He may be an inspiriting proof of what men can do, but assuredly not an example of what they should.
ref: 1861, John Stuart Mill, chapter 2, in Utilitarianism:
text: In the glorious reaction of the sunshine after the downpour, with its moist warm smells, bespanglement of greenery, and inspiriting touch of rain-washed air, the parks and palaces of the imagination glowed with a livelier iris, and their blurred beauties shone out again with fresh blush and palpitation.
ref: 1898, Kenneth Grahame, “Mutabile Semper”, in Dream Days:
text: She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music.
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 185:
text: These small and indeed insignificant things only began to become significant for me after the whole Vienna period which was at the same time inspiriting and depressing.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 220:
glosses: Giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.
Derived terms: inspiritingly
traumata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɔːmətə/
ipa: /tɹɔːˈmɑːtə/
ipa: /tɹɔːˈmætə/
ipa: /ˈtɹaʊmətə/
ipa: /tɹaʊˈmɑːtə/
ipa: /tɹaʊˈmætə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɔmətə/
ipa: [ˈtɹɔməɾə]
ipa: /tɹɔˈmɑtə/
ipa: [tɹɔˈmɑɾə]
ipa: /tɹɔˈmætə/
ipa: [tɹɔˈmæɾə]
ipa: /ˈtɹɑmətə/
ipa: [ˈtɹɑməɾə]
ipa: /tɹɑˈmɑtə/
ipa: [tɹɑˈmɑɾə]
ipa: /tɹɑˈmætə/
ipa: [tɹɑˈmæɾə]
Forms: form: traumas
Senses: examples: text: But the traumata merely act then as exciting causes.
ref: 1885, Hugo Ziemssen, Handbook of diseases of the skin, page 629:
text: As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.
ref: 1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures, page 84:
text: …analysts often seek magically to explain his specific acts by tracing them to particular infantile traumata. Rather than trying to understand the patient as a whole, they concentrate on why he made a specific slip of the tongue or dreamed an individual dream.
In the first place, no one denies that infantile traumata and fixations may sometimes be at the root of adult neuroses; the question is: Is this always so?
ref: 1985: Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts), Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, p158 & p182
text: Like the words ‘trauma’ and ‘traumata’, the word ‘stigmata’ seems to exercise its functions unacknowledged in writings about hysteria and allied conditions…
ref: 2004, Steven Connor, The Book of Skin, page 123:
glosses: plural of trauma
jodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yewg-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *yugtós
Sanskrit युक्त (yukta)
Prakrit 𑀚𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (jutta)
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Sanskrit -अयति (-ayati)
Prakrit -𑀏𑀇 (-ei)
Prakrit 𑀚𑁄𑀟𑁂𑀇 (joḍei)
Prakrit 𑀚𑁄𑀟 (joḍa)
Hindi जोड़ी (joṛī)bor.
English jodi
Borrowed from Hindi जोड़ी (joṛī) or Marathi जोडी (joḍī); possibly through Bollywood.
Senses: examples: text: Just over five years after coming together at the top of the Indian lineup, they already boast among the greatest-ever numbers for an opening partnership in the format. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, to many, in particular in India, are the ‘Jodi No. 1’ of the 2010s...
ref: 2019 January 30, “‘Jodi No. 1’: Dhawan’s Special Post for ‘Partner in Crime’ Rohit”, in The Quint:
text: For the last seven years, they have been projected as India’s political jodi number one.
ref: 2021 May 6, Rajdeep Sardesai, “A political and policy blow to the Centre”, in Hindustan Times :
glosses: couple, duo, pair
capibara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capibaras
Senses: glosses: Dated form of capybara.
puerperium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: puerperia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.
ref: 1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
Related terms: antepartum
parous
postpartum
puerpera
puerperal
cheeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheetas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cheetah.
puerperia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌpjuː.ɜːˈpɪəɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Senses: glosses: plural of puerperium
sexually transmitted infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexually transmitted infections
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: STI
glosses: A sexually transmitted disease, with or without symptoms.
intermissionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intermission + -less.
Senses: examples: For roughly the next hour of the play's intermissionless 100 minutes, this sense of song weaving awkwardly through the prosaic, repetitive business of a party that changes little from year to year is wonderfully sustained, and it is a compliment to say that you are rarely aware of the period scenery (David Jenkins), costumes (Jane Greenwood) or the subtly shifting lighting (Jennifer Tipton). - http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C03E2D71138F93AA15753C1A96F958260
glosses: Without an intermission; without a pause between acts in the performance of a play or in a film on television
Related terms: intermission
pyromaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyromaniac
pyrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrometer
pyrheliometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrheliometer
pyracanths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyracanth
McWorld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mc- + world.
Senses: glosses: The spreading of McDonald's restaurants throughout the world as the result of globalization.
examples: text: Pret a Manger, the veddy British chain, has gained a foothold in our McWorld of burgers and fries, where you can fun-size this, combo that and, let’s face it, sort of expect sullen service.
ref: 2011 August 6, Stephanie Clifford, “Would You Like a Smile With That?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The effects of international McDonaldization of services and commercialization of goods and services as an element of globalization as a whole.
Related terms: McJob
ballast resistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballast resistors
Senses: glosses: An electrical resistor whose resistance varies with the current passing through it, and thus tends to maintain a constant current
Synonyms: barretter
barretter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barretters
Etymology: Likely from Old French bareter (“to exchange”), or barateor (“exchanger”). Compare barrator
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ballast resistor.
predictability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌdɪktəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: predictabilities
Etymology: From predict + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: There are several ways to approach predictability. One way is to investigate whether asset prices over the past few days or weeks can be used to predict tomorrow’s price. The answer is no. Following a large amount of careful statistical work by Fama in the 1960s, researchers now agree that past prices are of very little use in predicting returns over the immediate future. [...] An implication of the excessive swings in stock prices is that a high ratio of price relative to dividends in one year will tend to be followed by a fall in prices relative to dividends over subsequent years, and vice versa. This means that returns follow a predictable pattern in the longer run. Shiller and his collaborators demonstrated such predictability in stock markets as well as bond markets, and other researchers have later confirmed this finding in many other markets.
ref: 2013, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “Trendspotting in Asset Markets (Prize in Economic Sciences / Popular Science Background)”, in nobelprize.org, retrieved 20 Oct 2013:
text: England's fans responded by loudly rallying to Maguire's cause but there was a grim predictability about what happened in the 67th minute, the defender lazily sticking out a leg to divert Robertson's cross past helpless keeper Aaron Ramsdale.
ref: 2023 September 12, Phil McNulty, “Scotland 1-3 England: 'Complete package' Jude Bellingham puts concluding flourish on world-class performance”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The characteristic of being predictable.
predictabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predictability
band spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band spectra
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An absorption or emission spectrum consisting of bands of closely-spaced lines; characteristic of polyatomic molecules.
grecque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grecques
Etymology: French grecque, feminine of grec (“Greek”)
Senses: examples: text: The sleeves are wide; the revers, or deep cuffs, being formed by a grecque similar to that of the skirt.
ref: 1861, The What-not; or Ladies' Handy-book, page 159:
glosses: An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, especially a fret or meander.
glosses: A vessel with a perforated bottom for making coffee without grounds.
syncarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncarids
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the superorder Syncarida, which have no carapace.
pâtés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pâté
pyrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrophore
pullouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pullout
pycnoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnocline
pullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pullet
provocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provocation
make whoopee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes whoopee
form: making whoopee
form: made whoopee
form: made whoopee
Senses: glosses: To enjoy oneself in a boisterous manner.
examples: text: Guess who's making whoopee with your girlfriend. Those dreading words just drove me out of my mind. Guess who's making whoopee with your girlfriend. He's said what's mine is yours and yours is all mine.
ref: 1971, “Mama's Pearl”, in Motown (unreleased version with alternate lyrics), performed by The Jackson 5:
text: Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology.
ref: 1990, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Some of the rich orange globes of life-yet-to-be always wash from the streambed gravel where they were deposited a few months earlier by salmon that had died, poignantly, mere hours after making whoopee.
ref: 1995, Bradford Matsen, Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Sex and drugs are discussed openly (one newspaper recently examined puberty by showing photographs of the development of both male and female genitalia), and you might overhear a pub chat where Jan tells all details of making whoopee.
ref: 2004, Andrew Bender, Amsterdam: City Guide, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Before you get all prickly on us, "just friends" doesn't necessarily mean you're making whoopee together–it simply implies that the friendship is a little, shall we say, complicated. Either a) you used to make whoopee, b) one of you would kinda maybe like to make whoopee, c) you both kind of know you'll eventually make whoopee, or d) you spend so much time together that you may as well be making whoopee–what the hell's stopping you, anyway?
ref: 2006, Lorelei Sharkey, Emma Taylor, Em & Lo's Rec Sex: An A–Z Guide to Hooking Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 89:
text: "Did you think that since we made whoopee and you said I was yours, I'd want to quit work and keep house for you?"
ref: 2010, Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, Penguin, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: to enjoy oneself
word: whoopee
sense: to engage in sexual intercourse
word: make it
word: make out
word: have sex
word: copulate
divvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divvies
form: divvy
Etymology: From dividend with the diminutive suffix -ie.
Senses: glosses: A dividend.
divvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divvies
form: divvy
Etymology: Originating from prison slang in the UK. A job often given to the lowest inmates was to put cardboard dividers into boxes. Someone given this job was a 'divider' or a 'div'. Now used as an insult to those who display stupidity.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person; someone of low intelligence.
prokaryotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prokaryote
prokaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prokaryote + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria.
glosses: Of cells, lacking a nucleus.
Synonyms: bacterial
Related terms: prokaryote
parasols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasol
parkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parka
pawnshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawnshop
pen pals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pen pal
pen pals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pen pal
pendulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendulum
minors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor
minors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minor
informations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.
ref: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State:
text: 'We have another deposition, doctor, to take; Mr. Irons, here, is prepared to swear informations of very singular importance.'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
text: The second formal method of charging someone with a crime is by information. Informations are filed by prosecutors without grand jury review.
ref: 2011, Daniel E. Hall, Criminal Law and Procedure:
topics: law
glosses: plural of information
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: plural of information
plasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaster
plasters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plaster
procaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.keɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊˌkeɪn/
rhymes: -əʊkeɪn
Forms: form: procaines
Etymology: from pro- (“acting as a substitute or deputy of”) + -caine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound derived from benzoic acid, used as a local anesthetic, especially in dentistry.
Derived terms: chloroprocaine
procaine penicillin
tenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenth
protuberances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protuberance
prongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prong
municipal corporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal corporations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A municipality; a governing body within a larger state formed by the enactment of a governing document.
Related terms: municipal incorporation
municipal incorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal incorporations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The creation of a municipality by the enactment of a governing document.
Related terms: municipal corporation
pseudoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoscope
municipal corporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipal corporation
municipal incorporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipal incorporation
prayer books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prayer book
precipitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precipitator
panopticons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panopticon
pathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathologist
proximity fuzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximity fuses
Senses: glosses: plural of proximity fuze
proximity fuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximity fuzes
Senses: glosses: plural of proximity fuse
pyramidals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidal
shotgun approach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotgun approaches
Senses: examples: text: She seems to take the shotgun approach to holiday shopping, buying many smaller, generic gifts for everybody.
glosses: An approach in which the subject is indiscriminate and haphazard, using breadth, spread, or quantity in lieu of accuracy, planning, etc.
Related terms: blunt instrument
brute force
scattershot
sledgehammer
spray and pray
surf boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf boats
Senses: glosses: A type of boat used in surf lifesaving to go from shore out through the breaking waves, and back again. Current designs are rowed by a crew of four, with a sweep at the back steering. Originally used for mass rescues, but now superseded by powered craft and used only for competition.
external risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: external risks
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Risks that are produced by a non-human source and are beyond human control. They are unexpected but happen regularly enough in a general population to be broadly predictable. Good examples of external risks are natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
qualifier: project management
glosses: Risks that are external to the project and the project manager can not control. Good examples of external risks are changes in government legislation, changes in strategy from senior managers, and the economy.
fleet landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleet landings
Senses: glosses: The place along a shoreline or pier used by sailors to go ashore or board a boat
glosses: A place where sailors meet after coming ashore.
peanut butters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːnʌt ˈbʌtəz/
Senses: examples: text: These peanut butters can be made, in seconds, right before your eyes, sans additives.
ref: 2014, Lauren Talbot, Clear Skin Detox: A Revolutionary Diet to Heal Your Skin from the Inside Out, Ulysses Press, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of peanut butter
penances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penance
lumme
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: lummy
Etymology: From Lor' lumme, a corruption of Lord love me. Compare gimme.
Senses: examples: text: In a spasm of uncontrollable excitement James sucked his teeth. "Lumme, it wouldn't 'alf go on the movies, would it?" he remarked. "Better than them Red Indians and things."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 2, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: Expressing surprise.
penny pinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny pincher
Aubrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːbɹi/
Forms: form: Aubreigh
form: Awbrey
Etymology: From Middle English Aubrey, Aubry, from Norman Auberi, Alberi, from Latin Alberīcus, Latinized form of Old High German Alberich, from Proto-Germanic *Albirīks, from *albiz (“elf, fairy”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”). Possibly influenced by Gaulish Albiorīx (literally "ruler of the world").
Cognates include German Alberich and Italian Alberico.
Senses: glosses: An English patronymic surname.
examples: text: Call him my king, by whose injurious doom / My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere, / Was done to death?
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages or transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later American usage.
arctic fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctic foxes
form: Arctic fox
Senses: examples: text: Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:
glosses: Vulpes lagopus, a fox of the family Canidae, living in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia.
Synonyms: sense: Vulpes lagopus
word: polar fox
sense: Vulpes lagopus
word: snow fox
sense: Vulpes lagopus
word: white fox
Hyponyms: sense: Vulpes lagopus
word: blue fox
googillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googillions
Etymology: From googol + -illion, which would imply a very large power of ten.
Senses: examples: text: 1996 February 18, John Carl Pryor, “Re: A New Theory of Free Will -- continuation of an Open Letter to Professor Penrose”, alt.philosophy.objectivism, alt.sci.physics.new-theories, sci.physics, comp.ai, comp.ai.philosophy, sci.philosophy.meta, alt.memetics, and alt.extropians, Usenet
Thus what measurement outside of time and space do we use to measure time and space themselves? […] And what man can possibly project his mind beyond all space and time to make an objective measure and pronounce, "the universe is a googillion years old".
text: So, if this is what your^([sic – meaning you're]) trying to do, do a web search on CGI and read on^([sic – meaning one]) of the googillion tutorials on the subject.
ref: 1998 October 8, Noah Roberts, “Re: Can a^([sic – meaning an]) HTML page run a program and pas^([sic – meaning pass]) instruction to this program.”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):
text: Thanks a googillion
ref: 2000 March 27, Marian Buchanan, “Re: how can I get path animation to work with Align Layer and Position Layer?”, in macromedia.dreamweaver (Usenet):
text: 2006 August 1, Lynn Irwin, from webforumsuser@macromedia.com, “Re: Flash 8 Video Encoder problems”, macromedia.flash, Usenet
That makes no sense whatsoever. How can my googillion attempts be failing?
text: 2007 January 7, Gary Collard, “Re: Odds to win Super Bowl XLI -- January 3, 2007 ...”, alt.sports.football.pro.ny-giants, alt.sports.football.pro.ny-jets, and rec.gambling.sports, Usenet
One googillion to one.
glosses: An indefinitely large number.
arctic foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arctic fox
indefinably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indefinably
form: most indefinably
Etymology: From indefinable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indefinable manner
dormancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː.mən.si/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.mən.si/
ipa: /ˈdoː.mən.si/
Forms: form: dormancies
Senses: examples: text: [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy.
ref: 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 2, in Behind the Line:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
Synonyms: inactivity
quiescence
sleep
Derived terms: antidormancy
ecodormancy
endodormancy
hyperdormancy
nondormancy
paradormancy
semidormancy
superdormancy
indefinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + definable.
Senses: examples: text: They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
glosses: That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.
glosses: That which defies description; indescribable.
Synonyms: word: undefinable
Derived terms: indefinableness
indefinably
Related terms: indefinability
indefinable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indefinables
Etymology: From in- + definable.
Senses: glosses: Anything that cannot be defined.
periodicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodicity
petty officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty officer
Carmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet. The male name is from Italian Carmine.
Senses: examples: text: Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]
ref: 1914, Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain, The Page Company, published 1914, page 223:
text: "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera."
"Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it."
"She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band.
ref: 1988, Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish in the nineteenth century.
glosses: A male given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Idaho.
Derived terms: Carmen de Patagones
Del Carmen
El Carmen
San Luis del Carmen
petroleum jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petroleum jelly
Elinor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
blue fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue foxes
Senses: glosses: A variant of arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), raised in captivity because of its bluish grey-winter fur.
glosses: Vernacular name of the subspecies Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis.
plebiscites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebiscite
purviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purview
Wolfe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.
ref: 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name of English and German origin, a variant of Wolf.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
Wolfe City
Wolfe County