cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
snogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snog
opioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpiɔɪd/
Forms: form: opioids
Etymology: Attested 1963; from opium + -oid, to distinguish from opiate.
Senses: examples: text: Mechoulam concluded that our bodies must produce their own cannabinoids — endogenous molecules that, like the native opioids and nicotinelike molecules our bodies also make, engage the cannabinoid receptors throughout the human body.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A substance that has effects similar to opium:
Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain; an endogenous opioid.
examples: text: The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.
ref: 2023 March 8, Jen Christensen, “Young children are increasingly victims of opioid epidemic, study finds”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A substance that has effects similar to opium:
Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.
Derived terms: copioid
nonopioid
opioidergic
opioidlike
opioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opioid
parsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parsas
Etymology: Hebrew פרסה (parsa)
Senses: glosses: A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.
Strega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stregas
Etymology: From Italian Strega (proprietary name).
Senses: examples: text: The waiter rattled off a list, beginning with Strega and ending with cherry brandy.
ref: 1922, DH Lawrence, Aaron's Rod:
text: I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 20:
glosses: An Italian herbal liqueur coloured with saffron.
-cy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-si/
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman -cie, ultimately from Latin -cia, -tia, Ancient Greek -κια (-kia), -τια (-tia), originally variants of Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ια (-ia), -ία (-ía) or -εια (-eia). Original loan words like pharmacy and papacy could have formed the model.
Senses: examples: text: private + -cy → privacy
text: frequent + -cy → frequency
text: obstinate + -cy → obstinacy
qualifier: non-productive
glosses: Used to form nouns of state, condition or quality.
examples: text: president + -cy → presidency
text: abbot + -cy → abbacy
text: magistrate + -cy → magistracy
qualifier: non-productive
glosses: Used to form nouns of rank or office.
Synonyms: topics: state
sense: condition or quality
word: -ness
topics: state
sense: condition or quality
word: -ity
topics: state
sense: condition or quality
word: -itude
topics: state
sense: condition or quality
word: -th
sense: office
word: -ate
stimulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stimulative
form: most stimulative
Etymology: From stimulate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Having a stimulating effect.
Derived terms: stimulativeness
stimulative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stimulatives
Etymology: From stimulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Then there are ſo many ſtimulatives to ſuch a ſpirit as mine in this affair, beſides Love […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Something having a stimulating effect; a stimulant, an incentive.
Delilah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlaɪlə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דְּלִילָה (d'līla, “[she who] weakened”).
Senses: examples: text: And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
ref: Judges 16:6
glosses: The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.
examples: text: "Leila!" she said enigmatically. "Have you seen her?" / "I went to her flat last week with Dad—he likes her." / "Delilah is her real name, you know. All men like her. And Captain Fort is her lover."
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 220:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
Delilah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlaɪlə/
Forms: form: Delilahs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דְּלִילָה (d'līla, “[she who] weakened”).
Senses: examples: text: He shall burst the bands of this Delilah, as Sampson burst the two new cords with which the Philistines had bound him, and shall slaughter the infidels, even heaps upon heaps. But concerning this foul witch, who hath flung her enchantments over a brother of the Holy Temple, assuredly she shall die the death.
ref: 1820, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: Down with this Delilah! Avaunt, O Circe, giver of poisonous feeds. To your natural haunts, ye gentlemen of the press! if bachelors, frequent your taverns, and be content.
ref: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fashionable Authoress”, in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume 9, Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, published 1872, pages 341–342:
glosses: A beautiful, cunning and treacherous woman; a femme fatale.
examples: text: About twenty-three years ago the town talked about Richepin having deserted hearth and home, wife and child, to devote himself to a Delilah in the person of a famous actress.
ref: 1908 March 11, “Notes from Paris”, in Truth, page 168:
glosses: A libertine; a harlot; a woman of loose morals.
Synonyms: sense: femme fatale
word: vamp
sense: libertine
word: promiscuous woman
skincare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪn.kɛə/
ipa: /ˈskɪn.kɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɪnkɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From skin + care.
Senses: examples: text: The saleswoman told her that her face would look older unless she bought this line of skincare products.
glosses: The care and treatment of the skin, especially of the face.
skyjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skyjack
skyjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyjackings
Senses: glosses: The kidnapping of the passengers of an airplane by threat of force; the hijacking of an airplane, especially in flight.
rearwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rearwardly
form: most rearwardly
Etymology: From rearward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Extending in a rearward manner. Positioned to the rear of an object.
sportsmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔːts.mən.laɪk/
ipa: /ˈspɔɹts.mən.laɪk/
Forms: form: more sportsmanlike
form: most sportsmanlike
Etymology: From sportsman + -like.
Senses: glosses: Demonstrating good sportsmanship, behaving in an honorable and appropriate manner.
inobtrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inobtrusive
form: most inobtrusive
Etymology: From in- + obtrusive.
Senses: glosses: inconspicuous; unobtrusive
Derived terms: inobtrusively
inobtrusiveness
peshmerga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peshmergas
form: peshmarga
form: peshmerge
Etymology: From Central Kurdish پێشمەرگە (pêşmerge) / pêşmerge (literally “those who face death”), from pêş (“front”) + merg (“death”) + e (“is”).
Senses: glosses: A term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters.
glosses: The official name of the military forces of Iraqi Kurdistan.
fallos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallo
spotlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spotlight
spotlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spotlight
spotlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spotlight
spreadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɛdəbəl/
Forms: form: more spreadable
form: most spreadable
Etymology: From spread + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This warm margarine is much more spreadable than that lump of cold butter.
text: You can choose spreadable cheese or cheese blocks.
text: Salumi platters, at $8 a selection, built from the best examples she can find, including a spicy, spreadable salami called nduja.
ref: 2009 September 2, Kim Severson, “For a Perfectionist Chef, a New Spot and a New Challenge”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being spread.
spreadable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɛdəbəl/
Forms: form: spreadables
Etymology: From spread + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something, such as a food product, that can be spread.
split-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a building: built with rooms on levels separated by stairs of less than a full storey.
examples: text: Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line. Our first stop is at one of the newest stations on the network - Worcestershire Parkway, which opened on February 23. It's a four-platform (actually three-platform) split-level interchange with the line from Birmingham to Bristol.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
glosses: Anything else built on two levels.
split-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-levels
Senses: glosses: A building (especially a house) of this kind.
split level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of split-level.
split level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split levels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of split-level.
examples: text: Confined to a wheelchair, she was effectively reduced to living in one split level, one-third of their split-level house.
glosses: A single level of a split-level house.
fauni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faunus
tranquiliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranquilisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranquilizer.
Good Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Good Book
Senses: examples: text: I told him "If Red men will learn the good Book, they may know as much as white men [...]"
ref: 1775, John Wesley, An extract of the Rev. Mr John Wesley's journal, from his embarking for Georgia, to his return to London., page 22:
text: "[...] Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. [...]"
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page 20:
text: "Mind ye, Paitrick," he used to say, "that the Good Book says, 'A soft answer turneth away wrath.' Now keep your temper, laddie. [...]"
ref: 1894, S. R. Crockett, chapter 4, in The Raiders, page 40:
glosses: The (Christian) Bible.
Related terms: good books
tranquillizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranquillizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranquilizer.
chocolaterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolateries
Etymology: From French chocolaterie. By surface analysis, chocolate + -erie.
Senses: examples: text: The sheer nerve of the woman—opening a chocolaterie just in time for Lent.
ref: 2000, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat: A Screenplay, New York, N.Y.: Talk Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: It is telling, though, that there remains a fine line between the chocolaterie and the church. Vianne never enters the church, and the priest never tastes the chocolates in the chocolaterie.
ref: 2005, Teresa Berger, Fragments of Real Presence: Liturgical Traditions in the Hands of Women, New York, N.Y.: Herder & Herder, →ISBN, pages 202–203:
text: I worshipped her body with mine and tasted every single part of her with the wild satisfaction of a gourmand in a chocolaterie.
ref: 2008, Conor Bowman, The Last Estate, Dublin: Clockwork Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: “[…] A great sketching spot on this usually very crowded street offers itself in a chocolaterie on the top floor of the KaDeWe shop center.” — Olga Prudnikova
ref: 2012, Gabriel Campanario, The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 181:
text: A take-it-as-it-falls day, Valentine’s Day doesn’t move to the nearest Monday or Friday to create a long weekend. Whatever day of the week February the fourteenth hits is it. And it’s a get-up-and-go-to-work day, especially if your place of employment happens to be in the restaurant industry, or at a florist shop, or behind the counter in a chocolaterie. Love sells, so people have to work.
ref: 2015, Myrl Coulter, A Year of Days, Edmonton, Alta.: The University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 58:
text: That’s why, when I received a message that my one-time chocolate-making mentor, Philippe Vetault, was retiring from his Brittany-based chocolaterie, I jumped at the chance to attend his au revoir party.
ref: 2017, Colette London [pseudonym; Lisa Plumley], Dead and Ganache, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3:
text: From working at the chocolaterie in San Francisco she’d learned a lot about how to run a business, and she certainly knew her craft.
ref: 2020, Jan Moran, The Chocolatier, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sunny Palms Press, →ISBN:
text: I could still honour Grandpa’s memory by establishing my own chocolaterie in Whitsborough Bay.
ref: 2021, Jessica Redland, Christmas Wishes at the Chocolate Shop, London: Boldwood Books Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: A chocolate shop.
wikipedia: Callebaut
Related terms: chocolatery
peshmarga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peshmargas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peshmerga.
peshmerge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peshmerges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peshmerga.
pain au chocolat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpan əʊ ˈʃɒkəlɑː/
enpr: păn' ō shŏkʹə-lä
ipa: /ˌpæn oʊ ˌʃoʊkoʊˈlɑ/
enpr: păn' ō shō'kō-läʹ
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: pains au chocolat
Etymology: Borrowed from French pain au chocolat (literally “chocolate bread”).
Senses: synonyms: chocolatine
glosses: A French snack consisting of a pastry, normally similar to a croissant, with chocolate inside.
milk chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk chocolates
Senses: glosses: Chocolate that includes milk powder as one of its ingredients.
glosses: A single piece of candy composed of this type of chocolate.
glosses: A variety of this chocolate.
Coordinate terms: word: dark chocolate
word: plain chocolate
word: white chocolate
Derived terms: milk-chocolaty
Related terms: chocolate milk
choccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŏkʹē
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒk.i/
Forms: form: choccies
form: choccie
form: chockie
form: chocky
Etymology: From choc + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like a choccy biccy?
glosses: chocolate
Synonyms: choc
bullycide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊ.li.saɪd/
Forms: form: bullycides
Etymology: Blend of bully + suicide
Senses: examples: text: Our research reveals that each year in the UK at least sixteen children commit bullycide...
ref: 2003, Gail Pursell Elliott, School mobbing and emotional abuse:
text: Jared's loss by bullycide on September 29, 1998, filled our lives with grief...
ref: 2007, Tamra B Orr, Sandra Giddens, Linda Bickerstaff, Suicide:
glosses: A suicide resulting from depression caused by bullying, especially among children.
cross-dress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/
Forms: form: cross-dresses
form: cross-dressing
form: cross-dressed
form: cross-dressed
form: crossdress
form: xdress
Etymology: From cross- + dress.
Senses: examples: text: The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation.
ref: 1976 December 11, Sarah Montgomery, “Plea For Tolerance”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:
glosses: To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
examples: text: Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells.
ref: 2006 November 1, Brian P. Dolan et al., “Dendritic Cells Cross-Dressed with Peptide MHC Class I Complexes Prime CD8+ T Cells”, in Journal of Immunology, volume 177, number 9, →DOI, pages 6018–6024:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.
Synonyms: word: transvest
Derived terms: cross-dresser
cross-dressing
karate chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karate chops
Senses: glosses: A strike with the bottom side of an open hand
entrées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrée
mocking is catching
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Be careful of making fun of others, lest others make fun of you.
Jonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jonker
take a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a seat
form: taking a seat
form: took a seat
form: taken a seat
Senses: examples: text: My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it.
ref: 2022 September 1, Joe Biden, “REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE CONTINUED BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION”, in White House, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022:
glosses: To sit down; to become seated, to sit.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be benched, to leave the area of play
Synonyms: pull up a chair
take a chair
take a pew
take one's seat
take several seats
Related terms: take a back seat
take a number
ß
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: You're full of scheiße!
glosses: Occasionally used in loanwords from German.
examples: text: As in nombers Abſtracte, euery nomber is not a rooted nomber, but ſome certaine only emongeſt theim, ſo in nombers Coßike, all nombers haue not rootes: but ſoche onely emongeſt ſimple Coßike nombers are rooted, whoſe nomber hath a roote, agreable to the figure of his denomination.
ref: 1557, Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte […], London: […] Jhon Kyngſtone, unnumbered page:
text: I am alſo aſſured by a Neighbour of mine, that a Brother of his, who is a great Cider Merchant in Devonſhire, is by frequent experience ſo well ſatisfied with the harmleſneſs of rotten Apples, that he makes no ſcruple of exchanging with any one that comes to his Cider-preß, a Buſhel of ſound-apples for the ſame meaſure of the other.
ref: 1664, John Newburgh, “[Pomona, or An Appendix Concerning Fruit-trees, in Relation to Cider, […].] Observations Concerning the Making and Preserving of Cider.”, in J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: After my Addreß to our Great Founder and Patron, I could not but think my ſelf oblig'd, in conſideration of thoſe many Ingagements you have laid upon me, to offer theſe my poor Labours to this MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ASSEMBLY.
ref: 1665, R[obert] Hooke, “To the Royal Society”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: And vvhat happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 168:
text: Paß, a VVay, Lane, River, Leave; alſo condition. VVhat a Sad Paß things are come to? In vvhat an ill State they are. That Shamm vvon't Paß, that Trick vvwon't take.
ref: [1699], B. E., “Paß”, in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, […], London: […] W. Hawes […], P. Gilbourne […], and W. Davis […], →OCLC, column 2; reprinted [London]: [Smith, Kay & Co.], 1899, →OCLC, signature I2, verso:
glosses: A ligature representing in italic text.
change hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes hands
form: changing hands
form: changed hands
form: changed hands
Senses: examples: text: The food got a lot worse after the restaurant changed hands.
text: The line has since changed hands several times, and is now to re-open as a preserved railway (a railway for leisure only), running vintage diesels and electrics, but with the aim of restoring steam.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 210:
synonyms: trade hands
glosses: To become the property of someone else; to be bought or sold.
Related terms: change hand
get back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets back
form: getting back
form: got back
form: got back
form: gotten back
Senses: examples: text: When I get back from holiday, I expect the house to be tidy.
text: He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
glosses: Return to where one came from.
examples: text: I'll get back to you on that by Wednesday.
text: Please get back to me about his complaint. ["to" here connotes "reply".]
text: Please get back with me about his complaint. ["with" here connotes "meet with", physically or virtually.]
glosses: Reply (to someone); follow up (with someone).
raw_tags: with with or to
examples: text: I lent her my guitar over the Christmas holidays, and will get it back when the term starts.
glosses: To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
examples: text: I'll get you back for this!
text: I'll get him back for this!
text: I'll get back at all of them for this!
glosses: To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.
raw_tags: with at or against
examples: text: People are afraid to let you know how much money they have because they don't want to turn into the “Bank of Michelle.” I can understand that. Don't want to get jacked into a “Hey, can I borrow five hundred bucks till next week dude? I'm a little short. I'll get you back though.”
ref: 2005, James O'Neill, The Gas Can, →ISBN, page 57:
text: “Hey, Jade, think I can borrow like twenty bucks? The guy who pays me to clean fish is out of town. Gotta buy some dog food.”
I looked at Todd—it had been all of a week since our Roughhouse fight, but I guess the money hadn't lasted. I took a twenty out of my wallet.
“Thanks, man. I'll get you back after our next fight.”
”Sure," I said, but I knew the money was as good as gone.
ref: 2024, Jaed Coffin, Roughhouse Friday: A Memoir, →ISBN:
glosses: To repay; to return the favor.
Derived terms: word: getback
word: get back at
word: get back on the horse
word: get back to
sous-chef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sous-chefs
Etymology: From French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underboss. Perhaps there was ultimately an unattested term *subcaput in Late Latin, with a variant *subciput.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
hypernyms: chef#Noun
cook#Noun
coordinate_terms: subchef
underchef
;
commis
;
subcook
undercook#Noun
chef de partie
station chef
line cook
glosses: The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.
oven glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oven gloves
Etymology: From oven + glove.
Senses: synonyms: oven mitt
glosses: A heatproof glove designed to carry hot things to or from an oven.
hijacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒækəɹ/
Forms: form: hijackers
Etymology: From hijack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the hijacker of an aeroplane
glosses: Someone who hijacks.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Hijackware.
Derived terms: gamejacker
threadjacker
passionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passionless
form: most passionless
Etymology: From passion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The lecturer had a cold, passionless approach towards his subject.
text: Summer is the most passionless season to me.
text: Polite and passionless, a relic of a faded gentility.
ref: 1974 February 2, Michael Bronski, “If You Believe in Fairies...”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 16:
antonyms: passionful
glosses: Lacking in passion.
Derived terms: passionlessly
passionlessness
Related terms: apathetic
indifferent
love letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love letters
Etymology: From Middle English lovelettre.
Senses: examples: text: We never see each other, but have been sending love letters every Valentine's Day for 10 years.
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
synonyms: billet-doux
glosses: A letter written to express the author's love for the intended reader.
examples: text: This movie is a love letter to New York.
text: The film is both a tip of the chapeau to The New Yorker, among other American magazines, and a love letter to expat life in France. But beyond that? There isn't much going on beneath its extraordinary bejewelled surface.
ref: 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
text: It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
ref: 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:
glosses: A work that shows great passion or enthusiasm for something.
examples: text: Dr Martin says the address the package has been sent to will likely get a "love letter" in the post from Customs.
ref: 2016 August 2, Nick Jarvis, “What Happens if You're Caught Getting Drugs in the Mail?”, in Vice:
glosses: A notice from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection informing about the seizure of a personal shipment as contraband.
glosses: A thin snack of crisp baked dough eaten at Chinese New Year.
bitch fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtʃ ˈfaɪt/
Forms: form: bitch fights
form: bitchfight
Etymology: From bitch + fight.
Senses: glosses: a fight between women, gay men, and/or other effeminate people.
maintainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintainabilities
Etymology: From maintain + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ease with which something can be maintained.
chalkdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalk + dust.
Senses: glosses: The fine white powder remaining after chalk is erased from a chalkboard
raincloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainclouds
Etymology: From rain + cloud.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rain cloud.
hail storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail storms
form: hailstorm
Etymology: From hail + storm.
Senses: glosses: A storm characterized by lots of large hail.
METAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: METARs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Meteorological Aerodrome Report, the aviation routine weather report; a specially encoded weather observation report.
Coordinate terms: SPECI
town crier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town criers
Senses: glosses: A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets
glosses: A gossip
sinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: Sinology
Etymology: From sino- (“China”) + -logy (“study of”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Assyriology
Egyptology
qualifier: humanities
glosses: The study of the history, language and culture of China; Chinese studies.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: Kremlinology
qualifier: Cold War
glosses: The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the People's Republic of China.
Derived terms: sinologist
TAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TAFs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Terminal Aerodrome Forecast: a specially encoded weather forecast for a terminal aerodrome
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of TBP-associated factor.
Related terms: CAVOK
METAR
TAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Turkish Air Force.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Turkish Armed Forces.
PIREP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIREPs
Etymology: Short for pilot report.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pilot report, a specially encoded weather observation recorded by a pilot mid-flight.
Related terms: AIREP
eco-warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiː.kəʊ ˌwɒ.ɹi.əɹ/
Forms: form: eco-warriors
form: ecowarrior
Etymology: From eco- + warrior.
Senses: examples: text: The time has come, eco-warriors say, for the underground in this war to rise, to fight back against the onslaught of technomania sweeping every corner of the world from Silicon Valley to the Amazon River Valley, […]
ref: 2016 [1990], Rik Scarce, Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, updated edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Up to 300 squatters – eco-warriors to some, green jihadis to others – now live in the ZAD: […]
ref: 2017 December 28, Kim Willsher, “End of la ZAD? France’s ‘utopian’ anti-airport community faces bitter last stand”, in The Guardian:
text: Green can be a double-edged sword. Does it make sense for an eco-warrior to arrive at (say) the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in his Tesla electric car, get out in his low-carbon vegan trainers, and then step into a 19th century means of transport that is staggeringly inefficient and pretty darn polluting?
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 54:
glosses: An environmentalist who places a greater emphasis upon taking practical action, rather than upon theoretical considerations, in order to advance an ecological ideology.
eco-warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-warrior
splicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splicers
Etymology: From splice + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or device that makes a splice.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A union of uniform spanning trees.
splicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splicer
cryosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryospheres
Etymology: From cryo- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: Climate change has a strong effect on the cryosphere.
text: Eventually, a complement of visible, infrared, and microwave sensors will be needed to provide all the information required in the cryosphere[…]
ref: 1990, Edwin T. Engman, “Microwave Applications For Weather, Climate and Hydrology”, in Selected Papers on Remote Sensing and Satellite Communications, →Bibcode:
text: This book attempts to deal integratively with all elements of the cryosphere in the context of a changing global environment. Not only is that global environment changing with respect to climate, but the accelerating pressures on the environment from anthropogenic activity are complicating our understanding of cryospheric change.
ref: 2009, Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly, The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change, John Wiley & Sons, preface
text: The border has been fixed since 1861, when Italy became a unified state. But for the past century the surface area of the “cryosphere”, the zone of glaciers, permanent snow cover and permafrost, has been shrinking steadily, with dramatic acceleration in the past five years.
ref: 2009 March 24, Peter Popham, “Melting snow prompts border change between Switzerland and Italy”, in The Independent:
meronyms: glacier
ice cap
ice sheet
permafrost
sea ice
snow
coordinate_terms: hydrosphere
biosphere
atmosphere
lithosphere
glosses: All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
Derived terms: cryospheric
cryospherically
spring-cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spring cleaning.
Derived terms: spring-clean
spellbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spellbinding
form: most spellbinding
Etymology: From spell + binding.
Senses: examples: text: Cuphead built a reputation for difficulty before release, but its boss battles are mostly about recognizing patterns than getting lucky against unfair bosses. Watching players ace their way through the game’s bosses is a spellbinding reminder that even tough games can be defeated easily with hard work.
ref: 2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2018:
text: There is no doubt that recent developments in generative AI and large language models that produce text, information and images—and Shakespearean sonnets—in response to simple user prompts are impressive and even spellbinding.
ref: 2024 May 24, Daron Acemoglu, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI”, in NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, number 32487, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2024, page 1:
glosses: Engrossing; fascinating; gaining rapt attention; captivating.
examples: text: Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
glosses: Having the power to bind magically through the agency of a spell.
spellbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellbindings
Etymology: From spell + binding.
Senses: examples: text: The Roman epic poet Vergil refers to the incapacitating effects of ligatures, while Ovid, the erotic poet, admits the power of such spell-bindings.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 90:
glosses: A spell or enchantment that restrains or constricts someone's actions or freedom of will.
spellbinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellbinders
Etymology: From spell + binder.
Senses: glosses: Something that is spellbinding, that causes rapt attention.
spellbinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spellbinder
spatially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spatial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With reference to space or arrangement in space.
spareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparenesses
Etymology: From spare + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spare.
glosses: The result or product of being spare.
sparsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparsities
Etymology: From sparse + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity.
ref: 2020, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, A History of MATLAB, in: Proc. ACM Program. Lang., Vol. 4, No. HOPL, June 2020; doi:10.1145/3386331
glosses: The property of being sparse; sparseness.
sparely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparely
form: most sparely
Etymology: From spare + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries. It was moderately well furnished, but sparely.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: In a spare manner; sparsely or frugally.
spearfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearfishes
form: spearfish
Etymology: From spear + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
glosses: Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
glosses: Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tetrapturus pfluegeri
word: Atlantic longbill spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus angustirostris
word: Japanese spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus pfluegeri
word: longbill spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus belone
word: Mediterranean shortbill spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus belone
word: Mediterranean spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus georgii
word: roundscale spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus angustirostris
word: shortbill spearfish
taxonomic: Tetrapturus angustirostris
word: slender spearfish
taxonomic: Remora brachyptera
word: spearfish remora
taxonomic: Remora brachyptera
word: spearfishsucker
spearfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spearfishes
form: spearfishing
form: spearfished
form: spearfished
Etymology: From spear + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.
ref: 1979 February 7, “Outdoors: Northeast Spearfishing”, in The New York Times:
text: A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi.
ref: 2018 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea”, in The New York Times:
text: He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.
ref: 2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To attempt to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.
glosses: To fish for spearfish by any method.
Related terms: spearfishing
spendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spendable
form: most spendable
Etymology: From Middle English spendable; equivalent to spend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Even though there is a lot of money in the treasury, some of it has to be kept for next year, so only part of it is spendable.
text: He had told me once that “all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 28, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 183:
glosses: Capable of being spent.
spinneret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinnerets
Etymology: From spinner + -et.
Senses: examples: example
glosses: The organ a spider uses to spin its web.
glosses: A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.
Related terms: spinnerette
spinnerule
spinnerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinneret
spillway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spillways
Etymology: From spill + way.
Senses: examples: text: Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls.
ref: 1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation:
text: On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir.
ref: 2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption:
glosses: A path designed to take away overflow safely.
spillways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spillway
spitfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitfires
Etymology: A compound of spit + fire
Senses: glosses: A cannon.
examples: 1801, Peter Viereck, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin., Volume ⅩⅠⅠⅠ, by John Nichols (arranged by Thomas Sheridan), p. 143, published in London
"―But however provoked, are your scribbling spitfires never to be satisfied?"
glosses: A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl.
glosses: A larva of the spitfire sawfly, Perga affinis.
Related terms: shitfire
spitfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitfire
spender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛndə/
ipa: /ˈspɛndɚ/
Forms: form: spenders
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spendere, equivalent to spend + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who spends money.
Derived terms: big spender
last of the big spenders
Related terms: spendthrift
spenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spender
spell-check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spell-checks
Senses: examples: text: Some people might wonder why we still need copy editors when we have spell-check. Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.
ref: 2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Spelling Is for Weirdos”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Maybe the guys make things with kale, kohlrabi, exotic vegetables, and their favorite spice is cilantro. Which I have in my cupboard, but never use. And yes, I know how to spell cilantro, without using spell-check.
ref: 2015 November 10, Marilyn Heltzer, “Some advice for the upcoming holiday season”, in The Bemidji Pioneer, 119th year, number 203, Bemidji, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
text: Day in and day out, administrative assistants, sales people, executives and people holding all types of positions continue to make silly errors in emails, correspondence, fliers and advertisements. Most of these errors could be avoided by proofreading and using spell-check.
ref: 2016 May 6, Kristen Asleson, “Did you read what you just wrote?”, in Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.: Post-Bulletin Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of spellcheck.
spell-check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spell-checks
form: spell-checking
form: spell-checked
form: spell-checked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spellcheck.
spaciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spacy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spacy.
spavined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspævɪnd/
Etymology: From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spavin
spaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spaciously
form: most spaciously
form: spatiously
Etymology: From Middle English spaciously, equivalent to spacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spacious manner.
spidery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ.dɚ.i/
Forms: form: more spidery
form: most spidery
Etymology: From spider + -y.
Senses: examples: text: High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.
ref: 1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115:
glosses: Like a spider.
examples: text: The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze.
glosses: Characterized by many spindly extensions.
glosses: Suggestive of cobwebs; spiderweb-like.
glosses: Infested with or containing many spiders.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky.
spillover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spillovers
Etymology: From spill + over.
Senses: examples: text: The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
text: The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.
text: And Mr. Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV:
text: The pool table is a sort of spill-over from Upstairs, the suspiciously-named Ramrod Room, which operates almost as a separate bar.
ref: 1976 April 3, David Brill, “Twelve Carter - 17 years for and by gays”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: This could mean European countries need to import more food from countries like Brazil, which would incentivize deforestation and add up to more environmental hidden costs there.
Such cross-border spillover is one reason Bobo isn’t a big fan of the true-cost accounting approach the FAO used to come up with its hidden cost figures.
ref: 2023 November 6, Matt Reynolds, “The World's Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year”, in Wired:
glosses: That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
examples: text: We’re not establishing the kind of safe practices that will minimize the opportunity for spillover. If we better understood where these viruses are circulating and understood that ecology, we would have the potential to disrupt and minimize the risk of spillover.
ref: 2020 March 12, Kevin Berger, “The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming”, in Nautilus, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2020:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.
Derived terms: spillover effect
Related terms: zoonosis
buffer overflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffer overflows
Senses: examples: text: When a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer than it was originally anticipated to hold, a buffer overflow occurs. What is really happening during a buffer overflow?
ref: 2005, Gert De Laet, Gert Schauwers, Network Security Fundamentals, Cisco Press, →ISBN, page 28:
synonyms: buffer overrun
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The event when the amount of data sought to be added to a buffer exceeds the size of the buffer; generally resulting in a catastrophic error if this case has not been anticipated.
Related terms: stack smashing
buffer overflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffer overflow
overflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overflow
overflows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overflow