cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
species name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species names
Senses: examples: Meronyms: genus name, generic name, generic epithet; specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: binomen
binomial
binomial name
binominal
binominal name
dionym
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
examples: text: Every animal that has been described by scientists has a scientific name, which consists of both a genus and species name. [...] The genus name is capitalized and given first, and the species name is given next [...]
ref: 1983, Richard E. White, Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America, page 54:
text: According to this system, each organism, whether plant or animal, bears two names : the first is generic name and second is the species name. [...] For example, the scientific name of modern man is Homo sapiens sapiens, where Homo is the generic name, and sapiens is the species name.
ref: 2006, V.B. Rastogi, B. Kishore, A Complete Course in ISC Biology. Vol I for Class XI, Unit II p. 7:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
yearnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yearning
worm-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worm-like
form: most worm-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wormlike.
scherzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scherzando
form: most scherzando
Etymology: From Italian scherzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a playful or sportive manner.
scherzando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scherzandos
form: scherzandi
Etymology: From Italian scherzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music to be played in a playful or sportive manner.
scherzino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scherzinos
form: scherzini
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A little scherzo.
preoccupate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preoccupates
form: preoccupating
form: preoccupated
form: preoccupated
form: præoccupate
Etymology: Borrowed from past participle stem of Latin praeoccupare, from prae- (“pre-”) + occupare (“occupy”); equivalent to pre- + occupate. Doublet of preoccupy.
Senses: examples: text: the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40
glosses: To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
glosses: To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.
wrestle with a pig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrestles with a pig
form: wrestling with a pig
form: wrestled with a pig
form: wrestled with a pig
Senses: examples: text: "And when you begin refuting one another's reasons, fussing back and forth, you generally do what a nationally known industrial relations authority warns you against: you wallow in the mud with the pig. He says, 'Never wallow in the mud with a pig, because the pig likes it.' That is exactly what he wants, because you are on his home ground. He can think of arguments as well as you can, so where do you come out?"
ref: 1946, Richard Percival Calhoon, Moving ahead on your job, McGraw-Hill:
text: "'I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig,' Ching likes to say, 'You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.'"
ref: 1950, Time, volume 56:
text: 1957, Barney Glazer's Column, The Loris Sentinel, Feb 13, p4.
"Whenever a boisterous and argumentative person cries to draw you into a public discussion or a wrangle, just remember this bit of advice. "Don't wrestle with a pig. You'll get dirty which is exactly what the pig likes."
text: "While I was at the Dartmouth Review, we used to tell the deans that taking on our campus paper was like wrestling with a pig. Not only did it get everyone dirty, but the pig liked it!"
ref: 2002, Dinesh D'Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative, page 23:
glosses: To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it.
guido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gwē'dō
ipa: /ˈɡwidoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwiːdəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: guidos
form: Guido
Etymology: From Italian Guido, a male given name. Doublet of Guy and guy.
Senses: examples: text: In a way, he looked like one of those guidos from MTV's Jersey Shore, but he resembled them only in appearance.
ref: 2013, Nathan J Morissey, 62 Hot Gay Stories:
glosses: A stereotypical working-class or lower-class and usually urban-dwelling Italian-American male; sometimes more generally a stereotypical Italian or person of Italian descent.
Synonyms: sense: person of Italian descent
word: dago
sense: person of Italian descent
word: Eyetie
sense: person of Italian descent
word: goombah
sense: person of Italian descent
word: greaseball
sense: person of Italian descent
word: guinea
sense: person of Italian descent
word: wog
sense: person of Italian descent
word: wop
Coordinate terms: guidette
Guidette
Derived terms: guidette
Related terms: sense: Italian
word: truzzo and tamarro
guido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gwē'dō
ipa: /ˈɡwidoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwiːdəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: guidos
form: Guido
form: GUIDO
Senses: examples: text: While the Black Team continued to monitor current conditions, off-console retrofire officers (RETROs), flight dynamics officers (FIDOs), and guidance officers (GUIDOs) were at work calculating the exact short-burn maneuver […]
ref: 1999, Judy L. Hasday, The Apollo 13 Mission, page 79:
text: There were to be four Guidance Officers for Apollo 1. Two “Guidos” were to be on the console for launch phase and two for orbit phase.
ref: 2018, Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried, Apollo Mission Control (page 255)
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A guidance officer.
send up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends up
form: sending up
form: sent up
form: sent up
Senses: examples: text: The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.
text: It started out running adverts that sent up the products they were supposed to be promoting. Today you scarcely see an advert that isn't sending up itself.
ref: 2004 November 18, William Cook, “All in the worst possible taste”, in The Guardian:
text: He had more fun co-writing and directing two series for the BBC called Ripping Yarns (1976-79) in which Palin starred as a series of heroic characters in mock-adventure stories, among them Across the Andes by Frog, and Roger of the Raj, sending up interwar literature aimed at schoolboys.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour.
examples: text: The judge sent him up for three years.
text: "I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."
ref: 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: To put in prison.
examples: text: Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up.
Derived terms: word: send-up
word: sendup
informate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: informates
form: informating
form: informated
form: informated
Etymology: Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, from information, modelled on automate.
Senses: examples: text: The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices.
ref: 1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390:
text: Whether modern organizations turn in the direction of an automated or informated workplace, the use of information systems allows information to assume a normative cast.
ref: 2001, Richard Stivers, Peter Stirk, Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: To use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information.
sent up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of send up
sends up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of send up
phonogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.nə.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈfɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: phonograms
Etymology: From phono- + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.
topics: law
glosses: An audio recording, regardless of physical format.
Related terms: audiogram
phonograph
videogram
sending up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of send up
triple dog dare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: triple dog dares
form: triple dog daring
form: triple dog dared
form: triple dog dared
Senses: examples: text: I triple dog dare you to jump.
text: "I double dog dare you!" "Oh yeah? Well, I triple dog dare you!"
glosses: Used to denote compounding levels of dare "seriousness"; the escalation of a double dog dare.
vastitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vastitudes
Etymology: From vast + -itude.
Senses: glosses: vastness; immensity
Geremia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geremias
Etymology: Patronymic surname borrowed from Italian Geremia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Daniele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Danieles
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Daniele.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
small fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small fry
form: small fries
Etymology: From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.
Senses: glosses: One or more small or immature fish.
examples: text: After his death in 1950, his widow and a board of trustees who were left with responsibility of running the cranberry plant decided to continue the miniature railway's services to the "small fry", and it opened as usual on December 6, 1951.
ref: 1952 August, Austin Edwards, “The Cranberry and Small Fry Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 556:
glosses: One or more children.
examples: text: The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was a small fry compared to his boss.
text: These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.
synonyms: small potatoes
minnow
nobody
no one
antonyms: big fish
glosses: One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
quenepa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quenepas
Etymology: From Spanish quenepa.
Senses: glosses: The mamoncillo
adorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adorn
adorning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adornings
Senses: examples: text: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i’ the eyes,
And made their bends adornings […]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: The Text speaks of it, as an Adorning, much more excellent and valuable than Gold, or Pearls, or the most costly Array […]
ref: 1699, Matthew Henry, chapter 2, in A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 47:
glosses: An adornment.
bloodhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodhound
scrambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The Air Force is scrambling the fighter jets.
text: When you start scrambling eggs, look first for tiny pieces of eggshell that might have fallen in.
glosses: present participle and gerund of scramble
scrambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scramblings
Senses: examples: text: The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.
glosses: The act by which something is scrambled.
scrambling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrambling
form: most scrambling
Senses: examples: text: A huge old scrambling bedroom.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
examples: text: All three types of climbing organs here demonstrated for Late Palaeozoic seed ferns are also found in modern angiosperms. This leads to the conclusion that several taxa of Late Palaeozoic seed ferns were well-adapted to climbing and scrambling growth habits.
ref: 1998, Kerp with Hans and Michael Krings, “Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed ferns”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (IIA-Earth and Planetary Science 326.8), pages 583-588:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants.
Derived terms: scrambling dragon
paddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paddle
Derived terms: unpaddled
paddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Paddled students tend to say that it hurts like crazy at the time, but that the pain often does not last very long. There may be yelps and tears and red faces, as attested by numerous anecdotal eyewitness and first-person accounts.
ref: 2016, Colin Farrell, Corporal punishment in US schools, World Corporal Punishment Research:
glosses: spanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.
glooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloom
squatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squat
revenged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revenge
squatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squattings
Senses: glosses: The posture of one who squats.
glosses: The act or general practice of occupying a building or land without the permission of the owner.
Derived terms: squatter
cybersquatting
typosquatting
Related terms: phrogging
squatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squat
drawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drawl
larve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː(ɹ)v/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: larves
Etymology: From French larve.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of larva.
recurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recur
perused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peruse
wealthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wealthy: most wealthy
smuggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smuggle
beautiful game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the beautiful game
Etymology: Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.
Senses: examples: text: Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
text: After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?
ref: 1990 December 18, Fauzi Omar, “Cheers to Kedah But Not At All to Fifa”, in New Straits Times, Malaysia, page 32:
glosses: association football; soccer.
glosses: ice hockey.
sifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The recipe called for sifted flour so it would be fluffier.
glosses: Having undergone sifting.
sifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sift
reaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reap
Sino-Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪn.əʊ kəˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.noʊ kəˈɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Sino- + Korean.
Senses: examples: text: the state of Sino-Korean relations
glosses: Of or pertaining both to China and to Korea; being both Chinese and Korean.
examples: text: Until the fifteenth century, Koreans had a native word for the numeral "hundred", but it has since been replaced by a Sino-Korean word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Etymologically borrowed or otherwise derived from an eighth-century dialect of Middle Chinese which greatly influenced the Korean language.
raw_tags: of a Korean word
Sino-Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪn.əʊ kəˈɹiːən/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.noʊ kəˈɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Sino- + Korean.
Senses: glosses: The elements in the Korean language derived from the said dialect of Middle Chinese:
The Korean vocabulary borrowed or otherwise derived from the said dialect.
glosses: The elements in the Korean language derived from the said dialect of Middle Chinese:
The distinctive Korean pronunciation of Chinese characters, which is an adaptation of the pronunciation of the said dialect into Korean phonology.
muff diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muff divers
form: muff-diver
form: muffdiver
Etymology: From muff + diver.
Senses: examples: text: Why does your face have the look that Ravola’s had when they caught him, / The muff-diver, getting his beard all wet in Rhodope’s you-know?
ref: 1958, “The Ninth Satire: On the griefs of a career man”, in Rolfe Humphries, transl., The Satires of Juvenal, Indiana University Press, translation of original by Juvenal, →ISBN, page 113:
text: DAVE. I do. I’m a Jew (Goes into routine.) Marx told us nothing, Freud told us why. […] Mailer’s a mainstream muff diver, screaming, “Go down, Moses, it’ll clean your teeth!”
ref: 1975, Conrad Bromberg, “Actors”, in Actors and at Home, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.,, →ISBN, page 11:
text: “New Yoi’kers are nothin’ more than dir-ty, fil-thy, rotten muff-divers! Do you he-ah!” Turning his head slowly, without moving his body, Ober stared at each New Yorker in turn, finishing on my corpulent presence with a deep scowl of disgust. “I’ve ne-vah known one of them who wasn’t…a dir-ty, fil-thy, rotten muff-diver! Nevah!!!”
ref: 2007, Nickolas Vassili, So Much Pleasure, So Little Pain, →ISBN, page 51:
synonyms: cunnilinguist
carpet muncher
glosses: One who performs cunnilingus.
glosses: A lesbian.
Related terms: muff diving
perceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perceivable
form: most perceivable
Etymology: From perceive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: The only perceivable difference between the AP and FBI photos is that the man in the FBI photo is clean-shaven and shorter-haired.
ref: 2003 January 1, “Man in Pakistan: I'm on list”, in USA Today, retrieved 02 Nov 2008:
glosses: Capable of being perceived; discernible.
Synonyms: perceptible
observable
Derived terms: imperceivable
perceivability
perceivableness
perceivably
unperceivable
cynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyno- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology, the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...
ref: 1892, The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives:
text: 1951, The American Mercury,
Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.
text: 1985, The Complete Dog Book, published by the American Kennel Club,
The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.
text: 1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 Evidence and Faith,
Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...
glosses: The study of dogs.
Related terms: cynologist
cynological
cynologically
quick study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick studies
Senses: examples: text: Gilpatric assumed that his own prior experience would give him an early advantage over McNamara, but this proved erroneous, as McNamara was a quick study and soon got a fix on the management and organization of the Defense Department.
ref: 1981, Douglas Kinnard, Secretary of Defense, page 78:
antonyms: slow study
coordinate_terms: quick read
glosses: One who is capable of learning at a fast pace; a fast learner.
examples: text: 'I mustn't be cracking jokes though, for I've got a part of twelve lengths here, which I must be up in tomorrow night, and I haven't had time to look at it yet; I'm a confounded quick study, that's one comfort.'
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 23”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: ... She is a quick study --' 'A what?' 'Learns her part rapidly, I mean. ...
ref: 1880, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Belgravia, volume XL, page 80:
text: "Ah!" sighs the little widow, "I absolutely don't know how I am! With all this professional jargon, and nothing but 'quick study' and 'lines,' in one ear; and 'left upper' and 'right lower,' in the other, I am almost distracted!"
ref: 1888, Frances Aymar Mathews, His Way and Her Will, page 81:
glosses: An actor who is able to learn their lines in a short amount of time.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slow, study.
substitution code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitution codes
Senses: glosses: A substitution cipher
defacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfeɪsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defacers
Etymology: From deface + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who defaces; a vandal.
defacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defacer
tappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernable in the tappa in its finished state.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life:
glosses: Alternative form of tapa (“cloth made from mulberry bark”).
flang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flangs
Senses: glosses: A miner's double-edged pick.
flang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: Probably formed by analogy with sing/sang. Compare Scots flang (“flung”).
Senses: glosses: simple past of fling
Related terms: flung
occupate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: occupates
form: occupating
form: occupated
form: occupated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin occupātus, past participle of occupō. See occupy, a doublet.
Senses: examples: text: the seats and domiciles which the several faculties of the mind do take and occupate in the organs of the body
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To occupy.
Derived terms: preoccupate
trash TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: trash television
glosses: A genre of television talk show with little educational content and a focus on controversy and confrontation.
nestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nestle
screened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We screened out the dubious candidates yesterday.
glosses: simple past and past participle of screen
essayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essay
'nuff said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Contraction and pronunciation spelling of enough said.
Senses: examples: text: “Your new computer is super expensive!” “Yeah, but it rocks! ’Nuff said!”
text: Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.
ref: 1979, Margaret Oberman, Doug Steckler, I Could Have Been a Contender: Or, The Other Book of Lists, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Used either to end a discussion, or to imply that further discussion is not needed.
Related terms: end of
IHNTA
I rest my case
indeliberate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indeliberate
form: most indeliberate
Etymology: From in- + deliberate.
Senses: glosses: Done without deliberation or forethought; unpremeditated
Synonyms: nondeliberate
undeliberate
Derived terms: indeliberately
indeliberateness
solatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈleɪʃi.əm/
Forms: form: solatia
Etymology: From Latin solatium.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
examples: "But Italian cabmen who are engaged by the hour regard the long waits beneath shady trees as a solatium for the reduced fare." C. Lewis Hind, The Education of an Artist (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906, page 160).
glosses: Intangible or emotional compensation.
mercy seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercy seats
Etymology: From mercy + seat, after German Gnadenstuhl, translating Hebrew כַּפֹּרֶת (kappóreth) (= Hellenistic Greek ἱλαστήριον (hilastḗrion) (Septuagint)/Latin propitiatorium (Vulgate)).
Senses: examples: text: And thou shalt make a Mercieseat of pure gold: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and a halfe the breadth thereof.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 25:17:
text: The greatest mystery of Religion is expressed by adumbration, and in the noblest part of Jewish Types, we finde the Cherubims shadowing the Mercy-seat.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 206:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.
glosses: Synonym of mourners' bench.
synonyms: word: mourners' bench
soli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the first part, the flute plays solo in Trios 2 and 8, both in G major; the oboe has soli in Trios 4 and 10. This brings us to the clarinet. The part is written for clarinet in A, with soli in Trios 6, 9 and 12.
ref: 1999 December 24, Kurt Birsak, “Salzburg, Haydn, and the Clarinet”, in The Clarinet, volume 27, number 1, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025, page 39:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: plural of solo
soli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solis
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage of music played together by a group of players, usually either by all players of a particular instrumental section or by one player each from multiple instrumental sections.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: jus soli
pizzicati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzicato
ghetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghetto
nebulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛbjʊləʊz/
Forms: form: more nebulose
form: most nebulose
Senses: glosses: nebulous; cloudy
nebulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛbjʊləʊz/
Forms: form: nebuloses
Senses: examples: text: The last thing I shall mention is the Nebulose, which are those glaring whitish appearances, seen with our Telescopes in Andromeda's Girdle
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A nebula.
bruschette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruschetta
archi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arco
crescendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛˈʃɛndi/
Senses: examples: text: Short crescendi and diminuendi are generally produced by natural dynamic means; when prolonged, they are obtained by this method combined with other orchestral devices. […] Prolonged orchestral crescendi are obtained by the gradual addition of other instruments in the following order: strings, wood-wind, brass.
ref: 1964, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov et al., Principles of orchestration: with musical examples drawn from his own works, DoverPublications.com, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Wrong crescendi, which should be avoided, tend to appear at the end of passages ascending to the apex of melodies[.]
ref: 1989: Hermann Scherchen, Michel D. Calvocoressi [tr.], and Norman Del Mar [prefacer], Handbook of conducting, page 113 (Oxford University Press; →ISBN, 9780198161820)
text: Furthermore, organ builders were at liberty to construct their register crescendi so that stops entered either one at a time or in groups of two or more. […] Of course, a sensitive organist would not rely wholly or even predominantly upon a register crescendo to effect stop changes, particularly when those changes had more to do with simple manipulation of tone color than with progressive crescendi.
ref: 2003, Christopher Anderson, Max Reger and Karl Straube: perspectives on an organ performing tradition, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 94, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of crescendo
imbrogli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbroglio
tachy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: tacho-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhús, “swift”).
Senses: antonyms: brady-
glosses: Fast.
Derived terms: tachydidaxy
tachydysrhythmia
tachyglossia
tachygraphy
tachyhydrite
tachykinin
tachypsychia
tachysterol
tachytrope
glorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glories
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of glory.
chirurgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chirurgy.
mucose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucose
form: most mucose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mucous.
vitelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitellus
gondole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gondola
vaporetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaporetto
zamponi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zampone
zecchini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zecchino
zingari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zingaro
zoccoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoccolo
salite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sahlite
Etymology: Named for type locality Sala, Sweden, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diopside
wikipedia: Sala, Sweden
OCTG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OCTGs
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Abbreviation of Oil Country Tubular Goods. Tubing, casing and drill pipes manufactured according to API Specification 5CT.
avi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avis
form: avvie
Etymology: From avatar + -ie.
Senses: glosses: An avatar displayed by a user's profile on a social networking site.
sinistre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinistre
form: most sinistre
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sinister.
buchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊˈt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: butchi
Etymology: From Tagalog butsi / butse, possibly from Hokkien 麻糍 (môa-chî) or a similar cognate, or Spanish buche (“gulp a mouthful”). Compare Cebuano butsi (“Jian dui”), Tagalog matse (“Mache”), Cebuano masi (“Masi”), Kapampangan motsi (“Moche”).
Senses: examples: text: Filipino buchi are nearly identical to the popular Chinese dim sum staple of crispy and sweet sesame balls, also known as ma tuan or jin deui.
ref: 2013, Marvin Gapultos, The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey:
glosses: Jian dui; sesame ball.
tromboni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian tromboni, plural of trombone.
Senses: examples: text: The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.
ref: 1834, Arnold Merrick, transl., Methods of Harmony, Figured Base, and Composition, translation of original by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, page 303:
text: The tromboni, trumpets, and ophecleidi carried every thing before them.
ref: 1842 August, “Music”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, section “The Opera”, page 208:
text: But while the voices have immovable material, the groups of instruments, composing an orchestra of cornetti, viols in various sizes, and tromboni, present a sharp contrast.
ref: 1950, Leo Schrade, Monteverdi, Creator of Modern Music, page 260:
glosses: plural of trombone
stretti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretto
casini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casino
notturni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notturno
credenze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credenza
operette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of operetta (“light opera”).
obbligati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obbligato
cornetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornetto
usure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: usures
form: usuring
form: usured
form: usured
Etymology: Borrowed from French usure.
Senses: examples: text: I turn no moneys in the public bank; Nor usure private.
ref: 1605, Ben Johson, Volpone, or The Fox:
text: Neither do we approve the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer of a high rate of interest to loan him money, and then under the cover of this law, turn around and cheat him out of the whole of it.
ref: 1861 January 28, Thos. W. Lockwood, “A bill to regulate the interest on money loaned, and other contracts and liabilities”, in Journal of the Michigan Legislature House of Representatives, page 246:
text: Similarly, he must make restitution to those from whom he has stolen or robbed before those he has usured.
ref: 2016, Lawrin Armstrong, The Idea of a Moral Economy, page 20:
text: Before him lay the Groan debtor's prison, a stark gray block against the iron sky. Within its sheer walls were the mad, the indebted, those usured into servitude.
ref: 2017, Michael John Grist, The Saint's Rise:
glosses: To commit usury.
examples: text: The maternal tongue is irrevocably supplanted by a usured tongue, the language of the truck driver and of the maid in Andalusia.
ref: 2006, Stefania Lucamante, Sharon Wood, Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante, page 174:
text: Now, however, preaching cannot help anymore. They have usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear, see, and feel nothing more.
ref: 2007, Philip D. Krey, Peter D. S. Krey, Luther's Spirituality, page 42:
text: This dialectic of "blindness and insight" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the place of its cliché?) continues to structure our stories that unfold at the site / sight of blindness in the heart of the other's vision: Plato's sighting that of the cave-dwellers,' Derrida's exposing Plato's.
ref: 2011, Zsuzsa Baross, Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida, page 73:
glosses: To cause to degenerate through usage.
usure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usures
Etymology: Borrowed from French usure.
Senses: examples: text: This movement involves a detour through metaphor: with the expropriation of the primitive meaning given to things, we fall into a metaphoric mode of understanding; in the course of human history and through the process of usure or wearing away of the figurative, and 'proper' meaning is restored; this new one is the old one effaced and carried to a higher conceptual power, now interiorized and spiritualized.
ref: 1993, Irene Rima Makaryk, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory:
text: In effect there is no access to the usure of a linguistic phenomenon without giving it some figurative representation.
ref: 2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition, page 390:
text: In the exergue of "White Mythology" Derrida tracks the metaphor of the usure from the perspective and tradition of the philosophical metaphor, which is seen to admit the usure as its own process and essence.
ref: 2016, Lisa Foran, Rozemund Uljée, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference, page 167:
glosses: The process by which a metaphor inexorably loses its freshness, power, and imagery through overuse.
examples: text: If the cartilage is thick, there are fewer usures and less destruction of the bone.
ref: 1961, Acta Rheumatologica Scandinavica - Volume 7, page 151:
text: Usures develop there which frequently have sclerotic outlines. Usures are also found on the upper surface of the talus, sometimes there are corresponding changes on the articular surface of the tibia.
ref: 1984, Stanislav Popelka, Surgery of Rheumatoid Arthritis, page 176:
text: The intercostal arteries expand and lead to rib usures.
ref: 2018, Friedrich Paulsen, Tobias M. Böckers, Jens Waschke, Sobotta Anatomy Textbook, page 85:
glosses: An instance of degredation due to use; A sign of wear and tear.
vari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varis
Etymology: Compare French vari.
Senses: glosses: The ring-tailed lemur.
Related terms: Kamkata-vari
Kata-vari
tragedie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragedies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tragedy.
Api
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).
Senses: examples: text: Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: A mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet.
cunei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuneus
lazzaroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazzarone
send away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends away
form: sending away
form: sent away
form: sent away
Senses: examples: text: The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away.
glosses: To dismiss from one's presence.
examples: text: We are going to send our son away to live with his uncle in America for a year.
glosses: To send (someone) to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc.
examples: text: the judge sent him away
text: They sent him away for that one.
glosses: To send (someone) to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc.
To imprison (someone).
synonyms: lock up
shut away
examples: text: We sent away for some of the items in the gardening catalogue.
glosses: To dispatch orders to a place for something to be delivered.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, away.
regie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪˈʒi/
Forms: form: regies
form: régie
Senses: examples: text: But these Regies, or foreign monopolies, also prevent the growers of Tobacco of this country, from entering into competition with the foreign grower, which they would successfully do if the market were open to them[…]
ref: 1837, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 493:
text: Throughout Italy monopolies of tobacco exist, either being a regie of the state, or it is farmed out by the government. In Sardinia, it is a regie', and the profits from the monopoly must be very great.
ref: 1840, Niles' National Register, page 202:
text: The influence of the tobacco industry on the affairs of the European nations led some years ago to the establishment of tobacco regies or boards of control in practically all of them.
ref: 1918, United States. Bureau of the Census, Stocks of Leaf Tobacco and the American Production, Imports, Exports, and Consumption of Tobacco and Tobacco Products, page 4:
text: What is a regie government?
Mr. BARKER. Where the government owns the tobacco absolutely, puts the price on it and sells it.
ref: 1920, United States. Congress. House Ways and Means, Dark Export Tobacco, Hearings, Mar. 2-24, 1920, page 4:
glosses: A government monopoly, such as on tobacco, typically used to raise revenue (via taxes).
Related terms: regie-book
novene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin novenus (“nine each”).
Senses: examples: text: The triple and novene division ran throughout.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
novene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novenes
Etymology: From Latin novenus (“nine each”).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A novena
spole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoles
Etymology: Variant of spool.
Senses: glosses: The small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.
grane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: granes
form: graning
form: graned
form: graned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of groan.
grane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of groan.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of grain.
send away for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends away for
form: sending away for
form: sent away for
form: sent away for
Senses: examples: text: You can send away for a brochure about this hotel, if you like.
glosses: To write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing.
standalone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of stand-alone.
standalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standalones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stand-alone.
consumate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of consummate.
garba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbas
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati ગરબા (garbā). Doublet of Delphos.
Senses: glosses: A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp.
proplanetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + planetary.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the early stages in the formation of a planet.
Derived terms: proplanetary disk
Related terms: protoplanetary
protoplanetary disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoplanetary disks
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A rotating disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, and from which planets may be formed.
Synonyms: PPD
proplyd
Hypernyms: circumstellar disc
circumstellar disk
debris disc
debris disk
disc
disk
Coordinate terms: asteroid
ecliptic
ecliptic plane
meteoroid
minor planet
planemo
planetary core
planetary embryo
planetary-mass object
planetary object
planetessimal
planetoid
protoplanetary core
proto-planetary core
Derived terms: PPD
proplyd
Related terms: alt: CPD
word: circumplanetary disc
alt: CPD
word: circumplanetary disk
word: disc
word: disk
word: interplanetary disc
word: inter-planetary disc
word: inter-planetary disk
word: interplanetary disk
word: interplanetary plane
word: inter-planetary plane
word: planet
word: planetary
word: planetary disc
word: planetary disk
word: planetary plane
word: proto-planet
word: protoplanet
word: proto-planetary
word: protoplanetary
rosiglitazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊ.sɪˈɡlɪt.əˌzoʊn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -glitazone (“thiazolidinedione derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A thiazolidinedione derivative (trademark Avandia) taken orally in the form of its maleate C₁₈H₁₉N₃O₃S·C₄H₄O₄ to treat type 2 diabetes by decreasing insulin resistance.
thiazolidinedione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazolidinediones
Etymology: thiazolidine + -dione.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: glitazone
glosses: Any of a class of drugs, used to treat diabetes, containing a five-membered heterocyclic ring containing a nitrogen and a sulfur atom and two carbonyl groups
governate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governates
Etymology: From govern + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: The group met Friday morning and took a bus north from Cairo to the Qalyubiya governate, an hour away.
ref: 2009 February 10, Michael Slackman, “Van Spirits Away Protester in Egypt, Signaling Crackdown on Criticism Over Gaza”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of governorate.
synonyms: word: governorate
Derived terms: sub-governate
subgovernate
microRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microRNAs
Etymology: From micro- + RNA.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A single-stranded, non-coding form of RNA, having only about 20-30 nucleotides, that has a number of functions including the regulation of gene expression
Derived terms: microRNAome
Related terms: microribonucleic
multicellularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multicellular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multicellular.