cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
innersole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innersoles
Etymology: From inner + sole.
Senses: examples: text: After his toe was severed in an accident, he had to buy orthopedic innersoles for his shoes.
text: The slipsole is examined to determine whether it must be replaced or whether a patch is sufficient. Shoes which are worn through the bottom filler and/or innersole cannot be economically repaired.
ref: 1943, War Department Technical Manual, volume 10, number 265, page 36:
glosses: An insole; a cushioning layer lining the inside bottom of a shoe or boot.
innersoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innersole
innumeracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innumeracies
Etymology: From in- + numeracy; coined by Douglas Hofstadter and popularized by mathematician John Allen Paulos in his 1989 book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences.
Senses: examples: text: John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.
text: The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial.
antonyms: numeracy
coordinate_terms: dyscalculia
illiteracy
glosses: Lack of numeracy; low numeracy.
wikipedia: Innumeracy (book)
John Allen Paulos
Related terms: word: innumerate
unfamiliarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfamiliarities
Etymology: From un- + familiarity.
Senses: examples: text: Due to my unfamiliarity with the library's catalog system, it took several hours to find the book.
text: Such insights can, however, not be expected from a state of near-total unfamiliarity with what has been going on in a field: innocence may be a good thing, ignorance certainly is not.
ref: 1989 January 24, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 128:
glosses: Lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.
imbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbeds
form: imbedding
form: imbedded
form: imbedded
Senses: examples: text: The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313:
text: To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78:
text: A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:
glosses: Alternative spelling of embed.
Derived terms: imbeddable
imbedder
imbedment
unimbedded
ill-fated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-fated
form: most ill-fated
Etymology: From ill + fated.
Senses: examples: text: My grandfather was originally scheduled to travel on the ill-fated last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, but thankfully had to change his plans at the last minute.
text: The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains!
ref: 1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
text: In February 1927, eight short months before minstrel Al Jolson sang “My Mammy” to enthralled moviegoers who had never before heard pictures talk, the ill-fated silent movie industry had itself one last fling: Paramount Pictures' romantic comedy It, […]
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 24:
text: Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind, notice that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel.
ref: 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English:
text: Yingluck is facing a possible 10-year prison term on charges of negligence linked to an ill-fated rice subsidy programme that cost the state billions of dollars.
ref: 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
text: There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
synonyms: word: foreboding
word: inauspicious
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: unlucky; doomed.
Derived terms: ill-fatedly
Davey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪvi/
Forms: form: Davie
form: Davy
Senses: examples: text: Worse, if your name is Dave, the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.
ref: 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name David.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from David.
glosses: A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.
Derived terms: Davey Jones
Davey Jones's locker
tropological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tropological
form: most tropological
Senses: examples: text: tropological , allegorical expositions
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: Even the widely revered description of alchemy as terrestrial astronomy was a tropological association, comparing one discipline to the other rather than using the tools of the former in the operation of the latter.
ref: 2001, William Royall Newman, Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
glosses: Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
Derived terms: tropologically
raise hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises hell
form: raising hell
form: raised hell
form: raised hell
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (disturb loudly) raise the dead, wake the dead
text: Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.
ref: 2013, Jason Isbell, Super 8:
text: A segment where several cast members in panda suits raise skateboarding hell in the streets of Tokyo.
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
synonyms: raise the devil
raise Cain
raise hob
raise the roof
;
stir shit
glosses: To cause a considerable disturbance.
examples: text: Local authorities, media and all other regional stakeholders need to wake up, step up, and (frankly) raise hell... before it's too late.
ref: 2022 February 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Mounting opposition to IRP”, in RAIL, number 950, page 3:
synonyms: raise the devil
raise Cain
raise hob
raise the roof
;
give someone hell
;
throw a fit
glosses: To complain vociferously (about a certain matter).
Related terms: hellraiser
crêpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛpi/
ipa: /ˈkɹeɪpi/
Forms: form: crêpier
form: crêpiest
form: crêpey
form: crepy
form: crepey
Etymology: From crêpe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Several years ago he began to point out that my throat was becoming crepy, my color was poor, and I was easily winded.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 46:
text: My shirt was too big and its collar sat loosely around my crêpey neck.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 477:
text: women who had always worn a lot of make-up tended to continue to do so, blind to the unfortunate effect it could have on an elastic and crepy skin.
ref: 2007, Diana Athill, “Somewhere Towards the End”, in Granta, 98, p. 18:
glosses: Resembling or similar to crêpe.
crepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crepier
form: crepiest
Senses: examples: text: For more mature skin, you can use a cream blush for a smoother finish, which is important for crepier skin.
ref: 2004 September 8, Jane Ramos Trimble, quoting Nina Ortega, “Ageless beauty: Expert shares makeup magic for mature skin”, in Arlington Star-Telegram, 99th year, number 136, page 5H, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of crêpy.
Derived terms: crepiness
Française
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Françaises
Etymology: From French Française.
Senses: examples: text: So many of the Françaises marry you Americans that in twenty years—pouf!—their children will overrun France and it will be France no longer.
ref: 1925, The American Legion Weekly, volume 7, page 19:
text: As Craig said, having looked over the françaises^([sic]) he could understand why the frogs didn’t want the Germans to get Paris.
ref: 1938, James Laughlin IV, The River (New Directions Pamphlets; 3), New Directions:
text: In August, Bob Middleton and his friend Anne Jacobs celebrated his son Rob’s first wedding anniversary in Paris. Rob married a Française.
ref: 1989 November 8, Richard K. Paynter, “Class Notes”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton University Press, →ISSN, page 30, column 2:
text: The Françaises were considerably younger than the westerners; 90% rather than 77% of them were under the age of thirty.
ref: 1997, Leslie Choquette, “The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion”, in Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, part I (Modernity), page 158:
text: The baron’s imaginings, nonetheless, bring difference back (the unknown) into the familiar space of sameness by measuring the beauty of the “femmes sauvages” against familiar French frames of reference: the Françaises.
ref: 1999, T[racy] Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Representing Sarah—Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus hottentote, ou haine aux Françaises”, in Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Diana Dunningham-Chapotin is a New Zealander by birth, an American by adoption, and a Française by residence (as she likes to be near her husband).
ref: 2001, The Quest, volume 89/90, Theosophical Society in America, page 17:
text: The French love of scent continues, with most Françaises regularly using it.
ref: 2022, Aloïs Guinut, “Inside Parisian Style”, in The Little Book of Paris Style, Welbeck, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A Frenchwoman.
Portugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portugee
tili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilis
Etymology: From the first syllables of tiger and liger.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid animal resulting from backcrossing a liger with a tiger.
monkey in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkeys in the middle
Senses: qualifier: children's games
glosses: A children's game in which two players keep an object away from a third player (who is in between them) by throwing it past that player.
glosses: The third player in that game.
glosses: A middleman, particularly in a difficult spot or situation.
Synonyms: word: pig in the middle
word: piggy in the middle
word: keep-away
Iwo Jima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iwojima
form: Iwo-Jima
form: Io Jima
form: Iō Jima
form: Io-jima
form: Iō-jima
form: Iojima
form: Iōjima
Etymology: From the early modern Japanese misreading Iwōjima for 硫黄島 (Iwōtō, “Sulfur Island”), a calque of English Sulphur Island in accounts of James Cook's voyages, possibly originally from Early Modern Spanish Isla Sufre although the island was left unnamed by its first known discoverer Bernardo de la Torre.
Senses: examples: text: Not many weeks before, during the battle for Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, had taken his inspired photograph of the American flag being raised on Mount Suribachi.
ref: 1955, Harry S Truman, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions, volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, →OCLC, →OL, page 82:
text: At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.
ref: 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
glosses: A volcanic island in the Volcano Islands in the North Pacific, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.
glosses: A volcanic island in the Satsunan Islands in the Philippine Sea, administered as part of Kagoshima.
Synonyms: word: Ioto
word: Ioshima
word: Sulfur Island
word: Sulphur Island
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Satsuma Iwo Jima
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Satsuma Iojima
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Satsuma Iōjima
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Tokara Iwo Jima
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Tokara Iojima
sense: Kagoshima island
word: Tokara Iōjima
bridal salon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal salons
Senses: glosses: A retail store or boutique that specializes in selling wedding dresses to brides.
moc toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moc + toe, from Powhatan makasin; see there for more.
Senses: glosses: A type of shoe design where there is a seam running around the top of the shoe.
anti-civil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-civil
form: most anti-civil
Etymology: From anti- + civil.
Senses: examples: text: 1905-1909, Matthew Arnold, Essays
… to see the Antonines as they really were;—one may concede that the point of view from which Christianity appeared something anti-civil and anti-social, …
text: [...] then the latter, by definition, can't be civil. They might even be anti-civil or a-civil. They must be incompatible with civilization. But this is simply not the case. As was shown, [...]
ref: 1971, Gottfried Dietze, In Defense of Property:
text: In the Leviathan, Hobbes could only represent the pre-civil as the anti-civil, as that which lacked in every respect what was considered important in civil society.
ref: 2000, Leonhard Praeg, African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy: a philosophical investigation:
text: Jews were not stigmatized simply because they were held to be anti-Christian, but because their Jewish qualities were constructed as dangerous for civil society itself. [...] What was insisted on, above all, was the allegedly anti-civil clannishness of Jews...
ref: 2006, Jeffrey C. Alexander, The Civil Sphere:
glosses: Uncivil(ised) and in opposition to civil society; opposed to or lacking the features of civil society (for example, opposing or simply lacking civil liberties).
Related terms: anticivic
a cat may look at a king
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a cat can look at a king
Senses: glosses: A purported inferior has certain rights or prerogatives, even in the presence of a purported superior.
Related terms: gods may do what cattle may not
take by storm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌteɪk baɪ ˈstɔːm/
ipa: /ˌteɪk baɪ ˈstɔːɹm/
Forms: form: takes by storm
form: taking by storm
form: took by storm
form: taken by storm
Etymology: Compare English blitzkrieg.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers took the castle by storm.
text: "Sir William took the castle by storm,," said Ravenswood, "and, like many a victor, had little reason to congratulate himself on his conquest."
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.
examples: text: [A] startling interruption occurred at that moment, which took their whole attention by storm.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 71, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 33, in Jane Eyre:
glosses: To seize, overpower, or captivate in a sudden and forceful manner.
examples: text: This obscure reference ["Blind Tom"] applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
text: Beatlemania took England and Europe by storm and proceeded to inundate American teenagers.
ref: 1969, Arnold Shaw, The Rock Revolution, page 1:
glosses: To rapidly gain great popularity in (a place).
entrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entrench
Holmesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Holmesian
form: most Holmesian
Etymology: From Holmes + -ian.
Senses: examples: Holmesian powers of observation
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes or his investigations, methods, or sayings.
Synonyms: Sherlockian
Holmesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holmesians
Etymology: From Holmes + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: So great a protest arose from 20,000 Holmesians, including Queen Victoria and her family, that Doyle revived the character in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903), and “The Adventure of the Second Stain” (1904).
ref: 2005, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature, Facts on File, published 2005, →ISBN, page 179:
text: After the decision was made, a group of local Holmesians in charge of planning the exhibition decided to re-create the sitting room at 221b Baker Street.
ref: 2010, Steven Doyle, David A. Crowder, Sherlock Holmes for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., published 2010, →ISBN, page 290:
text: Sunday's episode, the first of three installments, is "A Study in Pink," a nod to the 1887 Doyle novel "A Study in Scarlet" that introduced the Holmes character and a title that could be the equivalent of waving a red flag in front of traditional Holmesians.
ref: 2010 October 21, Ellen Gray, “Get clued in on the 'Masterpiece Mystery!: Sherlock' miniseries”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
glosses: A fan of the character Sherlock Holmes; one who studies or enjoys the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Synonyms: Sherlockian
FICE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of field inversion capillary electrophoresis.
Cymric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪmɹɪk/
/ˈkʌmɹɪk/
/ˈsɪmɹɪk/
Etymology: From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, Cymru + -ic. Piecewise doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Welsh, the language of the Welsh people.
synonyms: word: Welsh
extra: the language of the Welsh people
Cymric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪmɹɪk/
/ˈkʌmɹɪk/
/ˈsɪmɹɪk/
Forms: form: Cymrics
Etymology: From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, Cymru + -ic. Piecewise doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.
Senses: synonyms: Cymric cat
glosses: A breed of domestic cat, developed in Canada, principally characterized by suppression of the tail and by a semi-long-haired coat, with a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body; it is the longhair version of the Manx cat.
synonyms: Cymric cat
glosses: A cat of this breed.
glosses: Synonym of Walian: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman.
synonyms: word: Walian
extra: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman
Related terms: english: the original, short-haired version of the breed
translation: the original, short-haired version of the breed
word: Manx cat
Cymric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪmɹɪk/
/ˈkʌmɹɪk/
/ˈsɪmɹɪk/
Etymology: From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, Cymru + -ic. Piecewise doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Welsh: of or related to Wales, the Welsh people, or the Welsh language.
synonyms: word: Welsh
extra: of or related to Wales, the Welsh people, or the Welsh language
glosses: Of or related to Cymric cats.
Kymric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cymric.
Kymric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kymric
form: most Kymric
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cymric.
antibiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibioses
Etymology: From anti- + -biosis.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An association between organisms that is detrimental (harmful) to one or more of them; especially that due to a metabolic substance produced by one of them.
Related terms: abiosis
antibiotic
cast a pall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts a pall
form: casting a pall
form: cast a pall
form: cast a pall
Senses: examples: text: There are some wonderful verbal volleys, but at times the piety is so thick it casts a pall on the humor — like walking out of a funeral and straight into a backyard bounce house.
ref: 2012 June 21, Alessandra Stanley, “So Sayeth the Anchorman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
over
expansion: [with on or over]
glosses: To spoil (something); to cast a feeling of gloom (over something).
playlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
ipa: /ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/
Forms: form: playlists
Etymology: From play + list.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
examples: text: When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.
ref: 1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer:
text: Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.
ref: 2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic:
text: I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
text: No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists
ref: 2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:
text: When users would select the most immediately visible “dinner playlist” or ”workout mix,” they might have unknowingly clicked through to a list owned and operated by a major label.
ref: 2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.
glosses: A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.
Derived terms: playlistism
playlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
ipa: /ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/
Forms: form: playlists
form: playlisting
form: playlisted
form: playlisted
Etymology: From play + list.
Senses: examples: text: She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.
text: Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.
ref: 2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 7:
text: And it's the story of how those problems then played out over the span of many years, as music became personalized, playlisted, autoplayed, and algorithmic.
ref: 2025, Liz Pelly, “Introduction”, in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To include (a track) on a playlist.
lough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑx/
ipa: /lɒk/
ipa: /lɒx/
ipa: /lɑk/
note: in some rare cases realized as [lɑç]
ipa: /lɑx/
rhymes: -ɒk
rhymes: -ɒx
homophone: loch
homophone: lock
Forms: form: loughs
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish loch (from Old Irish loch), from Proto-Celtic *loku (“lake, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“pond, pool”). Doublet of lay, loch, and Looe.
Senses: examples: text: Outside, a freezing wind whips across Belfast lough […].
ref: 2009 January 26, Henry McDonald, “It's got fancy flats, a hotel. Even a bank. But can the Titanic Quarter stay afloat?”, in The Guardian:
text: A study showing that the temperature of the lough’s water has risen 1C since 1995, however, suggests that climate change and clearer waters as a result of an invasive zebra mussel species may also be contributing factors.
ref: 2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland.
Synonyms: english: in Scotland
translation: in Scotland
word: loch
Derived terms: Lough Allen
Lough Erne
Lough Foyle
Lough Gill
Lough Neagh
Lough Swilly
Strangford Lough
lough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑx/
ipa: /lɒk/
ipa: /lɒx/
ipa: /lɑk/
note: in some rare cases realized as [lɑç]
ipa: /lɑx/
rhymes: -ɒk
rhymes: -ɒx
homophone: loch
homophone: lock
ipa: /lɒf/
rhymes: -ɒf
ipa: /lɑx/
ipa: /lɒk/
ipa: /lɒx/
ipa: /lɑk/
note: in some rare cases realized as [lɑç]
ipa: /lɑx/
rhymes: -ɒk
rhymes: -ɒx
homophone: loch
homophone: lock
Forms: form: loughs
Etymology: From Middle English lough, logh, luh, borrowed from Cumbric *luch, derived from Proto-Brythonic *luch, from Proto-Celtic *lokus (“lake, pool”).
Senses: glosses: lake, pool
gustoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gustoso
form: most gustoso
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: in a tasteful, agreeable manner
belly-flop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly-flops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belly flop.
strobila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɹəʊˈbaɪlə/
Forms: form: strobilae
Etymology: From New Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στροβίλη (strobílē).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A jointed series of segments of an organism, as of the body of a tapeworm, posterior to the unjointed collum.
Derived terms: strobilate
non-spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonspacing
Etymology: From non- + spacing.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Of a character: combined with another and so not consuming additional horizontal space.
Derived terms: non-spacing character
nonspacing character
non-spacing diacritic
nonspacing diacritic
non-spacing mark
nonspacing mark
nonspacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-spacing.
Landammann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlændəmæn/
Forms: form: Landammanns
form: Landammänner
Etymology: Borrowed from Alemannic German Landammann (“land official”).
Senses: examples: 1889, Francis Ottiwell Adams and C. D. Cunningham, The Swiss Confederation, Macmillan and Co., page 117,
There, on the first Sunday in May, the people assemble in a meadow at Bözlingen an der Gand, not far from Altdorf. The Landammann, after having duly attended mass in the village church, proceeds in procession to the place of meeting.
1891, Lina Hug and Richard Stead, Switzerland, Second Edition, T. Fisher Unwin (London) and G. P. Putnam's sons (New York), page 178,
On the first Thursday in April, in solemn procession, they revisit the battlefield, and on the spot the Landammann tells the fine old story of their deliverance from foreign rule, whilst priest and minister offer thanksgiving.
1922, Charles Scott Fearenside (trans.), Eli Filip Heckscher and Harald Westergaard (auths.), The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation, H. Milford, page 309,
The Landammann (President) summed up the situation in April 1812, in the distressful proposition that 'the industries of Switzerland are now nearing their end'; and a considerable emigration took place, among other places, to the left bank of the Rhine.
2004, Derek Benjamin Heater, A Brief History of Citizenship, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 97,
For example, in the canton of Uri, the villagers elected a Landammann (chief magistrate) each year, yet only a limited number of families supplied candidates.
glosses: A chief magistrate in certain cantons or other administrative districts in Switzerland.
isogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isograms
Etymology: From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton.
Senses: examples: text: For convenience, we can refer to an isogram of order n as an n-isogram. The examples in (2a) are 1-isograms, (2b) 2-isograms, and (2c) 3-isograms. Second- and third-order isograms are also sometimes referred to as pair and trio isograms respectively, but I will not use these terms here.
ref: 2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2:
glosses: A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
synonyms: isoline
isopleth
isarithm
glosses: A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity.
Derived terms: isogramy
heterogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterograms
Etymology: From hetero- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase in which no letter occurs more than once.
glosses: The spelling of a foreign language used as a logogram/ideogram.
Related terms: isogram
unlesss
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: Attributed to John Horton Conway. From unless, by analogy with the formation of iff from if.
Senses: examples: text: 1990, James Glimm, The Legacy of John Von Neumann, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 279,
Partial Order: G ≥ H unlesss (unless and only unless) H ≥ some Gᴿ or some Hᴸ ≥ G.
text: A subset S is called absorbing if to each x#92;inX there is a real number #92;epsilon#61;#92;epsilon#95;xgt;0 such that #92;lambdax#92;inS for all #92;lambda with 0lt;#92;left#124;#92;lambda#92;right#124;#92;le#92;epsilon. Trivially the set X is absorbing; on the other hand #92;#123;0#92;#125; can never be absorbing (unlesss X#61;#92;#123;0#92;#125;).
ref: 1999, V. K. Balachandran, Topological Algebras, North-Holland, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 78–79:
text: 2004, William Fraser, Susan Hirshberg, and David Wolfe, "The Structure of the Distributive Lattice of Games Born by Day n", in Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory 5(2) (2005), page 2,
G ≥ H unlesss H ≥ Gᴿ or Hᴸ ≥ G for some Gᴿ ∈ Gᴿ or some Hᴸ ∈ Hᴸ. ¶ (Analogous to “iff”, the term “unlesss” means “unless and only unless”.)
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Precisely unless.
precisely unless
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: implies a negative and is implied by a negative; i.e. B implies not-A and not-B implies A
Synonyms: unlesss
décolletée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Forms: form: more décolletée
form: most décolletée
Etymology: Borrowed from French décolletée.
Senses: examples: text: THE dress is of pink silk; the corsage décolletée, pointed, and demi-busque, with a berthe of silk tulle, made in small puffs, sewed upon Lyons tulle, with sleeves the same, followed by a lace four inches wide.
ref: 1858, Henry Mills Alden, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, page 144:
glosses: Alternative form of décolleté.
décolletée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Forms: form: décolletées
Etymology: Borrowed from French décolletée.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of décolleté.
nanocomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocomposites
Etymology: From nano- + composite.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently the nanocomposite material is reinforced in every direction and the material exhibits very little distortion even when heated to temperatures above 150 degrees Celsius.
ref: 2007 January 18, Anne Trafton, “Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers”, in MIT News:
text: A nanobullet comprising of multifunctional Janus nanocomposites (a head of magnetic Fe₃O₄ and a body of mesoporous SiO₂ containing doxorubicin) is reported to be a safe and efﬁcient treatment for liver cancer.
ref: 2020 September 11, Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D, “What are the Recent Applications of Nanobullets?”, in AZO Nano:
glosses: Any composite material one or more of whose components is some form of nanoparticle; more often consists of carbon nanotubes embedded in a polymer matrix.
Derived terms: bionanocomposite
synthetic biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: artificial life
topics: biology
natural-sciences
related: word: synbio
glosses: The application of genetic engineering to generate modified or even completely new forms of life.
Related terms: biosynthesis
biotech
biotechnology
molecular biology
bioprosthetic
mirror life
Keplerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Keplerates
Etymology: For Johannes Kepler, German mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any structure containing both Platonic and Archimedean solids, one inside the other.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any complex of compounds having such a structure.
Archimedean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
Forms: form: more Archimedean
form: most Archimedean
form: archimedean
Etymology: From Archimedes + -an.
Senses: examples: text: 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins,
Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame
Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame:
text: […] sporting Nature, to amuse us,
Did startling Novelties produce us;
Mocking our Archimedean Sons
Of Art with strange Phænomenons,
ref: 1717, anonymous author, British Wonders, London: John Morphew, page 2:
text: Whoever should behold me now, I wist
Would think I were a mighty mechanist
Bent with sublime Archimedean art
To breathe a soul into the iron heart
Of some machine portentous,
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ――”, in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, published 1825, page 59:
text: […] we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street . . . . . then . . . . . elm trees!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Random House, page 223:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Archimedes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.
Derived terms: Archimedean dual
Archimedean field
Archimedean graph
Archimedean group
Archimedean ordered field
Archimedean point
Archimedean principle
Archimedean property
Archimedean screw
Archimedean solid
Archimedean spiral
Archimedean tessellation
Archimedean valuation
non-Archimedean time
Archimedean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
Forms: form: Archimedeans
form: archimedean
Etymology: From Archimedes + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.
potassium niobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potassium niobates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt KNbO₃; its crystals have a large nonlinear optical coefficient, and it find use in the manufacture of lasers; nanowires of the substance have been used to produce tunable coherent light.
coherent light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Light of a uniform wavelength and phase; as used in lasers
nanowire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanowires
Etymology: From nano- + wire.
Senses: examples: text: Nanoparticles will also be the building blocks for complex structures like nanowires and molecule electronic devices.
ref: 2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A wire whose width is of the order of nanometers.
Synonyms: NW
Derived terms: AgNW
CuNW
nanowired
nanowiring
NW
Related terms: nanofilm
nanoparticle
nanosheet
nanosphere
nanoswitch
nanotube
habenula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habenulae
form: habenulæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin habenula, diminutive of habena.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A circumscript mass of cells in the caudal and dorsal aspect of the dorsal thalamus.
Derived terms: habenular
habenular nucleus
lateral habenula
circumscript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumscript
form: most circumscript
Etymology: From Latin circumscrīptus, past participle of circumscrībere (“to circumscribe”).
Senses: glosses: Limited, circumscribed.
Derived terms: circumscriptly
uncircumscript
Related terms: circumscribe
biodefense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodefenses
form: biodefence
Etymology: From bio- + defense.
Senses: glosses: Any defensive measure taken against an attack using bacteria, viruses or toxins
biodefence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodefences
Etymology: From bio- + defence.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biodefense.
parking garage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking garages
Senses: examples: Meronyms: parking space, parking spot, parking place
hypernyms: parking
car park
carpark
coordinate_terms: parking lot
glosses: A building for vehicles to park in, typically with several floors and sometimes underground.
filemot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪləmɒt/
Forms: form: philomot
Etymology: An anglicized form of feuillemorte / French feuille-morte.
Senses: examples: text: The walls were panelled; each panel was comparted like a modern office desk, and each compartment crowded with labelled folios all filemot with age and use.
ref: 1880, Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur, Harper & Brothers:
glosses: Synonym of feuillemorte.
synonyms: word: feuillemorte
filemot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪləmɒt/
Etymology: An anglicized form of feuillemorte / French feuille-morte.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feuillemorte: the color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown.
synonyms: word: feuillemorte
extra: the color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown
Related terms: feuillemorte
intermise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French entremise. See intermission.
Senses: examples: text: through their own divisions , without the intermise of strangers
ref: a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: interference, intervention or intermediation
cotchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotchels
Senses: glosses: A small portion of something left behind, or unused
canister shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: shell#Noun
;
bomb#Noun
coordinate_terms: shrapnel
;
cartridge
glosses: Antipersonnel ammunition consisting of a cylindrical canister filled with round lead or iron balls.
hypernyms: shot
coordinate_terms: shrapnel
;
chain shot
grapeshot
glosses: The balls in this canister.
sand art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any artwork consisting mainly or wholly of sand.
training wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ wiːlz/
ipa: /ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˌ(h)wilz/
Etymology: From training wheel + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Kick off the training wheels, Corporal. He's good to go.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Arrival:
text: Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
glosses: Anything designed to make something easier for a novice.
Derived terms: with training wheels
training wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ wiːlz/
ipa: /ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˌ(h)wilz/
Etymology: From training wheel + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: glosses: plural of training wheel
septuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin septuplus.
Senses: examples: text: [Japan] will not remember our American and English missionaries as she remembers even now those great Chinese priests who once educated her youth. And she will not preserve relics of our sojourn, carefully wrapped in septuple coverings of silk, and packed way in dainty whitewood boxes, because we had no new lesson of beauty to teach her,—nothing by which to appeal to her emotions.
ref: 1896, Lafcadio Hearn, chapter 8, in Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 154:
text: He is woozy with cold and a septuple whisky […]
ref: 1984, Keri Hulme, chapter 5, in The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 234:
glosses: Seven times as much; sevenfold.
Derived terms: septuplinerved
septuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: septuples
form: septupling
form: septupled
form: septupled
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin septuplus.
Senses: examples: text: […] hee is rid of the Deuill. Now he that is quit of so bad a Guest, shall septuple his owne woes by his re-entertainment.
ref: 1615, Thomas Adams, The Blacke Devil or The Apostate, Together with The Wolfe Worrying the Lambes, London, page 2:
text: The intensity of solar radiation is nearly seven times greater on Mercury than on the earth, and on Uranus 330 times less; the proportion between the two extremes being that of upwards of 2000 to one. Let any one figure to himself the condition of our globe, were the sun to be septupled, to say nothing of the greater ratio!
ref: 1833, John Herschel, chapter 8, in A Treatise of Astronomy, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, pages 277–278:
glosses: To multiply by seven.
examples: text: […] Levi Strauss had caught a wave. Between 1962 and 1970, its sales and net profits grew fivefold and between 1970 and 1977 its sales again quintupled while profits almost septupled.
ref: 1980, Landon Y. Jones, chapter 17, in Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, New York: Ballantine, page 262:
glosses: To increase by a factor of seven.
Derived terms: septuplet
septuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septuples
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin septuplus.
Senses: examples: text: If we suppose the limited region of Central Asia, where man existed, to have been deluged, and pairs and septuples of the most common animals in that region only to have been kept alive in the ark, the entire account will harmonize with natural history.
ref: 1851, Edward Hitchcock, The Religion of Geology, Boston: Philips, Sampson, Lecture 4, p. 132:
glosses: A set of seven.
examples: text: Frozen, the vodka poured like heavy glass. A septuple? Why not.
ref: 1990, Irving Weinman, chapter 2, in Virgil’s Ghost, New York: Fawcett Columbine, page 91:
glosses: A sevenfold measure.
verbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verb
verbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verb
abarticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abarticulation
abashments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abashment
abodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aboding
abortionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abortionist
absentees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absentee
absolutists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolutist
acanthopterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acanthopterygian
acceptances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acceptance
hets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of het
Trekkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trekkie
paroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parole
paroles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parole
encrypts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encrypt
encrypting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encrypt
pseudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo
ares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of are
metrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of metric
metrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/
Senses: glosses: The study of metrical verse.
glosses: The statistical analysis of data sets or big data.
glosses: The theory of measurement.
Derived terms: agrimetrics
aquametrics
bibliometrics
biometrics
cartometrics
cephalometrics
chemometrics
dialectometrics
environmetrics
immunometrics
informetrics
morphometrics
neurometrics
patentometrics
pharmacometrics
psychometrics
psychrometrics
SABRmetrics
stereometrics
ultrametrics
volumetrics
webometrics
metrics
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metric
tightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tighten