cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fanfaronade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfænfɛɹəˈneɪd/
/ˌfænfɛɹəˈnɑːd/
Forms: form: fanfaronades
Etymology: From French fanfaronnade (“bragging, boasting”); other senses influenced by fanfare.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217:
text: 1828, Walter Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter in Chronicles of the Canongate, Boston: Samuel H. Parker, p. 78,
[he] was an enemy to every thing that approached to fanfaronade, and knew enough of the world to lay it down as a sort of general rule, that he who talks a great deal of fighting is seldom a brave soldier
text: Until 1932 they had been right. National Socialism had been a stigma. Among well-born Germans, the Nazi party was regarded as coarse. But that autumn, they were beginning to understand that the door of history had been shut on their Augustan Age of princes and potentates and plumed marshals and glittering little regular armies—on all the fanfaronade that had marked their disciplined, secure world.
ref: 1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Volume II: Alone 1932-1940, page 63:
text: “Cedric took us out to celebrate his signing a contract for his novel, being so damned ostentatious about his new affluence. I didn't want to rain on his fanfaronade […]”
ref: 1997, Mordecai Richler, chapter 8, in Barney’s Version, New York: Knopf, page 78:
glosses: Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour.
examples: text: With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges
ref: 1850, John Miley, The History of the Papal States, London: T.C. Newby, Volume 2, Book 2, Chapter 4, p. 302:
text: 1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, London: F. Warne, p. 55,
he dined in public—a fanfaronade of trumpets proclaiming his down-sitting and his up-rising
text: […] we sailed gracefully out of the hotel yard, Rattray too- tooing a fanfaronade on the horn.
ref: 1904, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Lightning Conductor, Toronto: McLeod & Allen, page 18:
text: Mrs. Burnside indicated her disapproval of all this with a fanfaronade of flatulence.
ref: 1955, Patrick Dennis, chapter 4, in Auntie Mame, New York: Vanguard Press, page 69:
text: Here, at apparently reasonable prices, is a fanfaronade of cakes decorated electric pink, yellow, or blue.
ref: 2010, Ed Vulliamy, chapter 9, in Amexica, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 297:
synonyms: blare
blast
fanfare
ostentation
glosses: Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments.
fanfaronade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌfænfɛɹəˈneɪd/
/ˌfænfɛɹəˈnɑːd/
Forms: form: fanfaronades
form: fanfaronading
form: fanfaronaded
form: fanfaronaded
Etymology: From French fanfaronnade (“bragging, boasting”); other senses influenced by fanfare.
Senses: examples: text: 1990, E. Grady Jolly, United States Circuit Judge, opinion regarding the matter of Clark Pipe & Supply Co., cited in Robert L. Jordan and William D. Warren, Bankruptcy, Westbury, NY: The Foundation Press, fourth edition, 1995, pp. 653-654,
Given the agreement he was working under, his testimony was hardly more than fanfaronading about the power that the agreement afforded him over the financial affairs of Clark.
text: Call him an archetypal Texas bounder … with lots of mendacious savvy. Just before you blew him off as a fanfaronading blockhead, Bubba could flick a switch and start conversing about Federal Reserve interest rates, voter registration fraud in the deep South, and Kurt Vonnegut’s great novel, Slaughterhouse-Five.
ref: 2016, John Treadwell Nichols, chapter 1, in The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, page 4:
glosses: To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting.
examples: text: 1892, Robert Brown, The Story of Africa and Its Explorers, London: Cassell, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 208,
Nowadays a returning traveller with half his merits is […] fanfaronaded every step of his homeward journey. The telegraph tells how he has arrived here, the special correspondent what he has to say there, until by the time he lands at Liverpool or Plymouth […] the interviewer and the illustrated journals have taken the heart out of any tale he may have to tell.
text: […] I criticised her straight Teutonic fringe and fanfaronaded on the captivating frizziness of Joanna’s hair.
ref: 1906, William John Locke, chapter 3, in The Beloved Vagabond, New York: John Lane, page 37:
synonyms: trumpet#Verb
glosses: To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.
examples: text: Even when the inhabitants of the village took to rising at four o'clock in the morning, and fanfaronaded with ill-blown bugles, and flaring torches, and a dreadful untiring drum about the street, I forbore to grumble,
ref: 1889, David Christie Murray, chapter 2, in Schwartz, London: Macmillan, page 19:
glosses: To make a noisy, showy display or celebration; to play a fanfare.
shish taouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɪʃ tæ.uːk/
Forms: form: shish taouks
Etymology: From Turkish şiş (“skewer”) + tavuk (“hen”).
Senses: glosses: Skewered chicken cubes that are grilled.
Related terms: shish kebab
shish taouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɪʃ tæ.uːk/
Forms: form: shish taouks
Etymology: Coined by Abdallah Akkouche, of the Basha restaurant chain.
See Etymology 1 above for the root words.
Senses: glosses: Chicken shawarma, as a platter or as a pita sandwich.
kafta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaftas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kofta.
Derived terms: kafta kebab
kafta kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kafta kebabs
Senses: glosses: A skewered grilled dish composed of several kafta cubes.
Related terms: shish kebab
taboule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tabbouleh.
postaccident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + accident.
Senses: examples: text: Arguably, this was part of Weir's directorial style even before it became part of the international mainstream--in his gripping work in The Last Wave (1977), for instance, which is recalled in some of the early hallucinatory moments depicting Max in his postaccident mode.
ref: 1993 November 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unbelievable”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The postaccident research, Peterson says, amounted to "a few collections of dead things that washed up on the shore and a few other odd data sets."
ref: 1999 April 9, Jocelyn Kaiser, “The Exxon Valdez's Scientific Gold Rush”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI, pages 247–249:
glosses: Occurring after an accident
nonaggregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aggregated.
Senses: examples: text: Only discrete, nonaggregated micelles were obtained from very dilute solutions between 0.005 and 0.01 weight % (Fig. 2, A and B).
ref: 1999 January 15, Samson A. Jenekhe, X. Linda Chen, “Self-Assembly of Ordered Microporous Materials from Rod-Coil Block Copolymers”, in Science, volume 283, number 5400, →DOI, pages 372–375:
glosses: Not aggregated
Related terms: nonaggregating
nontoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + toroidal.
Senses: glosses: Not toroidal.
holliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holyers
Etymology: Clipping of holidays + -er + -s.
Senses: glosses: holidays (time off work or time spent travelling; = U.S. vacation).
raw_tags: as "on one's holliers"
Synonyms: word: hols
don't ask, don't tell
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don't ask, don't tell, don't harass, don't pursue
form: DADT
Senses: glosses: A policy of the U.S. military from 1993 to 2011, which barred openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual people from serving in the military, while also barring discrimination against closeted gays, lesbians, and bisexuals.
glosses: Applied to various other policies that prohibit a behavior but also discourage investigation of it.
Related terms: liberal homophobia
Bank Holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bank Holiday
paleotempestology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + tempest + -ology.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of past tropical cyclone activity by means of geological evidence and historical documentary records.
cold snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold snap
wealthies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wealthy
jocularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jocular + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being jocular.
kingliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinglinesses
Etymology: From kingly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being kingly.
glosses: The result or product of being kingly.
kinglinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingliness
noninterrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interrupted.
Senses: glosses: Not interrupted.
Derived terms: noninterruptedly
noninterruptedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noninterruptedly
form: most noninterruptedly
Etymology: From noninterrupted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noninterrupted manner.
misappreciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misappreciations
Etymology: From mis- + appreciation.
Senses: examples: text: It is the duty of the individual juror to strive to avoid any misappreciation of the evidence, no matter how it is represented by the barristers.
text: Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth.
text: I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement.
ref: 1849, Alexis de Tocqueville, Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2:
text: The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war.
ref: 1995, Alan J. Levine, The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975, page 128:
glosses: A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
examples: text: "He might not have meant to ignore her," answered Isabel thoughtfully; "he might have chosen not to introduce her because he felt too proud of her to subject her to any possible misappreciation from them."
ref: 1871, William Dean Howells, Their Wedding Journey:
text: But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain.
ref: 1909, Anna Katharine Green, The Forsaken Inn:
glosses: An observed failure to appreciate the proper worth of a person, an act or a thing.
Synonyms: sense: failure to understand
word: misunderstanding
sense: failure to understand
word: misapprehension
sense: failure to understand
word: error
sense: failure to understand
word: mistake
sense: failure to appreciate
word: scorn
sense: failure to appreciate
word: disdain
sense: failure to appreciate
word: despisement
Related terms: disappreciation
misappreciate
little lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little ladies
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to buy some roses for the little lady?
text: Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
ref: 2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192:
glosses: The wife or fiancée.
glosses: A condescending term for a woman or girl.
little ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little lady
fwd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forward.
fwd
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forward.
fwd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fwds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forward.
fwd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fwds
form: fwding
form: fwded
form: fwded
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forward.
algebroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algebroid
antikaon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antikaons
Etymology: From anti- + kaon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a kaon.
antinucleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinucleons
Etymology: From anti- + nucleon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a nucleon
Derived terms: antinucleonic
hodometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Obsolete form of odometry.
Derived terms: hodometric
hodometrical
melancholie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melancholies
Senses: examples: text: moaping Melancholie And Moon-struck madness
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of melancholy.
accident and emergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A&E
Senses: glosses: The department of a hospital that deals with injuries and medical emergencies.
Synonyms: casualty
emergency room
prognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prognathic
form: most prognathic
Etymology: From pro- + gnathic.
Senses: glosses: Prognathous.
waitasec
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of wait a sec.
Caesarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesarian
Cæsarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Caesar + -ian, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Caesarean.
Cæsarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cæsarians
Etymology: From Caesar + -ian, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Caesarean.
Cæsarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cæsarian
randomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: random-ish
Etymology: From random + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Why then,” said John, “ it was my son Jonathan; and I wish they had tooken him to the watch-house-whereby my horses would have been all the better for it—for my son Jonathan is but a randomish sort of a chap.”
ref: 1825, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals for the Year ... - Volume 2 - Page 136:
text: They were rather a skylarking, randomish, set of blades, were the midshipmen in that ship.
ref: 1844, Author unknown, Colburn's States service magazine, Volume 1862, page 384:
text: So if you analyze a price series, you will see movements that are kind of randomish, unanticipated.
ref: 2001, Lisa R. Lattuca, Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research ... - Page 158:
text: You can select particular songs and play them. i/ Shuffle: Plays the tracks on your CD in a random (or randomish) fashion, like the shuffle button on your home CD player.
ref: 2003, Danny Briere, Hurley, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies - Page 174
text: [...] for false rings, the cleft between late and early, fun and house. Find what's odd in litter's randomish settlements.
ref: 2015, Madhur Anand, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes:
glosses: Somewhat random; quite random.
give someone his head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone his head
form: giving someone his head
form: gave someone his head
form: given someone his head
Etymology: From horse racing: to allow a horse freedom of movement of its head. See Citations:give someone his head.
Senses: glosses: To allow (someone) to act without constraint: to give (someone) free rein.
Related terms: give head
hand someone his head
given her head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Given her head, the mare fairly flew.
text: The manager was given her head to make whatever changes she might deem necessary in the structure of her department.
glosses: past participle of give her her head, indicating a passive voice
examples: text: He had given her head many times, but this time she especially enjoyed it.
glosses: past participle of give her head, indicating a perfect tense
astroclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to astroclimate
hand someone his head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands someone his head
form: handing someone his head
form: handed someone his head
form: handed someone his head
form: hand someone his head on a plate
form: hand someone his head on a platter
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to the story of Salome demanding the head of John the Baptist in a charger.
Senses: glosses: To kill, especially by beheading.
glosses: To destroy; to defeat utterly.
Related terms: give someone his head
astroclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroclimates
Etymology: From astro- + climate.
Senses: glosses: The part of the climate of a place that is a result of solar radiation
misappreciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misappreciation
bionanosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bionanosystems
Etymology: From bio- + nanosystem.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A biological nanosystem
bionanosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bionanosystem
dihadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈheɪdɹɒn/
Forms: form: dihadrons
Etymology: From di- + hadron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any particle that is a combination of two hadrons
eigensolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensolution
eigensolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigensolutions
Etymology: From eigen- + solution.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the results of the calculation of eigenvalues
gigaparsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigaparsecs
Etymology: From giga- + parsec.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical unit of distance equal to 10⁹ parsecs.
Synonyms: Gpc
for pity's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: All this cry about "showing the male body" disgusts me, too. For pity's sake -- look at the ad -- there is nothing distinguishable below the chest.
ref: 1979 April 14, David M. Stryker, “A Contribution”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
synonyms: for goodness' sake
for mercy's sake
for heaven's sake
glosses: for Pete's sake; An especially mild oath
gradiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradiometers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several instruments used to measure the gradient of a physical property (such as magnetic field).
for mercy's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: word: for goodness' sake
word: for pity's sake
word: FFS
word: for Christ's sake
word: for cripes' sake
word: for crying in the beer
word: for crying out loud
word: for fucking out loud
word: for fuck's sake
word: for Fuck's sake
word: for God's sake
word: for goodness' sake
word: for heaven's sake
word: for mercy's sake
word: for Pete's sake
word: for pity's sake
word: for the love of all that is holy
word: for the love of Betsy
word: for the love of God
word: for the love of Mike
word: for the love of fuck
word: for the love of Fuck
glosses: An especially mild oath.
gradiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradiometer
in the name of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: in name of
Etymology: From Middle English in the name of, in þe name of.
Senses: examples: text: In the name of all things sacred, please stop that screaming!
glosses: With appeal to; by; often used to introduce oaths
examples: text: In the name of the law, come out with your hands up.
glosses: By the authority of.
examples: text: He put the house in the name of his children.
glosses: Under the name or possession of.
examples: text: These additional checks at airports are justified in the name of security.
text: Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the 2014 coup against Yingluck's government in the name of ending political turmoil, has promised that an election will be held next year.
ref: 2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre & Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict”, in Reuters:
glosses: Under the designation or excuse of.
business model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business models
Senses: examples: text: The venture capitalist Chris Dixon told me, “They [YC] created the greatest business model of all time. For basically no money[…]they get seven per cent of a lot of the best startups in Silicon Valley!”
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Chris Dixon, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model. Only by maintaining very high numbers of livestock could the flow of fee-paying deerstalkers armed with rifles be ensured, but because of the rising cost of gamekeepers and estate upkeep, Glenfeshie’s sporting operations were still making a loss.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
text: The typical business model relies on a line operating intensively from March or April through to September or October, before shutting down during the winter months - at which point essential repairs and maintenance can take place using income accrued during the busy summer months, ahead of the cycle starting over again.
ref: 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in Rail, page 30:
glosses: The particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.
transactionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transactionalities
Etymology: From transactional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being transactional.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The degree to which a database or other system is transactional.
family values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Political and social beliefs that hold the traditional nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society.
examples: text: But on “family values night,” as Marilyn Quayle described the session dominated by Republican women, the values took on an accusatory edge: […] the Vice President's wife made clear to cheering conservatives what she felt was at the center of family values: “Commitment, marriage and fidelity are not just arbitrary arrangements.”[…] [T]he difference is that the use of family values focuses more sharply on abortion, gay rights and the pre- and extramarital activities that go under the name of playing around or hanky-panky.
ref: 1992 September 6, William Safire, “On Language: Family Values”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Although Hollywood executives are fond of pointing out this latest trend, the phrase “family values” hardly carries the same meaning here as that expressed by Vice President Dan Quayle, his wife, Marilyn, Patrick J. Buchanan and others before and during the Republican convention. There, it was generally viewed as a phrase that implicity^([sic]) criticized alternative life styles, and was even seen as rebuking working mothers.
ref: [1992 November 12, Bernard Weinraub, “Hollywood Is Testing Family Values’ Value”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C15:
qualifier: right-wing usage
glosses: Right-wing values like patriarchy and opposition to gay marriage, family planning and legal abortion, and to feminism and women working outside the home.
Coordinate terms: profamily
traditional values
Derived terms: family valuer
helimagnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helimagnet
helimagnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helimagnets
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any material that exhibits helimagnetism
holonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holonomy + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting holonomy.
Derived terms: anholonomic
holonomic constraint
holonomicity
nonholonomic
indecomposability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indecomposable + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being indecomposable
interdot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-dot
Etymology: From inter- + dot.
Senses: glosses: Between dots (in any of several contexts).
interdot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdots
form: inter-dot
Etymology: From inter- + dot.
Senses: glosses: A dot placed between other things.
interdot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interdots
form: interdotting
form: interdotted
form: interdotted
form: inter-dot
Etymology: From inter- + dot.
Senses: glosses: To produce a dot or dotted pattern between.
interscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + scale.
Senses: glosses: Between scales
intertwiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertwiners
Etymology: From intertwine + -er.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping between two equivariant maps
isoplanatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isoplanatic
form: most isoplanatic
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same planarity
writ of assistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writs of assistance
Senses: glosses: a court order that authorized customs officers to conduct general searches of premises for contraband; a form of search warrant
uncarefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncarefully
form: most uncarefully
Etymology: From uncareful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For you,
My boys, your father, not uncarefully,
Has spent much forethought with the gods' good help
ref: 1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 59, lines 913–915
glosses: In an uncareful manner.
Synonyms: carelessly
lesser pandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser panda
a short drop and a sudden stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə shôrtʹ drŏpʹ ən(d)ə sŭdʹən stŏpʹ
ipa: [ə ˌʃɔɹʔ ˈdɹɒp ən ə ˌsʌdn̩ ˈstɒp]
Forms: form: a quick drop and a sudden stop
Etymology: Popular due to the internal rhyme of drop with stop.
Senses: examples: text: I see, in other words, a short drop and then a sudden stop?
ref: 1923, Austin B Griffin, Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, volume 203, page 885:
text: I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: A short drop and a sudden stop.
ref: 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:
text: > But, yeah, the death penalty is a little stiff just for pretentious writing.
> Punning now… it’d be a capital idea, there.
Let’s not start _that_ row. Give it a quick drop and a sudden stop, rather than letting them hang…
ref: 2005 January 8, “Bookman”, alt.fan.heinlein (Google group): Clarke Survives Tsunamis
text: If you were lucky enough to survive all this lunacy, you always risked capture. There your story would end with a quick drop and a sudden stop, for piracy was punishable by hanging.
ref: 2006 Hirchak, John Hirchak. Ghosts of Old Wilmington, page 27 (The History Press; →ISBN)
glosses: A fall to one's death by hanging.
Avraham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew אַבְרָהָם.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
work someone's butt off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works someone's butt off
form: working someone's butt off
form: worked someone's butt off
form: worked someone's butt off
Senses: examples: text: Her son, Dominic, had been ranked third at the end of his junior year, but had “worked his butt off this year,” she said.
ref: 2021 June 11, Stephanie Saul, quoting Melissa Borgioli, “Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of work someone's ass off.
synonyms: word: work someone's ass off
work someone's tail off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works someone's tail off
form: working someone's tail off
form: worked someone's tail off
form: worked someone's tail off
Senses: glosses: Less vulgar synonym of work someone's ass off.
happen along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: happens along
form: happening along
form: happened along
form: happened along
Senses: examples: text: "Now, if a rattling good earthquake were to happen along, you might awake in the morning to find yourself on an island, or even under water."
ref: 1892, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 1, in The Golden Fleece:
text: "[W]e can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now."
ref: 1909, L. Frank Baum, chapter 11, in The Road to Oz:
text: Novae, or new stars, are always happening along.
ref: 1928 April 9, “Science: Heavenly Hubbub”, in Time:
text: "Well, you're the one who's always telling me not to leave my purse in the cart, and that's probably what that woman had done, and someone happened along and just took it."
ref: 2001, Linwood Barclay, Bad Move, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: To arrive by chance; to occur by happenstance.
molar tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molar teeth
Senses: glosses: Synonym of molar.
synonyms: word: molar
butcherknife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcherknives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butcher knife.
butcher's knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butchers' knives
form: butcher's knives
Senses: examples: text: There is an increasing sale of butcher’s knives, especially in the South, because of the increase in the last three years of the number of live stock, especially hogs, in that section.
ref: 1919 March 30, “Sale of Cutlery Wares. Dearth of Certain Kinds and the Disuse of Others Noted.”, in The New York Times (News section), volume LXVIII, number 22,345, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025, page 11, column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of butcher knife.
butternut pumpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butternut pumpkins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of butternut squash.
synonyms: word: butternut squash
budō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Despite the apparent oddness of this characterization of the art of the warrior as a practice of love, Ueshiba insisted that his perspective faithfully represented the essence of traditional budō.
ref: 2003, Michael L. Raposa, “The Way of Spiritual Harmony”, in Meditation & the Martial Arts (Studies in Religion and Culture), Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: It is the principle of nonresistance that distinguishes aikidō from other forms of budō.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the Transrational Shift in Peace Politics (Many Peaces), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 5 (Movement-oriented Approaches to Elicitive Conflict Transformation):
text: The same approach was maintained through the 1990s, when the guidelines for budō in school encouraged kendō practice as a way for every individual to ‘be rich in humanity and strong in body’ but also emphasised the idea of Japanese budō as a unique component of their we-group identity.
ref: 2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists):
glosses: Alternative form of budo.
isovector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isovectors
Etymology: From iso- + vector.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A form of vector associated with isospin
magnetodielectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: magneto-dielectric
Etymology: From magneto- + dielectric.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing materials that are both magnetic and dielectric
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the effect of magnetism on the dielectric properties of a material
metadynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: An algorithmic method of simulating rare complex systems and for calculating the free energy associated with them
Related terms: metadynamic
microgauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgauss
Etymology: From micro- + gauss.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one millionth of a gauss
microreversibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + reversibility.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: reversibility at the microscopic level, especially the reversibility of every stage in a catalytic cycle
lavacicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavacicle
midrapidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midrapidities
form: mid-rapidity
Etymology: From mid- + rapidity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The rapidity of a particle close to the axis of a beam of particles.
multicritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicritical
form: most multicritical
Etymology: From multi- + critical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing systems, points etc., that are critical in multiple ways
multiqubit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiqubit
form: most multiqubit
form: multi-qubit
Etymology: From multi- + qubit.
Senses: qualifier: quantum computing
glosses: Involving multiple qubits
nanotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, or produced by nanotechnology
neutronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neutron + -ization.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The process, such as within a collapsing star, in which protons and electrons fuse to form neutrons and release neutrinos.
orthomodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + modular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a lattice with the property that its every orthogonal pair is modular.
Derived terms: orthomodularity
overscreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overscreen
overscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overscreens
form: overscreening
form: overscreened
form: overscreened
Etymology: From over- + screen.
Senses: glosses: To screen excessively
overscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overscreen
parametrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From parametric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a parametric manner
glosses: With regard to parameters
Derived terms: multiparametrically
nonparametrically
quasibound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-bound
Etymology: From quasi- + bound.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a system, particle etc., that has both a closed and an open boundary condition
rescattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescatterings
Etymology: From re- + scattering.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A second or subsequent scattering
scalelength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalelengths
Etymology: From scale + length.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The length of a scale
scalelengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalelength
seminorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminorm
spectropolarimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectro- + polarimetry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the polarization of light at different wavelengths
Related terms: spectropolarimeter
subfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfigures
Etymology: From sub- + figure.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A figure (geometric form) that is part of another.
rescatterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescattering
superflares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superflare
supramillion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: supra-million
Etymology: From supra- + million.
Senses: examples: text: We present an efficient algorithm for sampling atomistic configurations in viruses and other supramillion atom nanosystems.
ref: 2010, S. Cheluvaraja, P. Ortoleva, “Thermal nanostructure: An order parameter multiscale ensemble approach”, in Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 075102:
glosses: Containing more than a million
ubiquities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquity
malveuilles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malveuille
malveuilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malveuille
malveuilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malveuille
banjo hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjo hit
roy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roys
Etymology: From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.
Senses: glosses: A king.
Related terms: viceroy
roy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.
Senses: examples: text: For in the tenth year, when roy victory / Was won to give the Greeks the spoil of Troy, / Return they did profess, but not enjoy, / Since Pallas they incens'd, and she the waves / By all the winds' power, that blew ope their graves.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 114, lines 140–144:
glosses: Royal.
video-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From video.
Senses: glosses: moving images, especially television
unmisleadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ən'mĭslēʹdĭngli
ipa: /ˌənmɪsˈliːdɪŋli/
Etymology: From unmisleading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Schopenhauer’s ethics could be unmisleadingly described as a philosophical elaboration of the Christian idea of an unreserved love, whereas Kant’s can be thought of as a Christian ethic in which duty to superhuman authority — in this case, the authority of reason — has replaced the sentiment of love.
ref: 1988, Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz, editors, Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West, Cambridge University Press Archive, →ISBN, page 171, →ISBN:
glosses: In an unmisleading manner.
unmisleading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ən'mĭslēʹdĭng
ipa: /ˌənmɪsˈliːdɪŋ/
Etymology: From un- + misleading.
Senses: examples: text: The general answer which needs to be given is clear enough. Unmisleading expressions must be unmisleading because in some sense they say what they mean. But exactly in what sense is less clear.
ref: 1981, Roy Harris, The Language Myth, Duckworth, →ISBN, page 24, →ISBN:
glosses: That does not mislead; not misleading.
Derived terms: unmisleadingly
identity crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity crisis
wood lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood lot
GLAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GLAMs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
glosses: Acronym of Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, issued by the IRS to provide advice to its field agents.
invaliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invalid
invaliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invalidings
Senses: glosses: The act of exempting someone from duty because of injury or ill health.
multiple levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple level
metric levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metric level
division levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of division level
metric structures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metric structure
butt-cheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt-cheek
videopoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The gambler's chances of winning at blackjack, craps, roulette and even the slot and videopoker machines vary greatly among the casinos.
ref: 1990, Jerry L Patterson, Blackjack, a winner's handbook:
text: Gil guarantees, with the truth of art, that neither internet, videopoker nor cellular phones have really destroyed it […]
ref: 1999, José Jorge de Carvalho, Afro-Brazilian music and rituals, Part 1:
text: A year later, young Nicky was popped by the New Jersey State Police on charges involving the sale and distribution of illegal videopoker machines.
ref: 2006, David M Haugen, Is the Mafia Still a Force in America?:
glosses: Any electronic, console-based version of poker.
oranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orandas
Senses: glosses: A goldfish characterized by a prominent raspberry-like hood encasing its head.
oranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orenda (“mystical power among the Iroquois”).
Imeldific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Imeldific
form: most Imeldific
Etymology: From Imelda + -ific, coined by Imelda Marcos regarding herself: "They will use 'imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance."
Senses: examples: text: Cory is a social mouse, she's not into this socializing and nobody really advocates an Imeldific kind of grandeur...
ref: 1992, Solidarity, Volumes 133-136:
text: There may be something Imeldific about the main Batasan Pambansa session hall...
ref: 1995, Ambeth R Ocampo, Bonifacio's bolo:
text: Manileños needed a break from the Imeldific extravaganzas. They hankered for a spontaneous and casual lifestyle, which they could not find in the five-star hotels...
ref: 2001, Denise Weldon, Neal M Oshima, LJC Restaurant Group, Malate: a matter of taste:
text: People from different walks of life; some who only care how beautiful their tan looks on Jumeirah Beach, people who work hard to send money to their family back home while living in a small room in Satwa or Karama just to save rent, others with an Imeldific [named after Imelda Marcos, the shopaholic former First Lady of the Philippines, known for her colossal shoe collection] attitude who shop every week...
ref: 2007, Jenny Walker, Stuart Butler, Frances Linzee Gordon, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Oman, UAE and Arabian Peninsula:
glosses: Ostentatiously extravagant, sometimes to the point of vulgarity.
examples: text: Obviously she had not heard of Dorian Gray, having taken life pretty much according to the gospel of Cole Porter. But it's richly Imeldific, Imelda scouring the dark night of her soul in prayer while her enemies peer through the rain at airports watching out for her...
ref: 1991, Conrado de Quiros, Dance of the dunces:
text: The first phase of the PGH was constructed within the Imeldific timetable to reach its inauguration day, 2 July 1985, which coincided with the birthday of Mrs. Marcos...
ref: 2003, Gerard Lico, Edifice complex: power, myth, and Marcos state architecture:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Imelda Marcos.
Rabinowitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rabinowicz
Senses: glosses: An Ashkenazic surname from German, Germanized variant of Rabinovich.
flying foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying fox
roussette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roussettes
Etymology: French, in allusion to the color. See russet.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain fruit bats:
Any Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger, syn. Pteropus vulgaris) inhabiting islands of the Indian Ocean.
glosses: Any of certain fruit bats:
Any flying fox of genus Rousettus.
glosses: Any small shark of the genus Scylliorhinus (syn. Scyllium); a dogfish.
roussettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roussette
lip syncs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lip sync
plaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/
homophone: planing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plain
plaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/
homophone: planing
Forms: form: plainings
Senses: examples: text: And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear...
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A lamentation.
plained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: planed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plain
Derived terms: unplained
turn a profit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a profit
form: turning a profit
form: turned a profit
form: turned a profit
Senses: glosses: To obtain profit from an investment.
examples: text: The company has not turned a profit from the merger.
glosses: To gain money or to gain materially.