cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gilbert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪlbɚt/
ipa: /ˈɡɪlbət/
Forms: form: gilberts
Etymology: Named after William Gilbert (astronomer).
Senses: glosses: The CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
wikipedia: William Gilbert (astronomer)
Derived terms: gilbertage
cgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CGS (“centimetre-gram-second [system of units]”).
barfi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barfis
form: borfee
form: burfee
form: burfi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani برفی / बर्फ़ी (barfī).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr. Alam said.
ref: 2018 January 17, Shivani Vora, “A Go-To Grocery for Indian Cooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An Indian dessert made from sweetened, condensed milk flavoured with fruit and spices.
magnetomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetomotive
form: most magnetomotive
Etymology: From magneto- + motive.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: capable of producing magnetic flux
Derived terms: magnetomotive force
magnetic flux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic fluxes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the strength of a magnetic field in a given area.
Derived terms: magnetic flux density
dead media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Media formats which are no longer used because they have become outdated or outmoded.
digital good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital goods
Senses: glosses: An intangible good sold through the Internet, such as a software license, e-book, or serial number.
emplacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emplacements
Etymology: From French emplacement, from en- + placement.
Senses: glosses: An installation that houses a military weapon.
glosses: A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to as ore deposition.
Entryphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Entry + phone. A trademark, held by The Entryphone Company Limited.
Senses: glosses: An intercom system fitted at the entrance to a building, especially a block of flats, by which visitors can identify themselves to specific occupants before being admitted to the building.
esprit de corps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˌspɹiː də ˈkɔː/
ipa: /ɛˌspɹi də ˈkɔɹ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French esprit de corps, from esprit (“spirit”) + de (“of”) + corps (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: “Well done, sister! I honour your esprit du corps^([sic]). When I am a wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in general would be so too. It would save me many a heartache.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: Always happening like that. The very moment. Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it settling her garter. Her friend covering the display of. Esprit de corps. Well, what are you gaping at?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 71:
text: Also, much depended on an exceptional esprit de corps which permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
glosses: A shared spirit of comradeship, enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause among the members of a group, for example of a military unit.
Synonyms: sense: shared spirit
word: morale
sense: shared spirit
word: team spirit
fardingbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fardingbags
form: farding-bag
Etymology: Uncertain; compare fardel.
Senses: glosses: The upper stomach of a cow.
Synonyms: paunch
rumen
final decree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final decrees
Senses: glosses: A final judgment.
topics: law
glosses: In some states, the second legal order on a divorce, issued after the filing of a declaration of separation.
floryshe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flourish.
floryshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floryshes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flourish.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: In the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, an unstructured practice routine of guard transitions, cuts, thrusts, slices and parries with appropriate footwork; an expression of techniques already learned in an original way.
fusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusionists
Etymology: From fusion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Longtime fusionists, who are veterans not just of the intense and consequential debates surrounding foreign policy during the Cold War and the War on Terror but also of countless successful courtroom contests designed to expand First Amendment rights in the face of government censorship, might be startled by this news.
ref: 2021 December 1, David French, “The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An adherent of fusionism or a participant in a political fusion.
glosses: Someone who studies nuclear fusion.
god-modding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misspelling of god mode + -ing (see godmoding)
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Any form of cheating by automatic hits and controlling another player's character implemented by installing a mod in the game.
qualifier: role-playing
glosses: To take control of another person's role whilst role-playing
handguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handguards
Etymology: From hand + guard.
Senses: glosses: A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
Heathrow injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heathrow injections
Etymology: In reference to Heathrow Airport, a major international airport in London.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously the Heathrow injection is a recent phenomenon then? :)
ref: 2001 November 14, Sean Byrne, “who's no.1 - the solution”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):
text: Drink after work, catch the tube home and eat curry.
So what weight are you up to after your Heathrow Injection?
ref: 2005 May 31, Shabby, “Roles & Responsibilities in Hippy's absence.”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):
text: For instance, I had a girlfriend who had just come back from England and was still recovering from the Heathrow injection.
ref: 2006, Kevin McCallum., In Search of South Africa's Perfect Woman, Two Dogs,, →ISBN, page 164:
text: […]the last time I'd seen them in Australia I felt an aching need to feed her a sandwich but I saw her on Spicks & Specks the other week and the "Heathrow Injection" has done her good.
ref: 2007 May 24, Robert Atkins, “Chock's gig review: Howling Bells at The Metro, Sydney, 11.05.2007”, in alt.music (Usenet):
glosses: The phenomenon of rapid weight gain experienced by a non-British person upon settling in London, attributed to a busy schedule encouraging the consumption of convenience food.
wikipedia: Heathrow Airport
holding deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding deals
Senses: topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: An agreement made between a studio or network (or other similar entity) and a person, such as an actor, producer or writer, to hold the person to be exclusive to that entity for an agreed upon period of time, usually one year or "season", for an agreed-upon amount of money.
Related terms: development deal
homostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + static.
Senses: examples: text: The term homostatic graft might be applied to inert tissues such as bone and cartilage when transferred from one individual to another of the same species; and the term homovital graft might be used in reference to grafts whose cells must continue to grow and reproduce for the graft to be effective after similar transplantation.
ref: W. P. Longmire, J. National Cancer Institute, 14, 669
text: These grafts persist however as homostatic grafts and are completely replaced by host tissues in time.
ref: H. Conway, The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, 13, 43
glosses: Describing homografts which are inert when transplanted into the recipient.
horophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horophiles
Etymology: From horo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a special interest in timekeeping devices.
IBM Pollyanna Principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the IBM Pollyanna Principle
Etymology: From Pollyanna principle, and in reference to the technology company IBM.
Senses: examples: e.g. machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna)
e.g. most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.
glosses: The axiom that "machines should work; people should think".
jean jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jean jackets
form: jeans jacket
Senses: glosses: A type of jacket made from denim, popular material that is used for jeans. Typically it has long sleeves and ends at the waist.
Synonyms: english: more commonly
translation: more commonly
word: denim jacket
kagok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 가곡 (gagok, “gagok”).
Senses: glosses: A genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices. Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments
khamaseen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khamaseens
form: khamaseen
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic خَمَاسِين (ḵamasīn, “fifties”), plural of خَمْسُون (“fifty”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khamsin (“hot wind in Egypt”).
glosses: An oppressive, hot, dusty, south or south-east wind occurring elsewhere in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Levant, intermittently in late winter through late spring.
glosses: According to the Turkish Calendar of Storms, a storm of three days, to be expected around February 1.
kissing booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissing booths
Senses: glosses: A booth at a carnival, in which a person (or sometimes an animal) kisses other people in exchange for money, often as a charity fundraiser.
kissogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissograms
form: kissagram
Etymology: Blend of kiss + telegram
Senses: glosses: A message delivered along with a kiss, usually arranged as a surprise on a special occasion.
knifepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knifepoints
Etymology: From knife + point.
Senses: glosses: The pointed end of a knife.
koozie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːzi/
ipa: /ˈkuzi/
Forms: form: koozies
form: coozie
form: cozie
Etymology: An alteration of earlier cozy, cosy (“padded or knit covering put on an item to insulate it”), from Scots. This form, with /u/, is perhaps influenced by a blend of cool, kool + cozy.
Senses: glosses: A thermal insulation sleeve for cans or bottles.
lancepesade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancepesades
Etymology: From the Italian lancia spezzata, literally meaning "broken lance" or "broken spear", this term denotes a seasoned soldier who is not a part of a lances fournies (a medieval military unit comprising an armored horseman and his supporting retinue, totaling about 5-10 men).
Senses: glosses: A grade within the rank of private, either assigned as assistants to corporals or performed the duties of corporals themselves.
glosses: A grade within the rank of corporal; also called lance corporals.
Derived terms: lance corporal
leukophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leuko- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Normal rats show leukophobia, ie, going away from strong light, while blind rats do not react to light in this manner.
ref: 1924, Theodore Koppånyi, Clyde Baker, “Further Studies on Eye Transplantation in the Spotted Rat”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 71, number 2:
text: What had been the healthy fear of white people shared by most of the country's colored inhabitants had recently morphed into full-blown leukophobia, or fear of all things white.
ref: 2008, Paul Beatty, Slumberland:
glosses: Pathological fear of or aversion to the color white.
long drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long drinks
Senses: examples: text: Long drinks generally have more mixer than alcohol and are often served with ice and a straw. The terms ‘straight up’ and ‘on the rocks’ are synonymous with the short drink, which tends to be more about the spirit, which is often combined with a single mixer, at most.
ref: 2008, Hamlyn, Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cocktails: Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, Hachette UK
synonyms: tall drink
coordinate_terms: medium drink
short drink
shot
hypernyms: mixed drink
cocktail
glosses: A relatively weak (low alcoholic content per volume) and voluminous mixed drink, typically containing lots of ice and mixer.
MFWIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFWICs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of military figure who's in charge.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of motherfucker who's in charge.
machosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mă′-chō-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌmæt͡ʃ.əʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ma-/
ipa: /ˌmæ.t͡ʃoʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: machosexuals
Etymology: From macho + -sexual, modelled after metrosexual.
Senses: glosses: A man who eschews modern trendy aesthetics in favor of pursuits traditionally considered more manly.
milliskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliskins
Etymology: Trademark, presumably milli- + skin.
Senses: glosses: A light, thin, stretchy fabric commonly used to make tights and dance leotards.
mistell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɛl/
enpr: mĭs-tĕlʹ
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mistells
form: mistelling
form: mistold
form: mistold
Etymology: From mis- + tell, the latter being a messaging command on certain chat networks.
Senses: glosses: To tell inaccurately.
mistell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɛl/
enpr: mĭs-tĕlʹ
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mistells
Etymology: From mis- + tell, the latter being a messaging command on certain chat networks.
Senses: glosses: A message sent to the incorrect recipient in an instant messaging program or online game.
nappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nap/
rhymes: -ap
Forms: form: nappes
Etymology: From French nappe. Doublet of map, mop, and nape.
Senses: glosses: The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of the two parts of a double cone.
examples: text: The generation of an Alpine mountain range is a matter of piling on the nappes.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 96:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: thrust sheet
glosses: A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata.
topics: engineering
hydraulics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Geological nappe whose underside is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The ability of a sauce or other relatively thick liquid to coat food, the back of a spoon, etc.
nappe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nap/
rhymes: -ap
Forms: form: nappes
form: napping
form: napped
form: napped
Etymology: From French nappe. Doublet of map, mop, and nape.
Senses: examples: to nappe a leg of lamb with glaze
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To coat (a food) with liquid.
NASBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleic acid sequence-based amplification: a transcription-based isothermal nucleic acid amplification technique.
NASBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.
negative cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative cutters
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A person whose profession is negative cutting and cuts and matches motion picture negatives using film splicers and film cement.
netcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more netcentric
form: most netcentric
Etymology: From net + -centric.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to client/server architecture that is used throughout an enterprise's entire lines of business.
non constat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nōn cōnstat.
Senses: topics: law
lifestyle
religion
sciences
glosses: It is not certain; It is doubted.
Ohiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ohio
optimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒptɪˈmeɪʃən/
Forms: form: optimations
Senses: glosses: optimization.
overyielding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + yielding.
Senses: glosses: The amount a species yields, when grown with other species compared to yield in a monoculture.
glosses: The amount of biomass an ecological community (e.g. a grassland patch) yields, compared to any of its member species alone.
party tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party trays
Senses: glosses: A shallow flat receptacle with a raised edge or rim, used for carrying, holding, or displaying appetizers.
glosses: Such a tray with prepared appetizers arranged on it.
pillhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillheads
Etymology: From pill + -head.
Senses: synonyms: pill popper
hypernyms: word: druggie
word: drughead
word: junkhead
word: junkie
word: user
word: abuser
word: person
coordinate_terms: cokehead
crackhead
methhead
pothead
glosses: A person who habitually takes tranquilizers, amphetamines, barbiturates, etc. in pill or capsule form.
polyglutamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyglutamations
Etymology: From poly- + glutamation.
Senses: glosses: The addition of multiple glutamic acid residues to a molecule through an enzymatic process. An example of this is the attachment of glutamic acid residues to folic acid.
power user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power users
Senses: examples: text: Whether you already consider yourself a 1-2-3 power user or would like to become one, the fact that you have picked up this book probably qualifies you as a person who will benefit from a guide to the real power of 1-2-3.
ref: 1988, E. Michael Lunsford, Peter Antoniak, Power user's guide to 1-2-3, Sybex Inc, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: enthusiast
coordinate_terms: ubergeek
glosses: A person who makes heavy use of computers, running many applications and capable of using advanced functionality.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer user who seeks and uses products having the most features and the fastest performance.
prat digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prat diggers
Etymology: Late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Senses: glosses: A pickpocket.
pre-game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-games
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pregame.
pre-game
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pregame.
prostitot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostitots
form: prosti-tot
Etymology: Blend of prostitute + tot
Senses: glosses: A prepubescent girl who emulates the overtly sexual fashions and attitudes of twentysomething women such as pop stars.
Synonyms: jailbait
Related terms: kinderwhore
pop tart
Reichism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Reich + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I include in this group particularly the writers, Erich Fromm (1941, 1947, 1956, 1962), Theodor Adomo and Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1950), none of whom has championed Reichism.
ref: 1973, Paul L. Adams, Obsessive children: a sociopsychiatric study, page 23:
text: First, there was Trotskyism - political Communism - and immediately after that - political psychological Reichism.
ref: 1998, Chaim Shur, Shomrim in the Land of Apartheid: The Story of Hashomer Hatzair in South Africa 1935-1970:
text: In the mid-1960s, Reichism was midwifed into reexistence by such stalwarts as William Schutz, Bernard Gunther, Charlotte Selver, Alexander Lowen, Ida Rolf, and many other exponents of human knead needs.
ref: 2013, Jon Carlson, William Knaus, Albert Ellis Revisited, →ISBN, page 288:
text: As Edward Shils commented, “If there's a bad idea out there—Trotskyism, Reichism, Steinerism—leave it to our friend Saul to swallow it.”
ref: 2013, Gloria L. Cronin, Lee Trepanier, A Political Companion to Saul Bellow, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: The philosophy or beliefs of controversial Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich.
sales associate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales associates
Senses: glosses: an employee of a firm whose primary task is selling the company's product or service.
Sameer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samir
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi समीर (samīr).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Sameer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samir
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic سَمِير (samīr).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
scholae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schola
scruffy chic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of style and lovable scruffiness combined.
glosses: Stylish rather than fashionable.
glosses: Classy without appearing to make an effort.
social death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The alienation of certain people from society to the point of being forgotten, excluded, or ignored.
soft Mick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: This phrase may originally have referred to an Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancashire, in the early 1900s, from the phrase "more shoes than Soft Mick".
Senses: glosses: An extravagant person.
wikipedia: Accrington
solutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solution + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Solutionism is just a belief that for every problem there exists a solution; and successful persons are those who solve problems.
ref: 1984, D. Philip Baker, The Library Media Program and the School, Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 54:
text: So before we can embark on discussing the shortcomings of solutionism in areas like politics or crime prevention, it's worth getting a better grasp of the pernicious intellectual influence of Internet-centrism—a task we turn to in the next chapter.
ref: 2013, Evgeny Morozov, chapter 1, in To Save Everything, Click Here, →ISBN:
text: Evgeny Morozov defines this trend as solutionism: a normal problem-solving apparatus gone into overdrive (Morozov 2013). Thanks to ICTs, Morozov claims, new types of solutions that weren't possible a few years ago are now ready at hand.
ref: 2014, M. Berry, M. Schleser, Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief that all difficulties have benign solutions, often of a technocratic nature.
glosses: The providing of a solution or solutions to a customer or client (sometimes before a problem has been identified).
Related terms: solutionist
stouthrief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stouthriefs
Etymology: From stouth + rief.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish criminal offense; a form of rief (theft) committed by force.
submucosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + mucosal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated below or underneath the mucosal tissue.
Susmita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sushmita
form: Sushmitha
Etymology: From Hindi सुष्मिता (suṣmitā, “lovely smile”), from सु- (su-, adjectival prefix) + स्मित (smile) + -आ (-ā, feminine suffix).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from India, of Indian usage.
tattletaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tattletale
teledensity rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The number of telephone lines per 100 people in a region.
tissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tissies
Senses: examples: text: But I shall have to foster this fairy story for it would upset the parson more if he knew that my wife prefers this cave man treatment to joining the ten clubs which keep the ladies of our town perpetually awheel and in a tissy.
ref: 1950, The Land, volumes 9-10, page 329:
text: The Duveen acquisition has the private label toilet soap boys in a tissy.
ref: 1967, Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties, page 201:
glosses: Alternative form of tizzy (“state of excitement or distress”).
tomato can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato cans
Etymology: Presumably because of tendency to bleed when battered, tomato juice leaking from a can being a metaphor for bleeding.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An inferior fighter in the sport of boxing. The insinuation is that an up-and-coming fighter takes on a "tomato can" to burnish his reputation and record.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: By extension, an opponent who presents little challenge.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A boxer who takes a dive, or loses a fight on purpose.
Related terms: glass jaw
jabroni
jobber
palooka
take a dive
tonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tong
tonging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs.
glosses: The action of seizing an object with tongs for the purpose of pictorially documenting the event.
glosses: The action of opening wine bottles with port tongs by superheating the glass with the heated tongs, and then rapidly cooling the glass neck by applying a cold substance, thereby fracturing the glass neck open through heat stress.
Trewartha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andrewartha
Etymology: From Cornish tre (“farmstead; settlement”) + gwartha (“higher”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
understrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understrappers
Etymology: From under- + strapper.
Senses: examples: text: I have ſeen him lately at Bullogne, and am perfectly vvell acquainted vvith ſome perſons vvho have ſupplied him vvith French lace and embroidery; and, as a proof of vvhat I allege, I deſire you vvill order him and this barber, vvho is his underſtrapper, to be examined on the ſpot.
ref: 1753, [Tobias Smollett], The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
text: No want of hands in our Theatre, Miss Bertram. No want of under strappers—My sister desires her love, and hopes to be admitted into the Company, and will be happy to take the part of any old duenna or tame Confidante, that you may not like to do yourselves.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 268–269:
text: The doctor immediately disappeared, returning soon after with a couple of flasks of wine concealed in the folds of his frock. Through the agency of the Marquesan, he had purchased them from an understrapper of the court.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, chapter LXXXII, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: A fine state of affairs, when a fifteen-dollar-a-week understrapper’s job gets to interfering with the business of an institution like the Wapatomac National Bank.
ref: 1927, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in The Aristocratic Miss Brewster:
text: 1977, Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom, Hansard, House of Lords, The Tornado military aircraft, 9 May, 1977,
My Lords, if an understrapper from a television company talks to an understrapper of the RAF, you do not expect air marshals to jump.
glosses: Any underling or inferior in office.
examples: text: Alfie was familiar with the term ‘understrapper’. The Harry Fielding Alfie knew was an understrapper; a bob-a-job man for MI5. Somebody who could do a bit of house- or office-breaking, or some surveillance work.
ref: 2000, Philip Davison, McKenzie’s Friend, Penguin, page 37:
glosses: A freelance operator for MI5.
wait for the other shoe to drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits for the other shoe to drop
form: waiting for the other shoe to drop
form: waited for the other shoe to drop
form: waited for the other shoe to drop
Etymology: A common experience of tenement living in apartment-style housing in New York City and other large cities during the manufacturing boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Apartments were built with very similar designs, with the bedrooms located directly above and underneath one another. Thus, it was normal to hear a neighbor removing their shoes in the apartment above. As one shoe made a sound hitting the floor, the expectation for the other shoe to make a similar disturbance was created.
Senses: glosses: To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.
examples: text: After the tournament, Player admitted that all through the final round he had been nervously waiting for more trouble. "It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop."
ref: 1969 August 29, “Golf: The Confidence Man”, in Time:
glosses: To await a seemingly inevitable event, especially one that is not desirable.
wood processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An engineering discipline comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil.
word on the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rumour or news going around on the Internet, in business, on the street, or in social circles.
Related terms: word on the street
xenoarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoarcheology
Etymology: From xeno- + archaeology.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A fictional science concerned with the physical remains of alien cultures that may be found on planets which have been inhabited or visited by extraterrestrials.
Synonyms: exoarchaeology
Derived terms: xenoarcheological
xenozoonosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenozoonoses
Etymology: From xeno- + zoonosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious disease transmitted from animal to human by transplantation of an animal tissue or organ into human body.
mangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːŋɡɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːŋɡɑːn
Forms: form: mangan
form: mangans
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 満貫 (mangan), an orthographic borrowing from Mandarin 滿貫 /满贯 (mǎnguàn).
Senses: examples: text: Even if she gets +8000 points with a mangan, she'll be at -1.
ref: 2015, Ritz Kobayashi, “Hand 0: Showdown” (chapter 3), in anonymous translator, Saki, volume 1, Yen Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Outside tournaments the chombo penalty is a reverse mangan payment: 4,000 to East, 2,000 to other players.
ref: 2016, “Riichi: Rules for Japanese Mahjong, 2016 edition”, in mahjong-europe.org, European Mahjong Association, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2016, Chombo (section 3.4.6), page 15:
text: In mahjong last night I had a six-han hand! I got a mangan.
ref: 2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation, →ISBN, The Path, page 66:
text: By the time they'd reached the twelfth round, Kobayashi had won the first hand by drawing his winning tile. "Tsumo! Riizumo, pinfu, dora 2—Mangan. 2000, 4000!" Incredibly, Kobayashi had won a full 8000 points on his first hand.
ref: 2023, Yuto Yotsuba, “Special Short Story "Kongming, the Pinch-Hitter"”, in Ryo Ogawa, transl., Ya Boy Kongming!, volume 10, Kodansha USA, →ISBN:
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
glosses: A win achieving five han, or three/four han with the required number of fu; worth 12,000 points if the winning player is on the East (dealer) side or 8,000 points otherwise.
theopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theopathies
Etymology: From theo- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Here language itself reflects the feeling that the divine pathos, the passion of the "pathetic God" who "yearned" to be known, presupposes as its correlate a theopathy in the human being whose God He is.
ref: 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: A new characteristic can be added to the description of prayer: the manifestation of self to other through speech, an agonistic speech struggling for its truth, is an ordeal, an undergoing of God, a suffering of God, a theopathy.
ref: 2004, Andrew Brown (tr.), The Ark of Speech, Routledge, translation of L'arche de la parole by Jean-Louis Chrétien:
glosses: The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief
Related terms: theopath
theopathic
uroboric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uroboric
form: most uroboric
form: ouroboric
Etymology: From uroboros / ouroboros - the ancient symbol depicting a serpent swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.
Senses: glosses: cyclical
glosses: self-devouring
cyclical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪklɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈsɪklɪkəl/
Forms: form: more cyclical
form: most cyclical
Etymology: From cyclic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody thinks the cyclical turn is possible until it's already well underway.
ref: 2021 December 1, Charles Hugh Smith, The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below:
synonyms: word: cyclic
word: periodic
word: cyclic
word: cyclical
word: periodic
word: periodical
word: regular
glosses: recurring at regular intervals
examples: text: a cyclical embryo
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Rolled up circularly.
Derived terms: acyclical
anticyclical
contracyclical
countercyclical
cyclicalism
cyclicality
cyclically
cyclical unemployment
cyclical vomiting syndrome
epicyclical
heterocyclical
intercyclical
intracyclical
noncyclical
polycyclical
procyclical
cyclical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪklɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈsɪklɪkəl/
Forms: form: cyclicals
Etymology: From cyclic + -al.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A stock of a cyclical company.
safety glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety glasses
Senses: examples: text: Safety glass is fitted throughout.
ref: 1960 September, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 561:
glosses: Any type of glass, such as toughened glass, laminated glass or wire mesh glass, with additional safety features that make it less likely to break, or less likely to pose a threat when broken.
Related terms: safety glasses
nahcolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nahcolites
Etymology: From its chemical formula NaHCO₃, named in 1929.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of sodium bicarbonate.
hickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hickey (“bruise-like mark of mouth on skin”).
two heads are better than one
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "Mr. Francis Osbaldistone is an innocent man, Rashleigh," said Miss Vernon, "and he demands an investigation of the charge against him, and I intend to support him in it."
"You do, my pretty cousin?—I should think, now, Mr. Francis Osbaldistone was likely to be as effectually, and rather more delicately, supported by my presence than by yours."
"Oh, certainly; but two heads are better than one, you know."
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Rob Roy:
text: On the principle that two heads are better than one, he resolved to take his companion, Jones, into his confidence and ask him to make a suggestion.
ref: 1882, Horatio Alger, chapter 23, in Ben's Nugget:
text: Two heads are better than one, sir. We will prosecute our investigations together.
ref: 1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 17, in The Mayor of Troy:
text: Collaboration is great for screenwriting. It's not as simple as two heads are better than one, but if you find the right person, you can feed off each other.
ref: 2003 November 9, Nancy Meyers as told to Amy Barrett, “Sex and the Single Older Woman”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Feb 2013:
glosses: Some tasks may be accomplished more easily by two (or more) people working together than by one working alone.
two's company, three's a crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: three's a crowd
Senses: synonyms: two's company and three is none
two's company, three's trumpery
glosses: One companion is preferable to two.
Related terms: third wheel
fifth wheel
patrilineage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrilineages
Etymology: From patri- + lineage.
Senses: examples: text: By 1770, the Xhosa branch of the Nguni-speakers were organised at three levels: patrilineages, consisting of the descendants of a known common ancestor; patriclans, composed of a number of lineages, all claiming descent from a putative common ancestor; and chiefdoms which were political units, each occupying a certain area under a chief.
ref: 1979, Richard Elphic, Hermann Giliommee, editors, The shaping of South African Society 1652-1820, Longman, page 294:
antonyms: matrilineage
glosses: Lineage based upon the paternal line; a group of descendants related through a common male lineage.
patriclans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriclan
patriclan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætɹɪˌklæn/
ipa: /ˈpeɪtɹɪˌklæn/
Forms: form: patriclans
Etymology: From patri- + clan.
Senses: examples: text: Patrilect is a marker of patriclan membership and thus a symbol of identity.
ref: 1991, Philip Baldi, Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns, →ISBN:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clan, with membership determined by patrilineal descent from a common ancestor.
Related terms: matriclan
chiefdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiefdoms
Etymology: From chief + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: the privileges of chiefdom
glosses: The role or status of chief.
glosses: An area or region governed by a chief.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A society larger than a tribe, but smaller or simpler than a state.
Synonyms: chieftaindom
Luzon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʊˈzon̪/
ipa: /ˈluˌzɔn/
Etymology: From Spanish Luzón, from Classical Tagalog Lusong (“old name for the Pasig River Delta in between medieval Maynila & Tondo”), from Tagalog lusong.
Senses: glosses: The largest island of the Philippines.
wikipedia: Maynila (historical polity)
Pasig River Delta
Tondo (historical polity)
Derived terms: Luzon boobook
Luzonese
Visayas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈsaː.jɐs/
ipa: /vɪˈsaɪəz/
Forms: form: the Visayas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Visayas, plural form of bisaya, from Cebuano Bisaya.
Senses: glosses: An island group of the Philippines.
Derived terms: New Visayas
Mindanao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn̪.d̪ɐˈn̪aʊ̯/
ipa: /ˌmɪn.dəˈnaʊ̯/
Forms: form: Mindanau
Etymology: From Spanish Mindanao, a contraction of Maguindánao (“Maguindanao”), from Maguindanao Magindanaw.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines.
glosses: One of the three island groups in the Philippines
Derived terms: Mindanao boobook
Celebes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈliːbiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɛlɪbiːz/
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sulawesi.
Derived terms: Celebean
Celebesian
Celebes crested macaque
Celebes warty pig
Hispaniola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪsˌpæniˈəʊlə/
ipa: /ˌhɪspənˈjoʊlə/
ipa: /hɪsˌpæniˈoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: A borrowing of Peter Martyr's Latin Hispaniola (equivalent to Hispania + -ola), used in his Decades to translate De las Casas's Spanish Española (in a more latinized form), a clipping of la Isla Española (“the Spanish Island”), translating Columbus's Latin Insula Hispania, bestowed upon its discovery in 1492. Doublet of Española.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Synonyms: word: Española
word: Haiti
word: Haïti
word: Hayti
word: San Domingo
word: Santo Domingo
Hypernyms: Greater Antilles
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pinus occidentalis
word: Hispaniola pine
New Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Papua New Guinea.
glosses: A city in Hartford County, Connecticut.
glosses: A borough and township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Synonyms: sense: island of Papua New Guinea
english: former name
translation: former name
word: New Pomerania
Derived terms: New Britain boobook
New Pomerania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of New Britain, used when the island was part of German New Guinea.
Timor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːmɔː/
Etymology: From Malay Timor, from timur (“east”).
Senses: holonyms: Lesser Sunda Islands
glosses: An island in the Sundas.
Derived terms: Timor boobook
Related terms: East Timor
West Timor
Great Timor
Sumbawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island of Indonesia, home to Mount Tambora.
Palawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐˈla.wɐn/
ipa: /ˈpæləˌwɑn/
ipa: /pəˈlɑːwən/
ipa: /pəˈlaʊən/
Senses: meronyms: Aborlan
Agutaya
Araceli
Balabac
Bataraza
Brooke's Point
Busuanga
Cagayancillo
Coron
Culion
Cuyo
Dumaran
El Nido
Kalayaan
Linapacan
Magsaysay
Narra
Puerto Princesa
glosses: A province of Mimaropa, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Puerto Princesa.
glosses: An island of Luzon, Philippines, in the Luzon island group
glosses: Palawano language, such as Brooke's Point Palawano, Central Palawano, Southwest Palawano
Derived terms: Palawan bearcat
Palawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐˈla.wɐn/
ipa: /ˈpæləˌwɑn/
ipa: /pəˈlɑːwən/
ipa: /pəˈlaʊən/
Forms: form: Palawans
Senses: glosses: Palawan (ethnic group)
Synonyms: Palawano
Palaweño
Pala'wan
Palawan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐˈla.wɐn/
ipa: /ˈpæləˌwɑn/
ipa: /pəˈlɑːwən/
ipa: /pəˈlaʊən/
Forms: form: more Palawan
form: most Palawan
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Palawan island, its people or its culture.
Panay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐˈn̪aɪ̯/
ipa: /pəˈnaɪ̯/
Etymology: From Spanish Panay, from Ati Aninipay.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas.
Negros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn̪ɛ.ɡɾos/
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas.
Derived terms: Negrense
Negros Island Region
Negros Occidental
Negros Oriental
Related terms: Translingual negrosensis
Samar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sä-mär
ipa: /ˈsa.mɐɾ/
ipa: /ˈsɑmɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmɑː/
Etymology: From Spanish Sámar, from Waray-Waray samad.
Senses: glosses: An island of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.
glosses: A province of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: Catbalogan. Largest city: Calbayog.
Derived terms: Eastern Samar
Northern Samar
Samar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sä-mär
ipa: /ˈsa.mɐɾ/
ipa: /ˈsɑmɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmɑː/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Самар (Samar)
Senses: glosses: A city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Samar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sä-mär
ipa: /ˈsa.mɐɾ/
ipa: /ˈsɑmɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmɑː/
Etymology: From Sanskrit समर (samara).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
knee-trembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee-tremblers
form: knee-tremble
Senses: glosses: A casual outdoor sexual encounter (commonly with a prostitute), usually in an alleyway or against a wall, with the man standing and the woman's knees raised.
Related terms: tuppenny upright
causeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cause + -eth
Senses: examples: text: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 10:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cause