cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
concretization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concretizations
form: concretisation
Etymology: From concrete + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: There are certain fields in general economics that are at present not so much in need of a broadening of the theoretical basis as in need of a minute working-out and concretization.
ref: 1934, J. Tinbergen, “Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory,”, in Econometrica, volume 2, number 1, page 25:
text: [Law] proceeds from the general (abstract) to the individual (particular); it is a process of increasing individualization and concretization.
ref: 1961, H. Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State, page 237:
glosses: The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
examples: text: This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.
ref: 1979, Trudy Scott, “Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles,”, in The Drama Review: TDR, volume 23, number 1, page 75:
text: Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).
ref: 1993, Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms, p. 182 (Google preview)
glosses: Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
examples: text: Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."
ref: 1969, E. Drage, B. Lange, “Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 69, number 10, page 2165:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
Related terms: concrete
concretize
concretise
concretisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concretisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of concretization.
ensemblists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ensemblist
pillow lava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow lavas
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The rock type, resembling pillows, typically formed when lava emerges from an underwater volcanic vent or a lava flow enters the ocean.
examples: text: Ancient pillow lavas are easily recognisable. I first saw them underneath a lighthouse on the coast near Fishguard in western Wales […]
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock of that type.
Hypernyms: lava
greenstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenstones
form: green-stone
Etymology: From green + stone.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several green-hued minerals used for making various artefacts in early Mesoamerican cultures, e.g. greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, or chrysoprase.
glosses: The pounamu, the green-hued minerals of New Zealand used by the Māori to make tools, ornaments and weapons (any of three varieties of nephrite jade or one variety of bowenite).
Related terms: jade
arctic circle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the arctic circle
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arctic Circle.
hexuronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexuronic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any uronic acid, such as ascorbic acid, derived from a hexose
Related terms: aldohexuronic acid
hexuronate
expos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expo
Related terms: expose
hurra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
hurra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
hurra
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hurras
form: hurraing
form: hurraed
form: hurraed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
modern algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of mathematics that deals with groups, monoids, fields, and like algebraic structures.
Synonyms: word: abstract algebra
word: algebra
wide boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide boys
Etymology: Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted, open-eyed, with wide open eyes.
Senses: examples: text: Much amusement at Westminster about David Mellor, a wide boy if ever there was one. Someone tapped his girlfriend's phone and sold the tape to The People. Very funny stuff—all about how knackered he was.
ref: 1992 July 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:
glosses: A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.
Synonyms: geezer
spiv
upcomming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of upcoming.
radicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, like the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
sequuntur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈkwʊntʊə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sequuntur (“they follow”), third-person plural form of sequor (“I follow”).
Senses: examples: text: To the north is where the shipwreck occurred. So it takes a stretch of imagination to figure those statutes (et sequuntur) authorize the governor to practice napalming shipwrecks floundering half-mired on the sand spit slightly north of Coos Bay.
ref: 1999 October 23, Paddy O’Connolly (username), “By What Authority Did Dr. Death Nuke Coos Bay????”, in sci.engr.coastal (Usenet):
glosses: plural of sequitur
Related terms: mobilia sequuntur personam
non sequuntur
posterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstəˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: posterizes
form: posterizing
form: posterized
form: posterized
form: posterise
Etymology: From poster + -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting something which is done or made). Sense 1.1 (“to reduce the number of colours”) refers to the original use of the process to produce posters. Sense 1.2 (“to score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them”) refers to the action being so spectacular as to warrant a photograph of it being printed on a poster.
Senses: topics: arts
graphic-design
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in (a photograph or other image), changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
examples: text: Probably, [Sam] Perkins just wanted to get out of the way and not be "posterized," which is what happens when the dunkee is humiliated by the dunker. But [Michael] Jordan thought Perkins, his college teammate, would try to block the dunk, so he switched the ball from his right to his left hand at chest level. […] Jordan extended his left hand, and flipped the ball off glass, with reverse spin, into the basket. […] Only one other such spectacular shot in a game of consequence comes to mind, the time in the 1980 NBA finals when Julius Erving wrapped himself around the basket, going out of bounds while in the air in the process, and posterized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mark Landsberger with a reverse one-hand flip off the glass.
ref: 1991 June 7, Michael Wilbon, “Great shot! Jordan’s best amazingly goes one better”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2025, page D01:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them; also (by extension, sports, slang), to score a goal, a point, etc., in some other sport against (one or more opposing players) in a spectacular manner.
topics: arts
graphic-design
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in a photograph or other image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
Derived terms: word: posterization
word: posterisation
word: posterizing
word: posterising
Related terms: word: posterized
english: in sense 1.1, attested earlier than the verb
translation: in sense 1.1, attested earlier than the verb
word: posterised
thank one's lucky stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thanks one's lucky stars
form: thanking one's lucky stars
form: thanked one's lucky stars
form: thanked one's lucky stars
Etymology: From the belief that it is the alignment of the stars which brings about good fortune.
Senses: examples: text: He thanked his lucky stars he had brought the extra heavy duty conduits in that morning.
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 31:
synonyms: thank one's stars
glosses: To be grateful, feel oneself fortunate, consider oneself lucky (especially in avoiding some calamity).
Related terms: thank heavens
under a lucky star
neural tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neural tubes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hollow longitudinal dorsal tube formed in the folding and subsequent fusion of the opposite ectodermal folds in the embryo that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord.
hamster wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamster wheels
form: hamster-wheel
Senses: glosses: A circular cage for a hamster or other small rodent, which rotates vertically as the animal runs at its base.
examples: text: The overall mood of this volume is one of melancholy and loss, weary resignation to one's lot—trudging round and round on the rusty hamster wheel of life.
ref: 2002 June 28, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of the Times”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Sep 2008:
text: Before the current pandemic, the rail industry appeared to be trapped on an ever-accelerating hamster wheel, trying to keep up with customer demand and political expectation on an essentially historic system itself exposed to greater impacts of climate change.
ref: 2020 May 6, Prof. Andrew McNaughton, “Time to challenge some sacred philosophies of recent years”, in Rail, page 32:
glosses: A monotonous, repetitive, unfulfilling activity, especially one in which no progress is achieved.
Synonyms: sense: rotating cage
word: squirrel cage
sense: a monotonous, repetitive, unfulfilling activity
word: rat race
hamster wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hamster wheels
form: hamster wheeling
form: hamster wheeled
form: hamster wheeled
form: hamster-wheel
Senses: examples: text: I was shocked that I'd forgotten about the game that morning, but my mind had hamster-wheeled around for hours during the night, long after I should have been asleep.
ref: 2015, Patti Grayson, Ghost Most Foul, page 111:
text: But my brain was hamster-wheeling on that one hopefully-not-true-but-probably-was fact.
ref: 2019, Mary Hughes, M. J. Chase, Chicago's Chosen:
glosses: To cycle fruitlessly.
Related terms: hamsterization
rationalization hamster
exercise wheel
cat wheel
non sequuntur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒn sɛˈkwʊntʊə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin non sequuntur (“they do not follow”), third-person plural form of non sequor (“I do not follow”).
Senses: examples: text: We cannot be told that our arguments are vitiated by a fallacy, that our quod erat demonstranda involve too many non sequuntur : we cannot even be told that our campaign represents a policy of perfections, of unattainable ne plus ultrae.
ref: 1947 January, L. J. D. Richardson, “A Little Classics Is a Dangerous Thing”, in Greece & Rome, volume 16, number 46, Cambridge University Press:
text: Thaank^([sic]) you, Mr Fnordling-5, for your most uplifting contribution; in return, I offer you telices (so much classier than telexes) and non sequuntur.
ref: 1998 July 23, Bob Newman, “Handy snot-plural quick reference guide”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
text: Not all non sequiturs (ahem, non sequuntur) are vacuous per se.
ref: 1998 September 19, Matthew Montchalin, “(Big Trees) Re: Vehicle weight (was: Teen drivers)”, in or.politics (Usenet):
text: What does being familiar with you have to do with it?
Fond of non sequuntur?
ref: 2001 August 29, Padraic Brown, “thee and thou [WAS: basically]”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
glosses: plural of non sequitur
Related terms: sequuntur
clough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌf/
ipa: /klaʊ/
rhymes: -ʌf
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: cloughs
Senses: examples: text: Tare, Trett, and Clough, are to be deducted out of the Gross Weight; and the remainder is the Neat Weight of such Goods; for which the trader pays the Merchant who sells them, at so much per Hundred, Pound, &c. according to Agreement.
ref: 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business, page 184:
text: 4. Clough, which is an Allowance in every Draught of the Scale, that the Weight may hold out in case they are re-weigh'd.
Tare, Tret, and Clough, are to be deducted out of the Gross Weight, and the remainder is the neat Weight of the Goods.
ref: 1747, “Directions for Mercantile Business”, in The Universal Library of Trade and Commerce, page 27:
text: This Clough is an Allowance on some Sort of Goods for the Turn of the Scale, and when you have deducted the Tret, as in the last Question, that Remainder, 46 C. 3 qrs. 6 lbs. must still be called Suttle, because you have the Clough yet to be deducted from it.
ref: 1787, Joseph Randall, The New Book of Knowledge, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).
tret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: trets
Etymology: From Old French traire, from Latin trahēre.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.
tret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: trets
Etymology: Clipping of tretinoin.
Senses: examples: text: Important to keep in mind: It usually takes up to three months to see a difference with tretinoin. So don’t expect miracles in a matter of a few weeks. However! Because I had been using tret previously, it really was like I just added the tranexamic acid and topical spiro to my routine.
ref: 2024 September 24, Beth Gillette, “I Tested Apostrophe, and I’ll Never Get Acne Meds From My Derm’s Office Again”, in Cosmopolitan:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of tretinoin.
tret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: From Middle English, analogous with Germanic verbs such as meet, met.
Senses: qualifier: Bristol
glosses: simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.
suttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suttles
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: The weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.
suttle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suttles
form: suttling
form: suttled
form: suttled
Senses: glosses: To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
Related terms: english: net weight
translation: net weight
word: net as in
word: tare
suttle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suttle
form: most suttle
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of subtle.
cloffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloff
cloughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clough
cloff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloffs
form: clough
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
trets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tret
hundredweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundredweight
mobilia sequuntur personam
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin mōbilia (“chattels”) + sequuntur (“they follow”) + persōnam (“person”) = “chattels follow the person”.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Common law doctrine holding that personal property held by a person is governed by the same law that governs that person, so that if a person who is legally domiciled in one jurisdiction dies with property in a second jurisdiction, that property is legally treated as though it were in the first jurisdiction.
Therapeut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Therapeuts
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient monastic sect of Egyptian Jews.
settles down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of settle down
settling down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of settle down
settled down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of settle down
sumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sump
sumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sump
Drukpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་པ ('brug pa, “Bhutanese”).
Senses: glosses: The Drukpa Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Drukpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drukpas
form: Drukpa
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་པ ('brug pa, “Bhutanese”).
Senses: glosses: A person from Bhutan or of Bhutanese descent.
Synonyms: Bhutanese
Drukpa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་པ ('brug pa, “Bhutanese”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Bhutan or the Bhutanese people.
examples: text: Other valleys are inhabited by other ethnic groups but it is Drukpa culture that dominates when defining the national language, dress, religion, and architecture.
ref: 2006, Zetter, Roger & Watson, Georgia Butina, Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Sometimes (more narrowly) pertaining to the main ethnic group within Bhutan.
examples: text: His disciple spread the Drukpa school in western Tibet.
glosses: Pertaining to the Drukpa Kagyu (Drukpa Kargyu) or Drukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
cognitive psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A branch of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.
Related terms: cognitive science
cognitive science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognitive sciences
Etymology: The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his commentary (1973) on the Lighthill report.
Senses: glosses: The multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior.
Synonyms: cognitology
Related terms: cognitive psychology
perfect fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect fifths
Senses: examples: text: The perfect fifth has a pitch ratio close to 3:2.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval equal to that of between the second and third harmonics of the harmonic series. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it spans seven semitones or five degrees of the diatonic scale.
Synonyms: P5
Related terms: perfect fourth
diminished sixth
bracteate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaktiːət/
Forms: form: more bracteate
form: most bracteate
Etymology: From Latin bracteātus (“gold-plated, golden”), from bractea (“gold leaf, veneer, glitter”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bracts.
glosses: Made of thin, beaten metal (of coins, ornaments etc. with a hollow underside).
Derived terms: bibracteate
bracteately
tribracteate
unibracteate
bracteate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaktiːət/
Forms: form: bracteates
Etymology: From Latin bracteātus (“gold-plated, golden”), from bractea (“gold leaf, veneer, glitter”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A bracteate coin or other object.
nominalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominalisms
Etymology: From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: realism
glosses: A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
Derived terms: antinominalism
Related terms: nominality
nominalness
juj
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jujes
form: jujing
form: jujed
form: jujed
Etymology: Originally borrowed from Polari zhoosh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zhoosh.
cathedral close
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathedral closes
Senses: glosses: An enclosed precinct surrounding a cathedral.
wordprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of word processing.
wordprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wordprocess
wordprocessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordprocessors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of word processor.
wordprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Essays should be typed or wordprocessed, double-spaced.
glosses: Prepared using a word processor.
wordprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wordprocess
dinner lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner ladies
Etymology: Ellipsis of school dinner lady.
Senses: examples: text: Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.
ref: 2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: lunch lady
school dinner lady
glosses: A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.
Derived terms: dinner lady arm
option button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: option buttons
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A radio button.
atheize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atheizes
form: atheizing
form: atheized
form: atheized
Etymology: From the root of atheistic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: After this manner, authority vvorking in a circle, they endeavoured to atheize one another.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The Second Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XVII, page 118:
text: In like manner, it ought not to be predicated of a French party—and of a party comprehending Despresmenil, Bailly, Maury, Mounier—that because one Robinet was suffered to read an impudent atheistical disquisition in a lodge aat Lyons, it is therefore plainly the main object of free-masonry to atheize the universe.
ref: 1798 March, “Robinson’s Proofs of a Conspiracy”, in The Monthly Review, page 307:
text: There is an element in every State, daily increasing in numerical strength, becoming more emphatic in its utterances, more pronounced in its attitude, whose avowed object is completely to secularize and atheize the state and the nation in all their work and in all their relations to state institutions and individual subjects.
ref: 1878 October, C. H. Payne, quotee, The Ohio Educational Monthly, volume 27, number 10, page 335:
text: It ought to be added, also, that the theory of providing exclusively secular education by the State exerts a most unfavorable influence upon our youth, tending to demoralize and atheize them.
ref: 1880 April, C. H. Payne, “Shall State Education be Exclusively Secular?”, in Methodist Quarterly Review, page 310:
glosses: To render (someone) atheistic.
examples: text: A considerable observation of Plato's, that it is not only moral vitiosity, which inclines men to atheize, but also an affectation of seeming wiser than the generality of mankind; […]
ref: 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
glosses: To become atheistic.
Derived terms: atheization
atheizer
kuffar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭfärʹ
ipa: /kʌˈfɑː/
Forms: form: kuffâr
form: kuffār
Etymology: From the Arabic كُفَّار (kuffār), the plural form of كَافِر (kāfir).
Senses: glosses: plural of kafir
aïoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aïolis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aioli.
atheise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atheises
form: atheising
form: atheised
form: atheised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of atheize.
traject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: trajects
Etymology: From Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.
Senses: examples: text: What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
glosses: The act of trajecting; trajection.
examples: text: a mental traject from world to world
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: A trajectory.
traject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: trajects
form: trajecting
form: trajected
form: trajected
Etymology: From Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is Beams have much less of the Atmosphere to Traject in their Passage to our Eyes
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw or cast through, over, or across.
antibaryon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibaryons
form: anti-baryon
Etymology: From anti- + baryon.
Senses: examples: text: To have anti-iron we need the fundamental antifermions (positrons), the antiparticles (antimesons and antibaryons) and the property that these antiparticles must interact like the particles in order to have the antinucleus of the iron.
ref: 2001, Giovanni C. Bonsignori, Nucleus-nucleus Collisions, →ISBN:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle corresponding to a baryon.
Derived terms: antibaryonic
weretiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪətaɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈwɛətaɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹtaɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪɹtaɪɡɚ/
Forms: form: weretigers
Etymology: From were- + tiger.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
qualifier: mythological
glosses: A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger.
Hypernyms: werecat
shapeshifter
therianthrope
Coordinate terms: wererat
werewolf
lunch lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch ladies
Senses: glosses: A dinner lady.
wererat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪəɹæt/
ipa: /ˈwɛəɹæt/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹæt/
ipa: /ˈwɪɹæt/
Forms: form: wererats
Etymology: From were- + rat.
Senses: examples: text: The only other animal he'd seen hadn't been an animal at all, but a wererat who had given him a curious look before darting away into an alley.
ref: 2006, Christine Warren, Wolf at the Door: A Novel of The Others, page 205:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a rat.
kickban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kickbans
form: kickbanning
form: kickbanned
form: kickbanned
Etymology: From kick + ban.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the admin arrived I was kickbanned from the channel with no explanation.
glosses: To kick and ban (a user) from an Internet activity, such as IRC.
simonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: simonises
form: simonising
form: simonised
form: simonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of simonize.
yelloch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yellochs
form: yelloching
form: yelloched
form: yelloched
Senses: glosses: To yell loudly
yellow birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow birches
Senses: synonyms: golden birch
swamp birch
glosses: A birch tree of species Betula alleghaniensis, native to cool-temperate eastern North America.
scriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From script + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be extended or automated through scripting.
scriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scriptables
Etymology: From script + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The Ark engine itself has a module for Lua scriptables, and in particular the animation files (.anm) are defined with the Lua module.
ref: 2003, Tom Gutschmidt, Game Programming with Python, Lua, and Ruby, page 290:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that can be extended or automated through scripting.
yellow jessamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A species of vine native to Central America and North America, Gelsemium sempervirens
Synonyms: sense: Gelsemium sempervirens
word: Carolina jessamine
sense: Gelsemium sempervirens
word: evening trumpetflower
sense: Gelsemium sempervirens
word: gelsemium
sense: Gelsemium sempervirens
word: woodbine
yellow perch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow perch
form: yellow perches
Senses: glosses: A species of perch found in North America, Perca flavescens, having a more yellowy colour than other species of perch.
Synonyms: sense: Perca flavescens
word: American perch
yellow pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow pines
Senses: glosses: Any of various pine trees with wood of a yellow color.
glosses: A coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand, of species Halocarpus biformis.
glosses: A tree of species Podocarpus elatus, of Australia; an Ilawarra plum-pine.
glosses: Wood from any of these trees.
Derived terms: alt: esp. Pinus palustris
word: southern yellow pine
taxonomic: Pinus ponderosa
word: western yellow pine
yellow poplar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow poplars
Senses: glosses: Liriodendron tulipifera, a species of tree in the magnolia family, found in North America, with pale green or yellow leaves.
Synonyms: sense: Liriodendron tulipifera
word: American tulip tree
sense: Liriodendron tulipifera
word: tulip poplar
sense: Liriodendron tulipifera
word: tulip tree
yellow sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow sheets
Etymology: Formerly printed on yellow paper.
Senses: glosses: A criminal record.
aircraft engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraft engines
Senses: glosses: Any engine used to propel an aircraft, including jet engines and rocket engines etc.
Synonyms: aero engine
yellow warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow warblers
Senses: glosses: Any of certain small, yellow-colored songbird, including:
A yellow New World warbler (family Parulidae), of genus Setophaga, such as Setophaga petechia.
glosses: Any of certain small, yellow-colored songbird, including:
A yellow Old World warbler, any of several species of family Acrocephalidae, in genera Iduna and Calamonastides.
Hyponyms: sense: Setophaga
word: American yellow warbler
sense: Setophaga
word: mangrove warbler
sense: Setophaga
word: golden warbler
Derived terms: African yellow warbler
mountain yellow warbler
papyrus yellow warbler
yellow-bellied bush warbler
yellow-bellied warbler
yellow-breasted warbler
yellow-browed warbler
yellow-headed warbler
yellow-rumped warbler
yellow-streaked warbler
yellow-throated warbler
yellow-throated woodland warbler
yellow-vented warbler
yellowbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowbirds
Etymology: From yellow + bird.
Senses: glosses: The yellow warbler
glosses: the American goldfinch
yellow-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yellowbird.
yellow-breasted chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-breasted chats
Senses: examples: text: Still, he describes [...] the yellow-breasted chats and tundra swans that would appear in his yard, looking for seed.
ref: 2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 4:
glosses: A large yellow-colored songbird found on the American continent, Icteria virens
yellow-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I was down at the New Amsterdam / Staring at this yellow-haired girl
ref: 1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:
glosses: Blond, having yellow-colored hair.
Derived terms: yellow-haired hill rat
vegelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of vegetable + chocolate
Senses: examples: text: France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate[…]
ref: 2005, John MacDonald, Andrew Bowden, Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe, page 151:
glosses: Chocolate containing vegetable fat (not a permitted ingredient in parts of the European Union).
yellow-hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-hammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yellowhammer.
new media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What is new media? We may begin answering this question by listing the categories commonly discussed under this topic in the popular press: the Internet, Web sites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMs and DVD, virtual reality.
ref: 2006, Robert Hassan, Julian Thomas eds., The New Media Theory Reader, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The techno-pessimists who see new media as commodified by corporations and the market as any ‘old media’ have also missed the point.
ref: 2009, Natalie Fenton, New Media, Old News, SAGE, →ISBN, page 14:
synonyms: cybermedia
antonyms: old media
glosses: Interactive digital media, such as the Internet, as opposed to traditional media such as print and television.
yellowlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowleg
yellowlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowlegs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellowleg.
synonyms: word: yellowleg
Derived terms: greater yellowlegs
lesser yellowlegs
pine needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine needles
Senses: examples: text: These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: An adult leaf of an adult pine tree.
Synonyms: sense: leaf
word: needle
greater yellowlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater yellowlegs
Senses: glosses: A shorebird of North America characterized by its yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca.
Related terms: lesser yellowlegs
lesser yellowlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser yellowlegs
Senses: glosses: A shorebird of North America characterized by its yellow legs (Tringa flavipes).
Related terms: greater yellowlegs
laissez-passer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlɛseɪ ˈpɑːseɪ/
Forms: form: laissez-passers
Etymology: Borrowed from French laissez-passer.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Find the British Consul, and Jane can claim she lost her money and passport. He'll issue her with some kind of laissez-passer.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 385:
glosses: A pass or permit; a document permitting the bearer to travel, sometimes issued as an emergency passport.
laissez-faireism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laissez-faire + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policy of laissez faire.
cutscene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutscenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cut scene.
schoolgirlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolgirlish
form: most schoolgirlish
Etymology: From schoolgirl + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This moment of disrobing might be a bit of eroticism in an otherwise almost anti-erotic piece about sexuality, but it is defrayed by her white cotton girl's underpants and 50s-style cotton bra. She is made to look too schoolgirlish here to be really provocative.
ref: 1996, Carol Becker, Zones of Contention, page 129:
text: Last night she'd even dreamt about him—some stupid, schoolgirlish fantasy which seemed to involve him riding in the desert on one of his favoured black stallions and scooping her into the saddle in front of him […]
ref: 2011, Sharon Kendrick, Monarch of the Sands:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a schoolgirl.
superfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfoods
Etymology: From super- + food.
Senses: examples: text: Superfoods include many different food choices, which make going on the superfood diets so easy because you have a big variety to choose from for your meals. It does not matter which of the superfoods you eat, you can gain the nutrients […]
ref: 2013, Deborah Lopez, Tammy Walker, Superfood Smoothies: Superfoods with Smoothies for Weightloss, Speedy Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
text: 2015, Sonoma Press, Quinoa: The Everyday Superfood: 150 Gluten-Free Recipes to Delight Every Kind of Eater, Arcas Publishing →ISBN
There's a lot of interesting stuff to know about this superfood, but you don't have to learn everything about quinoa to know it's delicious, versatile, and easy to make. In fact, you can cook and eat quinoa like just about any grain, even though it […]
text: Many other wonderful adaptogens are available. Finding a formula with many of these superfood nutrients will have a very positive impact on your body and its response to stress.
ref: 2016, Dr. Ina Nozek, Dr. Glenn Nozek, Trusting Your Inner Physician, →ISBN:
text: Don't worry, Coach. In my cooler, I've got a greens superfood drink that will cancel out the chips, beef jerky, and candy.
ref: 2016, S. H. Morris, So Not Cheating, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Any food purported to confer remarkable health benefits.
examples: text: The foremost reason a food is considered a superfood is because of nutrient density, which is the percentage of nutrients in a food compared to the number of calories.
ref: 2014, Tina Leigh, Superfood Juices & Smoothies, →ISBN:
text: Here are some useful tips to encourage your kids to eat more fruit and vegetables – one of the main sources of superfood nutrients in their diet.
ref: 2015, Susannah Blake, Natural Superfoods, →ISBN:
text: Superfoods are all about using as wide a range as possible of good quality, fresh ingredients in your cooking.
ref: 2016, Norma Miller, Superfood Soups: Simple, healthy recipes for your soup-making machine:
text: This salad is a superfood party in a bowl! It's so good, so colorful, and so full of nourishing ingredients.
ref: 2016, Kelly Pfeiffer, Superfood Weeknight Meals, →ISBN:
glosses: Any food which provides a very concentrated source of protein, fats, or other nutritional necessities.
Hyponyms: superfruit
supervegetable
Derived terms: superfoodie
superfoody
superfruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfruits
Etymology: From super- + fruit.
Senses: examples: text: Goji berries are often marketed as a superfruit.
text: This lemon, grown by Robert Jennings of Downey, California, weighs five pounds and is eight inches tall and twenty-three inches around. Genetic engineering could produce such superfruits consistently.
ref: 1986, Walter G. Oleksy, Miracles of Genetics, Childrens Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Among his picks: Superfruits. With summer long gone, it may not seem a good time to be pitching fruit. But three of Pratt's new power foods are fruits that are currendy in season — pomegranates, kiwis and apples.
ref: 2005, Newsweek, Newsweek, page 79:
text: Pomegranates, those cheerful round red fruits often seen in wintertime fruit bowls, have quickly gained a reputation as superfruits, so thoroughly packed are they with antioxidants, especially deep red anthocyanins.
ref: 2009, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 410:
glosses: A superfood that is a fruit; any fruit supposed to confer remarkable health benefits.
covermount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covermounts
Etymology: From cover + mount.
Senses: hyponyms: coverdisk
covertape
glosses: A freebie, such as a compact disc, mounted on the cover of a magazine.
covermount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covermounts
form: covermounting
form: covermounted
form: covermounted
Etymology: From cover + mount.
Senses: glosses: To give away; to release for free, attached to the cover of a magazine.
&lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænd lɪt/
enpr: ănd lĭt
Forms: form: &lits
form: & lit.
Etymology: From & + clipping of literal or literally.
Coined by "Ximenes" (Derrick Somerset Macnutt) in his 1966 book Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword.
Senses: examples: text: Perfect &lits are hard to create.
text: &Lit: This word play means "and take it literally." In these clues, the word play and literal definition are one and the same. &Lit clues are marked with an exclamation point at the end.
ref: 2006, Nikki Katz, Zen and the Art of Crossword Puzzles: A Journey Down and Across, page 63:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A cryptic crossword clue that can be interpreted in its entirety as either a definition or wordplay; for example, "God incarnate, essentially" for "Odin", a Norse god whose name is hidden in "God incarnate".
wikipedia: Derrick Somerset Macnutt
Derived terms: semi-&lit
sperm donor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm donors
Senses: glosses: A man who donates sperm, usually anonymously, to a sperm bank or fertility clinic.
glosses: A man who is the father of a woman's child or children, but no longer has a relationship, or has a hostile relationship, with the woman, and is typically uninvolved with the children as well.
Related terms: baby mama
precalculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precalculates
form: precalculating
form: precalculated
form: precalculated
Etymology: From pre- + calculate.
Senses: glosses: To calculate in advance.
Synonyms: forereckon
cyberstalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberstalkers
Etymology: From cyber- + stalker.
Senses: glosses: A stalker who operates online.
pak choi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hakka, 白菜 (pak6 coi4, “white vegetable”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bok choy.
bulldyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌdaɪk/
Forms: form: bulldykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bull dyke.
Derived terms: bulldykish
endosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: among vorarephiles
glosses: Clipping of endosomatophilia.
temporary tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporary teeth
Senses: glosses: milk tooth
primary tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary teeth
Senses: glosses: milk tooth
warrioress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrioresses
Etymology: From warrior + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Eftsoones that warriouresse with haughty crest / Did forth issue all ready for the fight […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: "[...] which furnished the battery just below our stand, and which, as soon as the unwieldy old warrioress had occupied the post of honor reserved for her in their midst, sent forth a martial acclaim of welcome that made the earth tremble under our feet, and resounded through the air, shivering, with the strong concussion, more than one pane of glass in the windows of Princess Street far below."
ref: 1879, Fanny Kemble, Records of a Girlhood, page 162:
text: You can partially or totally ignore the situation for a short while longer, you can become immobilised with fear, or you can become an urban warrior (or warrioress) and groove on the greatest, most spectacular tragicomic, science-'fiction' drama ever enacted on this planet (probably) until the lights go out.
ref: 2012, Stephen Russell, Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Spiritual Survival Guide, →ISBN:
glosses: A female warrior.
Synonyms: soldieress
sthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsθiːn/
ipa: /ˈsθin/
Forms: form: sthenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).
Senses: glosses: A kilonewton. Used with the tonne as the unit of mass.
godawful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more godawful
form: most godawful
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of god-awful.
Derived terms: godawfully
metagrammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagrammars
Etymology: From meta- + grammar.
Senses: examples: text: SGML is the metagrammar in which HTML is defined.
glosses: A formal grammar that describes a set of possible grammars.
synonyms: grammatics
glosses: The study of systems of grammar.
Related terms: metagrammatical
metagrammatically
metalanguage
metasyntax
metastring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastrings
Etymology: From meta- + string.
Senses: examples: text: The $D metastring expands to the current date and time.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A string of characters used as a placeholder for a variable data item.
keylogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyloggers
Etymology: From key + logger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of key logger.