cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
labret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: in anthropology
ipa: /ˈleɪbɹɪt/
note: in the fashion industry, as pseudo-French
ipa: /lɒˈbreɪ/
Forms: form: labrets
Etymology: From Latin labrum (“lip”) + -et; modelled on anklet, bracelet, etc. Sometimes incorrectly assumed to be of French origin.
Senses: examples: text: Purchas, speaking of the use of a labret by certain Mexicans, makes Peter Martyr say “that he doth not remember that he ever saw so filthy and ugly a sight,[…]
ref: 1889, Henry Colley March, “The Meaning of Ornament; or its Archæology and its Psychology”, in Transactions of the Lancashire and Chesire Antiquarian Society, volume 7, page 162:
text: The labret was an ornament worn in a perforation through the lower lip, In the north, labrets were oval in shape, generally made of wood or stone, times inlaid with small flat pieces of shell or bone. The wearing of a labret signified high rank.
ref: 1993, Hilary Stewart, Looking at Totem Poles, page 41:
text: Raven wore a labret at that time set with abalone shell which was formerly very valuable, and it is from him that high-caste people afterward used those.
ref: 2003, John R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, page 115:
text: 2007, Margo DeMello, “Labrets”, entry in Encyclopedia of Body Adornment, page 175,
A labret is a piercing that is attached below the lower lip, above the chin.
Also known as the “Mao” (because it looks like the mole above Mao Zedong's chin), the jewelry used in the labret is usually a labret stud, which of a metal shaft with a simple round stud protruding from the face; it is attached inside of the lip with a flat piece of backing metal.
synonyms: word: Mao
word: tongue pillar
glosses: A body piercing consisting of an adornment attached to the lip.
mousse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːs/
ipa: /ˈmʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
homophone: moose
Forms: form: mousses
Etymology: From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Senses: glosses: An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
examples: text: ham mousse
glosses: A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
examples: text: He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
glosses: A styling cream used for hair.
examples: text: Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).
ref: 1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN:
text: A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse.
ref: 1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:
text: When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:
text: However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference
ref: 2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
Derived terms: mousselike
moussy
mousse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːs/
ipa: /ˈmʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
homophone: moose
Forms: form: mousses
form: moussing
form: moussed
form: moussed
Etymology: From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Senses: examples: text: He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.
glosses: To apply mousse (styling cream).
likes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪks/
rhymes: -aɪks
Senses: examples: text: They’d never before seen the likes of him.
text: I’d never seen their likes.
text: The takeover has provided the stability, I believe, to remove any fears over the positions of the likes of Torres and Reina.
ref: 2010 October 30, Andy Hunter, “Liverpool owner says Fernando Torres and José Reina are going nowhere”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of like
likes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪks/
rhymes: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of like
jacamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacamars
Senses: glosses: Any of various insectivorous tropical birds, of the family Galbulidae, having iridescent plumage and a long, sharp bill.
quadrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a plane figure, for which quadrature is possible.
tablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablet
aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aunt
MLK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: M.L.K.
form: M. L. K.
Senses: examples: text: Our own research suggests that MLK’s “I have a dream” is indeed a “hope booster”.
ref: 2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:
text: This rare convergence occurs because MLK Day is always observed on the third Monday in January, while Inauguration Day is constitutionally mandated for January 20.
ref: 2025 January 6, Adeola Adeosun, “Inauguration Day 2025: This Rare Calendar Quirk Hasn't Happened in 28 Years”, in Newsweek:
text: Today, Sora clips depict the civil rights activist wrestling with MLK, talking about defecating on himself and making crude jokes.
ref: 2025 October 17, Niamh Rowe, “‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Martin Luther King Jr..
longhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longhorn
decathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæθlɒn/
ipa: /dɪˈkæθlɒn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖᵻˈkat̪ʰ.lɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛkət̪ʰlɔn/
Forms: form: decathlons
form: decathla
Etymology: From deca- + -athlon, coined for the 1912 Summer Olympics in analogy to the word pentathlon.
Senses: examples: text: He entered U.C.L.A. in 1954 and played for the renowned coach John Wooden’s basketball team there while training for decathlons.
ref: 2020 February 12, Richard Goldstein, “Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead”, in The New York Times:
text: For now, Gray and her peers are able to compete for Olympic berths only in the seven-event heptathlon, while the decathlon is restricted to men.
ref: 2021 June 7, Shauna Farnell, “An Olympic Hurdle: Why Is the Decathlon Only for Men?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
glosses: A contest in science and math proving skill.
Related terms: decathlete
birder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɝdɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: birders
Etymology: From bird + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the crofters on Fair Isle and Shetland know as much about the birds as the birders.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 47:
text: It's good to be the king. Even if the kingdom is rather small. It is amazing how often really good birders are borderline megalomaniacs.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 37:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A birdwatcher.
glosses: A person who hunts birds.
Derived terms: nonbirder
Related terms: twitcher
birdo
longhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔŋhɔɹn/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋhɔːn/
Forms: form: longhorns
Etymology: From long + horn.
Senses: glosses: A breed of beef cattle, having long horns, bred in Texas and other parts of southwest United States.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of longhorn beetle.
Derived terms: cactus longhorn beetle
flat-faced longhorn
flower longhorn
longhorn beetle
longhorn forestfly
Manx longhorn
twitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twitchers
Etymology: From twitch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that twitches.
examples: text: I do not consider myself either a twitcher or an expert.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 21:
glosses: An eager birdwatcher who is willing to travel long distances to see rare species. (See the Wikipedia article for origin.)
Derived terms: curtain twitcher
birding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Etymology: From bird + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The time has come, however, for BirdLife Australia to foster debate about how to ensure that Australian bird names, birding and bird conservation are culturally and socially inclusive, and do not cause offence.
ref: 2022, Stephen T. Garnett, Golo Maurer, Georgia E. Garrard, “Why Australian common bird names should respond to societal change”, in Emu: Austral Ornithology, volume 122, number 2, page 150:
glosses: birdwatching
glosses: The catching of birds; fowling
Derived terms: landbirding
nonbirding
pole vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole vaults
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit
Related terms: pole-vault
pole-vaulter
pole vaulter
pole-vaulting
pole vaulting
twitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twitch
twitching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: twitchings
Senses: examples: text: Your twitchings and jouncings disturb me excessively.
ref: 1843, The Knickerbocker, volumes 21-22, page 73:
glosses: The motion of something that twitches.
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Compulsive birdwatching by people (twitchers) who travel long distances to see rare species.
examples: text: A great deal of horse-work was therefore required, and in twitching the logs[..]
ref: 1861, Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick, page 68:
qualifier: lumbering
glosses: Using a horse team to pull logs.
twitching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more twitching
form: most twitching
Senses: glosses: That twitches.
Derived terms: twitchingly
benumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bē-nŭmʹ
ipa: /biˈnʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: benumbs
form: benumbing
form: benumbed
form: benumbed
Etymology: From be- + numb.
Senses: examples: text: […] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book II, page [233]:
text: […] the Cold was insufferable; nor indeed was it more painful than it was surprising, to come but ten Days before out of the old Castile where the Weather was not only warm but very hot, and immediately to feel a Wind from the Pyrenean Mountains, so very keen, so severely cold, as to be intollerable, and to endanger benumbing and perishing of our Fingers and Toes.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 344:
text: ‘My hands are so benumbed with the cold that I can scarcely handle my knife and fork.’
ref: 1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], chapter 2, in Agnes Grey. […], London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
examples: text: […] If this law
Of nature be corrupted through affection,
And that great minds, of partial indulgence
To their benumbed wills, resist the same,
There is a law in each well-order’d nation
To curb those raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: I struggled, and trembled, and was so benumb’d with Terror, that I sunk down, not in a Fit, and yet not myself […]
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XI”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: Sorrowful isolation had benumbed her sense of reality, and the power of distinguishing outward and inward was continually slipping away from her.
ref: 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 17, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: Five nights a week, six hours a day, for the next four months—and, fortunately, never again—I made my living by exhibiting the peculiar way I am formed. The Clinic had prepared me for it, benumbing my sense of shame, and besides, I was desperate for money.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, “Hermaphroditus”, in Middlesex, New York: Picador, page 483:
glosses: To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).
Derived terms: benumbed
benumbedness
benumber
benumbingly
benumbment
unbenumb
track and field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of athletic sports, consisting mainly of various kinds of running, jumping and throwing, that take place on a track and an enclosed field.
Synonyms: word: athletics
bird watching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of birdwatching.
birdwatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dˌwɒtʃ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: bird watching
Etymology: From bird + watching.
Senses: synonyms: birding
glosses: Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.
examples: text: In fact, on this night, the birdwatching is over for everyone, for the firing is cancelled. Nobody notifies birdwatchers officially, of course, so the exodus is scattered and gradual.
ref: 1957, Skyline, volumes 15-18, page 7:
glosses: The hobby of watching rocket launches.
examples: text: By the spring of 1968, they were the secular-singing O'Kaysion, and they had recorded a leering lyric about ogling babes for the peewee Northstate label. Local DJs, appreciating that bird-watching was a popular pastime for their listeners, rode the number as if it had a satin saddle.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: Girlwatching
Related terms: birdwatch
birdwatcher
ornithology
birdwatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dˌwɒtʃ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: birdwatchers
form: bird watcher
Etymology: From bird + watcher.
Senses: examples: text: Alec Warner was gazing like a bird-watcher at Charmian, who plucked at the rug round her knees, waiting to tell her own story.
ref: 1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 5, in Memento Mori, London: Macmillan:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A person who observes or identifies wild birds in their natural environment.
examples: text: In fact, on this night, the birdwatching is over for everyone, for the firing is cancelled. Nobody notifies birdwatchers officially, of course, so the exodus is scattered and gradual.
ref: 1957, Skyline, volumes 15-18, page 7:
text: […] particularly those carrying astronauts, are the area's major drawing power, and each "advertised" shoot brings thousands of space age "birdwatchers".
ref: 1961, Canadian Motorist, page 15:
glosses: A person who enjoys watching rocket launches.
Synonyms: birder
Related terms: twitcher
bird watcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird watchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of birdwatcher.
ham radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Theories abound; ham is attested in American English from the 1880s, both in the acting sense and in the sense of an unskilled worker. See Etymology of ham radio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: glosses: The hobby of amateur radio communication.
Related terms: CB radio
amateur radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hobby or pastime of communicating by two-way radio, often striving for “DX” QSOs that are challenging because of distance.
Synonyms: ham radio
Related terms: radio amateur
CB radio
world-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more world-wide
form: most world-wide
Senses: examples: text: Some eight years have elapsed since this book was written. During that time, the Chinese Communist Party has firmly established its power on the mainland of China, and world-wide interest in all aspects of Chinese Communism has grown immensely.
ref: 1958, Benjamin I. Schwartz, “Preface to the Third Printing”, in Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, Harper & Row, published 1967, →OCLC, page vii:
glosses: Alternative form of worldwide.
world-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more world-wide
form: most world-wide
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worldwide.
xylology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of wood.
Related terms: palaeoxylology
xylological
rice paddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice paddies
Senses: glosses: A paddy field where rice is grown.
rice wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice wines
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to grape wine.
Synonyms: english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: sake
Hyponyms: word: huangjiu
english: Chinese varieties
translation: Chinese varieties
word: mijiu
word: pinjopo
english: Japanese variety
translation: Japanese variety
word: sake
Derived terms: sticky rice wine
sweet rice wine
red rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dish of rice made with tomatoes; a kind of soul food from South Carolina.
glosses: Wild rice with a red husk and pinkish white seed that is considered an objectionable weed in the rice fields of the southern U.S. but that has grain which is comparable to common rice in nutritive value.
glosses: Certain species of Oryza:
Oryza longistaminata.
glosses: Certain species of Oryza:
Oryza punctata.
glosses: Certain species of Oryza:
Oryza rufipogon.
soul food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul foods
form: soul-food
Etymology: (food): Originated in the mid-1960s, when soul was commonly used to describe African-American culture.
Senses: coordinate_terms: food for thought
glosses: Nourishment for the soul; spiritual sustenance.
examples: text: I couldn't wait for eight o'clock to get home to eat out of those soul-food pots of Ella's, then get dressed in my zoot and head for some of my friends' places in town, to lindy-hop and get high, […]
ref: 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published 2015, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets / Looking for soul food and a place to eat
ref: 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:
text: Generations of African Americans in the US were told soul food was simple and unhealthy, Oliver says.
ref: 2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A style of food originating in the rural southern US, traditionally associated with African Americans.
palaeoxylology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + xylology.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: the study of fossil wood, whether petrified or not
paddy field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædiˌfild/
ipa: [ˈpæɾiˌfild]
Forms: form: paddy fields
Senses: examples: text: On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
ref: 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A flooded field where rice is grown.
Derived terms: paddyfields crab
Related terms: paddy
rice paddy
gonys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊnɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”).
Senses: glosses: the lower ridge of the lower mandible of a bird's beak, located at the junction of the bone's two rami (lateral plates)
Related terms: gonydeal
gonydial
lepidopterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛ.pɪˌdɑp.tɚˈɹɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study”), or, more recently, from translingual Lepidoptera + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The scientific study of butterflies and moths (the Lepidoptera).
glosses: Lepidoptery, (the hobby of butterfly collecting).
Derived terms: lepidopterological
lepidopterologically
lepidopterologist
Related terms: lepido-
lepidoptera
lepidopteral
lepidopteran
lepidopterist
lepidopteron
lepidopterous
Igor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡɔːɹ/
ipa: /ˈaɪɡɔːɹ/
Forms: form: Igors
Etymology: Transliterated from Russian И́горь (Ígorʹ), a Varangian name derived from Old Norse Yngvarr, Ingvarr, from Yngvi (name of a god) + herr (“army”). Doublet of Ivor.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Russian.
Igor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡɔːɹ/
ipa: /ˈaɪɡɔːɹ/
Forms: form: Igors
Etymology: From the hunchbacked lab assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 U.S. film Frankenstein of Universal Studios, which was named "Fritz", and the successor to Dr. Frankenstein found in the third and fourth films, named "Ygor"; which have been conflated in popular culture to become "Igor".
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.
Boris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪs
Forms: form: Borises
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian Бори́с (Borís).
Senses: examples: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–2022)
2000 January, Frank McCourt (interviewee), Morning Edition, National Public Radio
It's not like a Russian novel, where you read nine hundred forty-three pages and then finally Boris the peasant decides to commit suicide, and you wish he’d done it on page four. It’s not like that at all.
glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
synonyms: Ivan
glosses: A person of Russian descent.
Derived terms: Boris bike
Boris bounce
Boris bus
Borisian
Borismania
finely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnli/
homophone: finally stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: finelier
form: more finely
form: fineliest
form: most finely
Etymology: From Middle English finely, fynely, fynly, fineliche, finliche, fynliche, equivalent to fine + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fledglings can only be fed finely chopped meat.
glosses: So as to produce a fine texture; into small, thin, or delicate pieces.
examples: text: This girl could not be above eighteen: her face regular and sweet-featur'd, her shape exquisite; nor could I help envying her two ripe enchanting breasts, finely plump'd out in flesh
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Looking back, Yewdale Crag stands finely over the waterhead; Brantwood is opposite.
ref: 2018, William Gershom Collingwood, The Book of Coniston, page 8:
glosses: In a fine, handsome or attractive way; very well.
Derived terms: lean finely textured beef
overfinely
ultrafinely
largest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹd͡ʒɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of large: most large
agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of agent
pianoforte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piˌænəʊˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /piˌænəʊˈfɔːt/
ipa: /piˈænəfɔɹt/
ipa: /piˌænəˈfɔɹteɪ/
ipa: /piˌænəˈfɔɹti/
Forms: form: pianofortes
form: pianoforti
form: piano-forte
form: piano-forté
Etymology: From Italian pianoforte.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piano.
Derived terms: cabinet pianoforte
piano
pianofortist
Related terms: fortepiano
child prostitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a child by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration.
business economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The buying and selling of products from an economical viewpoint, dealing with the manufacture, distribution, and usage of the product.
digerati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪdʒɪˈɹɑːti/
Forms: form: digirati
form: digiterati
Etymology: Blend of digital + literati, modeled after glitterati.
Senses: examples: text: The digerati Wired reader is a demographic dream: a 34-year-old man in upper management with a household income of more than $80,000 and a job that includes recommending or actually buying expensive digital equipment.
ref: 1995 May 21, Paul Keegan, “The Digerati!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: technorati
glosses: People who are considered the elite in using computers and the Internet.
Related terms: glitterati
literati
laptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæp.tɒp/
ipa: /ˈlæp.tɑp/
Forms: form: laptops
form: lap-top
Etymology: From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.
Senses: examples: text: He was playing Minecraft on his laptop.
text: Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.
ref: 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:
text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A laptop computer.
Synonyms: sense: laptop computer
word: laptop computer
sense: laptop computer
word: notebook computer
Derived terms: craptop
hiptop
laplet
laptop hobo
laptopless
laptoplike
laptronica
nonlaptop
Related terms: desktop
palmtop
laptop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæp.tɒp/
ipa: /ˈlæp.tɑp/
Forms: form: lap-top
Etymology: From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.
Senses: examples: text: At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.
ref: 1984 November, Gregg Williams, Ken Sheldon, “The Data General/One”, in BYTE, volume 9, number 12, McGraw-Hill Inc., →ISSN, page 105, column 1:
text: Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel—just a chapter or two at a time.
ref: 1988 March 29, John Dickinson, “The Quest for the ‘Least Computer’”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 6, →ISSN, page 134, column 2:
text: Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.
ref: 1999 July, Chris O’Malley, “Little laptops”, in Popular Science, volume 255, number 1, →ISSN, page 73:
glosses: Designed for use on a lap.
Derived terms: laptop computer
lepidoptery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hobby of butterfly collecting.
glosses: lepidopterology
Derived terms: lepidopterist
oneirism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: oneirisms
Etymology: From oneir- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Following great explosions two forms of mental trouble have been found so frequently that other manifestations have become almost exceptional. These are mental confusion and delirious oneirism.
ref: 1976, Neuropsychiatry and the War, page 108:
text: With an almost imperceptible touch, the narrator connects up this oneirism of names with the premonitory signs of the vocation that Remebrance is said to recount.
ref: 1990, Paul Ricœur, Time and Narrative, volume 2, page 138:
glosses: Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state of abnormal consciousness in which dream-like experiences and hallucinations happen while awake.
definitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɛfɪˈnɪʃ(ə)nz/
Senses: glosses: plural of definition
fall in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls in
form: falling in
form: fell in
form: fallen in
Senses: examples: text: The heavy rain caused the roof to fall in.
glosses: To collapse inwards.
examples: text: His men resumed their muskets and fell in.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 68:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank.
examples: text: On the death of Mr. B., the annuity, which he had so long received, fell in.
glosses: To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse.
examples: text: The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.
ref: 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration:
glosses: To become operative.
Derived terms: fall-in
falling in
Related terms: fall in age
fall in flesh
fall in for
fall in hand to
fall in hand with
fall in line
fall in love
fall in love with
fall in mold
fall in mould
fall in one's road
fall in one's way
fall in somebody's heart
fall in someone's heart
fall in somebody's mind
fall in someone's mind
fall into one's hands
fall in two
fall in upon
fall in with
deferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəɹənt/
Forms: form: more deferent
form: most deferent
Etymology: From defer and deference; see -ent.
Senses: glosses: Showing deference; deferential.
Derived terms: deferently
Related terms: deferential
deferent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəɹənt/
Forms: form: deferents
Etymology: From Middle English defferent, from Middle French deferent (modern French déférent) or its etymon Latin dēferēns, dēferentis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A duct in the body serving to carry away from, as opposed to an afferent one.
qualifier: Ptolemaic astronomy
glosses: An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
examples: text: though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which carries or conveys.
deferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəɹənt/
Etymology: From Middle English defferent, from Middle French deferent (modern French déférent) or its etymon Latin dēferēns, dēferentis.
Senses: examples: text: Bodies deferent.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to carry; bearing.
zincate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincates
Etymology: From zinc + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt formally derived from zinc oxide or hydroxide by combination with a more electropositive element.
DCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Doppelmayr Cable Car.
glosses: Initialism of Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse.
glosses: Direct Client-to-Client.
glosses: Digital Curation Centre.
glosses: Digital Command Control.
glosses: Digital Compact Cassette.
glosses: Data Compression Conference.
glosses: Debian Cluster Components.
glosses: Designing Correct Circuits.
glosses: Data Communications Committee.
glosses: Data Concentrator Card.
glosses: Design Computing and Cognition.
glosses: Data and Computer Communications.
glosses: Digital Content Creation.
DCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of direct cable connection.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of deputy chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of descending chain condition.
examples: text: In and around 2016, a controversy arose when the CRPO began refusing grandparenting applications on the basis that an applicant's SST hours did not count towards fulfilling the grandparenting requirements. Specifically, the CRPO was taking the position that the 800 DCC hours requirement for grandparenting could not be satisfied with SST.
ref: 2019 December, Karen Young, Joseph Jebreen, “Recognizing Single-Session Therapy as Psychotherapy”, in Journal of Systemic Therapies, volume 38, number 4, Guilford Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:
qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: Initialism of direct client contact.
radiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪdiˈɒlədʒi/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪdiˈɑlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From radio- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).
Derived terms: cardioradiology
electroradiology
neuroradiology
palaeoradiology
paleoradiology
psychoradiology
radiologic
radiological
teleradiology
uroradiology
Related terms: radiologist
radioscopy
gibe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gybe.
examples: text: Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: [George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.
ref: 1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 3:
text: But an ugly eruption of racist gibes against some of its young Black players was a reminder that not everyone glories in the diverse portrait of the country that this team reflects.
ref: 2021 July 12, Mark Landler, “After Defeat, England’s Black Soccer Players Face a Racist Outburst”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jibe (“facetious or insulting remark”).
gibe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gibes
form: gibing
form: gibed
form: gibed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gybe.
examples: text: Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 346, column 1:
text: This ſet the old Gentlevvoman a Laughing at me, as you may be ſure it vvould: VVell, Madam, Forſooth, ſays ſhe, Gibing at me, you vvould be a Gentlevvoman, and hovv vvill you come to be a Gentlevvoman? VVhat vvill you do it by your Fingers Ends?
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jibe.
Derived terms: gibelike
giber
gibingly
lands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lændz/
ipa: /lænz/
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: plural of land
Derived terms: bloodlands
Canyonlands
croplands
Czechlands
docklands
Highlands
highlands
Lowlands
outlands
lands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lændz/
ipa: /lænz/
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of land
knocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock
knocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: knockings
Senses: examples: text: These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.
ref: 1893, W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight:
text: There was no response to continued knockings.
ref: 1901, Carson Jay Lee, Oswald Langdon:
text: Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings, with a gently swelling sense of the sinister.
ref: 2006 July 21, Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
examples: text: Sir―I was greatly interested in a short article in The Motor Cycle on the subject of engine knocking.
ref: 1914 November 14, The Motor Cycle, London, page 528, column 1:
text: Knocking can also occur at high speed, but that may go undetected by the driver.
ref: 2021 December 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 56, column 1:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A repetitive ping, knock, or similar sound coming from an engine in which there are repeated uncontrolled explosions in the combustion chamber.
Related terms: cherry knocking
knocking on heaven's door
knocking shop
knocking-shop
nigger knocking
port knocking
roof knocking
sock-knocking
improving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
Forms: form: more improving
form: most improving
Senses: examples: text: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric[hard] Davis, Essay 1, p. 2,
[…] that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse.
text: […] nothing is so improving to the Temper as the Study of the Beauties, either of Poetry, Eloquence, Musick, or Painting.
ref: 1741, David Hume, “On the Delicacy of Taste and Passion”, in Essays, Moral and Political, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, page 6:
text: She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
text: To boast mendaciously about one’s own gang and to slander and defame other gangs are acts everywhere officially regarded as creditable and even pious. It is as though our rulers, instead of merely tolerating prostitution, were to proclaim the brothel to be a place as sacred as the cathedral and as improving as the public library.
ref: 1934, Aldous Huxley, “Guatemala City”, in Beyond the Mexique Bay, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 95–96:
text: “Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I’ll go to bed with an improving book. […]”
ref: 1954, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, New York: Scribner, published 2000, page 45:
glosses: That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
Synonyms: edifying
uplifting
Derived terms: improvingly
unimproving
improving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of improve
imprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɪzənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imprison
Derived terms: nonimprisoned
unimprisoned
short title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short titles
Senses: glosses: An abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.
examples: text: The short title of this Act is the Companies Act 2006.
ref: 2006, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Companies Act 2006, section 1298:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: long title
collective title
glosses: A title given to an act (or other piece of legislation) to facilitate citation; generally used as the common name for that legislation.
forests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɒɹɪsts/
enpr: fôr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɔɹɪsts/
enpr: fŏr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of forest
forests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɒɹɪsts/
enpr: fôr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɔɹɪsts/
enpr: fŏr′ĭsts
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪsts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forest
running title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running titles
Senses: glosses: The title or short title of a volume printed at the top of left-hand text pages or sometimes of all text pages.
Synonyms: running head
vade mecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌveɪdi ˈmiːkəm/
ipa: /ˌvɑːdi ˈmeɪkəm/
rhymes: -iːkəm
rhymes: -eɪkəm
Forms: form: vade mecums
form: vade-mecum
form: Vade Mecum
form: vademecum
Etymology: From the Latin vāde (“come”) mēcum (“with me”).
Senses: glosses: A referential book such as a handbook or manual, especially one that is pocketable.
glosses: A useful object, constantly carried on one's person.
Related terms: pocketbook
easterly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.stə.li/
ipa: /ˈiː.stɚ.li/
Forms: form: easterlies
Etymology: From easter + -ly.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds).
Related terms: equatorial easterly
tropical easterly
polar easterly
easterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.stə.li/
ipa: /ˈiː.stɚ.li/
Forms: form: more easterly
form: most easterly
Etymology: From easter + -ly.
Senses: examples: an easterly course or voyage
glosses: Facing the east; directed towards the east.
examples: the easterly side of a lake
glosses: Located towards or in the east.
examples: text: an easterly wind
text: The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs:
glosses: Coming from the east.
Synonyms: eastly
Derived terms: beasterly
easterliness
northeasterly
southeasterly
easterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.stə.li/
ipa: /ˈiː.stɚ.li/
Forms: form: more easterly
form: most easterly
Etymology: From easter + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eastward direction or position; towards the east.
glosses: From the east.
Synonyms: eastly
easterliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From easterly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being easterly.
subhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subheads
Etymology: From sub- + head.
Senses: examples: text: Allow me now to reprint the headline and subhead from a story in the Sunday Star […]
ref: 2009 January 27, Vinay Menon, “Toronto's more than just a motto”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A subheading or subtitle
bracket creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The corporate tax is essentially a flat-rate tax; thus there is no bracket creep.
ref: 1985, C. Eugene Steuerle, Taxes, Loans, and Inflation: How the Nation's Wealth Becomes Misallocated, page 34:
text: Bracket creep, however, was occurring only among individuals, not corporations. All other things being equal, this bracket creep increased the extent to which borrowing would be undertaken by individuals, not corporations.
ref: 1990, John B. Shoven, Joel Waldfogel, Debt, Taxes, and Corporate Restructuring, page 27:
text: 2001, Frederick C. v N. Fourie, How to Think and Reason in Macroeconomics, 2nd edition, page 290,
Bracket creep can be avoided by regularly adjusting tax brackets for inflation, so that the tax brackets remain unchanged in real terms.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).
Related terms: fiscal drag