cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sewers
Etymology: From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.
Senses: examples: text: He first learned about sewers last year in science class.
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It’s a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2014:
glosses: A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
Derived terms: car sewer
common sewer
leaf sewer
sanitary sewer
sewer fly
sewer gas
sewer rat
sewer service
sewer slide
sewer socialism
storm sewer
sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sewers
form: sewering
form: sewered
form: sewered
Etymology: From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.
Senses: glosses: To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sewers
Etymology: From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).
Senses: examples: text: While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 116–117:
text: His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287
glosses: An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
enpr: sō'ə
ipa: /ˈsəʊə/
enpr: sō'ər
ipa: /ˈsoʊɚ/
homophone: sower
rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
enpr: so͞o'ə
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːə/
enpr: so͞oər
ipa: /ˈsuɚ/
homophone: suer
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sewers
Etymology: sew + -er
Senses: examples: text: Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 131–132:
glosses: One who sews.
examples: text: the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana
glosses: A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
Synonyms: sense: one who sews
english: man/woman
translation: man/woman
word: sempster
sense: one who sews
english: man/woman
translation: man/woman
word: sempstress
sense: one who sews
english: man/woman
translation: man/woman
word: seamster
sense: one who sews
english: man/woman
translation: man/woman
word: seamstress
sense: one who sews
word: tailor
sense: one who sews
word: sewist
swarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔɹm/
ipa: /swɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: swarms
Etymology: From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.
Senses: examples: text: […] reſtleſs thoughts, that like a deadly ſwarm / Of Hornets arm'd […] ruſh upon me thronging,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 19–21:
glosses: A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
examples: text: a swarm of meteorites
text: those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
examples: text: Earthquakes were another concern, particularly after swarms were felt in Oklahoma.
ref: 2020, Daniel Yergin, The New Map, Penguin, published 2021, page 28:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
Derived terms: aswarm
dyke swarm
Dyson swarm
swarm intelligence
swarm plot
swarm spore
SHRIMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe.
spectrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕk-trŏm′ĭ-tər
ipa: /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.tə/
ipa: /spɛkˈtɹɑm.ɪ.təɹ/
ipa: /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.təɹ/
ipa: /spekˈtɹɔm.ɪ.tə/
ipa: /spekˈtɹɔm.ə.tɐ/
ipa: /spɛkˈtɹɔm.ɪ.təɹ/
ipa: /spekˈʈɾɒm.i.ʈəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spectrometers
Etymology: From spectro- + -meter.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.
Derived terms: mass spectrometer
X-ray spectrometer
Related terms: spectrometric
spectrometry
slip of the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slips of the tongue
Etymology: Calque of Latin lapsus linguae.
Senses: examples: text: It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.
synonyms: lapsus linguae
;
misspeaking#Noun
misspeech
;
speako
coordinate_terms: slip of the pen
lapsus calami
lapsus plumæ
;
writo
;
typo
;
misprint
glosses: A mistake in speech.
Related terms: Freudian slip
parapraxis
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: pulled oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: pulled oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
form: lift oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: lift oneself up by one's own bootstraps
form: raise oneself up by one's bootstraps
form: raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps
Etymology: Early 19th century US; attested 1834. In original use, often used to refer to pulling oneself over a fence, and implying that someone is attempting or has claimed some ludicrously far-fetched or impossible task. Presumably a variant on a traditional tall tale, as elaborated below. The shift in sense to a possible task appears to have developed in the early 20th century, and the use of the phrase to mean “a ludicrous task” continued into the 1920s.
Widely attributed since at least 1901 to The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, (1781) by Rudolf Erich Raspe, where the eponymous Baron pulls himself out of a swamp by his own pigtail, though not by his bootstraps. The Adventures is primarily a collection of centuries-old tall tales, however, and using bootstraps may have arisen as a variant on the same theme.
Senses: examples: text: We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
text: It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.
ref: 1834 Oct. 4, Workingman's Advocate, p. 1
text: Up to a point, civilization can lift itself up by its boot-tags. However unjustly society is organized, certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community, because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
synonyms: lift oneself up by one's own waistbands
lift oneself up by one's boot-tags
lift oneself up by one's own boot-tags
take oneself up by one's own ears
glosses: To begin an enterprise or recover from a setback without any outside help; to succeed only by one's own efforts or abilities.
wikipedia: Rudolf Erich Raspe
Derived terms: english: computing sense
translation: computing sense
word: bootstrap
word: bootstrappy
word: bootstrap paradox
Related terms: word: poverty is a state of mind
word: self-starter
word: rugged individualism
word: gibsmedat
english: government welfare aid
translation: government welfare aid
word: Uncle Sugar
meadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛd.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛd.oʊ/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾoʊ]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ʌo̞/
rhymes: -ɛdəʊ
Forms: form: meadows
form: meadowing
form: meadowed
form: meadowed
Etymology: From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.
See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.
Senses: examples: text: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
ref: 1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:
glosses: To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
funny bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌn.i boʊn/
ipa: /ˈfʌn.i bəʊn/
Forms: form: funny bones
Senses: examples: text: Ouch, I just hit my funny bone.
glosses: The ulnar nerve in the elbow, which, when hit, causes a tingly sensation.
examples: text: His wisecracks always tickle my funny bone.
glosses: One's sense of humor.
Derived terms: tickle someone's funny bone
nod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒd/
other: /nɒːd/
ipa: /nɑd/
ipa: /nɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑd
rhymes: -ɔd
homophone: gnawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: nods
form: nodding
form: nodded
form: nodded
Etymology: From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”).
Senses: glosses: To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
glosses: To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
examples: text: By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.
ref: 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm:
glosses: To sway, move up and down.
glosses: To gradually fall asleep.
examples: text: They nodded their assent.
glosses: To signify by a nod.
examples: text: Even Homer nods.
glosses: To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
examples: text: Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.
text: With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
examples: text: Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
ref: March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
glosses: To allude to something.
glosses: To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
Coordinate terms: sense: incline the head
word: wag
sense: incline the head
word: yes
Derived terms: nid-nod
nodder
nodding blue lily
nodding disease
nodding syndrome
nodding donkey
noddingly
nodding thistle
nodding trillium
nodding wakerobin
noddy
nod in
nod off
nod out
nod through
on nodding terms
renod
nod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒd/
other: /nɒːd/
ipa: /nɑd/
ipa: /nɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑd
rhymes: -ɔd
homophone: gnawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: nods
Etymology: From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”).
Senses: glosses: An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
examples: text: Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937.
ref: 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A reference or allusion to something.
examples: text: For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
glosses: A nomination.
examples: text: The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.
text: Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow?
ref: 1964 August, “News and Comment: One main line to Scotland?”, in Modern Railways, page 86:
glosses: Approval.
examples: text: Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.
ref: 1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:
glosses: A state of half-consciousness; stupor.
Derived terms: a nod is as good as a wink
a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
continuity nod
get the nod
nigga nod
nod-back
on the nod
wiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: wiggles
form: wiggling
form: wiggled
form: wiggled
Etymology: From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”). Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”).
Senses: examples: text: Her hips wiggle as she walks.
text: The jelly wiggles on the plate when you move it.
text: I'll make ya bump, hump, wiggle and shake your rump
ref: 1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:
text: "These modern dances!" he grunted, grabbing his smokes. "They don't do nothing but teach the kids how to bump n wiggle."
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 788:
glosses: To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.
wiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: wiggles
Etymology: From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”). Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”).
Senses: examples: text: She walked with a sexy wiggle.
glosses: A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
glosses: An alternating state or characteristic.
glosses: See wiggles.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: get a wiggle on
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: squiggle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggle dress
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggle out of
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggler
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggle room
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggle seat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wigglesome
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggle worm
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wiggle
word: wiggly
Freudian slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɔɪdɪ.ən ˈslɪp/
ipa: /ˌfɹɔɪdi.ən ˈslɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: Freudian slips
Etymology: Named after Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).
Senses: examples: text: After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled "The Manners of All Men" (but which, by some Freudian slip, we suppose, deals chiefly with 'The Impure Man')
ref: 1936, John G. Jenkins, “The Anatomy of Personality”, in Psychological Bulletin, volume 33, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 667–669:
text: Film has in fact enriched our world of perception, with methods which could be illustrated by Freudian theory. A Freudian slip in conversation would occur fifty years ago more or less unnoticed.
ref: 1938, Dennis Redmond, transl., The Work of Art in the Epoch of its Technical Reproducibility, translation of original by Walter Benjamin, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: I always felt I was doing a bit of bluffing. I wondered the same when he referred to some of, his ideas being "away with the pixies", Freudian slip or did he intend[…]
ref: 1989 April 11, Barbara Hooks, “Comedy finds balance that avoids prejudice”, in The Age, page 14:
text: After reviewing a tape of a newscast done by our candidate, in my enthusiasm I made my Freudian slip
ref: 1989 November 29, Robert Bianco, “Memo by WPXI staffers alleges offensive remark by news director”, in The Pittsburgh Press, page D12:
text: In response to several other questions posed by the panel, Ann Biggot proclaimed that she had no fear of reprisal for her testimony, but every so often a Freudian slip would break out from her careful answers.
ref: 1993, Ruth M. Sprague, Wild Justice:
text: You know, folks, that’s the America that George Bush has left us. And that’s the America we’ll continue to get if George – excuse me, if John McCain is elected president of the United States of America. Freudian slip. Freudian slip.
ref: 2015 April 28, Martin Shovel, quoting Joe Biden, “I'm sorry, I'll say that again – the rhetorical trick of metanoia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: parapraxis
glosses: A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.
SIMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of secondary ion mass spectrometry.
Related terms: SHRIMP
contrariwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: contrawise
form: contrarywise
Etymology: From Middle English contrary-wyse; equivalent to contrary + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs. / Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, / Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise, / A wave drops like a wall: another follows, / Wilting and scrambling
ref: 1955, Philip Larkin, “Absences”, in The Less Deceived:
glosses: in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction
glosses: on the other hand
Related terms: on the contrary
carbonate of lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Calcium carbonate.
microprobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprobes
Etymology: From micro- + probe.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument used to determine the chemical composition at a point on a solid surface, such as that of a mineral. It analyzes the X-rays emitted when a beam of electrons are focused on the sample.
Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Islamic Republic of Iran
Etymology: Calque of Iranian Persian جُمْهوریِ اِسْلامیِ ایران (jomhuri-ye eslâmi-ye irân).
Senses: examples: text: Carolina Chandlers Corp. has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nationalized shipping line with failing to pay outstanding debts.
ref: 1979 December 1, Debra Furr, “Chandler sues Iran shippers”, in Wilmington Morning Star, volume 113, number 42, Wilmington, North Carolina, page 1:
text: Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station.
ref: 2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Official name of Iran: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
Related terms: Persia
Tehran
reflectoporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reflect + -o- + porn.
Senses: examples: 2004, Internet auction site eBay has been hit by a new craze in which sellers appear naked in reflections on goods they're selling. “Reflectoporn” is said to have started in the US and now British exhibitionists have caught on. — Ananova news story
glosses: Exhibitionism of a sexual nature in which a person takes a photograph of a reflective object, such as a kettle or cutlery, so that their naked image appears in the reflection, and posts the pictures on the Internet, for example when listing the object for sale.
Marine Corps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: USMC
Marines
glosses: The United States Marine Corps; one of the major divisions of the US military.
Related terms: word: gung ho
english: motto
translation: motto
word: semper fi
Marine Corps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marine Corps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of marine corps.
salami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [səˈlɑːmɪ]
ipa: /səˈlɑmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: salamis
form: salame
Etymology: From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.
Senses: hypernyms: salume
salumi
glosses: A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A grand slam.
examples: text: To this day Katie thought wistfully of the night in his apartment when his salami had split her loins sending her into a state of sexual ecstasy unmatched in human history.
ref: 2001, Bob Drews, Sandman, page 101:
glosses: The penis.
Derived terms: grand salami
hide the salami
salami attack
salami publication
salami publishing
salami-slice
salami slicing
salami tactics
salami technique
winter salami
contagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Forms: form: contagions
Etymology: From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
Senses: glosses: A disease spread by contact.
synonyms: infection
glosses: The spread or transmission of such a disease.
examples: text: It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
examples: text: And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.
ref: 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A recession or crisis developed in such manner.
Derived terms: anticontagion
Asian contagion
behavioral contagion
behavioural contagion
contagiogram
contagioned
contagionism
contagionist
noncontagion
social contagion
Related terms: contagious
quarantine
gabion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.bi.ən/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: gabions
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea (whence also English jail, English cajole), from Latin cavus (whence also English cage, English cave).
Senses: examples: text: When our artillery came before the walls of the town, the English within the walls killed some of our men, and several pioneers who were making gabions. And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing them, their comrades stripped them, and put them still living inside the gabions, which served to fill them up.
ref: 1563, Ambroise Paré, The Journey to Havre de Grace:
text: Then ſe the bringing of our ordinance / Along the trench into the battery, / VVhere vve vvil haue gabions of ſix foot broad / To ſaue our Cannoniers from muſket ſhot, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i, signature [G6], recto:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
glosses: A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
examples: text: Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.
text: 1774, James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie p. vi, quoted in 2004, Walter Scott Reliquiae Trotcosiensis, Edinburgh University Press, p.6,
The meaning of the word Gabion, as it is used in the poem, is not to be sought for in any dictionary. It was of the venerable old gentleman Mr Ruthven′s own coining, and it was well enough understood among his select friends, to mean nothing else but the miscellaneous curiosities in his closet humorously described in the poem.
glosses: A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.
Derived terms: gabionage
gabioned
gabion wall
Related terms: word: cage
word: cajole
word: cave
word: cavitate
word: cavity
word: concave
word: excavate
word: jail
english: several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications
translation: several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications
word: sap
deontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɒntɪk/
Forms: form: more deontic
form: most deontic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέον (déon, “what is right”); compare deontology.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.
Derived terms: deontically
deonticity
deontic logic
nondeontic
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: mushes
form: moosh
Etymology: Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).
Senses: examples: text: His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 1, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
glosses: A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
examples: text: And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
ref: 2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver, page 80:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The foam of a breaker.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
examples: text: Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
glosses: A gun.
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: mushes
form: mushing
form: mushed
form: mushed
form: moosh
Etymology: Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).
Senses: examples: text: He mushed the ingredients together.
text: One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.
ref: 1981 August 15, Loraine Obler, “Sleeping Beauty Recast”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 17:
glosses: To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
Derived terms: mush up
apple-mush
mushy
Related terms: mash
moosh
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: mushes
Etymology: From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.
Senses: glosses: A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
examples: text: However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.
ref: 2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink:
qualifier: rustic US
glosses: Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Senses: examples: text: "An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 130–131:
glosses: A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
Derived terms: musher
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: mushes
Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Senses: glosses: A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: mushes
form: mushing
form: mushed
form: mushed
Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Senses: glosses: To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
examples: text: Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.
ref: 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4:
glosses: To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: mushes
Etymology: Simple contraction of mushroom.
Senses: glosses: A magic mushroom.
Synonyms: word: shroom
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mo͝osh
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: mushes
Etymology: From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).
Senses: examples: text: Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.
text: "Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.
ref: 2018, Brenda Spalding, Bottle Alley, Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 1:
synonyms: word: mate
word: pal
glosses: (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
synonyms: mug
glosses: The face.
Derived terms: Toby mush
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mo͝osh
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: mushes
Etymology: Possibly from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather).
Senses: glosses: A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
mush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mŭsh
ipa: /mʌʃ/
ipa: /mʊʃ/
ipa: /mʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: mo͝osh
ipa: /mʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: mushes
form: mushing
form: mushed
form: mushed
Etymology: Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
Senses: glosses: To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
Romanche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French romanche, which stems from Latin romanice.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Romansch.
stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strēm
ipa: /stɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: streams
form: streaming
form: streamed
form: streamed
Etymology: From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).
Senses: examples: text: beneath those banks where rivers now stream
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
examples: text: A flag streams in the wind.
glosses: To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
examples: text: The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
glosses: To discharge in a stream.
glosses: To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
examples: text: I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.
ref: 2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:40 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
glosses: To livestream.
Derived terms: bestream
live-stream
livestream
streamline
streamstyle
stream the buoy
kinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈnɛtɪk/
ipa: /kaɪˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “puts in motion”), from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).
Senses: synonyms: word: motive
word: motional
word: ambulatory
word: animate
word: kinetic
word: mobile
word: motile
word: motive
word: movable
word: vagile
glosses: Relating to motion.
glosses: Relating to kinesis or motor function.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: motile
vagile
glosses: Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to the force driving life forward.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
examples: text: Sorry it took so long; it's been kind of kinetic around here.
ref: 1997, Hollywood Confidential (film):
text: Their enthusiasm and group cohesion helped when things got kinetic.
ref: 2020, Andrew Vaillencourt, Sullivan's Gift: Hegemony: Book 3:
synonyms: frenetic
frenzied
hectic
glosses: Frantic; busy.
Synonyms: active
animated
dynamic
vigorous
Derived terms: adipokinetic
aerokinetic
akinetic
amphikinetic
angiokinetic
antikinetic
arthrokinetic
autokinetic
biokinetic
blastokinetic
bradykinetic
cardiokinetic
chemokinetic
cholecystokinetic
cholekinetic
cryokinetic
cytokinetic
diakinetic
dikinetic
dyskinetic
echokinetic
electrokinetic
enterokinetic
ferrokinetic
gametokinetic
gastrokinetic
glossokinetic
gyrokinetic
haptokinetic
holokinetic
homokinetic
hydrokinetic
hyperkinetic
hypokinetic
hysterokinetic
immunokinetic
interkinetic
isokinetic
karyokinetic
kennetic
kineme
kinetically
kinetic architecture
kinetic art
kinetic energy
kineticism
kineticist
kinetic novel
kineticon
kinetic sand
kinetic scrolling
kinetic sculpture
kinetic temperature
kinetic typography
macrokinetic
mechanokinetic
mesokinetic
metakinetic
metallokinetic
microkinetic
monokinetic
morphokinetic
musicokinetic
myokinetic
neurokinetic
normokinetic
nucleokinetic
optokinetic
orthokinetic
parakinetic
perikinetic
phagokinetic
pharmacokinetic
photokinetic
physicokinetic
pleurokinetic
podokinetic
post-kinetic
prokinetic
proterokinetic
psychokinetic
pyrokinetic
rhynchokinetic
spatiokinetic
stathmokinetic
telekinetic
telokinetic
thermokinetic
thigmokinetic
topokinetic
toxicokinetic
virokinetic
Related terms: cinema
kinesis
kinesthetic
pram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prăm
ipa: /pɹæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: prams
Etymology: Clipping of perambulator.
Senses: examples: text: Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.
ref: 1975, Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold, published 1977, page 127:
text: For a start the pram was heavier than it appeared, and also they were pulling it along very uneven ground. The edge of the field was slightly banked which tilted the pram at an angle.
ref: 2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale:
text: Stepping over her, he unbuttoned the pram′s apron and pulled it back.
At first he couldn′t make out what the pram contained. He had to crane himself over, holding his body back from the obscuring light. The pram was full of groceries—cabbage, sprouts, potatoes.
ref: 2012, Ramsey Campbell, Dark Companions, page 233:
text: The Key Train Requirements document, released in July by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), includes a new clause covering people travelling with pushchairs. It highlights the need for space in carriages for unfolded pushchairs or prams, separate from areas for wheelchairs and cycles. It also recommends extending seat reservations to include pram spaces.
ref: 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:
synonyms: word: perambulator
word: baby carriage
coordinate_terms: baby buggy
pushchair
pusher
stroller
glosses: A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
glosses: A pushchair; a buggy.
Derived terms: chuck one's toys out of the pram
doll's pram
pram bug
pram canopy
pram cover
pram face
pram-face
pram hood
pram suit
throw one's rattle out of the pram
throw one's toys out of the pram