cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bistrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bistrots
Etymology: From French bistrot.
Senses: examples: text: In that Bible of French gastronomes, the Michelin guide, the top three-star rating would not conceivably be given to any but the great elegant practitioners of the haute cuisine—not to a restaurant serving the cuisine bourgeoise, not to a bistrot, not to a small place with one person in the kitchen, even if that one person is a genius.
ref: 1969, Waverley Root, “What This Guide Tells You”, in Paris Dining Guide, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 20:
text: He lunched alone in a bistrot, reading the Paris Herald-Trib and noting with perverse pleasure that Bill Bradley had scored only eight points in the Knicks’ first playoff game.
ref: 1977, James Brady, “Max”, in Paris One: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Further along, at a bistrot run by Maltese, they would eat the Mediterranean sausage soubressade, accompanied by heavy wine.
ref: 1979, Herbert R[oger] Lottman, “Awakening”, in Albert Camus: A Biography, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 51:
text: The composer was duly taken out to a bistrot for a generous beverage or two, and on his return listened to the piece conducted by Pedro de Freitas Branco at a considerably faster tempo.
ref: 2002, Roger Nichols, “Exotic and Nostalgic Dreamworks”, in Ravel: Shéhérazade / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Debussy: Ballades de Villon, New York, N.Y.: Universal Classics Group, B0002121-02, page 4, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of bistro.
edut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eidut.
call-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from call out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of callout.
call-out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of call out.
call-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call-out
catch it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches it
form: catching it
form: caught it
form: caught it
Senses: examples: text: "You'll catch it, you know," said Tom, nodding his head in an admonitory manner, and hesitating a little as he took the scissors.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:
text: a. 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist
If they beat us, we shall catch it, and serve us right.
text: I'll catch it for your mischief in running away. And I'll catch it again when the tutor claps eyes on the handwriting.
ref: 2003, Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy, page 39:
glosses: To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, it.
Synonyms: cop it
catch hell
get it
Cyzicene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Derived from the Latin word cyzicenus used by Vitruvius; from the city of Cyzicus.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or being, a large north-facing hall with a prospect towards the gardens; the windows of this hall opened down to the ground, so that the green verdure could be seen by those lying on the couches.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the people and place of Cyzicus (an ancient classical city).
called out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call out
catch hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches hell
form: catching hell
form: caught hell
form: caught hell
Senses: examples: text: It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife, Eunice (Fran Drescher)!
ref: 2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018:
glosses: To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
examples: text: I'm catching hell living here alone / Hmm, I never realized, oh, Lord / That you mean so much to me / I'm catching hell living here alone
ref: 1977, Natalie Cole, “I'm Catching Hell”, in Unpredictable:
glosses: To experience troubling or difficult times.
Synonyms: catch it
cop it
get it
sheathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheather
quadrati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadratus
quadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more quadrate
form: most quadrate
form: quadrat
Etymology: From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātus (“square”), past participle of quadrō (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
Senses: examples: text: Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments:
glosses: Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
examples: text: The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
ref: 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12
glosses: Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
examples: text: a quadrat, solid, wise man
ref: 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight:
glosses: Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
examples: text: a generical description quadrate to both
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Squared; suited; correspondent.
Related terms: quadratic
quadration
quadrature
quadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: quadrates
form: quadrat
Etymology: From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrat; compare also quadrant (“square or quadrangle”).
Senses: examples: text: At which command, the powers militant
That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, 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, lines 61-62:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: square
glosses: An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The quadrate bone.
quadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /kwɑdˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: quadrates
form: quadrating
form: quadrated
form: quadrated
form: quadrat
Etymology: From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.
Senses: glosses: To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
glosses: To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
examples: quadrating the circle
glosses: To square.
examples: text: not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
text: The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
irregular galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irregular galaxies
Senses: examples: text: The Magellanic Clouds are irregular galaxies.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy which is has no spirals and is not elliptical.
Synonyms: IrG
Irr
Hypernyms: galaxy
Hyponyms: barred irregular galaxy
dwarf irregular galaxy
Related terms: elliptical galaxy
lenticular galaxy
spiral galaxy
miss out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misses out
form: missing out
form: missed out
form: missed out
Senses: examples: text: Oh my good gracious me, look at that. Whoa! Quick!
What is it?
I can't explain it. You're just going to have to come over here and look out this window for a while.
Whatever it is, we're not interested.
Well. I have to say you're missing out.
ref: 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text: The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
text: Anybody who does not try the homemade ice cream is really missing out.
text: He missed out on the chance to date her in high school. Now, she's married.
glosses: To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed.
raw_tags: with 'on'
examples: text: People often miss out the "l" in "vulnerable".
text: He made a list of children in the class but missed out Sally.
text: DOCTOR (as the TARDIS is showing pictures of his previous companions): Miss out the metal dog, why don't you?
ref: 2010 November 8, Meanwhile, in the TARDIS... (mini-episodes included in the fifth season of Doctor Who)
text: "That's because we recognise these towns do have a significant population who need to travel, and they've been kind of missed out."
ref: 2024 December 11, David Stubbings, “Network News: Go-op targets 2026 start for open access to Taunton”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 13:
glosses: To leave out, to omit.
Synonyms: sense: leave out
word: exclude
word: miss off
word: omit
Derived terms: fear of missing out
Related terms: miss off
ulterior motive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulterior motives
Senses: examples: text: There lurks no bribe in the smell and beauty of the flower. Its charm has no ulterior motive.
ref: 1895, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Stark Munro Letters:
text: The poet is a man without a profit or any other kind of ulterior motive.
ref: 1941 December 8, “Poetry”, in Time:
text: I have an ulterior motive, of course. I want a progress report on the catalog. You've been so mysterious about the whole thing, people are starting to talk.
ref: 2006, Philip Sington, Zoia's Gold, Scribner, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: An alternative or extrinsic reason for doing something, especially when concealed or when differing from the stated or apparent reason.
Related terms: hidden agenda
handsprings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handspring
hikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiker
overlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlay
overlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlayings
Senses: glosses: Overlaid ornamentation.
radura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raduras
form: Radura
form: RADURA
Etymology: From radurization.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration is proposing new rules that would no longer require irradiated foods to bear the international radura symbol[…].
ref: 2007 May 2, David Karp, “A Luscious Taste and Aroma From India Arrives at Last”, in New York Times:
glosses: The international symbol of irradiated food
TCR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TCRs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of technical certification requirement: a test case that must pass before software can be certified as compliant to a given standard.
qualifier: utilities
glosses: Abbreviation of tariff comparison rate.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
coordinate_terms: GT
glosses: Abbreviation of touring car racing.
qualifier: materials science
glosses: Initialism of temperature coefficient of resistance.
TCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: climate change
glosses: Initialism of The Climate Registry.
planetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetologists
Etymology: From planet + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: planetary scientist
Red Devils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Devils
Senses: glosses: The Parachute Regiment.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Manchester United F.C.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Belgium national football team.
ramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ram
Derived terms: ramming speed
ramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rammings
Senses: examples: text: In the case of accidental ramming the conditions are different on the side of the rammer as well as on that of the rammee. Mr. Forster tells us that, in the case of accidental ramming, it is an unusual thing for the rammer, being a battleship, to do herself much harm
ref: 1894, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute page 107:
text: […] extensive damage done to Royal Navy frigates by rammings by Iceland Coast Guard.
ref: 2000, Patrick G. Coy, Lynne M. Woehrle, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities:
glosses: A collision where something is rammed.
Man U
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmæn ˈjuː/
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Clipping of Manchester United Football Club.
Coordinate terms: Man City
red devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red devil
repels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repel
resells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resell
ratti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattis
form: rati
form: rattee
form: ruttee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi रत्ती (rattī).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Indian unit of measure for mass, approximately 0.1215 grams.
rebounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebound
rebounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reboundings
Senses: examples: text: It seems hard to suppose that the collisions and reboundings of the atoms cancel out the downward movement of everything entirely.
ref: 1996, R. W. Sharples, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics, page 138:
glosses: The act of something that rebounds.
glosses: Synonym of rebound exercise.
synonyms: word: rebound exercise
rebounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebound
chiliaëdron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In a Man who ſpeaks of a Chiliaëdron, or a Body of a thouſand ſides, the Idea of the Figure may be very confuſed, though that of the Number be very diſtinct; ſo that he being able to diſcourſe, and demonſtrate concerning that part of his complex Idea, which depends upon the Number of a Thouſand, he is apt to think, he has a diſtinct Idea of a Chiliaëdron; though it be plain, he has no preciſe Idea of its Figure, ſo as to diſtinguiſh it, by that, from one that has but 999 ſides.
ref: 1689–1700, John Locke, An Eſſay Concerning Humane Underſtanding (fourth edition, 1700), book II, chapter xxix, § 13, page 204
glosses: Rare spelling of chiliahedron.
privateers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privateer
privateers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of privateer
have it large
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it large
form: having it large
form: had it large
form: had it large
Senses: examples: text: Unlike Oasis, the point wasn't simply to have it large and live a whacked-out existence as professional rock stars.
ref: 1999, Mick Middles, Manic Street Preachers, page 193:
text: […] that cultural theorists could be forgiven for thinking that every young Briton between the ages of 15 and 25 was out having it large.
ref: 1999, Jeremy Gilbert, Ewan Pearson, Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound, page 28:
text: On the dance floor, people are having it large: hands in the air, whooping and yelling, boogieing in a sweaty drug fueled mass.
ref: 2006, Bill Sanders, Drugs, Clubs And Young People: Sociological and Public Health Perspectives, page xi:
coordinate_terms: live large
glosses: To engage intensely in pleasure-seeking activities.
populating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of populate
safety car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety cars
Senses: examples: text: After a car crashed, the safety car was sent out to lead the remaining drivers safely past the site of the accident.
text: The race around the Interlagos circuit in São Paolo effectively became a 12-lap dash to the flag when Valtteri Bottas triggered the safety car after he pulled his Mercedes over with engine trouble.
ref: 2019 November 17, Sarah Holt, “Verstappen wins Brazilian GP as Ferraris collide AND Gasly and Sainz claim first F1 podiums”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A vehicle employed to lead the competitors in an auto race for the duration of a few laps, with the intention of restricting their speed while a hazard exists on the circuit.
Synonyms: word: pace car
word: SC
Derived terms: virtual safety car
party poopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party pooper
uplands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upland
unpolarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unpolarised
Etymology: From un- + polarized.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.
ref: 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars:
glosses: Not polarized.
uninterruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + interruptible.
Senses: examples: uninterruptible power supply
antonyms: interruptible
glosses: Not able to be interrupted.
Derived terms: uninterruptible power source
uninterruptible power supply
unisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Most animals are unisexual.
glosses: Of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).
examples: text: The second line of inquiry has to do with the ultimate fate of unisexual species. Are they doomed to more rapid extinction than bisexual species? On the assumption that unisexual populations lack genetic variation, most theoretical studies […]
ref: 1981, Mosaic, page 4:
glosses: Of a species, having only a single (potentially hermaphroditic) sex (as opposed to bisexual).
examples: text: You may not be familiar with the name or it could be a unisexual name, and some women and men may have first names that are more traditional for the opposite gender.
ref: 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations: Connecting in English with Stakeholders and Publics Worldwide, Routledge, →ISBN, page 433:
glosses: Unisex; suitable for any sex or gender.
unisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unisexuals
Etymology: From uni- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Populations of ambystomatid salamanders on Middle Bass and North Bass Islands in the western basin of Lake Erie consist largely of female unisexuals. On both islands, diploid unisexuals are more abundant than triploid ...
ref: 1978, Floyd L. Downs, Unisexual Ambystoma from the Bass Islands of Lake Erie:
text: Samples that included both bisexual and unisexual females were obtained from all localities shown in Figure 2 except sites C, J, and O. The proportion of unisexuals in these samples varied from 2% to 94% of the females in a given sample.
ref: 2013, David L.G. Noakes, J.A. Ward, Ecology and ethology of fishes: Proceedings of the 2nd biennial symposium on the ethology and behavioral ecology of fishes, held at Normal, Ill., U.S.A., October 19–22, 1979, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: An organism which is unisexual.
Related terms: monosexual
unpunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + punctual.
Senses: examples: text: Jim was so unpunctual — always late!
text: Indeed, the only unpunctual trains appear to be some of the International ones, and with these, if they are likely to be over an hour late reaching the frontier-station, the Swiss run their own train over the route provided the International express was being used for inter-communication with Switzerland.
ref: 1947 November and December, Lord Garnock, “A Swiss Railway Miscellany”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: Not punctual.
Derived terms: unpunctually
unpunctualness
oozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ooze
oozes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ooze
zoophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊ.ə.faɪl/
/ˈzuː.ə.faɪl/
Forms: form: zoophiles
form: zoöphile
Etymology: From zoo- + -phile.
Senses: synonyms: zoosexual
zoo
glosses: A person sexually attracted to non-human animals.
examples: text: It is not, after all, the 'anti-speciesist', the 'animal liberationist', the radical zoophile who 'attributes a mystical persona' to animals. We simply say that if it is wrong to cause avoidable distress then it is wrong to torture, enslave and kill creatures not of our species for our own, frequently trivial, profit.
ref: 1976, W. Lane-Petter, “The Ethics of Animal Experimentation”, in Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 2, number 3, page 126:
text: […] the process theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have no reason to see their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find it difficult to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness. […] A moral theory may, of course, incorporate both consequentialist and non-consequentialist elements: the process thinker is not required to choose definitively between the two. However, to the extent that the process thinker who is also a zoophile reasons as a consequentialist about non-human animals and their interests, whether or not she does so about humans and their interests, she will face the problem that consequentialism appears problematic as a moral theory, and that the goodness of a God who acts as a consequentialist with respect to animals is not perhaps overly attractive morally.
ref: 2006, Gary Chartier, “Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy”, in Religious Studies, volume 41, number 1, page 10:
glosses: A person who in their ethical propositions puts animals on a level with humans.
Related terms: zoophilia
zoophilite
zoophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊ.ə.faɪl/
/ˈzuː.ə.faɪl/
Forms: form: more zoophile
form: most zoophile
form: zoöphile
Etymology: From zoo- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The manifestation of severely inflammatory, infiltrated and asymmetrical-disseminated plaques with well-defined borders in children should immediately suggest a zoophile dermatophytosis, especially when there is a plausible ‘history of animal contact’. An infection with T. mentagrophytes typically involves a severe eczematous skin reaction and sometimes the appearance of pustules. The areas of face, neck and arms are the most frequently affected in zoophilic dermatophyte infections.
ref: 2013 October 4, Viktor A Czaika, “Misdiagnosed zoophile tinea faciei and tinea corporis effectively treated with isoconazole nitrate and diflucortolone valerate combination therapy”, in Mycoses, volume 56, number s1, →DOI, pages 26–9:
glosses: Preferring a beast milieu. Misconstruction of zoophilic.
examples: text: The notion that an ecosystem, or a species, is intrinsically valuable (apart from the enjoyments it provides to individuals) is one that zoophiles may dislike as much as libertarians (as Regan 1983). Spinoza, whose thought has been an inspiration both to environmentalists and to libertarians, was fiercely non-zoophile (Spinoza, Ethics 4p47sl; see Clark 1987).
ref: 1987, Stephen R. L. Clark, The Monist, volume 70, number 1, page 118:
glosses: Supporting policies favourable to animal lives. Misconstruction of zoophilic.
Related terms: zoophilist
worrisomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worrisome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being worrisome.
embassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embassy
she-goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiː.ɡəʊt/
ipa: /ˈʃi.ɡoʊt/
Forms: form: she-goats
form: shegoat
Etymology: From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.
Senses: examples: text: At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
synonyms: nanny goat
nanny
doe
coordinate_terms: he-goat
billy goat
billy
buck
goat
kid
glosses: A female goat.
Related terms: 🐐
flat affect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat affects
Senses: examples: text: After the crash he presented a flat affect, a symptom of PTSD.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of emotion, or of apparent emotion.
Related terms: anhedonia
labile affect
nooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːnɚ/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nooners
Etymology: From noon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A simple recess for lunch can turn into a nooner—a midday sexual encounter.
ref: 1998 Dec. 11, Benjamin Lee, Daily Collegian (University Wire), State College Pennsylvania
text: If you're going to knock off a nooner with a co-worker at a bad motel you have to scrawl your worn Hancock on the desk blotter.
ref: 2006 September 22, “Funnyman Dennis Miller Returns to FNC!”, in FOX News:
glosses: A sexual encounter during lunch hour, especially one which is illicit.
Hypernyms: quickie
pace car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pace cars
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A car that other cars drive behind before a race starts.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A car that paces the race cars to keep them running at a slower pace due to race conditions, and which the other cars cannot pass.
Related terms: word: safety car
pace cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pace car
nonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Latin nōnārius, from nōnus (“ninth”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).
Senses: examples: text: […] and the rhombic algebra is established as the direct sum of the nonary subalgebra of the U_(pq) and of the three unary subalgebras generated individually by V, W and X, […]
ref: 1984 January 9, L. J. Walpole, “Fourth-Rank Tensors of the Thirty-Two Crystal Classes: Multiplication Tables”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, volume 391, number 1800, →JSTOR, pages 149–179:
glosses: Of ninth rank or order.
Synonyms: nonal
Related terms: sense: Of ninth rank or order.
word: primary
word: secondary
word: tertiary
word: quaternary
word: quinary
word: senary
word: septenary
word: octonary
word: denary
word: duodenary
word: vigenary
periodic comet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodic comets
form: periodical comet
Senses: examples: text: The computation of the elements of its orbit reveals the fact that they are almost identical with those of Comet III, 1869, and hence it becomes what in astronomical language is called a periodic comet.
ref: 1880, Lewis Swift, “The New Periodic Comet”, in Science, volume 1, number 21, page 258:
text: Comet Temple-Tuttle is what astronomers call a "periodic comet," one of hundreds that routinely and predictably continue to orbit the Sun.
ref: 2001 November 8, P. Clay Sherrod, Gian Trotta, “A History of the Leonid Storm”, in SPACE.com, retrieved 26 Jan 2016:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A comet which orbits the Sun and which returns to the innermost point of its orbit at known, regular intervals.
Hypernyms: comet
Hyponyms: long-period comet
short-period comet
periodical comet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodical comets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of periodic comet.
universalizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of universalisability.
universalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: universalises
form: universalising
form: universalised
form: universalised
Etymology: From universal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of universalize.
Derived terms: universalisable
universalisation
tough call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tough calls
Senses: examples: text: Will it work? It's a tough call.
ref: 2001 June 25, Belinda Luscombe, “Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags”, in Time:
glosses: A choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.
Related terms: judgment call
sand fleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand flea
X factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X factors
form: x-factor
form: x factor
Senses: examples: text: We slid into our office, past two women discussing the "X factor," an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.
ref: 1992, Lia Matera, Prior Convictions, page 121:
text: The map can be misleading. It can appear to contain all the relevant information, but in real life, there is always an X factor.
ref: 1999, Joel R. DeLuca, Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes, page 75:
text: And put him on an LA film set and he glowed with that indefinable X-factor that agents the world over wished they could bottle.
ref: 2007, Tasmina Perry, Daddy's Girls, page 12:
text: Whether it's trade, global warming, Darfur or North Korea, China has become the new x''' factor, without which no durable solution is possible.
ref: 2007 December 31, Fareed Zakaria, “The Rise of a Fierce Fragile Superpower”, in Newsweek, page 38:
glosses: An unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences.
glosses: A special talent, ability or quality or its indefinable cause.
synonyms: factor X
glosses: Prothrombinase.
topics: astrophysics
glosses: The proportionality constant which converts CO emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen mass.
allochthonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒk.θə.nəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”).
Senses: glosses: Originating in a place other than where it is found.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Buried or found in a place remote from the site of formation.
Related terms: allochthon
for XYZ reasons
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: For reasons unknown and not worth speculating on.
Related terms: for reasons
Krystin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, one of the modern spelling variants of Kristin.
embay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embays
form: embaying
form: embayed
form: embayed
Etymology: From em- + bay (“bathe”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 560:
text: Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 225:
glosses: To bathe; to steep.
embay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embays
form: embaying
form: embayed
form: embayed
form: imbay
Etymology: From em- + bay.
Senses: examples: text: Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]
ref: 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:
text: Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
ref: 1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
embays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embay
embaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embay
rasante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈzɑnt/
Forms: form: more rasante
form: most rasante
Etymology: From French rasant, present participle of raser (“to graze”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Sweeping; grazing; applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, so that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them
villose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more villose
form: most villose
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of villous.
reame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reames
Senses: examples: text: The whiles his life ran foorth in bloudie streame ,
His foule descended downe into the Stygian reame
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of ream.
NHNF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no harm, no foul.
stiff upper lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiff upper lips
Etymology: Of American origin; the earliest known use is in 1811.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Olive_Branch_Or_Faults_on_Both_Sides/vG89AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=stiff+upper+lip&pg=PA237&printsec=frontcover
Senses: examples: text: I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, page 130:
text: Stiff upper lip, stout fella. Carry on, old fluff. Chin up, keep muddling through. Stiff upper lip, stout fella, when the going’s rough. Pip pip to old man trouble and a toodle-oo too.[…] Stiff upper lip, stout fella, when you’re in the stew. Sober or blotto, this is your motto. Keep muddling through.
ref: 1959, “Stiff Upper Lip”, in Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, performed by Ella Fitzgerald:
text: [...] Jeeves came in, bowler hat in hand, to say goodbye. A solemn moment, taxing our self-control to the utmost. However, we both kept the upper lip stiff, and after we had kidded back and forth for a while he started to withdraw. [...] He poked his head round the tree as I arrived, and when I waved a cheery hand at him, waved a fairly cheery hand at me. Though I only caught a glimpse of him, I could see that his upper lip was stiff.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II AND XV”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather.
ref: 2005, Ben Wright, Michael Patrick Shiels, Good Bounces and Bad Lies, page 39:
glosses: The quality of being resolute and showing self-restraint, stereotypically associated with the British; especially as keep a stiff upper lip.
Derived terms: stiff-upper-lipped
stiff-upper-lippery
Related terms: word: mustn't grumble
palet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palets
Etymology: From pale + -et.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of pallet (“diminutive pale”).
fung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).
fung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungs
Etymology: Anglicization of fungus.
Senses: glosses: Fungus.
burqa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.kə/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.kə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə
Forms: form: burqas
form: burka
form: burkha
form: burqua
form: boorka
form: bourkha
form: bourqa
Etymology: From Hindustani برقع / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian برقع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).
Senses: examples: text: He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.
ref: 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 69:
synonyms: word: paranja
raw_tags: in Central Asia
word: chadri
hypernyms: purdah
qualifier: strictly
glosses: An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).
glosses: Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:
A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
glosses: Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:
A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .
Derived terms: anti-burqa
burqaed
burqaless
burqini
Related terms: aba
abaya
burqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burquas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burqa.
Wembley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛmbli/
Etymology: Derived from the Old English proper name Wemba and lēah (“clearing in a forest; meadow, leigh”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of London, in northwestern Greater London, England.
examples: text: If they carry on with their good form, they'll be at Wembley at the end of the season.
text: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A stadium in London, the national sports stadium and venue where finals of major football tournaments are held.
glosses: A town in the County of Grande Prairie, No.1, northern Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A western suburb of Perth in the Town of Cambridge and City of Stirling, Western Australia.
Derived terms: North Wembley
Wembley Park
Kainuu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Kainuu.
Senses: glosses: A region of Finland.
interruptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interruptors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interrupter.
doncella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doncellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish doncella (“maid”). Doublet of damsel, demoiselle, and donzella.
Senses: glosses: A fish of Florida and the West Indies (Halichoeres radiatus).
glosses: A ladyfish (Bodianus rufus) of the same region.
moler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molers
Etymology: From mole + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I know of this from my time in Yorkshire: a farmer or landowner will hire a moler for a defined period to rid his land of moles.
ref: 2017, David B. Beckwith, Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Volume III, page 98:
glosses: Synonym of molecatcher (“one who catches moles”).
synonyms: word: molecatcher
extra: one who catches moles
Quantas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Qantas.
barbecue stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbecue stoppers
Senses: glosses: A topic of conversation which is controversial and of contemporary significance. Hence, a social gaffe.
half step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half steps
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The distance between two tones. In 12-tone equal temperament, its frequency ratio is 2^(1/12), or about 1.059 or 18/17.
Related terms: whole step
semitone
cent
virtual darkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Infrared photography is the most suitable method for accurately measuring the diameter of the pupil in virtual darkness as well as under any condition of light […]
ref: 1942, IH Wagman, JE Gullberg, "The Relationship between Monochromatic Light and Pupil Diameter. The Low Intensity Visibility Curve as Measured by Pupillary Measurements. American Journal of Physiology, 137: 769-778
text: The term scotic (Gr. skotos, darkness) was therefore devised as the most apt term for the condition of virtual darkness.
ref: 1965, DR Calder, JS Bleakney, Microarthropod Ecology of a Porcupine-Inhabited Cave in Nova Scotia: Ecology:
text: With a high-tech assist beam, you can shoot in virtual darkness, although a more practical use is for working in dim rooms and on streets at night.
ref: 2002, George Schaub, Using Your Camera: A Basic Guide to 35Mm Photography, page 110:
text: "[V]irtual darkness" may be achievable by blocking blue wavelengths of light. […] Therefore it may be possible to influence human circadian rhythms by using these lenses at night to blunt the impact of electrical light, particularly the blue light of ubiquitous television screens, by creating a "virtual darkness".
ref: 2007, Phelps J., Dark therapy for bipolar disorder using amber lenses for blue light blockade. Medical Hypotheses, July 14, 2007, [Epub ahead of print] pmid:17637502
glosses: An environment that has some of the physiological effects of darkness.
Related terms: english: Wikipedia article on use of virtual darkness
translation: Wikipedia article on use of virtual darkness
word: Dark therapy
whole step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole steps
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval equal to two half steps; a whole tone.
gabbros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbro
life of its own
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a life of its own
form: lives of their own
Senses: examples: text: take on a life of its own
text: Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, "a life of its own".
ref: 1996, George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, page 181:
text: […], information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own.
ref: 2002, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information, page 18:
text: A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.
ref: 2003, Kristin Hunter Lattany, The Lakestown Rebellion, page 185:
glosses: An independent existence with some characteristics of life.
PALplus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From PAL + plus.
Senses: examples: text: The manager in charge of Philips's R&D on PALplus was extremely unpopular with the HD-MAC team.
ref: 1997, Helen S. Wallace, Alasdair R. Young, Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union, page 192:
text: Parallel development efforts were conducted to implement an extended 16:9 aspect ratio PAL-compatible signal, referred to as PALplus.
ref: 2001, Jerry C. Whitaker, DTV Handbook: The Revolution in Digital Video, page 524:
text: PALplus […] is the result of a cooperative project. […]. By 1995 they wanted to provide an Enhanced Definition Television system (EDTV) compatible with existing receivers. PALplus has been transmitted by a few broadcasters since 1994.
ref: 2004, Keith Jack, Video Demystified: A Handbook for the Digital Engineer, page 308:
glosses: An enhanced version of the PAL TV system capable of transmitting pictures in the 16:9 widescreen format.