cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dereference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɛfɹəns/
Forms: form: dereferences
form: dereferencing
form: dereferenced
form: dereferenced
Etymology: From de- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: Attempting to dereference a null pointer often results in a crash.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To access the value or object located in a memory location addressed by a pointer or another value interpreted as such; to access a value being referenced by something else.
examples: text: With the find command, any symbolic links appearing after -follow will be dereferenced.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: follow
resolve
glosses: To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the link itself.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To dissolve a symbolic link by replacing it with a copy of its target.
Derived terms: dereferenceable
dereferencer
dereference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɛfɹəns/
Forms: form: dereferences
Etymology: From de- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: Either each dereference must use a complicated DCAS protocol, or each pointer must include a version number that is managed on each modification and checked on each dereference, or storage management must be tightly coupled […]
ref: 1999, Michael Barry Greenwald, Non-blocking synchronization and system design, page 77:
glosses: The act by which something is dereferenced.
Related terms: pointer
tarai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terai.
ure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
text: But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
That lies in vs;
ref: c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248:
text: ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure
ref: 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 _Volume_1.djvu)
glosses: Use, practise, exercise.
raw_tags: in collocations in ure
Derived terms: inure
ure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ures
form: uring
form: ured
form: ured
Etymology: From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.
Senses: examples: 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,
[…] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]
glosses: To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
ure
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of you're (you are).
aya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayah.
aya
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
ref: 1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN:
text: “And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”
ref: 2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN:
glosses: Yes; yea; aye.
Teflon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛflɒn/
Etymology: Trade name, 1940s. From the first letters of tetra- (“four”) + fluoro- (“fluorine”) + -on modeled after nylon etc. From the fluorine count of polytetrafluoroethylene.
Senses: glosses: A brand name of polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”) products, latterly applied to other fluoropolymer products.
Derived terms: teflon
Teflon Don
Teflonish
Teflon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛflɒn/
Forms: form: Teflons
form: teflon
Etymology: Trade name, 1940s. From the first letters of tetra- (“four”) + fluoro- (“fluorine”) + -on modeled after nylon etc. From the fluorine count of polytetrafluoroethylene.
Senses: examples: text: ...tweeting in defiance at all those horrendous scandals that were meant to destroy his campaign. He made teflon look sticky.
ref: 2016 November 9, James Eagle, Donald Trump: Why is the world so surprised?, retrieved 30 Oct 2017:
text: Look at that there fool playing dirty tricks
He must be made of Teflon 'cause nothing ever sticks
Dancing 'round the room while farting in the breeze
Friends huff it down like it's American cheese
ref: 2022, “Follow the Fool”, performed by Primus:
glosses: Multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.
glosses: Synonym of polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”).
synonyms: word: polytetrafluoroethylene
extra: PTFE
Coordinate terms: ePTFE
Gore-Tex
Derived terms: Teflon flu
Teflon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛflɒn/
Forms: form: teflon
Etymology: Trade name, 1940s. From the first letters of tetra- (“four”) + fluoro- (“fluorine”) + -on modeled after nylon etc. From the fluorine count of polytetrafluoroethylene.
Senses: examples: text: a Teflon image
text: But Ronald Reagan, by everybody's definition, was the Teflon president, and it wasn't that the media tried to touch him and failed.
ref: 1995, Liz Cunningham, Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age:
text: He would have called the man by his first name and said, Not at all, so and so, but though he was very good at remembering names where clients were concerned, there was something very Teflon about these guys and nothing about them was sticking with him.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Godmother's Web, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Having an undamageable reputation (by analogy with nonstick Teflon surfaces).
raw_tags: of a person
Coordinate terms: like water off a duck's back
rubber
water off a duck's back
free variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free variables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable that is not bound to a storage location.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A variable (occurring within some expression or well-formed formula) which is not bound by a quantifier or analogous symbol (such as a lambda abstractor, the "differential d" near the end of an integral or differential form, or a summation symbol).
Related terms: scope
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NADP
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The phosphate of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; a coenzyme important in fatty acid synthesis.
dinucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinucleotides
Etymology: From di- + nucleotide.
Senses: examples: text: Sinclair also takes 1 gram of NMN, or nicotinamide mononucleotide, which in the body turns into NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any molecule consisting primarily of two nucleotide units.
Derived terms: heterodinucleotide
homodinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
oligodinucleotide
Related terms: trinucleotide
locum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊkəm/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊkəm
Forms: form: locums
Senses: examples: text: "I asked about his Joes, he said the Joes could look after themselves and if Jack was bothered about them he could send a locum."
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Ellipsis of locum tenens.
examples: text: -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place."
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 116:
glosses: A period working as a locum tenens.
Related terms: locumship
locum tenency
locum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊkəm/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊkəm
Forms: form: loca
Senses: glosses: A share in a Genoese trading vessel.
clearinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearinghouses
Senses: examples: text: In Britain, back when the last mile referred only to a product’s transit from warehouse to shop, this journey began, most often, in the Midlands. This part of the country is a clearinghouse for millions of shipments every year.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clearing house.
alack
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: alacke
form: 'lack
Etymology: From Middle English alacke, alagge, probably from ah + lack.
Senses: examples: text: On a day, alack the day: / Loue, whoſe Month is euery May, / Spied a bloſſome paſſing faire, / Playing in the wanton ayre:
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 133:
text: Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!
ref: 1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: An expression of sorrow or mourning.
Synonyms: alackaday
alas
Derived terms: alack and alas
alas and alack
Lenten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛntən/
rhymes: -ɛntən
Forms: form: more Lenten
form: most Lenten
Etymology: From Old English lenten, lencten.
Senses: examples: text: And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero […].
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXIX, line 8-10
glosses: Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
examples: text: To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you […].
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
Derived terms: Lenten rose
Lententide
Lent
Lenten lily
sustainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [səˌsteɪnəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /səˌstæɪnəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: [səˌstæɪnəˈbɪlɪɾi]
Forms: form: sustainabilities
Etymology: From sustain + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: None of the processing happens out in the open ocean, said Gaurav Sant, an Equatic founder and professor of sustainability at UCLA, “this is important because it allows you to measure everything that you’re doing perfectly.”
ref: 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability to sustain something.
A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
examples: text: The making of buggy whips is the proverbial exemplar of a business without sustainability in the face of technological change.
text: In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
topics: business
glosses: The ability to sustain something.
The ability to sustain a business in the long term, which is a state that is partly dependent on, but broader than, profitability today or in the short term; it involves aspects of a plausible path toward eventual profitability (as applies to a startup) and ecologic sustainability (for example, the long-term dependence of the timber/lumber industry on forest preservation and renewal, or of fisheries on viable fish stocks).
examples: text: universal primary and secondary education, without which the sustainability of innovation and entrepreneurialism seems questionable
glosses: The ability to sustain something.
The ability to sustain a civic practice or process in the long term, such as democracy, entrepreneurialism, a war effort, or others.
qualifier: civics
Derived terms: seismic sustainability
Related terms: sustain
sustainable
sustenance
resilience
resiliency
Weet-Bix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weet-bix
Etymology: A deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, used in Australian English from the 1920s onwards.
Senses: examples: text: 1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320,
While my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation.
text: “This is my breakfast in Australia.[…]”[…]Siri soaked his Weet-bix with kiri-hodi and ate it. Siri′s mother tried it plain.
ref: 2002, Sunil Govinage, The Black Australian: Black Swans and Other Stories, page 25:
text: I′m so nervous at breakfast, I accidentally pour apple juice over my Weet-Bix, not milk. I eat it anyway. It tastes sweet and chewy. I should write to the Sanitarium Health Food Company with my serving suggestion. Call it, ‘Weet-Bix Surprise’.
ref: 2009, Steven Herrick, Rhyming Boy, ReadHowYouWant, page 148:
glosses: A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.
Derived terms: have had one's Weet-Bix today
Related terms: word: Weetabix
word: wheat bisk
have one's Weetabix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's Weetabix
form: having one's Weetabix
form: had one's Weetabix
form: had one's Weetabix
Etymology: From a slogan used to advertise the cereal Weetabix.
Senses: glosses: To prepare to exhibit plenty of vitality or strength or other superior performance.
Synonyms: eat one's Wheaties
loc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locs
form: 'loc
Etymology: Clipping of dreadlock.
Senses: examples: text: Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.
ref: 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
text: Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.
ref: 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A dreadlock.
Derived terms: loc'd
loc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locs
form: locing
form: loced
form: loced
form: 'loc
Etymology: Clipping of dreadlock.
Senses: examples: text: Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.
ref: 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:
glosses: To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
loc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LOC.
loc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
translation-studies
glosses: Clipping of localization.
loc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lōk
ipa: /ləʊk/
ipa: /loʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: more loc
form: most loc
Senses: glosses: Clipping of loco (“crazy”).
Derived terms: loced out
matrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪtɹɪs/
Forms: form: matrices
Etymology: From Middle English matrice, matris, from Old French matrice, from Latin mātrīx; compare French matrice.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of matrix.
glosses: The womb.
donkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey
industrial arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practical arts, such as engineering, metalworking or carpentry.
glosses: The teaching of the knowledge and skills needed to work with tools and machinery.
manny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: mannies
Etymology: Blend of man + nanny
Senses: examples: 2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. — CBS News, 9 June 2006
glosses: A male nanny (for children).
Related terms: mannie
Mannie
Manny
kidult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪd.ʌlt/
rhymes: -ɪdʌlt
Forms: form: kidults
Etymology: Blend of kid + adult
Senses: examples: text: Organizational methods appear significantly more frequently in kidult programs, next most frequently in adult programs, and least frequently in children's programs. Escape methods appear most frequently in adult programs with kidult and children's programs about equal.
ref: 1963, Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociological Inquiry, volumes 33-34, page 189:
text: By casting popular culture as simplistic and ‘kidult’, as distinct from the authentic adult culture she approves of, she reduces a complex culture to a generational divide: the new is childish; while the old and established is timeless, worthy of consumption by adults.
ref: 2006, Kate Crawford, Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood, page 192:
text: In the 21st century, whose “kidult” blurring of the lines sees grown-ups listening to “kindie rock,” feeding their kids gourmet gelato instead of Good Humor, and dissecting the last Pixar film, the notion of a tree house in our collective backyard with a misspelled sign saying “Kidz only” is a healthy thing[.]
ref: 2008, Dade Hayes, Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, or, How Television Became My Baby’s Best Friend, page 86:
topics: business
human-sciences
marketing
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An adult who participates in youth culture and activities traditionally intended for children.
Synonyms: adultescent
adultolescent
rejuvenile
Derived terms: kidulthood
Related terms: man child
Peter Pan syndrome
postadolescence
status inconsistency
status discrepancy
cockneyfication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cockneyfications
Etymology: From cockney + -fication.
Senses: glosses: the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys
cockney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockneys
form: Cockney
Etymology: See Cockney.
Senses: examples: text: A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
examples: text: A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…]
ref: 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:
text: This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Synonyms: sense: effeminate man
word: nancy
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
Derived terms: cockneycality
cockneyess
cockneyfication
cockneyfy
cockneyize
Irish cockney
Jockney
cockney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Cockney
Etymology: See Cockney.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cockney.
cockney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cockney
Etymology: See Cockney.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cockney.
codetermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codetermines
form: codetermining
form: codetermined
form: codetermined
Etymology: From co- + determine.
Senses: glosses: To determine jointly, as of labour and management when cooperating in policymaking.
Related terms: codetermination
co-fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + fusion.
Senses: glosses: The fusion of two metals together, or a metal and nonmetal, especially in the production of crucible steel.
crucible steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crucible steels
Senses: glosses: A high-grade steel, used in tools and dies, originally made by fusing wrought iron and charcoal in a crucible.
conceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conceivably
form: most conceivably
Etymology: From conceivable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Considering that no lexicographer can conceivably know all the words of a language, students were asked to ponder what data lexicographers used to inform them about words[.]
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
glosses: In a conceivable manner; possibly.
coelomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /siːˈlɒmɪk/
Forms: form: cœlomic
form: celomic
form: coelomatic
Etymology: From coelom + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to a coelom.
Derived terms: acoelomic
coeloconic
extracoelomic
intracoelomic
pseudocoelomic
subcoelomic
transcoelomic
Wanji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vwanji
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Wanji terms
Wungu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bungu
form: Echiungu
form: Kibungu
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Wiradjuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /wɪˈraːd͡ʒuriː/
Forms: form: Wiradhuri
form: Waradgeri
form: Waradgery
form: Wiradhari
form: Wiradhurri
form: Wiradthuri
form: Wiradyuri
form: Wiragere
form: Wiraiari
form: Wirradgerry
form: Wirradhuri
form: Wirradhurri
form: Wirratherie
form: Wirrathuri
form: Wooragurie
form: Woradgery
Senses: examples: text: The tribes who attended the Būrbŭng described in this paper were some of those belonging to the Wiradthuri community, which in former times was both numerous and important, occupying a wide tract of country in the interior of New South Wales, extending from somewhere about the Murray River northerly nearly to the Barwan river, where they were joined by the great Kamilaroi tribes.
ref: 1896, R. H. Mathews, “The Būrbŭng of the Wiradthuri Tribes”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 25:
glosses: An indigenous people of Australia who live in a large area of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains.
Wiradjuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɪˈraːd͡ʒuriː/
Forms: form: Wiradhuri
form: Waradgeri
form: Waradgery
form: Wiradhari
form: Wiradhurri
form: Wiradthuri
form: Wiradyuri
form: Wiragere
form: Wiraiari
form: Wirradgerry
form: Wirradhuri
form: Wirradhurri
form: Wirratherie
form: Wirrathuri
form: Wooragurie
form: Woradgery
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Günther’s and Mr. Watson’s treat of the same language, the Wīrādhurri, or, as some aborigines pronounce it, Wīrāgĕrĕ, a language spoken over a wide extent of country, from the Upper Namoi, the Castlereagh and Liverpool Plains in the north and east, to the Bawun or Darling west, and the Lachlan in the south. [...] I suppose this “Northerumberland dialect” was not spoken over more than one-fiftieth of the extent of country over which Wiradhuri or Kamilaroi is known.
ref: 1873, William Ridley, “Australian Languages and Traditions”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
text: The Wirradhuri dialect, or as I call it, the Wirádhari, covers the whole heart of N. S. Wales; [...]
ref: 1892, John Fraser, An Australian Language:
text: The native tribes speaking the Wiradyuri language occupy an immense region in the central and southern portions of New South Wales.
ref: 1904, R. H. Mathews, “The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 34:
text: We can recognise Wiradhurri and Ngiyambaa as constituting a branch within the subgroup, [...]
ref: 2002, R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development:
glosses: The Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Wiradjuri.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Wiradjuri terms
overflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌovɚ-/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: overflowings
Etymology: From overflow + -ing
Senses: examples: text: [T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
ref: 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205:
glosses: overflow
Derived terms: full to overflowing
overflowingly
overflowingness
to overflowing
unoverflowing
overflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌovɚ-/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: From overflow + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overflow
Sven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Sven.
Senses: examples: text: “For many cities, the urban layout allows similar urban re-design strategies, even if the city is not a perfect model of the grid-like layout,” says Sven Eggimann, a researcher focusing on sustainable urban planning at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf, who conducted the analysis. […] Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world.
ref: 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022:
glosses: A male given name from Swedish.
trilby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪlbi/
Forms: form: trilbys
form: trilbies
Etymology: From the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's novel Trilby, in which such hats were worn.
Senses: examples: text: “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
text: Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine.
ref: 1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady", archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
glosses: narrow-brimmed type of felt hat, described as having a "shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back" in comparison to the fedora
Synonyms: word: brown trillby
Related terms: fedora
Magd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Clipping of Magdalen, referring to Magdalen College, Oxford.
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: Clipping of Magdalene, referring to Magdalene College, Cambridge.
communicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪ.tɪŋ/
ipa: /kəˈmju.nəˌkeɪ.tɪŋ/
Etymology: From communicate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of communicate
communicating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪ.tɪŋ/
ipa: /kəˈmju.nəˌkeɪ.tɪŋ/
Etymology: From communicate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.
text: I put my grips against the communicating door last night.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:
text: Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express—the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
glosses: Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.
Derived terms: communicating artery
communicating vessel
unmerchantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmerchantable
form: most unmerchantable
Etymology: From un- + merchantable.
Senses: glosses: Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is not salable.
merchantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more merchantable
form: most merchantable
Etymology: From merchant + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs.
ref: March 1858, Nathan Clifford in the United States Supreme Court, Leonard v. Davis 66 U.S. 476
glosses: Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
Derived terms: merchantableness
nonmerchantable
submerchantable
Related terms: unmerchantable
merchantability
suicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsjuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.ɪ-/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: more suicidal
form: most suicidal
Etymology: From suicide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
glosses: Pertaining to suicide.
examples: text: After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.
text: The campaign aimed to give commuters the confidence to trust their own instincts and intervene if they spot someone vulnerable who may be at risk of suicide, and to talk to them to interrupt their suicidal thoughts.
ref: 2020 July 1, Ruth Sutherland, Neil Peters, “Answering the call”, in Rail, page 47:
text: Seven people were killed and 66 injured after a High Speed Train slammed into a stationary vehicle that had been parked across the main line by a suicidal driver.
ref: 2021 February 24, Paul Stephen, “Level crossings are one of our key risk areas”, in RAIL, number 925, page 46:
text: It makes me feel better that I’m not the only one who fantasizes about being struck down by a meteor on my way to work. Mind you, I’m not actively suicidal at all. I just kinda think being dead without actually killing myself would be easier and way less exhausting.”
ref: 2023 December 2, Tim Graham, “American Psychological Association Announces “Feeling Like Dying But Not Really Suicidal” New Baseline For Normal Mental Health”, in The Hard Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
glosses: Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 33:41 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
raw_tags: of a voluntarily-chosen course of action
examples: text: His driving habits are utterly suicidal.
text: “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
ref: 2025 March 5, Zachary B. Wolf, “Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy”, in CNN:
glosses: Extremely reckless.
Derived terms: depressive suicidal black metal
suicidal empathy
suicidal ideation
Related terms: suicidality
suicidally
suicide
suicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsjuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.ɪ-/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: suicidals
Etymology: From suicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.
entanglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
Forms: form: entanglements
Etymology: From entangle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The most notorious of these was his entanglement of the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis, against the advice of the military, who held him responsible for their embarrassing inability to frighten the USA because he had failed[…]
ref: 2002, David Robertson, David Professor Robertson, A Dictionary of Modern Politics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: The act of entangling.
examples: text: The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century.
ref: 2018 June 30, Katrina O'Loughlin, Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:entanglement.
glosses: The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
examples: text: In his article, Bell demonstrated that quantum theory requires entanglement; the strange connectedness is an inescapable feature of the equations.
ref: 2014 November 14, David Kaiser, “Is Quantum Entanglement Real?”, in New York Times:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of quantum entanglement.
Derived terms: disentanglement
hydroentanglement
hyperentanglement
nonentanglement
quantum entanglement
unentanglement
Related terms: entangler
entangling
Rio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹioʊ/
rhymes: (General American) -ioʊ
Senses: examples: text: Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Clipping of Rio de Janeiro.
glosses: A male given name.
examples: text: Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand / Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
ref: 1982, Duran Duran, “Rio”, in Rio:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A town and former municipality of Achaea regional unit, West Greece region, Greece.
glosses: A census-designated place in Martin County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Spalding County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in Knox County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin (pronounced /ˈɹaɪoʊ/).
Tarzan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹzæn/
Etymology: Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
In the fictional ape language of the books, "tarzan" means "white-skin"; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A heroic fictional character, raised from a baby to adulthood in the African jungle by apes.
Derived terms: out-Tarzan
Tarzana
Tarzanese
Tarzanesque
Tarzanian
Tarzaniana
Tarzanic
Tarzanish
Tarzanism
Tarzanist
Tarzan-like
Tarzan-speak
Tarzan swing
Tarzany
Tarzan yell
Tarzan yodel
Tarzan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹzæn/
Forms: form: Tarzans
Etymology: Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
In the fictional ape language of the books, "tarzan" means "white-skin"; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).
Senses: examples: text: "[A]s if we all like climbing around in trees, like monkeys or Tarzans."
ref: 1991 September 7, The Daily Telegraph, London, page 13:
text: PAYNE STEWART, beating his heart like a Tarzan, drummed out a message to the rest of the Open Championship field with three days to go before the off. "I'm ready," he said, "definitely ready."
ref: 1993 July 13, “Golf: Stewart in good heart”, in The Guardian, Manchester:
text: The top price of £4,500 belongs to Michael Heseltine, but there is little glory here. The caption, of a Tarzan cruelly ravaged by time, is 'But even the beautiful can age.'
ref: 1993 November 28, “You never forget a good nanny”, in The Guardian, Manchester:
text: There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.
ref: 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:
glosses: A strong wild man; any man showing attributes of Tarzan, as muscularity, agility, etc.
Tarzan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹzæn/
Forms: form: Tarzans
form: Tarzaning
form: Tarzaned
form: Tarzaned
Etymology: Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
In the fictional ape language of the books, "tarzan" means "white-skin"; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).
Senses: examples: text: Elmo Lincoln, that mighty man of valor who Tarzaned about, has issued a challenge to Jack Dempsey, and we wish him all the luck in the world.
ref: 1919 August 16, “Hollywood Hokum”, in Motion Picture News, New York, page 1475, column 2:
text: Later in the evening a tree climbing contest was held. Paul Gipe was the only entry. However, judging from the manner in which he tarzaned up and down the big tree he would have had small competition.
ref: 1935 July 23, “Here and There in Sports' Land”, in New Castle News, New Castle, PA, page 10, column 4:
text: Once, when he was about 12, he had attached a rope to the roof, thrown the other end to the top of a tree and the next morning "Tarzaned" across from the tree to his parents' window. He could still remember the look of startled anger on their faces, and how it changed to the one of pleasure they always had for him. After that he often "Tarzaned" in for a morning visit.
ref: 1953 March 21, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 6, column 4:
text: None of us had ever "Tarzaned" off a cliff[.]
ref: 1992 September 13, “Shedding Inhibitions – and Even Clothes – on a Kauai Wilderness Tour”, in The Seattle Times, page 7:
text: "He Tarzaned it," Abshier says, describing Deputy King's wild, but ultimately successful, flying tackle. "He spent the rest of the day pulling dewberry stickers out of his pants."
ref: 1997 March 6, “Texas Officer Perfects Art of Lassoing Emus”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, page 3:
text: Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.
ref: 1999 July 18, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Ga, page 8:
glosses: To behave in the manner of Tarzan, especially by swinging from ropes, climbing trees, and other feats of athleticism.
intricacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹɪ.kə.si/
Forms: form: intricacies
Etymology: From intricate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: the intricacy of a knot
text: the intricacy of accounts
text: the intricacy of a cause in controversy
glosses: The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
examples: text: The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.
ref: 2013, Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121:
synonyms: involution
complication
complexity
glosses: Perplexity.
examples: text: There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
text: With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention.
ref: 1845, Jordan Roche Lynch, The Hunterian Oration, page 8:
glosses: Something which is intricate or complex.
Presbyterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: See presbyterian § Etymology.
Senses: synonyms: Presbyterial
glosses: Relating to Presbyterianism.
Presbyterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Presbyterians
Etymology: See presbyterian § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to a church in the tradition of Presbyterianism.
Hypernyms: Protestant
Related terms: Presbyterianism
Frenchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenchman
geostrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪ.əˈstɹoʊ.fɪk/
ipa: /-ˈstɹɔ.fɪk/
Forms: form: more geostrophic
form: most geostrophic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth-”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the horizontal Coriolis forces and the horizontal pressure forces.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or arising from the deflective force exerted on the atmosphere due to the rotation of the earth.
Coordinate terms: cyclostrophic
Derived terms: geostrophically
quasigeostrophic
Related terms: ageostrophic
geostrophic wind
geostrophic wind level
silicic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin silex, silicis (“a flint”). Compare French silicique.
Senses: glosses: of, related to, or derived from silica
Derived terms: orthosilicic
polysilicic
silicic acid
Rouen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rouen, from Latin Rotomagus. Replaced Middle English Rone, from Anglo-Norman Ron.
Senses: glosses: The prefecture of the department of Seine-Maritime, and the capital of the region of Normandy, France, on the Seine River.
Derived terms: Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Rouen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rouens
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rouen, from Latin Rotomagus. Replaced Middle English Rone, from Anglo-Norman Ron.
Senses: glosses: A heavyweight breed of domesticated duck, of French origin.
milde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: milder
form: mildest
Senses: examples: text: M. Wotton, a man milde of nature, with soft voice, and fewe wordes, inclined to M. Secretaries iudgement, and said, in mine opinion, the Scholehouse should be in deede, as it is called by name, the house of playe and pleasure, and not of feare and bondage: and as I do remember, so saith Socrates in one place of Plato.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mild.
geostrophic wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geostrophic winds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wind whose direction and speed are determined by a balance of the horizontal pressure gradient force and the force due to the earth's rotation to the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right in the southern hemisphere.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: That horizontal wind velocity for which the Coriolis force exactly balances the horizontal pressure gradient force. The geostrophic wind is thus directed along the contour lines on a constant-pressure surface (or along the isobars in a geopotential surface) with low elevations (or low pressure) to the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right in the southern hemisphere.
Related terms: geostrophy
silicification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicifications
Etymology: From silica + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Hostrock identified as quartzite may indicate silicification of pelitic country rock.
ref: 1998, Henry C. Berg, Bradfield Canal Quadrangle: Alaska Resource Data File, page 117:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Impregnation with silica; petrification.
Derived terms: biosilicification