cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
some one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: “But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:
text: A company of young lads or men, generally went in old times on what they termed the Qualtagh, at Christmas or New Year's Day to the house of their more wealthy neighbours; some one of the company repeating in an audible voice the following rhyme:– […] they were then invited in to partake of the best that the house could afford.
ref: 1835, Archibald Cregeen, “Quaal′tagh or Qual′tagh”, in A Dictionary of the Manks Language, with the Corresponding Words or Explanations in English; […], Douglas, Isle of Man: […] J. Quiggin, […]; Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, […]; Evans, Chegwin, and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 132, column 2:
text: I got a spade from the toolhouse, and began to delve with all my might—it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws, I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XV, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 304:
text: When a healthy child suddenly becomes sickly, and no one can account for the change, the child is said to be "forespoken." Or when a stout man or woman becomes hypochondriac, or affected with nervous complaints, he or she is "forespoken." Some one has perhaps said "He's a bonny bairn," or "Thou ar' lookin weel the day;" but they have spoken with an ill tongue. They have neglected to add, "God save the bairn," or, "Safe be thou," &c.
ref: 1854 September 16, “F.”, “Orkney Charms”, in Notes and Queries, volume X, number 225, London: George Bell, →OCLC, page 221:
text: Ah, why the divil, Puddock, do you keep them ould women's charrums and divilments, about you—you'll be the death of some one yet, so you will.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Æsculapius to the Rescue”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 146:
text: What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.
ref: 1886, Henry James, chapter XXI, in The Princess Casamassima, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 83:
glosses: Obsolete form of someone.
afghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæfˌɡæn/
ipa: /ˈæfɡən/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: afghans
Senses: glosses: A blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted.
glosses: A type of iced chocolate biscuit, sometimes containing cornflakes and topped with a walnut.
smokefall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokefalls
Etymology: From smoke + fall.
Senses: examples: text: The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
ref: 1935: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton" (possible neologism)
glosses: The close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.
examples: text: The largest sea ice perturbations are generated by smokefall in spring.
ref: 1985: T.S. Ledley and S.L. Thompson, Potential effect of nuclear war smokefall on sea ice (apparent neologism)
glosses: The soot fallout from a cloud of smoke.
glosses: An artificial waterfall of smoke for shows.
Related terms: crepuscule
dusk
evenfall
fogfall
gloaming
nightfall
soot fallout
sunset
twilight
inflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɛksəbl̩/
Forms: form: more inflexible
form: most inflexible
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inflexible, from Latin īnflexibilis. See also in- + flexible.
Senses: synonyms: stiff
rigid
firm
unyielding
glosses: Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent.
glosses: Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits.
examples: text: Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
ref: 2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: Not able to be changed or adapted to circumstances.
Synonyms: unflexible
Related terms: inflexibility
inflexibleness
inflexibly
agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreement
bolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolo
seperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of separate.
seperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seperates
form: seperating
form: seperated
form: seperated
Senses: examples: 1630, Elizabeth Cary (translator), The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine the First Tome, Douay: Martin Bogart, Chapter 27, p. 120,
[…] he spake not with a iudiciary anathema, but with an anathema abiuratory, and abnegatory whereby hee did not seperate Liberius from the communion of the Church, who had alreadie seperated himselfe, […] but whereby he seperated himselfe from the communion of Liberius.
glosses: Obsolete form of separate.
glosses: Misspelling of separate.
Inquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals. Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied. The Church no longer does those things to homosexuals, but it violates their human rights in other ways.
ref: 1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4:
glosses: A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
glosses: A harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates one’s rights.
Derived terms: Spanish Inquisition
Spanish Inquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extension of the Papal Inquisition, established in 15th-century Spain to investigate and punish converted Jews and Muslims thought to be insincere.
examples: text: I agreed to answer a few questions, but I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
glosses: Excessive questioning or interrogation.
Related terms: third degree
inquisition post mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inquisitions post mortem
Senses: glosses: A local investigation into the lands of a deceased person in order to discover the amount of income and the legal rights that were due to the crown.
post mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm/
ipa: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɔɹtəm/
Forms: form: postmortem
form: post-mortem
Etymology: From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).
Senses: examples: text: The hospice's standard procedure for post mortem room cleaning looks very thorough.
glosses: After death.
examples: text: We shouldn't let these post mortem injuries distract us while looking for the cause of death.
text: The post mortem timeline is incomplete.
glosses: Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.
Synonyms: posthumous
post obitum
Coordinate terms: perimortem
post mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm/
ipa: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɔɹtəm/
Forms: form: postmortem
form: post-mortem
Etymology: From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).
Senses: examples: text: The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
glosses: Occurring after death.
Synonyms: posthumously
post obitum
Coordinate terms: perimortem
post mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm/
ipa: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɔɹtəm/
Forms: form: post mortems
form: postmortem
form: post-mortem
Etymology: From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
ref: 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:
synonyms: autopsy
PM
glosses: An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
examples: text: Each user-visible outage or SLA violation should be followed by a postmortem and conclude with implementation of the recommendations in the postmortem report.
ref: 2014 September 3, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan, The Practice of Cloud System Administration (Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems; 2), Addison-Wesley, page 300:
text: After a serious delay there is often a post mortem on what happened, but this is usually in-house.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
text: Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"
ref: 2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice:
topics: management
synonyms: debriefing
AAR
glosses: Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
qualifier: university slang
glosses: At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
Coordinate terms: antemortem
perimortem
premortem
Derived terms: inquisition post mortem
post mortem auctoris
pre-mortem
Related terms: have the drains up
post mortem auctoris
zing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭng
ipa: /zɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: zings
Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: I heard a zing close to my head and looked up again. Five or six men were lined up on the deck above me with rifles shooting at the shark.
ref: 1998 March 15, Edward E. Leslie, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls, Mariner Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 387:
glosses: A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string.
glosses: A witty insult or derogatory remark.
examples: text: To accompany a meal, the fresh Italian lager Poretti is perfect; Erdinger Weisbier, a wheat beer from Germany, is full of zing;
ref: 2006 May 25, Melinda Houston, “European Bier Cafe - Bar Reviews”, in The Age:
glosses: Zest or vitality.
glosses: Pleasant or exciting flavour of food.
Derived terms: zingless
zing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭng
ipa: /zɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: zings
form: zinging
form: zinged
form: zinged
Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: We are all a second or two older than an astronaut who has been zinging around the Earth at 18000 miles per hour, because of his or her greater speed and the lack of gravity.
ref: 2000, Nick Nelson, The Golden Vortex, Conscious Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 89:
text: When the caller identified herself as from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle my heart zinged. I heard the words we had yearned for since March: They had found a donor marrow, mismatched at one antigen, that might work for Jane.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum.
examples: text: Goomba: Ouch that was cold!
Paragoomba: “What, you’re too good for us? Come off it, sister!
Spike Goomba: “Nobody zings us like that! Nobody! Let’s get ’em!”
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: To address a witty insult or comeback to.
Derived terms: zinger
zingingly
zing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭng
ipa: /zɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: Something inside of me started a symphony / Zing! Went the strings of my heart
ref: 1934, “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart”, James F. Hanley (music):
glosses: A high pitched humming sound.
examples: text: Zing! The joke had rebounded back on the one who started it. "Ouch!" Mama Jane winced ruefully. We all dissolved in laughter at the good-natured repartee.
ref: 2002, Chellie Campbell, The Wealthy Spirit, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, →OL, page 162:
glosses: Used to acknowledge a witty comeback, a zinger.
zings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zing
zings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zing
zinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zing
zinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zing
zingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zinger
zineb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinebs
Etymology: From “zinc ethylene bisdithiocarbamate”, its chemical name.
Senses: glosses: An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc.
Derived terms: mancozeb
postmortem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmortems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post mortem.
postmortem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Data for the potential human exposure portion of the model include antemortem and postmortem inspection, pneumatic stunning, carcass missplitting, advanced meat recovery systems, and […]
ref: 2003, Marianne D. Miliotis, Jeffrey W. Bier, International Handbook of Foodborne Pathogens, page 809:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post mortem.
zine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: zines
form: 'zine
Etymology: Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.
Senses: examples: text: Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.
ref: 2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.
ref: 2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:
text: I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.
ref: 2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:
text: “Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):
glosses: A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
Derived terms: adzine
apazine
blogzine
clubzine
crudzine
cyberzine
diskzine
ezine
e-zine
fanzine
filmzine
genzine
girlzine
infozine
letterzine
litzine
musiczine
netzine
personalzine
perzine
prozine
punk zine
punkzine
slashzine
stfanzine
stfzine
tapezine
videozine
webzine
zinefan
zinefest
zinelike
zinester
zincite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincites
Etymology: From zinc + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow, orange or dark-red mineral form of zinc oxide, often also containing small amounts of manganese, with a chemical formula (Zn,Mn²⁺)O, an important ore of zinc.
ZIFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIFTs
Senses: glosses: Zygote intrafallopian transfer, a technique in which a fertilized egg is inserted into the recipient's Fallopian tube.
mic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: mics
Etymology: Clipping of microphone. Attested since 1961.
Senses: examples: text: Picture a mic, the stage is empty
A beat like this might tempt me
To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train
ref: 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul:
glosses: Alternative form of mike (“microphone”).
mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: mics
form: mic's
form: micing
form: mic'ing
form: miced
form: miced
form: mic'd
form: mic'd
form: mic'ed
form: mic'ed
Etymology: Clipping of microphone. Attested since 1961.
Senses: examples: text: If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.
text: At 11:00 am, Doug mics up with me on the radio, and I advise him to go back to camp to get a quad, that we have a monster down.
ref: 2002, Darren Brown with Jackie Bushman, Hunting Trophy Whitetails, page 167:
text: Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!
ref: 2003, Sleazegrinder, Gigs from Hell: True Tales of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, page 104:
text: This lacks the gut-punch of miced-up bass but hopefully the player can rise to the challenge and give his or her take extra energy to make up for it.
ref: 2006, Sarah Davis with Dave Laing, The guerilla^([sic]) guide to the music business, page 164:
text: Dynamics are used extensively for vocals, drums, and 'micing up' amplifiers such as guitar amps but they can be used for almost any application.
ref: 2007, Trev Wilkins, Access all areas: a real world guide to gigging and touring, page 101:
text: but it is extremely useful in applications such as vocals, drums, and the micing-up of guitar amplifiers.
ref: 2009, Francis Rumsey with Tim McCormick, Sound and Recording, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of mike.
Derived terms: eat the mic
mic fright
mic up
mic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: mics
Etymology: Clipping of microfarad.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A microfarad.
gender changer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender changers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: gender mender
glosses: A coupling device that allows two male or two female connectors to be joined together.
Related terms: gender bender
gender-bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender-benders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gender bender.
nuclear magnetic resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear magnetic resonances
form: NMR
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The absorption of electromagnetic radiation (radio waves), at a specific frequency, by an atomic nucleus placed in a strong magnetic field; used in spectroscopy and in magnetic resonance imaging.
Derived terms: carbon-13 NMR
NMR spectroscopy
radio wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio waves
form: radiowave
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: Hertzian wave
glosses: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength between about .5 centimeters and 30,000 meters; used for the broadcasting of radio and television signals.
Related terms: radio frequency
radiofrequency
radio-frequency
RF
LW
MW
SW
microwave
shortwave
mediumwave
longwave
NMR spectroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NMR spectroscopies
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: An analytical technique that exploits fine differences in the frequency of nuclear magnetic resonance in protons (and ¹³C atoms, etc.) within organic compounds that depends on their neighbouring atoms.
amplitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.plɪ.tud/
Forms: form: amplitudes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French amplitude, from Latin amplitūdō, from amplus (“large”). By surface analysis, ample + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: The cathedral of Lincoln […] is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: amplitude of mind
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: amplitude of comprehension
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 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:
text: As the two topped the ridge there burst on them the strong scarlet light of a red-curtained English inn. It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The maximum absolute value of the vertical component of a curve or function, especially one that is periodic.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The maximum absolute value of some quantity that varies.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The range of motion of the gymnast's body while performing a skill.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The range of environmental conditions in which an organism can survive.
Derived terms: amplitudal
amplitude modulation
amplitudeologist
amplitudeology
amplitude spectroscopy
amplituhedron
probability amplitude
semiamplitude
superamplitude
Related terms: ample
amplifiable
amplification
amplificatory
amplifier
amplify
sympathetic vibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic vibrations
Senses: glosses: The vibration of a body, at its natural frequency, in response to that of a neighbouring one having that frequency; resonance.
neighbouring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
glosses: Alternative spelling of neighboring.
neighbouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neighboring.
neighbourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbɚˌli/
Forms: form: more neighbourly
form: most neighbourly
form: neighborly
Etymology: From neighbour + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She's so neighbourly that she always holds a welcoming party for new residents.
text: I got the impression you were looking for something, and it crossed my mind to ask you what that might be. Just being friendly, sir, just being neighbourly.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
glosses: Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
Derived terms: good-neighbourly
neighborlily
neighbourliness
neighborliness
unneighbourly
revisionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: revisionisms
Etymology: From revision + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.
ref: 2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian:
text: As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism.
ref: 2022 January 29, Jan Grabowski, “The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2022:
text: Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”
ref: 2023 August 29, Ezra Klein, “It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
text: For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order fit well with their agenda.
ref: 2025 March 19, Arash Azizi, “A Battle for the Soul of the West”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
glosses: An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
Derived terms: crypto-revisionism
Related terms: denialism
negationism
Fu Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fu-Manchu
form: Fu-Man-Chu
Etymology: The first book with the character was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from 1913.
Senses: glosses: A series of books by British author Sax Rohmer about a villain that sports a Fu Manchu moustache, and other media based on them, such as comic books and movies.
glosses: The villain who is the title character of that series.
Fu Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fu Manchus
form: Fu-Manchu
form: Fu-Man-Chu
Etymology: The first book with the character was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from 1913.
Senses: glosses: A Fu Manchu moustache.
corkscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːk.skɹuː/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹk.skɹu/
Forms: form: corkscrews
Etymology: From cork + screw.
Senses: examples: text: I opened the wine with a corkscrew.
text: There stood presented to his sight, Or seem'd to stand, the God of wine, […] This hand a Cork-scrue did contain, And that a Bottle of Champaign.
ref: 1720, Nicholas Amhurst, “The Bottle-Scrue”, in Poems on Several Occasions, page 113:
text: A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out.
ref: 1999, James Lighthill, “Biofluiddynamics: A Survey”, in Contemporary Mathematics, volume 141, page 11:
text: A two-prong or ah-so corkscrew with sheath.
ref: 2006, Costas Katsigris, Chris Thomas, The Bar and Beverage Book, 4th edition, page 152:
glosses: An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
examples: text: A bubble rising rapidly in water describes a spiral closely resembling a corkscrew.
ref: 1898, Herbert Spencer, First Principles of a New System of Philosophy:
glosses: The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
examples: text: […] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […]
ref: 2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
examples: text: A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.
ref: 1987 September 24, Tim Cole, “Killer Coasters”, in Popular Mechanics, page 56:
qualifier: amusement rides
glosses: A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
Synonyms: sense: implement for opening bottles
word: bottle screw
sense: implement for opening bottles
word: cork puller
Hypernyms: bottle opener
Hyponyms: sense: types of corkscrew bottle opener
word: waiter's friend
sense: types of corkscrew bottle opener
word: wing corkscrew
sense: types of corkscrew bottle opener
word: butler's friend
Coordinate terms: sense: other types of bottle opener
word: church key
sense: other types of bottle opener
word: wine key
Meronyms: worm
Derived terms: corkscrew flower
corkscrew grass
corkscrew hazel
corkscrewlike
corkscrew physa
corkscrew stake
corkscrew stroke
corkscrewy
devil's corkscrew
corkscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːk.skɹuː/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹk.skɹu/
Etymology: From cork + screw.
Senses: examples: text: Then the old gentleman spun himself round with velocity in the opposite direction, continued to spin until his long cloak was all wound neatly about him, clapped his cap on his head, very much on one side (for it could not stand upright without going through the ceiling), gave an additional twist to his corkscrew mustaches, and replied with perfect coolness.
ref: 1841, John Ruskin, chapter I, in The King of the Golden River:
text: All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase.
ref: 1885, Rudyard Kipling, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: Wide eyes and corkscrew hair / Tied with lace you found somewhere
ref: 1980, “Spring Collection”, in New Clear Days, performed by The Vapors:
synonyms: helical
glosses: Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
corkscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːk.skɹuː/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹk.skɹu/
Forms: form: corkscrews
form: corkscrewing
form: corkscrewed
form: corkscrewed
Etymology: From cork + screw.
Senses: examples: text: Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy.
ref: 1832, Charles Dickens, chapter 35, in The Pickwick Papers:
text: The street corkscrewed endlessly. Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, chapter 10, in Greenmantle:
text: Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.
ref: 1960, Lobsang Rampa, chapter 5, in The Rampa Story:
glosses: To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
examples: text: Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 134, in Moby-Dick:
text: Rusty corkscrewed the plane back down again, but instead of mashing the throttles to the wall, he pulled them to idle.
ref: 2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 155:
text: Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.
ref: 2007, Mike Monahan, Barracuda, page 107:
glosses: To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
examples: text: I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were.
ref: 1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 55, in Bleak House:
text: Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there.
ref: 1922, James Thomas Heflin, Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 460:
glosses: To extract information or consent from someone.
Synonyms: sense: move in a corkscrew path
word: spiral
Talmud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtælmʊd/
ipa: /ˈtælməd/
ipa: /ˈtɑlmʊd/
Forms: form: Talmuds
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תַּלְמוּד (talmúd, “instruction, learning”).
Senses: examples: text: On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: A collection of Jewish writings related to the practical application of Judaic law and tradition (may refer to either the Babylonian Talmud or the shorter Jerusalem Talmud).
Derived terms: Jerusalem Talmud
Talmudic
Talmudical
Talmudist
Talmudvision
Shema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew שְׁמַע.
Senses: glosses: The central declaration of faith of Judaism, recited at least twice daily by religious Jews.
Synonyms: Shema Yisrael
Stalinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stalinisms
Etymology: From Stalin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
glosses: The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
examples: text: There are no crime[s] in history more terrible than the Moscow Trials of Zinoviev-Kamenev, and the- of Pyatakov-Radek. These trials developed not from communism, not from socialism, but from Stalinism: that is from the irresponsible despotism of the bureaucracy over the people.
ref: c. 1930 - 1939, Leon Trotsky, 1:14 from the start, in Trotsky Speech In Mexico (1930-1939), British Pathé:
glosses: The political system that put into practice - by means of governance, implementing policies, enforcing laws, etc. - the communist philosophical theory of Stalin in the Soviet Union from the 1920s and in the Soviet satellite states from the late 1940s to Stalin's death in 1953.
Related terms: Stalinist
iBook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iBooks
Etymology: A trademark, apparently a blend of iMac + notebook computer, and by surface analysis, i- + book.
Senses: qualifier: laptops
glosses: A computer of a line of lower-end laptop computers formerly manufactured by Apple Computer.
Related terms: iMac
iPod
MacBook
PowerBook
notebook computer
sciatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈætɪkə/
Forms: form: sciaticas
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Late Latin sciatica, feminine of sciaticus, from Ancient Greek ἰσχιαδικός (iskhiadikós), the adjective of ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”).
Senses: examples: text: He picked up his own phone, shunned limos and preferred to walk if possible (sciatica later caused him to use a wheelchair) – as, for example, on the day after his election when he slipped away on foot to collect his suitcase and settle the bill at the modest pensione where he had been booked in before the conclave began.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh.
Derived terms: sciatic
sciatically
pruritus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞o-rīʹtəs
ipa: /pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/
Forms: form: prurituses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“itch, itching”), from prūriō (“itch”).
Senses: examples: 2018, AbbVie, "FDA Grants AbbVie's Upadacitinib Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Atopic Dermatitis", Drug Discovery & Development
Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, is characterized by skin erosion, oozing and crusting, redness, intense itching (pruritus) and dry skin.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma, etc.
Derived terms: pruritic
pruritogen
pruritogenic
pruritus ani
laptop computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈˈlaptɒpˌkəmˈpjuːtə/
Forms: form: laptop computers
form: lap-top computer
Senses: glosses: A portable computer that is small enough and light enough to be used on one's lap, but large enough to have an integrated keyboard.
Synonyms: laptop
notebook
Related terms: netbook
subnotebook
tablet computer
floppy drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floppy drives
Senses: glosses: A computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″, 5+¹⁄₄″ or 8″ diskettes.
Synonyms: word: floppy disk drive
word: floppy disc drive
word: floppy diskette drive
word: diskette drive
word: FDD
word: FD
Related terms: tape drive
cassette drive
CLEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLECs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of competitive local exchange carrier.
ILEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ILECs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of incumbent local exchange carrier.
Tues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tue
form: Tue.
form: Tues.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Tuesday.
Wed.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Wednesday.
Thurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Thursday.
unintentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
ipa: [ˌʌnɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌɐnɪnˈtenʃənəl/
ipa: [ˌɐnɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩]
Forms: form: more unintentional
form: most unintentional
Etymology: From un- + intentional.
Senses: examples: text: Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.
ref: 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting.
Synonyms: word: incidental
word: unintended
word: accidental
word: designless
word: inadvertent
word: involuntary
word: undesigned
word: unintentional
word: unplanned
word: unpurposed
word: unwitting
Hyponyms: word: ironic
Derived terms: unintentionality
unintentionally
unintentionalness
Related terms: word: coincidental
word: incongruous
word: unconscious
word: unexpected
word: impromptu
ref.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of reference.
race to the bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: races to the bottom
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A situation in which competition between governments leads to very excessive (harmful) deregulation.
glosses: A situation in which competition between entities leads to elimination of perks or amenities, often in the interest of cutting costs.
glosses: Any situation in which multiple parties are seemingly competing to achieve the greatest level of mediocrity.
hemorrhaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hemorrhage
hemorrhaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemorrhagings
Senses: glosses: bleeding
oz.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oz.
form: ozs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oz.
mattoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mattoid
form: most mattoid
Etymology: From Italian matto (“insane”) + -oid (“likeness or resemblance”), from Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “form”)
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First appeared in English in 1891 through a translation of the nineteenth-century Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso's work, Man of Genius. H G Wells used it in several of his books, most notably in Mankind in the Making of 1903, in which he derides the theories of Lombroso and the Victorian phrenologists: “Among such theorists none at present are in quite such urgent need of polemical suppression as those who would persuade the heedless general reader that every social failure is necessarily a ‘degenerate’, and who claim boldly that they can trace a distinctly evil and mischievous strain in that unfortunate miscellany which constitutes ‘the criminal class’... These mattoid scientists make a direct and disastrous attack upon the latent self-respect of criminals.”
Senses: glosses: Displaying erratic behaviour
mattoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattoids
Etymology: From Italian matto (“insane”) + -oid (“likeness or resemblance”), from Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “form”)
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First appeared in English in 1891 through a translation of the nineteenth-century Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso's work, Man of Genius. H G Wells used it in several of his books, most notably in Mankind in the Making of 1903, in which he derides the theories of Lombroso and the Victorian phrenologists: “Among such theorists none at present are in quite such urgent need of polemical suppression as those who would persuade the heedless general reader that every social failure is necessarily a ‘degenerate’, and who claim boldly that they can trace a distinctly evil and mischievous strain in that unfortunate miscellany which constitutes ‘the criminal class’... These mattoid scientists make a direct and disastrous attack upon the latent self-respect of criminals.”
Senses: glosses: A person who displays such behaviour; a person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.
iMac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iMacs
Etymology: First appears in 1998, from i- (“internet”) + Mac (“Macintosh”).
Senses: examples: text: When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.
ref: 2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:
text: her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.
Derived terms: iMacintosh
iMacquarium
Related terms: eMac
iBook
iPod
Power Mac
eMac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eMacs
Etymology: From e- (educational) + Mac (Macintosh).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer of a line of low-end computers made by Apple Inc.
Related terms: iMac
Power Mac
Mac
Macintosh
blogette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogettes
Etymology: From blog + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small blog
biopharming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪoʊfɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ/
homophone: biofarming
Etymology: Blend of prefix bio-, farming, and pharmacy.
Senses: glosses: The field of growing (usually genetically) altered plants for medicinal uses.
taser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.zə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪ.zɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tasers
form: Taser
Etymology: Acronym of the science fiction story Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Coined in the early 1970s by the inventor Jack Cover originally as TSER, to which he later added the letter A to ease pronunciation. Genericization of the trademark Taser.
Senses: synonyms: stun gun
glosses: A Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock.
glosses: Any electroshock stun gun.
Derived terms: tase
Related terms: word: stun gun
english: an electric shock device used to herd cattle
translation: an electric shock device used to herd cattle
word: cattle prod
english: a fixed installation electric shock barrier used to control livestock
translation: a fixed installation electric shock barrier used to control livestock
word: electric fence
english: a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers
translation: a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers
word: mace
english: a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers
translation: a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers
word: pepper spray
taser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.zə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪ.zɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tasers
form: tasering
form: tasered
form: tasered
form: Taser
Etymology: Acronym of the science fiction story Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Coined in the early 1970s by the inventor Jack Cover originally as TSER, to which he later added the letter A to ease pronunciation. Genericization of the trademark Taser.
Senses: glosses: To shock a person, thing, individual, or animal with a handheld device with the electric shock that it delivers; to stun with a stun gun.
examples: text: As I spoke too loudly during the solemn church service, my husband shot me a glance that emotionally tasered me to the point of silence until we returned home 2 hours later.
glosses: To strike verbally or gesturally with ill intents.
Synonyms: tase
Related terms: laser
maser
phaser
spring onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring onions
Senses: synonyms: green onion
scallion
Welsh onion
Japanese bunching onion
hypernyms: onion
coordinate_terms: onion
wild onion
glosses: A species of onion (Allium fistulosum) with slender bulbs; originally Asian, now worldwide.
synonyms: green onion
scallion
hypernyms: onion
glosses: Any of several types of onion that look similar, including the young plants from varieties whose bulbs would eventually grow large if they were harvested later.
Related terms: baby onion
wild onion
chive
shallot
spring chicken
Welsh onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh onions
Etymology: From welsh + onion; capitalization is be conflation with Welsh, derived from welsh
Senses: synonyms: cibol
Japanese bunching onion
spring onion
glosses: Any of species Allium fistulosum of onions, probably native to eastern Asia, widely cultivated.
Japanese bunching onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese bunching onions
Senses: glosses: Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)