cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒŋi/
ipa: /ˈpɔŋi/
rhymes: -ɒŋi
Forms: form: pongier
form: pongiest
Etymology: From pong + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79,
Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week.
text: Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
ref: 2005, James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children!, page 2:
text: In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.
ref: 2010, Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent, page 57:
glosses: Having a bad smell.
Derived terms: pongily
ponginess
hongi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒŋ.i/
rhymes: -ɒŋi
Forms: form: hongis
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hongi.
Senses: glosses: The Maori greeting of touching noses.
hongi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒŋ.i/
rhymes: -ɒŋi
Forms: form: hongis
form: hongiing
form: hongied
form: hongied
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hongi.
Senses: examples: text: [I]f I knew you better , or I was a warmer person, I would hongi, but…
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 88:
glosses: To perform the Maori greeting of touching noses.
songy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔŋi/
ipa: /sɑŋi/
ipa: /sɒŋi/
rhymes: -ɒŋi
Forms: form: songier
form: songiest
Etymology: From song + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'Polyethylene' is in turn followed by 'Pearly', a songy song: minor key, big vocals, and a nice bridge section.
ref: 2004, Dai Griffiths, Radiohead's OK Computer, page 55:
glosses: Song-like.
Related terms: sing-songy
thongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɒŋi/
rhymes: -ɒŋi
Forms: form: more thongy
form: most thongy
Etymology: From thong + -y.
Senses: glosses: stringy; ropy
whare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌre/
ipa: /ˈfʌri/
ipa: /ˈfɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈʍɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈwɑːɹeɪ/
Forms: form: whare
form: whares
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori whare (“house, hut”).
Senses: examples: text: The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.
ref: 1867, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by Edward Sauter, “Ngawhas, and Puias; boiling springs, solfataras and fumaroles”, in New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History […], Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, →OCLC, page 423:
text: We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron.
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store:
text: At the far end of the whare there's a wooden bed.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 348:
glosses: A Maori house or other building.
examples: text: Many New Zealanders will know that a whare is a house. But in this context, the whare were being built for a summer hunting and gathering expedition. It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in.
ref: 2014, Tina Makereti, “He Taonga te Reo: How ngā Kupu Māori Contribute to New Zealand Writing in English”, in Jolisa Gracewood, Susanna Andrew, editors, Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, Auckland: Auckland University Press, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
glosses: A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
Related terms: wharepuni
whare wānanga
wari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɹi
-iː
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oware.
Related terms: Wasi-wari
prosty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒsti
Forms: form: prosties
form: prostie
Etymology: Shortened from prostitute.
Senses: examples: text: “Okay, so he is in a relationship with a woman of the night.” “More like a woman of the afternoon. But that's fine. Jesus didn't judge prosties.”
ref: 2021 April 4, Rich Blomquist & Erin Wagoner, “Easter's 11” (14:42 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 16, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
glosses: A prostitute.
Synonyms: word: prossy
word: tart
word: whore
boot loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot loaders
form: bootloader
Etymology: From boot + loader.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of a PC that runs nothing but Windows, the boot loader in the MBR is hard-coded to check for a secondary boot loader in the active primary partition. This secondary boot loader directly loads the Windows kernel.
ref: 2007, Roderick W. Smith, Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-002, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 41:
text: It was a thought that returned to me days later while reading an article about Elon Musk, one of the loudest voices calling to reopen the economy–a man who once referred to humanity as the “biological bootloaders” for AI.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Elon Musk, chapter 13, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: boot manager
glosses: A small program that initiates the bootstrap process by loading the operating system proper.
hostie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊsti/
rhymes: -əʊsti
Forms: form: hosties
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia.
Senses: examples: text: 1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40,
This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity.
text: But he went to another Prieſt, that lived in the Court, who gave him the pix with an hoſtie in it.
ref: 1725, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reign of King Charles II: Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, page 1011:
text: The confessor gave him an hostie,* with a piece of wood, that was, as he pretended, a true piece of the cross, and by these he was to be fortify himself, if any other apparition should come to him, since evil spirits would certainly be chained up by them.[…]The friar presented the hostie to them, which gave them such a check, that he was fully satisfied of the virtue of this preservative.
ref: 1836, Church of England, Extraordinary Instance of Romish Imposition: The Church of England Magazine, volume 1, page 349:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.
hostie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊsti/
rhymes: -əʊsti
Forms: form: hosties
Etymology: From hostess + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: A lovely hostie approached my seat, `Mr. Vautin, just looking at you makes me think we might need a forklift to get you off the plane.'
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 152:
text: If the alarm goes off, the hostie stops and looks for the likely suspect or asks all the people in the nearest seats who has an electronic device and tells whoever it is to turn the device off. The hostie doesn't have to decide if some smartarse who wants to listen on a scanner is trying to convince her that it only an MP3 player or whether device A is OK and device B isn't OK. If her instruction is that the device is to be turned off, then it's turned off!
ref: 2003 June 21, smithxpj, “radios aboard aircraft - new rules”, in aus.radio.amateur.misc (Usenet):
text: Emma, who is still 2.5 cm under the required hostie height and therefore may never realise her dream, said of her ordeal, ‘I was scared, but I did it for my career.’
ref: 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 25:
text: 2011, Les Hawkins, Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories, Chapter 20, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, unnumbered page,
The cute hostie at the check-in for Kamchatka accepted a note the Russian Ambassador in Canberra had given me about excess luggage and gave me a smile rather than a bill.
glosses: An air hostess.
Hypernyms: flight attendant
B2B
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of back-to-back.
examples: text: The warehouses that first occupied the triangle hosted shipments in transit from one business to another: B2B.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: Let’s take B2B salespeople as an example. Today, most salespeople rely upon email communications, a CRM platform and conference calls to connect with prospects and engage leads.
ref: 2021 October 8, Ori Manor Zuckerman, “The Importance Of Subtext In Digital Communications”, in Forbes:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of business-to-business.
Related terms: B2B2C
B2B2X
B2C
B2E
wholesale
prodigal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑdɪɡəl/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɑɾɪɡɫ̩]
Forms: form: prodigals
Etymology: From Middle French prodigal, from Late Latin prōdigālis (“wasteful”), from Latin prōdigus (“wasteful, lavish, prodigal”), from prōdigō (“to consume, squander, drive forth”), from prōd- [from prō (“before, forward”)] + agō (“to drive”). Also see prodigy.
Senses: examples: text: Now thinkes he that her husbands ſhallow tongue, / The niggard prodigall that praiſde her ſo: / In that high task hath done her Beauty wrong.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature B3, recto:
text: Change into extremity is very frequent and easy. As when a beggar suddenly grows rich, he commonly becomes a prodigal; for, to obscure his former obscurity, he puts on riot and excess.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times; republished as Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, Cassell & Company, 1892:
synonyms: word: big spender
word: dingthrift
word: neve
word: overspender
word: prodigal
word: profligate
word: saprophage
word: scattergood
word: slipstring
word: slipthrift
word: sparkler
word: spend-all
word: spendthrift
word: splurge
word: splurger
word: squanderer
word: unthrift
word: waster
word: wastegood
word: wastethrift
word: wastrel
glosses: A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.
Ojibwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/
Forms: form: Ojibwa
form: Ojibway
Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”).
Other, less credible theories:
Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation.
Senses: examples: text: On a Tuesday in April 2017, Janet Macbeth composed an all-office email. “My story,” read the subject line in Nishnaabemwin, the Ojibwe language.
“Hello everyone,” the email continued in Nishnaabemwin. “My name is Janet.”
ref: 2019 November 15, Kate Allen, “‘I am Janet.’ One transgender woman’s journey and her pioneering surgery”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2024:
text: Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe.
ref: 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:
glosses: The language spoken by the native Algonquin people of central Canada, one of a closely related group of languages and dialects of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family.
Synonyms: Ojibwemowin
Chippewa
Chippeway
Chippewe
Hypernyms: Anishinaabemowin
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ojibwe terms
Ojibwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/
Forms: form: Ojibwes
form: Ojibwe
form: Ojibwa
form: Ojibway
Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”).
Other, less credible theories:
Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation.
Senses: examples: text: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
ref: 2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, page 4:
glosses: A member of a native Algonquin people of central Canada.
Ojibwe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/
ipa: /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/
Forms: form: more Ojibwe
form: most Ojibwe
form: Ojibwa
form: Ojibway
Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”).
Other, less credible theories:
Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation.
Senses: examples: text: Then for 50 years its story lay dormant — although the Dream Dance remained a component of Ojibwe life both north and south of the Canada-U.S. border until its rediscovery by a Winnipeg historian and her colleagues.
ref: 1998, David H. Pentland (editor), Papers of the Twenty-ninth Algonquian Conference, page 169:
glosses: Of or pertaining to this people, culture or language.
Synonyms: Chippewa
Chippeway
Chippewe
Hypernyms: Anishinaabe
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
form: geeing
form: geed
form: geed
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.
glosses: Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
examples: text: You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
glosses: To cause an animal to move in this way.
examples: text: It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.
ref: 1918, Mary Stanbery Watts, The Boardman Family, page 342:
text: I did use a few of the items, in Elinor's handwriting, to check the writing on the letter that was in the box with the money. It geed.
ref: 1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt:
glosses: To agree; to harmonize.
Coordinate terms: haw
Derived terms: agee
gee along
gee and haw
gee haw whammy diddle
gee haw whimmy diddle
gee pole
geepound
gee up
haw and gee
milligee
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Act I”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:
glosses: A gee-gee, a horse.
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!
glosses: A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).
Senses: examples: text: One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.
text: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
ref: 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.
examples: ten gees
glosses: Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
examples: text: I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.
ref: 1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:
text: So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can.
ref: 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
examples: text: Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:
glosses: A guy.
Derived terms: agee
GeeDubs
geepound
high-gee
jaygee
low-gee
milligee
Oh Em Gee
oh em gee
oh-em-gee
zero gee
zero-gee
Related terms: english: in shorthand
translation: in shorthand
word: gay
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ɡiː/
homophone: ghee
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).
Senses: examples: text: The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
ref: 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
text: But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
ref: 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Lily Neary has a lovely gee and her pore Paddy got his B.A. and by the holy fly I wouldn't recommend you to ask me what class of a tree they were under when he put his hand on her and enjoyed that.
ref: 1992, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:
text: And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.
ref: 1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Vagina, vulva.
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ɡiː/
homophone: ghee
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /d͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ɡiː/
homophone: ghee
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
form: geeing
form: geed
form: geed
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: That will just "gee".
ref: 1867, W.H. Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including some more especially military and scientific, but useful to seamen; as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc. by the late ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.:
glosses: To suit or fit.
gee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ɡiː/
homophone: ghee
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /d͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: gees
form: geeing
form: geed
form: geed
Senses: examples: text: And good old Holmes delivered his soul on the walk home of many wise sayings, and, as the song says,
"Gee'd 'em a sight of good advice;" […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: To give.
Related terms: gee-eyed
skew-gee
squill-gee
gee haw whimmy diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒi hɑ ˈwɪmi dɪdəl/
Forms: form: gee haw whimmy diddles
form: gee-haw whimmy diddle
form: gee haw whammy diddle
form: gee-haw whammy diddle
Senses: examples: text: …some of the Blue Ridge Mountain folk toys. Each of the following runs about $2: spinning wooden top, fox and geese game, gee-haw whimmy diddle, bull roarer, corn cob pipe.
ref: 1974 November, Texas Monthly, article The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, page 93
text: Here you can pick up mountain toys such as the ‘gee-haw whimmy diddle,' a stick with a propeller that turns when you rub the notches on the stick.
ref: 2002, Jeremy Gray, Jeff Davis, China Williams, Lonely Planet Georgia and the Carolinas:
text: Special events at the FolkArt Center...include Fiber Day in May, the World Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition in August...
ref: 2003, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's The Carolinas and Georgia:
text: Thousands of wooden versions are sold each year, and a Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition is held every summer at Asheville's Folk Art Center.
ref: 2005, Martin Gardner, Smart Science Tricks:
glosses: A wooden toy consisting of a notched stick with a smaller stick attached on the end. Rubbing the notched stick with another stick causes the smaller stick to spin; with practice the spin can be made to change from rightward (gee) to leftward (haw) and vice versa.
Synonyms: whimmy diddle
gee haw whammy diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gee haw whammy diddles
Senses: examples: text: There we shared countless treasured hours together, and for me they were precious whether we were fishing; piddling around making slingshots or gee haw whammy diddles; or hard at work performing mundane tasks such as hoeing corn, slopping hogs, or feeding chickens.
ref: 2016 October 1, Jim Casada, “October is forever”, in Jim Casada Outdoors:
glosses: Alternative form of gee haw whimmy diddle.
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
Senses: examples: text: You think that song was good? Haw!
text: The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
examples: text: Hums or haws.
ref: 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing:
glosses: An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
Derived terms: gee and haw
gee haw whimmy diddle
haw-haw
hee-haw
hee haw
yaw-haw
yee-haw
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: haws
form: hawing
form: hawed
form: hawed
Etymology: From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
Senses: glosses: To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
Derived terms: hum and haw
hem and haw
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: haws
Etymology: From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Welsh cae (“field”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kagʰ- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”).
Senses: synonyms: hawthorn berry
glosses: Fruit of the hawthorn.
glosses: A hedge.
examples: text: wele not leaue a man of lawe,
Nor a paper worth a hawe,
And make him worſe than a dawe,
That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act II:
glosses: Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Crataegus aestivalis
word: apple haw
word: black haw
taxonomic: Crataegus biltmoriana
word: crimson haw
word: downy haw
word: Haw Creek
word: Haweater
word: hawthorn
word: haw tree
taxonomic: Crataegus brachyacantha
word: hog's haw
taxonomic: Crataegus aestivalis
word: mayhaw
taxonomic: Crataegus marshallii
word: parsley haw
alt: esp. Crataegus tomentosa
word: pear haw
word: possum haw
word: possumhaw
taxonomic: Condalia obovata
word: purple haw
word: red haw
word: rose haw
alt: esp. Crataegus biltmoriana
word: scarlet haw
alt: Vibrnum nudum
word: Shawnee haw
taxonomic: Crataegus aestivalis
word: summer haw
taxonomic: Viburnum nudum
word: swamp haw
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)
Senses: coordinate_terms: gee
glosses: An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: haws
form: hawing
form: hawed
form: hawed
Etymology: Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)
Senses: examples: text: This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
antonyms: gee
glosses: To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.
antonyms: gee
glosses: To cause (an animal) to turn left.
Derived terms: gee haw whimmy diddle
haw and gee
haw and gee about
haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: haws
Etymology: Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
glosses: A disease of the nictitating membrane.
cull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: culls
form: culling
form: culled
form: culled
Etymology: From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.
Senses: examples: 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
glosses: To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
examples: text: [T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Eleanore”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 202:
glosses: To gather, collect.
glosses: To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
glosses: To kill (animals etc).
glosses: To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
examples: text: back-face culling
text: "Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."
ref: 2023 July 17, Blender Foundation, "Blender 3.6 Manual":
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
Derived terms: cullable
culler
Culpepper
overcull
unculled
cull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: culls
Etymology: From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.
Senses: glosses: A selection.
examples: text: It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.
ref: 2012 December 21, Isobel Montgomery, “A year that showed the best and worst of Britain”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 31:
glosses: An organized killing of selected animals.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
qualifier: seafood industry
glosses: A lobster having only one claw.
glosses: A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
cull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: culls
Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of cully.
Senses: examples: text: Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 307:
glosses: A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
examples: text: But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.
ref: 1997, Chris Hunt, Duval's Gold, page 58:
glosses: A man or boy.
Derived terms: ben-cull
mollying-cull
rum cull
decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
enpr: dē-kāʹ
ipa: /diˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: decays
Etymology: From Middle English decayen, dekeyen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence.
Senses: examples: text: I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
topics: biology
ecology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
examples: text: civic and moral decay
text: systemic decay
glosses: A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
Ellipsis of radioactive decay.
glosses: A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
a gradual decrease of a stored charge, magnetic flux, current, etc.
glosses: A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
progressive change in the path of an earth-orbiting satellite due to atmospheric drag.
examples: text: Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,
That grieuous image of ingratitude:
That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie: […]
Reſolue my Lords and louing ſouldiers now,
To ſaue your king and country from decay:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: Overthrow, downfall, destruction, ruin.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.
Derived terms: alpha decay
array decay
arrested decay
bacterial decay
beta decay
biodecay
bit decay
c-decay
decadescent
decayability
decayable
decay chain
decay constant
decayer
decayless
decaylessness
decay series
decay time
delta decay
digital decay
exponential decay
gamma decay
nonsense-mediated decay
non-stop decay
nuclear decay
orbital decay
particle decay
photodecay
predecay
radioactive decay
semidecay
time decay
tooth decay
vacuum decay
weight decay
Related terms: deciduous
dawg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːɡ/
ipa: /dɔɡ/
ipa: /dɑɡ/
ipa: /doːɡ/
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: dawgs
Senses: examples: text: That dawg won't hunt.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dog.
examples: text: Sup, dawg?
text: “Wow. What do you know? Huh. That was easy.” “Totes malotes, dawg.” “Just kind of hard to believe, you know?” “Believe it, Morty. And once again, I'm flying away with everything I can carry, and the Zigerions got nothing of mine.”
ref: 2014 January 13, Tom Kauffman, “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” (11:23 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):
text: All up in my phone, lookin' at pictures from the other night / She gon' be upset if she keep scrollin' to the left, dawg
ref: 2014, “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”, performed by Drake:
text: I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!
ref: 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
text: “Totes malotes, dawg,” Abby shot me with a finger-gun. “And trust me, I'm amazing at it, just like everything else. So, order the pizza, Sandy, and let's get this show on the road. This is going to be f-u-u-u-u-u-u-n.”
ref: 2019 December 8, K. M. Bishop, Fake It For Me, K. M. Bishop:
synonyms: word: babber
word: billy
word: bredrin
word: bruv
word: bud
word: buddo
word: buddy
word: butty
word: chaver
word: china
word: chuck
word: chum
word: cock
word: cocker
word: cobber
word: compadre
word: comrade
word: companion
word: cove
word: crony
word: dawg
word: dude
word: duck
word: fam
word: fettler
word: friend
word: geez
word: geezer
word: gink
word: good old boy
word: homeskillet
word: homie
word: kith
word: lover
word: marrow
word: mate
word: matey
word: mucker
word: old bean
word: pal
word: pardner
word: peeps
word: shag
word: sport
word: surry
word: tovarish
word: wantok
glosses: Term of address for a close male friend.
Derived terms: homedawg
road dawg
autodidact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtoʊˈdaɪdækt/
Forms: form: autodidacts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, auto- + didact.
Senses: examples: text: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.
text: For an autodidact, for somebody who plays by ear like me, the ukulele is ideal.
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:
synonyms: automath
glosses: A self-taught person.
Derived terms: autodidactic
autodidacticism
autodidactism
Related terms: autonomous learning
self-taught
self-educated
quahaug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quahaugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quahog (“edible hard-shell clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, used in chowders”).
quahaug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quahaugs
form: quahauging
form: quahauged
form: quahauged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quahog.
spaug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːɡ/
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: spaugs
Etymology: From Irish spág (“the paw, limb or claw of an animal”), transferred to humans as pejorative or for club-foot.
Senses: examples: text: Taking off his flat spaugs and the walk.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A foot.
chillin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chillin
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chilling.
Derived terms: chillin' like a villain
CORBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
Related terms: ORB
bodark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodarks
form: bo'dark
Etymology: From bois d'arc.
Senses: examples: text: It was a bo’dark sapling I had found in my travels.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 17:
glosses: The Osage orange tree or its wood.
cumball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumballs
Etymology: From cum + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Let him pump you good, and shoot a fucking hot cumball in your guts. You fucking pieces of shit.
ref: 1998 November 29, TeleTussy, If You Feed The Troll, You Must Let Him Fuck You In The Ass, news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
text: 17:15 supper and short time of newspaper reading (cumball blast down the throat and read the weekly […]
ref: 1999 June 18, "xynot99", quoting "Peter Skaliks", Myth: Heteros and AIDS, alt.politics.homosexuality.hatemongers.phelps
glosses: A ball or wad of semen or vaginal fluid.
examples: text: >Go away, cumball, your presence is not needed here.
Cumball? What's next? Cuntball? Fuckball? Seriously, your *ball insults are getting boring.
ref: 1998 May 13, "Seb", quoting "Neo Atma Weapon 3:16", Can this be true: The answer, in alt.games.final-fantasy
text: Believe what you want to cumball, the fact is you know jack shit about me, >but i know more then enuff about you, so […]
ref: 1999 August 31, Nitro, When NITRO loses! -- NITRO WANTS A MALE *BITCH* TO HAVE SEX WITH!, alt.homosexuality
text: And how late did you stay up last night spelling that pathetic dribble you concocted you regurgitated cumball?
ref: 1999 December 4, "ManOwaR", quoting "Iceman", Iceman...., in rec.sport.football.college
glosses: Fuckwad, a term of contempt.
hedge tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge trees
Etymology: Referring to its use as barrier vegetation on the Great Plains of the US.
Senses: glosses: The Osage orange tree.
Hypernyms: tree
hedgeapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgeapples
Etymology: From hedge + apple.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera), also known as the hedge tree.
hedge apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hedgeapple.
Osage orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Osage oranges
form: osage orange
form: osage-orange
Senses: glosses: The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: sense: Maclura pomifera tree
word: bodark
sense: Maclura pomifera tree
word: bois d'arc
sense: Maclura pomifera tree
word: hedge tree
sense: fruit
word: hedgeapple
Great Plains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Plains
Senses: glosses: The relatively flat region of United States and Canada consisting of grasslands east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi, from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in the north, to Texas in the south.
Synonyms: Plains
Prairies
Derived terms: Great Plains rat snake
fisking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiskings
Etymology: Named after journalist Robert Fisk (for the surname, see Fisk). Originated in the blogosphere.
Senses: examples: text: By 2004 the word fisking had broken its tether from the topic of war and was being used to mean any detailed analysis of another's speech and writing.
ref: 2004, Barbara O'Brien, Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation, page 44:
text: As Linda Seebach put it, fisking is "line by line exegesis of idiocy," named after "journalist Robert Fisk, who often deserves it." Fisking is now a widely practiced technique.
ref: 2006, Peter Wood, A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now, page 246:
glosses: A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually.
Related terms: fisk
puro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊəɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəʊ
Forms: form: puros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish puro, shortened from cigarro puro.
Senses: glosses: A cigar, especially one made with tobacco from a single country.
nautical mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautical miles
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: geographical mile (very close to the same distance)
text: Personnel trenches have been constructed or improved in Tantung (40-05-50N 124-21-30E) and along roads 13 nautical miles (nm) south-southwest of Tantung and 1.5 nm west of the border (Figures 2 and 3).
ref: 1970 May, “Basic Description”, in Chinese Defensive Activity Along the China-North Korea Border, National Photographic Interpretation Center, published 2011, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2023, page 1:
text: An even more impressive nineteenth-century militarized lighthouse is found on the Taiwanese Wuchiu island, located just 20 nautical miles off the Chinese coast. While much of the surrounding military structure has been demolished, its black tower and high walls painted in camouflage colours stand as reminders of the contested history of this small frontier island.
ref: 2022, Veronica della Dora, Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse, →ISBN, →OCLC:
related: word: mul:NM
word: mul:M
word: mul:nmi
word: ;
word: mul:nm
synonyms: sea mile
hypernyms: mile#Noun
coordinate_terms: land mile#Noun
;
international mile
statute mile
survey mile
statute mile
glosses: A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile).
glosses: Synonym of sea mile, a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi.
synonyms: word: sea mile
extra: a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi
orthogonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ɔɹˈθɑ.ɡə.nəl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ɔɹˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/
ipa: /oːˈθɔɡ.ə.nəl/
ipa: /oːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/
ipa: [oːˈθɔ̟ɡ.ə.nəl]
Etymology: From Middle French orthogonal, in turn from Medieval Latin orthogōnālis and Latin orthogōnius (“right-angled”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios, “rectangular”). By surface analysis, ortho- + -gon + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
examples: text: The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
examples: text: The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery.
text: An orthogonal approach also promotes reuse. If components have specific, well-defined responsibilities, they can be combined with new components in ways that were not envisioned by their original implementors.
ref: 1999, Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
examples: text: Even in a geostate, some people are willing to fight and die for their views, but the institutional change to a polystate seems somewhat orthogonal to such issues.
ref: 2014 March 22, Rick Weber, “Polystate: Book 2”, in Notes on Liberty:
glosses: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
Derived terms: bioorthogonal
nonorthogonal
orthogonal complement
orthogonal function
orthogonal group
orthogonality
orthogonalize
orthogonally
orthogonals
unorthogonal
Related terms: biorthogonal
orthogonal base
orthogonalization
orthogonal matrix
orthogonal transform
orthonormal
semiorthogonal