cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zhuzh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒʊʒ/
rhymes: -ʊʒ
homophone: zhoosh (one pronunciation)
homophone: zhoozh
Forms: form: zhuzhes
form: zhuzhing
form: zhuzhed
form: zhuzhed
Etymology: Originally from Polari zhoosh.
Senses: examples: text: Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks. We are all Barbara Cartland now.
ref: 2013 February 21, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4:
text: Jab is looking to bring back the “old school to London’s fitness scene”. But while it draws on the heritage of boxing in Britain and London’s East End, it twists it and zhuzhes it up for those of us who want to get a great workout but with instructors and a really lovely studio.
ref: 2020 March 1, David Williams, Kathleen Johnston, Olive Pometsey, “London’s best boxing gyms”, in GQ UK:
text: My grandma always used iceberg lettuce, but my cousin and I zhuzh it up with other greens.
ref: 2021, Michelle Dudash, “Simple Green Salad with Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and Lemon-Mint Vinaigrette”, in Clean Eating Kitchen: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Cookbook, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: 'Hey, I thought you were going to zhuzh this place up a bit?'
ref: 2022, Caimh McDonnell, This Charming Man (The Stranger Times; 2), →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of zhoosh.
zhuzh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒʊʒ/
rhymes: -ʊʒ
homophone: zhoosh (one pronunciation)
homophone: zhoozh
Forms: form: more zhuzh
form: most zhuzh
Etymology: Originally from Polari zhoosh.
Senses: examples: text: Dorian limped into my flat and, although he sported a grey, strappy moon-boot, he appeared the fabulous, famous fashionista, what with a scarlet silk shirt, lime linen trousers and a lime-green paisley velvet waistcoat. Sounds quite hideous, I realise, but he looked so zhuzh! Maybe one had to be there. Actually Dorian was a rather well known fashion designer and was becoming more in demand by the minute.
ref: 2014, Joanne Brodie, People Who Are Addicted To Sex, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of zhoosh.
zhuzh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒʊʒ/
rhymes: -ʊʒ
homophone: zhoosh (one pronunciation)
homophone: zhoozh
Forms: form: zhuzhes
Etymology: Originally from Polari zhoosh.
Senses: examples: text: But as the evening wore on, nearly all of them ended outside on the deck, enjoying the cool evening air and the stunning sunset view. Rocky had been right. A deck was just the thing this lodge needed to give it some zhuzh.
ref: 2021, Diane Kelly, Getaway With Murder (The Mountain Lodge Mysteries; 1), →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of zhoosh.
dayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayers
Etymology: From day + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I envy the Marilyn Fishers of the world who have the time — and the money — to embark on 45 cruises, the least of which a seven-dayer.
ref: 1992, Louisville Automobile Club, American Automobile Association, Home & away in Kentucky, volumes 13-14, page 40:
text: Blossoms that flower atop willowy weedy stems such as forget-me-nots, delphiniums, and gauras should be thought of as two-dayers; they don't draw water well or retain preservatives.
ref: 1996, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Full bloom: thoughts from an opinionated gardener, page 66:
glosses: Something lasting a specified number of days.
Derived terms: all-dayer
one-dayer
dayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dayer
dayees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dayee
gaura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauras
Etymology: From the former genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Blossoms that flower atop willowy weedy stems such as forget-me-nots, delphiniums, and gauras should be thought of as two-dayers; they don't draw water well or retain preservatives.
ref: 1996, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Full bloom: thoughts from an opinionated gardener, page 66:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any flowering plant of the Oenothera sect. Gaura (formerly the genus Gaura in the family Onagraceae, including many beeblossoms.
gaura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gora (“white person”).
gauras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaura
wavyleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wavy + leaf.
Senses: examples: wavyleaf basketgrass
wavyleaf oak
wavyleaf thistle
glosses: Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by wavy leaves.
HCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HCAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of home care assistant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of hydroxycitric acid.
HCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HCA
home carer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home carers
Senses: coordinate_terms: caregiver
glosses: A health care professional who provides care in a person's own home.
home carers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home carer
past life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: past lives
Senses: examples: text: She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives.
glosses: A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation.
examples: text: I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.
glosses: A former period of one's life.
past lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of past life
double sawbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double sawbucks
Etymology: The number 20 is written XX in Roman numerals; this resembles two of the sawbucks used for cutting wood.
Senses: examples: text: I got five double sawbucks out of my wallet and dropped them in front of him.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 14:
glosses: Twenty dollars; a twenty-dollar bill.
glosses: A twenty-year prison sentence.
go-go boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-go boots
Senses: examples: text: How do I look in go-go boots and a bazooka?
ref: 1993 May 8, Bill Grundfest, Paul Reiser, “The Spy Girl Who Loved Me”, in Mad About You, Helen Hunt (actor):
glosses: A kind of low-heeled women's fashion boot introduced in the 1960s.
go-go boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-go boot
R/T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RT
form: R&T
Senses: examples: text: I had no mental picture at all of Terry Lennox loafing around one of the swimming pools in Bermuda shorts and phoning the butler by R/T to ice the champagne and get the grouse a-toasting.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 18
glosses: Radiotelephone; radiotelegraph.
R/T
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: RT
form: R&T
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of road and track; used to indicate a high performance edition of a vehicle or part, capable of use for everyday driving as well as amateur racing.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of road and terrain; used to indicate a ruggedized version of a part, capable of on-road performance and off-road track/terrain performance.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
qualifier: tires
glosses: Initialism of rugged-terrain; a type of all-terrain tire (A/T) with better off-road and on-road performance (similar to M/T and H/T respectively).
Coordinate terms: english: all-terrain
translation: all-terrain
word: A/T
english: highway/terrain
translation: highway/terrain
word: H/T
english: light truck
translation: light truck
word: LT
english: mud/terrain
translation: mud/terrain
word: M/T
english: track/terrain
translation: track/terrain
word: T/T
Ruiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Nevado del Ruiz
broomsedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broom sedge
Etymology: From broom + sedge.
Senses: glosses: Any species of grass in the genus Andropogon, especially Andropogon virginicus, broomsedge bluestem.
glosses: Certain true sedges:
Carex scoparia (broom sedge).
glosses: Certain true sedges:
Carex tribuloides (blunt broom sedge, broom sedge).
basketgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From basket + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various grasses of the genus Oplismenus.
baskethouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baskethouse
basketeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketeer
gouvernments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gouvernment
Frasch process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Frasch process
Etymology: Devised in 1894 by the German-born American chemist Herman Frasch.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method of extracting sulfur from underground deposits by pumping in superheated water.
wikipedia: Herman Frasch
whalelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whale-lore
Etymology: From whale + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep- sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]
ref: 1864, The North British review, page 300:
text: A whale of a whale adventure on one of the few sailing vessels still occasionally in use. The author has packed standard ingredients into this story, including a fiendish captain, detailed information on whalelore and modern whaling methods.
ref: 1960, Michael Williams, Commonweal, volume 72, page 235:
text: But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have an aficionado's sincerity. Grey didn't like him.
ref: 1973, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 92:
text: The project itself, in short, generates the need for figuration, itself compactly figured in the Swiss Army knife...in the amount of whalelore that might be considered, but there turns out to be no inherent limit to the number of cognitive strategies for knowledge about whalelore that might be tested.
ref: 1987, Udo Fries, The Structure of texts, page 213:
glosses: The knowledge, study, or science of whales.
Related terms: cetology
fowl-lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowl lore
Etymology: From fowl + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep-sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]
ref: 1864, The North British review, page 300:
text: The chapters end with scraps of descriptive ornithology which we gladly skip to revel in the folk-lore and the fowl-lore, the laughable records of marshland superstition, the scorn for sham naturalists, […]
ref: 1896, The Speaker, volume 13, page 453:
text: To the last he planted his own spuds, but did it his own way— planting them in a trench marked with high poles on each end and digging them out one by one as needed .... Acknowledged as a seer on fish, game, and fowl lore, […]
ref: 1984, Philip McM. Pittman, Adele S. Pittman, The Les Cheneaux chronicles:
qualifier: archaic or puristic
glosses: The knowledge, study, or science of fowls; birdlore.
cry up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries up
form: crying up
form: cried up
form: cried up
Senses: examples: text: Though we cry up the great advantage we have above all other animals, in being capable of religion, yet those animals, we despise for want of it, herd most socially together; except such carnivorous creatures which necessity separates.
ref: 1730, Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation:
text: Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.
ref: 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar:
glosses: To extol, praise.
caschrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caschroms
form: cascrom
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic cas-chrom.
Senses: glosses: The crooked spade; an implement of tillage peculiar to the Highlands, used for turning the ground where a plough cannot work because of stones.
caschroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caschrom
sauce-alone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: jack-by-the-hedge; garlic mustard; hedge garlic (Alliaria petiolata)
degender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degenders
form: degendering
form: degendered
form: degendered
form: degener
form: ungender
Etymology: From Latin dēgenerāre.
Senses: examples: text: And if then thoſe may any vvorſe be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 184:
glosses: To degenerate.
degender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degenders
form: degendering
form: degendered
form: degendered
Etymology: From de- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable[…]
ref: 2005, R. W. Connell, Masculinities, page 232:
glosses: To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
glosses: To refer to (someone) with terms that avoid mentioning their sex, such as calling a woman "they" or using "my partner" to refer to one's girlfriend.
Related terms: ungender
degendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degender
degendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degender
degenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degender
masculinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masculinization
unfeminized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeminized
form: most unfeminized
Etymology: From un- + feminized.
Senses: examples: text: That these men have withstood sexual contact with women and have come away unfeminized solidifies their masculinity.
ref: 2010, Gina Marie Weaver, Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in the Vietnam War, page 95:
glosses: Not feminized.
unmasculinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmasculinized
form: most unmasculinized
Etymology: From un- + masculinized.
Senses: glosses: Not masculinized.
capitulescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitulescence
capitulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitulator
corcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corcules
form: corcle
form: corculum
Etymology: Latin corculum (“a little heart”), diminutive of cor (“heart”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
corcules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corcule
corcle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corcles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corcule.
corcles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corcle
loodheramaun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loodheramauns
form: looderamawn
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish liúdramán (“loafer”).
Senses: examples: text: there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: Baah! Adam was a damn fool, a looderamawn if you like.
ref: 1961, Flann O'Brien, The Hard Life:
text: I found a looderamawn in Dalkey Village by the name of Teague McGettigan.
ref: 1964, Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive:
glosses: A big, lazy man; a loafer.
loodheramauns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loodheramaun
looderamawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looderamawns
Senses: examples: text: there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: Baah! Adam was a damn fool, a looderamawn if you like.
ref: 1961, Flann O'Brien, The Hard Life:
text: I found a looderamawn in Dalkey Village by the name of Teague McGettigan.
ref: 1964, Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive:
glosses: Alternative form of loodheramaun.
looderamawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looderamawn
epigeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigea
Senses: glosses: perigee
epigees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigee
millenarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: millenarianism
millenniarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: millenarianism
millennialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millennialisms
Etymology: From millennial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: millenarianism
Related terms: centennialism
millennialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millennialism
galage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galages
Senses: examples: text: if thy galage once sticketh fast ,
The more to winde it out thou doft swinck
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of galoshe.
galages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galage
coppel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cupel.
coppel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coppels
form: coppeling
form: coppelling
form: coppeled
form: coppeled
form: coppelled
form: coppelled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cupel.
coppels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coppel
coppels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coppel
coppelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coppel
coppelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coppel
skip-kennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skip-kennels
Senses: glosses: A young lackey or assistant; a footboy.
Derived terms: english: servant at Trinity College Dublin
translation: servant at Trinity College Dublin
word: skip
clake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)
clakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clake
holorime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holorimes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of holorhyme.
hot and high
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Operating in hot climates and at high altitude.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having both speed and altitude too high for the landing approach
barrowload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrowloads
Etymology: From barrow + load.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of men wheeled millions of barrowloads of earth and rocks for hundreds of weeks—dumping, loading till solid ground was made on which the C.P.R. could found their dream.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: [...] the 9.7 is routed into one of the other platforms to leave Platform No. 8 clear for the "Mail" and save the station staff a hurried transfer of a dozen or more barrowloads of mailbags.
ref: 1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
glosses: The amount that fills a barrow.
barrowloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrowload
truncators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncator
nontruncated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + truncated.
Senses: glosses: Not truncated.
sickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sicker
sickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sicker
tamarindade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tamarind + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A drink made with tamarind and lemon juice and sugar syrup.
appleade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appleades
Etymology: From apple + -ade.
Senses: examples: text: Bia serves up a whole host of flower-infused items—from a lavender cake, and lavender appleade, to a blueberryade, to a vanilla latte.
ref: 2017 May 2, Oren Peleg, “Bia Coffee Steeps Flower Petals For 3 Days To Make Their Gorgeous Rose Lattes”, in LAist, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023:
glosses: A sweetened apple drink.
appleades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appleade
mangoade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mango + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A sweetened mango drink.
pineappleade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineappleades
Etymology: From pineapple + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A sweetened pineapple drink.
raspberryade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspberryades
Etymology: From raspberry + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A sweetened raspberry drink.
strawberryade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberryades
Etymology: From strawberry + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A sweetened strawberry drink.
dorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorn
metamathematician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamathematicians
Etymology: From meta- + mathematician.
Senses: glosses: A mathematician who studies metamathematics.
metamathematicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamathematician
tunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tunicate + -d.
Senses: glosses: tunicate
aloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alose
give it to someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives it to someone
form: giving it to someone
form: gave it to someone
form: given it to someone
Senses: glosses: To beat up, shoot, rob, murder, hit or provoke someone.
glosses: To put up a good fight against someone.
glosses: To punish, criticize or verbally abuse someone.
examples: text: Someone else was kissing her old boyfriend Darren, some other girl wearing his class ring and letting him give it to her in one of Erasmus's abandoned stairwells.
ref: 2015, Naomi A. Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill, page 278:
glosses: To have sexual relations with someone; to allow someone to have sex with oneself.
examples: text: I really have to give it to you. You did a great job!
glosses: To give someone credit; to praise someone.
Synonyms: sense: To give someone credit
word: hand it to someone
give someone one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone one
form: giving someone one
form: gave someone one
form: given someone one
Senses: examples: text: I gave her one last night.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with someone.
Synonyms: coitize
go to bed with
sleep with
copulate with
Aesopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aesopic
form: most Aesopic
Etymology: From Aesop + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aesop; Aesopian
Derived terms: Aesopically
pseudonamespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonamespaces
Etymology: From pseudo- + namespace.
Senses: examples: text: Prepending text to function names can act as a pseudonamespace.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A false namespace achieved by other means.
pseudonamespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonamespace
insurrecto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurrectos
Etymology: From Spanish insurrecto, from Latin īnsurrectus.
Senses: glosses: a rebel, especially in Cuba or the Philippines during American military involvement there around the start of the 20th century
insurrectos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurrecto
Penrose steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After a drawing by Lionel Penrose and Roger Penrose.
Senses: examples: text: In a dream, you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes. That lets you create closed loops, like the Penrose Steps. The infinite staircase.
ref: 2010 July 8, Inception (Movie), spoken by Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt):
text: I'll have my heaven, / Where heaven is love and love is my heaven. / I just have to climb through those Penrose steps! / Till I find sky number seven.
ref: 2011 May 13, Amal A. Islim, Walking with the Vain Cattle: In the Womb of Life, the Plant of Miracle Is Ready to Blossom a White Flower, Bloomington: Balboa Press, →ISBN, →OL:
text: At this book's inception, when we came to, we found ourselves already traipsing around Penrose steps, already reactively enclosed in an unceasing loop.
ref: 2012 April 16, Rob Coley with Dean Lockwood, Cloud Time, Alresford: Zero Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 100:
glosses: An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.
wikipedia: Lionel Penrose
Roger Penrose
Synonyms: Penrose staircase
Penrose stairs
encounter group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encounter groups
Senses: examples: text: The encounter group would meet either before or after regular school hours. . . . The group would thrash out the problem of racial hostility, and any relevant problems.
ref: 1969 April 30, "Loosening the Springs at Boca Ciega High" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times, p. 16A (retrieved 20 Feb 2013)
text: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff recently spent a weekend with a Cleveland encounter group. . . . Nearly everyone was in tears at least once during the emotion-charged weekend encounter in the basement activities room of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
ref: 1970 November 9, “Behavior: A Weekend Encounter: Strength from the Group”, in Time:
text: At times, the sessions had the air of an encounter group, with the Colombians describing their fears and frustrations, and the American journalists listening sympathetically.
ref: 1989 November 2, David E. Pitt, “Bogota Reporters Reveal Fears at Frontline of the Drug War”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Feb 2013:
hyponyms: living room group
qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: A gathering of people who intentionally meet and interact so that each member may improve his or her ability both to express feelings and to react with appropriate sensitivity to the feelings of others.
Synonyms: T-group
training group
sensitivity-training group
human relations training group
Related terms: intervention
psychodrama
visitor design pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visitor design patterns
Senses: topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Synonym of visitor pattern.
synonyms: word: visitor pattern
visitor design patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visitor design pattern
overloadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overloading
function overloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: function overloadings
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A feature that allows creating several functions or methods with the same name differing in the type of the input and the output parameters.
Synonyms: method overloading
multiple dispatch
multidispatch
method overloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: method overloadings
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of function overloading.
synonyms: word: function overloading
method overloadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of method overloading
function overloadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of function overloading
multiple dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple dispatch
multiple dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple dispatches
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of function overloading.
synonyms: word: function overloading
Hypernyms: dynamic dispatch
Hyponyms: double dispatch
double dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double dispatches
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mechanism that dispatches a function call to different concrete functions depending on the runtime types of two objects involved.
Hypernyms: multiple dispatch
double dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double dispatch
pegasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But, I think it will be too risky to try and steal horses, unipegs, pegasi, or unicorns. There are spells cast on the animals to keep track of them.
ref: 2004, Myles Brandon Hibbett, Zephyr Spheres and the Lost Spell, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49:
text: There were three draia — one for luggage, including gifts — and twenty-two pegasi to carry them, plus a dozen more who would fly with them.
ref: 2010 November 2, Robin McKinley, Pegasus, New York: Putnam Juvenile, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 11:
glosses: plural of pegasus.
demux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demuxes
Etymology: From de- + mux.
Senses: glosses: A demultiplexer.
demux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demuxes
form: demuxing
form: demuxed
form: demuxed
Etymology: From de- + mux.
Senses: glosses: To demultiplex.
Derived terms: demuxer
single dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single dispatches
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is chosen solely on the type of the instance calling the method.
Hypernyms: dynamic dispatch
single dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single dispatch
dynamic dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic dispatches
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during runtime, as it cannot be assigned during compile time.
Hypernyms: dispatch
dynamic dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamic dispatch
static dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static dispatches
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during compile time.
Synonyms: early binding
Hypernyms: dispatch
static dispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static dispatch
freelook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + look.
Senses: examples: text: The mouse's right-side button switches between freelook and locked-on-an-individual modes.
ref: 2006 October, Maximum PC, page 64:
text: I blundered across an insurgent camp because I was using the freelook camera to admire the gorgeous forestry.
ref: 2009, PC Gamer, volume 16, numbers 7-9, page xcix:
topics: video-games
glosses: mouselook
Yazzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Navajo, from Navajo yázhí (“little one”), a commonly adopted surname when the BIA required Native Americans to take surnames for the purpose of official records.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Navajo
direct deposits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct deposit
make shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes shift
form: making shift
form: made shift
form: made shift
Senses: examples: text: Nerissa: How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
Portia: Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. And the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Ecod, I thank your worship, I'll make a shift to stay my stomach with a slice of cold beef in the pantry.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
text: The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 1, in Walden:
text: We could find no matches, and so we tried to make shift with the pistols.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXII, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 232:
text: I was unable to handle a brig (which the Hispaniola should have been), but I thought I could make shift to sail her as a schooner without public shame.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing:
text: The military historian must often make shift to write of battles with slender data, but he can pad out his deficiencies by learned parallels.
ref: 1922, John Buchan, Huntingtower, chapter 14:
glosses: To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
Synonyms: make do
get along
get by
Derived terms: makeshift
make shift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more make shift
form: most make shift
Senses: examples: text: Bill saw the road as an advantage for him, but he still didn't like the fact that he was seeing more and more make shift camps preparing to build permanent homes for the settling, unwanted new comers.
ref: 2010, William Campbell, More Short Stories by Boothill Will, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of makeshift.
make shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make shifts
Senses: examples: text: In a room not more than twelve feet square, were four miserable beds: the make shift, as mine host of the tape shop called it, was a singular contrivance; it was a long deal table, with a broomstick tied to each corner, rising about a foot from the surface of the table, with a cord communicating from the point of each, to form a kind of barrier for the bed, which was placed within them.
ref: 1818 March 3, "Philo Britannicus", "Sketches from Real Life", The White Dwarf, Number 17, page 270
glosses: Alternative form of makeshift.
homologen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologens
Senses: examples: text: Coal will give anywhere from 3.6 to 6 per cent coal tar, and this contains on an average 2.5 per cent benzine and its homologens.
ref: 1912, United States. Congress. House, Report on Schedule A: Chemicals, Oils, and Paints, page 199:
glosses: A homologue.
lechi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lechis
Etymology: From Hebrew לֶחִי (léḥi, “stake fastened in the ground”, literally “jawbone”).
Senses: glosses: A pole used in demarcating an eruv.
Star Trekkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Trekkish
form: most Star Trekkish
form: Star Trek–ish
Etymology: From Star Trek + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: When her predatory lovers die — first with crystal shards embedded in their skulls and then just vanishing in a sparkly Star Trekkish mass of bubbles — she believes that she is killing them with her deadly vagina.
ref: 1984, Florida Atlantic University, Science Fiction Research Association, Fantasy review, Volume 7, Issues 64-74, page 43
text: AT&T Microelectronics and Go Corp. envision future "personal communicators" that will include devices ranging from tablet computers with fax transceivers and wireless data transmission to a "Star Trekkish" communicator with a writing pad.
ref: 1992, InfoWorld, volume 14, number 29, page 31:
text: Biosphere 2, that very real quasi-scientific experiment in the Arizona desert in which seven men and women donned Star Trekkish jumpsuits and sealed themselves inside a domed ecocosm, is an eerie parallel to the Alternative 3 plot.
ref: 2004, Jonathan Vankin, Joh Whalen, The 80 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time, page 137:
text: "Not to get too Star Trekkish," Miriam said. "But I'm also an empath".
ref: 2008, John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor, Claws That Catch, page 271:
text: Originally developed in the 1950s, the square tomato, officially known by the Star Trekkish designation “Cultivar VF-145,” was designed solely with machines in mind.
ref: 2011, Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War, page 329:
glosses: Especially of style or technology: like that of the fictional world of the Star Trek media franchise.
Synonyms: Star Trekky
Lewinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈɪnski/
ipa: /ləˈwɪnski/
Etymology: From a Slavic language, which added a patronymic suffix to the ultimately Hebrew root לוי (leví, “priest”), an occupational surname.
Senses: examples: text: “Sixteen years ago, fresh out of college, a 22 year old intern in the White House – and more than averagely romantic – I fell in love with my boss in a 22-year old sort of way. It happens,” Lewinsky said.
ref: 2014 October 20, Dan Merica, “Lewinsky makes emotional plea to end cyberbullying”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Lewinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈɪnski/
ipa: /ləˈwɪnski/
Forms: form: Lewinskys
Etymology: From a 1998 sex scandal between US President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Senses: examples: text: Bill and Hillary Clinton spent last Monday together at Camp David, celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary. […] No word as of yet on what gifts the couple exchanged, but it's a good bet he did not receive a Lewinsky.
ref: 1999 October 16, 27:15, in Saturday Night Live, season 25, episode 2:
text: None more so than the incidents when Ms Temple gave the Deputy Prime Minister the full Lewinsky in his office, under the gaze of a portrait of Oliver Cromwell — although we are allowed to know that at such times "he would usually be going through his ministerial box, maybe something to do with regeneration, or the environment."
ref: 2006 May 2, Dominic Lawson, “We expect no better of John Prescott”, in The Independent, →ISSN:
text: Doctors have called for boys to be vaccinated against HPV just like teenage girls to stop the spread of the disease" that is spread during Lewinskys.
ref: 2011 February 21, The Rush Limbaugh Show (Radio), Rush Limbaugh (actor):
synonyms: blowjob
glosses: An instance of fellatio.
Lewinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈɪnski/
ipa: /ləˈwɪnski/
Forms: form: Lewinskys
form: Lewinskying
form: Lewinskyed
form: Lewinskyed
Etymology: From a 1998 sex scandal between US President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Senses: examples: text: BTW, as long as we're talking about losing one's job over oral sex, should Newt be kicked out of the House for the, err, lewinskying he got from one of his female aides?
ref: 1998 September 21, Joel Rosenberg, “Re: Do Not Read This If You're Sick of the Clinton Crap”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <36069FFB.64CB2091@winternet.com>:
text: The cartoon video for "Metal Fingers in My Body" is a girl's fantasy of Lewinskying R2D2.
ref: 1999 July, Will Hermes, “Rack Jobbing”, in Spin, →ISSN, page 137:
text: Jazmin said he made her — "Lewinsky" him, for his collection.
ref: 1999 October 4, “...Or Just Look Like One” (32:08), in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Nina Laszlo (Bebe Neuwirth):
glosses: To perform fellatio on.
Lewinskys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lewinsky
Lewinskys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Lewinsky
flight interruption manifest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight interruption manifests
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substitute ticket issued by an airline due to a schedule change or other disruption to their service, allowing travel on another airline.
pyrosulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosulfites
Etymology: From pyro- + sulfite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: metabisulfite
marquessates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marquessate
IEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IED
improvised explosive devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improvised explosive device
roadside bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadside bomb
Lewinskying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Lewinsky
Stuttgarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stuttgarters
Etymology: From Stuttgart + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Stuttgart, capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
south-southerlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of south-southerly
south-southerly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south-southerlies
Etymology: Imitative of its cry.
Senses: glosses: A long-tailed duck of species Clangula hyemalis.
Synonyms: southerly
seven-level screwdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-level screwdrivers
form: seven level screwdriver
form: 7 level screwdriver
Etymology: From seven-level + screwdriver, so called because Air Force "seven-level" personnel (advanced techs/higher ranks) typically carried this kind of screwdriver. It was rumored to be the ONLY tool these advanced techs ever needed, or were allowed to carry. Advanced techs only "do" small trim-pot tweaking. Less-experienced techs handle the heavier tools and tasks.
Senses: glosses: A plastic-handled (officially yellow) pocket screwdriver (with clip) and a 2.5 inch shank, ending in a 1/8 inch slotted head.
makes shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make shift
making shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make shift
made shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make shift
goodtime Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodtime Charlies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time Charlie.
good time Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good time Charlies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time Charlie.
good-time Charley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time Charlie.
goodtime Charley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time Charlie.
good time Charley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good time Charleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time Charlie.
getting used to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The new arrangement will take some getting used to, but I think it'll turn out to be a good thing.
glosses: Acclimation, adjustment.
swiftie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪfti/
Forms: form: swifties
form: swifty
Etymology: From swift + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Nils T. Granlund proved a swiftie for the local boys by scorching up the town with his fast work. Arriving Monday night (21), he placed under contract 15 girls from ‘Kid From Spain’ and ‘42nd St.,’ the following day for his new Paradise cafe, New York.
ref: 1932 November 29, “Granlund’s Swiftie”, in Variety, volume 108, number 12, New York, N. Y.: Variety, Inc., page 55:
text: ‘He don't like coffee,’ Gregorius said. ‘He's a swifty. He moves fast. Good reflexes.’
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 52:
text: Blanche Martin, the No. 1 fullback from Michigan State, and Don Maynard, a swiftie who spent one season with the Giants, may be the best the [New York] Titans have.
ref: 1960 September 12, Roy Terrell, “The New Pros Open Up”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 13, number 11, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., page 34:
text: Because [Wendell] Mottley is a swiftie who doesn’t wait, he blasted the first 200 in 21.5 and had the rest of the field lollygagging behind him.
ref: 1965, John Kieran, Arthur Daley, The Story of the Olympic Games: 776 b.c. to 1964, Revised edition, Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, pages 396–397:
glosses: Someone or something that moves, acts or thinks fast.
examples: text: Near-synonym: swift half
text: A bar and clubhouse will be in place at Tallaght for the big kick-off in 2001. Until then there is a modest bar at the Morton Stadium, but Rovers fans tend to have a swiftie at various spots in town before heading to the match.
ref: 2000 November, “Dublin”, in Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans, edited by Dan Goldstein, The Rough Guide to European Football: A Fans’ Handbook 2000–2001, London: Rough Guides Ltd, →ISBN, page 331:
text: ‘I thought we’d go to Cuba.’ He says it like he’s suggesting we go down the road to the local pub for a swiftie.
ref: 2008, Carole Matthews, All You Need Is Love, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: An alcoholic drink that is consumed quickly.
examples: text: Somebody, ’tis said, pulled a swiftie on our newest Amateur in this zone—2ASE. A marauding gent from a country area, whilst visiting, switched a wire or two behind a panel. Nowt blew up, but nowt ’appened it seems. 2ASE took it in good part and soon discovered the joker’s work.
ref: 1951 January, “New South Wales: Eastern Suburbs”, in Amateur Radio, volume 19, number 1, Melbourne: Wireless Institute of Australia, page 16:
synonyms: word: fast one
word: Abraham work
word: deception
word: deceit
word: dupery
word: fiddle
word: hocus-pocus
word: jugglery
word: list
word: mislead
word: Punic faith
word: rinky-dink
word: ruse
word: subterfuge
word: swack
word: trickery
glosses: A fraud or trick; an act of deception.
glosses: Ellipsis of Tom Swiftie.
swifties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swiftie
glosses: plural of swifty
French grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The door was French grey outside with raised metal lettering, as clean and sharp as a new knife.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 130:
glosses: A pale dove grey.
French fits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘We've got a file on what we call the barred window boys, Doctor. Places where you can't jump out of when the French fits take over.’
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 144:
text: ‘I was having the French fits coming out of it.’
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 1949, page 148:
glosses: Delirium tremens.
floorwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From floor + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards the floor.
floorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From floor + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.
ref: 2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie, page 53:
glosses: Toward the floor.