cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sell like hot cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells like hot cakes
form: selling like hot cakes
form: sold like hot cakes
form: sold like hot cakes
Senses: examples: text: During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes.
text: You're living in a disco / Forget about the rat race / Let's do the Milkshake / Selling like a hotcake
ref: 1979, Robin Scott, “Pop Muzik”:
text: Geffen employees confirm that about half of the initial run of forty-six thousand [copies of Nevermind] went to the Northwest, where it sold like hot cakes.
ref: 2003, Jim Berkenstadt, Charles R. Cross, Nevermind: Nirvana:
text: These units will sell like hot cakes for $400000 apiece. Our cost will be $250000. It's a regular gold mine.
ref: 2005, G. Timothy Haight, Daniel Singer, The real estate investment handbook:
text: CALENDARS featuring local men willing to get their kit off for charity are selling like hot cakes after hitting the market this week.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Calendar boys get their tops off”, in John o'Groat Journal:
text: I sold 12 trout specials yesterday, they sold like hot cakes.
ref: 2012, Cosmo Knight, The Day After the Great Trout Run:
glosses: To be sold in large numbers quickly.
Related terms: fly off the shelves
like hot cakes
cake crumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, crumbs.
examples: text: All that was left of his business were a few measly cake crumbs.
glosses: Hardly anything.
hit the jackpot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the jackpot
form: hitting the jackpot
form: hit the jackpot
form: hit the jackpot
Senses: examples: text: Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.
ref: 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 55:
glosses: To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
glosses: To be accurate or correct.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.
plateau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplætəʊ/
ipa: /plæˈtoʊ/
homophone: plateaux
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: plateaus
form: plateaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.
Senses: glosses: A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland.
examples: text: Childhood obesity, rising for more than two decades, appears to have hit a plateau, a potentially significant milestone in the battle against excessive weight gain among children.
ref: 2008 May 28, Tara Parker-Pope, “Hint of Hope as Child Obesity Rate Hits Plateau”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A comparatively stable level after a period of increase. (of a varying quantity)
glosses: An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
topics: broadcasting
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
glosses: A notable level of attainment or achievement.
qualifier: drug slang
glosses: Any of several distinct, dose-dependent stages of a dextromethorphan trip.
Derived terms: Colorado Plateau
Iranian Plateau
Loess Plateau
Mexican Plateau
Ozark Plateau
plateau basalt
plateau effect
plateaulike
plateau pika
Tibetan Plateau
plateau
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplætəʊ/
ipa: /plæˈtoʊ/
homophone: plateaux
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: plateaus
form: plateauing
form: plateaued
form: plateaued
Etymology: Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.
Senses: glosses: (of a varying quantity) To reach a stable level after a period of increase; to level off.
momma's boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momma's boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mama's boy.
productive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈdʌk.təv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Forms: form: more productive
form: most productive
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
glosses: Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
glosses: Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
examples: text: Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous concocted out of gigantic and enormous), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ginormously) can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in -ly, they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with hard, fast, etc.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 138:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
raw_tags: of an affix or word construction rule
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
examples: text: a productive set
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
Synonyms: word: productive
word: prolific
word: pregnant
word: batful
word: fertile
word: fruitful
word: thriving
word: yielding
word: yieldly
word: voluminous
Derived terms: bioproductive
contraproductive
hyperproductive
hypoproductive
improductive
osteoproductive
overproductive
preproductive
productive efficiency
productive forces
productivism
productivist
productivize
semiproductive
superproductive
underproductive
Related terms: word: productively
word: productiveness
word: productivity
word: abundant
fricking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: fricken
form: frickin
form: frickin'
form: frigging
Senses: examples: text: Throw me a fricking bone here!
text: Geez, how many fricking questions are in this passage?
text: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!
ref: 1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Dr. Evil (Mike Myers):
synonyms: flipping
flogging
freaking
frigging
glosses: A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
fricking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: fricken
form: frickin
form: frickin'
form: frigging
Senses: examples: text: What are you fricking looking at?
text: He was so fricking drunk, he passed out kneeling in front of the toilet.
glosses: Freaking.
profusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/
ipa: /pɹəˈfjuʒən/
ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: profusions
Etymology: From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio.
Senses: examples: text: His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.
text: We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
ref: 1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:
text: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:
text: Elected leaders face a profusion of mega-pressure points these days – inflation, heat waves, high debt, or the pandemic.
ref: 2022 July 18, “Italian pride in a leader's humility”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
glosses: lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
stick-and-carrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticks-and-carrots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carrot and stick (more common in UK than in US)
promising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more promising
form: most promising
Senses: examples: text: The obtained low and anisotropic thermal conductivity, and feasibility of synthesis, in addition to other reports on high electron mobility, make arsenene a promising material for a variety of applications, including thermal management and thermoelectric devices..
ref: 2015, M. Zeraati, S. M. Vaez Allaei, I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari, M. Pourfath, D. Donadio, “Highly Anistoropic Thermal Conductivity of Arsenene: An ab initio Study”, in arXiv:
text: a promising young apprentice
glosses: Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
glosses: Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
Synonyms: rosy
promising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of promise
promising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: promisings
Senses: examples: text: So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
ref: 1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299:
glosses: The act of making a promise.
pimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmps/
rhymes: -ɪmps
Senses: glosses: plural of pimp
pimps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmps/
rhymes: -ɪmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pimp
insides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of inside
insides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: guts, intestines, innards
have a whale of a time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a whale of a time
form: having a whale of a time
form: had a whale of a time
form: had a whale of a time
Etymology: Compare whale (“something or someone excellent”); thus, not just any good time but rather a great time.
Senses: examples: text: We had a whale of a time at the party Saturday night.
synonyms: have a ball
hypernyms: have a good time
glosses: To enjoy oneself greatly: to have a very good time.
Related terms: blast
field day
hell of a
time of one's life
parlance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.ləns/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.ləns/
Forms: form: parlances
Etymology: From Middle English *parlaunce, from Anglo-Norman parlance, parlaunce, from parler (“to talk”) + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: To my childish fancy, it had seemed an imaginary flag-staff, or, in rustic parlance, the "liberty pole" of some former generation […]
ref: 1836, James Fenimore Cooper, "Eclipse":
text: We approach the contest, still known in the common parlance of the country, as "the first Pennimite War."
ref: 1845, Charles Miner, History of Wyoming, Letter IX:
text: The tourist's impression of the country to-day is that of a transported Holland, in which the official language is Dutch and the parlance of the people is "taki-taki."
ref: 1909, William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland, Chapter 22:
text: At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200:
glosses: A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
examples: text: Its use at a variety of levels, including the individual and organisational level, make it a varied term that has parlance in organisational development, performance management and talent management.
ref: 2020, Stanley Oluka, Performance Management System and Employee Performance in Amuria Health Centre IV, Eastern Uganda:
glosses: Of a word, the quality of being lexicalized; especially as jargon or slang.
examples: text: And without further parlance they fought, […]
ref: 1849, Lady Charlotte Guest, The Mabinogion, "Peredur the Son of Evrawc":
glosses: Speech, discussion or debate.
Synonyms: jargon
X marks the spot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a traditional crosslike mark to indicate buried treasure.
Senses: glosses: One will find what one is looking for under an obvious sign for it.
serenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: serenades
Etymology: Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).
Senses: examples: text: From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
ref: 1980, Dire Straits, “Romeo and Juliet”, in Making Movies:
glosses: A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
examples: text: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrumental composition in several movements.
serenade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: serenades
form: serenading
form: serenaded
form: serenaded
Etymology: Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).
Senses: examples: text: The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: To sing or play a serenade for (someone).
archnemesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archnemeses
Etymology: From arch- + nemesis.
Senses: glosses: A chief nemesis.
Synonyms: archenemy
archfoe
archvillain
refry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: refries
form: refrying
form: refried
form: refried
Etymology: From re- + fry.
Senses: glosses: To fry again.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: In Mexican cookery, to fry beans after boiling and mashing them.
Derived terms: refried
receivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more receivable
form: most receivable
form: receiveable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receyvable; by surface analysis, receive + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being received, especially of a debt, from the perspective of the creditor.
Derived terms: accounts receivable
receivable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receivables
form: receiveable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receyvable; by surface analysis, receive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: One man's receivable is another man's payable.
antonyms: payable
glosses: A debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business.
glosses: A debt arising from a sale on account or on credit.
haf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I don’t want to haf to fight ’im but if I do haf to fight ’im I’ll fight to whop Pa.
ref: 1940 February, Jesse Stuart, chapter 3, in Trees of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., published March 1940 (4th printing), →OCLC, part I, page 18:
text: “Raise your hands,” commanded the second man. “Drop the hosses an’ raise your hands. We want your money. Don’t want to haf to shoot.”
ref: [1957], Kyle Onstott, chapter 31, in Mandingo, Richmond, Va.: Denlinger’s, →OCLC, page 449:
text: Haf you already been to ze latrines?
ref: 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, translated by Cecil Parrott, “In Budapest”, in The Good soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War […], London: Penguin Books, published 1974, →ISBN, part III (The Glorious Licking), page 536:
text: “Stand easy boys,” the voice called through the dark. “We've got you covered, and we don't want to haf to shoot."
ref: 2009, Raymond Walter Seibert, “The Stage Line”, in Goin’ Up to Cripple Creek, DeSoto, Tex.: Advanced Concept Design Books, →ISBN, page 120:
text: I made Lady Viddrington bring me with her for she should haf a woman and I vont see the man vat steal her heart and make her sad for she cannot haf you.
ref: 2017, P.F. Chisholm [pseudonym; Patricia Finney], “Edinburgh December 1592”, in A Clash of Spheres (Sir Robert Carey Mysteries; 8), Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of have.
Derived terms: ve haf vays of making you talk
NCR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no carbon required (of duplicating paper).
NCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Cash Register.
glosses: Abbreviation of National Capital Region (Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada) or (Metro Manila, Philippines) or (National Capital Region (India)).
NCR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCRs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of national capital region.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of numeric character reference.
Lettland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Letland
Etymology: From Lett + land.
Senses: examples: text: […] homestead of this nation is not the whole of Livonia, but only a part of which is called Lettland; […]
ref: 1800, William Tools, View of the Russian Empire:
text: The Government of Lettland since July 1 last pays a bonus on farm tractors put into service in that country […]
ref: 1922, Automotive Industries, volume 47:
glosses: The land of the Lettish people, equivalent to modern-day Latvia.
glosses: Latvia.
lubricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/
Forms: form: lubricities
Etymology: From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness
text: Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 42:
coordinate_terms: viscosity#Noun
glosses: Degree of ability to lubricate.
raw_tags: of a fluid
examples: Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness
glosses: Evasiveness; shiftiness.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: all the outrageous lubricities of Phallic worship (III, xvi)
ref: 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
text: 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude
In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
text: Apart from the bull and the serpent, which were so universally worshipped as to call for consideration in other sections of this work, the goat ranked as one of the most popular, this animal's excessive lubricity marking it as an especially suitable representative of any generative or reproductive deity.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
text: Among the large number of characters are [...] young boys and old knowledgeable beldames familiar with every lubricity, every love charm and potion.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62:
synonyms: lechery
wantonness
glosses: Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: superlubricity
Related terms: lube
lubed
lubed up
lubricate
lubricated
lubrication
lubricator
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Werner Heisenberg, its discoverer, translated into English from a variety of original German terms. Heisenberg originally called the concept Ungenauigkeit (inexactness) or Unbestimmtheit (undeterminedness), whereas his mentor and collaborator Niels Bohr often used Unsicherheit (unsureness). Today in German the most commonly used term for the principle is Unschärfe (blurredness or fuzziness).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The principle that there is an absolute limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements, especially that of the position and momentum of a particle. Originally posited as a problem of measurement, it was soon refined as an inherent property of the universe.
Synonyms: uncertainty principle
indeterminacy principle
Heisenberg principle
Related terms: Planck's constant
kanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Channa (Mesembryanthemum tortuosum, syn. Sceletium tortuosum), a Southern African succulent with psychoactive properties.
glosses: A Western Australian perennial herb (Platysace cirrosa)
glosses: river ganna (Caroxylon aphyllum), a shrub of South Africa.
lubricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luˈbɹɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more lubricious
form: most lubricious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
Senses: glosses: Smooth and glassy; slippery.
examples: text: His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
ref: 1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller:
text: Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
Derived terms: lubriciously
lubriciousness
Related terms: lubricant
lubricate
lubricous
uncertainty principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Synonyms: indeterminacy principle
indeterminacy principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Synonyms: uncertainty principle
langur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌŋˈɡʊəɹ/
Forms: form: langurs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, “monkey”), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, “tail”) (compare लाङ्गूलिन् (lāṅgūlin, “tailed; monkey”)).
Senses: glosses: Any of the Old World monkeys of the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis (surilis), and Semnopithecus (gray langurs).
glosses: A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.
Derived terms: gray langur
pig-tailed langur
Planck's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Max Planck (1858–1947), German theoretical physicist, who discovered it in 1900.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: the constant of proportionality (symbol ℎ), relating the energy and frequency of a photon (6.626×10⁻³⁴ joule-second); also related to the indeterminacy limit in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; the quantum of action
wikipedia: Max Planck
style of cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styles of cause
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The case title for a cause of action or lawsuit; a description of the parties involved, such as Johnson v. Smith.
Related terms: title of proceeding
crossclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossclaims
Etymology: From cross- + claim.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A secondary lawsuit, brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, against a co-defendant in the original suit.
crossclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossclaims
form: crossclaiming
form: crossclaimed
form: crossclaimed
form: cross-claim
Etymology: From cross- + claim.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To file such a secondary lawsuit.
Synonyms: cross-complaint
Related terms: third-party claim
counterclaim
examination-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examinations-in-chief
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the examination of a witness by the party who called them.
Related terms: cross-examination
puzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌ.zl̩d/
Forms: form: more puzzled
form: most puzzled
Senses: examples: text: (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
text: They could not, it was said, keep Scandinavian bogies and the Scriptures separate in their puzzled brains.
ref: 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 17:
glosses: Confused or perplexed.
Derived terms: puzzledly
puzzledness
puzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌ.zl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puzzle
debutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbjuːtənt/
ipa: /ˈdeɪbjuːtənt/
Forms: form: debutants
form: débutant
Etymology: From French débutant, equivalent to debut + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The Australian batsmen were expecting an easier time with debutants Lonwabo Tsotsobe (4-50) and Wayne Parnell (1-52) replacing Dale Steyn and Ntini, while allrounder Kallis was also rested.
ref: 2009 January 31, Richard Earle, “Proteas romp to No.1 ranking”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A person (especially a male) who débuts, or appears for the first time.
Coordinate terms: debutante
Derived terms: celebutant
debutante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛbjuːˈtɑːnt/
ipa: /ˌdeɪbjuːˈtɑːnt/
Forms: form: debutantes
form: débutante
form: debûtante
Etymology: From French débutante.
Senses: synonyms: deb
glosses: A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society.
glosses: A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.
Coordinate terms: debutant
Derived terms: celebutante
celebutard
debutantism
debutard
postdebutante
predebutante
subdebutante
ELE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ELEs
form: E.L.E.
form: E. L. E.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of extinction level event.
sorte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortes
Senses: examples: text: As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
ref: 1533, R. Saltwood
roman: Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
glosses: Obsolete form of sort.
litterateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/
ipa: /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: litterateurs
form: literateur
form: littérateur
Etymology: From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.
Senses: examples: text: […]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.
ref: 1877, William Herman (pseudonym; Ambrose Bierce), The Dance of Death, pages 7–8:
text: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.
ref: 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4
glosses: A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
Derived terms: litterateuse
ARM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of accelerated reply mail, a service of the United States Postal Service.
glosses: Initialism of adjustable rate mortgage.
ARM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Republic Movement.
TDDRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act.
role model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role models
form: role-model
form: rôle model
Etymology: Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton. First use appears c. 1944 in the American Sociological Review.
Senses: examples: text: Where's my wife and family? / What if I die here? / Who'll be my role model / Now that my role model is gone, gone?
ref: 1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:
text: Shepard: I don't have time for this, Conrad. I'm not here to be a role model.
Conrad Verner: Oh, I see how it is. Commander Shepard doesn't have time for the little people!
Conrad Verner: Far be it for me to get in your way! You go be a hero.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
synonyms: word: exemplar
word: household deity
word: archetype
word: epitome
word: example
word: exemplar
word: icon
word: model
word: paradigm
word: paragon
word: pattern
word: quintessence
word: template
glosses: A person who serves as an example, or whose behavior is emulated by others.
wikipedia: American Sociological Review
Related terms: authority figure
father figure
mother figure
make headway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes headway
form: making headway
form: made headway
form: made headway
Senses: examples: text: I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all.
antonyms: tread water
glosses: To progress; to move forward.
Related terms: make way
Cajun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.d͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Forms: form: Cajuns
form: Cadien
form: Cajin
form: Cadjin
form: Cagin
Etymology: An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.
Senses: glosses: A member of the ethnic group descending from Acadia, primarily French-speaking Catholic and living in Southern Louisiana and Maine.
examples: text: Damn Cajuns! They're all a bunch of lazy coonasses!
synonyms: coonass
glosses: Any uneducated, poor Francophone in French Louisiana.
Cajun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.d͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Forms: form: Cadien
form: Cajin
form: Cadjin
form: Cagin
Etymology: An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Cajun people or their culture.
glosses: Of spicy food prepared in the style of the Cajun cuisine.
Derived terms: Cajun Creole
Cajun flamingo
Cajun French
stratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of a society, having a class structure.
Derived terms: stratified columnar epithelium
stratified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stratify
tissue paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tissue papers
Senses: glosses: Thin, translucent paper used for wrapping or for protecting delicate articles.
glosses: An unspecified product made of tissue (absorbent paper), such as bathroom tissue, paper handkerchief or household towel.
colorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colorizes
form: colorizing
form: colorized
form: colorized
form: colourise
form: colourize
Etymology: From color + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The woman colorized her hair.
glosses: To add color to.
examples: text: There is a colorized version of Casablanca.
text: What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […]taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.
ref: 1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: arts
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).
Synonyms: topics: colour
color
sense: to add color to
word: color
sense: to add color to
english: colour in
translation: colour in
word: color in
Derived terms: alt: colourisation, colourization
word: colorization
alt: colouriser, colourizer
word: colorizer
word: pseudocolorize
orange peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange peels
Senses: glosses: The skin of an orange, including the pith.
glosses: An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
examples: text: Grain-size numbers of 5 and lower can create a visual surface problem called orange peel. Remember that the grain boundaries are stronger than the grain interior. When the steel is stretched to large strain levels, the grain boundaries resist deformation and allow the core of the grain to deform (Fig. 1). This obviously is not acceptable for a Class A surface, so some companies will specify a grain-size number of 6 or finer on their purchase orders.
ref: 2011 February 1, Stuart Keeler, “Why Sheetmetal Grain Size is Important”, in MetalForming Magazine, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2022:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
A surface defect in which sheet metal has a rough texture, similar to an orange peel, due to the metal grains being relatively large.
glosses: A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.
examples: text: Orange Peel is the finest cultivar with good-sized open lantern flowers of great substance with their characteristic thick waxy petals.
ref: 1983, Gray-Wilson, Christopher & Matthews, Victoria, Gardening with Climbers, Collins, page 78:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A common name of a species of Clematis indigenous to eastern Eurasia, Clematis orientalis.
Derived terms: orange-peel bucket
orange peel theory
orange-peely
Ethel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθɪl/
homophone: ethyl (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɛθɪl
Forms: form: Ethyl
Etymology: Short form of names of Old English origin beginning with Ethel-, æþele (“noble”). First used in the 19th century. Cognate to the Germanic Adela and Adele.
Senses: examples: text: If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?
ref: 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Bradbury and Evans, page 95:
text: Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel.
Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.
ref: 1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23:
text: Two of Kennedy’s sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, supported the release during Sirhan’s 16th appearance before the California Parole Board. But other family members, including RFK’s widow Ethel, felt Sirhan should remain imprisoned.
ref: 2022 January 13, Jake Tapper and Cheri Mossburg, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom denies parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2022:
glosses: A female given name from Old English, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Arkansas County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenfield Township, Orange County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Attala County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Macon County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Richmond County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A hamlet in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Eth
fellatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈleɪtɹɪks/
Forms: form: fellatrices
form: fellatrixes
Etymology: From Latin fēllātrīx. By surface analysis, fellatio + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A woman who performs fellatio.
Related terms: fellator
scorecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorecards
form: score card
form: score-card
Etymology: From score + card.
Senses: glosses: A printed card allowing spectators of a game to identify players and record progress.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tabular representation of the most important statistics of an innings or match.
examples: text: Kosovo Criminal Justice Scorecard assesses the current state of the criminal justice sector, using as benchmarks the recommendations identified in our May 2006 report […]
ref: 2008, Human Rights Watch, Kosovo Criminal Justice Scorecard, page 32:
text: Merseyrail and LNER have emerged at the top of a scorecard ranking train operators for their provision of services and facilities for people travelling with babies and young children.
ref: 2023 September 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Merseyrail and LNER top family-friendly survey”, in RAIL, number 991, page 14:
glosses: A system of ratings.
Related terms: line score
box score
seamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: seamers
Etymology: From Middle English semer, semere, from Old English sēamere (“tailor; seamer”), equivalent to seam + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The case of Mme Binet's mother, a young widow who worked as a seamer at home, reveals how this system affected homeworkers.
ref: 2010, Helen Chenut, Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France:
glosses: A person who sews seams.
glosses: Part of a sewing machine that creates seams.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler skilled at making the ball seam.
Derived terms: four-seamer
two-seamer
second new ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second new balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first replacement new ball in an innings; in Test cricket, usually taken after 80 overs.
bus stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus stops
form: busstop
Senses: examples: text: He was waiting at the bus stop with her.
text: "The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.
ref: 1984 December 15, Scott Brookie, “Closing the Baths: Where Will It End?”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 3:
text: 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
glosses: A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
topics: education
glosses: The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
qualifier: preceded by "the"
glosses: A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.
Synonyms: ⟌
long division symbol
short division symbol
long division box
short division box
Hypernyms: sense: motorsports
word: chicane
sense: motorsports
word: curve
sense: motorsports
word: turn
Derived terms: bus stop chicane
bus-stop flight
parallelepiped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪd/
ipa: /ˌpæɹəlɛˈlɛpɪpɛd/
Forms: form: parallelepipeds
form: parallelepipedon
form: parallelopiped
form: parallelopipedon
Etymology: From Latin parallēlepipedum, from Ancient Greek παραλληλεπίπεδος (parallēlepípedos, “with parallel surfaces”), from παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + ἐπίπεδος (epípedos, “plane”).
Senses: examples: text: A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms, all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
Hypernyms: parallelotope
Hyponyms: cuboid
Derived terms: parallelepipedal
parallelepipedic
thwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: thwaites
Etymology: From Middle English *thwait, a borrowing from Old Norse þveit (“paddock”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”) (see whittle), Danish døjt (“¹⁄₁₆₀ of the gulden”, dialectal: “a small coin”), German Deut, Dutch duit. Cognate with Old English þwītan (“to thwite; cut; cut off”). Doublet of doit, and possibly of twat.
Senses: synonyms: riding#Noun
royd#Noun
assart#Noun
coordinate_terms: glade#Noun
meadow#Noun
clearcut#Noun
glosses: A piece of forest land cleared for agriculture or habitation; a clearing.
Related terms: thwite
thwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: thwaites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twaite.
KAT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of kill all taigs.
KAH
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of kill all Huns.
the Ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a satirical obituary published in an English newspaper after its loss to Australia in 1882, announcing the death of English cricket and that "the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A trophy played for by England and Australia in Test cricket; in the form of a small urn containing the ashes of a cremated cricket stump or set of bails.
examples: text: Australia retained the most recent Ashes series drawing against England 2-2.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A series of Test cricket matches played between England and Australia.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: rugby league
glosses: A nominal trophy contested by England and Australia in other sports, especially rugby league.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: rugby league
glosses: A series of such test matches.
ug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: ugs
form: ugg
form: oug
Etymology: From Middle English ugge, from Old Norse uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”), related to Old Norse ógn (“terror, threat, dispute”) and agi (“terror, strife, fear, punishment”). More at awe.
Senses: examples: text: He took an ug at's meht.
glosses: A feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
examples: text: What an ug ye've myed yorsel.
glosses: An object of disgust.
glosses: Vomited matter.
glosses: A surfeit.
Synonyms: sense: fear; horror
word: dread
word: fright
word: fear
sense: disgust
word: distaste
sense: disgust
word: loathsomeness
sense: disgust
word: revulsion
sense: object of disgust
word: abomination
sense: vomit
word: chunder
word: sick
word: vomit
sense: surfeit
word: glut
word: surplus
word: excess
Derived terms: ugfou
uggin
ugsome
ugsomely
ugsomeness
Related terms: ugly
ug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: ugs
form: ugging
form: ugged
form: ugged
form: ugg
form: oug
Etymology: From Middle English uggen, from Old Norse ugga (“to fear”), see above.
Senses: examples: text: Wha weds a cankert thriftless wife, / Weds to his days eternal strife, / For, like the Tron-Kirk bell, / She ever hammers on his lugs, / Till her an' hame at last he uggs / As the dire door o' hell!
ref: 1822, Robert Wilson, “Answer to an Epistle from a Friend”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 71:
glosses: To dread, loathe or disgust.
glosses: To fear, be horrified; shudder with horror.
glosses: To vomit.
glosses: To give a surfeit to.
Synonyms: sense: feel abhorrence
word: abhor
word: loathe
word: hate. Alternatively: nauseate
word: sicken
sense: vomit
word: heave
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: throw up
word: regurgitate
ug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: ugs
Etymology: From Icelandic uggi (“fin”).
Senses: glosses: The pectoral fin of a fish.
Synonyms: pectoral
busses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Cow:] I was earnin' a good livin' as headman on a horsecar when [I tried another gig that didn't pan out.] I went back to my old job—but they'd converted to busses... An' I couldn't drive.
ref: 1959 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: plural of bus
glosses: plural of buss
busses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bus
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buss