cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
/dev/null
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: dev null
form: dev-null
form: devnull
Etymology: From Unix operating systems, where /dev (the Unix directory containing device files) contains a null entry representing no device.
Senses: examples: text: It's possible to suppress the compiler's warnings by redirecting standard error to /dev/null.
text: To avoid problems when running the script, the output of man man was sent to /dev/null instead of sending it to a real terminal. This has the effect of discarding the already formatted text of the retrieved page.
ref: 1980 October, Luis F. Cabrera, “A Performance Evaluation Study of UNIX”, in Harold Joseph Highland, editor, Computer Performance Evaluation Users Group 16th Meeting (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication; 500-65), Washington: Government Printing Office, page 235:
text: [...] we reserve file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 by opening /dev/null and duplicating the file descriptor returned. /dev/null is a pseudo-driver that forces read to return 0 and write to return as if the entire amount requested had been written. This makes library routines that use file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 harmless.
ref: 1993, Stephen A. Rago, UNIX System V Network Programming, Pearson, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Continuing in the Unix tradition of treating everything as a file, you can redirect a command's output to the null file, /dev/null. The null file consumes all output sent to it, as if /dev/null is a black hole star.
ref: 2005, Eric Foster-Johnson with John C. Welch and Micah Anderson, Beginning Shell Scripting, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 263:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no output, always being as an empty file when read.
examples: text: Thoughtful discussion and criticism is welcomed, but please send all flames to dev null.
ref: 1992 September 17, Douglas Meier <dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, “Welfare Reform Idea”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <1992Sep17.064757.551@news.acns.nwu.edu>
text: suddenly the RLP calls form atlanta apparently go to dev null.
ref: 1993 December 18, Carmien Stefan <carmien@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU>, “RLP hosed”, in alt.unix.wizards (Usenet), message-ID <CI7Gt6.DAo@Colorado.EDU>
text: The email will explicitly state that you cannot reply to the email, it will go to dev null.
ref: 2004 January 17, Ronald D. Edge <InactiveX666@hotmail.com>, “PayPal pyramid scam”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet), message-ID <SDaOb.873$Ly6.642264@newshog.newsread.com>
glosses: Nowhere; often suggests an intent to ignore specific correspondence.
Hypernyms: sense: device file
word: null device
sense: device file
word: pseudodevice
Coordinate terms: bit bucket
black hole
flabbergaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabbergasters
Etymology: From flabbergast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
ref: 1917, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 61, page 143:
text: This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.
ref: 2005, Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum, Macmillan, page 197:
glosses: A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.
glosses: A state of surprise or fear.
flabbergaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabbergasters
form: flabbergastering
form: flabbergastered
form: flabbergastered
Etymology: From flabbergast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
ref: 1888, Robert Smith Surtees, Hillingdon Hall, or, The cockney squire: a tale of country life, John C. Nimmo, page 155:
glosses: To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten
flabbergastation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flabbergast + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.
ref: 1856, Punch, Vol. 31, The Punch Office, page 240:
text: Upon a sign, she takes ahold of two cords of black silk, to which were attached loops, through which she passes her arms, and in the twinkling of an eye is translated by two pulleys from her bed through the ceiling into the room above, and the trap closing as it has opened, left the old duenna in a state of great flabbergastation, when, turning her head, she neither saw robe nor woman, and perceived that the women had been robbed.
ref: 1832-1837, Honoré de Balzac, Droll Stories: Volume 2, Kessinger Publishing, page 65:
text: I can recall my flabbergastation when in the house of a Jutlander of the middle class I heard him holding fluent converse with his children in some heathen dialect...
ref: 1918, Shaw Desmond, The Soul of Denmark, C. Scribner's Sons, page 96:
text: Winchester .22 Automatic which we saw demonstrated (to our utter flabbergastation) in a local hardware store by a visiting Winchester representative.
ref: 1944, Field and Stream: Volume 49, CBS Publications, page 90:
text: Ignoring the other's utter flabbergastation, Matthews turned and graciously introduced him to me.
ref: 1998, Daniel Quinn, Tom Whalen, Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly as "The Little Book", Random House Digital:
glosses: Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
glosses: The act of confounding or bewildering.
flabergastation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flabbergast + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flabbergastation.
flabagast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabagasts
form: flabagasting
form: flabagasted
form: flabagasted
form: flabagast
Senses: examples: text: They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.^([sic])
ref: 1834, Jack Downing [pseudonym; Seba Smith], chapter XXV, in The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by T. K. Greenbank, →OCLC, page 183:
text: For I had talent: the promise and the drive to acquire advanced knowledge and skill to enundate or flabagast my superiors and excell in my profession.
ref: 1989, T’best Ekeagwu, The Taste of Ordinary Life: (The Legacy for Every Negro Youth), Nigeria: T’best Ekeagwu, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
flabagast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabagasts
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
hæmorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmorrhœæ
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of hemorrhea; hemorrhage.
Derived terms: word: hæmorrhœal
flabaghast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabaghasts
form: flabaghasting
form: flabaghasted
form: flabaghasted
form: flabaghast
Senses: examples: text: At this I was rendered completely flabaghast—for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother-wit to refrain from blurting it out!
ref: 1896 August 22, [F. Anstey] [pseudonym; Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “Jottings and Tittlings. (By Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A.) No. XXI. Mr. Jabberjee Halloos before He is Quite Out of the Woods”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXI, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, pages 88–89, column 2:
glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
flabaghast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabaghasts
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
NTR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑː/
ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑɹ/
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Transcontinental Railway.
NTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑː/
ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑɹ/
Forms: form: NTRs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: NTP
glosses: Initialism of nuclear thermal rocket.
NTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑː/
ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑɹ/
Forms: form: ntr
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese NTR(エヌティーアール) (enutīāru).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of netorare.
NTR
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑː/
ipa: /ɛn tiː ɑɹ/
Forms: form: NTRs
form: NTRing
form: NTRed
form: NTRed
form: ntr
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese NTR(エヌティーアール) (enutīāru).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: To cuckold.
shebop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shebops
form: shebopping
form: shebopped
form: shebopped
Etymology: A reference to the Cyndi Lauper song She Bop, the song itself a reference to masturbation.
Senses: glosses: To masturbate.
raw_tags: of a woman
wikipedia: Cyndi Lauper
She Bop
netori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.təʊˌɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛ.toʊˌɹi/
rhymes: -ɛtəʊɹi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寝取(ねと)り (netori).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: A genre of cuckoldry pornography where a protagonist takes away someone else's love interest.
Related terms: netorare
netorase
netorare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.təʊˌɹɑː.ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɛ.toʊˌɹɑ.ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛtəʊɹɑːɹeɪ
Forms: form: netorares
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寝取(ねと)られ (netorare).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: NTR
glosses: A genre of cuckoldry pornography where a protagonist's love interest or close associate is corrupted and taken away by an antagonist.
netorare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.təʊˌɹɑː.ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɛ.toʊˌɹɑ.ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛtəʊɹɑːɹeɪ
Forms: form: netorares
form: netoraring
form: netorared
form: netorared
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寝取(ねと)られ (netorare).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: NTR
glosses: To cuckold.
Related terms: netorase
netori
keep the peace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the peace
form: keeping the peace
form: kept the peace
form: kept the peace
Senses: examples: text: The police were called in to keep the peace during the political demonstration.
glosses: To maintain order and peace in a volatile situation.
Related terms: peacekeeper
keep one's peace
any nooks or crannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of any nook or cranny
homeoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From home- + o + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: Transplantation of biological tissue from one part of an individual between other individuals belonging to the same species.
overcarve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcarves
form: overcarving
form: overcarved
form: overcarved
Etymology: From over- + carve.
Senses: examples: text: If the finished restoration is overcarved, the depth dimension is decreased further thereby adding to the problem. By carving deep grooves in the occlusal anatomy, stress concentrations can further exacerbate the problem.
ref: 1986, National Institute of Dental Research, International State-of-the-Art Conference on Restorative Dental Materials:
glosses: To carve too much or too deeply.
glosses: To carve or cut across; cross.
overdeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdiːl/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdiːl/
Forms: form: overdeals
Etymology: From over- + deal (“amount, portion”).
Senses: examples: text: Among the people (of Rome) beſide x. modij of corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peece to boote, for time.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 38, page 16:
glosses: An amount left over; excess.
overdeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdiːl/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdiːl/
Forms: form: overdeals
form: overdealing
form: overdealt
form: overdealt
Etymology: From over- + deal (“amount, portion”).
Senses: examples: text: Extended family issues (Mom overdeals with his family and Dad underdeals with his family).
ref: 2003, Carol Ummel Lindquist, Happily Married with Kids: It's Not Just a Fairy Tale, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: To have too many dealings.
glosses: To deal too much or too many (for example, playing cards)
commensurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commensurate
homœothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homeothermic.
homoeogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homoe- + -o- + -genesis, from Ancient Greek: ὅμοιος (hómoios, “of like kind”, “similar”) in conjunction with γένεσις (génesis, “origin, beginning, creation”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Production of living offspring between organisms belonging to the same species.
glosses: Community of ancestry or origin.
homeoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homoeoblastic
form: homœoblastic
Etymology: From homeo- + -blastic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Developing from similar tissue.
homœopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœopathies
Etymology: From homœ- + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homeopathy.
Derived terms: homœopathist
homœopathize
homeomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeomorphs
form: homoeomorph
form: homœomorph
Etymology: Probably not a direct Ancient Greek ὁμοιόμορφος (homoiómorphos); rather a modern coinage from homeo- + -morph.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Material that exhibits similarity in crystalline structure.
glosses: Anything characteristic of homeomorphism.
inverity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverities
Etymology: From in- + verity.
Senses: examples: text: It is a structure existing in the imagination. It cannot exist anywhere else, because it includes novelties like perfectly elastic bodies in perpetual motion. In making it, we are well aware of the inverity of some of its elements.
ref: 1906, Alexander Smith, Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry, page 141:
text: God knows, we have been offered enough minacious parables over the centuries to discourage both of these stubborn delusions — from The Iliad and Oedipus Rex to The Picture of Dorian Gray and "Richard Cory" — but still they survive, eternal inverities.
ref: 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, page 147:
glosses: Untruth, falsehood.
praecox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precox
Senses: examples: text: Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
ref: 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:
glosses: dementia praecox
Related terms: ejaculation praecox
ejaculatio praecox
praecoces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative form of precoces (“precocial birds”).
provocatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provocatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin prōvocātrīx. By surface analysis, provocator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Rounding out the primary characters is professional provocatrix Sarah Silverman, who voices Vanellope von Schweetz[…].
ref: 2012 November 2, Christopher Orr, “'Wreck-It Ralph' Aims for Pixar ... and Misses”, in The Atlantic:
text: In the Condé Nast universe,[…]former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld was the provocatrix; but Sozzani has become the activist – though you’d never know it to look at her.
ref: 2013 June 1, Vanessa Friedman, “Lunch with the FT: Franca Sozzani”, in Financial Times:
text: The famously contrarian feminist scholar and provocatrix is gracing her longtime employer, Salon, with a three-part interview this week.
ref: 2015 July 30, Ted Scheinman, “Why does Camille Paglia love Donald Trump?”, in Pacific Standard:
synonyms: provocateuse
provocatrice
glosses: A female provocator.
reordrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɔɹdɹənt/
Etymology: From reorder + -ant. By analogy with reentrant.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Of a character (usually a vowel in Indic scripts): input after another character, but intended to display before it when text is rendered.
scates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scate
scate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of skate (“footwear”).
glosses: Obsolete form of skate (“fish”).
nymphomaniacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nymphomaniacally
form: most nymphomaniacally
Etymology: From nymphomaniacal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: like a nymphomaniac, in a nymphomaniac manner
overdight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: more overdight
form: most overdight
Etymology: From over- + dight.
Senses: examples: text: Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins / Which all with golden wings are overdight
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie:
glosses: Adorned; decked over; overspread; covered over.
overdreep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdreeps
form: overdreeping
form: overdreeped
form: overdreeped
form: over-dreep
Etymology: From over- + dreep- + to drip. Compare overdrop. More at over-, drip.
Senses: glosses: To fall or droop over; overshadow.
overeye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overeyes
form: overeyeing
form: overeying
form: overeyed
form: overeyed
Etymology: From over- + eye.
Senses: examples: text: Like a demigod here sit I in the sky / And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To superintend; inspect; observe; witness.
tidal energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidal energy
originaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of originary
originant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more originant
form: most originant
Senses: examples: text: an absolutely originant act of self will
ref: 1863, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, A History of Christian Doctrine:
glosses: original
maying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: mayings
Etymology: From May + -ing, or may (“celebrate May Day festivities”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: SOo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre / & I warne yow that there be none of yow but that he be wel horsed / and that ye alle be clothed on grene outher in sylke outher in clothe
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
text: […]sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings; and did fetch in maypoles[…].
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:
glosses: The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day.
maying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From May + -ing, or may (“celebrate May Day festivities”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of may
inverities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverity
bushment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushments
Etymology: Aphetic form of abushment, ambushment.
Senses: examples: text: And by the way Sir Meliagrance laid in an embushment the best archers that he might get in his country, to the number of thirty, to await upon Sir Launcelot, charging them that if they saw such a manner of knight come by the way upon a white horse, that in any wise they slay his horse, but in no manner of wise have not ado with him bodily, [...]
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum III”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: An ambush.
glosses: The troops concealed in an ambush.
examples: text: The first day of August a bushement of Frenchemen came to the cawsey but a myle and halfe out of Caleys, where they brenned howses, toke many men prisonars, droffe away horses […].
ref: c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, John Gough Nichols, Camden Society No. 35, London 1846
glosses: A surprise party; a company of soldiers secretly deployed.
bushments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushment
saw buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw bucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sawbuck.
absconsio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈskɑn.si.oʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absconsiō (“shelter”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Cavity; fossa.
achari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अचारी (acārī), or another Indo-Aryan language.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: pickle
withdraught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɑːft/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹæft/
Forms: form: withdraughts
form: wydraught
form: withdraft
Etymology: From Middle English wyþdraȝþ, wedraught, etc, equivalent to with- + draught or withdraw + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Withdrawal
Retraxit: a dismissal with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit.
topics: law
glosses: Withdrawal
A fine imposed on plaintiffs for such a dismissal.
glosses: A place to withdraw to: a private chamber or retreat.
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
glosses: A sewer or watercourse used for sewerage.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: bathroom
withdraughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withdraught
face values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face value
spoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spole
stereotyper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereotypers
Etymology: From stereotype + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
glosses: A person who stereotypes others.
stereotypers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereotyper
recriticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recriticalities
Etymology: From re- + criticality.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A return to a point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining.
MOX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The United States began construction of the MFFF in 2007 in accord with the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) between the United States and Russia. However, due to the project's 350-percent cost growth and a 32-year schedule slip, both the Department of Energy and external independent analyses have consistently concluded that the MOX approach to plutonium disposition is significantly costlier and would require a much higher annual budget than an alternate disposition method, Dilute and Dispose (D&D).
ref: 2017, “Major Savings and Reforms BUDGET OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT Fiscal Year 2018”, in whitehouse.gov, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2017, page 36:
glosses: Abbreviation of mixed oxide fuel
teamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaman.
textblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textblock
sweeten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweetens up
form: sweetening up
form: sweetened up
form: sweetened up
Senses: examples: text: I sweetened up the barbecue sauce by adding some sugar.
glosses: To make sweet to the taste.
upset price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upset prices
Etymology: Compare set up, i.e. fixed, determined.
Senses: examples: text: After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: reserve
glosses: The lowest price at which an auction item may be sold.
gay for pay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Performing a homosexual role for money.
raw_tags: of heterosexual entertainers or sex workers
friendly URL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendly URLs
Senses: glosses: A URL that has a simple structure and is easy to read and understand.
friendly URLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendly URL
paleomagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paleomagnetically
form: most paleomagnetically
Etymology: From paleomagnetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The paleomagnetically determined paleolatitude of the Rosemary paleosol during the middle Devonian was about 40° ± 14° (18 ).
ref: 1997 April 25, Gregory J. Retallack, “Early Forest Soils and Their Role in Devonian Global Change”, in Science, volume 276, number 5312, →DOI, pages 583–585:
text: It is based on the following observations: (i) different regions in the oceans subside like BL until different flattening ages, some as old as 170 Ma (49 ); (ii) depth and heat flow in some old basins behave like BL but with an effective thermal age t e, which is younger than the (paleomagnetically determined) actual age t m (50 ); (iii) effective elastic lithosphere thicknesses under some intraplate volcanoes suggest that hot spots produce a "thermal rejuvenation," reducing t e (51 ); (iv) the depths and subsidence of hot spot swells suggest that many swells reduce t e to the same value (52 ); and (v) on old lithosphere, it is hard to find areas that have not been near hot spots (53 ).
ref: 1997 September 26, Walter H. F. Smith, David T. Sandwell, “Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings”, in Science, volume 277, number 5334, →DOI, pages 1956–1962:
text: Numerical predictions based on realistic viscoelastic Earth models and paleomagnetically constrained polar motion yield global-scale, differential sea-level trends that can be as large as ~200 meters.
ref: 1998 January 23, Jon E. Mound, Jerry X. Mitrovica, “True Polar Wander as a Mechanism for Second-Order Sea-Level Variations”, in Science, volume 279, number 5350, →DOI, pages 534–537:
text: Estimates of this time interval are based on the assumption that the K-T clay was deposited at the same rate as the clay fraction in the surrounding paleomagnetically dated limestones [e.g., (8 )]; this assumption is questionable during such a turbulent period.
ref: 2001 March 9, S. Mukhopadhyay et al., “A Short Duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Helium-3”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, pages 1952–1955:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In a way that has to do with paleomagnetism
dece
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dēs
ipa: /diːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: more dece
form: most dece
Etymology: Shortening of decent.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry but this book did not quite move me. Yeah, the slang wuz kewl, the attitude was neat, and the music was dece (if you read the book four years ago) but it's not THE BEST READ I've ever had[…]
ref: 1993, Chris L Concepcion, “Re: _Bad Voltage_”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet):
text: Salad and Franchise both played ridiculously well after we took our lead, especially considering the ridiculous conditions of the game. I suppose the rest of Texas was dece as well, good for you[…]
ref: 2006, Joseph.H...@gmail.com, “Re: Callahan race, post-Regionals”, in rec.sport.disc (Usenet):
text: Let's take a look at this thing. Dece packaging. Wow.
ref: 2022 June 08, Donut Media, 6:20 from the start, in We Tested the Most Dangerous Car Accessories:
glosses: Decent; reasonably good,
nothing balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nothing ball
husher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hushers
Etymology: From hush + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.
husher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hushers
Etymology: Variant of usher inherited from Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: And false Duessa, seeming lady fayre,
A gentle husher, Vanitie by name
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of usher.
husher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hushers
form: hushering
form: hushered
form: hushered
Etymology: Variant of usher inherited from Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: [N]ay he can ſing / A meane moſt meanely, and in huſhering, / Mende him vvho can, the Ladies call him ſvveete.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H2, recto, lines 234–237:
glosses: Obsolete form of usher.
hushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of husher
homoeoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeoids
Etymology: From homoe- + -oid, from Ancient Greek: ὅμοιος (hómoios, “of like kind”, “similar”) in conjunction with εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A boundlessly thin shell constrained by a couple of similar surfaces with nearly identical orientations.
Derived terms: homoeoidal
shark attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shark attacks
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The act or practice of shouting and yelling by a drill instructor at an enlistee on their first day of training.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shark, attack. An attack on a human or other animal by a shark.
Related terms: blood in the water
chum
shark bait
shark fin
fall to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls to pieces
form: falling to pieces
form: fell to pieces
form: fell to pieces
Senses: examples: text: The covers of the old book fell to pieces when I picked it up.
glosses: To break into a number of segments; to collapse.
examples: text: When I found out my mother had passed away that night, I fell to pieces.
glosses: To be emotionally devastated; to break down.
themas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thema
lick clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks clean
form: licking clean
form: licked clean
form: licked clean
Etymology: From lick + clean.
Senses: glosses: To empty (something) by eating its contents.
Related terms: lick up
fighting chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fighting chances
Senses: examples: text: This essential medicine will give him a fighting chance against the disease.
text: I don't have a fighting chance to hand this article in on time.
glosses: A chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable.
flabbergastment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flabbergast + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
ref: 1963, National Geographic, Vol. 122, National Geographic Society:
text: I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
ref: 1988, John Barth, Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice, Anchor Press, page 69:
text: She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.
ref: 2002, Timothy Zahn, Angelmass, Macmillan, page 175:
synonyms: word: amazement
word: astonishment
word: awe
word: bewilderment
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergastation
word: flabbergastment
word: shock
word: stupefaction
word: surprise
word: flabbergast
extra: overwhelming shock or surprise
glosses: Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)
flabagasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flabagasted
form: most flabagasted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flabbergasted.
flabagasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of flabagast
flambergasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flambergasted
form: most flambergasted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flabbergasted
flabergast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabergasts
form: flabergasting
form: flabergasted
form: flabergasted
form: flabergast
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
flabergast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabergasts
Senses: examples: text: Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.
ref: 1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, in Yankee Notions, volume 2, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
Poe's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poe's Law
Etymology: Formulated in 2005 by a user named “Nathan Poe” on the website christianforums.com, originally in the context of creationism.
Senses: examples: text: If you accept Poe's Law, you hold that religious believers are indistinguishable from their parodies.
ref: 2013, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue (And How We Should) […] , Routledge, →ISBN, page 130:
text: But because the internet has changed in innumerable ways since 2005, expanding and accelerating all the while, Poe's Law applies to more and more internet interactions.
ref: 2017 June 5, Emma Grey Ellis, “Can't Take a Joke? That's Just Poe's Law, 2017's Most Important Internet Phenomenon”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: It's not just digital media tools that amplify the ambivalence of humor online. The familiar combination of context collapse and Poe's Law is equally impactive.
ref: 2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: The observation that, on the Internet, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.
Related terms: context collapse
permablock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məˌblɒk/
Forms: form: permablocks
Etymology: From perma- + block.
Senses: glosses: The act of indefinitely blocking the access of a user.
permablock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məˌblɒk/
Forms: form: permablocks
form: permablocking
form: permablocked
form: permablocked
Etymology: From perma- + block.
Senses: glosses: To indefinitely block the access of a user.
Synonyms: permaban
permablocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permablock
permablocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permablock
permablocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permablock
permablocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permablock
homoeomerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊmiˈɑməɹəs/
Forms: form: more homoeomerous
form: most homoeomerous
form: homeomerous
form: homœomerous
Etymology: From homoe- (from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “of like kind”, “similar”)) + -o- + -merous (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “portion”)).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having similar quantities or variations pertaining to parts of structure.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed entirely of thread-like hyphae.
examples: text: A lump of bronze differs from a statue in being homoeomerous; it is divisible into lumps of bronze, whereas the statue is not divisible into statues.
ref: 1990, Terence Irwin, Aristotle's First Principles:
glosses: Being the same whether whole or divided into parts.
flabrigast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabrigasts
form: flabrigasting
form: flabrigasted
form: flabrigasted
Etymology: See flabbergast.
Senses: glosses: To brag or boast.
examples: text: He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.
ref: 1878, James Brown Selkirk, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of flabbergast.
hæmatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hæmat- + -ology or hæmato- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of haematology.
spotted hyena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted hyenas
Senses: glosses: Any of species Crocuta crocuta of the largest of hyenas.
Synonyms: laughing hyena
Related terms: striped hyena
striped hyena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌstɹaɪpt haɪˈiːnə/
Forms: form: striped hyenas
Senses: glosses: The smallest of the true hyenas, Hyaena hyaena.
Related terms: spotted hyena
brown hyena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown hyenas
Senses: examples: text: It is now well established that brown hyenas, at least when rearing cubs, deliberately hunt other carnivores (up to the size of cheetahs, on the Kruger Park evidence) and take them to the breeding dens as food for the cubs.
ref: 1981, C. K. Brain, The Hunters Or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, page 77:
text: Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers.
ref: 1984, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, page 324:
text: The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities.
ref: 2014, Chris McIntyre, Botswana Safari Guide: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 428:
glosses: A comparatively rare species of hyena, Parahyaena brunnea, endemic to desert and semi-desert areas and open woodland savannahs of southern Africa.
hydrorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydrorrhea.
hyperpnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hyperpnea.
Mian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mian terms
Mian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: myěn
Etymology: From Mandarin 勉 (Miǎn).
Senses: examples: text: In 1978 the Administrative Office for Cultural Relics of Mian County, Shaanxi, conducted excavations of four tombs found in the course of agricultural improvements.
ref: 1987, The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:
text: Large numbers of pottery dogs have been excavated from tombs all over China.² For example, a pottery dog was excavated from an Eastern Han tomb at Laodaosi, Mian county, Shaanxi.³
ref: 1990, Candace J. Lewis, “Han dynasty”, in Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College Art Gallery, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: The unearthed cultural relics of Mian County not only indicate that rice-fish culture in China dates further back in the historical record, but also fills an important gap in kind in the history of rice-fish culture in China. Mian County is located in the Hanzhong basin south of Qinlin mountain, near the border of Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces.
ref: 1992, Li Kangmin, “Rice-Fish Farming Systems in China: Past, Present and Future”, in Rice-Fish Research and Development in Asia, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
glosses: A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
chancleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancletas
Etymology: From Spanish chancleta (“slipper; (slang) girl”).
Senses: examples: text: My friend has a gay uncle and on the puerto rican^([sic]) day parade he puts on these tight shorts with a puerto rican shirt which he ties at the bottom and bandana and wears chancletas and dances to gloria^([sic]) Estefan he also does this at my friends^([sic]) parties.
ref: 2002, Chris Ceraso, The Teen Acting Ensemble:
text: Carmela tucked her leg and with her foot pushed the chancleta closer to her hand, she reached down without effort and in one fluid movement she grabbed la chancleta, sat up, and threw the chancleta across the living room and into the hallway, where it made contact with Elenita's right temple.
ref: 2012, Kali Amanda Browne, Remembrance of Dingbats:
text: When I head back home to Florida, you bet your ass I’m hitting the beach in my chancletas, Boricua beach bag and yelling “Cabron”^([sic]) out the window of my car at slow drivers.
ref: 2013, Julitza Gerena, Through the Eyez of a Drag Hag:
text: For those of us who primarily wear sandals, or chancletas, everywhere, Publix is selling a pair just for us.
ref: 2019 October 18, Devoun Cetoute, “South Florida loves PubSubs. Now you can flaunt your love with Publix-themed clothes”, in Miami Herald:
qualifier: areas with many Hispanic people
glosses: A slipper or sandal without a heel, such as a flip-flop or mule.
cœlom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœloms
Senses: examples: text: It is possible that the mode of formation of this cœlom varies in respect to the different species. The mesoderm elaboration is considered as a modified enterocœlous method.
ref: 1974, Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere, volume 77, Springer-Verlag, page 317:
glosses: Dated form of coelom.
Derived terms: cœlomic
chancletas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chancleta
cœliotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœliotomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek: κοίλωμα (koílōma, “cavity”) in combination of τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, incise”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coeliotomy.
aromatizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromatizers
Etymology: From aromatize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Of other Strewings and Aromatizers , which may likewise be admitted to inrich our Sallet , we have already spoken , where we mention Orange and Limon - Peel
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic.
artaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artabas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artab.
not touch with a barge pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: not touch something with a ten-foot pole
Etymology: Probably derived from the barge poles that bargemen used to fend off wharfs and other boats.
Senses: glosses: To avoid something at all costs; to refuse to associate with something; (signifies a strong aversion).
Related terms: not be caught dead
over my dead body
Charlestons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charleston
Charlestonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑːlˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹlˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Charlestonians
Etymology: From Charleston + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the city of Charleston.
Charlestonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlestonian
cœnæsthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœnæstheses
Etymology: From cœn- + -æsthesis.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of coenesthesis.
elæon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).
Senses: glosses: Oil.
cœloscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœloscopes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of celoscope.
gynæcology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gynæc- + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of gynaecology.
axiom of extensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory, equivalent to the statement that two sets are equal if and only if they contain the same elements.
extensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extensionalities
Etymology: From extensional + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The principle that objects are equal if and only if their observed properties are the same, regardless of internal processes that lead to those properties.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: The principle that functions are equal if and only if they operate on the same domain and for any given element of the domain the result of each of the functions is the same.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The principle, codified in the axiom of extensionality, that sets are equal if and only if they contain the same elements.
Related terms: extensionalism
archaeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärkēŏʹgrəfĭ
ipa: /ɑːkiːˈɒɡɹəfɪ/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: archaeographies
Etymology: Formed as archae- + -o- + -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiográphos, “the writing of antiquities”).
Senses: examples: text: The institute grants the degree of doctor of archæology or archæography.
ref: 1907, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature, page 285:
glosses: Discipline for publishing treatises of any antiquity or antiquities.
Derived terms: archaeographist
archaeographic
archaeographically
bigae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biga