cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diatonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The characteristic of being diatonic
diesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.ə.sɪs/
Forms: form: dieses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίεσις (díesis, “sending through, the smallest interval in the scale”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music.
glosses: The double dagger sign (‡).
OPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPAs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of optionally piloted aircraft.
Coordinate terms: sense: remotely piloted aircraft
word: cruise missile
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
word: drone
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
word: model airplane
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
english: remote control
translation: remote control
word: RC
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
english: remotely operated vehicle
translation: remotely operated vehicle
word: ROV
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
english: unmanned aerial vehicle
translation: unmanned aerial vehicle
word: UAV
sense: remotely piloted aircraft
english: unmanned combat aerial vehicle
translation: unmanned combat aerial vehicle
word: UCAV
Related terms: sense: remotely piloted aircraft
english: remotely piloted aircraft
translation: remotely piloted aircraft
word: RPA
alaruming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alarum
alarumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alarum
burn a hole in someone's pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns a hole in someone's pocket
form: burning a hole in someone's pocket
form: burned a hole in someone's pocket
form: burned a hole in someone's pocket
form: burnt a hole in someone's pocket
form: burnt a hole in someone's pocket
Senses: examples: text: The fortune burned a hole in his pocket, and he could not resist spending several thousand francs on jewelry for Eveline; […]
ref: 1972, Noel Bertram Gerson, The Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Honoré de Balzac, page 327:
text: In frustration, I go to the local Circuit City, my Visa card burning a hole in my pocket. "Here's a grand! Two grand," I shout, "for the salesperson who can bring me a VCR that I can use to record TV shows.
ref: 2004, Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, page 60:
text: When I later thought about the fifteen hundred dollars in hundred-dollar bills burning a hole in my pocket, and about how I was prepared to go immediately to the Democratic Party offices and plunk it down to campaign with a manager […]
ref: 2004, Dale Bumpers, The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir, page 183:
glosses: To cause someone to spend money or be tempted to spend money.
raw_tags: of something valuable
Related terms: money to burn
shut up and take my money
silver ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the silver ball
Senses: examples: text: Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball.
ref: 1969, The Who, Pinball Wizard:
glosses: Pinball (the game itself).
glosses: A pinball (the ball used to play the game).
gibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gib.
Senses: glosses: plural of gib
gibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gib.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gib
gibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giblets.
Senses: examples: text: At the perfect moment, Romero fired into the barrel, leaving the monster in a bloody pile of gibs.
ref: 2004, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, page 148:
topics: video-games
glosses: The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death.
gibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: An you shure am a powerful good Massa to gibs me dat chiken nek, yowsa,
yowsa
ref: 2000 October 1, Wayne Johnson, “Massa Ward, Massa Ward!”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of give.
examples: text: Hey nigger, SS was never intended to be a retirement program, it was
meant to be supplemental to a portfolio but then we know with your
character you'll never have much more that what gubment gibs you.
ref: 2011 September 8, C...@prayforme.com, “#Obama: ‘Best Debate Ever’”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gives.
gibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of gibsmedat, a caricaturized AAVE eye dialect of give me that.
Senses: examples: text: Wranglers said the gangs of teenaper nigger sows would sneak up behind
a lone shopper, grab at her purse and/or bags, and push the women down
and punch and kick her before running off with the stolen gibs.
ref: 2016 November 2, Dave Norris, “Chimpcago "teen" sows attacking shoppers”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: SAVAGE UNGRATEFUL NIGGERS beat a human after he offered to help pay for
their food. The coons are always after gibs and when a human tries to
be nice to them, this is what happens.
ref: 2017 March 15, Rick Mathers, “Hey puppy whistle these spook's are for you!”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: Now what were they thinking? Everyone knows you can't get two niggers
together with gibs on the line without it ending in a fight.
ref: 2017 December 29, Byker, “Christmas toy gibsmedat for Detroit niglets turns into a bongo party”, in can.politics (Usenet):
text: I expect it was stealing from the till, taking home free food and
giving 100% discounts to nigger mates in exchange for gibs.
ref: 2018 April 17, Dindu Nuffin, “Re: Niggers can't read so fuck Comeys new book”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
glosses: Received money (e.g. charity, government benefits, or private gifts), regarded as undeserved.
Related terms: gibsmedat
airstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airstreams
form: air stream
form: air-stream
Etymology: From air + stream.
Senses: glosses: A flow or current of air.
examples: text: Maintaining a clean airstream around the car is important for good fuel economy.
glosses: The flow of air around an object.
Derived terms: glottalic airstream
airstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airstream
antivivisectionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antivivisectionist
MHRB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mental Health Review Board.
MHRB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mimosa hostilis root bark.
macking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mack
body surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of body surf
anteclassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntɪˈklæsɪk(ə)l/
Etymology: From ante- + classical.
Senses: examples: text: The graffiti contains many anteclassical words of uncertain origin.
glosses: Pertaining to something from before the classical era.
Derived terms: anteclassically
postclassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-classical
Etymology: From post- + classical.
Senses: examples: {{ux|en|From the postclassical grammar, we can deduce that the book was written in the Middle Ages
glosses: After the classical era (but sometimes before the medieval).
Derived terms: postclassically
anteclassically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anteclassically
form: most anteclassically
Etymology: From anteclassical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anteclassical manner
postclassically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more postclassically
form: most postclassically
Etymology: From postclassical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a postclassical manner
classical era
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classical eras
Senses: glosses: Any of several periods of history noted for a particular style of art, architecture, literature or music termed classical
giant-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪəntˌkɪlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪəntˌkɪlɚ/
Forms: form: giant-killers
Senses: glosses: Someone or something, especially a sports team, that defeats a larger and superior opponent.
wikipedia: Norton Simon Museum
Peter Paul Rubens
Related terms: giant-killing
polyspast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyspasts
Etymology: From Latin polyspaston (“hoisting-tackle with many pulleys”), from Ancient Greek πολύσπαστον (polúspaston, “compound pulley”).
Senses: examples: text: The Bishop of Chrysopolis, his Majesty's former tutor, consecrated the foundation-stone, which was suspended from two elegant polyspasts; the Emperor himself laid it.
ref: 1849, Adalbert, Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia, page 275:
synonyms: block and tackle
muffle
hoisting-tackle
glosses: A machine consisting of many pulleys
qualifier: surgical
glosses: A machine of many pulleys, formerly used to reduce dislocation
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A windlass with many pulleys and truckles
polyspasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyspast
thistle sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A North American herb (Salvia carduacea), the seeds of which were once a staple food similar to chia
non-league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + league.
Senses: examples: text: Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years.
ref: 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Playing in a division below The Football League, being amateur or semi-professional teams.
Derived terms: non-leaguer
loaded word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loaded words
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any word, set phrase or idiom that has strong positive or negative connotations beyond its ordinary definition.
Synonyms: english: usually sexual or risque
translation: usually sexual or risque
word: double entendre
english: multiple loaded words used in combination
translation: multiple loaded words used in combination
word: loaded language
english: having multiple meanings
translation: having multiple meanings
word: overloaded
double-entendres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-entendre
dinner tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner table
arc lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc lamp
guardsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardsman
apocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocalypse
mirror images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirror image
aquifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquifer
astrophotographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrophotographers
Etymology: From astro- + photographer.
Senses: topics: arts
astronomy
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
glosses: A person, especially an astronomer, who takes photographs of the stars
Related terms: astrophotography
astrophotographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrophotographer
trip to the woodshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trips to the woodshed
Etymology: Probably derived from the previous term "horseshedding," meaning to take a person privately (such as to a horse shed or woodshed, separate buildings away from the house) for private cajoling or reprimand.
Senses: examples: text: More than a few of the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be.
ref: 1948 December 13, “Sweet Reasonableness”, in Time:
glosses: An occasion on which a reprimand or punishment is administered privately.
Related terms: call on the carpet
unseeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + seeded.
Senses: glosses: Not seeded (in any sense).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not being a seed, not being in a seed position.
hairbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairbrush
hairbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hairbrush
hair-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair-brushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hairbrush.
takeover bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takeover bids
Senses: glosses: An attempt to buy a controlling share in a business.
binman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binmen
Etymology: From bin + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Postmen, binmen, dock workers, even barristers are now on strike. Where will all this end?
ref: 2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bin man.
pull oneself together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls oneself together
form: pulling oneself together
form: pulled oneself together
form: pulled oneself together
Senses: examples: text: "Damn, damn, damnation!" he murmured, together with such other words as he had learnt from older men. Then he raised his hand to his forehead and said, "Oh, damn it all—" which meant something different. He pulled himself together. He drank a little tea, black and silent, that still survived upon an upper shelf. He swallowed some dusty crumbs of cake. Then he went back to the sitting-room, settled himself anew, and began to read a volume of Ruskin.
ref: 1910, E. M. Forster, chapter 6, in Howards End:
glosses: To become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused; to regain control of oneself
Synonyms: pull one's shit together
protoplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of protoplasm.
pull rank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls rank
form: pulling rank
form: pulled rank
form: pulled rank
Senses: examples: text: Graduate schools teach students to use footnotes as authorities — barriers to anyone's questioning the author's conclusions. Professionalism then becomes a matter of pulling rank: the person who has the most footnotes has the last say.
ref: 1980 February 9, Charley Shively, “Radical History: Not Radical Enough”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 12:
text: And don't try pulling rank again: your answer, not your age, will determine your fate!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: The Great Tree:
text: You can definitely pull rank on me on this —
ref: 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
‘someone’
expansion: [with on ‘someone’]
glosses: To assert one's authority over a subordinate who disagrees.
Related terms: throw one's weight around
automobiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of automobile
automobiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automobile
staircase wit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French esprit de l'escalier.
Senses: examples: text: When I have completed a manuscript, if I lay it away in a drawer or pigeon-hole, it lies there quietly enough, and my mind seems wholly discharged of it. But if I mail it, I straightaway find myself tormented with "staircase wit" in the shape of emendations.
ref: 1887 Jan–Jun, “The Contributors' Club”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 59, Atlantic Monthly Co., page 140:
text: So-called Staircase Wit is another example, where we key ourselves up for an important event — an interview, say, or a date — rehearsing how we are going to present ourselves and what we are going to say. Then afterwards we lie awake thinking of all the witty, intelligent, charming things we should have done and said, and didn't because we were so busy trying to remember and revise the plan. . . .
ref: 1981, Guy Claxton, Wholly Human: Western and Eastern Visions of the Self and Its Perfection, Routledge, page 31:
text: One of the most insightful thinkers I know, the computer entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, prompted me to summarize "my idea" while standing on one leg. It was not too convenient to stand one one leg after a few glasses of perfumed Riesling, so I failed in my improvisation. The next day I experienced staircase wit.
ref: 2008, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, page 131:
synonyms: afterwit
l'esprit de l'escalier
(neologism) retrotort
glosses: Thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so.
Related terms: english: overlapping in sense, but not a synonym
translation: overlapping in sense, but not a synonym
word: shower thought
axehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axeheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axe head.
axe head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axe heads
form: ax head
form: axehead
form: axhead
Senses: glosses: The cutting metal portion of an axe.
axe heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axe head
straight lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight line
pretermits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretermit
pretermitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretermit
pretermitted heir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretermitted heirs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator did not know of the party or of the relationship at the time the will was written.
Related terms: pretermitted child
pretermitted spouse
pretermitted child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretermitted children
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A child who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator did not know of the child at the time the will was written, usually because the child was not yet born.
Related terms: pretermitted heir
pretermitted spouse
pretermitted spouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretermitted spouses
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A spouse who would likely stand to inherit under a will, but was not included in the will because he or she was not yet married to the testator at the time the will was written.
Related terms: elective share
pretermitted child
pretermitted heir
pretermitted children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretermitted child
pretermitted heirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretermitted heir
pretermitted spouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretermitted spouse
ischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskiːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more ischemic
form: most ischemic
form: ischaemic
form: ischæmic
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Salazar was a fast talker, devoid of personality. Lolly's vitals had stabilised, she said. Her stroke was ischemic, caused by a clot rather than a rupture. She'd come in exhibiting classic symptoms: weakness on her left side, double vision, aphasia.
"What's aphasia?" I said.
"A disconnect between what the patient's trying to say and what's being communicated. For instance, Louella thinks to herself, I'm thirsty. I want more ice chips. But when she verbalises it, it comes out as gibberish."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.59
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: intraischemic
microischemic
nonischemic
glosses: Characteristic of, or accompanied by, ischemia — localised anaemia due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply, creating a local disturbance in blood circulation.
Derived terms: word: antiischemic
word: extraischemic
word: ischemically
word: ischemic cascade
word: ischemic colitis
word: ischemic hypoxia
word: periischemic
word: postischemic
word: preischemic
word: thromboischemic
alt: TIA
word: transient ischemic attack
embryonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: embryonic
Derived terms: postembryonal
bar iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: wrought iron molded into bars.
backpacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpackers
Etymology: From backpack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ah bengs and ah lians, the mats and the minahs, the young expats and the backpackers, he stood out like a dozen guys on a male-only dance floor singing Dancing Queen (I'll never forgive Blur for ruining my 21st birthday).
ref: 2012 April 15, Neil Humphreys, “From Cool Dude to Sad Old Man”, in The New Paper, page 34:
text: A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 53:
text: Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to state-affiliated media in the Southeast Asian country.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
text: Lots of pockets help with a commute, a storm hood is great if you get caught in a storm on a hike, weight and packability are essential for backpackers and if you’re a climber or biker, you’ll want a helmet-compatible hood.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
glosses: A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.
examples: text: We hardly ever stayed in backpackers as it was approximately double the cost of pitching a tent in a caravan park or nature reserve.
ref: 2016, Craig J, Tame the Ego Before It Tames the Soul:
glosses: A hostel offering accommodation for such people.
examples: text: Blacks and Latinos were more likely to be gangsta rappers than backpackers.
ref: 2014, Geoff Harkness, Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class:
text: To him the white backpackers are abject, 'safari wiggers' who threaten to undo all his careful work at 'passing' in this culture. With their earnestness and clumsy naiveté they betray the scandalous truth of his posturing.
ref: 2017, Patrick Turner, Hip Hop Versus Rap: The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge, page 129:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fan or performer of backpack rap.
Derived terms: begpacker
bikepacker
bog iron ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Deposit of porous, impure limonite found in bogs and swamps.
Synonyms: bog iron
bog ore
Middle Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: middle earth
form: middle-earth
form: Middle-earth
form: Middle-Earth
Etymology: From Middle English middelerthe, myddyl erthe; an alteration of earlier middel-erde, middelerd; in turn an alteration of earlier middenerd; from Old English middaneard (“Middle Earth”), variant of middanġeard (“Earth, the world”, literally “the middle yard, enclosure, or realm”) mis- or reinterpreting its meaning, from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) and *gʰórdʰos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Norwegian & English Midgard (q.v.) and Danish, Norwegian, & Swedish Midgård.
Senses: glosses: The Earth.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim).
examples: text: Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information
ref: 1994, Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier, →ISBN, page 141:
text: The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
ref: 1999, Frederick Turner, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180:
text: Some game ideas (such as the fanciful recreation of Middle Earth where the whole world is modeled with strong AI, 3D graphics capable of great indoor and terrain rendering, where an unlimited number of players can join in on both sides of epic conflict between good and evil) cannot be reconciled with the business parameters[…]
ref: 2003, Erik Bethke, Game Development and Production, Wordware Publishing,, →ISBN, page 76:
text: This is not an account of the Middle Ages, nor is it a tale from Middle Earth. This is our world.
ref: 2004, Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 27:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series.
Related terms: Midgard
middle earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth.
index card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: index cards
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: notecard
synonyms: system card
glosses: A piece of heavy paper stock used to record information to be stored in a card index or to supply the copy (content) from which to generate a book index.
Related terms: word: card catalogue
word: card index
word: index
word: indexing
greenmarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenmarkets
Etymology: From green + market.
Senses: glosses: A market where farmers and growers sell produce directly to the public.
Synonyms: farmers' market
sea bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seabed.
paternal uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal uncle
half-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-uncle
paternal aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal aunt
maternal aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal aunt
l'esprit d'escalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 'That's understandable,' said May, 'we get it all the time. L'esprit d'escalier—remembering what you should have said too late.'
ref: 2014, Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart (A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier.
esprit de l'escalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet, she had outflanked him, taken him unawares, and he had fired not one shot. Esprit de l'escalier—it was as he went upstairs that he saw how he might yet have snatched from her, if not the victory, the palm.
ref: 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, chapter XVII, in Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC, page 256:
glosses: Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier.
Apocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Apocalypse
punani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊˈnɑːni/
rhymes: -ɑːni
Forms: form: punanis
form: punaani
form: punaany
form: punany
Etymology: From Jamaican Creole punani, perhaps from Akan oponaani. Possibly influenced by English poon (“vagina”) from French putain, or from Hawaiian Puanani (“beautiful flower”).
Senses: examples: text: Gotta hit the spot, if not don't test the poom poom / Nanny nanny, punani donny, hey
ref: 1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Diddy:
text: (To David Carlton, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Deputy Prime Minister): Hello. I is Ali G, the dominating MC. Making bitches touch their punani!
ref: 2002, Sacha Baron Cohen, directed by Mark Mylod, Ali G Indahouse, spoken by Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen):
text: My head game is fire, punani Dasani / It's going in dry, and it's coming out soggy
ref: 2020, “WAP”, performed by Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion:
glosses: The vulva or vagina.
glosses: Sexual intercourse with a woman.
Synonyms: sense: female genitalia
word: vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
sense: intercourse with woman
word: poontang
sense: intercourse with woman
word: poon
sense: intercourse with woman
word: tang
minovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Poaching by means of a mechanical trap or snare.
Jaap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jæp/
Etymology: From Dutch Jaap.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Dutch
Ashlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.
ski school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski schools
Senses: glosses: A place where skiing lessons are taught.
ski schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski school
H.E.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Holocene Era.
double dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double daggers
Senses: glosses: The typographical sign ‡ that is used to indicate a footnote or reference
Synonyms: diesis
double obelus
gelatinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gelatinose
form: most gelatinose
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gelatinous.
fibrilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɪˈbrɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: fibrillae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra. Doublet of fibril. Compare fibre.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fibril (“a fine fibre or filament”).
synonyms: word: fibril
extra: a fine fibre or filament
Derived terms: fibrillation
armeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armerias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the thrift genus Armeria.
shoot off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots off
form: shooting off
form: shot off
form: shot off
Senses: examples: text: I have to shoot off, my interview starts in under an hour.
glosses: To leave quickly
examples: text: In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point.
ref: 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC:
glosses: To do (something, usually a written or verbal communication) quickly, and without hesitation or forethought.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To overshoot the bounds of a set when filming, showing part of what lies outside it.
examples: text: His arm got shot off in the war.
text: "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.
ref: 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, off.
Derived terms: shoot off at the mouth
shoot off one's mouth
Ascension
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: assumption
translation
glosses: Entry into heaven while still alive.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Ascension Day
glosses: A holiday celebrating the Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter.
examples: text: For a relatively unpromising scrap of land – 88 square kilometres of infertile shore and mountain – Ascension attracted a lot of interest.
ref: 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 453:
glosses: Ellipsis of Ascension Island.
Derived terms: Ascension crake
Ascension Island
Ascension Parish
Ascensiontide
Related terms: Rapture
boojum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boojums
Etymology: Nonsense word from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A geometric pattern sometimes observed on the surface of superfluid helium-3.
glosses: A species of tree (Fouquieria columnaris) native to Baja California, Mexico.
examples: text: Her long-term projects were all dealt with. The antimemetics groups would keep plugging away without her regular input. Wheeler would find a new boojum to hunt, and be hunted by. Bernie was as much at rest as he would ever be. Euler's fight… well. That was in the future.
ref: 2024 October 8, Harry Blank, “The Foreseeable Future”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 810:
glosses: Something mysterious and dangerous.
Ames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Forms: form: Ameses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.
examples: text: Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime – a class "D" felony – third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire.
ref: 2019 December 19, Andrea May Sahouri, Gage Miskimen, Danielle Gehr, “Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for setting LGBTQ flag on fire”, in USA Today:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Story County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Dodge County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Montgomery County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Athens County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Major County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Liberty County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
glosses: A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A municipality in A Coruña province, Galicia, Spain.
Derived terms: Ames room
Ames test
Ames trapezoid
Ames window
Ames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Etymology: From the clipping of Amy + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Brittany looked up, and Amy's arrival was finally noticed. “Hey, Ames,” Brittany said, waving from the corner of the couch.
ref: 2019, Jenn Gott, Who's Afraid of Amy Sinclair?:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Amy.
sulfur oxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfur oxide
boarhide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarhides
Etymology: From boar + hide.
Senses: glosses: Skin of a boar.
glosses: Leather made from the skin of a boar.
polylineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polylineal
form: most polylineal
Etymology: From poly- + lineal.
Senses: glosses: Having or being composed of many lines.
examples: text: The painting uses polylineal writing to create a brown texture over the lower third of the canvas.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Describing any of several stylistic or expressive devices, especially in contemporary western calligraphy, employing repetition of words or phrases.
Derived terms: polylineality
non-leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-leaguers
Senses: glosses: A team or player from the non-league.
strategic management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: management
glosses: The art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its objectives.
make a mistake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a mistake
form: making a mistake
form: made a mistake
form: made a mistake
Senses: glosses: To err, to be wrong. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Synonyms: word: blow it
word: bobble
word: boob
word: crap up
word: drop a bollock
word: drop the ball
word: err
word: flub
word: flub up
word: foul up
word: fuck up
word: goof
word: goof up
word: make a mistake
word: mess up
word: misdo
word: misstep
word: put a foot wrong
word: screw up
word: slip up
word: stuff up
word: stumble
word: trip over the wire
word: trip up
Hyponyms: word: miscorrect
word: misbrand
word: misstate
word: fluff
word: put one's foot in it
word: fuck the dog
word: crash and burn
word: blunder
word: screw the pooch
Related terms: word: error
make a scene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a scene
form: making a scene
form: made a scene
form: made a scene
Senses: examples: text: I saw, though he tried to conceal it, that he was very much hurt at your behaviour, and I was sure, by his looks, that he did not think my jealous apprehension groundless; however, he protested he did, and persuaded me not to make a scene by arriving her in the middle of the night […]
ref: 1814, Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Fashion, volume 2, part 8, London: Henry Colburn, page 287:
text: The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised me greatly by making a scene about it—she accused me of having wished to humiliate her.
ref: 1893, Henry James, “The Real Thing”, in The Real Thing and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 25:
text: She snuggled against me, while from the other side a boy was amateurishly trying to pick my pocket. I opened my mouth to protest, but thought better of it. Why make a scene at the end of such an enjoyable evening?
ref: 1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 3, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1961, page 32:
text: This time I had really hurt my son. Youqing wasn’t upset because I had hit him, but because I had made a scene in front of so many of his teachers and classmates.
ref: 2003, Michael Berry, transl., To Live, New York: Knopf Doubleday, translation of 活着 [Huózhe] by Yu Hua, page 125:
roman: Huózhe
glosses: To bring unnecessary attention to oneself, especially through a public expression of tumultuous emotion.
Related terms: make a big thing out of
make a spectacle of oneself
make the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the bed
form: making the bed
form: made the bed
form: made the bed
Senses: examples: text: You're old enough to make your own bed now.
synonyms: spread the bed
glosses: To arrange the sheets, blankets, or other coverings of a bed smoothly and neatly, with the corners tucked under the mattress.
Related terms: make one's bed
bedmaking
arsenic trioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An industrially important and highly toxic oxide of arsenic that occurs as the mineral claudetite; formula As₂O₃ (though in liquid, gaseous and some solid forms it has molecules of the form As₄O₆).
works council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: works councils
Senses: synonyms: employees' council
hypernyms: council
<
group#Noun
organization#Noun
coordinate_terms: yellow union
labor union
trade union
union
glosses: An organization representing workers within a commercial corporation, known in several European jurisdictions.
Related terms: Whitley council
works councillor
off the beaten track
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: From Nikko northwards my route was altogether off the beaten track, and had never been traversed in its entirety by any European. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living in regions unaffected by European contact.
ref: 1881, Annual Register, page 417:
text: The Manifold Valley is on the borders of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, very much off the beaten track and somewhat difficult of access.
ref: 1945 September and October, H. C. Casserley, “The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
text: 1970, Bohdan S. Wynar and Anna Grace Patterson, American Reference Books Annual, D. A Rothschild, Libraries Unlimited Inc., p. 235,
It is not the author's purpose to dwell on famous attractions, but rather to go off the beaten track, and frequently the tourist is encouraged to leave the car and explore the surrounding country on foot.
text: The search for authenticity arguably motivates backpackers to travel off the beaten track in search of areas not yet contaminated by tourists or other backpackers.
ref: 2004, Greg Richards, Julie Wilson, The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice, page 140:
synonyms: off the beaten path
glosses: In or to a place or places not commonly visited.
Related terms: off-track
road less traveled
on a full stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You shouldn't swim on a full stomach.
glosses: Directly after eating; straight after a meal.
oxid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Archaic form of oxide.
present perfect continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing at the present time, started in the past. In English it is formed by using have been with a present participle.
Synonyms: present perfect progressive
Related terms: present continuous
present perfect
past perfect continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing up to a certain time in the past. In English it is formed by using had been with a present participle.
Synonyms: past perfect progressive
Related terms: past continuous
past perfect
BTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A spokesperson for BTP said: “Under previous policy, we had advised that someone with a gender recognition certificate may be searched in accordance with their acquired sex.
ref: 2025 April 17, Rajeev Syal, “British Transport Police amends strip-searching policy after supreme court gender ruling”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of British Transport Police.
Sani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Loloish language spoken in China.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sani terms
Sani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanis
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Sani, a patronymic from the medieval personal name Sano.
* Borrowed from Punjabi ਟੀਨਾ (ṭīnā), a surname found among members of the Sikh community.
* Borrowed from Hausa Sani, a surname given to the second of two or more sons, from Arabic ثَانٍ (ṯānin, “second”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
present progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: present continuous
past progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: past continuous
present perfect progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: present perfect progressives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: present perfect continuous
past perfect progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: glosses: past perfect continuous
future perfect continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense used to express an ongoing action completed after some time in the future; in English formed by use of will have been (or shall have been) and a present participle.
Synonyms: future perfect progressive
Related terms: future continuous
future perfect
future perfect progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: glosses: Future perfect continuous.
future continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense used to express an ongoing action in the future. In English it is formed by use of will be (or shall be) and a present participle.
Synonyms: future progressive
Related terms: future perfect continuous
religious order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religious orders
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the founder's religious practice.
Related terms: take vows
future progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: future progressives
Senses: glosses: Future continuous tense.
Related terms: future perfect progressive
ass bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass bandits
form: ass-bandit
Etymology: From ass + bandit.
Senses: synonyms: arse bandit
glosses: A gay man.
glosses: A man who (eagerly) seduces young women.
piece of ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːs əv ˈæs/
Forms: form: pieces of ass
Senses: examples: text: Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars. I could use a little nookie. Thats^([sic]) what I need, a good piece of ass.
ref: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 281:
synonyms: piece of tail
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse, especially a one-night stand.
examples: text: More recently, in 2018, a radio host called Patrick Connor called Olympic athlete Chloe Kim, then just 17 years old, a “little hot piece of ass”.
ref: 2025 May 15, Arwa Mahdawi, quoting Patrick Connor, “Why is Maga-land so obsessed with Kai Trump turning 18? Do you really need to ask?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A very attractive woman, when considered as a sex object.
glosses: A male prostitute.
titanium hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound of titanium and hydrogen, TiH₂, that is used in metallurgy etc. and, together with an oxidant, in pyrotechnic devices
titanium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two binary compounds of titanium and oxygen - titanium dioxide and titanium trioxide
titanium trioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound of titanium and oxygen, TiO₃, that is a pale yellow solid, and is used to colour ceramics
titanium sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium sands
Senses: glosses: Any of various sands that are an industrial source of titanium minerals such as leucoxene, rutile and ilmenite
snottier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snotty: more snotty