cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enjoined
form: most enjoined
Senses: examples: text: For if there be any book in the Divine record, the publication of which is more enjoined than another, it is this.
ref: 1849, William Rogers, Jesus Comes and Comes Quickly, page 101:
text: The former is no more enjoined by the Constitution than the latter , and the latter no more prohibited than the former.
ref: 1852, Martyn Paine, Mary Ann Paine, Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, page 283:
text: But that the nonsensuous transcendental must necessarily be some non-existential spiritual merit, which is to be the emergent product of a certain course of enjoined actions, is not conceded whole sale without some specific reservation .
ref: 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, page 144:
glosses: Prescribed; expected (by an authority).
Derived terms: unenjoined
enjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enjoin
tan someone's hide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tans someone's hide
form: tanning someone's hide
form: tanned someone's hide
form: tanned someone's hide
Etymology: By metaphor from tannery: beating hides (to condition them), tanning them (with dyes and chemicals), and so on.
Senses: examples: text: "You lying little snipe," he roared. ". . . I've a mind to tan your hide good."
ref: 1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 12, in The Adventures of Bobby Orde:
glosses: To beat or spank someone, usually on their backside.
Synonyms: have someone's hide
setter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛt.ə/
ipa: /ˈset.ə/
ipa: /ˈsɛt.ɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: setters
form: settering
form: settered
form: settered
Senses: glosses: To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setter
gainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪnə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪnɚ/
Forms: form: gainers
Etymology: From gain + -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).
Senses: examples: text: … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.
ref: 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:
text: Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi
text: Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.
ref: 1956 January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1856”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
glosses: One who gains a profit or advantage.
glosses: One who puts on weight.
examples: text: I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.
ref: 1961, Stanisław Lem, chapter 4, in Return from the Stars:
topics: diving
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
Derived terms: hard gainer
mass gainer
weight gainer
Related terms: back gainer sports
full gainer sports
gain
half gainer sports
reverse gainer sports
gainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gainer
filer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪlɚ/
rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: filers
Etymology: From file + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers, […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: One who files something.
examples: text: The filer allows users to format and copy disks and to include a run-time UCSD Pascal operating system.
ref: 1983 February 28, InfoWorld, volume 5, number 9, page 28:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software program for managing files.
Derived terms: e-filer
nonfiler
Related terms: rank-and-filer
filers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filer
Kieran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪəˌɹɔːn/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹˌɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Irish, an anglicized form of Ciarán.
glosses: A unisex given name from Sanskrit, an anglicized form of किरण (kiraṇa).
Ciaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪəɹən/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹən/
Forms: form: Kieran
Etymology: From Irish Ciarán.
Senses: examples: text: ‘What's your name?’ I asked. ‘Ciaran,’ he said, and then, as though having read my mind, ‘though it's only my father who's Irish–I'm Danish.’
ref: 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
retrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrieve
retrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrievings
Senses: glosses: An act of retrieval.
pure mathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An early usage, from 1746, is in the title of the position Sadlerian Lecturer of Pure Mathematics (later "Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics").
Senses: examples: text: This book is the result of an attempt to bring between two covers a wide region of pure mathematics.
ref: 1913, Arthur Lyon Bowley, A General Course of Pure Mathematics, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page iii:
text: 1983, B. D. Bunday, H. Mulholland, Pure Mathematics for Advanced Level, Butterworths, 2nd Edition, page v,
Since the first edition was published there have been changes in the content of the pure mathematics syllabuses of the various examining boards.
text: 2010, Martin Liebeck, A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics, Taylor & Chapman (CRC Press: Chapman & Hall), 3rd Edition, page xii,
When starting to study pure mathematics at university, students often have a refreshing sense of "beginning all over again."
glosses: The study of mathematical concepts independently of applications outside mathematics.
wikipedia: Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics
Synonyms: word: pure maths
Coordinate terms: applied mathematics
Derived terms: pure mathematician
gundogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gundog
half-tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-tones
Senses: examples: text: [...] A good selection of half-tones well portrays the Southern atmosphere.
ref: 1959 March, “New Reading on Railways: The Southern Railway. By R. W. Kidner. The Oakwood Press. 12s. 6d.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
glosses: Alternative form of halftone.
half-tone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-tones
form: half-toning
form: half-toned
form: half-toned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halftone.
novelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian plural of novella.
Senses: glosses: plural of novella but only in the sense of a compact story.
Related terms: word: novellas
english: short novel
translation: short novel
word: the plural in the sense of novelette
incontestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incontestable
form: most incontestable
Etymology: From in- + contestable.
Senses: examples: text: That he was the greatest 100m runner of his generation was incontestable.
synonyms: incontrovertible
glosses: Not contestable; indisputable; certain.
Derived terms: incontestableness
incontestability
incontestably
red coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red coats
Senses: examples: text: You'll find our Red Coats hanging around the airport to answer any […]
ref: 1997, Leaders, volume 20, page 17:
text: You can also flag down one of the airport's "Red Coats," the customer service representatives stationed in the arrival areas, at bus stops, and on the monorail platforms.
ref: 2001, Harriet Baskas, Stuck at the Airport, page 164:
glosses: A customer service representative of Delta Air Lines.
glosses: Alternative form of redcoat.
des-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English des-, dis-, from Old French des-, from Latin dis-.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dis- (“reversal of sense of succeeding word”).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A removal of a group from a molecule.
masterfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstəf(ʊ)li/
ipa: /ˈmæstɚf(ʊ)li/
Forms: form: more masterfully
form: most masterfully
Etymology: From Middle English maysterfully, maisterfullich, equivalent to masterful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a masterful manner; in an extremely confident and competent manner.
masterfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masterfulnesses
Etymology: From masterful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being masterful.
grum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: grummer
form: grummest
Etymology: From Middle English grom, from Old English grom, gram (“angry, wrathful”), from Proto-Germanic *gramaz (“angry, bearing a grudge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder, rub, tear, scratch”). Probably influenced in form by glum. Compare also Danish grum (“cruel, atrocious, fell”), Swedish grym (“cruel, furious, terrible”). See also grim, gram, grump.
Senses: examples: text: Look not so grum at me; there is something to make thee more cheerful. (Offering him money with one hand, while he receives the bag with the other.)
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Stripling, act 2:
text: She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 58:
glosses: Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
examples: a grum voice
glosses: Low, deep in the throat; guttural
Synonyms: glum
grim
sour
Derived terms: grumly
grumness
disaccord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: disaccords
Etymology: From Middle English disacorden, from Anglo-Norman desacorder.
Senses: glosses: The absence or reverse of accord.
glosses: Disharmony.
disaccord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: disaccords
form: disaccording
form: disaccorded
form: disaccorded
Etymology: From Middle English disacorden, from Anglo-Norman desacorder.
Senses: examples: text: He stated the case but I did disaccord.
text: For she was daughter to a noble Lord
Which dwelt thereby, who sought her to affy
To a great Pere; but she did disaccord
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To fail to be in accord; to dissent.
disaccords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disaccord
disharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈhɑːməni/
ipa: /dɪsˈhɑɹməni/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)məni
Forms: form: disharmonies
Etymology: From dis- + harmony.
Senses: examples: text: Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
synonyms: word: inharmony
english: not as common
translation: not as common
glosses: The absence of harmony or concordance.
Related terms: disharmonic
disharmonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disharmony
disaccording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disaccord
disaccorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disaccord
throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
Etymology: Possibly based on a technique of building wattle and daub walls by throwing daub (mud mixed with straw) at the wattle, throwing hard enough that some obtained a good key and remained in place, (compare slapdash, a pebbledash effect produced by throwing pebbles at a rendered wall). Sense 2 is probably influenced by throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
Senses: examples: 2005, Mike Busson (poster on UKScreen forum) Re: Voiceovers!, read at http://www.ukscreen.com/board/General/0/28899 on 02 Nov 06,
In terms of places to send your URL or CD's, there's no easy answer. It really is a case of throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick.
2005, "forwardone" (administrator posting on the HYIPForum), re: Alertpay phishing email, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20071208195751/http://www.thehyipforum.com/message15022-alertpay-phishing-email.html on 02 Nov 06,
I also think that sometimes they send out phishing e-mails in the hope that it`ll hit people who do have an account with a particular organization. You know, throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick theory.
2006, Rob Manuel, How to be funny, read in Comedy Soup on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/comedysoup/robmanuel on 02 Nov 06,
Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Be prolific and don't be afraid to make stuff that's rubbish. If you keep trying eventually you'll get there.
2006, Rex Pierce, Re: [303rd-Talk] D Day read on 303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum at http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/303rd-talk/2006-June/002689.html on 02 Nov 06,
Believe the planners worked on the principle of "throw enough mud at the wall, and some of it will stick".
glosses: Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.
examples: 2006, "money" (poster on eTalk Money), Some thoughts about compact surfing, read at http://www.etalkmoney.com/category/closed-scam-folder/page/2/ on 02 Nov 06,
Word of advice NVUS time to distance yourself from LuukH as quickly as possible and dish some dirt, otherwise well the saying goes - throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick.
glosses: If enough (perhaps false or reckless) accusations are made against someone, his reputation will suffer, whether or not this is deserved
expedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspiː.dɪ.əns/
Forms: form: expediences
Etymology: From Middle English expedience, from Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from Latin expediens.
Senses: examples: April 11 1690, John Sharp, sermon preached at White-Hall
to determine concerning the expedience of actions
glosses: The quality of being fit or suitable to cause some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
examples: text: making hither with all due expedience
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: The sense of expedience that allowed White to cut deals and keep moving had made many, mistakenly, see him as shallow or, worse, unprincipled.
ref: 2008, Thomas Dyja, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America, page 178:
glosses: Speed, haste or urgency.
glosses: Something that is expedient.
examples: text: forwarding this dear expedience
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Synonyms: sense: fitness or suitableness
word: expediency
sense: speed, haste or urgency
word: expediency
expediences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expedience
disposables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposable
disposability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposabilities
Etymology: From dispose + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being disposable.
expediencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expediency
disposableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disposable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: disposability
anatropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the vision. Deviation of the visual axis of one eye upwards when the other eye is fixing; anaphoria.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tendency for both eyes to look upward.
Derived terms: anatropal
anatropic
anatropous
Related terms: astigmatism
emmetropia
myopia
disfavour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: disfavours
form: disfavor
Etymology: From English dis- + favour, from Middle French desfaveur.
Senses: examples: text: His lateness for the appointment incurred her disfavour.
text: These same misdeeds have raised a strong sentiment of disfavour against its ally.
ref: 1839, William Ewart Gladstone, The State in Its Relations with the Church:
text: The ground-breaking work that lesbians and gay men have done in breaking down traditional roles for men and women in couples is given little attention [in this book] and creative sexual arrangements are looked at with subtle disfavor.
ref: 1981 February 14, Eric E. Rofes, “Overlooking Our Differences”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 16:
glosses: Lack of favour; displeasure.
examples: text: He might dispense favours and disfavours according to his own election.
ref: 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion:
glosses: An unkindness; a disobliging act.
examples: text: The term “insane asylum” fell into disfavour long ago, but asylum is what some mentally ill people need.
ref: 2013 September 18, “Editorial: Seriously ill still need asylum”, in Vancouver Sun:
glosses: A state of being out of favour.
Synonyms: maltreatment
disfavour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: disfavours
form: disfavouring
form: disfavoured
form: disfavoured
form: disfavor
Etymology: From English dis- + favour, from Middle French desfaveur.
Senses: examples: text: Her past performance meant that she was often disfavoured for important tasks.
glosses: To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.
Synonyms: discriminate
maltreat
Derived terms: disfavourer
disfavours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Being of an uneven temperament, he was free with his disfavours.
glosses: plural of disfavour
disfavours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disfavour
disassemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəl/
Forms: form: disassembles
form: disassembling
form: disassembled
form: disassembled
Etymology: From dis- + assemble.
Senses: examples: text: To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
text: The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.
ref: 2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:
glosses: To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
Derived terms: disassemblable
nondisassembling
Related terms: assembly
disassembly
disassembler
dismantle
legering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leger
disassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈsɛmbli/
Forms: form: disassemblies
Etymology: From dis- + assembly.
Senses: examples: text: RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”
ref: 2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:
antonyms: assembly#Noun
reassembly#Noun
glosses: The process of disassembling.
examples: text: If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.
ref: 2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The code generated by a disassembler.
Derived terms: disassembly line
energetic disassembly
rapid unplanned disassembly
rapid unscheduled disassembly
Related terms: disassemblable
reassemblable
disassembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disassemble
disassemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disassembly
aëdes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aëdes
Senses: glosses: A mosquito, specifically a mosquito of the genus Aedes.
Porto Rico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pôrʹtō rēʹkō
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, Polk's announcement regarding Yucatan was quite in line with that of his predecessors with respect to Cuba, and the degree of importance does not affect the principle involved. For example, when Secretary Clay, by order of President Adams, notified France and other powers that we could not consent to the occupation of Cuba and Porto Rico "by any other European power than Spain under any contingency whatever,"¹⁸ he was thinking of the transfer per se and of the effect upon the United States, and not of the wishes of the Cubans.
ref: 1922, Eugene Irving McCormac, “The "Polk Doctrine" and Minor Diplomatic Questions”, in James K. Polk: A Political Biography, Berkeley, Cali.: University of California Press, →OCLC, pages 698–699:
glosses: Former name of Puerto Rico.
disorganise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disorganises
form: disorganising
form: disorganised
form: disorganised
form: disorganize
Etymology: From French désorganiser.
Senses: examples: text: The arrival of her new baby would inevitably disorganise her life.
glosses: To make less organised; to reduce to chaos.
disorganising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disorganizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disorganise
cagou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cagous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kagu (“type of bird”).
man of few words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of few words
Senses: examples: text: Tarzan but nodded his head. He was a man of few words, and possibly it was for this reason as much as any that Kadour ben Saden had taken to him, for if there be one thing that an Arab despises it is a talkative man.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Fight in the Desert”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 106:
coordinate_terms: woman of few words
glosses: A man who doesn't speak much; a habitually terse or taciturn man.
Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gunpowder Plot
Senses: glosses: A failed conspiracy, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.
Synonyms: Gunpowder Treason
God Save the Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First known to be used during the reign of Queen Mary I during certain royal proclamations, likely popularized after William Shakespeare's Richard III c. 1592–1593 due to quotes containing it with its current patriotic meaning that borrowed from some royal proclamations of Queen Elizabeth I.
Senses: glosses: The national anthem of the United Kingdom when the current monarch is a female.
God Save the Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: First known to be used during the reign of Queen Mary I during certain royal proclamations, likely popularized after William Shakespeare's Richard III c. 1592–1593 due to quotes containing it with its current patriotic meaning that borrowed from some royal proclamations of Queen Elizabeth I.
Senses: glosses: An expression of one’s patriotism and hope for the long life of the monarch, especially in her presence.
glosses: A formal statement at the end of many proclamations issued by the queen of the UK or in her name.
examples: text: The King is dead! God save the Queen!
glosses: A formal declaration following the death of a reigning monarch when the next monarch is female.
Coordinate terms: sense: when the current monarch is a king
word: God Save the King
Derived terms: God Shave the Queen
O Canada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The national anthem of Canada
Marcha Real
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑːtʃə ɹeɪˈɑːl/
ipa: /ˌmɑːtʃə ɹeɪˈal/
enpr: mär'chə rā-älʹ
enpr: mär'chə rā-ălʹ
ipa: /ˌmɑɹtʃə ɹeɪˈɑl/
enpr: mär'chə rā-älʹ
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: the Marcha Real
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Marcha Real (literally “Royal March”).
Senses: glosses: The national anthem of Spain.
Roland Garros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Roland Garros, a French fighter pilot.
Senses: glosses: The French Open, one of the four events in the Grand Slam.
chanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chant
pulver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulvers
Etymology: From Middle English pulver, from Latin pulver-, pulvis. Doublet of powder.
Senses: examples: text: Take fine Suger ℔ ß. Spec. Diarhod. Abbatis ʒ ß. vvhyte Ambre beinge pulverzatede like meale ʒ jß. vvhyt povvndede Muſtarde ſeede, ʒ ß. Annis, and Fennelle Oyle. or in place therof, ℥ j ß. of Aqva vitæ, fine totalle, and not foraminatede Pearles, beinge verye ſmalle pulverizatede ʒ ß. you muſt liqvefye the Suger, vvith the vvater, of vvilde blacke Gherryes, vvith Lavender vvater, vvith Spicanardi, or vvith Roſevvater, mixe theſe pręnominated pulvers the one vvith the other, mixinge, & addinge heer vnto the Suger, and as then make little Cakes therof.
ref: 1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer [i.e., Oswald Gaebelkhover], translated by A. M., The Boock of Physicke […], Dort: […] Isaack Gaen [i.e., Isaac Jansz], pages 27–28:
text: This also was a new tinder that did quickly fyre the puluer of discention, which blew wp the bulwarke of this once so hopefull and so happie a freindshipe, and rankled the old wound, and brought it anew a blooding; […]
ref: c. 1650, Patrick Gordon, A Short Abridgement of Britane’s Distemper, from the Yeare of God M.DC.XXXIX. to M.DC.XLIX, Aberdeen: […] Spalding Club, published 1844, page 175:
text: Then out of the stain and rash furor, the passionate pulver of stone, / The trembling suffusion that dazzled and awfully shone, / Chamelion-convulsion of color, hilarious ranges of glare— […]
ref: 1889, Madison J[ulius] Cawein, “Chords”, in Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, canto VII, stanza 1, page 150:
glosses: Powder.
pulver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulvers
form: pulvering
form: pulvered
form: pulvered
Etymology: From Middle English (participle pulvered), from the noun or Latin pulverō.
Senses: glosses: To pulverise; to make into powder.
lollipop lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lollipop ladies
Etymology: Because the signs they carry resemble giant lollipops.
Senses: glosses: A female school crossing attendant.
Synonyms: word: lollipop man
word: crossing guard
coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooler
barfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barf
contraflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraflows
Etymology: From contra- + flow.
Senses: examples: Example: Contra-flow cycling is most often applied on basic cycle network links in low-speed local access roads, both within and outside the built-up area (European English)
Example: Contra-flow cycling is a regulatory measure. In streets and roads with a one-way traffic restriction, cyclists are exempt from the one-way restriction and are allowed to drive against the flow of motorized traffic. (European English)
glosses: Flow in the opposite direction to normal.
glosses: An abnormal state of a road or motorway where the traffic temporarily travels in the opposite direction to normal, usually as a result of repair work or an accident.
Related terms: contraflowing
contraflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraflow
school of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schools of thought
form: school of thoughts
Senses: examples: text: He did not belong to the school of thought that believed Jackson Pollock to be much of an artist.
text: But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
ref: 2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy.
Related terms: ideology
schools of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school of thought
cantus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cantus (literally “song, chant”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of superius.
synonyms: word: superius
Related terms: cantus firmus
vore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: Clipping of vorarephilia. Sometimes said to be from -vore or carnivore, however most sources (especially furries and other insider groups) cite the word as being derived from vorarephilia.
Senses: examples: text: Me, I like vore and unbirth. But then, I'm strange […]
ref: 2005, Lord Flame Stryke, “Re: Curious”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
text: Many of his videos include the classic vore image of a woman's legs in stockings and high heels sticking out of the mouth of one of his monsters[…]
ref: 2009, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor Is A Dragon, page 211:
coordinate_terms: soft vore
hard vore
glosses: The genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.
Derived terms: anal vore
vorish
vorishness
vorniness
vorny
Related terms: word: absorption
word: cumgestion
word: disposal
word: mawshot
word: perma
word: pred
word: prey
word: reformation
word: scat
word: voracious
raw_tags: used adjective in self-produced vore content
word: weight gain
vore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: vores
form: voring
form: vored
form: vored
Etymology: Clipping of vorarephilia. Sometimes said to be from -vore or carnivore, however most sources (especially furries and other insider groups) cite the word as being derived from vorarephilia.
Senses: examples: text: how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that
ref: 2012 Jan 31, "lucyhotlegs", how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that (on community.secondlife.com)
glosses: To consume or to eat (either in general, or chiefly within the context of vorarephilia).
confidence limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence limit
Senses: examples: text: A sample of 1000 showed that the correlation between weight and height was 0.0167, with 95% confidence limits of 0.0142 and 0.0183.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: For a statistical sample a pair of values that delimit the interval for which there is a certain probability that the true value of some deduced variable lies between those values.
Lakshmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌkʃmiː/
Forms: form: Laxmi
Etymology: From Sanskrit लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī, “mark, sign”).
Senses: glosses: The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rāma (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Derived terms: Lakshmidas
Star of Lakshmi
anecdotally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anecdotally
form: most anecdotally
Etymology: From anecdotal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As it was an informal hearing, the evidence was presented anecdotally.
text: Yes, cockroaches wallow in filth, but a case of food poisoning is probably about as bad as it gets if one of those pests skitters across your slice of pizza – a stroll through the park compared to malaria, yellow fever or dengue fever. Still, anecdotally, many people suffer from katsaridaphobia, or cockroach phobia.
ref: 2014 September 18, Rachel Nuwer, “Cockroaches: The insect we're programmed to fear”, in BBC:
text: Anecdotally, demand has held up - rather than cancelling, people are asking when they might be able to travel. There is a sense of some pent-up demand.
ref: 2020 July 15, Tony Streeter, “Charters return to running... but in an uncertain environment”, in Rail, page 35:
glosses: In an anecdotal manner; by means of a recounted incident.
anecdotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anecdotists
Etymology: From anecdote + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who relates anecdotes.
anecdotalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anecdotal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A predisposition to relate anecdotes.
Related terms: english: garrulous old age
translation: garrulous old age
word: anecdotage
anecdotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anecdotic
form: most anecdotic
Etymology: From anecdote + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The anecdotic nature of his complaints made them less credible.
glosses: Anecdotal; of or pertaining to anecdotes.
glosses: Tending to tell anecdotes.
Derived terms: anecdotically
botching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of botch
trounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The Knicks trounced the Rockets on Sunday.
glosses: simple past and past participle of trounce
Related terms: trouncer
botch job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botch jobs
form: botched job
Senses: examples: text: He came highly recommended, but looking at his work I saw immediately that it was a botch job.
glosses: A job that has been botched.
Related terms: bodge job
interrupter gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrupter gears
Senses: glosses: A triggering device attached to the machine gun armament of fighter aircraft so that the gun could fire through the arc of a spinning propeller without the bullets striking the blades.
Synonyms: synchronization gear
botches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botch
botches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He may be your brother but he botches every job he's given.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of botch
synchronization gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronization gears
Senses: glosses: Synonym of interrupter gear.
synonyms: word: interrupter gear
Laois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
homophone: leash
Forms: form: Leix
Etymology: From Irish Laois.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland, formerly known as Queens County.
Naypyidaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪpjɪˌdɔː/
Forms: form: Nay Pyi Daw
form: Nay Pyi Taw
form: Naypyitaw
Etymology: Transliteration of Burmese နေပြည်တော် (ne-pranytau).
Senses: glosses: The capital city (since 2006) of Burma (Myanmar), located in Pyinmana Township, Mandalay Division (approximately 320 kilometres north of Yangon).
wikipedia: Naypyidaw
set one's cap at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets one's cap at
form: setting one's cap at
form: set one's cap at
form: set one's cap at
form: set one's cap for
Etymology: Probably a calque of French mettre le cap sur (“to set a course for”).
Senses: examples: text: To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl).
examples: Patrick O'Brian, "HMS Surprise".
How he has escaped marriage until now I cannot tell: the number of caps set in his direction would furnish a warehouse.
glosses: To choose something as a goal.
Chindit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chindits
Etymology: Derived from the mythological Chinte, half lion and half eagle.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of an allied commando unit operating behind enemy lines in northern Burma during World War II.
Chindits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chindit
amperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampere
milliamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliamps
form: milli-amp
Etymology: From milli- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of an ampere. Symbol: mA.
Synonyms: milliampere
Related terms: milliammeter
milliamperage
microamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microamps
form: micro-amp
Etymology: From micro- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of an ampere, abbreviated as µA.
nanoamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoamps
Etymology: From nano- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousand millionth (10⁻⁹) of an ampere. Symbol: nA.
picoamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoamps
form: pico-amp
Etymology: From pico- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of an ampere. Symbol: pA.
true colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true colors
Etymology: See show one's true colors.
Senses: examples: text: The organisation was officially concerned with economic development, but after the memo was leaked people began to see them in their true colours.
text: But I see your true colors / Shining through / I see your true colors / And that's why I love you / So don't be afraid to let them show
ref: 1986, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly, “True Colors”, performed by Cyndi Lauper:
glosses: The real character, belief or intent of a person or group who present a dishonest picture of their nature to the world.
Synonyms: true stripes
Related terms: show one's true colors
picovolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picovolts
form: pico-volt
Etymology: From pico- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a volt, abbreviated as pV.
nanovolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanovolts
form: nano-volt
Etymology: From nano- + volt.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10⁻⁹ volts. Symbol: nV
Synonyms: nV
microvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvolts
form: micro-volt
Etymology: From micro- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a volt, abbreviated as µV.
millivolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millivolts
form: milli-volt
Etymology: From milli- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of a volt, abbreviated as mV.
kilovolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilovolts
form: kilo-volt
Etymology: From kilo- + volt.
Senses: examples: text: Generators usually produce electricity at 7 kilovolts (a kilovolt is a thousand volts) to 25 kilovolts; transformers at the generators step up the voltage, to 60 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts, before sending the power into the grid.
ref: 1999 October 21, Sally McGrane, “Getting Power to the People: The North American Electricity Grid”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One thousand volts. Symbol: kV or KV.
Derived terms: kilovolt-ampere
gigavolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigavolts
form: giga-volt
Etymology: From giga- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One billion (10⁹) volts. Symbol: GV.
picovolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picovolt
nanovolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanovolt
microvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvolt
millivolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millivolt
kilovolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilovolt
megavolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megavolt
gigavolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigavolt
nanoamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoamp
microamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microamp
milliamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliamp
picowatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picowatts
form: pico-watt
Etymology: From pico- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a watt, abbreviated as pW.
picowatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picowatt
nanowatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanowatts
form: nano-watt
Etymology: From nano- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand millionth (10⁻⁹) of a watt, abbreviated as nW.
nanowatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanowatt
microwatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microwatts
form: micro-watt
Etymology: From micro- + watt.
Senses: related: word: mul:μW
glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a watt.
Derived terms: microwatt-hour
microwatt-year
microwatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microwatt
milliwatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliwatts
form: milli-watt
Etymology: From milli- + watt.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
related: word: mul:mW
glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of a watt, an amount of power that can power a small electronic device such as a single microchip. (Consuming 1 milliwatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 milliwatt-hour of energy.).
Derived terms: milliwatt-hour
milliwatt-year
milliwatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliwatt
kilowatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilowatt
megawatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megawatt
gigawatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/
/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/
Forms: form: gigawatts
form: giga-watt
form: jigawatt
Etymology: From giga- + watt.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
text: Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt
text: In the 2020s, the race for AI data centers has Big Tech searching for ways to add multiple gigawatts of additional grid capacity to a regional power grid.
text: In a famous movie about time travel, the mad scientist tells the teenage hero that the time machine requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate.
text: The European Union's string of record-setting solar power deployment is on track to come to an end this year as demand wanes for rooftop solar panels due to lower wholesale electricity prices. Solar power additions are set to contract 1.4% in the EU, the first annual dip since 2016, according to a report from industry group Solar Power Europe. While new additions are still at historically high levels, it shows the impact on growth of saturated solar power markets where prices regularly dip below zero during the sunniest parts of the year. Overall, the EU is on track to add 64.2 gigawatts of new capacity, according to the industry group. That view contrasts with analysis from BloombergNEF that sees slight growth this year in the bloc.
ref: 2025 July 24, Will Mathis, “Europe's Solar Power Growth Set to Dip for First Time Since 2016”, in BloombergNEF, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025:
related: word: mul:GW
glosses: One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.)
examples: text: a gigawatt of compute
text: “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently. Large-scale data-center build-outs may already be reshaping America’s energy systems. OpenAI has announced that it intends to build at least 30 gigawatts’ worth of data centers—more power than all of New England requires on even the hottest day—and CEO Sam Altman has said he’d eventually like to build a gigawatt of AI infrastructure every week. Other major tech firms have similar ambitions.
ref: 2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens. The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).
Derived terms: gigawatt-hour
gigawatt-year
gigawatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigawatt
terawatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terawatts
form: tera-watt
Etymology: From tera- + watt.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: PW, petawatt
text: Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt
text: As of 2025, it was estimated that all of the power stations on Earth were collectively generating about 15 terawatts at any given instant.
text: If you are about to harvest all the hydropower of the world—this implies the schemes in which all of Greenland has to be engineered for hydropower—you have a total of something like 2.9 terawatts. If you go to large scale deployment of wind power facilities, the upper limit is 1, 2, or 3 terawatts. Tidal power for .04, wave power, if you want to have 1 terawatt, you have to provide a linear facility almost of the length of the perimeter of the earth. Ocean thermal gradient within ten kilometers of the coast line—.35 terawatts. Therefore, the renewable resources all have a similar thing in common: namely to be on the scale of 1 terawatt but not dozens of terawatts. That is the message. Energy conservation can bring you 1 terawatt and it falls in line with the soft options, but not dozens of terawatts. So what do you do then when dozens of terawatts are at stake? Fortunately there is more than one option to provide, but they all have their problems.
ref: 1977, United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, quoting Wolf Haefele, European Oversight Trip: Report of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session. Serial D, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 24:
related: word: mul:TW
glosses: One million million (10¹²) watts, an amount of power large enough to power an entire region with many cities. (Consuming 1 terawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 terawatt-hour of energy.).
Derived terms: terawatt-hour
terawatt-year
terawatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terawatt