cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
battlefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/
Forms: form: battlefields
form: battle-field
Etymology: From battle + field.
Senses: examples: text: The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg
ref: 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant:
text: Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place.
ref: 1939 September, John D. Hewitt, “The Kington Branch of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:
synonyms: battleground
field of battle
glosses: The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
Derived terms: Battlefielder
belemnite battlefield
hyperactive battlefield
Related terms: battlespace
snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snappers
form: snappering
form: snappered
form: snappered
Etymology: From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).
Senses: glosses: To stumble, to trip.
examples: text: A curate in specyall
To snappar and to fall
Into this opyn cryme
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 141–143:
glosses: To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally.
snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snappers
Etymology: From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).
Senses: glosses: A stumble, a trip.
glosses: An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
emancipist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmænsɪpɪst/
Forms: form: emancipists
form: emancipatist
Etymology: From emancipate + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: On Governor Macquarie′s departure the emancipists were again thrown into the shade, and not one ever visited the succeeding governor at a party of any description, nor did he ever dine even in company with a single emancipist, until the very close of his administration.
ref: 1827, P. Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales: The London Magazine, page 520:
text: Macquarie′s position on the emancipist issue was made abundantly clear almost from the outset by his appointment of three emancipists to the magistracy.
ref: 2002, David Neal, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Politics in Early New South Wales, page 100:
text: In his reports Bigge did not totally oppose Macquarie′s policy of restoring emancipists to ‘society’. He criticised the governor for forcing the pace and in fact for giving greater countenance to his emancipist protégés than to free emigrants whose claims should have been treated far more sensitively.
ref: 2008, John Bradley Hirst, Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony:
glosses: In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
expiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expirees
Etymology: From expire + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the year after, John Carr blossomed into an "expiree", master of a fine wife and a fine fortune, there were many about him who would have made his existence in Australia pleasant enough.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2:
text: According to the census of 1870 the number of men still under the charge of the authorities is about four thousand, including those still in confinement; expirees being classed as free men.
ref: 1984, Lloyd Evans, Paul Llewellyn Nicholls, Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868, page 276:
text: Most of them secured a husband within a year or so, but more remarkable is the fact that expirees competed very successfully against the colonial boys for brides. This was despite the knowledge that a woman who married an expiree lost her claim to respectability.
ref: 1985, University of Western Australia, Westerly, volume 30, page 248:
text: Many old expirees received terminal or geriatric care in the Society′s Asylum, but there was a gap between the expiration of their sentences and their requiring terminal care during which time they depended upon their own resources.
ref: 1995, Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, volume 81, page 37:
glosses: In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
Related terms: emancipist
substitution cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitution ciphers
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth. The receiver deciphers the text by performing an inverse substitution.
tickle someone's funny bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tickles someone's funny bone
form: tickling someone's funny bone
form: tickled someone's funny bone
form: tickled someone's funny bone
Senses: examples: text: I thought this comic book might be just the sort of thing that would tickle your funny bone.
glosses: To amuse someone.
hockey stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockey sticks
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
examples: text: The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A playing card with the rank of seven.
examples: text: One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages. Then comes the blade: The mercury swings sharply upward in the 20th century.
ref: 2005 February 14, Antonio Regalado, “In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:
text: They made it the focus of their attacks, hoping that by demolishing the hockey stick graph they would destroy the credibility of climate scientists and the notion of global warming as a phenomenon caused by human activity.
ref: 2006 March 15, Fred Pearce, “Climate: The great hockey stick debate”, in New Scientist:
text: “That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added[…].
ref: 2024 April 18, Callum Jones, quoting Michael Nathanson, “Netflix profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.
Derived terms: HE-double-hockey-sticks
aitch ee double hockey sticks
hockey stick curve
jolly-hockey-sticks
schtick
putti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊti/
rhymes: -ʊti
Senses: glosses: plural of putto
plano-convex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plano-convex
form: most plano-convex
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planoconvex.
combust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: combusts
form: combusting
form: combusted
form: combusted
Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”).
Senses: examples: text: Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being.
ref: 2014, Adelais Selwyn, Eadric, volume 1:
synonyms: word: go up
word: burn
word: combust
word: forburn
word: go up
word: outburn
word: torch
glosses: To burn; to catch fire.
examples: text: The audience combusts.
ref: 2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:
glosses: To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
Synonyms: word: catch on fire
word: catch fire
word: combust
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: ignite
word: light
word: spunk
word: take fire
Hypernyms: word: come into being
word: happen
Hyponyms: word: deflagrate
word: detonate
word: burn up
Derived terms: combustible
combustion
combustive
combustor
incombustible
spontaneously combust
Related terms: word: burn
word: kindle
combust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: more combust
form: most combust
Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”).
Senses: glosses: Burnt.
examples: text: Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.
ref: , I.iii.1.3
text: Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
combust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”).
Senses: glosses: That which undergoes burning.
products of conception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The human fetus, placenta and other such by-products of a miscarriage or abortion.
ectopion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ectopion.
glosses: The condition of, or an instance of, ectopia.
examples: text: Vaginal discharge should be looked for, the smell noted and swabs (high vaginal or endocervical) obtained for examination by microscopy and inoculations for micro-organisms are obtained. Bleeding, products of conception in the cervical canal or cervical pathology (e.g. ectopion) should be excluded.
ref: 1998, Progress in obstetrics and gynaecology, volume 13, page 312:
glosses: Misconstruction of ectropion.
money shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money shots
Etymology: (moment in film): So named because it is often considered the most important part of the film, and often an actor who is unable to provide the shot goes unpaid.
Senses: glosses: The shot or scene of a film that cost the most to produce, most commonly an action sequence.
examples: text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh?
Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap.
Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: The moment in a pornographic film where the male subject of the scene in question ejaculates.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: The release of semen on the partner's body, especially on the face or in the eye.
nigga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪɡə
ipa: /ˈnɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: niggas
form: niggah
form: nigguh
form: nikka
form: nikkah
form: niqqa
form: nugga
Etymology: Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum.
nee way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: nee way !
Senses: examples: text: Nee way man!
glosses: Absolutely no, no way.
clacka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clackas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clacker (“testicle; anus”).
clackas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clacka
iconism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconisms
Etymology: From icon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.
Related terms: aniconism
fetcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 18:7:
glosses: Alternative form of fetched.
chaabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic شَعْبِيّ (šaʕbiyy, “popular, folksy”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of Moroccan popular music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A traditional style of music of Algiers.
Völuspá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Vǫluspá, from vǫlu, genitive of vǫlva (“truth-sayer, staff-carrier, prophetess”), from vǫlr (“rounded staff”) (cognate with the Gothic walus, Old English wala, walu, Old Frisian walu), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: The Prophecy of the Vǫlva; the first poem of the Poetic Edda.
tight ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight ships
Senses: examples: text: to run a tight ship
text: You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me "the hammer".
ref: 1999, Strangers with Candy (television production), spoken by Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert):
text: I know your agent’s third cousin really wanted to hear their name, but the Oscar show producers run a tight ship, yes-sir-Bob.
ref: 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: A well-organized and highly disciplined organization.
Related terms: right the ship
iron fist
adverbial participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverbial participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A participle that modifies a verb in the same sentence and is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time, condition, cause, concession, manner, means, purpose, or attendant circumstance.
Related terms: converb
transgressive
guanxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwanʃi/
ipa: /ˈɡwanʃi/
enpr: gwänʹshēʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 關係 /关系 (guānxì, “relation, connection”).
Senses: examples: text: To open a new business in China you need guanxi.
text: Who would dare to drive around in a [right-hand drive] car that was so obviously stolen and smuggled into the country? The police, of course! And Communisty Party officials. And those with guanxi with the police.
ref: 1996, James O'Reilly, Sean O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, editors, Travellers' Tales - Hong Kong:
text: By chance he'd happened to be in Hong Kong when Clayton had died, and his guanxi had smoothed out the paperwork that could have delayed things for weeks.
ref: 1998, Stuart Cohen, Invisible World:
text: It should be noted that the existence of a basis for guanxi does not imply that such an alliance will develop.
ref: 2000, Yadong Luo, Strategy, Structure, and Performance of MNCs in China:
text: Many foreigners claim to have guanxi with their Chinese counterparts; few actually do.
ref: 2005, China-Britain Business Council:
text: The peculiarly Chinese concept of guansi (guanxi) also pervades interpersonal relationships. In mainland China, a stifling bureaucracy can make it impossible to get anything done, so individuals need to form relationships with the people who can get wheels turning. However, the person who turns the wheels for you will, at some point, want to have the favor returned.
To accumulate guansi you need to do things for people: Give them gifts, take them to dinner, lend them your car, and so on. Once you have built up guansi, an unspoken understanding develops that favors will be returned repeatedly in an ongoing relationship. Visitors to Taiwan will rarely become involved in guansi, unless there often on business.
ref: 2007, Phil Macdonald, “History & Culture”, in National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21, column 2:
synonyms: word: blat
english: from Russian
translation: from Russian
glosses: Connections; relationships; one's social or business network.
Related terms: network
relationship
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Senses: glosses: Too much focus on one's career may lead to one being uninteresting company.
glosses: Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.
switch horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch horns
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In naval mine warfare, a switch in a mine operated by a projecting spike.
sympathetic detonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic detonations
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Detonation of an explosive triggered by the explosion of another quantity of explosive adjacent to it.
synchronized clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronized clocks
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A technique of timing the delivery of fires by placing all units on a common time. The synchronized clock uses a specific hour and minute based on either local or universal time. Local time is established using the local time zone.
psychos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psycho
synchronous orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronous orbits
Senses: glosses: A satellite orbit where the orbital period is equal to, or multiples of, the Earth’s rotational period; i.e. making one, two, three, etc., orbits in a 24-hour period. Examples include geosynchronous (period equals Earth's rotation), semisynchronous (two orbits per day); and geostationary (geosynchronous orbit where satellite maintains a fixed position on the equator).
Related terms: Sun-synchronous orbit
litra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litras
Etymology: From Sicilian, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litre, livre, and rottol.
Senses: glosses: A silver coin in ancient Sicily, worth one fifth of a drachm.
interbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interbeings
form: inter-being
Etymology: From inter- + being.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A state of connectedness and interdependence of all phenomena.
glosses: A being that is interconnected with others.
Related terms: inter-be
gramma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/
/ˈɡɹæmə/
Forms: form: grammas
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of grandma.
Senses: examples: text: Go on, there, driver, gramma is going.
ref: 1901, Karl Groos, James Mark Baldwin, The Play of Man, page 138:
text: My gramma—all her hair is white Like snow is, but it isn't cold.
ref: 1910 January, W.D.N., “The Dinner at Grampa's”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 120, number 716, page 321:
text: Polly trotted here and there with motions of taking gramma's hand, and so forth.
ref: 1952, Louise Woodcock, Life and Ways of the Two-year-old, page 244:
glosses: A grandmother.
gramma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/
/ˈɡɹæmə/
Forms: form: grammas
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively.
text: 1941, H. Barnes, Robert Veitch, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, John Howard Simmonds, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, Volume 1, page 238,
Pumpkins and grammas are harvested when mature, usually when the vines have died or been frosted.
text: The papaw pumpkin belongs to a different species (C. moschata) and is classed as a gramma.
ref: 1952, Desmond Andrew Herbert, Gardening in Warm Climates, page 151:
text: 1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised 2005, Republished 2009, page 493,
Gramma, or bugle, pumpkin is the variety traditionally used for pumpkin pie, but if it is not available, use butternut instead.
glosses: A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
Synonyms: sense: Cucurbita moschata cultivar
word: bugle pumpkin
sense: Cucurbita moschata cultivar
word: butternut squash
sense: Cucurbita moschata cultivar
word: papaw pumpkin
gramma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/
/ˈɡɹæmə/
Forms: form: grammas
Senses: examples: text: Accompanying said proposal any effort was made by the government to was a bond executed by said Drachman as obtain gramma hay for use at Ft. Huachuca.
ref: 1898, “Dennis v. United States”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 52, page 355:
text: It is sometimes known as the "gramma grass," and is probably as valuable as any of the true gramma grasses; it is also called "mesquite grass."
ref: 1902, Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, page 233:
text: It is relished by cattle and horses, and is next to the gramma in value in those regions.
ref: 1906, William Harding Carter, Horses, Saddles and Bridles, page 369:
glosses: Alternative form of grama.
gramma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/
/ˈɡɹæmə/
Forms: form: grammata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma). Doublet of gram.
Senses: examples: text: This discussion immediately before us embraces a preliminary paragraph, and three statements of moments, respectively designated by the grammata—α, β, γ.
ref: 1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form and Matter, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, page 125:
text: “[…] The first thing that the disciple learns is to read the grammata of his teacher.”
ref: 1933, American Academy for Jewish Research, Proceedings, volume IV, page 90:
text: The subject can only speak in so far as it follows the traces of the grammata of the writing (écriture).
ref: 1974, Jan M. Broekman, Brunhilde Helm, transl., Structuralism: Moscow – Prague – Paris, D. Reidel Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 93–94:
text: The fourteen patriarchal grammata which we have at our disposal in the Patmiacus codex are written by eight different patriarchs, Jeremias II claiming the lion’s share with no less than five grammata. Next comes Metrophanes III with three grammata, and Dionysios I, Joasaph II, Jeremias I, Dionysios II, Theoleptos II, and Neophytos II, all with one gramma each.
ref: 1993, The Greek Monasteries of Sozopolis: XIV-XVII Centuries, Institute for Balkan Studies, page 20:
glosses: Something that is written.
examples: text: The studies were divided into three branches. First, the grammata, which included reading, writing, and arithmetic; secondly, music; and thirdly, gymnastics.
ref: 1855, J. Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ: An Imaginary Biography Founded on Fact, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 22:
glosses: The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
internee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɜːˈniː/
ipa: /ɪntɝˈniː/
Forms: form: internees
Etymology: From intern + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is imprisoned or otherwise confined.
Synonyms: prisoner
disty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disties
form: distie
Etymology: Diminutives with -y.
Senses: glosses: distributor
glosses: distribution
internees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internee
tatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tatty (“woven mat or screen”).
no comment
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The district attorney said, "No comment," when the reporter asked if he knew the identity of the murder suspect, for fear that the culprit might be a flight risk.
glosses: An official refusal to relay any further information, used for example in response to a question by a newspaper reporter or police officer.
examples: text: Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before.
Wrex: I still don't have a window like Liara does... but maybe that's because I don't kiss as well. [laughter]
Shepard: No comment.
Wrex: Yeah [laughter]... I missed this place.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
glosses: A refusal to make the obvious impolite retort.
pound cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pound cakes
form: poundcake
Etymology: From pound (unit of weight) + cake.
Senses: examples: text: But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier.
ref: 1993, Ann Hodgman, Beat This! Cookbook, published 1999, page 166:
text: Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added.
ref: 2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159:
text: Satisfied her aunt had things under control, Addy put on the coffee and sliced and arranged the pound cake on a cookie sheet.
ref: 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, unnumbered page:
glosses: A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
examples: text: She's a cute little pound cake.
glosses: A term of attraction or desire.
glosses: A butt cheek.
Coordinate terms: sponge cake
pound cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pound cake
HAPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary oedema.
HAPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary edema.
HACE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HACEs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of high-altitude cerebral edema.
HACE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement.
HACO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of high-altitude cerebral oedema.
frigidaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɪdʒɪˈdɛə/
ipa: /ˌfɹɪd͡ʒɪˈdɛɹ/
Forms: form: frigidaires
Etymology: From Frigidaire, proprietary name of a brand of refrigerators, from Latin frīgidārium. Doublet of frigidarium.
Senses: examples: text: He [...] had everything necessary to the Modern Man, / A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
ref: 1939, W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen:
text: “Have you seen Kipper?” I wouldn't say she snorted, but she certainly sniffed. “Bertie,” she said in a voice straight from the frigidaire, “will you do me a favour?” “Of course. What?” “Don't mention that rat's name in my presence,” she said, and pushed off, the eyelids still weary.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Carpets were spread, divans appeared, as also the latest creation from Italy, a portable frigidaire which held countless bowls of sorbet and iced lemon tea.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 659:
glosses: Trademark for a refrigerator.
wikipedia: Frigidaire
sweetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetfishes
form: sweetfish
Etymology: sweet + fish
Senses: glosses: An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.
Synonyms: sense: Plecoglossus altivelis
word: ayu
sense: Plecoglossus altivelis
word: ai
starched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of starch
starched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starched
form: most starched
Senses: examples: text: I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
ref: 1951 October 24, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:
text: And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.
ref: 2024 June 3, Caitlin Chatterton, “‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld:’ A flattering sketch of a controversial designer”, in CNN:
glosses: Of a garment: having had starch applied.
examples: text: Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind?
ref: 1712, Jonathan Swift, “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, volume 1, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1751, pages 102-103:
text: A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 217:
text: I was not a little startled at recognising in his companions that very Morris on whose account I had been summoned before Justice Inglewood, and Mr MacVittie the merchant, at whose starched and severe aspect I had recoiled on the preceding day.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 245:
text: ‘[…] CD is a fair-enough scholar but starched like my grand-daddy’s collar.’
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 107:
glosses: Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
Derived terms: starchedness
Related terms: cornstarched
calipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ɪ.pəz/
ipa: /ˈkæl.ɪ.pɚz/
Forms: form: callipers
Etymology: A corruption of caliber.
Senses: examples: text: "Good, good for there," he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head. Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
glosses: A device used to measure dimensions, especially for small or precise measurements.
examples: text: And simultaneously I raise my trouser cuff to reveal the leather straps and wicked steel calipers harnessing my right boot.
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 4:
synonyms: word: leg braces
glosses: A metal (orthopedic) leg support.
Related terms: caliber
calibre
vernier caliper
compass
caliper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪpɚ/
Forms: form: calipers
form: calliper
Etymology: Variant of caliber.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calipers.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
Derived terms: caliper brake
microcaliper
vernier caliper
caliper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪpɚ/
Forms: form: calipers
form: calipering
form: calipered
form: calipered
form: calliper
Etymology: Variant of caliber.
Senses: glosses: To use calipers to measure the size of.
ower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owers
Etymology: From Middle English owere, oȝere, awer, equivalent to owe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who owes something, especially money.
ower
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊæ/
Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.
Senses: examples: text: Get ower thor noo!
glosses: over
ower
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊæ/
Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.
Senses: examples: She's ower canny hor, like
glosses: over
ower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊæ/
Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.
Senses: examples: text: Thats ower much that!
glosses: overly, too
hintend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hintends
Senses: examples: text: "She had a canny hintend!"
glosses: The posterior of a person or object.
hippins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippin
hippins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: hippings
glosses: Babies' nappies; diapers.
nappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nappy
glosses: plural of nappie
nappies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nappy
haad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"
glosses: To hold.
gaup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gaups
form: gauping
form: gauped
form: gauped
form: galp
Senses: examples: "Divint gaup at hor, she'll knaa ye fancy ha"
glosses: To stare, gape.
hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawk
hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hawk
sugared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sugared
form: most sugared
Etymology: From sugar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Since starting my diet, I’ve stopped eating sugared breakfast cereals.
synonyms: sugary
glosses: Of food or drink: containing sugar.
examples: text: Thoſe Vnckles vvhich you vvant, vvere dangerous, / Your Grace attended to their ſugred vvords, / But lookt not on the poiſon of their hearts: […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature [E4], verso:
glosses: Sweet, pleasant.
Derived terms: sugared almond
sugared pumpkin
unsugared
Related terms: brown-sugared
sugared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sugar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sugar
sugaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sugar
sugaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarings
Senses: glosses: An act of applying sugar to something.
examples: text: Maple sugaring is an important historical industry in Vermont.
glosses: The making or processing of sugar.
glosses: The practice of being a sugar baby, receiving money or gifts from an older person in exchange for a romantic relationship.
examples: Coordinate term: waxing
synonyms: Persian waxing
glosses: A cosmetic procedure similar to waxing, in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of a sugar-based paste.
Derived terms: sugaring moon
Ilonggo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ilonggos
Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Iloilo.
glosses: A member of the indigenous people of Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island in the Philippines.
Ilonggo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.
Senses: synonyms: Hiligaynon
glosses: An Austronesian language of the Visayan language family, spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.
Ilonggo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ilonggo
form: most Ilonggo
Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the culture, people, and language of Iloilo or nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island where Hiligaynon is spoken
one of a kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one of a kinds
form: one-of-a-kind
Senses: examples: text: This fireplace is one of a kind. You won't see another like it anywhere else.
text: The dilemma is how to cost effectively build these one of a kinds yet provide high performance and reliability
ref: 1995, The AI Magazine:
glosses: A unique specimen.
Synonyms: oner
OOAK
Related terms: two of a kind
anthill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænt.hɪl/
Forms: form: anthills
Etymology: From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant + hill.
Senses: examples: text: On arrival at Edinburgh Waverley, I fight my way through the throngs of tourists and locals turning the place into a human anthill.
ref: 2024 November 27, Paul Bigland, “Around the UK on nearly 80 trains...”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 48:
coordinate_terms: anthole
glosses: A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
antecedents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antecedent
multiple allelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of having three or more alleles, or distinctive forms of a gene.
demonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːməˈnɒlədʒi/
ipa: /ˌdiːməˈnɑːləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: demonologies
form: daemonology
form: daimonology
Etymology: From demono- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: But it wasn't all that strange, because any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Eric, page 27:
glosses: The study of demons, especially the incantations required to summon and control them.
Synonyms: demonlore
Derived terms: demonological
Related terms: demonologist
devil-lore
devillore
luderick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludericks
Etymology: A borrowing into English of the Australian aboriginal name for the fish. (Reference: Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, →ISBN.)
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Girella tricuspidata.
Synonyms: sense: the fish Girella tricuspidata
word: blackfish
sense: the fish Girella tricuspidata
word: darkie
sense: the fish Girella tricuspidata
word: nigger
sense: the fish Girella tricuspidata
word: rockperch
sense: the fish Girella tricuspidata
word: sweep
sergeant baker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeant bakers
Etymology: Probably named after Governor Phillip's orderly sergeant, William Baker. https://australianmuseum.net.au/Sergeant-Baker-Hime-purpurissatus-Richardson-1843/
Senses: glosses: The fish Latropiscis purpurissatus, of Australia.
chambered nautilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chambered nautiluses
form: chambered nautili
Senses: examples: text: He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 44:
glosses: A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers.
glosses: A nautilus of species Nautilus pompilius.
Synonyms: nautilus
yellowtail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail
Senses: glosses: Having a yellow tail.
raw_tags: in the names of certain organisms
yellowtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowtails
form: yellowtail
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail
Senses: glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
glosses: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
glosses: A European moth (Euproctis similis)
glosses: A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
glosses: A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
glosses: A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
Synonyms: sense: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: buri
sense: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: hamachi
sense: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: Japanese amberjack
Derived terms: taxonomic: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: yellowtail amberjack
taxonomic: Sphyraena flavicauda
word: yellowtail barracuda
taxonomic: Drymarchon corais corais
word: yellowtail cribo
taxonomic: Limanda ferruginea
alt: syn. Pleuronectes ferruginea
word: yellowtail flounder
taxonomic: Trachurus novaezelandiae
word: yellowtail horse mackerel
word: yellowtail reef fish
word: yellowtail scad
taxonomic: Ocyurus chrysurus
word: yellowtail snapper
simulcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.əlˌkæst/
Forms: form: simulcasts
Etymology: From simul(taneous) + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: glosses: A program or event that is broadcast across more than one medium or service at the same time.
simulcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.əlˌkæst/
Forms: form: simulcasts
form: simulcasting
form: simulcast
form: simulcast
form: simulcasted
form: simulcasted
Etymology: From simul(taneous) + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast a program or event across more than one medium or service at the same time.
ludicrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludicrousnesses
Etymology: From ludicrous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud.
ref: 1879, John McElroy, chapter 51, in Andersonville:
glosses: The state or quality of being ludicrous.
Synonyms: laughableness
ludicrity
ludicrosity
temperately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more temperately
form: most temperately
Etymology: From temperate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: In a thoughtfully measured or regulated manner, eschewing extremes.
advantageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advantageable
form: most advantageable
Etymology: From advantage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Any thing in or out of our demands,
And we'll consign thereto.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Providing an advantage; helpful to the advancement of a cause.
ambuscadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
...
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 1, scene 5:
glosses: plural of ambuscado, ambuscades, ambushes.
CFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Contract for Difference.
glosses: Initialism of congenital femoral deficiency.