cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
go the distance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the distance
form: going the distance
form: went the distance
form: gone the distance
Senses: examples: text: "In a way it's like the quality of muscle and heart that enables some prizefighters to go the distance—twenty, thirty, forty rounds, say," Dick concurred.
ref: 1915, Jack London, chapter 20, in The Little Lady of the Big House:
text: It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, even, cause I all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, seein' that bell ring and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
ref: 1976 November 21, Rocky, spoken by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone):
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds.
examples: text: "Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war? . . . I am sure they cannot keep it up."
"They won't go the distance," Julian whispered.
ref: 1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Devil's Paw:
text: “We are very pleased that we went the distance in this case, all the way through a jury trial, and that we were able to obtain such a tremendous recovery for shareholders.”
ref: 2013 October 18, Chad Bray, “HSBC to Appeal $2.46 Billion Judgment”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2014:
text: Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame.
That opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory.
ref: 2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering.
Related terms: go a long way
stay the course
push the limit
EIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EITs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Enhanced Interrogation Technique.
glosses: Initialism of Electrical Impedance Tomography.
Rumsen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rumsien
Senses: glosses: One of eight divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of northern California native to Monterey Bay Area.
Synonyms: San Carlos
Carmel
Carmeleno
Rumsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rumsien
Senses: glosses: The now-extinct language of this people, an Ohlone dialect in the Utian family.
Synonyms: San Carlos
Carmel
Carmeleno
Ohlone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈloʊni/
enpr: ōlōʹnē
Forms: form: Ohlones
form: Ohlone
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous population native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
Synonyms: word: Costanoan
word: Muwekma
Ohlone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈloʊni/
enpr: ōlōʹnē
Senses: glosses: The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Costanoan
Related terms: Awaswas
Chalon
Chochenyo
Karkin
Mutsun
Ramaytush
Rumsen
Tamyen
Costanoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Costanoans
Etymology: From Spanish Costeños (“coastal people”). The Spanish explorers and Missionaries to Northern California called the native people of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas the Costeños as early as 1769.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
Synonyms: word: Ohlone
word: Muwekma
Costanoan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Costeños (“coastal people”). The Spanish explorers and Missionaries to Northern California called the native people of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas the Costeños as early as 1769.
Senses: glosses: The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.
Synonyms: Ohlone
Related terms: Awaswas
Chalon
Chochenyo
Karkin
Mutsun
Ramaytush
Rumsen
Tamyen
Muwekma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Muwekma is the native people's word for "the people" in the dialects of Chochenyo and Tamyen.
Senses: glosses: Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
glosses: The northern Ohlone people, as well as other Native Americans who descended from Mission Indians resident at the Santa Clara, San Jose or San Francisco Missions.
Utian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a family of endangered indigenous languages spoken in central and northern California, United States.
ear-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear-shells
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ear shell.
ear-shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear-shell
ear shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear shells
form: ear-shell
Senses: glosses: An abalone or its shell.
ear shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear shell
weak-willed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weak-willed
form: most weak-willed
Etymology: Originated 1880–85.
Senses: glosses: easily swayed
glosses: irresolute, indecisive
shutdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutdowns
form: shut-down
Etymology: Deverbal from shut down.
Senses: examples: text: You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.
text: There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
text: In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's cuts "the most scrooge-like... in railway history".
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:
glosses: The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
examples: text: When he insulted me, my reply was such a shutdown that he left the room.
glosses: A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
examples: text: I retreated into myself and allowed myself to be swallowed into a typically autistic shutdown.
ref: 2018, Laura James, Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life, unnumbered page:
text: I may even reach the point where I have an autistic shutdown, which means I'll be unable to communicate, interact or socialize.
ref: 2020, Siena Castellon, The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic, page 34:
text: Their [autistic girls'] distress could come out in all sorts of ways and result in meltdown or shutdown.
ref: 2021, Carly Jones, Safeguarding Autistic Girls: Strategies for Professionals, pages 61–62:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: autism
glosses: An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive ploy that prevents the opposing players from attacking.
examples: text: Fashion week and it's shutdown / Went to the show, sitting in the front row / In a black tracksuit and it's shutdown
ref: 2015, “Shutdown”, performed by Skepta:
glosses: A big success; a hyped atmosphere.
Synonyms: sense: act of stopping operations
word: shuttering
Coordinate terms: word: shutoff
Derived terms: government shutdown
Related terms: shutoff
shutout
closedown
shutdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The employment rate was so far behind, there were many company shutdowns.
glosses: plural of shutdown
dadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dado
dadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dado
brandishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brandish
brandished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brandish
scampers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scamper
scampering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scamper
scampering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scamperings
Senses: glosses: A quick, light running motion.
scampered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scamper
scampered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Constantine pushed him through mid-off for a quickly scampered single.
ref: 2001, James Riordan, The Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories:
text: The second ball was pushed to mid-off for a scampered single.
ref: 2006, Roland Perry, The Ashes: A Celebration:
glosses: Achieved by a scampering motion.
transmogrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transmogrify
transmogrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transmogrify
Jonny-come-lately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Johnny-come-lately.
derails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derail
derailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derail
derailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derailings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is derailed.
derailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Sparks from the derailed bogie of the train were first noticed by the signalman at Slough West box, who immediately sent to Slough Middle box the "Stop and Examine" signal, followed at once by "Obstruction Danger" when he realised that the coach was derailed.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
glosses: simple past and past participle of derail
placates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of placate
placating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of placate
placated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of placate
placater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placaters
Etymology: From placate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who placates.
placaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placater
shutterbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shutterbug
alto-relievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alto-relievos
form: alto-rilievo
Etymology: From Italian altorilievo (“high relief”).
Senses: examples: text: Nobody is in the great pew of the Clavering family, except the statues of defunct baronets and their ladies: there is Sir Poyntz Clavering, Knight and Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task—and so forth.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: high relief
antonyms: basso-relievo
basso-rilievo
bas-relief
low relief
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A form of sculpture in which carved figures or other objects protrude from the background.
arrivederci
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌɹiːvəˈdɛətʃi/
Etymology: From Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).
Senses: glosses: farewell, goodbye, see you later (non-definitive farewell)
raw_tags: in the context of Italy or Italian culture
Synonyms: goodbye
Coordinate terms: ciao
arrivederci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌɹiːvəˈdɛətʃi/
Forms: form: arrivedercis
Etymology: From Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).
Senses: examples: text: We said our arrivedercis to the people in the town the night before, as we made our rounds to about eight or ten homes and said goodbye to about thirty or forty “cousins.”
ref: 2016, Vincent Spoto, Multiple Sclerosis... Why Not Me?, page 7:
glosses: An Italian farewell by saying "arrivederci".
high relief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high reliefs
Senses: synonyms: alto-relievo
antonyms: low relief
bas-relief
basso-relievo
basso-rilievo
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A form of classical sculpture in which forms extend from the background by at least half of their depth.
quenelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: quenelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French quenelle, from German Knödel. Doublet of knaidel.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A light dumpling made of lightly spiced minced meat or fish bound with egg and poached.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An elliptical shape moulded by chefs from soft foods using two spoons.
glosses: A gesture which is usually performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the opposite hand, in a manner similar to an inverted Nazi salute.
quenelle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: quenelles
form: quenelling
form: quenelled
form: quenelled
Etymology: Borrowed from French quenelle, from German Knödel. Doublet of knaidel.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To form a quenelle.
interdisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interdisciplinary
form: most interdisciplinary
Etymology: From inter- + disciplinary.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
text: This journal is interdisciplinary: it has articles on everything from biology to electrical engineering.
coordinate_terms: crossfunctional
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
examples: text: The interdisciplinary co-operation at this university is very impressive.
text: This was a very generous way of describing the swarm of cables, kit-bashed thaumatic cores, Noogenic foci and para-technological inverters, all surrounded by an astoundingly complex cognitohazardous sigil and multiple ontological anchors. This, simultaneously, simplified the interdisciplinary effort that had swelled in a miniscule amount of time, and undercut the sheer conceptual impact this could leave in all of their respective fields.
ref: 2025 February 4, Queerious, “Don't Let Them Forget”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a linkage between multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
Derived terms: interdisciplinarily
interdisciplinarity
noninterdisciplinary
cloud-burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud-bursts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloudburst.
recursivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recursivities
Etymology: From recursive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recursive.
Synonyms: recursiveness
Related terms: recursive
recursion
recursivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recursivity
rilievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rilievos
form: rilievi
Etymology: From Italian rilievo. Doublet of relief.
Senses: examples: text: One of the rilievos on the outer wall of the church seems to belong to an early period of the Longobard dominion in Italy, when that nation was still Arian: […]
ref: 1840, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume ?, page ?:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A relief.
Related terms: alto-rilievo
basso-rilievo
cavo-rilievo
demi-rilievo
in rilievo
mezzo-rilievo
joypad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joypads
Etymology: From joy + pad, modelled on earlier joystick.
Senses: examples: text: I heard it through Michael's window, I dropped the joypad on his floor.
ref: 2000, Rebbecca Ray, Pure, page 362:
text: If you enjoy playing arcade-style games on your PC, you may have found that they benefit immensely from a joypad.
ref: 2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 146:
text: Joypads, as they are used in the gaming idustry, have the great advantage that they are designed to be used without looking at them (relief buttons, hand ergonomics).
ref: 2006, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss, editor, Advanced Man-Machine Interaction, page 361:
topics: video-games
glosses: A type of game controller held in the hands, where the digits (especially thumbs) are used to provide input.
Synonyms: gamepad
Hypernyms: pad
Related terms: joystick
swansdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swansdowns
form: swan's-down
form: swan's down
Senses: examples: text: Oh, to be free of Princes' at one-thirty, of being the tiny kitten in the swansdown basket, of being the Arabian, and the grave, delighted child and the little wild creature. . . .
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 266–267:
glosses: The down of a swan.
glosses: A soft woolen fabric; flannelette.
swan's-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swansdown.
swan's down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swansdown.
swayback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swaybacks
Etymology: From sway + back.
Senses: glosses: An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
glosses: An animal with such excessive sagging.
Derived terms: swaybacked
sweatband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweatbands
Etymology: From sweat + band.
Senses: glosses: A band of fabric, inside the crown of a hat, designed to absorb perspiration.
glosses: A band of fabric worn around the wrist or head during sports to absorb perspiration.
assesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assess
assessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assess
sweatpants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtˌpænts/
Etymology: From sweat + pants.
Senses: synonyms: word: jogging pants
word: sweat trousers
word: trackie bottoms
word: track pants
word: tracksuit bottoms
word: jogging bottoms
word: trackie daks
word: trackies
raw_tags: for the whole tracksuit
word: joggers
glosses: Informal cotton trousers, with an elasticated or drawstring waist, used for exercise etc.
sweepstake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswipˌsteɪk/
Forms: form: sweepstakes
form: swoopstake
Etymology: From sweep + stake.
Senses: glosses: A lottery in which the prize or prizes constitute all the money paid by the participants.
glosses: A prize draw.
Derived terms: veepstakes
sweepstakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswipˌsteɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of sweepstake
sweepstakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswipˌsteɪks/
Forms: form: sweepstakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sweepstake.
synonyms: word: sweepstake
sweetmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswiːtmiːt/
Forms: form: sweetmeats
form: sweatmeat
Etymology: From sweet + meat (“food”).
Senses: examples: text: At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:
glosses: A sweet delicacy; a confection.
examples: text: “Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered.
ref: 2010, Scott Nicholson, The Gorge:
glosses: Sweetheart; darling.
sweet-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweet-talks
form: sweet-talking
form: sweet-talked
form: sweet-talked
form: sweettalk
form: sweet talk
Senses: examples: text: His grin faded a little. "How'd you do it? Sweet-talk one of the guards into letting you in at the head of the line?"
ref: 1954 November, Mari Wolf, “The Very Secret Agent”, in If:
text: “Oh, that he finagled. No fate involved. He saw you in the waiting area and sweet-talked the woman behind the counter to sit the two of you together.”
ref: 2021, Piper Davenport, The Bride Pursued, Sweet edition, Trixie Publishing, Inc.:
synonyms: butter up
coax
canoodle
inveigle
wheedle
palaver
cajole
glosses: To influence or urge by gentle caressing or flattering.
sweet-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet-talks
form: sweettalk
form: sweet talk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweet talk.
Related terms: smooth talk
swellhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swellheads
Etymology: From swell + head.
Senses: glosses: An arrogant or conceited person.
sweptback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweptback
form: most sweptback
form: swept-back
Etymology: From swept + back.
Senses: glosses: Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.
raw_tags: of an aircraft wing
glosses: Backswept.
raw_tags: of a hairstyle
manning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of man
Related terms: single-manning
swirly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swirlier
form: swirliest
Etymology: From swirl + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having swirls; swirling.
swirly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swirlies
Etymology: From swirl + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swirlie.
switcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchers
Etymology: From switch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They all love frugality and conservation; they are manic savers of bits of string and switchers-off of lights.
ref: 1984, John Martin Robinson, The latest country houses, page 32:
glosses: One who or that which operates a switch.
examples: text: career switcher
text: Switch to Acme brand razors for a closer shave! For a limited time, we'll pay you to be a switcher!
text: As a career switcher, I diligently attended all the company presentations on campus, and quickly settled on sales and trading. My prior position was in hospital sales.
ref: 2004, Gabriel Kim, Vault Career Guide to Sales & Trading, page 109:
text: In short, the task switcher gives you a way to jump directly to another app, without a layover at the Home screen first.
ref: 2011, David Pogue, iPhone: The Missing Manual, page 14:
glosses: One who or that which switches, that is, changes in some way.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A switchmode power supply.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: shunter
word: shunting engine
word: ;
word: switch engine
glosses: A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: hostler
word: yard jockey
word: shunter
word: switchman
qualifier: trucking
glosses: The yardman who operates such an engine, or performs a similar role in a trucking depot.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Synonym of vision mixer (“device for selecting between video sources”).
synonyms: word: vision mixer
extra: device for selecting between video sources
Derived terms: code-switcher
road switcher
bus duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus ducts
Senses: glosses: A collection of busbars, in an enclosed unit, that distributes large amounts of electrical power
cable tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable trays
Senses: glosses: A rigid structure to support electric cables; a type of raceway, normally having the appearance of a ladder and open at the top to facilitate changes.
cold work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several plastic deformations of metal (or other material) at relatively low temperatures.
Related terms: cold working
cold work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold works
form: cold working
form: cold worked
form: cold worked
Senses: glosses: to work metal under its recrystallization temperature
Related terms: cold forming
hot work
cross talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crosstalk.
İstanbul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish İstanbul.
Senses: examples: text: The innovation first was employed in the Ottoman Empire at İstanbul, at the pious foundations around Mahmud Pasha, where a silkmakers’ guild (sandalcı esnafı) had enjoyed a monopoly for some years.[…]Under pressure, the state then allowed stone-finishing at Bursa and Diyarbakır, permission it quickly revoked when the İstanbul industry applied counter-pressure.[…]So the state broke the İstanbul guild’s monopoly and permitted silkmakers elsewhere to use stone finishing.[…]This profoundly changed the relationship between silkmakers in Bursa and İstanbul. The Bursa guild previously had sent its (Duke Zashurus/Jashuru?) fabric to the İstanbul group for finishing but ceased to do so with the opening of the stone-finishing installations at Bursa. There, the Bursa cloth makers were able to produce a better cloth and undersell their İstanbul competitors who had been accustomed to selling at monopoly prices. Bursa makers, for example, offered vermilion cloth for 10 percent less than the İstanbul cloth.
ref: 1993, Donald Quataert, Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Arriving in İSTANBUL can come as a shock.[…]Yet this is merely one aspect of modern İstanbul; only a couple of kilometres to the north you’ll find the former European quarter of Beyoğlu, with its trendy bars and cutting-edge dance clubs, while north again are the pavement cafés and restaurants of Ortaköy and a series of swish Bosphorus suburbs. / İstanbul is the only city in the world to have played capital to consecutive Christian and Islamic empires, and retains features of both.
ref: 2004, The Rough Guide to Europe, Rough Guides, “Turkey”, “İstanbul”, page 953:
text: In Chapter 7, Murat Kaya and Çağrı Haksöz present the case of a Turkish 3PL firm based in İstanbul, Turkey.[…]The travel time from İstanbul to Central Asia was 9–10 months.[…]The duration of caravan travel from Qazvin to İstanbul/İzmir was 110 days, from Qazvin to Aleppo 110 days, from Qazvin to Archangel 105–135 days, and from Isfahan to Aleppo 70 days (Matthee, 1999).
ref: 2012, Çağrı Haksöz, Sridhar Seshadri, Ananth V. Iyer, Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk, CRC Press, →ISBN, page xv, 18:
glosses: Rare spelling of Istanbul.
affresco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affrescos
form: affrescoes
Etymology: From Italian affresco.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fresco (“type of artwork”).
taco salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taco salads
Senses: glosses: The normal filling of a taco served, as a salad, with lettuce etc and either with tortilla chips or in a bowl made from tortilla.
tall poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall poppies
Etymology: A metaphor of something conspicuous that should be lopped. First use appears c. 1710.
Senses: examples: text: 1999 June 1, Polly Schneider, Australia Unbound, CIO, page 43,
Like many thriving, young Australian execs, Simpson has to be wary of being construed a “tall poppy,” a cultural label placed on people who flaunt their success, based on the idea that a poppy taller than the others gets chopped down.
text: Others have emphasised how it standardised and enforced social mores, cutting down ‘tall poppies’ and shirking those whose race, political beliefs, aspirations – or sexual proclivities – did not or could not bow to peer pressure.
ref: 2003, Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality, page 240:
text: This is not so say that any of the health professionals whom the women encountered were bullies or would have been considered by colleagues as bullies; however, they do appear to have been the agents of a bullying maternity service that disliked clients who were tall poppies and was determined to cut them down to size.
ref: 2010, Mary Nolan, Home Birth: The Politics of Difficult Choices, page 46:
glosses: A conspicuously successful person, especially one who attracts envious hostility.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tall, poppy.
Derived terms: cut down the tall poppy
tall poppy syndrome
tall poppy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall-poppy syndrome
Etymology: From tall poppy + syndrome.
Senses: examples: text: One of Australia′s healthiest national traits is the Tall Poppy Syndrome, which involves taking a sceptical view of people who are rich, powerful or successful, and cutting them down to size when they appear pretentious.
ref: 1997, David Dale, The 100 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Australia, page 52:
text: Interestingly, the media in the United States are least prone to the tall poppy syndrome, which is one of the many things I admire about America.
ref: 2006, Greg Norman, The Way of the Shark, page 83:
text: For Allan Scott, one of the ironies of owning a media outlet or being a business success is he becomes a target for other media, a potential victim of the tall poppy syndrome.
ref: 2007, Graham Greenwood, A Truckie′s Dream: The Allan Scott Story: His Official Biography, Australia: Wakefield Press, page 86:
text: The extracts coded as indicative of the tall poppy syndrome reflect the deeply rooted nature of this phenomenon, identified by Feather (1994a) and other researchers. The syndrome is often moderated by other Australian characteristics, and reinforces the enigma of Australian leadership.
ref: 2007, Neal M. Ashkanasy, “9: The Australian Enigma”, in Jagdeep Singh Chhokar, Robert J. House, Felix C. Brodbeck, editors, Culture and Leadership, Across the World, page 316:
text: Speaking of bullying, a few years later in Society and Culture class I wrote an essay, agreeing with the statement that the tall poppy syndrome was alive and well in Australia.
ref: 2008, Kristie Theobald, Irish Angels, Lulu, page 97:
glosses: The tendency to disparage conspicuously successful people.
Related terms: crab mentality
triple witching hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple witching hours
Senses: glosses: The final hour of trading during which three types of derivatives contracts expire.
informaticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informaticists
Etymology: From informatic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person practicing the science of informatics.
glosses: A person applying the tools of information theory to a specific discipline.
techno-erotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: technoerotic
Etymology: From techno- + erotic.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, no reader, no matter how literal-minded, could be innocent of the gendered erotic trope that figures the hero’s probing nature’s laminated secrets, glorying simultaneously in the layered complexity and in his own techno-erotic touch that never goes deeper.
ref: 1993 July, Linda S. Kauffman, editor, American Feminist Thought: At Century's End, Blackwell Publishing, page 201:
text: Its raison d’être is the technoerotic celebration of a reality to be found on the far side of a computer screen and in the “neural nets” of a “liberated,” disembodied, computerized yet sensate consciousness.
ref: 1994, Mark Dery, Flame Wars: the discourse of cyberculture, page 19:
text: I argue that the newer electronic technologies have inspired changes in techno-erotic imagery in some popular-culture texts but that other texts recycle techno-erotic conventions derived from Western society’s industrial past
ref: 1996, Claudia Springer, Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, University of Texas Press, page 8:
glosses: Regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.
Universal Serial Bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USB
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An international standard for interconnecting personal computer devices using simple plugs and sockets and lightweight cables.
crime against humanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimes against humanity
Senses: examples: text: The Holocaust was a terrible crime against humanity; it took the lives of 6 million Jews, 2 million Poles, and hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, and the elderly and disabled.
text: Be faithful to your friend that doth entrust you; remembring that perfidiousness or falseness to a friend, is a crime against humanity, and all society.
ref: 1629, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory, IV.25:
text: Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.
ref: 1929, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man:
text: A Spanish judge has charged five suspected former leaders of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA with crimes against humanity for attacks carried out by the group after 2004 which killed 12 people.
ref: 2015 October 27, The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.
examples: text: “Pineapple on pizza is a crime against humanity,” Leo's voice is flat. Which is weird, because he usually adds “Fight me” at the end of that declaration.
ref: 2021 July 13, Sara Fujimura, Faking Reality, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
glosses: Something objectionable.
Related terms: genocide
war crime
work-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the relationship between one's work life and personal life.
Derived terms: work-life balance
Related terms: work life
lenticular image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticular images
Senses: examples: text: Cracker Jack prizes and CD covers often have lenticular images on them.
synonyms: lenticular
winkie
flip image
flicker picture
wiggle picture
turning picture
perspective picture
anamorphic picture
double portrait
tabula scalata
glosses: A picture made using lenticular printing where different images appear from different viewing angles.
work-life balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)k ˈlaɪf ˈbæləns/
Forms: form: work-life balances
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: WLB
qualifier: labour
glosses: The effective management and equilibrium between the demands of one's work or professional responsibilities and one's personal life.
Derived terms: study-leisure balance
study-life balance
workplace nursery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workplace nurseries
Senses: glosses: A crèche/day nursery provided by an employer on their premises for the care of employees' children.
sheatfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheatfishes
form: sheatfish
form: sheat-fish
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete sheathfish.
Senses: glosses: A wels catfish (Silurus glanis), the largest freshwater fish in Europe.
glosses: Any catfish of genus Silurus.
glosses: Any of the species in family Siluridae, including:
Wallago species, found in the Danube and other Eastern European rivers
glosses: Any of the species in family Siluridae, including:
Micronema species
glosses: Any of the species in family Siluridae, including:
Phalacronotus species
Synonyms: sheat
characin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characins
Senses: glosses: Any of many diverse fish, of the order Characiformes, related to the carp and catfish and including the tetra, which were formerly all included in the family Characidae.
Derived terms: pike characin
outbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹbŏks
ipa: /ˈaʊtbɒks/
enpr: out-bŏksʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈbɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
enpr: outʹbäks
ipa: /ˈaʊtbɑks/
enpr: out-bäksʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈbɑks/
Forms: form: outboxes
Etymology: From out + box.
Senses: examples: text: Rabin tossed the orders in his outbox, dipped the brush back in the small bottle, and continued to apply more solvent […]
ref: 2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, page 226:
glosses: A box holding papers to be transmitted to others, usually by mail.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An electronic folder serving the same purpose, for electronic mail.
Related terms: inbox
outbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹbŏks
ipa: /ˈaʊtbɒks/
enpr: out-bŏksʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈbɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
enpr: outʹbäks
ipa: /ˈaʊtbɑks/
enpr: out-bäksʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈbɑks/
Forms: form: outboxes
form: outboxing
form: outboxed
form: outboxed
Etymology: From out- + box.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To box better than.
inbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnbɒks/
ipa: /ˈɪmbɒks/
ipa: /ˈɪnbɑks/
ipa: /ˈɪmbɑks/
Forms: form: inboxes
form: in-box
Etymology: From in + box.
Senses: synonyms: in-basket
in-tray
antonyms: outbox
glosses: A container in which papers to be dealt with are put.
examples: text: Your goal with the remaining emails is to take care of them and remove them from your inbox as soon as possible.
ref: 2014, Bonnie Hillman Shay, Take Charge of Your Email Inbox, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An electronic folder serving the same purpose, but for electronic files, especially email.
examples: text: The kids, my ex, my parents, the job, bills — my inbox is full.
glosses: The aggregate of items that demand one's attention or effort.
Related terms: mailbox
agenda
to-do list
inbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnbɒks/
ipa: /ˈɪmbɒks/
ipa: /ˈɪnbɑks/
ipa: /ˈɪmbɑks/
Forms: form: inboxes
form: inboxing
form: inboxed
form: inboxed
form: in-box
Etymology: From in + box.
Senses: examples: text: I just inboxed you the presentation.
glosses: To put (something) in someone's inbox.
examples: text: And now, social media has made it worse. From Facebook to Twitter, I get all kinds of invitations. Recently a sister inboxed me on Facebook and told me that she knew for a fact that I wanted her and she wanted me.
ref: 2014, J. L. King, Full Circle: Loving. Living. Life. After The Down Low:
glosses: To communicate with (a person) by writing to their electronic inbox.
Synonyms: message
Related terms: inbox zero
outbox
USB adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USB adapters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various network or communications controllers that plug into a USB port of a personal computer.
peppery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛpəɹi/
Forms: form: pepperier
form: pepperiest
Etymology: From pepper + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
examples: text: a peppery old Army major
text: At the Stag and Antlers old Mrs. Crocket, than whom no old woman in the public line was ever more generous, more peppery, or more kind, kept two clean bedrooms, and could cook a leg of Dartmoor mutton and make an apple pie against any woman in Devonshire.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:
text: For I'm a peppery potentate, / Who's little inclined his claim to bate, / To fit the wit of a bit of a chit, / And that's the long and short of it!
ref: 1884, Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida:
text: "If Lord John Roxton would condescend----" "My dear George, don't be so peppery," said his wife, with her hand on the black mane that drooped over the microscope.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a fiery temperament.
Derived terms: pepperily
pepperiness
unpeppery
midfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪd.fiːld/
Forms: form: midfields
Etymology: From mid- + field.
Senses: examples: text: England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The portion of a team which typically plays centrally, between the attack (or forwards) and the defence (or backs).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The middle of the field of play.
Derived terms: midfield anchor
Related terms: midfielder
USB port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USB ports
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A socket on a personal computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged.
sharecroppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharecropper
bullring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullrings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bull ring (“area where a bullfight takes place”).
candlelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dl̩ˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: candlelights
form: candle light
form: candle-light
Etymology: From Middle English candel lyght, candyllyght, candyll-lyȝht, candel liȝt, candle lyȝt, candeliȝt, candel-liht, from Old English candel lēoht (“candlelight”), equivalent to candle + light.
Senses: examples: text: I looked across the table into her shining eyes, which were golden in the candlelight, with my fingers round the stem of my own glass, ready for the toast.
ref: 1912, Cecil Barber, “Standchen”, in The Living Age, volume 275, page 426:
text: Cradled in the arms of Night, the gleam of moon and candlelight bring images alive from days gone by.
ref: 2013, Will Moody, Candlelight Reflections, page 65:
text: Using survey data gathered from social media users who participated in the candlelight vigils, he explores the prevalence of social media use during the protests, how it differs in terms of individual-level demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, […]
ref: 2021, JongHwa Lee, Chuyun Oh, Yong-Chan Kim, The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea, page 1969:
glosses: The light emitted by a candle.
examples: text: Morning dress is that which is worn during business hours or at any time in any place, where semiformal dress is not required until candlelight or seven o'clock in the evening .
ref: 1896, Walter Germain, The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men, page 10:
text: The attack finally ceased Monday morning, but "soon after candlelight, came on a most terrible bombardment and cannonade, on both sides, as if heaven and earth were engaged."
ref: 2005, Jacqueline Barbara Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800, page 35:
text: As Marie glances at the window, she sees that the day has gone; it is almost candlelight.
ref: 2017, Elaine Stienon, Children of a Northern Kingdom:
glosses: The evening, when darkness falls and it is time to light candles.
Derived terms: candlelight dinner
candlelight vigil
Related terms: candlelit
dairymaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairymaids
Etymology: From dairy + maid.
Senses: examples: text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: dairywoman
dey
milkmaid
hypernyms: dairyer
dairy farmer
coordinate_terms: dairyman
glosses: A woman who works in a dairy.
bullshitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullshitters
Etymology: From bullshit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the liar is at least mindful of the truth (if only to avoid it), the “bullshitter,” Professor Frankfurt wrote, is distinguished by his complete indifference to how things are.
ref: 2023 July 17, James Ryerson, quoting Harry Frankfurt, “Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
coordinate_terms: bullshittee
glosses: Someone who lies or exaggerates a lot, especially in order to preserve or enhance their reputation.
Related terms: bullshit
bullcrapper
men-of-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-of-war
shippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipper
shipyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipyard
shinguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinguard
shillelaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shillelagh
survivalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survivalist
pitfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitfall
quenelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quenelle
evangelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evangelically
form: most evangelically
Etymology: From evangelical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an evangelical manner.
glosses: Concerning evangelism.
evasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evasivenesses
Etymology: From evasive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being evasive.
Derived terms: immunoevasiveness