cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɔː/
rhymes: -aʊtlɔː
ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɔ/
ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈæɔt.loː/
Forms: form: outlaws
form: outlawing
form: outlawed
form: outlawed
Etymology: From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- + law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).
Senses: glosses: To declare illegal.
examples: text: The legal change in England and Wales will outlaw selling, manufacturing, renting or importing zombie knives.
ref: 2016 August 15, “'Zombie knives' ban to come into force”, in BBC News:
text: And outlawing these AR-15s would not require confiscating them from people who already have them. Once you’ve made these weapons illegal, anyone found with one would be subject to arrest, since possession of these weapons would be a crime. I think it’s likely that you would see a lot of people opting to turn them in.
ref: 2022 June 5, Michael Fanone, “Opinion: Here’s the reason people tell me they want to buy an AR-15. And it’s simply ludicrous”, in CNN:
glosses: To place a ban upon.
examples: text: Eirik and his people were outlawed at Thorsnes Thing.
ref: 1880, John Sephton, transl., The Saga of Erik the Red:
text: AB has now gone beyond her original stance against gays as teachers and is now advocating a federal law to outlaw gays, a law which would override state law in the 19 states which have consenting adults sex laws.
ref: 1978 February 11, Donald Cameron Scot, “Controversy and Boycott Must Continue”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 31, page 5:
glosses: To make or declare (a person) an outlaw.
examples: text: to outlaw a debt or claim
glosses: To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
examples: text: our English common law was outlawed in those parts.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of legal force.
Related terms: criminalize
felonize
misdemeanorize
sign language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign languages
Senses: examples: text: It is safe to say that the academic world is now convinced that sign languages are real languages in every sense of the term.
ref: 2000, Wendy Sandler, Diane Lillo-Martin, edited by Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller, The Handbook of Linguistics:
glosses: One of several natural languages, typically used by the deaf, in which words consist of hand shapes, motions, positions, and facial expressions.
examples: text: I'm taking night classes to learn sign language.
glosses: The sign language (sense 1) that is used locally or that is mistakenly believed to be the only one.
examples: text: There are some unique properties found in sign language compared to spoken language.
glosses: Sign languages (sense 1) considered collectively.
examples: text: Even Maxwell the trader, who has been most among them, is compelled to resort to the curious sign language common to most of the prairie tribes.
ref: 1847, Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail:
glosses: Communication through gestures as a substitute for language, for example, between monks under a vow of silence or during trade amongst different linguistic groups.
Derived terms: American Sign Language
ASL
Argentine Sign Language
Australian Sign Language
Auslan
Bolivian Sign Language
Brazilian Sign Language
LIBRAS
British Sign Language
BSL
Catalan Sign Language
Cuban Sign Language
German Sign Language
DGS
International Sign
IS
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Norwegian Sign Language
NSL
Spanish Sign Language
tactile sign language
village sign language
Related terms: sign
chirologist
gullible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more gullible
form: most gullible
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.
Senses: examples: text: Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.
synonyms: fleeceable
green
naif
naive
glosses: Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
Synonyms: word: gullible
word: credulous
word: green
word: naive
word: fleeceable
word: naif
word: born yesterday
word: fresh off the boat
word: wide-eyed
Hypernyms: word: foolish
Derived terms: gullibility
gullibleness
gullibly
nongullible
gullible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/
Forms: form: gullibles
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.
Senses: examples: text: They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
ref: 1991, Guy Endore, Babouk: Voices of Resistance, page 70:
text: Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.
ref: 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.
loadstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loadstones
Senses: examples: text: [M]agnetic action […] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
ref: 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
glosses: Alternative form of lodestone.
decrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɹəmənt/
Forms: form: decrements
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decrementum.
Senses: glosses: A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.
examples: text: He concluded that in normal group situations, production increased constantly, and reports of "boredness" and tiredness showed constant decrement.
ref: 1940, Contributions to Education, volume 788, page 30:
glosses: The subtraction itself; decrease.
Synonyms: word: cut
word: decrement
word: deduction
word: dip
word: drop
word: extract
word: extraction
word: fall
word: lowering
word: reduction
word: shrinkage
Hypernyms: word: quantity
Hyponyms: word: discount
word: loss
word: rebate
word: trash
word: clip
word: clipping
word: offcut
word: snippet
word: excerpt
word: passage
Derived terms: autodecrement
decremental
decrementation
decrementer
decrementless
electrodecrement
in decrement
in one's decrement
logarithmic decrement
post-decrement
pre-decrement
Related terms: word: diminution
decrement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɹəmənt/
Forms: form: decrements
form: decrementing
form: decremented
form: decremented
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decrementum.
Senses: glosses: To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit.
Derived terms: decrementable
undecremented
dressing gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ ɡaʊn/
Forms: form: dressing gowns
form: dressing-gown
Etymology: From dressing + gown.
Senses: examples: text: After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 138:
text: I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the headmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.
Synonyms: bathrobe
Derived terms: dressing-gowned
broadseam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadseams
Etymology: broad + seam
Senses: glosses: A seam in a sail in which the edges of neighbouring panels are cut in a curve, such that the resulting sail is concave instead of flat.
figurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more figurative
form: most figurative
Etymology: From Middle French figuratif.
Senses: examples: text: The lovers she seems to pursue with her figurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables.
ref: 2005 May 1, “The Sea of Love”, in New York Times:
text: It is important to emphasize that Kafka as an autistic person was not always consciously aware his interpretations and writings were literal, thus the line between literal and figurative were not consciously clear for Kafka. This blurring stems from the specific focus of autistic persons who look at external predictable behavior of people and situations rather than at internal mental states of individuals. Kafka wrote from his autistic perspective in which the literal form is a default state of understanding the external world. For Kafka to move beyond the literal is not only to express that which cannot be said literally, but to express that which is not literal. The figurative is not simply not the literal, it is more than the literal. It is beyond the literal. The gap between the literal and the figurative, across which the reader is compelled by language to traverse, is for Kafka also the space which language cannot adequately express. The use of parable by Kafka marks his most concentrated effort to examine the space between language and that which is beyond language.
ref: 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:
glosses: Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.
glosses: Metaphorically so called.
glosses: With many figures of speech.
examples: text: This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
examples: 1875-1886, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy
They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
Derived terms: figuratively
figurativeness
nonfigurative
semifigurative
unfigurative
Related terms: figure
transferred sense
rendition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: renditions
Etymology: From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.
Senses: examples: text: The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
ref: 2011 April 12, Paul Lester, The Guardian:
text: Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.
ref: 2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
glosses: A given visual reproduction of something.
glosses: Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
topics: law
glosses: Formal deliverance of a verdict.
examples: text: Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.
ref: 2011 March 30, Ian Cobain, The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.
glosses: The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
glosses: The handing over of a person or thing.
Hyponyms: extraordinary rendition
Derived terms: loan rendition
Related terms: render
extradition
rendition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: renditions
form: renditioning
form: renditioned
form: renditioned
Etymology: From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.
Senses: examples: text: Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.
ref: 2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
roommate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: roommates
Etymology: From room + -mate.
Senses: glosses: A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
examples: text: I live with Marsha. We’re roommates.
ref: 2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 18 Sep 2017:
synonyms: word: sharemate
hyponyms: flatmate
housemate
glosses: A person sharing the same home albeit not the same room (but generally not a family member or spouse).
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A same-sex significant other with whom one lives; a coinhabitant in a non-heterosexual relationship.
Synonyms: word: roomie
word: flatmate
word: housemate
Derived terms: roommatehood
Related terms: room and board
boarder
conference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnf(ə)ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈkɑnf(ə)ɹəns/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹəns]
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹn̩s]
Forms: form: conferences
form: conferencing
form: conferenced
form: conferenced
Etymology: From Middle French conférence, from Medieval Latin cōnferentia, from Latin cōnferēns, several steps omitting from con- + ferō.
Compare parallel Russian собра́ние (sobránije), Russian сбо́рище (sbórišče), akin to с- (s-), со- (so-) + брать (bratʹ), ultimately from the same Indo-European prefix and root. Also compare congress, convention.
Senses: examples: text: The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom:
topics: education
glosses: To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
fashion police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An imaginary police force that ensures that people dress according to fashion.
Related terms: fashion victim
interim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəɹɪm/
Etymology: From Latin interim (“meanwhile”).
Senses: examples: text: Iraq's government is interim.
text: In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
ref: 1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:
glosses: Transitional.
examples: text: You are interim manager until he returns from hospital.
text: Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: provisional
word: caretaker
glosses: Temporary.
interim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəɹɪm/
Forms: form: interims
Etymology: From Latin interim (“meanwhile”).
Senses: examples: text: His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the interim.
synonyms: between-time
glosses: A transitional or temporary period between other events.
Synonyms: word: between-time
word: gap
word: interim
word: interlapse
word: lapse
word: meantime
word: meanwhile
Hypernyms: word: period
Hyponyms: word: window
Derived terms: interim government
Interimist
interimistic
interimly
interim order
in the interim
noninterim
winterim
Related terms: word: ad interim
word: interspace
spasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæz.m̩/
rhymes: -æzəm
Forms: form: spasms
Etymology: From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
Senses: examples: text: Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.
glosses: A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
glosses: A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
examples: text: He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
text: Both Spear & Davis were indicted in the witchhunt surrounding the sensational (if nonexistent) "Revere sex ring." Both men have said they have been police targets since at least 1975, following the anti-gay spasm which ensued after Dick Bavely's suicide.
ref: 1981 April 11, Mitzel, “Kopacz Acquitted In Barbre Killing”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
Derived terms: angiospasm
arteriospasm
blepharospasm
bronchospasm
cadaveric spasm
cardiospasm
cheirospasm
colpospasm
cystospasm
dactylospasm
enterospasm
esophagospasm
gastrospasm
geniospasm
graphospasm
hemispasm
laryngospasm
myospasm
neurospasm
ophthalmospasm
pharyngospasm
phrenospasm
pylorospasm
spasm band
spasmic
spasmogen
spasmogenic
spasmoid
spasmology
spasmolysis
spasmophilia
spasm war
vasospasm
xyrospasm
Related terms: spasmodic
spastic
spasm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæz.m̩/
rhymes: -æzəm
Forms: form: spasms
form: spasming
form: spasmed
form: spasmed
Etymology: From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
Senses: glosses: To produce and undergo a spasm or series of spasms.
re-use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē'yo͞os"
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌjuːs/
Forms: form: re-uses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reuse.
re-use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē'yo͞os"
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌjuːs/
Forms: form: re-uses
form: re-using
form: re-used
form: re-used
Senses: examples: text: The statue was never traced, nor the culprits tracked down. The original moulds were re-used to cast an identical replica, which was installed in 2013 and is thankfully (at the time of writing) still there.
ref: 2020 November 4, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Neyland (November 2010)”, in Rail, page 27:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reuse.
Derived terms: re-user
tipster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipsters
Etymology: * From tip (etymology 5) + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A person who provides tips or advice to others, for example on the form of racehorses or the stock market.
examples: text: Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.
ref: 1987 June, CRASH, number 41:
text: Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.
ref: 1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42:
text: Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).
ref: 1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.
paraenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈɹiːnɪsɪs/
Forms: form: paraeneses
form: parænesis
form: parainesis
form: parenesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραίνεσις (paraínesis, “exhortation, advice”).
Senses: glosses: Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
glosses: A warning of impending evil.
pomodoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomodoros
form: pomodori
Etymology: From Italian pomodoro (“tomato”). The time interval comes from the Pomodoro kitchen timer, which is in the shape of a tomato.
Senses: examples: text: Then she saw her first can of pomodoros, pear-shaped tomatoes grown and packed in Italy. She took a can home, and she was sure that pomodoros had more tang than our native tomatoes.
ref: 1956, Pulpit Digest - Volume 36, page 13:
text: Ingredients: Garlic cloves, crushed 2 or 3/White bread, broken in pieces 6 slices/Water 2 cups/Spanish olive oil 1 cup/Salt 1 tbsp./Tomatoes, fresh ripe, peeled and chopped 5 lbs./ or pomodoro tomatoes, sieved 2 qts./Onions, chopped 3/4 cup/Ice-cold water 1 1/2 cup /Pimiento or green pepper 1/4 cup/Wine vinegar 5 tbsp./ Salt and pepper to taste
ref: 1964, Volume Feeding Institutions - Volume 54, page 89:
text: A trip through Italian hinterlands will take you past fields of pomodoro tomatoes, clusters of olive trees and past the famed black truffle hidden away in the forests.
ref: 2019 April 26, Suruchi Kapur Gomes, “'Bene' there, done that the Italian way”, in Deccan Chronicle:
glosses: A variety of pear-shaped tomato from Italy; San Marzano tomato.
examples: text: Pastas, with soup & homemade bread — spaghetti with fresh garlic & olive oil $8.95, with pomodoro $8.95, with meatballs or Sicilian sausage $9.95, with prosciutto & olives $10.95, cannelloni $9.95, lasagna Siciliana $9.95, with fresh clams in a white wine sauce $10.95.
ref: 1995, Louis E. Madison, San Francisco on a shoestring, page 125:
text: Entrees include pizza with roasted vegetables; pizza margherita with tomato, fresh basil, and mozzarella; pizza with prosciutto, peppers, and onions; risotto of the day; rigatoni with pomodoro and Parmesan; radiatore puttanesca with capers, olives, anchovies, and garlic; fresh-spinach spaghetti primavera with garden vegetables, garlic, and oil; spaghetti Bolognese.
ref: 1994, New York - Volume 27, Issues 10-13, page 77:
text: Spread some pomodoro over the ricotta.
ref: 1995, Pizza Today, volume 13, page 69:
glosses: Ellipsis of pomodoro sauce.
examples: text: If each pair works on 10 pomodoros per day, the total team capacity is 30 pomodoros per day.
ref: 2010, Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe, Pär J. Ågerfalk, Agility Across Time and Space:
text: Each cycle of 25+ 5 minutes is defined as a 'pomodoro', and the idea of 'doing pomodoros' – usually in sets of four – has become standard practice among many programmers. It has also become a technique used outside of computing circles: a practice that's emblematic of the influence of the hacking mentality on life as a whole.
ref: 2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology: From Apps to Zombies:
text: Break the task down into 25-minute dashes (pomodoros). How many pomodoros do you think you'll need to complete the activity?
ref: 2014, Graham Allcott, A Practical Guide to Productivity:
glosses: A 25-minute time interval spent working (followed by a five-minute break), used as part of the Pomodoro time management system.
barmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barmasters
Etymology: From earlier barghmaster, berghmaster. Compare German Bergmeister.
Senses: glosses: A local judge among miners.
glosses: An officer of the barmote.
Related terms: barmote
orchesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄρχησις (órkhēsis, “dance”).
Senses: glosses: The act and/or art of dancing.
aichmophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αιχμή (aikhmḗ, “spearhead”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Some people cannot stand knives, swords, bayonets, anything sharp; psychiatrists have a word for it: aichmophobia. Idiots who drive cars a hundred miles an hour on fifty-mile-an-hour roads will nevertheless panic at the sight of a bare blade.
ref: 1963, Robert Heinlein, Glory Road, Ch.1, at p.10
text: In aichmophobia the person develops a pathological fear of sharp and pointed objects. He or she fears pieces of broken glass, scraps of metal, nails, and scissors. Fear of this kind leads to all sorts of eccentric habits.
ref: 1977, George W. Kisker, The disorganized personality:
text: “Hmm,” said Catherine. “It looks like something out of a field hospital.” And she shot a tiny forbidding glance at Nick, who saw that it was probably the aichmophobia, the horror of sharp objects, that made the serving and carving of a haunch of venison impossible for her.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The fear of needles and other pointed or sharp objects.
Synonyms: belonephobia
trypanophobia
mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmʌlət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: mullets
form: mullet
Etymology: From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
Senses: glosses: A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
glosses: A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).
glosses: Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)
Synonyms: sense: Mugillidae
word: haarder
sense: Mugillidae
word: springer
Derived terms: black mullet
black true mullet
bright mullet
bully mullet
callifaver mullet
common grey mullet
common mullet
cucumber mullet
diamond mullet
finger mullet
flathead grey mullet
flathead mullet
gray mullet
hardgut mullet
Lebranche mullet
mangrove mullet
pearl mullet
popeye mullet
proto-mullet
red mullet
river mullet
sea mullet
so-iuy mullet
striped mullet
stunned mullet
mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmʌlət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: mullets
Etymology: Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmʌlət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: mullets
Etymology: 1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".
Senses: examples: text: – Mullet head, don't touch the back
– Cut the sides, don't touch the back
ref: 1994, Beastie Boys, Mullet Head:
text: – Maybe it's a curly fro.
– Maybe every day is bad hair day!
– Maybe it's a mullet!
ref: 2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406:
synonyms: hockey hair
coordinate_terms: bilevel
glosses: A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
glosses: A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
Derived terms: femullet
mulleted
mullet-headed
mulletlike
protomullet
she-mullet
skullet
Related terms: business in the front, party in the back
mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmʌlət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: mullets
Etymology: From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).
Senses: examples: text: Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or.
ref: 1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
glosses: The rowel of a spur.
Coordinate terms: estoile
placebo effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placebo effects
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A phenomenon where a person's health improves after receiving a treatment that has no direct therapeutic mechanism.
Related terms: nocebo effect
septimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septimal
form: most septimal
Senses: glosses: Relating to the number seven.
glosses: Using base seven; septenary.
raw_tags: of a positional numeral system
Synonyms: septenary
mille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milles
Senses: examples: text: That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, dismes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and milles or thousandths, a disme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mille the thousandth part of a dollar, and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.
ref: 1792 April 2, “Chapter XVI. An Act establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States”, in Richard Peters, editor, United States Statutes at Large, volume I, Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, pages 246–251:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mill.
Related terms: mille-feuille
mille graines
per mille
stupendous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuˈpɛndəs/
ipa: /stjuˈpɛndəs/
rhymes: -ɛndəs
Forms: form: more stupendous
form: most stupendous
Etymology: First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus (“stunning, amazing”), from the verb stupeō (“(I) am stunned”). Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.
Senses: examples: text: One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
text: The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.
ref: 1834, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii:
glosses: Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
examples: text: The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.
glosses: Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
Synonyms: colossal
enormous
huge
marvelous
prodigious
terrific
tremendous
Derived terms: stupendously
stupendousness
Related terms: stupid
stupor
marvellous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːvələs/
ipa: /ˈmɑːvləs/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹvələs/
Forms: form: more marvellous
form: most marvellous
form: marvelous
Etymology: First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”) + -us. Doublet of merveilleux. See also marvel.
Senses: examples: text: I went to a marvellous party last week.
text: At first glance, importance sampling seems like a marvellous solution to any posterior simulation problem.
ref: 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., page 80:
glosses: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Derived terms: marvellously
marvellousness
unmarvellous
huzzah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈzɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: huzza
Etymology: Likely originally a hoisting cry, possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”) and French Ho, hisse! (“Hey, hoist!”). First attested in the 1570s.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
examples: text: Deposed King: 'KING KNIGHT REIGNS NO MORE? HUZZAH! NOW I CAN RULE PRIDEMOOR! HURRAH!'
ref: 2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Village:
glosses: Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment, or approval.
Synonyms: sense: hoisting cry
word: heave
sense: hoisting cry
word: heave-ho
sense: cheer indicating enjoyment or approval
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: well done
huzzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈzɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: huzzahs
form: huzza
Etymology: Likely originally a hoisting cry, possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”) and French Ho, hisse! (“Hey, hoist!”). First attested in the 1570s.
Senses: glosses: A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
huzzah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈzɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: huzzahs
form: huzzahing
form: huzzahed
form: huzzahed
form: huzza
Etymology: Likely originally a hoisting cry, possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”) and French Ho, hisse! (“Hey, hoist!”). First attested in the 1570s.
Senses: examples: text: Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.
ref: 1710 October 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Whig-Examiner: No. 2. Thursday, September 21. [1710.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 339:
text: In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
ref: 1891, Littell’s Living Age, volume 191, page 260:
glosses: To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.
dissenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dissenters
Etymology: From dissent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Author's Note”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 242:
synonyms: dissident
glosses: Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
Derived terms: dissenterism
sumpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumpits
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay sumpit (“blowpipe”).
Senses: glosses: The poison dart used in the sumpitan, or Malay blowpipe.
glosses: The blowpipe itself.
pedicel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛd.ɪs.əl/
ipa: /ˈpɛd.əˌsɛl/
Forms: form: pedicels
form: pedicle
Etymology: From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).
Senses: examples: text: Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^([cuticle cracking])
ref: 2004, Martine Dorais, “5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking”, in Jules Janick, editor, Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: footstalk
strig
coordinate_terms: peduncle
glosses: A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: petiole
glosses: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
examples: text: Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.
ref: 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: petiole
glosses: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: petiole
glosses: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
examples: text: Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.
ref: 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
Derived terms: pedicellar
pedicellate
pedicellation
pedicelled
pedicular
postpedicel
Related terms: peduncle
petiole
detractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detractors
form: detractour
Etymology: From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
Senses: examples: text: Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.
ref: 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph:
synonyms: slanderer
libeler
cynic
mudslinger
defamer
critic
antonyms: proponent
promoter
supporter
glosses: A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
Synonyms: word: backbiter
word: belittler
word: calumniator
word: defamer
word: depreciator
word: derogator
word: detractor
word: disparager
word: knocker
word: muckraker
word: mudslinger
word: traducer
word: vilifier
Hypernyms: word: bully
word: critic
word: cynic
word: defiler
word: enemy
word: opponent
word: person
Hyponyms: word: falsifier
word: libeler
word: slanderer
word: troll
word: debunker
word: decrier
word: denouncer
Derived terms: detractress
race detractor
Related terms: word: defame
word: defamatory
word: slander
Spanglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Spanish + English.
Senses: examples: text: The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.”
ref: 2021 November 23, John McWhorter, “America Has More Than One Spanglish”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2021:
synonyms: Espanglish
espanglés
pocho
glosses: A language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
examples: text: His Spanglish was quite embarrassing when he said he was "embarazado".
glosses: The mixing of Spanish and English together in a sentence.
Related terms: english: mixture of German and Spanish
translation: mixture of German and Spanish
word: Alemañol
english: mixture of English and Chinese
translation: mixture of English and Chinese
word: Chinglish
word: Denglisch
english: mixture of English and German
translation: mixture of English and German
word: Germish
english: mixture of English and Dutch in the Netherlands
translation: mixture of English and Dutch in the Netherlands
word: Dunglish
english: mixture of English and French
translation: mixture of English and French
word: Franglais
english: mixture of English and Hindi
translation: mixture of English and Hindi
word: Hinglish
english: mixture of English and Spanish in Gibraltar
translation: mixture of English and Spanish in Gibraltar
word: Llanito
english: mixture of Portuguese and Spanish
translation: mixture of Portuguese and Spanish
word: Portuñol
A.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: In China, surviving single pagodas at the Fo-kung Temple, Ying Hsien, Shansi, and at the P'u-shou Temple in Hopei, both dating from the eleventh century A.D., no doubt indicate persistence of this earliest plan under the architecturally conservative Liao (p. 709) long after it had disappeared in more metropolitan areas.
ref: 1958, William Willetts, “Buildings”, in Chinese Art, volume 2, Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 733:
text: Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and meticulously catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was built in 857 A.D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).
ref: 2018 April 11, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Overlooked No More: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, Chroniclers of Chinese Architecture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2018, Obituaries:
text: Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later.
ref: 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:
glosses: Alternative form of AD; initialism of anno Domini.
creme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creme
form: most creme
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crème.
creme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cremes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crème.
Derived terms: cremey
creme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cremes
form: creming
form: cremed
form: cremed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crème.
antitussive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitussives
Etymology: From anti- + tussive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: protussive
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing.
antitussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitussive
form: most antitussive
Etymology: From anti- + tussive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: protussive
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Having cough suppressant abilities.
Sinti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sinto
glosses: plural of Sinta
Sacagawea dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sacagawea dollars
Senses: glosses: A US dollar coin featuring a portrait of Sacagawea.
Saint Nicholas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St Nicholas
form: St. Nicholas
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A 4th-century Greek bishop from Myra, Anatolia, patron saint of children, mariners and the unwed among others, functioning in multiple countries as a gift-giving figure around his feast day of December 6.
examples: text: No more passion play / On St. Nicholas avenue / I believe in St. Nicholas / It's a different type of Santa Claus
ref: 2004, “Good Friday”, in La maison de mon rêve, performed by Cocorosie:
synonyms: Father Christmas
Kris Kringle
Santa Claus
Saint Nick
glosses: Santa Claus; a figure derived from traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas who is said to bring Christmas presents to children on Christmas Day.
Derived terms: word: Saint Nick
alt: placename
word: St Nicholas
Related terms: word: Santa Claus
word: Sinterklaas
english: companion of Saint Nicholas
translation: companion of Saint Nicholas
word: Black Peter
Saint Nick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive of Saint Nicholas.
Senses: glosses: Santa Claus
Gibraltar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Spanish Gibraltar, from Arabic جَبَل طَارِق (jabal ṭāriq, “Mount Tariq”), named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, who led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in 711. Replaced earlier Latin Mons Calpe (“Mount Calpe”) for the land, and Columnae Herculis, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι (Hērákleiai stêlai, “Pillars of Hercules”), for the strait.
The barangay in Baguio, Philippines is named by a German national "Jonathan Speth" after the Rock of Gibraltar in Europe. He lived and died in the barangay.
Senses: glosses: A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.
glosses: A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco; in full, Strait of Gibraltar.
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Kempston Rural parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0046).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet mostly in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7510).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Hawkinge parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2039).
glosses: A place in England:
A locality in Bletchingdon parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4818).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Wayne County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Union County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Door County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A rural community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A town in Zulia State, Venezuela.
glosses: A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.
Synonyms: sense: land territory
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Mons Calpe
sense: strait
word: Strait of Gibraltar
sense: strait
word: Straits of Gibraltar
sense: strait
word: STROG
Derived terms: Gibraltar fever
Gibraltarian
Gibraltar Rock
Gibraltar rock
Rock of Gibraltar
Strait of Gibraltar