cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tadago-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tadago-pies
Etymology: Cornish?
Senses: glosses: A special meat pie from Cornwall, made from aborted miscarried pigs.
parole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-rōlʹ
ipa: /pəˈɹoʊl/
ipa: [p(ʰ)əˈɹəʊɫ]
ipa: [pʰəˈɹʷoʊɫ]
ipa: [pʰɹ̩ˈoʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: paroles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French parole (“word, formal promise”), from Old French parole, from Late Latin parabola (“speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabola, parable, and palaver.
Senses: examples: text: He will be on parole for nearly two more years.
text: He was released on parole.
glosses: Originally, one's oath or word of honour, given as a condition of release from custody; now specifically, describing the release of a former prisoner under certain conditions, especially the promise of good behaviour.
examples: text: A Minnesota woman who killed her 6-year-old son will now spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.
ref: 2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com:
glosses: Conditional release of a prisoner (now especially before the end of a custodial sentence), or the term or state of such release; the system governing such releases.
examples: text: This man had forfeited his military parole.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: In hospital he gave his parole, and was enlarged after paying for the torn blanket.
ref: 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167:
glosses: A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released.
examples: text: ‘Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1143:
text: […] their parole or watchword, which is orange, distinguishes them from the rebels in any action, to prevent disagreeable mistakes.
ref: 1796, John Stedman, chapter 4, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition,, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page 80:
glosses: A watchword or code phrase; (military) a password given only to officers, distinguished from the countersign, which is given to all guards.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: langue
glosses: Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
qualifier: immigration law
glosses: The permission for a foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of parol.
Derived terms: parolable
parole board
parolee
parolelike
parole officer
re-parole
Related terms: pass-parole
porte-parole
parole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-rōlʹ
ipa: /pəˈɹoʊl/
ipa: [p(ʰ)əˈɹəʊɫ]
ipa: [pʰəˈɹʷoʊɫ]
ipa: [pʰɹ̩ˈoʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: paroles
form: paroling
form: paroled
form: paroled
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French parole (“word, formal promise”), from Old French parole, from Late Latin parabola (“speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabola, parable, and palaver.
Senses: examples: text: Whitelaw was allowed to continue to San Francisco. There, INS officials assigned Whitelaw a temporary status for "deferred examination," and "paroled" him into the U.S., permitting him to stay for his planned five-week vacation.
ref: 1980 April 12, Lew Lasher, “INS 'Paroles' Australian; Policy Still Unclear”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
topics: law
glosses: To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law.
examples: text: I am a gay guy that likes S&M, and am looking for a master out on the streets to write me in here. I would like to parole to NYC some day if I can.
ref: 1983 August 20, Dwain Rasmussen, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 23:
glosses: To be released on parole.
Derived terms: unparoled
Frankenstein complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frankenstein complexes
Etymology: Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1947 in his novelette Little Lost Robot. From Victor Frankenstein, the title character of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
Senses: examples: text: I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification—hence the First Law in the first place.
ref: 1947 March, Isaac Asimov, “Little Lost Robot”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 1, page 116:
text: Mr. Graf, you're still disturbed. You sure you're not harboring just a little of the old Frankenstein complex about all this? It's all right to admit it to me—in fact, I want you to talk about it.
ref: 1987 December, Lois McMaster Bujold, “Falling Free”, in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 108, number 13, page 30:
text: The central character of Mary Shelley's novel by the same name 'Frankenstein' is used as an adjective in a variety of biomedical contexts, eg Frankenstein complex The fear that machines via artificial intelligence may replace physicians
ref: 1992, Joseph C. Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, →ISBN, page 234:
text: No wonder Gibson introduces the Turing Registry agents in Neuromancer, representatives of cyberpunk's own apparent Frankenstein Complex: “For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.[…]”
ref: 2010, Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint, editors, Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.
shapeshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪp.ʃɪft/
Forms: form: shapeshifts
form: shapeshifting
form: shapeshifted
form: shapeshifted
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from shapeshifter.
Senses: examples: text: For it was by shape-shifting and magic art, as poets tell, that Paris first beguiled Fair Helen.
ref: 1891, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, The World's Desire, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 13:
text: Journey in exactly the same way as you did to shapeshift into your power animal except, this time, set your intention to shapeshift into a named ancestor.
ref: 2010, Mike Williams, Follow the Shaman's Call: An Ancient Path for Modern Lives, page 91:
text: I can't shapeshift Zane, I only look like this I always have.
ref: 2019, Emily Rayven, Gateway To Brienka:
text: But to embed oneself in an irregular and unpredictable food supply as mycelium does, one must be able to shapeshift.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 57:
topics: biology
fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
examples: text: While Chelsea Wolfe has often shapeshifted in terms of how she presents her music, one thing remains constant: her big mood.
ref: 2019, Adam Turner-Heffer, Chelsea Wolfe: Birth of Violence review, The Skinny, September 2019, page 57
glosses: To undergo a noticeable change (in character for example), to metamorphosize.
bug-eyed monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-eyed monsters
Senses: examples: text: Speaking of The SPWSSTFM, the cover inspired me to organize the SFTPOBEMOTCOSFP. (Society For The Prevention Of Bug-Eyed Monsters On The Covers Of Science-Fiction Publications.)
ref: 1939 August, Martin Alger, “The Reader Speaks”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 14, number 1, New York: Better Publications, 'The SFTPOBEMOTCOSFP', page 121:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An extraterrestrial.
Synonyms: BEM
Related terms: little green man
everywhen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From every + when.
Senses: examples: text: Everywhere and everywhen a man has to ‘pay with his life;’ to do his work, as a soldier does, at the expense of life.
ref: 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy:
glosses: Always, at all times.
futurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: futurisms
Etymology: From future + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Suffice it to say that Futurism has a gratifying dislike both of Liberal politics and Christian morals; I say gratifying because, however unfortunately the cross and the cap of liberty have quarrelled, they are always united in the feeble hatred of such silly megalomaniacs as these. […
ref: 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.
synonyms: futurology
glosses: The study and prediction of possible futures.
glosses: The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
Derived terms: Africanfuturism
Afrofuturism
cubo-futurism
futurist
moral futurism
neofuturism
retro-futurism
retrofuturism
techno-futurism
Related terms: historicism
preterism
deep sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep sleeps
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deep, sleep.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: slow-wave sleep
cataphor
glosses: stage 3 of non-rapid eye movement sleep
examples: text: Donnchadh and Gwalcmai, along with the other fourteen teams selected for planetary infiltration, had been put into deep sleep shortly after liftoff from their planet.
ref: 2004, Robert Doherty, Area 51: Legend, →ISBN:
text: The Kironian had remained in deep sleep until alerted by a high-pitched squeaky sound. When the Kironian woke, everything seemed as though it had just left Kiron.
ref: 2005, Bob Ticer, Visiting the Strange Planet Called Earth, →ISBN, page 13:
text: There is also the possibility that our aliens perfected cryogenics and simply went into deep sleep until the environment improved.
ref: 2008, Cavin Wright, The Golden Prize, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of long distance space travel.
dies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪz/
homophone: dyes
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die
dies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪz/
homophone: dyes
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of die (when used in the sense of a pattern / of obsolete spelling of dye)
Tagliacotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Taliacotian
form: Tagliacozzian
Etymology: Eponymous for the Italian surgeon Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546–1599) who developed the surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to surgically reconstructed noses.
rain dogs and cats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains dogs and cats
form: raining dogs and cats
form: rained dogs and cats
form: rained dogs and cats
Senses: examples: text: The Pedlars of our age have business yet, / And gladly would against the Fayr-day fit / Themselves with such a Roofe, that can secure / Their Wares from Dogs and Cats rain'd in showre.
ref: 1651, Henry Vaughan, Olor Iscanus:
text: Where e're I went on Land or water / Hee'd make a shift to follow after. / Neither had he flincht a foot, had fates / Made it rain down dogs and cats
ref: 1672, Maurice Atkins, Minor Burlesques and Travesties:
text: When it rains Dogs and Cats in Hell, / The shelter'd Centaurs roar and yell.
ref: 1678, John Phillips, Maronides:
glosses: Alternative form of rain cats and dogs.
slushpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌʃpaɪ̯əl/
Forms: form: slushpiles
Etymology: From slush + pile.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: A collection of rejected or unsolicited manuscripts.
holophrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑ.loʊˈfɹæs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɒləˈfɹæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of a single word, such as "Go." or "Whatever."
raw_tags: of a sentence
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the stage of language development where a child produces simple one-word utterances.
Derived terms: holophrastically
Related terms: holophrasis
pre-Columbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Precolumbian
Etymology: From pre- + Columbian.
Senses: examples: text: since pre-Columbian times
text: unknown in Europe in pre-Columbian times
glosses: Before the voyages of Christopher Columbus of the 1490s which introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas.
examples: text: pre-Columbian cultures
text: pre-Columbian civilizations
text: In fact, the dating of pre-Columbian Andean cultures was largely a matter of guesswork.
ref: 1961, Margaret A. Towle, The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Boys trained to be warriors, but why did pre-Columbian peoples battle one another?
ref: 2010, Marylou Kjelle, In Pre-Columbian America, Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:
coordinate_terms: precontact
precolonial
pre-Hispanic
pre-European
glosses: Referring to the cultures of the Americas before the European influence, specifically to the era before the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.
FAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf.eɪˈkjuː/
ipa: /fæk/
ipa: /ˈfʌkjuː/
rhymes: -uː or Rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: FAQs
form: faq
Etymology: Initialism of frequently asked questions.
Senses: examples: text: This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.
text: For example, the FAQ page comments that ‘the term “incel” is an abbreviated version and sniglonym of the term “involuntary celibacy,” whose usage reaches back at least to the 18th century.”’ The term ‘sniglonym’ is itself an example of deploying verbose language. The word refers to a term whose date of coinage postdates the pre-existing concept or object it defines.
ref: 2023 January 23, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 10:
text: The internal communications also show Palantir leadership preparing for a potential backlash from employees or outsiders, with them writing FAQs that can be sent to friends or family that start to ask about Palantir’s work with ICE. […] In the leaked Slack messages, Jain said that Palantir was working to include updates about this work into an FAQ with the company’s PCL, or Privacy and Civil Liberties team.
ref: 2025 April 17, Joseph Cox, “Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People”, in 404 Media, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2025:
glosses: A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.
topics: video-games
glosses: A document that details how to play and win a video game; a strategy guide.
Related terms: RTFM
FAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf.eɪˈkjuː/
ipa: /fæk/
ipa: /ˈfʌkjuː/
rhymes: -uː or Rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: faq
Etymology: From a mishearing of fuck you by livestreamer Sakura Miko.
Senses: glosses: Fuck you.
FTP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: free-to-play
FTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
Forms: form: FTPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang).
FTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet).
Hyponyms: sFTP
SFTP
Derived terms: FTP server
FTP site
FTP
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
Forms: form: FTPs
form: FTPing
form: FTPed
form: FTPed
Senses: examples: text: Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]
ref: 1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:
text: Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.
ref: 2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
FTP
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
Senses: examples: text: "Fuck the police" emerged as the unofficial motto of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles[…]Following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, street signs and businesses were frequently tagged with FTP.
ref: [2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide, page 263:
text: As nationwide protests continue to grow, demanding justice for George Floyd and the black community as a whole, YG has shared a new protest song titled "FTP (F--- the Police)."
ref: 2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard:
glosses: Initialism of fuck the police.
fortnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːt.naɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹt.naɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹt.nɪt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tnaɪt
Forms: form: fortnights
form: fortnith
Etymology: From Middle English fourtenyght, fourtene nyght, from Old English fēowertīene niht (literally “fourteen nights"; the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights), equivalent to fourteen + night. Compare sennight.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond
text: Near-synonym: halfmonth
text: On being kicked the girl fell desperately in love with Henri, and for a fortnight they lived together and spent a thousand francs of Henri's money.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.
ref: 1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A period of 2 weeks.
raw_tags: in North America
Derived terms: word: nanofortnight
word: microfortnight
word: millifortnight
Related terms: fortnightly
sennight
PM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms: form: PMs
form: P.M.
form: p.m.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We ought to have a P.M. report by ten o'clock, preliminary anyway.’
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 321:
glosses: Initialism of post mortem.
glosses: Initialism of prime minister.
glosses: Initialism of private message.
examples: text: Send me a PM if interested.
glosses: Initialism of personal message.
glosses: Initialism of price match.
glosses: Initialism of project management.
glosses: Initialism of project manager.
glosses: Initialism of performance management.
glosses: Initialism of perfect match.
glosses: Initialism of program manager.
glosses: Initialism of product manager.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of place marker.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of permanent magnet.
examples: text: PM_(2.5)
translation: particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less
english: particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less
text: In the United States, there was a daily mortality increase of 0.79 percent for each 10 micrograms per cubic meter increase in PM 10 and a 1.58 percent increase for each 10 microgram increase in PM 2.5.
ref: 2019 August 27, Nicholas Balakar, “The Deadly Toll of Air Pollution”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
glosses: Initialism of push money.
glosses: Initialism of portfolio manager.
glosses: Initialism of precious metal.
glosses: Initialism of postmaster.
PM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms: form: PMs
form: PMing
form: PMed
form: PMed
form: P.M.
form: p.m.
Senses: glosses: To project manage.
examples: text: PM me if you want more information.
synonyms: DM
coordinate_terms: IM
glosses: To send a private message to (someone).
PM
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms: form: P.M.
form: p.m.
Senses: examples: text: Today the sun sets at 8:25 PM
text: The shops are open from 9AM to 5PM
glosses: Alternative form of p.m. (“after noon”).
Derived terms: good PM
PM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms: form: P.M.
form: p.m.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of partially meet.
Related terms: MP
bioterror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəʊˌtɛɹə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From bio- + terror.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bioterrorism.
synonyms: word: bioterrorism
dotcom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒtˈkɒm/
ipa: /ˌdɑtˈkɑm/
rhymes: -ɒm
rhymes: -ɑm
ipa: /ˈdɒtkɒm/
ipa: /ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
rhymes: (US) -ɑm
Forms: form: dotcoms
form: .com
form: dot-com
Etymology: From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
Senses: examples: text: Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.
ref: 2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality:
text: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: In an echo of the valuation methods used before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2001, its shares are priced not in relation to its profits or even its revenue but to its extraordinary growth.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
glosses: A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
Derived terms: dot bomb
dotcom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒtˈkɒm/
ipa: /ˌdɑtˈkɑm/
rhymes: -ɒm
rhymes: -ɑm
ipa: /ˈdɒtkɒm/
ipa: /ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
rhymes: (US) -ɑm
Forms: form: dotcoms
form: dotcomming
form: dotcommed
form: dotcommed
form: .com
form: dot-com
Etymology: From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
Senses: examples: text: The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment.
ref: 2001, Rick G. Sherland, E-business & Internet infrastructure software: United States, page 2:
text: When will your company get dotcommed?
ref: 2001, Mass Media in India, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Then Yuppies dotcommed the Banks.
ref: 2010, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, →ISBN:
glosses: To convert to using or being based on e-commerce.
dollarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑləɹɪˈzeɪ̯ʃɪn/
Forms: form: dollarisation
Etymology: From dollarize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: “Many emerging-market economies have tried a number of technical devices: the fixed rate peg, varieties of crawling peg, currency boards and even dollarization,” Mr. Greenspan said in a recent speech. “The success has been mixed. Where successful, they have been backed by sound policies.”
ref: 1999 January 2, Joseph Kahn, quoting Alan Greenspan, “Era May End For Floating Currencies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2017:
text: Making dollarisation work requires structural reform, something President Noboa has failed to achieve. Ecuador's businesses are struggling against high costs. The public finances face a shortfall. A new agreement with the IMF has proved elusive. Neither candidate says he would scrap the dollar, but neither says much about reform.
ref: 2002 October 26, “New faces of Andean politics”, in The Economist, U.S. edition:
text: But dollarization is not a panacea for Argentina’s crisis-stricken economy, analysts say.
ref: 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: dedollarization
glosses: The process of a country, officially, or its residents, unofficially, adopting the US dollar or other foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency.
Related terms: sound as a dollar
bellgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellgirls
Etymology: From bell + girl.
Senses: glosses: A female bellhop.
contemporisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemporisations
form: contemporization
Senses: glosses: The process of bringing something up to date.
frankenfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frăngk'(ə)n-fo͞od"
ipa: /ˈfɹæŋk(ə)nˌfuːd/
Forms: form: frankenfoods
form: Frankenfood
Etymology: From franken- + food.
Senses: examples: text: As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.'
ref: 2016 April 18, Cristina Alesci, “Monsanto CEO frustrated over 'polarized' GMO debate”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Genetically modified food.
Related terms: Frankenstein
frankenword
alphabetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabetisms
Etymology: From alphabet + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some alphabetisms are written as if they weren't alphabetisms at all, like deejay for DJ, disc jockey, or emcee for MC, master of ceremonies.
ref: 2002, Gunnel Tottie, An Introduction To American English, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
examples: text: Some of the activities involved in ... corvée and military needs stimulated the spread of a certain type of minimal alphabetism for inventorying and most likely encouraged the development of a professional scribalism for record-keeping and book-keeping.
ref: 2001, Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 639:
glosses: The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
examples: text: The answer, I suggest, is that phonemism is rooted in alphabetism. Indeed, many linguists have suggested that there really is a /g/ phoneme at the end of 'fang' and other [ŋ]-final words in English, except that they are not pronounced!
ref: 2006, Daniel Doron Silverman, A Critical Introduction to Phonology: Of Sound, Mind and Body, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
examples: text: The injustice of "alphabetism" is, of course, a thorn in the Zitser side, and he playfully promises to assign the problem to "alphabetically neutral" aides.
ref: 1983, George F. Will, The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions, page 134:
glosses: Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
Related terms: alphabetization
analphabetism
Lemko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lemkos
Senses: glosses: A member of a Rusyn ethnic subgroup from the Carpathian mountain area.
Lemko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of this group of Carpatho-Rusyns, which is sometimes considered a dialect of Ukrainian or of Rusyn.
Carpatho-Rusyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carpatho-Rusyns
form: Carpatho-Rusyn
Etymology: From Carpatho- + Rusyn.
Senses: examples: text: Religion frequently divided East Slavs. By 1924, when the Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns were given separate Greek Catholic bishops, there were more than 235,000 members of the Ukrainian diocese (headquartered in Philadelphia) and[…]
ref: 2006 November 8, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: A member of an east-Slavic ethnic group of the Carpathian mountains.
Carpatho-Rusyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Carpatho- + Rusyn.
Senses: glosses: The Carpatho-Rusyn language.
e-text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-texts
form: etext
Etymology: From e- + text.
Senses: glosses: An electronic or digital version of a text.
Related terms: e-book
one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: won (etymology 1)
enpr: wŏn
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: wan
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
ipa: /wɐn/
ipa: [wän]
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /ɔːn/
ipa: /uːn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: own (toe–tow merger)
note: Tanglish, Kerala
ipa: /(w)ɵn/
Forms: form: wone
form: 1
form: I
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óynos
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een).
Verb form from Middle English onen.
Senses: examples: text: One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Of a period of time, being particular.
examples: text: My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."
glosses: Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
examples: text: He is the one man who can help you.
text: The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.
glosses: Sole, only.
examples: text: Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
glosses: Whole, entire.
examples: text: We are one on the importance of learning.
glosses: In agreement.
examples: text: The two types look very different, but are one species.
glosses: The same.
one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: won (etymology 1)
enpr: wŏn
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: wan
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
ipa: /wɐn/
ipa: [wän]
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /ɔːn/
ipa: /uːn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: own (toe–tow merger)
note: Tanglish, Kerala
ipa: /(w)ɵn/
Forms: form: ones
form: oning
form: oned
form: oned
form: wone
form: 1
form: I
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óynos
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een).
Verb form from Middle English onen.
Senses: examples: text: The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge.
ref: 1994, Christopher Nugent, Mysticism, Death and Dying, page 55:
text: And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.
ref: 2000, Carolyn Baker, The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling the Healing Process, page 145:
text: Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth MacKinlay, Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life, page 83:
text: What might be if we were Oned? United, as we would say, but at a greater depth than being a season ticket holder in a football club, or a shareholder in some conglomerate.
ref: 2019, David Grieve, Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain, page 43:
glosses: To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
Related terms: Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: won (etymology 1)
enpr: wŏn
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: wan
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
ipa: /wɐn/
ipa: [wän]
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /ɔːn/
ipa: /uːn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: own (toe–tow merger)
note: Tanglish, Kerala
ipa: /(w)ɵn/
ipa: /wʌn/
ipa: [wɐn(˦)~wän(˦)]
note: at the end of sentences, before a pause
ipa: [wɐn(˦˧)~wän(˦˧)]
other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
other: /w/
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: won (etymology 1)
enpr: wŏn
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: wan
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
ipa: /wɐn/
ipa: [wän]
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /ɔːn/
ipa: /uːn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: own (toe–tow merger)
note: Tanglish, Kerala
ipa: /(w)ɵn/
Forms: form: wone
form: 1
form: I
Etymology: Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (ê) and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的 (de) or 個 /个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).
Senses: examples: text: The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already.
glosses: Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
Related terms: word: what
word: lah1–14
word: lor2–3
word: lor1
word: ah6–7
word: leh1–2
word: mah
word: leh3–6
word: one1–3
word: hor1
word: know
word: nia
word: only
word: sia
word: hor2
word: ah1–3
word: hah1–3
word: meh
word: ba2
word: leh7–11
word: ba1
word: liao
word: already
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: Gupta
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: A. F. (1992)
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: in
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: volume 18
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: number 1
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: →DOI
two
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tu/
ipa: [tʰu̟u]
enpr: to͞o
ipa: /tu/
ipa: [tʰu̟]
enpr: to͞o
homophone: to
homophone: too
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: twos
form: twain
form: twey
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Cognate with Scots twa (“two”); North Frisian tou, tuu (“two”); Saterland Frisian twäin, two (“two”); West Frisian twa (“two”); Dutch twee (“two”); Low German twee, twei (“two”); German zwei, zwo (“two”); Danish and Norwegian to (“two”); Swedish två, tu (“two”); Icelandic tvö (“two”); Faroese tvey (“two”); Latin duō (“two”); Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”); Irish dhá (“two”); Lithuanian dù (“two”); Russian два (dva, “two”); Albanian dy (“two”); Old Armenian երկու (erku, “two”); Sanskrit द्व (dvá, “two”); Tocharian A wu, Tocharian B wi. Doublet of duo. See also twain.
Senses: examples: text: The number 2202 contains three twos.
text: In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes. […] The number has 2 twos.
ref: 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, pages 1, 2:
glosses: The digit/figure 2.
glosses: A two-dollar bill.
examples: text: This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
glosses: A child aged two.
synonyms: deuce
glosses: A playing card featuring two pips.
examples: text: It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Ellipsis of two shot.
Derived terms: two-up
two's complement
Related terms: 2
2nd
both
couple
double
dual
pair
second
twain
twi-
twice
twin
two-
three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: thrē
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊iː]
ipa: [θɾ̪̊ɪi]
ipa: [θɹ̥ɪi]
note: UK, th-fronting
enpr: frē
ipa: /fɹiː/
note: UK, th-fronting
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊iː]
ipa: [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
enpr: thrē
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊i]
ipa: [θɹ̥i]
ipa: [θɹi]
homophone: tree (th-stopping)
homophone: free (th-fronting)
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: thre
form: þree
form: threy
form: thrie
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treís), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
Senses: examples: text: Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.
ref: 1995, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Friends of the House, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
Three! Who said anything about “go”?
ref: 2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
text: Now we continue zooming-in in three different directions depending on the number of ones.
ref: 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 2:
text: Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.
ref: 2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:
text: The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.
ref: 2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN:
glosses: A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
glosses: Describing a set or group with three elements.
Synonyms: sense: numerical value
word: leash
sense: numerical value
word: tether
Related terms: third
thrice
triple
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: fīv
ipa: /faɪv/
ipa: [fäːv]
note: Indic
ipa: /faj(v)/
homophone: fi
homophone: phi
Forms: form: 5
form: V
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Senses: examples: text: The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
ref: 2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
text: The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
ref: 2025 March 31, Adrian Ashford, “Gov. Abbott directs Texas Rangers to investigate EPIC for ‘potential criminal activities’”, in The Dallas Morning News:
glosses: A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
glosses: Describing a group or set with five elements.
Related terms: fifth
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
CBE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'CBE, Minister,' he replied, unhappily. I wasn't sure what he meant. Could I have been awarded the CBE.? – or could he? He explained. "Can't Be Everywhere'.
ref: 1980 March 10, “Economy Drive”, in Yes Minister, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (actors):
text: My source says: ‘The answer was “CBE” – palace-speak for “Can’t be everywhere.”’
ref: 2015 July 2, Ephraim Hardcastle, The Daily Mail:
glosses: can't be everywhere
CBE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
glosses: Initialism of Christians for Biblical Equality.
glosses: Council of Science Editors:
Initialism of Council of Biology Editors
glosses: Council of Science Editors:
Initialism of Conference of Biology Editors
CBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Component Boolean Expression
glosses: Calculated Best Estimate
glosses: Command Budget Estimate
glosses: Common Base Event
glosses: Calgary Board of Education
DBE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Synonyms: word: KBE
DBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of disadvantaged business enterprise.
KBE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Synonyms: sense: Knight Commander
word: OBE
word: DBE
KBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of knowledge-based engineering.
glosses: Initialism of knowledge-based economy.
MBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MBEs
Senses: examples: text: Taken on by the Guardian (then the Manchester Guardian) after winning the Observer's crossword-setting competition two years running, he was later made an MBE for services to the newspaper industry.
ref: 2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Member of the Order of the British Empire, a British honour originally intended for non-combatants in World War One.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of molecular-beam epitaxy.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master of Bioscience Enterprise.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of management by exception.
OBE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now BEA.
glosses: Initialism of Oregon Board of Education.
glosses: Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education.
OBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OBEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
glosses: Initialism of operating-basis earthquake.
glosses: Initialism of out-of-body experience.
glosses: Initialism of outcome-based education.
examples: text: For this government, the OBE for our economic troubles was first Covid, then Ukraine.
ref: 2022 November 27, William Keegan, “Brexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of one big explanation.
qualifier: powerkiting slang
glosses: Initialism of out-of-buggy experience.
OBE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of overcome / overtaken by events (i.e., now obsolete).
CIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/
Forms: form: C.I.A.
Senses: examples: text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
text: The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
ref: 2025 February 4, Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, “CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Central Intelligence Agency.
glosses: Initialism of Cleveland Institute of Art.
glosses: Initialism of Culinary Institute of America.
glosses: Initialism of Clark International Airport.
Derived terms: al-CIAda
FaCIAbook
CIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/
Forms: form: CIAs
form: C.I.A.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Circuit Interactive Analyzer.
glosses: Initialism of Concept Illustration and Animation.
glosses: Initialism of Cultural Impact Assessment.
CIA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/
Forms: form: C.I.A.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of captured-in-action.