cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reduction in force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductions in force
Senses: examples: text: The VA is scrapping those plans for now, but it is on pace to reduce the total number of staffers by nearly 30,000, “through the federal hiring freeze, deferred resignations, retirements and normal attrition,” the agency said in a news release, adding that those cuts will eliminate “the need for a large-scale reduction-in-force.”
ref: 2025 July 7, Brian Todd, “VA walks back plans for mass layoffs but will still lose tens of thousands of jobs”, in CNN:
topics: business
glosses: A layoff.
Synonyms: RIF
loaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loader
crustaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crustacean
2-4-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4-2s
Senses: examples: text: In 1889 a severe passenger train wreck occurred near Dijon, when a 2-4-2 engine derailed while going full speed downhill.
ref: 2005, Jim Harter, World Railways of the Nineteenth Century: A Pictorial History in Victorian Engravings, page 76:
text: Lionel's first tinplate reproduction of a standard Gauge locomotive was a black 2-4-2 steam engine with three red passenger cars.
ref: 2003, Robert H. Schleicher, Modern Lionel Trains, page 48:
text: Returning in the works staff train to Kingsbridge behind 2-4-2 tank No. 41, we proceeded to Broadstone, former headquarters of the M.G.W.R.
ref: 1962, Geoffrey Freeman Allen, Trains Illustrated Annual, page 25:
text: The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic.
ref: 1952, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains, page 117:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, four coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
2-4-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, four coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
4-4-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-4-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, four coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
2-8-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, eight coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
Synonyms: Berkshire
4-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-6-4s
Senses: examples: text: No sooner had a waiting locomotive backed on to its train, the vociferous 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 re-emerged from under the bridge, and the two red marker lights on the last vehicles passed, than the headlight of the electric engine hauling the following train could be seen under the bridge and the waiting queue of locomotives had moved up one.
ref: 1954 January 24, H. P. White, “Vignettes of the Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 54, at Harmon station, New York:
text: Most Canadian engines are black. [...] The C.N.R. has only three classes of non-black engines, the "6400s", the later 4-8-2s and the 4-6-4s.
ref: 1959 November 24, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
bookplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookplates
Etymology: From book + plate.
Senses: examples: text: By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
bookplate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bookplates
form: bookplating
form: bookplated
form: bookplated
Etymology: From book + plate.
Senses: glosses: To affix a bookplate to (a book).
bookplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookplate
relationshippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relationshippy
form: most relationshippy
Etymology: From relationship + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So we became friends instead. And I think that's great. Better in fact. If we had've done anything relationshippy together I probably would've freaked out.
ref: 2005, Adam Ford, Man Bites Dog, page 54:
glosses: relating to, resembling, or describing a (romantic) relationship
for the win
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: FTW
form: ftw
form: 4tw
Etymology: From earlier use by radio and television sports announcers, describing a play that results in a win, bringing the game to a conclusion.
Senses: examples: text: Blink-182 for the win!
text: Nerds for the win!
glosses: Being the best; being great, awesome, amazing or spectacular; sure to succeed (used as a term of approval, similar to long live)
Coordinate terms: for the loss
principal photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The phase of film production during which the film is actually shot, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.
phonicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonicators
Etymology: From phonics + educator.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a phonicator, and proud of it!
text: Those phonicators are going to take the joy out of learning how to read.
glosses: An educator who champions the use of phonics instruction as a method of beginning or remedial reading instruction, often used as a self-referent.
polysomaty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of a cell having reduplicated chromatin in its nucleus
Related terms: polysomatic
euphuistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌjuːfjuˈɪstɪk/
Etymology: From euphu(ism) + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: James Harvey, a prominent Methodist, published his Meditation among Tombs in 1745. It contained many a euphuistic sentence as morbid as the following: “Instead of sumptuous tables and delicious treats, the poor voluptuary is himself a feast for fattened insects; the reptile riots in his flesh.”
ref: 1961, Harold Nicolson, “Sensibility”, in The Age Of Reason (non-fiction), Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 401:
text: In English, curiously, the euphuistic use of “behind” (as in “Get off your behind”) to mean “buttocks” is turning this preposition into a body-part noun (which is rare).
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to euphuism.
Synonyms: euphuistical
Derived terms: euphuistically
euphuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphuisms
form: Euphuism
Etymology: From Euphues (Ancient Greek ευφυής (euphuḗs, “graceful, witty”)) + -ism, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578). Lyly adopted the name from Roger Ascham’s The Scholemaster (published 1570), which describes Euphues as a type of student who is “apte by goodness of witte, and appliable by readiness of will, to learning, hauving all other qualities of the mind and parts of the body, that must an other day serue learning, not troubled, mangled, and halfed, but sound, whole, full & able to do their office”.
Senses: glosses: An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
examples: text: I have not the slightest faith in Carlyle. In ten years–possibly in five–he will be remembered only as a butt for sarcasm. His linguistic Euphuisms might very well have been taken as prima facie evidence of his philosophic ones; they were the froth which indicated, first, the shallowness, and secondly, the confusion of the waters.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia:
text: “Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen” seems to be “Generalstatesrepresentativesmeetings,” as nearly as I can get at it,—a mere rhythmical, gushy euphuism for “meetings of the legislature,” I judge.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 613:
glosses: An instance of euphuism.
Related terms: euphuist
euphuistic
euphuistical
euphuize
anisoplanatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The absence of spatial invariance over an extended field of view
Related terms: isoplanatic angle
insectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin īnsectum (“insect”) + -ile, from the neuter of Latin -ilis (adjective-forming suffix), after reptile.
Senses: synonyms: insectual
glosses: of, or pertaining to insects
counterinstance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinstances
Etymology: From counter- + instance.
Senses: glosses: An instance (example) which shows the opposite of a given theory to be true, thus disproving it.
greenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenfields
form: green field
Etymology: From green + field.
Senses: examples: text: greenfield development
text: In 2007 Mr Gilbert [Dan Gilbert] made the then remarkable decision to move Quicken Loans’ suburban headquarters downtown. Mr Gilbert says that the initial thinking was humdrum—the firm’s lease was expiring, the business was growing, and he didn’t want to build a new greenfield campus. But he also had a bigger idea in mind. “We needed to keep young people here [in Michigan] and make sure they weren’t going to places like Chicago,” he says. “We knew that young people did not want to work in suburbs.”
ref: 2025 October 15, The Economist staff, “A billionaire has rebuilt downtown Detroit. But might Dan Gilbert’s project finally run out of steam?”, in The Economist:
coordinate_terms: brownfield
glosses: A site, to be used for housing or commerce, whose previous use (if any) was agricultural.
greenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: green field
Etymology: From green + field.
Senses: examples: text: a greenfield project
text: When you're working in a greenfield project and have a favorable situation of designing a database from the ground up, you have complete control over your database when it comes to integration tests, if you do it correctly.
ref: 2015, Mikael Lundin, Testing with F#, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 148:
text: The NSA provides that approximately $11 billion in new investments will be made by 2028, which includes the initial investment in a greenfield project that would be completed after 2028.
ref: 2025 June 13, “President Trump Approves Historic Partnership between U. S. Steel and Nippon Steel”, in Business Wire:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems, etc.
examples: text: a greenfield market
text: a greenfield sales opportunity
topics: business
glosses: Previously untapped; free for the taking.
Related terms: blue-skies
Greenfield
virgin field
proper motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper motions
Etymology: proper (in the sense of "its own") + motion; from Latin proprius.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The change in apparent position of a celestial body due to that body's velocity relative to the Sun.
Related terms: improper motion
radial velocity
peculiar motion
peculiar velocity
brownfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownfields
Etymology: From brown + field.
Senses: examples: text: My budget will improve our environment by accelerating the cleanup of toxic brownfields.
ref: 2001, George W. Bush, State of the Union Address:
text: On such a densely-populated island, most infrastructure projects are on brownfield sites, rather than starting in pastures new.
ref: 2011 December 2, “Crossrail: The other side of the track”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2020:
text: The depot will occupy a 75-acre brownfield site.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Washwood Heath: three shortlisted”, in RAIL, number 940, page 17:
glosses: A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing.
brownfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brown + field.
Senses: examples: text: a brownfield project
text: Brownfield development is probably the most common situation for developers to be in, and in order for business to continue, an existing application infrastructure is necessary.
ref: 2014, Ola Ellnestam, Daniel Brolund, The Mikado method, Shelter Island, NY: Manning, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems.
Related terms: greenfield
plutonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonomies
Etymology: From pluto- + -nomy. Google’s n-gram search suggests the Plutonomy was coined in late 1800s. References to the term using n-gram can be found in books as early as 1851, in a book written by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow titled “Christian Socialism and Its opponents”, where it was used in the context of wealth.
In modern use popularized by Ajay Kapur in a series of papers published during his tenure as Citigroup’s global strategist.
Senses: examples: text: On this side it [Socialism] is a crude compromise between the claims of labour and of capital — the hybrid child of Plutonomy and Communism.
ref: 1866, Frederic Harrison, “Industrial Co-operation”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume III, page 499:
text: The [Citigroup] analysts argued that the United States was evolving into a “plutonomy”—a top-heavy economic system where growth is driven primarily by a tiny, prosperous elite who consume an ever larger fraction of everything the economy produces.
ref: 2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Since his [Ajay Kapur's] very first paper in 2005—and he has kept publishing them, through a series of different employers—he has highlighted the fact that, in its essence, plutonomy is about inequality.
ref: 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 17, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: The study of the production and distribution of wealth, or a society seen as dominated by such concerns.
wikipedia: Wall Street Journal
Derived terms: plutonomist
Related terms: plutocracy
plutocrat
plutonomic
plutonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plutonomic
form: most plutonomic
Etymology: From plutonomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to plutonomy.
plutonomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonomists
Etymology: From plutonomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An economist who studies plutonomy.
examples: text: […] the ultra-rich plutonomists, they don't tend to be part of a specific geography, but tend to be very global, hanging out in plutonomy destinations with fellow plutonomists.
ref: 2018, Oliver Bullough, quoting Ajay Kapur, chapter 17, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 236:
synonyms: word: pluto
glosses: A member of a plutonomy who owns a disproportionate amount of wealth.
SATA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsætə/
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: -ætə
Etymology: From serial + ATA.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. It is the successor to the legacy Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standard.
Synonyms: Serial ATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
Coordinate terms: SAS
SCSI
PATA
IDE
EIDE
Derived terms: eSATA
SATA Express
SATA III
SATA 6
SATA-600
SATA II
SATA 3
SATA-300
SATA I
SATA 1
SATA-150
Related terms: ATA
PATA
iSCSI
ESDI
dipinto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipinti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dipinto (literally “painting”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
epigraphy
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: a sketched or painted (as opposed to engraved) inscription.
necrobiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrobioses
Etymology: From necro- + -biosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The normal death of cells or tissues because of age-related changes.
Synonyms: bionecrosis
Derived terms: necrobiosis lipoidica
Related terms: necrosis
necrobiotic
incommode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkəˈməʊd/
ipa: /ˌɪnkəˈmoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: more incommode
form: most incommode
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from French incommode (“causing discomfort; inconvenient; troublesome; undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome”), from Latin incommodus (“inconvenient; disagreeable, troublesome; unfit, unsuitable, unseasonable”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodus (“becoming, suitable; comfortable, commodious; convenient; useful; opportune, timely; friendly, pleasant”) (from com- (a variant of con-) + modus): see further at etymology 1. The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(obsolete) convenient, opportune; suitable”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: But although in the actions of vvicked men, vvhen God doth uſe them as Inſtruments for the execution of ſome peculiar vvorks, it may peradventure be ſaid, that God doth determine their vvils, yet it ſeems more incommode to ſay, that God moves and predetermines to al other acts, as to acts of hatred of God, blaſphemie, &c.
ref: 1678, Theophilus Gale, “The State of the Controversie”, in The Court of the Gentiles. Part IV. Of Reformed Philosophie. Book III. Of Divine Predetermination. […], London: […] John Hill […], and Samuel Tidmarsh […], →OCLC, pages 30–31:
glosses: Synonym of incommodious.
Inapt; unsuitable.
examples: text: But, Madam, to be obliging to that exceſs as you are, (pardon me, if I tell you, out of my extream concern, and ſervice for your Grace) is a dangerous quality, and may be very incommode to you; for Civility makes Poets as troubleſom, as Charity makes Beggers; […]
ref: 1671 March (first performance), [William] Wycherley, “To Her Grace the Dutchess of Cleaveland”, in Love in a Wood, or, St James’s Park. A Comedy, […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1672, →OCLC:
text: To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits. […] In the kit-cat-club, he has poured full-bottoms [i.e., full-bottomed wigs] chiefly over night-govvns: If thoſe ſtreams of hair vvere incommode in a battle, I knovv nothing they vvere adapted to, that can be done in a night-govvn.
ref: 1762–1771, Horace Walpole, “Mr. JOHN SMITH”, in A Catalogue of Engravers, Who Have Been Born, or Resided in England; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV, or Engravers), London: […] Thomas Farmer […], →OCLC, pages 105–106:
glosses: Synonym of incommodious.
Inconvenient; troublesome.
incommode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkəˈməʊd/
ipa: /ˌɪnkəˈmoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: incommodes
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from French incommode (“causing discomfort; inconvenient; troublesome; undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome”), from Latin incommodus (“inconvenient; disagreeable, troublesome; unfit, unsuitable, unseasonable”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodus (“becoming, suitable; comfortable, commodious; convenient; useful; opportune, timely; friendly, pleasant”) (from com- (a variant of con-) + modus): see further at etymology 1. The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(obsolete) convenient, opportune; suitable”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: And as unto the perſonal meeting of both Princes, the vievving of the Place, and Appointing the Number to come vvith the ſaid Princes; in mine Opinion, ye have taken a right ſubſtantial and diſcrete VVay; praying you effectually to follovv the ſame, allvvays foreſeeing, that the Number be not too great, in avoiding ſundry Incommodes and Inconveniences, that might follovv thereof, as I doubt not, you can right vvell conſider.
ref: 1518 (date written), Thomas Wolsey, “[Collections. Book I.] The Cardinal’s Letter to the Ambassadors in France.”, in Richard Fiddes, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D[aniel] Midwinter, W. and J. Innys, R. Robinson, J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, published 1726, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.
Berlioz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Berliozian
alpha emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of radioactivity in which alpha particles are emitted from the nucleus of an atom
Related terms: alpha emitter
Moteuczoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Moctezuma.
interplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tə(ɹ)ˌpleɪ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈpleɪ/
Forms: form: interplays
Etymology: From inter- + play.
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after Cueto completed a hat-trick in the space of 11 minutes, diving over in the left-hand corner once again after more clinical interplay between backs and forwards.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
text: Beyond its aim to bring patients the most effective treatments faster, the service is expected to generate a wealth of data on the interplay between DNA, health and lifestyles, which will become a powerful tool for research into cancer and other diseases.
ref: 2018 July 3, Ian Sample, “Routine DNA tests will put NHS at the 'forefront of medicine'”, in The Guardian:
text: Southgate wanted to drive the uplift by getting onto the front foot, to pull Iran’s 5-4-1 system out of shape with quick movements and interplay, although there would be a pronounced false start, a break in the early rhythm.
ref: 2022 November 21, David Hytner, “England open World Cup in style with Bukayo Saka double in 6-2 rout of Iran”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Interaction; reciprocal relationship.
interplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tə(ɹ)ˌpleɪ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈpleɪ/
Forms: form: interplays
form: interplaying
form: interplayed
form: interplayed
Etymology: From inter- + play.
Senses: glosses: To interact.
antanaclasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antanaclases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντανάκλασις (antanáklasis, “reflection, bending back”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀνά (aná, “up”) + κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”).
Senses: glosses: The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of paronomasia.
Hypernyms: pun
ploce
Hyponyms: antistasis
Irish twin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish twins
Etymology: Originally used (in the nineteenth century) to mock the fertility of Irish families, referencing the stereotype that they have children in quicker succession.
Senses: examples: text: I'm the oldest, my brother, Dylan, is the next oldest—my Irish twin.” “Irish twin?” “He's ten months younger, what is referred to sarcastically as an Irish twin. My parents still live in the same flat in Dublin I grew up in. I haven't been home much the last twelve years or so. How about you, darlin'?”
ref: 2014, Karyn Gerrard, His Wicked Celtic Kiss, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
synonyms: Catholic twin
glosses: Either of a pair of siblings born less than 12 months apart, especially if born within the same calendar year or school year or born one year apart.
schuyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schuyts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schuit.
seismogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seismogenic
form: most seismogenic
Etymology: From seismo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Capable of causing earthquakes.
Derived terms: seismogenic layer
seismogenic zone
seismogenic layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismogenic layers
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A seismogenic zone
seismogenic zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismogenic zones
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the layer of the Earth's crust, at the top of the asthenosphere, where most earthquakes originate
phreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiˈæt.ɪk/
Forms: form: more phreatic
form: most phreatic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek stem of φρέαρ (phréar, “well, spring”).
Senses: examples: text: 1979 [McGraw-Hill], Jacob Bear, Hydraulics of Groundwater, 2007, Dover, page 76,
Both ϕ and q vary from point to point within a phreatic aquifer.
text: 1981, Peter W. Lipman, James G. Moore, Donald A. Swanson, Bulging of the North Flank Before the May 18 Eruption—Geodetic Data, Peter W. Lipman, Donal R. Mullineaux (editors), The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington, U.S. Geological Survey, page 143,
These results contributed to assessments by USGS personnel in late April and early May that Mount St. Helens remained highly dangerous despite the seemingly mild small-scale phreatic eruptions that were then the most conspicuous activity.
text: Gradually, infiltrating waters gather in underground rivers or phreatic conduits well integrated in the karst drainage system, which leads the underground waters to the outlets.
ref: 1992, Angel Ginés, Joaquin Ginés, “Karst Phenomena and Biospeleological Environments”, in Ana Isabel Camacho, editor, The Natural History of Biospeleology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, page 43:
text: “Phreatic” (or steam-blast) eruptions are driven by explosive expanding steam resulting from cold ground or surface water coming into contact with hot rock or magma. The distinguishing feature of phreatic explosions is that they only blast out fragments of preexisting solid rock from the volcanic conduit; no new magma is erupted.
ref: 2010, Jose Collazo, God Does Exist, No More Nuclear Testing and More, Xlibris, page 58:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to ground water; (volcanology) involving explosively rapid heating of ground water by magma.
Derived terms: epiphreatic
nonphreatic
phreatically
phreatic cycle
phreatic eruption
phreatic gas
phreatic line
phreatic surface
phreatic water
phreatic zone
phreatomagmatic
phreatophyte
ground water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground waters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundwater.
schoolmarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌmɑɹm/
Forms: form: schoolmarms
form: school marm
form: school-marm
Etymology: From school + marm (“madam”).
Senses: examples: text: The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.
ref: 2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising:
text: I never thought of [my granfather] as "colorful." Matter of fact, he was an unsavory old coot - not a good influence for a growing boy by the standards of those times. Mmm, there was something about a young schoolmarm and him in the town my family had lived in, some scandal - "scandal" for those days, I mean - and I think that was why we moved.
ref: 1972, Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love:
glosses: A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.
examples: text: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
ref: 1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (motion picture), spoken by Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), RKO Radio Pictures:
glosses: Someone who acts like a schoolmarm; a person acting harsh and stern.
examples: text: His brother Thomas, impaled upon the "schoolmarm tree," had opened his mouth to cry but snow and wind hurled back the words into his throat so that nothing emerges but white froth.
ref: 1939, Howard O'Hagan, Tay John, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page VIII:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
schoolmarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌmɑɹm/
Forms: form: schoolmarms
form: schoolmarming
form: schoolmarmed
form: schoolmarmed
form: school marm
form: school-marm
Etymology: From school + marm (“madam”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, our trouble in America is that we're being schoolmarmed to death. You can see it in any paper you pick up.
ref: 1914, The Cosmopolitan, volume 56, Schlicht & Field, page 458:
text: One client, the most mothering member of the group, did exactly that: she took him home, fed him, and schoolmarmed him through the application form.
ref: 2008, Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Basic Books, →ISBN:
text: Kate Winslet is brilliant, but "there is never a moment where she finds out anything about her fellow actors"; even Emma Thompson, whom he clearly adores, is chided for "schoolmarming" on the set of Sense and Sensibility.
ref: 2022 November 3, “Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman: diary extracts packed with 'profound' observations”, in The Week UK:
glosses: To discipline in the manner of a schoolmarm; to harshly reprimand or chide.
schoolmarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolmarm
schoolmarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schoolmarm
schoolmarmish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolmarmish
form: most schoolmarmish
form: school-marmish
Etymology: From schoolmarm + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a schoolmarm.
Derived terms: schoolmarmishly
schoolmarmishness
unschoolmarmish
schoolroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolrooms
form: school-room
Etymology: From school + room.
Senses: glosses: A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction.
schoolrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolroom
schoolyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolyards
Etymology: From school + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona / Seein' me and Julio down by the schoolyard
ref: 1972, Paul Simon, “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon:
glosses: The grounds around a school.
glosses: An open field near a school used for recreation by the students.
Hyponyms: sense: open field near a school
word: blacktop
schoolyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolyard
schoolteacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolteachers
form: school teacher
Etymology: From school + teacher.
Senses: glosses: A teacher working in a school.
Derived terms: schoolie
schoolteacherish
schoolteacherly
schoolteachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolteacher
seascape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiˌskeɪp/
Forms: form: seascapes
Etymology: From sea + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A view of the sea.
glosses: A piece of art that depicts the sea or shoreline.
Synonyms: marinescape
marinorama
seapiece
Related terms: dreamscape
landscape
moonscape
seascapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seascape
segregationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segregationists
Etymology: From segregation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Her [Rosa Parks'] arrest launched a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in which 40,000 Black people, mostly all working people, fought the segregationist bosses.
ref: 2006 February 12, Leslie Feinberg, “Black movement raised hopes of all downtrodden”, in Workers World:
text: In 2003, Biden eulogized South Carolina Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond, one of the most notorious segregationists in American politics for most of his career who had “moved to the good side” later in life, Biden said.
ref: 2019 June 19, Eric Bradner, “Joe Biden recalls working with segregationist senators: ‘At least there was some civility’”, in CNN:
text: On March 18, 1965, Wallace, who was a segregationist, told the Alabama legislature that he intended to ask for federal troops “to provide for the safety and welfare of the so called demonstrators.”
ref: 2025 June 9, Annabelle Timsit, Kyle Melnick and Alex Horton, “When have presidents called in the National Guard to quell domestic unrest?”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2025:
glosses: A person who supports or believes in segregation.
segregationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more segregationist
form: most segregationist
Etymology: From segregation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In that way, all integrationist Judaisms differ from all segregationist ones.
ref: 2009, Jacob Neusner, World Religions in America, page 137:
text: This logic exposes the segregationist intent of tuition grants beneath the superficial color blindness.
ref: 2020, Ursula Hackett, America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State, page 67:
text: 'It locks us into our differences,' Tony said, 'it's segregationist.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 106:
text: But it became more common during the civil rights era, when the federal government clashed with officials in Southern, segregationist states.
ref: 2025 June 9, Annabelle Timsit, Kyle Melnick and Alex Horton, “When have presidents called in the National Guard to quell domestic unrest?”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2025:
glosses: Causing or promoting segregation.
Synonyms: apartheidist
segregationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of segregationist
selenographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenographers
Etymology: From selen- + -o- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: a person who charts the moon's surface
glosses: a person who studies selenography
semanticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semanticists
Etymology: From semantic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies semantics.
semanticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semanticist
raise the flag and see who salutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises the flag and sees who salutes
form: raising the flag and seeing who salutes
form: raised the flag and saw who saluted
form: raised the flag and seen who saluted
form: send it up the flagpole and see who salutes
Senses: examples: text: Much of the discourse on and the spirit of group interaction have an improvisational flavor: we “float trial balloons” in the groups we belong to or “raise a flag and see who salutes.”
ref: 1996, Jo Ann Oravec, Virtual individuals, virtual groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking, page 312:
glosses: To float an idea, (or otherwise do some action) to see what response or controversy (if any) it generates, usually as a preliminary step.
Related terms: nail one's colours to the mast
test the waters
raise a flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises a flag
form: raising a flag
form: raised a flag
form: raised a flag
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raise red flags.
localisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: localisations
Etymology: From localise + -ation; compare French localisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of localization.
Derived terms: antilocalisation
colocalisation
delocalisation
geolocalisation
immunolocalisation
mislocalisation
neurolocalisation
sublocalisation
supralocalisation
translocalisation
Frazer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frazers
Senses: glosses: A Scottish and Irish surname from Old French, variant of Fraser
glosses: A placename
A census-designated place in Valley County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A placename
A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A placename
A census-designated place in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: Fraser
Frasier
Frazier
godown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gōʹdoun
ipa: /ˈɡoʊ̯daʊ̯n/
note: Indic
enpr: go͝o-doun'
ipa: /ɡʊˈɖawn/
note: Indic
Forms: form: godowns
form: goedown
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay gudang, from Tamil கிடங்கு (kiṭaṅku, “store room”) or Telugu గిడ్డంగి (giḍḍaṅgi, “store room, warehouse”).
Senses: examples: text: 1694, Fort St. George Diary and Consultation Book, entry for 30 April, 1694, Madras: 1918, p. 45,
Ordered that the new House in the Fort be forthwith built according to a modell now produced an approved, being 110 foot in length and 55 foot in breadth to be built on the East side the Fort at 18 Foot distance from the godown wall, and at equal distance from the north and south walls.
text: They retired round the corner of the godown and watched Willems curiously through the night, till the short daybreak was followed by the sudden blaze of the rising sun, and Almayer's establishment woke up to life and work.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter VII, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 79:
text: There is a sort of village square with wood and palm-leaf native shops grouped round about it; behind this stands a godown for the rice beside the river bank. This godown was empty at the time, and it was here that the party was accommodated.
ref: 1950, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in A Town Like Alice, London: The Reprint Society, published 1952, page 101:
text: At last a certain merchant purchased the weedy little garden in the center of the Old Quarter and built godowns and shops upon its flower beds.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 196:
text: Sam Vimes awoke from a pig's nightmare to find himself lying on a pile of sacks in a godown in the docks.
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, page 307 in hardback
glosses: A warehouse.
beamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bē'mĭsh
ipa: /ˈbiːmɪʃ/
rhymes: -iːmɪʃ
Forms: form: more beamish
form: most beamish
Etymology: From beam + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
ref: 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
text: But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum!
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Third.⁠ The Baker’s Tale.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
glosses: Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.
Derived terms: beamishly
borogove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/
Forms: form: borogoves
form: borogrove
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1855.
Senses: examples: text: The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric.
ref: 2006, David Brown, Kara Willey, The Worlds of Naughtenny Moore, →ISBN:
text: Its knee bent the wrong way, though Albert thought it was certainly the right way for the borogove . Another borogove popped out of the forest and followed the first across the road, then a third and a fourth .
ref: 2013, Mel Gilden, The Jabberwock Came Whiffling: A Novel of Fantasy, →ISBN, page 22:
text: It smelled like a wet borogove.
ref: 2014, Daniel Coleman, Jabberwocky: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: With the Borogove's long legs, they hop and step over some incoming attacks.
ref: 2015, Donald Weis, Monster Lore 2, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: An animal introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. According to Humpty Dumpty, a borogove is "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." According to Mischmasch, it is "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."
semiannually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semi-annually
Etymology: From semi- + annually or semi- + annual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a semiannual manner, twice yearly.
semiyearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semiyearly
form: most semiyearly
Etymology: From semi- + yearly or semi- + year + -ly.
Senses: glosses: semiannually
seminarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛm.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /sɛ.məˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: seminarians
Etymology: From seminary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]
ref: 1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:
synonyms: seminarist
glosses: Someone who studies at a seminary.
seminarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminarian
semimonthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + monthly.
Senses: examples: The semimonthly meeting was scheduled for the second and fourth Tuesdays.
Compare fortnightly, biweekly, semiweekly; not to be confused with bimonthly
glosses: Occurring twice a month or at half month intervals.
semimonthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semi- + monthly.
Senses: examples: text: They met semimonthly to discuss the latest developments.
glosses: In a manner occurring twice a month or at half month intervals.
Related terms: fortnightly
biweekly
semiweekly
bimonthly
semimonthly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimonthlies
Etymology: From semi- + monthly.
Senses: glosses: Something done or made every half month, especially a periodical.
semiprecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a semiprecious stone or gem
glosses: Alternative form of semi-precious.
sequined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkwɪnd/
Forms: form: more sequined
form: most sequined
form: sequinned
Etymology: From sequin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She wore a blue sequined dress.
text: Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.
ref: 1988, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):
glosses: Decorated with sequins.
Synonyms: besequined
sereneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serenenesses
Etymology: From serene + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being serene.
Synonyms: serenity
switch-hit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switch-hits
form: switch-hitting
form: switch-hit
form: switch-hit
form: switch hit
Senses: examples: text: His ability to switch-hit left the manager with a tough decision whether to bring in a left-handed or a right-handed relief pitcher.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: To bat both left and right-handed.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To face the bowler with a left or right-handed batting stance, and then switch to the opposite stance as the ball is bowled.
switch-hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch-hits
form: switch hit
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of switch-hitting.
Related terms: reverse sweep
switch-hitter
swearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swearers
Etymology: From Middle English swerer; equivalent to swear + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who swears
swearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swearer
sunniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunninesses
Etymology: From sunny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sunny.
pretty pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He forgot to include pretty pictures in his project documentation.
glosses: Image supplements in a presentation: graphs, charts, etc.
4-4-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-4-0s
Senses: synonyms: American
coordinate_terms: 4-4-2
;
more at Whyte notation § Wheel arrangement names
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels on a leading truck followed by two sets of coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
Related terms: 440
Sunday punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday punches
Senses: glosses: A knockout blow; a mighty or devastating blow.
triplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having three parts; triple or threefold.
Having three floors
topics: architecture
glosses: Having three parts; triple or threefold.
Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments
Derived terms: triplexity
triplicity
triplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplexes
Etymology: From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: A building with three apartments or divisions.
examples: text: There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Pure Language”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: A dwelling unit with three floors.
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Triple time.
examples: text: In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Anything with three parts.
Synonyms: sense: building
word: threeplex
triplex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triplexes
form: triplexing
form: triplexed
form: triplexed
Etymology: From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: To make triplex.
web beacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web beacons
Senses: examples: text: The sole purpose of putting a Web beacon in a page is to cause a secondary transaction in order to set third-party cookies.
ref: 2005, Craig D. Knuckles, David S. Yuen, Web Applications: Concepts & Real World Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 363:
text: A web beacon is a small graphic image that is usually transparent (and therefore invisible to the user) and no larger than one pixel by one pixel that is placed on a website or in an email.
ref: 2012, Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A web bug.