cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn
ipa: /æn/
ipa: [eən]
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Anne
Etymology: From Late Latin Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna, “Anna”) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English. Very infrequently from Estonian abbreviation of Anna instead. Doublet of Ana, Anna, Anne, and Hannah.
Senses: examples: text: ramsden. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield. / tanner. I mean our Ann, your Ann, Tavy's Ann, and now, Heaven help me, my Ann!
ref: 1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act I, page 8:
text: Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.
ref: 1969, Constance Urdang, Natural History, Harper&Row, page 61:
text: "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."
"Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"
ref: 2005, Mary Monroe, In Sheep's Clothing, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 129:
text: “Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
ref: 2019 January 19, Stephen Collinson and Maegan Vazquez, “Trump’s offer of temporary protection for immigrants to end shutdown is a ‘non-starter,’ say Democrats”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Ann Arbor
Annarbour
Rapid Ann
Rapid Ann Station
Royal Ann
Related terms: Ana
Anita
Anke
Anku
Anna
Anne
Anneke
Annette
Annie
Annika
Anya
Hannah
Nan
Nance
Nancy
Nannie
Nanny
Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn
ipa: /æn/
ipa: [eən]
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Anns
form: Anne
Etymology: Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare Welsh onn (“ash tree”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn
ipa: /æn/
ipa: [eən]
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Anns
form: Anne
Etymology: Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare Welsh onn (“ash tree”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of anniversary.
Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn
ipa: /æn/
ipa: [eən]
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Anne
Etymology: Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare Welsh onn (“ash tree”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of annual.
owners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊnɚz/
ipa: /ˈəʊnəz/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnəz
Senses: glosses: plural of owner
Abraham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.hæm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹæm/
Forms: form: Abrahams
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor.
Ancient Greek Ἀβραάμ (Abraám)bor.
Latin Ābrahāmbor.
Old English Abraham
Middle English Abraham
English Abraham
From Middle English Abraham, from Old English Abraham, from Late Latin Ābrahām, from Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m), from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ('aḇrāhām, “Abraham”). Thomas L. Thompson suggests that the meaning of the name in Genesis was forgotten due to its age and that its original meaning was "Father is exalted." Glossed as אַב (aḇ, “father of”) + הֲמוֹן (hăˈmōn, “multitude of”) in Genesis 17:4–5; or from Hebrew אַבְרָם ('aḇrām, “Abram”). Doublet of Ibrahim and Avraham.
Senses: examples: text: Neither ſhall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name ſhall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 17:5, column 2:
text: As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the traditional interpretation are supposed to have lived at the same period, already possessed camels.
ref: 1980, Werner Keller, chapter 7, in William Neil, transl., The Bible as History, page 93:
synonyms: Abram
Ibrahim
glosses: A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch son of Terah who practiced monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac by Sarah and the Arab patriarch Ishmael by Hagar.
examples: text: "Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. […] "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish name," I said. "They must have just liked the sound of it. They were simple frontier people. If they'd known the name was Jewish, I'm sure they would have called him something more American, like George or Stanley or Fred."
ref: 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, Dell, published 1975, page 28:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
examples: text: Farmer also happened to be just the kind of expert that Franck and his co-author Daniel Abraham needed to bring their novels to the screen.
ref: 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: The 14th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Derived terms: Abrahamic
Abrahamical
Abrahamism
Abrahamist
Abrahamite
Abrahamize
Abraham man
Abraham's balsam
Abrahamson
Abraham's willing
Gaybraham
Plains of Abraham
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Abe
sense: pet forms
word: Abey
sense: pet forms
word: Abie
sense: male given names
word: Abram
sense: male given names
word: Bram
sense: male given names
word: Avram
word: Abrahams
Abraham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.hæm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɹæm/
Forms: form: Abrahams
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor.
Ancient Greek Ἀβραάμ (Abraám)bor.
Latin Ābrahāmbor.
Old English Abraham
Middle English Abraham
English Abraham
From Middle English Abraham, from Old English Abraham, from Late Latin Ābrahām, from Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m), from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ('aḇrāhām, “Abraham”). Thomas L. Thompson suggests that the meaning of the name in Genesis was forgotten due to its age and that its original meaning was "Father is exalted." Glossed as אַב (aḇ, “father of”) + הֲמוֹן (hăˈmōn, “multitude of”) in Genesis 17:4–5; or from Hebrew אַבְרָם ('aḇrām, “Abram”). Doublet of Ibrahim and Avraham.
Senses: synonyms: slopshop
glosses: A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.
Wayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
homophone: wane
homophone: wain
rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: An occupational surname for a cartwright, Old English wægen (“wagon”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
examples: text: "My Dad wanted to name me Mats." "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera." "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it."
ref: 1988, Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with. I wonder if this is my Reverse L'Oréal Syndrome kicking in again; what would I call my kids, Wayne and Tracey? Because I'm not worth it.
ref: 2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102:
text: The testimony of Wayne LaPierre, in the waning days of his long tenure as head of one of the nation’s most powerful lobbying groups, could highlight a New York civil trial alleging top officials used the National Rifle Association as a “personal piggy bank.”
ref: 2024 January 8, Ray Sanchez and Sabrina Souza, “Civil trial alleging top NRA officials used the organization as ‘personal piggy bank’ begins today”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Wayne County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Wayne Township.
Derived terms: Fort Wayne
Wayleen
Wayne County
Waynesboro
Waynesburg
Waynesville
school psychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school psychologists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner or educator who conducts assessments to evaluate students on criteria such as intelligence, aptitude, and psychopathology. Additionally, they often consult with teachers and other school personnel to supply interventions to aid in student learning. Not to be confused with a school counselor.
wikipedia: school psychologist
gadget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡædʒɪt/
ipa: /ɡæd͡ʒət/
rhymes: -ædʒɪt
Forms: form: gadgets
form: gadjet
Etymology: Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.
Senses: examples: text: Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
ref: 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
glosses: A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
examples: text: He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
text: That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
glosses: Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
examples: text: From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:
glosses: Any consumer electronics product.
examples: text: A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
ref: Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
examples: text: We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
Synonyms: contraption
contrivance
doohickey
gizmo
widget
Derived terms: gadgetbahn
gadgeteer
gadgetless
gadgetry
gadgety
nongadget
tossup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tossups
Etymology: Deverbal from toss up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toss-up.
blue box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue boxes
Senses: glosses: A blue container used for the collection of household waste (such as tin cans and newspapers) for recycling by a municipal authority.
examples: text: This was before Wozniak—known among the cognoscenti as Woz—almost woke up the Pope by calling the Vatican on his famed illegal "blue box," before he invented the Apple II and helped launch the personal computer industry, and before he gave up his brilliant engineering career and became a public school teacher.
ref: 1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2011:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
coordinate_terms: violet box
glosses: An electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system.
examples: See also: severe thunderstorm watch
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A "tornado watch" notification category.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, box.
Hypernyms: box
bonkbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonkbusters
Etymology: Blend of bonk + blockbuster.
Senses: examples: text: However, there would certainly be no Insatiable without Jilly Cooper. The bonkbusters of the 80s were responsible for my sentimental sex education. Like millions of readers, I fell in love with every aspect of the universe Cooper created.
ref: 2021 March 31, Daisy Buchanan, “The return of the bonkbuster: how horny heroines are starting a new sexual revolution”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The novels sold 11mn copes in the UK alone, came to typify the rise of the so-called bonkbuster, and introduced readers to the world of horsey high society.
ref: 2025 October 11, Alex Clark, “Obituary [Jilly Cooper]: Writer who created racy bonkbusters in Rutshire”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
glosses: A popular novel involving frequent explicit sexual encounters, normally in a contemporary setting.
Related terms: bodice ripper
blot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
ipa: /blɑt/
Forms: form: blots
form: blotting
form: blotted
form: blotted
Etymology: From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).
Senses: glosses: To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
examples: text: This paper blots easily.
glosses: To soak up or absorb liquid.
glosses: To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
examples: text: The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore,[…]
ref: 1566, George Gascoigne, Dan Bartholmew of Bath:
glosses: To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
examples: text: It blots thy beautie, as froſts doe bite the Meads,[…]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:
glosses: To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
examples: text: Blot not thy Innocence with guiltleſs Blood.
ref: 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
glosses: To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
examples: text: to blot out a word or a sentence
text: One act like this blots out a thouſand Crimes.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82:
glosses: To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
examples: text: He ſung how Earth blots the Moons gilded Wane,[…]
ref: 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
glosses: To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
examples: text: I'm walking down the street, past the coppers on the beat. Past the shotters blottin' weed, clear for everyone to see.
ref: 2006 June 26, “Where Ya From?” (track 10), in Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, performed by Plan B (musician):
text: What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.
ref: 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars, performed by Tempa T:
text: Porchy: Blottin' dope on the block, going on these shows.
ref: 2014 August 18, “Earth Burns”performed by Porchy,Oxxxymiron:
glosses: To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: To hit a blot.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blot one's copy book
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blot out
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blottable
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blotter
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blotting paper
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: blot up
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: outblot
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: reblot
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: transblot
sense: Terms derived from blot (verb)
word: unblotted
God particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God particles
Etymology: Coined by American mathematician and physicist Leon M. Lederman in 1993 in his book The God Particle, the title having been changed at the suggestion of his editor. According to Lederman (page 22), he wanted to call the Higgs boson the Goddamn Particle, "given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing", but his publisher wouldn't let him. So they agreed to call it "The God Particle" as "there is a connection, of sorts" to the Bible and the story of the Tower of Babel in the sense that it appears as if the Higgs boson "has been put there to test and confuse us".
Senses: examples: text: Among other fascinating insights, Penrose explains that the God particle was originally proposed by Peter Higgs as "an ingenious theoretical device, and not necessarily appearing as an actual particle. As a device, it allowed other particles to acquire mass,[…]."
ref: 1998, Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education, →ISBN, page 229:
text: The first thing you learn when you ask scientists about the God particle is that it′s bad form to call it that.
ref: 2008, “National Geographic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 213, page 101:
text: To his contemporaries, his desperation seemed like a search for the "God particle," something seen as daft, even obstructionist.
ref: 2010, Mu Soeng, The Heart of the Universe: Exploring the Heart Sutra, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The Higgs boson.
Related terms: Oh-My-God particle
blot out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blots out
form: blotting out
form: blotted out
form: blotted out
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out.
examples: text: The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.
text: However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [176]:
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
glosses: To obscure.
examples: text: From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
examples: text: And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 7:4:
glosses: To annihilate
bodice-ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodice-rippers
Senses: examples: text: Soon bodice-rippers, the gothics, the "romance" novel advanced from paperback to hardback, from supermarket racks to book club selections.
ref: 1993, William O’Rourke, “Catholics Coming of Age”, in Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Grazia [Deledda] discovered early that a short story appeared in the last pages of each magazine; these tales were of a decidedly Romantic bent, much like today's supermarket bodice-rippers.
ref: 2006, Jan Kozma, “Translator’s Introduction”, in Marianna Sirca, translated by Jan Kozma, Grazia Deledda, Madison; Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of bodice ripper.
blotting paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Absorbent paper used to dry ink.
Related terms: blotter
blotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blotters
Etymology: From blot + -er.
Senses: synonyms: desk blotter
desk pad
glosses: A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: police blotter
glosses: A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
examples: text: All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
text: He maintains the political blotter blog.
text: "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."
ref: 2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water:
glosses: A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
examples: text: Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
ref: 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive:
glosses: A portion of blotter acid.
Derived terms: blotter acid
blotter art
blottery
electroblotter
miniblotter
police blotter
trade blotter
Southern blot analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Edwin Mallor Southern, British biochemist.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A technique whereby biological molecules (especially DNA fragments) are separated by electrophoresis and then transferred from a gel to an immobilizing medium, under the influence of an electric field, for analysis.
Related terms: Northern blot analysis
Western blot analysis
Northern blot analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern blot analysis
Etymology: See Western blot analysis § Etymology.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A laboratory technique, akin to Southern blot analysis, used to identify RNA fragments.
Related terms: Western blot analysis
Western blot analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Western blot analyses
form: western blot analysis
Etymology: Playful extension from Southern blot analysis, which is eponymous, named after Edwin M. Southern. When other similar techniques were developed soon afterward, they were named Western and Northern in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. The origin from the surname Southern means that all the terms are often capitalised.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A laboratory technique, akin to Southern blot analysis, used to identify antibodies and other proteins.
wikipedia: Edwin Southern
Related terms: Northern blot analysis
body double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body doubles
Etymology: The psychological sense was coined by ADHD coach Linda Anderson in 1996.
Senses: glosses: A film stand-in for an actor, in scenes not involving the face, especially during scenes of nudity, or of dangerous activity.
glosses: A political decoy; a person employed to impersonate a politician, in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
examples: text: The coach should be prepared to become the client’s [ADDer's] “body double.” Her presence, especially with direct eye contact, sharpens the client’s attention and vigilance
ref: 1999, Raizi Abby Janus, Mapping Careers with LD and ADD Clients: Guidebook and Case Studies, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 211:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person who is present nearby — or virtually connected to — a person with ADHD in order to increase their attention and focus.
body double
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: body doubles
form: body doubling
form: body doubled
form: body doubled
Etymology: The psychological sense was coined by ADHD coach Linda Anderson in 1996.
Senses: glosses: To act as a body double.
To stand-in for an actor in a film.
glosses: To act as a body double.
To impersonate a politician in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
examples: text: I suggest that instead of actively attempting to organize Beth, Jack should body double for her. In this new passive role, Jack putters with his own work while Beth organizes her desk.
ref: 1998, Judith Kolberg, Conquering Chronic Disorganization, 2nd edition, Decatur: Squall Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 108:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To act as a body double.
To be present nearby — or virtually connected to — a person with ADHD in order to increase their attention and focus.
Related terms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: stunt double
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: stuntman
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: understudy
topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: Hawthorne effect
topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: social facilitation
-bot
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From robot.
Senses: examples: text: Voltbot: 'WE HAVE PREPARED YOU, STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR WEAK STEAMBOT SHELL. YOU ARE ALREADY MORE PART OF US THAN YOU ARE YOURSELF. *BZZT* WE WILL BE INVINCIBLE! THE VOLTBOT WILL RISE AND RULE.'
ref: 2013 August 7, Image & Form, SteamWorld Dig, level/area: Vectron:
glosses: automatic system, computer program or machine
annoybot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annoybots
Etymology: From annoy + -bot.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.
cancelbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancelbots
Etymology: From cancel + -bot.
Senses: glosses: A bot that sends messages to Usenet newsgroups to remove certain postings, especially spam.
Related terms: spambot
knowbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowbots
Etymology: From know + -bot.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a bot that roams a distributive network (especially the Internet) to gather or distribute information
microbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbots
Etymology: From micro- + -bot.
Senses: glosses: a small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller
Neil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nēl
ipa: /niːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: kneel
homophone: Neal
homophone: Niel
Forms: form: Neal
form: Neale
form: Neill
Etymology: Anglicized form of Goidelic/Irish Niall. Doublet of Niall.
Senses: examples: text: So now that the Republicans have used the nuclear option to kill the poor filibuster to clear the way for the elevation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, we can lose perspective.
ref: 2017 April 5, Steven Waldman, “Learning to Love the Nuclear Option”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A surname from Irish derived from the given name.
Derived terms: Kincardine O'Neil
Neilson
Nelson
Neal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nēl
ipa: /niːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: kneel
homophone: Neil
homophone: Niel
Forms: form: Neals
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] derived from Niall.
glosses: A male given name from Irish, transferred from the surname.
glosses: A male given name, variant of Neil.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenwood County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Boyd County, Kentucky, opposite Neal, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Long Lake Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Maryneal
mobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobots
Etymology: From mobile + -bot.
Senses: glosses: A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.
Herzegovinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herzegovinians
form: Herzegovinan
Etymology: From Herzegovina + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Herzegovina (southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Coordinate terms: Albanian
Balkan
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosniak
Bosnian
Croat
Herzegovina
Serb
Yugoslav
Related terms: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovinian
Herzegovina
Herzegovinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Herzegovinan
Etymology: From Herzegovina + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The iconic humpbacked bridge rose high over the Neretva, connecting the two halves of the old Herzegovinian town that clung to the clifftops: one Muslim, the other Croat.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 60:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Herzegovina and its inhabitants.
Coordinate terms: Albanian
Balkan
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosniak
Bosnian
Croatian
Herzegovina
Serbian
Yugoslavian
Related terms: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovinian
Herzegovina
nanobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobots
Etymology: From nano- + -bot.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: A very small autonomous robot, typically the size of a biological cell, designed to work alone or in very large numbers to achieve some task.
Synonyms: nanorobot
nanomachine
nanite
Related terms: grey goo
nanotool
grey goo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray goo
Etymology: Coined by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation.
Senses: examples: text: "Our first priority has to be quarantining Xinchub's body, and examining any Yomingians who may have handled it. I don't think we're headed for a grey-goo scenario here, but we'd all feel really bad if the local biosphere got consumed by nanobots after we left."
ref: 2007 August 24, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 11 May 2024:
text: […]Through this, they learn more, and manage to reverse-engineer the ion drives of the drone, allowing them to move the station very rapidly towards Earth. On their way, they manage to send signals to multiple Foundation facilities, overriding them and using their fabrication plants to make new nanomachines. At this rate, it won't be long before there's a good old-fashioned grey-goo scenario, and humanity and the Earth are similarly consumed.
ref: 2023 October 22, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7759 - T is for "Transmission"” (14:43 from the start), in The Exploring Series, retrieved 15 May 2024:
glosses: A hypothetical end-of-the-world event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control self-replicating nanobots consume all life on Earth (or another planet or moon).
wikipedia: Engines of Creation
shopping bot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopping bots
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: shopbot
shopping agent
glosses: A bot that searches the Internet for the best price of a particular retail product.
spambot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spambots
Etymology: From spam + -bot.
Senses: glosses: A bot that sends mass junk e-mail.
glosses: A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet.
Related terms: cancelbot
teens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Senses: glosses: plural of teen
teens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Senses: examples: text: The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
glosses: The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
examples: text: She is in her teens.
glosses: The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
examples: text: I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!
ref: 2010, Michael G Cunningham, “The 20th Century's aughts and teens: OPERETTA”, in Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979):
glosses: The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
examples: text: Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
topics: temperature
qualifier: rates
glosses: The range between 10 and 19.
Derived terms: in one's teens
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
buckminsterfullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckminsterfullerenes
Etymology: After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ene.
Senses: glosses: An allotrope of carbon having a hollow molecule consisting of 60 atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal faces to form a truncated icosahedron; the smallest of the fullerenes.
wikipedia: Buckminster Fuller
Synonyms: footballene
Derived terms: buckyonion
Related terms: fullerene
fulleride
buckyball
buckytube
fullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊləɹˌin/
Forms: form: fullerenes
Etymology: After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).
Derived terms: azafullerene
dendrofullerene
endofullerene
endohedral fullerene
heterofullerene
homofullerene
hyperfullerene
interfullerene
metallofullerene
nanofullerene
norfullerene
Related terms: buckminsterfullerene
fullerane
fulleride
fulleroid
buckyball
buckytube
nanoparticle
nanotube
fulleride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullerides
Etymology: After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a fullerene doped with a metal atom; some of them exhibit superconductivity
wikipedia: Buckminster Fuller
bulemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably influenced by polemic.
Senses: examples: text: Yo-yo dieting and bulemic behavior can cause as much harm as obesity.
ref: 1988 April 9, Ellen G., “Food Addiction Is A Killer”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Misspelling of bulimic.
bulemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably influenced by polemic.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bulimic.
bulimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjuˈlimi.ə/
ipa: /bjuˈlɪmi.ə/
ipa: /buˈlimi.ə/
ipa: /buˈlɪmi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪmiə
rhymes: -iːmiə
Forms: form: bulimias
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
From Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow, ox”) + λῑμός (līmós, “hunger”).
Senses: examples: text: Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.
ref: 1989, Daniel Waters, Heathers, spoken by Heather Chandler:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive hunger.
Synonyms: bulimia nervosa
Derived terms: academic bulimia
bulimarexia
bulimorexia
diabulimia
exercise bulimia
bungee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌndʒi
Forms: form: bungees
form: bungey
form: bungie
form: bungy
form: bunje
form: bunjee
form: bunjie
Etymology: Probably from slang language, maybe from bouncy + spongy.
Senses: glosses: An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage.
glosses: An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping.
glosses: A rubber eraser.
Derived terms: bungee cord
bungee jump
bungee jumper
bungee jumping
bungee line
bungee rope
bungee running
mouse bungee
bungee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌndʒi
Forms: form: bungees
form: bungeeing
form: bungeed
form: bungeed
form: bungey
form: bungie
form: bungy
form: bunje
form: bunjee
form: bunjie
Etymology: Probably from slang language, maybe from bouncy + spongy.
Senses: glosses: To bungee jump
top oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops oneself
form: topping oneself
form: topped oneself
form: topped oneself
Etymology: From top (“to excel; to surpass; to beat”).
Senses: glosses: To outdo oneself or do more than one's previous best.
top oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops oneself
form: topping oneself
form: topped oneself
form: topped oneself
Etymology: From top (“to kill”) (UK).
Senses: examples: text: But Mr Blunkett, in a remarkably frank admission, said his first thought on hearing about the 57-year-old's death was to celebrate. "You wake up and you receive a phone call - Shipman's topped himself. You have just got to think for a minute: is it too early to open a bottle? And then you discover that everybody's very upset that he's done it."
ref: 2004 January 16, “Blunkett admits Shipman error”, in BBC News:
synonyms: suicide
take one's own life
glosses: To commit suicide.
bungee cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungee cords
form: bungy cord
Senses: glosses: A long elastic cord tied around the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping.
glosses: An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage.
Synonyms: bungee
bungee line
bungee rope
bungee line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungee lines
Senses: glosses: A long elastic cord tied around the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping.
Synonyms: bungee
bungee cord
bungee rope
bungee rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungee ropes
form: bungy rope
Senses: glosses: A long elastic cord tied around the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping.
Synonyms: bungee
bungee cord
bungee line
bungee jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bungy jumping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bungee jump
bungee jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungy jumping
Senses: glosses: The activity of jumping from a great height with an elasticated cord attached to the ankles.
Derived terms: bungee jump
bungee jumper
Related terms: bungee cord
bungee jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungee jumps
form: bungy jump
Senses: glosses: An instance of bungee jumping.
bungee jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bungee jumps
form: bungee jumping
form: bungee jumped
form: bungee jumped
form: bungy jump
Senses: glosses: To participate in bungee jumping.
bungee jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungee jumpers
form: bungy jumper
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in bungee jumping.
bung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: bungs
Etymology: From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
Senses: examples: text: With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
ref: 1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy:
text: Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.
ref: 2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter:
glosses: A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
glosses: The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
glosses: The human anus.
examples: text: It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs.
ref: 2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, in the Guardian:
text: Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain?
ref: 2021 April 26, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Alexander Peter, Lena Schüler, ““Pay to Play” in the German Book Trade?”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 37, →DOI, pages 241–254:
glosses: A bribe.
glosses: The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
examples: text: You filthy bung, away.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A sharper or pickpocket.
examples: text: "Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly." […] "Could you oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp?" "No," said the Bung; "don't keep 'em!"
ref: 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
glosses: The landlord of a public house.
Derived terms: bung-hole
bungstarter
on the bung
bung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: bungs
form: bunging
form: bunged
form: bunged
Etymology: From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
Senses: examples: text: It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface...
ref: 1810, Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810):
text: Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.
ref: 2006, A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery:
glosses: To plug, as with a bung.
examples: text: "Doctors are queer birds. This one didn't mind a bit dabbling about that old thing to find out what had happened inside her. He's fixed her up for tonight and is coming tomorrow to put her leg in plaster, or something. He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31:
text: Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time and bunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters.
ref: 1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do.
ref: 2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies:
glosses: To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
examples: text: [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
glosses: To pass a bribe to (someone).
Derived terms: bung it on
bung on
bung out
bung up
rebung
unbung