cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
begat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Senses: examples: text: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:3:
text: Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:2:
text: Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).
ref: 2012 February 1, Kathy Gilbert, “Pitching In”, in Chatter Chattanooga, retrieved 29 Sep 2012:
synonyms: begot
glosses: simple past of beget
begat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: begats
form: begatting
form: begatted
form: begatted
Senses: examples: ref: 1970, Orson Welles, The Begatting of the President:
text: I'm just a dyke who wants a kid/What could be weird about that/You don't have to be straight to begat
ref: 1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, quoting Sappho Jones, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 12:
ref: 2012 January 19, Ed Raymond, “Sometimes That Old Time Religion, Begatted By Bigots, Bishops, Bullies, And Bastards, Is Not Worth A Damn”, in Duluth Reader:
glosses: To beget.
begat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: begats
Senses: examples: text: To put food on the table, Ruth gleaned in the fields and one of the fields belonged to Boaz who noticed her and admired her. They married and Ruth bore a son, Obed. There ensues a begat-ridden genealogy and....
ref: 2000, Earl F. Lehman, The God Bu$ine$$, page 59:
text: There's a bunch of begats in First Chronicles, chapter six, and it's way dull, especially if you consider what a begat involves.
ref: 2002, P. J. O'Rourke, The CEO of the Sofa, page 146:
text: In many instances even that cannot be done," and John Edgar Wideman prefaces Damballah with "A Begat Chart" and a "Family Tree."
ref: 2002, Geoffrey H. Hartman with Dr. Geoffrey Hartman, The longest shadow: in the aftermath of the Holocaust, page 108:
glosses: An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible
knag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɡ
Forms: form: knags
form: knage
form: knagge
form: knagg
Etymology: From Middle English knagge. Cognate with German Low German Knagge, Danish knage, Swedish knagg. Related to knarr and knur.
Senses: glosses: A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir
glosses: A peg or hook for hanging something on
glosses: One of the points of a stag's horn or a tine
glosses: A knot in a piece of wood or the base of a branch
glosses: A pointed rock or crag
glosses: A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin
glosses: The woodpecker
Derived terms: knaggy
knag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æɡ
Forms: form: knags
form: knagging
form: knagged
form: knagged
form: knage
form: knagge
form: knagg
Etymology: From Middle English knaggen, from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To hang something on a peg
pongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pongos
form: pongoes
Etymology: From Kongo mpongo (“gorilla”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier.
glosses: A canyon or gorge in South America, especially one cutting through a ridge or mountain range.
glosses: A lazy, good-for-nothing person.
glosses: Any large ape.
knagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having protuberances, knobs or knots
knagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knag
knaggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knaggies
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A small wooden drinking vessel with an upright handle
knaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: knaggier
form: knaggiest
Etymology: From knag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
examples: text: […]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Temperamentally rough.
Synonyms: sense: having many protuberances
word: bumpy
sense: having many protuberances
word: knotty
sense: having many protuberances
word: lumpy
sense: rough
word: coarse
sense: rough
word: craggy
sense: rough
word: harsh
sense: rough
word: rough
sense: rough
word: rugged
orthocentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: orthocentres
form: orthocenter
Etymology: From ortho- + centre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orthocenter.
orthochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.θə.kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈɔː.θə.kɹəʊˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌoɹ.θə.kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌoɹ.θə.kɹoʊˈmæt.ɪk/
Etymology: From ortho- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Being uniformly sensitive across the entire visible range, and thus reproducing colours faithfully
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Sensitive to all colours except red
orthoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthoclastic
form: most orthoclastic
Etymology: From ortho- + Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós, “broken”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having cleavage planes at right angles, as in orthoclase.
orthodromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “a course, race course, road”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a means of navigation by following an arc of the great circle corresponding to the shortest distance between two points on the globe.
antonyms: antidromic
glosses: Passing along neurological impulses in a normal (expected) direction. (of neurons)
Derived terms: orthodromically
orthodrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthodromes
Etymology: From ortho- + -drome (“path”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: rhumb line
alt: loxodrome
glosses: A great circle, or part of one.
orthogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogeneses
Etymology: From ortho- + -genesis, coined by Wilhelm Haacke in 1893 and popularized with its standard meaning by Theodor Eimer.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The hypothesis that evolution tends toward a certain goal, at least at some scales.
wikipedia: Theodor Eimer
Wilhelm Haacke
Related terms: orthogenetic
orthogeneticist
convergent evolution
orthoselection
orthoevolution
teleology
orthognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthognathous
form: most orthognathous
Etymology: From ortho- + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: straight-jawed
orthogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogons
Etymology: From ortho- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A right-angle triangle.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A rectangular figure.
topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: A multi-dimensional figure in which all sides result in a right-angle, typically surpassing the restrictions of 3 dimensions.
Derived terms: orthogonal
stolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒl.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈstɑːl.ɪd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒlɪd
rhymes: (US) -ɑːlɪd
Forms: form: stolider
form: stolidest
Etymology: From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).
Senses: examples: text: He went slowly to his tent and stretched himself on a blanket by the side of the snoring tall soldier. In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he would not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter II, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
text: “A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing. It leavens the”—she looked at him—“stolid stupidity of the ordinary Englishman.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 125:
text: With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.
ref: 1950, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:
synonyms: word: cold-hearted
word: unfeeling
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
glosses: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
examples: text: Light laughs the breeze / In her Castle above them — / Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear, / Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence — / Ah, what sagacity perished here!
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 113:
text: They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter V, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: Al Gore, Jr., the Democratic candidate, was Clinton's stolid heir; […]
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 6, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
glosses: Dully or heavily stupid.
Related terms: word: stolidly
word: stolidness
word: stolidity
word: stultify
atopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəpi/
Forms: form: atopies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτοπία (atopía), from ἄτοπος (átopos), from ἀ- (a-) + τόπος (tópos, “place”). By surface analysis, a- + -topy (“out of place”).
Senses: examples: text: Whatever factor is invoked to explain the increase in asthma must also be capable of explaining other outbreaks of atopy.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 67:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hereditary disorder marked by the tendency to develop localized immediate hypersensitivity reactions to allergens such as pollen, food etc and is manifested by hay fever, asthma, or similar allergic conditions; generally considered to be caused by the interaction of environmental and genetic factors.
glosses: A person suffering from atopic syndrome; a case of atopy.
Synonyms: atopic allergy
atopic syndrome
Derived terms: atopical
Related terms: atopic
allergy
impassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpæsɪv/
rhymes: -æsɪv
Forms: form: more impassive
form: most impassive
Etymology: From im- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + passive (“which is, or is capable of being, acted on; (obsolete) which suffers, or may suffer, pain, death, etc.”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: It was a victory that clearly meant so much to Van Gaal as the normally impassive manager raced from his seat in the technical area to celebrate Lingard's winner.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: apathetic
word: phlegmatic
word: unemotional
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Having, or revealing, no emotion.
synonyms: word: inanimate
word: inert
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
glosses: Still or motionless.
Derived terms: impassively
impassiveness
impassivity
unimpassive
Related terms: passive
impassible
impatient
motionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊʃənlɛs/
ipa: /ˈmoʊʃənlɛs/
Etymology: From motion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, pages 41–42:
text: Nothing could be more businesslike than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, “The Mad Miss Maturin”, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Toronto, Ont.: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, →OCLC, pages 147–148:
text: We remain motionless in the platform while the ex-Edinburgh draws forward, the points are set, and it is propelled back for attachment. The Edinburgh locomotive uncoupled, a brake test is performed and we're away.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 43:
synonyms: word: impassive
word: unmoving
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
glosses: At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
Derived terms: motionlessly
motionlessness
backronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.ɹəˌnɪm/
rhymes: -ækɹənɪm
Forms: form: backronyms
form: bacronym
Etymology: Blend of back + acronym.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he phenomenon has been dubbed STEVE, a backronym that matches the name originally given by aurora watchers. (STEVE is short for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement.")
ref: 2018 March 14, Sarah Lewin, “Meet ‘Steve,’ the Aurora-Like Mystery Scientists Are Beginning to Unravel”, in space.com, retrieved 17 Mar 2018:
text: These reverse-engineered acronyms, or “backronyms,” are inescapable on Capitol Hill. Two of the biggest laws of the past few years were the CARES Act, for pandemic relief, and the CHIPS for America Act, for semiconductor manufacturing. […] Yet congressional backronyms have been on the rise for years: I wrote a computer program to check legislation titles for acronyms that spell out complete words, and found that roughly 10 percent of bills and resolutions introduced over the past two years have had backronym names—up from about one in 20 a decade ago and less than 1 percent in the late 1990s.
ref: 2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2022:
text: Musk's recent posts have included several references to alt-right themes and fascism, experts told Insider. In a recent post, he shared a meme including Pepe the frog and a caption featuring the word "fren" — an apparent misspelling of the word "friend" — a backronym for "far right ethno nationalist."
ref: 2023 May 27, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert, “Elon Musk pulled Twitter from the EU's anti-disinformation agreement and continues to troll with alt-right memes and dogwhistles. It could be a sign he'll close the site to Europe completely”, in Business Insider:
glosses: A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes as a folk etymology, sometimes as a contrived acronym to name a new organization, proposal, or other entity.
glosses: A phrase which assigns a morpheme or word to each letter of a pre-existing acronym.
Derived terms: backronymic
Related terms: anacronym
recursive acronym
backronym
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.ɹəˌnɪm/
rhymes: -ækɹənɪm
Forms: form: backronyms
form: backronyming
form: backronymming
form: backronymed
form: backronymed
form: backronymmed
form: backronymmed
form: bacronym
Etymology: Blend of back + acronym.
Senses: glosses: To create a backronym.
open-source
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊpən ˌsɔɹs/
Forms: form: open source
form: opensource
Etymology: See open source.
Senses: examples: text: Linux is an open-source operating system.
text: ASP.NET MVC has been under an open-source license since the initial release, but it was just open-source code instead of a full open-source project.
ref: 2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:
text: OpenSNP constituted a rare example of how open-source projects can successfully operate on a low budget, having repeatedly rejected offers from corporations to sell control of the data.
ref: 2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of or relating to software where the source code is freely available and licensed in a manner that permits modification and redistribution.
examples: text: open-source cola
glosses: Describing any product whose composition or method of manufacturing is public knowledge and not proprietary.
examples: text: open-source intelligence
text: The ramifications of disinformation spill on to the streets with tangible, often devastating real-world consequences. These processes were already under way in 2014, when I founded the open-source investigative group Bellingcat.
ref: 2023 December 16, Eliot Higgins, “Moment of truth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Relying on publicly available information (open sources).
Derived terms: open-sourceness
Related terms: free software
source-available
open-source
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊpən ˌsɔɹs/
Forms: form: open-sources
form: open-sourcing
form: open-sourced
form: open-sourced
form: open source
form: opensource
Etymology: See open source.
Senses: examples: text: The big Unix company Sun Microsystems bought the code for StarOffice in 1999, and some time afterward they open-sourced as much of it as they could.
ref: 2005, David Brickner, Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release the source code of, so as to permit modification and redistribution.
publicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌblɪkli/
Forms: form: more publicly
form: most publicly
form: publically
form: publickly
form: publiquely
form: publictly
raw_tags: from code switching with Scots
Etymology: From public + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: criticize someone publicly
text: publicly announce something
text: Although the Holy See publicly expressed its rejection of sexual abuse and pedophilia and expressed its commitment to cooperate with civil authorities when cases of pedophile priests were found¹², there are no known cases of bishops or cardinals, being found responsible for abusing children or covering up for pedophilia in their parishes.
ref: 2013 December 24, “Clerical Pedophilia by Mexicans in Mexico and Other Countries”, in CNN en Español, page 10:
text: Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024:
glosses: In public, openly, in an open and public manner.
examples: text: publicly available
glosses: By, for, or on behalf of the public.
Derived terms: publicly held
bacronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacronyms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backronym.
bacronym
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bacronyms
form: bacronyming
form: bacronymming
form: bacronymed
form: bacronymed
form: bacronymmed
form: bacronymmed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backronym.
open source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊpən ˌsɔɹs/
Etymology: Compound of open + source, coined by Christine Peterson in 1998 for software as an umbrella term to encompass existing concepts such as free software, freedomware, and sourceware.
Senses: examples: text: OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.
ref: 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The practice of providing open-source code for a product.
examples: text: His contributions to open source are numerous.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Open-source software in general.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Information that is in the public domain and available to everybody.
Derived terms: open sourceror
Related terms: word: open-source
english: open-source intelligence
translation: open-source intelligence
word: OSINT
word: open core
open source
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊpən ˌsɔɹs/
Forms: form: open sources
form: open sourcing
form: open sourced
form: open sourced
Etymology: Compound of open + source, coined by Christine Peterson in 1998 for software as an umbrella term to encompass existing concepts such as free software, freedomware, and sourceware.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of open-source.
retronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtɹəʊ.nɪm/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹoʊ.nɪm/
rhymes: -əʊnɪm
Forms: form: retronyms
Etymology: From retro- + -onym; coined by Frank Mankiewicz and popularized by William Safire.
Senses: examples: text: The phrase is a retronym, the term Frank Mankiewicz has coined to describe names of familiar objects or events that need a modifier to catch up to more modern objects: day baseball and natural turf are in the same category as analog watch.
ref: 1982 December 26, William Safire, “On Language: Watch what you say”, in New York Times:
text: You can get a good sense of the pace of change over the past century just by looking at the retronyms we've accumulated. New technologies have forced us to come up with terms like steam locomotive, silent movie […]
ref: 2004, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, →ISBN, page 239:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: anachronym
glosses: A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longer unique, or which did not originally have a specific name.
wikipedia: William Safire
Derived terms: retronymic
retronymically
retronymous
Related terms: avant la lettre
anachronism
Phil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: fill
Forms: form: Phill
Etymology: Shortened from Philip, from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos), which see for more information.
Senses: examples: text: Trump’s promotion of the channel, which occurs as he simultaneously works to undermine credible news organizations, is cause for alarm, said Phil Napoli, a Duke University professor who specializes in media and democracy and has studied propaganda efforts.
ref: 2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:
glosses: A short form of the male given name Philip.
glosses: A short form of the female given name Philippa.
Derived terms: Felkin
Phan
Phildickian
Phil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: fill
Forms: form: phil
form: phil.
form: Phil.
Etymology: Clipping
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of philosophy.
Phil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: fill
Forms: form: the Phils.
form: phil
form: phil.
form: Phil.
Etymology: Clipping
Senses: glosses: Clipping of the Philippines.
Phil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: fill
Forms: form: Phil.
form: phil
form: phil.
form: Phil.
Etymology: Clipping
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Philippine.
Phil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: fill
Forms: form: phil
form: phil.
form: Phil.
Etymology: Clipping
Senses: glosses: A short form of the female given name Philomena.
geekspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiːk.spiːk/
enpr: gēkspēk
Etymology: From geek + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Most of his tweets are now labeled “disputed” by Twitter, which I would translate from geekspeak as a polite way of calling them lies.
ref: 2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: nerdspeak
glosses: A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon.
Coordinate terms: chatspeak
fanspeak
leetspeak
netspeak
technobabble
doubletrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubletracks
form: doubletracking
form: doubletracked
form: doubletracked
Etymology: From double + track.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To mix together two or more audio tracks while doing studio recording.
Related terms: double-track
WGWAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡ.wæɡ/
homophone: wigwag (General American)
Senses: glosses: Acronym of white girls with Asian guys.
WGWAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡ.wæɡ/
homophone: wigwag (General American)
Forms: form: WGWAGs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of white guy with acoustic guitar.
wagwan
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑːˈɡwɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: whagwan
form: wha' gwan
form: wha gwan
form: wagwarn
form: what's gwan
form: whatagwan
form: wag one
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole wah gwan (literally “wha’ goi’ on”), a modified form of English what's going on.
Senses: examples: text: Wah gwan, Sabrina, what's it like in Mississauga? / I know you stay at home wit' momma / So can you bless me with a dollar? Don't be rude
ref: 2024 June 3, “Wah Gwan Delilah” (3:32 from the start)performed by Snowd4y ft. Drake:
glosses: A greeting, equivalent to what's up or what's happening.
quindecemvir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quindecemvirs
form: quindecemviri
Etymology: From Latin quindecemvir, from quindecim (“fifteen”) + vir (“man”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quindecimvir.
Related terms: quindecemvirate
victualler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪtlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: victuallers
form: victualer
Etymology: From Middle English vitailler, from Old French vitaillier; equivalent to victual + -er.
Senses: glosses: A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.
glosses: An innkeeper.
glosses: One who deals in grain; a corn factor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A supply ship.
Synonyms: provisioner
sutler
provider
innkeeper
supplier
host
Derived terms: licensed victualler
licentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪˈsɛn.ʃəs/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəs
Forms: form: more licentious
form: most licentious
form: licentuous
Etymology: From Latin licentiōsus, from licentia (“license, freedom”).
Senses: examples: text: His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
glosses: Disregarding accepted rules.
Derived terms: licentiously
licentiousness
overlicentious
unlicentious
Related terms: license
incontinent
urochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urochromes
Etymology: From uro- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pigment that causes the yellow color in urine. It is a breakdown product of the blood's haemoglobin and is removed by the kidneys.
Homo sapiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Homo sapien
tampion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæmpiən/
Forms: form: tampions
form: tampeon
form: tompion
Etymology: From Middle English tampioun, variant of tampon, from Old French tampon, a nasalised form of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. More at tampon.
Senses: glosses: A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover, for the muzzle of a gun, cannon, or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.
glosses: Obsolete form of tampon (“plug of absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid”).
Related terms: silencer
PBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The very first game I bowled as a member of the USBC, I shot 300 and they gave me a $100 bill,” Pete says. “It was like, oh wow, so I can make money here. I knew exactly then that I wanted to be a professional bowler.” He joined the PBA Tour at 17 years old, competing alongside his father, and he won Rookie of the Year honors in 1980.
ref: 2021 April 2, Chris Vannini, “‘Who do you think you are?’ He was: Pete Weber’s famous celebration endures as he retires from PBA Tour”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2025:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Professional Bowlers Association.
glosses: Initialism of Philippine Basketball Association.
glosses: Initialism of Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
glosses: Initialism of Prevent Blindness America.
PBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PBAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of partial-birth abortion.
glosses: Initialism of pattern(s) of business activity/activities.
glosses: Abbreviation of pseudobulbar affect.
exhort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔːt/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːt/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔɹt/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: exhorts
form: exhorting
form: exhorted
form: exhorted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: exhort
form: exhort
form: exhorted
form: exhort
form: exhortest
form: exhorted
form: exhortedst
form: exhorts
form: exhorteth
form: exhorted
form: exhort
form: exhorted
form: exhort
form: exhorted
form: exhort
form: -
form: exhorting
form: exhorted
Etymology: From Middle English exorten, from Old French exhorter, from Latin exhortārī (“to encourage”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + hortārī (“to incite, spur”).
Senses: examples: text: And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort, saying, Saue your selues from this vntoward generation.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:40:
text: And now, my dear sir, let me exhort you to take care of yourself.
ref: 1873, John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly, quoting James David Forbes, Letter to Anthony Adams-Reilly, Esq., c. 1860, quoted in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S., London: Macmillan and Co., page 377:
text: Asked if he had any message for the living he exhorted all who were still at the wrong side of Maya to acknowledge the true path for it was reported in devanic circles that Mars and Jupiter were out for mischief on the eastern angle where the ram has power.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 289:
text: Finally, I would again exhort all railway photographers to concentrate on the older and disappearing types of engines, many of which will not be with us much longer.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:
text: Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry’s descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.
ref: 2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Jon, watching the chaos unfold, is in shock. A Stark in spirit if not blood, he comes to the aid of a woman before she’s raped by a fellow soldier, but mostly, he’s struck dumb by the needless violence playing out around him, eventually able to do little more than exhort everyone to fall back and flee the city.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
synonyms: word: counsel
word: implore
word: admonish
word: advise
word: advocate
word: counsel
word: encourage
word: urge
word: exhort
word: prompt
word: recommend
word: suggest
word: tip
word: warn
antonyms: dehort
dissuade
glosses: To urge; to advise earnestly.
Derived terms: exhorter
exhortingly
unexhorted
Related terms: dehort
exhortation
exhortative
exhortatory
hortative
hortatory
regrettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛtəbəl
Forms: form: more regrettable
form: most regrettable
Etymology: From regret + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The officers' actions were regrettable, yes, but there's nothing to be done now but to relocate everyone to the mainland in a calm and orderly manner.
text: Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
ref: 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
synonyms: word: deplorable
word: pitiful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
Related terms: regret
regretful
regretfully
regretfulness
regrettably
regretter
CSICOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Former name of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /kɹɒt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: crotches
Etymology: Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).
Senses: examples: text: Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.
text: We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency.
ref: 1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
examples: text: He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
glosses: Either the male or female genitalia.
examples: text: There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
text: In one crotch of the old peach-tree, just by the wall, sat a second cousin of the little eight-eyed fellow we had left up stairs, with her web spread on the most geometric model, and a young and promising family of spiders and spideresses practising gymnastics in the fairy rigging; […]
ref: 1836 September, J. H. P., “Spiders and their Moral”, in The Western Messenger; Devoted to Religion and Literature, volume II, number 2, Louisville, Ky.: […] [T]he Western Unitarian Association; Boston, Mass.: James Munroe & Co. […], published 1837, page 122:
text: Tarzan wondered if he would stalk him to his cabin door. He hoped not, for that would mean a night’s sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode. But he knew just the tree and the most comfortable crotch, if necessity demanded that he sleep out.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121:
glosses: The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".
Derived terms: could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
crotchal
crotch area
crotch chain
crotch crickets
crotch critter
crotch down
crotch dropping
crotch-dropping
crotchdropping
crotch dumpling
crotch fruit
crotchful
crotch goblin
crotchless
crotchline
crotchling
crotch rocket
crotch rot
crotch seam
crotch spawn
crotch tent
drop-crotch
drop crotch
finger crotch
fire-crotch
fire crotch
lightning crotch
snap crotch
split crotch
swamp crotch
reproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: reproofs
Etymology: From Old French reprove, from reprover. See reprove.
Senses: examples: text: You could not give me a greater reproof for the mistake I fell into. It was all my doing, I know. I have not forgotten it, I assure you.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 13:
text: On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!
ref: 1956 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:
glosses: An act or instance of reproving or of reprobating; a rebuke, a reproach, an admonition.
reproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
ipa: /ɹiːˈpɹuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: reproofs
form: reproofing
form: reproofed
form: reproofed
form: re-proof
Etymology: From re- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: We need to reproof the book before publication.
glosses: To proof again.
Purim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊəɹɪm/
ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹ-/
ipa: /-im/
ipa: /puˈɹɪm/
Etymology: From Hebrew פּוּרִים (purím, literally “lots”).
Senses: examples: text: Today, Jews celebrate the holiday of Purim, a festival of revelry that commemorates their deliverance from an ancient genocidal plot. […] Traditionally, a scroll containing that book is read twice over the holiday, with listeners making noise to drown out the name of the story’s villain, Haman, a vizier who manipulated the Persian king into nearly eradicating the Jews.
ref: 2022 March 17, Yair Rosenberg, “The Anti-Semite on Your TV”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a complete massacre at the hand of Haman the Amalekite.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Purim spiel
ventral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛntɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛntɹəl
Etymology: From French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”); by surface analysis, ventr- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Related to the abdomen or stomach.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: On or relating to the sole of the foot or the palmar surface of the hand.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: On the lower side of the brain.
Derived terms: anterioventral
anteroventral
apicoventral
basiventral
basoventral
biventral
caudoventral
cranioventral
distoventral
dorsoventral
endoventral
holoventral
lateroventral
medioventral
midventral
nonventral
occipitoventral
paraventral
posteroventral
preventral
proximoventral
retroventral
rostrolateroventral
rostroventral
sinistroventral
subventral
uteroventral
ventral fin
ventralize
ventrally
ventralmost
ventral nerve cord
ventral striatum
ventral tegmental area
ventral tegmentum
ventromedial
ventral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛntɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛntɹəl
Forms: form: ventrals
Etymology: From French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”); by surface analysis, ventr- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Any of the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of a snake's body from the neck to the anal scale.
Jewish calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Hebrew calendar
glosses: A lunisolar calendar used for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of the State of Israel.
reprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: reproves
form: reproving
form: reproved
form: reproved
Etymology: From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.
Senses: glosses: To express disapproval.
examples: text: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:8:
glosses: To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
examples: text: She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856
glosses: To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).
Derived terms: reproof
reproval
reprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
ipa: /ɹiːˈpɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: reproves
form: reproving
form: reproved
form: reproved
form: reproven
form: re-prove
Etymology: From re- + prove.
Senses: examples: text: As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.
ref: 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:
text: Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.
ref: 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv:
glosses: To prove again.
oscilloscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪl.ɪ.skəʊp/
ipa: /ˈɒˌsɪl.ɪ.skəʊp/
Forms: form: oscilloscopes
Etymology: From oscillo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: If two waveforms have no phase no phase or frequency relationship, there is seldom reason to observe both waveforms simultaneously. However, these oscilloscopes do permit the simultaneous viewing of two such unrelated waveforms, using alternate triggering. […] If the fuse blows, the “ON” indicator will not light and the oscilloscope will not operate.
ref: 2011 March 24, “Oscilloscope Instruction Manual”, in Elenco, pages 44, 63:
glosses: An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.
Synonyms: oscillograph
osteopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopaths
Etymology: From osteo- + -path.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A non-physician healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles. Not to be confused with Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) (also known as osteopathic physicians) who are full physicians like Doctors of Medicine (M.D.).