cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
look out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks out
form: looking out
form: looked out
form: looked out
Senses: examples: text: While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
text: Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: take care
watch out
glosses: To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
examples: text: Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.
ref: 1891, Henry James, The Pupil^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lesson_of_the_Master,_The_Marriages,_The_Pupil,_Brooksmith,_The_Solution,_Sir_Edmund_Orme_(New_York_%26_London:_Macmillan_%26_Co.,_1892)/The_Pupil/Chapter_5), page 144:
text: Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, published 2006, page 14:
text: I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: To find by looking: to hunt out.
examples: text: A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
glosses: To be facing.
examples: text: On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 159:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
examples: text: Hey man, I know it costs four dollars but I only have three. Can you please look out?
glosses: Clipping of look out for (someone)
examples: text: You better look out for your little brother.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be supportive or protective of someone.
Derived terms: look out for someone
bump off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumps off
form: bumping off
form: bumped off
form: bumped off
Senses: examples: text: "Well, he's been wrong ever since I had to bump off Tim Harrigan. Talks about a fair break. As if I had a chance to let the old man get to a gun."
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 34, in Gunsight Pass:
text: The snow goons aren't moving! They're asleep! Now's our chance to go bump 'em off!
ref: 1990 January 12, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: In Match Point, when a mistress is about to blab to a wife, threatening a man's comfortable life, his solution is to bump off the girlfriend.
ref: 2006 February 8, Caryn James, “CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2018, retrieved 27 Dec 2008:
glosses: To kill, especially to murder.
synonyms: bunk off
glosses: To cut class; to play truant.
Related terms: bumpoff
on the brain
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He's only got one thing on the brain: lust.
glosses: Obsessively in mind.
brainbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainboxes
Etymology: From brain + box.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: skull, cranium < head
text: The compromise was to use as much of the skull as possible by pushing the eyes in towards the centre, and relegating the brain box to the rear.
ref: 1985, J.D. McDonald, Australian Birds: A Popular Guide to Bird Life, Sydney: Reed Books, page 142:
synonyms: braincase
brainpan
neurocranium
glosses: The cavity of the skull in which the brain is contained.
synonyms: word: brain bucket
word: noggin
word: belfry
word: bean
word: beaner
word: belfry
word: block
word: bonce
word: brainbox
word: brain bucket
word: dome
word: head
word: loaf
word: lolly
word: napper
word: noodle
word: noddle
word: noggin
word: nut
word: sconce
word: skull
glosses: The skull; the head.
synonyms: word: brain#Noun
word: brainiac
word: egghead
word: boffin
word: brain
word: brainiac
word: bright spark
word: egghead
word: geek
word: nerd
word: Poindexter
word: poindexter
word: propeller head
word: shrewd article
word: smart cookie
word: supernerd
word: whiz
word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
glosses: A very intelligent person.
brain surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain surgeons
Senses: glosses: Someone who does brain surgery.
synonyms: word: rocket scientist
word: Einstein
word: genius
word: rocket surgeon
word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
word: boffin
word: brain
word: brainiac
word: bright spark
word: egghead
word: geek
word: nerd
word: Poindexter
word: poindexter
word: propeller head
word: shrewd article
word: smart cookie
word: supernerd
word: whiz
antonyms: word: genius
word: intelligent person
glosses: Someone very intelligent and skillful.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: rocket surgeon
entactogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin word meaning 'to touch within'.
Senses: glosses: A state of feeling positive about both oneself and the world.
brainwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainwaves
form: brain wave
Etymology: From brain + wave.
Senses: glosses: Any of many rhythmic fluctuations of electric potential between parts of the brain, especially those seen on an electroencephalogram.
glosses: A sudden idea, understanding, or inspiration; a brainstorm.
Derived terms: brainwave fingerprinting
Phobos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊbəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φόβος (Phóbos, “Fear”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Ares (Mars). Also the Greek god of fear.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The innermost natural satellite of Mars.
Derived terms: Phobian
Phobosian
Related terms: Deimos
Deimos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪməs/
rhymes: -aɪməs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δεῖμος (Deîmos), from δειμός (deimós, “terror”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Ares (Latin: Mars), god of terror.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost natural satellite of Mars.
Related terms: Phobos
Callisto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɪs.toʊ̯/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καλλιστώ (Kallistṓ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph of Artemis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Jupiter.
Derived terms: Callistoan
Callistonian
Themisto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θεμιστώ (Themistṓ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the third and last wife of Athamas
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A natural satellite of Jupiter
Miranda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹændə/
rhymes: -ændə
Forms: form: Mirandas
Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare for a character in The Tempest; feminine of Latin mirandus (“admirable”).
Senses: examples: text: Admir'd Miranda!
Indeed, the top of admiration; worth
What's dearest in the world!
ref: ~1611 William Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act III, Scene I
text: Miranda Guzman alleges that the state’s vaccine mandate violates a 2023 West Virginia law that stipulates the government would not be able to “substantially burden” someone’s constitutional right to freedom of religion unless doing so “is essential to further a compelling governmental interest.”
ref: 2025 June 24, John Raby, “A West Virginia parent sues seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations”, in AP News:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage [in turn from Latin].
examples: text: When Red Dwarf had stopped for supplies at Miranda, he'd spent the last afternoon of his three-day ship leave and all his wages buying the smallest, healthiest animal with the best pedigree he could find.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the moons of the planet of Uranus.
glosses: A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Miranda de Ebro
Mirandan
Mirandian
Miranda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹændə/
rhymes: -ændə
Forms: form: Mirandas
Etymology: From the Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian habitational surname) Miranda.
The common noun and verb are after the case Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), after Ernesto Miranda.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Portuguese.
glosses: A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Italian.
Miranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹændə/
rhymes: -ændə
Etymology: From the Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian habitational surname) Miranda.
The common noun and verb are after the case Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), after Ernesto Miranda.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A Miranda warning.
Derived terms: Miranda card
Miranda right
Miranda rule
Miranda warning
Mirandize
Miranda
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹændə/
rhymes: -ændə
Forms: form: Mirandas
form: Mirandaing
form: Mirandaed
form: Mirandaed
Etymology: From the Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian habitational surname) Miranda.
The common noun and verb are after the case Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), after Ernesto Miranda.
Senses: examples: text: Has the suspect been Mirandaed?
glosses: To read (somebody) their rights on arrest as set out in Miranda v. Arizona.
Umbriel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbriəl/
Etymology: All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, though it is uncertain if Herschel devised the names, or if Lassell did so and then sought Herschel’s permission. Umbriel is the “dusky melancholy sprite” in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, and the name suggests the Latin umbra (“shadow”); the ending matches Ariel, name of another character.
Senses: glosses: A moon of Uranus
wikipedia: Alexander Pope
John Herschel
The Rape of the Lock
Voyager 2
William Lassell
William Shakespeare
Derived terms: Umbrielian
hyd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of hyde
hyd
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of how('re) you doing (how are you doing?).
brain wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain waves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brainwave.
chroneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronemes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, chrono- + -eme.
Senses: glosses: A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
Related terms: chronemic
chronemical
chronemically
chronemics
chrono-
ciprofloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪp.ɹəˈflɑk.səs.ɪn/
Forms: form: cipro
Etymology: From cy(clo)pro(pyl) + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic C₁₇H₁₈FN₃O₃ that is often administered in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₁₈FN₃O₃·HCl and is effective especially against gram-negative bacteria.
circumnavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumnavigate
circumnavigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsə.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: circumnavigates
form: circumnavigating
form: circumnavigated
form: circumnavigated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin circumnāvigātus, perfect passive participle of circumnāvigō (“sail round something, circumnavigate”), from circum (“about, around”) + nāvigō (“sail, navigate”), from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”). By surface analysis, circum- + navigate.
Senses: examples: text: We circumnavigated the Mediterranean.
text: On horses they circumnavigated the fields, comparing the progress of the harvest on the two halves.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet, published 2017, page 50:
synonyms: word: compass
word: environ
word: go around
word: sail around
glosses: To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.
examples: text: Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.
ref: 2006 July 9, “Magic month of memories”, in Times of London:
synonyms: go around
glosses: To circumvent or bypass.
examples: text: Patrick Childress, who solo circumnavigated on a Catalina 27 in 1982, stresses the value of eggs, which will keep at least six weeks if previously unrefrigerated and oiled with vegetable shortening.
ref: 1992, Richard Henderson, Singlehanded Sailing, →ISBN, page 225:
text: Jack and Lura Francis, both fairly tall, circumnavigated on a Westsail 32.
ref: 1997, Diana Jessie, The Cruising Woman's Advisor, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Chay Blyth was the first when he circumnavigated in British Steel in 292 days in 1970 in a voyage that some predicted would end in certain death.
ref: 2004 March 10, Edward Gorman, “Van den Heede rewarded for perseverance”, in Times of London:
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: To sail around the world.
Hypernyms: navigate
Derived terms: circumnavigatory
uncircumnavigated
Related terms: circumnavigation
circumnavigator
navigate
glibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪbli/
rhymes: -ɪbli
Forms: form: more glibly
form: most glibly
Etymology: From glib + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: […] they are unconscious of all the history and human experience by which the liturgy has been enriched, and unmoved by the glibly repeated words of the Gospel […]
ref: 1916, Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Review 5 (392-409):
text: Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: In a glib manner.
blurbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurb
composting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmpoʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɒstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compost
composting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmpoʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɒstɪŋ/
Forms: form: compostings
Senses: examples: text: Because clopyralid is persistent and does not break down during the composting process, grass clippings and other green waste that have been treated with the chemical can contaminate entire compostings, the suit contends.
ref: 2002, Product Safety & Liability Reporter, volume 30, page 1098:
glosses: Composted material; compost.
Derived terms: human composting
decayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more decayed
form: most decayed
Senses: examples: text: The decayed remains of the pilot's shirt showed where the plane had been shot down.
glosses: Having undergone decay, rotted.
glosses: Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.
Synonyms: word: blighted
word: cankered
word: decayed
word: dotterel
word: forworn
word: moldering
word: rotten
word: putrefacient
word: putrefactive
word: putrescent
word: putrid
Hypernyms: word: deteriorated
Hyponyms: word: carious
word: doty
word: dozy
word: corroded
word: leprous
word: maggoty
word: mildewed
word: moldy
word: moth-eaten
word: purulent
word: pussy
word: rusted
word: rusty
word: suppurant
word: worm-eaten
word: wormridden
Derived terms: decayedness
nondecayed
semidecayed
undecayed
Related terms: word: ramshackle
decayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decay
bull's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull's eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullseye.
Gadhavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gadhavis
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati ગઢવી (gaḍhvī).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Gujarati.
sieged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siege
wastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
homophone: waists
Senses: glosses: plural of waste
wastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
homophone: waists
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waste
squanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squander
spendthrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/
ipa: /ˈspɛn(d)ˌθɹɪft/
Forms: form: spendthrifts
Etymology: From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat vve vvould doe / VVe ſhould doe vvhen vve vvould: for this vvould changes, / And hath abatements and delayes as many, / As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents, / And then this ſhould is like a ſpend thrifts ſigh, / That hurts by eaſing; […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], signature [L4], verso:
text: VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.
ref: 1602, [Thomas Heywood], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, wherein is Shewed How a Man may Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. […], London: […] [Thomas Creede] for Mathew Lawe, […], →OCLC; reprinted as How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (Old English Drama Students Facsimile; 50), [London: s.n.], 1912, →OCLC, signature C, recto:
text: Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin n'a du ſien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The drunken ſpendthrift vvaſts his beſt poſſeſſions.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Prodigue”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, column 1:
text: [T]emperate people choose neither total abstinence nor perpetual indulgence, but something in between; liberal people are neither spendthrifts nor misers; the properly angry are neither apathetic nor short-tempered; and the strictly just person distributes to everyone what is his or her due, neither more nor less.
ref: 1999, Warren G. Bovée, “Democratic Promise, Democratic Reality, and the Journalists”, in Discovering Journalism (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications; no. 56), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 79–80:
glosses: Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
examples: text: It was one of those bright days in spring, which are very spendthrifts of sunshine, when the darkest alley in London wins a golden glimpse, and the eternal mist around St. Paul's turns to a glittering haze:...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.
Synonyms: word: big spender
word: dingthrift
word: neve
word: overspender
word: prodigal
word: profligate
word: saprophage
word: scattergood
word: slipstring
word: slipthrift
word: sparkler
word: spend-all
word: spendthrift
word: splurge
word: splurger
word: squanderer
word: unthrift
word: waster
word: wastegood
word: wastethrift
word: wastrel
Hypernyms: word: spender
word: wanton
Derived terms: spendthrift clause
spendthriftily
spendthriftiness
spendthrift provision
spendthrift trust
spendthrifty
Related terms: word: prodigality
chipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪpə/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chipperer
form: chipperest
Etymology: From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.
Senses: examples: text: Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest.
ref: 2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics, page 66:
text: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club:
text: "Sure, but she's not saying." Imrich kicked his feet up on the coffee table, dislodging a pile of research papers — hers, of course — onto the floor. She tried not to twitch. Laiken twitched a lot, and it was irritating. "Personally I think she has the magical ability to not notice she's working for an arguably evil worldwide truth suppression conspiracy. Nobody at the SCP Foundation ought to be that goddamn chipper."
ref: 2022 September 15, HarryBlank, “The Mourning After”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2024:
glosses: Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
Derived terms: chipperly
chipperness
chipper up
unchipper
chipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪpə/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chippers
Etymology: From chip + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Used for chopping large blocks of chocolate into small pieces, a chocolate chipper looks like a large fork with six thin, very sharp, pointed metal fingers. To use the chipper, hold it straight up and down and press it firmly[…]
ref: 2012 December 4, Carole Bloom, Truffles, Candies, and Confections: Techniques and Recipes for Candymaking [A Cookbook], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
examples: text: NR workers feed the cleared vegetation into a chipper.
ref: 2025 March 5, David Stubbings, “Network News: NR wages war on Welsh vegetation encroachment”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 21, image caption:
glosses: Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips.
examples: text: 'Yes, and CCTV on the drink link and at Fabio's chipper.'
ref: 2023, Sam Blake, The Mystery of Four:
glosses: A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
examples: text: Bichel asked chippers several thought-provoking questions about potato procurement, storage and handling.
ref: 1974, Potato Chipper, volume 33, numbers 16-27, page 25:
text: Pet Inc.'s Laura Scudder division, a West Coast region chipper, has revamped its Dittos brand stack chips.
ref: 1978, Joan Dye Gussow, The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology, page 151:
glosses: A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who chips the ball.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf club for making chip shots.
glosses: A deep frier.
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
Synonyms: sense: cheap food store
word: chippy
sense: cheap food store
word: greasy spoon
sense: cheap food store
word: hole-in-the-wall
Related terms: blue-chipper
bread chipper
chipper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪpə/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chippers
form: chippering
form: chippered
form: chippered
Etymology: Compare cheep, chirp.
Senses: examples: text: [a squirrel] […] eyeing me inquisitively, chippering, and shaking his tail
ref: 1884, Clinton Hart Merriam, The Mammals of the Adirondack Region, Northeastern New York:
glosses: To chirp or chirrup.
trinucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinucleotides
Etymology: From tri- + nucleotide.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a codon containing three nucleotides
Derived terms: nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
trinucleotide repeat disorder
Related terms: trinucleotidic
circumstantiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumstantialities
Etymology: From circumstantial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Plushkin's list was distinguished by a conciseness of exposition which had led to certain of the items being represented merely by Christian name, patronymic, and a couple of dots; and Sobakevitch's list was remarkable for its amplitude and circumstantiality, in that not a single peasant had such of his peculiar characteristics omitted as that the deceased had been "excellent at joinery," or "sober and ready to pay attention to his work."
ref: 1842, Nikolai Gogol, translated by C. J. Hogarth, Dead Souls, chapter 7:
glosses: Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail.
examples: text: There was much discussion at the time, in some of the public journals, upon the possibility of reconciling these incidents with other circumstantialities of the case, supposing that only one man had been concerned in the affair. That there was only one man concerned, seems to be certain.
ref: 1854, Thomas De Quincey, Postscript:
glosses: A minor detail or circumstantial matter.
Synonyms: circumstantialness
circumvallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːkəmvæˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /sɚkəmvæˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: circumvallations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin circumvāllātiō. By surface analysis, circumvallate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and in a word, would intrench and fortify them round with as many circumvallations and breast-works, as my uncle Toby would a citadel.
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3, Penguin, published 2003, page 201:
text: The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: He just managed to finish her in time—the day before the date fixed for his breaking ground on a greater business still, the circumvallation of Mrs. Dunn.
ref: 1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge:
antonyms: contravallation
glosses: A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.
Related terms: circumvallate
civil time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The civil time in a certain place is the mean solar time plus twelve hours which are added so that the day begins at midnight and not at midday. Universal time is the civil time of the international meridian.
ref: 2012, Pierre Léna, Daniel Rouan, François Lebrun, François Mignard, Didier Pelat, Observational Astrophysics, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 161:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Mean solar time reckoned from midnight by adding twelve hours.
coordinate_terms: civilian time
qualifier: modern usage
glosses: The statutory time as designated by civilian authorities, generally a standard time in a time zone at a fixed offset from UTC.
Related terms: Universal Time
coat tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat trees
Senses: glosses: An upright pole having hooks on which to hang coats or other clothing
Synonyms: clothes tree
Hypernyms: tree
coca wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocawine
Senses: glosses: A cocktail containing wine mixed with a smaller amount of cocaine.
Cochin-Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cochin-Chinese
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cochin China
Cochin-Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Cochin-China or its inhabitants
Cochin China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cochin-China
form: Cochinchina
form: Cauchin China
Etymology: From French Cochin-China; from a Portuguese corruption of Ko-chen, + China, distinguishing it from the Indian town of Cochin (which has a different etymology and was a Portuguese colony).
Senses: examples: ref: 1806, John Barrow, A Voyage to Cochinchina in the Years 1792 and 1793, T. Cadell and W. Davies:
text: In their arrangements for the future government of this extensive country, it was determined that Yinyac should possess the two divisions of Chang and Don-nai; Long-niang, that of Huè, bordering on Tonquin; and the youngest brother was to be high-priest of all Cochin China.
ref: 1824, John White, A Voyage to Cochin China, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 88:
text: Cochin-China is a French Colony. The province of Giadinh, of which Saigon is the chief port, was conquered by the Franco-Spanish fleet on the 17th February, 1859, but Lower Cochin-China (comprising the provinces of Giadinh, Bienhoa, and Mytho, and the Islands of Pulo Condor) was not definitely occupied until 1862, when it was formally surrendered by treaty; in 1867 three more provinces were conquered by the French and added to their possessions, viz., Chaudoc, Hatien, and Vinhlong. The actual boundaries of Cochin-China now are: on the North the kingdoms of Annam and Cambodia, on the East and South the China Sea, on the West the Gulf of Siam and Cambodia.
ref: 1905, “The Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, ..., &c. for the Year 1905”, in Hongkong Daily Press, page 544:
glosses: A former region comprising southern Vietnam and part of Cambodia.
Hyponyms: Champa
Cochin China
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cochin Chinas
form: Cochin-China
form: Cochinchina
form: Cauchin China
Etymology: From French Cochin-China; from a Portuguese corruption of Ko-chen, + China, distinguishing it from the Indian town of Cochin (which has a different etymology and was a Portuguese colony).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cochin (“type of domestic hen”).
synonyms: word: Cochin
extra: type of domestic hen
palpation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: palpations
Etymology: From palpate + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
Derived terms: faradopalpation
palpational
repalpation
Related terms: palp
palpability
palpable
palpate
palpiform
palpitate
palpitation
mark time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marks time
form: marking time
form: marked time
form: marked time
Senses: examples: text: When the colonel has given the signal for the music to beat time, he will give the caution for the movement as above; and the lieutenant colonel will immediately give the word to the right wing to mark time.
ref: 1821, Pierce Darrow, Winfield Scott, Scott's Militia Tactics […] , page 161:
text: Next, they were ordered to converge on Bischofsburg. They had spent the morning marking time there.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 149:
text: […] the drum line is a section that needs considerable time to rehearse on its own. […] Always have members stand at attention, in a formation that makes senses […] and reflects formations/configurations actually encourted in the show […], and have them mark time while rehearsing.
ref: 2019, Gary D. Cook, chapter 9, in Teaching Percussion, enchanced third edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 346:
qualifier: marching
glosses: To march in place, while still in step with the beat.
examples: text: Monday noon I chased over to the Auditorium and they was only about eighty in line ahead o' me[…] While I was markin' time I looked at the pitchers o' the different actors,
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: “If I can put money in their pockets and play some New Orleans music, that’s what I can do.” But he’s only marking time until he can return to New Orleans.
ref: 2005 September 8, Keith Spera, “Katrina Blues”, in LA Weekly:
text: She had met plenty of lazy professionals in her time, people content to mark time until retirement, but none of them had still been athletic in their mid forties.
ref: 2009, Matthew Hall, The Coroner, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Chelsea are in the bottom half of the Premier League, out of the Champions League and will not be in it next season while Lampard is now effectively marking time and filling the manager's office until a new occupant can be found.
ref: 2023 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea Champions League exit: Where do 'disjointed, broken' Blues go from here?”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To stop making progress temporarily; to wait or stand still.
Related terms: bide one's time
multidimensional array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multidimensional arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data structure consisting of a vector of vectors, in the case of a 2-dimensional array, or, in the case of an N-dimensional array, a vector of multidimensional arrays of degree N minus 1, thereby allowing the simulation of a N-dimensional grid of storage locations using an underlying memory architecture in which storage is addressed in a linear fashion.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data structure that has the semantics of an array of arrays, all of which may be indexed with values of any data type, usually with a supporting syntax built-into a programming language.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any abstraction, usually a memory-resident data structure, that addresses storage locations via an N-dimensional coordinate space.
Related terms: array
associative array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: associative arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An array-like data structure where the indices (called keys) are not limited to integers.
Synonyms: english: data structure
translation: data structure
word: dictionary
word: map
word: symbol table
Hypernyms: abstract data structure
array
Hyponyms: association list
hash table
association list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: association lists
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data structure that associates keys with data; implemented as a list whose members are paired storage locations (cons cells), one element of which (the car) contains the key and the other element of which (the cdr) contains the keyed data.
Synonyms: alist
hyalopilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A textural term used in petrographic classification of volcanic rocks, referring to a volcanic rock groundmass, which is visible only under magnification with a petrographic microscope, that contains a mixture of very fine-grained mineral crystals either mixed with natural volcanic glass, or surrounded by thin bands of volcanic glass.
hash table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash tables
form: hashtable
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An associative array implemented as a vector, the indexes into which are the result of applying a hash function to the key.
Related terms: dictionary
inee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of arrow poison, made from the plant Strophanthus hispidus, used especially in the areas of Togo and Cameroon.
kalokagathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌka.loʊ.kəˈɡeɪ.θi.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek καλοκαγαθίᾱ (kalokagathíā, “nobility, goodness”), from καλοκάγαθος (kalokágathos, “gentleman”), from καλός καὶ ἀγαθός (kalós kaì agathós, “beautiful and good”), shortened as καλός κἀγαθός (kalós kagathós), + -ίᾱ (-íā, “-ness”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Platonic teaching consisting of the harmonious combination of bodily, moral and spiritual virtues. It is a classical Greek and Platonic ideal denoting the harmonious unity of bodily excellence, moral virtue, and intellectual cultivation. It expresses the integration of physical beauty, ethical character, and rational insight within a single, well-formed soul—where reason governs, spirit aligns with justice, and appetite is moderated. Rooted in the educational tradition of paideia, kalokagathia represents the perfection of human nature in accordance with both external nobility and inner truth.
ferm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
homophone: firm
Forms: form: ferms
Etymology: See farm.
Senses: examples: text: He let his land to ferm.
glosses: rent for a farm
glosses: a farm
examples: text: Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine..
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: an abode or place of residence
locomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌləʊkəˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˌloʊkəˈmoʊtɪv/
Forms: form: locomotives
Etymology: From French locomotif, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + Vulgar Latin mōtivus (“moving”) (see motive).
In the rail transport sense, ellipsis of locomotive (steam) engine, attested from 1814.
Senses: examples: text: As on all other British Railways standard locomotives to date, the lubrication of motion pins and reversing gear is by grease nipple and gun.
ref: 1953 February 24, “British Railways Standard Class "4" 2-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 109:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: engine
loco
railway engine
railroad engine
hypernyms: rolling stock#Noun
glosses: The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
glosses: A traction engine.
glosses: A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
glosses: Any of various early road vehicles, steam-powered, etc., forerunners of the modern car.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.
Synonyms: loco
Derived terms: condensing locomotive
crane locomotive
diesel locomotive
electric locomotive
locomotive engineer
locomotiveman
locomotive shed
locomotive syndrome
Meyer locomotive
road locomotive
steam locomotive
tank locomotive
tram locomotive
locomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌləʊkəˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˌloʊkəˈmoʊtɪv/
Forms: form: more locomotive
form: most locomotive
Etymology: From French locomotif, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + Vulgar Latin mōtivus (“moving”) (see motive).
In the rail transport sense, ellipsis of locomotive (steam) engine, attested from 1814.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to locomotion.
glosses: Of or relating to the power unit of a train which does not carry passengers or freight itself.
examples: text: Pindar seems to imply that these figures were actually locomotive automata.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 133:
glosses: Moving, or capable of motion.
Derived terms: hyperlocomotive
hypolocomotive
locomotiveness
nonlocomotive
unlocomotive
selachophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Unreasonable fear or dislike of sharks.
matrimonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mætɹɪˈməʊnɪ.əl/
rhymes: -əʊniəl
Forms: form: more matrimonial
form: most matrimonial
Etymology: From Middle French matrimonial, also matrimony + -al.
Senses: examples: text: matrimonial bliss
text: matrimonial harmony
text: matrimonial issues
text: matrimonial living
synonyms: marital
glosses: Of, or having to do with matrimony and marriage.
Derived terms: antimatrimonial
extramatrimonial
intramatrimonial
matrimonial cake
matrimonially
nonmatrimonial
prematrimonial
unmatrimonial
matrimonial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mætɹɪˈməʊnɪ.əl/
rhymes: -əʊniəl
Forms: form: matrimonials
Etymology: From Middle French matrimonial, also matrimony + -al.
Senses: glosses: A classified advertisement describing a person who wishes to find a marriage partner.
cashed-up bogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashed-up bogans
form: cashed up bogan
form: CUB
form: cub
Senses: examples: text: And the tourists all seem to be cashed-up bogans with plenty of money and no bloody taste or brains.
ref: 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, “Aisha”, in The Slap, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 373:
text: Available for only $90 a bottle, the new ‘limited edition’, ‘luxury’ brand targets the cashed-up bogan who is eager to make a maxtreme statement about its exclusivity, uniqueness and wealth.
ref: 2011, E. Chas McSween, Enron Hubbard, Flash Johnson, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Intravenus De Milo, Michael Jayfox, “Food and Drink”, in Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, →ISBN, page 281:
text: Then he skewered the ‘inner urban elite’, which had viewed Irwin as just a ‘fucking moron’ and, worse, a ‘cashed-up bogan’.
ref: 2012, Nick Bryant, “Lie Back and Think of Australia”, in Confessions from Correspondentland: The Dangers & Delights of Life as a Foreign Correspondent, London: Oneworld Publications, published 2013, →ISBN, page 352:
glosses: A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.
Related terms: bogan
nouveau riche
corniculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornicula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin corniculum (“little horn”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small horn-like part or process.
wd
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of well done.
wd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of withdrew (from an event).
examples: text: Got yr card. Problem is: don't have yr address! Wd love to see you. Write w/number! xo Jeremy.
ref: 1985 December 7, “Albert in NYC (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 13:
glosses: Abbreviation of would.
wd
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of with the.
rightmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From right + -most.
Senses: examples: text: Start with the rightmost one and work towards the left.
text: She tried the rightmost door first.
glosses: Furthest to the right.
Related terms: bottom-most
topmost
extemporaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extemporaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Considering that he was speaking extemporaneously, he covered the subject pretty well.
text: She recounted that while speaking extemporaneously during a livestream, she mentioned her twice-weekly housekeeper who “cleans the toilets.”
ref: 2021 April 29, Katherine Rosman, “Girl, Wash Your Timeline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: impromptu
glosses: In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
Related terms: improvisationally
provisionally
lookup table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookup tables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: LUT
glosses: A data structure created for the purpose of translating keys into values.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A color filter.
gunshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌn.ʃaɪ/
Forms: form: more gunshy
form: most gunshy
form: gun shy
form: gun-shy
Etymology: From gun + shy.
Senses: glosses: Afraid to use a gun.
examples: text: But very few dogs become gunshy if they are introduced to the bang while they are overcome with the delight of chasing game, particularly if the trainer begins with a light noise and works up to louder noises in easy stages
ref: 2007, Paul Long, Training Pointing Dogs, 2nd edition, page 38:
glosses: Frightened by the sound of gunfire.
examples: text: After his last suggestion was laughed at by his colleagues, he was gunshy about making another suggestion.
text: However, some people are gun-shy about like and engage in the hoity toity lingo that's called “hypercorrection.”
ref: 2013, Ben Yagoda, How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: You're gun shy / So am I / I understand with what you've been through
ref: 2018, Mark Oliver Everett, “There I Said It”, in The Deconstruction, performed by Eeels:
glosses: Fearing the consequences of repeating an act, especially after being reprimanded.
Derived terms: are the Kennedies gun-shy
Related terms: once bitten, twice shy
huhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huhus
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori huhu (“larval form of this beetle”), from Proto-Polynesian *fufu (“weevil”).
Senses: synonyms: huhu beetle
glosses: A beetle, Prionoplus reticularis, endemic to New Zealand.