cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unconstrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to un- + constrained.
Senses: examples: text: One sometimes regrets that the War is over— thinking of the gipsy life that one led, of the unstaling interests and the bigness of it all, but above everything of the unconstrained friendliness that was bom and fostered in days of instant peril and in trench and dug-out and ramshackle billet.
ref: 1931, Robert Henry Joseph Steuart, March, Kind Comrade, page 217:
glosses: not constrained.
Synonyms: sans gêne
panegyrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panegyrists
Etymology: From panegyric + -ist.
Senses: examples: 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. lx,
[…] the author, though no very sparing panegyrist of himself, has not exceeded the truth, with respect to his attainments or visible qualities.
glosses: A eulogist; one who delivers a panegyric or eulogy.
algorithmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algorithm + -ics.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The subdiscipline of informatics or computer science that studies algorithms.
glosses: Computer science generally.
cherry-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry-bombs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: tree-top
glosses: In the four square ball game, the act of spiking the ball or slamming it down with a great force to make it difficult for a person to retrieve it in order to stay in the game.
di di mau
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: di di mau
form: di-di mau
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese đi đi mau (“go quickly!”). Borrowed into English by American military personnel returning from the Vietnam War, as well as by Vietnamese immigrants; popularized by the movie The Deer Hunter.
This is an uncommon way to say "Hurry up!" in Vietnamese. The verb đi (“to go”) can be expressed as a command: "Đi đi! One may even express a sense of urgency with the word mau (“fast”): "Đi mau đi! However, Vietnamese speakers tend to use the verbs mau lên, nhanh lên, and vội lên in exactly the way an English speaker would use hurry up.
Senses: examples: text: [Viet Cong guard, to prisoner forced to play Russian roulette:] MAU! MAU! DIDI MAU!
ref: 1978, The Deer Hunter (via IMDB)
text: And if a Vietnamese, be it man, woman, or child, refused to di di mau or tried to get away, the authorization was to go ’head and shoot ’em.
ref: 1984, Wallace Terry, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War, Random House, →ISBN, page 171:
text: “[…] No contact with any gooks. They just blew the bridges and di-di mau’d.” Since I knew that di-di means “go,” and that mau means “fast,” I knew that the VC had made themselves scarce.
ref: 1995, Nicholas Warr, Phase Line Green: The Battle for Hue, 1968, Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: "What part of "Di di Mau" don't you understand, Skinner?"
ref: 2000, “Skinner’s Sense of Snow” (television episode), The Simpsons, December 17, 2000
text: “[…]Di di mau!” which means get moving, and is not very polite. I started to turn away, then I had a good idea that would make everyone happy.
ref: 2002, Nelson DeMille, Up country: a novel, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk): Oh, and point me to your best copier. / Lance (Elisha Yaffe): Best copier? / Jimmy: Yeah, best copier. C'mon, di di mau.
ref: 2016, Thomas Schnauz, “Fifi” (38:10 from the start), in Better Call Saul, season 2, episode 8:
glosses: To leave quickly, hurry away.
wikipedia: The Deer Hunter
HSDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of high-speed (diesel) direct injection.
colored eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colored egg
colored egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colored eggs
Senses: glosses: A hard-boiled egg decorated in bright colors (using water-soluble dyes) used for celebrating Easter.
unsystematic risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsystematic risks
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Risk peculiar to an asset, which can be eliminated through diversification.
Synonyms: diversifiable risk
specific risk
Related terms: residual risk
laborant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪbəɹənt/
Forms: form: laborants
Etymology: From Latin labōrāns, present participle of labōrō. See laboratory.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Laborant, vvell vers'd in vveighing, vvas order'd to take it out vvhen 'tvvas throughly and highly heated, and to vveigh it vvhilſt 'tvvas in that condition (I being then preſent:) […]
ref: 1673, Robert Boyle, “New Experiments to Make the Parts of Fire and Flame Stable & Ponderable”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC, experiment VIII, page 13:
glosses: A chemist.
ideologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideology
foreign key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign keys
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked.
Related terms: referential integrity
primary key
frazione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frazioni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian frazione. Doublet of fraction.
Senses: synonyms: hamlet
glosses: A subdivision of a comune.
apocopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æpəˈkɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From apocope, from Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ, “a cutting off, termination, apocope”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: apocopate
clipped
glosses: Of or pertaining to apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.
Related terms: apocopate
apocopation
apocope
apocopate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin apocopātus (“cut off”), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
Senses: glosses: Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable
Synonyms: sense: shortened by apocope
word: apocopated
sense: shortened by apocope
word: apocopic
sense: shortened by apocope
word: clipped
sense: shortened by apocope
word: shortened
sense: shortened by apocope
word: abbreviated
apocopate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apocopates
form: apocopating
form: apocopated
form: apocopated
Etymology: From Latin apocopātus (“cut off”), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
Senses: examples: text: The particles which apocopate the final vowel of the aorist are of two kinds: I. Those which apocopate the final vowel of one verb only. II. Those which apocopate the final vowel of two verbs.
ref: 1904, Robert Sterling, A Grammar of the Arabic Language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, →OCLC, page 229:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
examples: text: "Ciento" apocopates to "cien" before nouns or numbers larger than itself.
ref: 1999, Gene Hammitt, Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, William Stivers, The Best Test Preparation for the SAT II, Subject Test: Spanish, Piscataway, NJ: Research & Education Association, →ISBN, page R-195:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo apocope.
Related terms: apocopation
apocope
apocopic
apocopate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin apocopātus (“cut off”), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
Senses: glosses: A verb form of the prefix conjugation in Semitic which bears no final vowel and is considered the original perfective, but often called jussive mood.
overshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overshoot
penny whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny whistle
pennywhistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennywhistle
crucifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crucify
eased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːzd/
rhymes: -iːzd
Forms: form: more eased
form: most eased
Senses: examples: text: I got grace to cast all my burdens over upon him, and my heart lightened: and my soul was more eased and pleased, than if I had been a crowned emperor of all the kingdoms of the world .
ref: 1866, Ralph Erskine, Select sermons, page 11:
text: Art is long, and time fleeting, but only the individual life, not the greater life of humanity, which knows not death, but ever flows onward, enlarged by experience and suffering, disciplined by knowlege, its hardest and most disfiguring labour more and more eased by science.
ref: 1899, F. F. Leighton, Life and Books, page 101:
text: The lad behind the counter also possessed an eased glance as he noticed the uniform I wore.
ref: 2017, A.T. Haessly, The Soul’s Famine:
text: One phone call to the lawyer and some of my anxiety had lessened. Today, winning in court, a bit more eased.
ref: 2020, Eve Langlais, Halfway There:
glosses: Made easier, more relaxed, or less stressed.
examples: text: But in the worst paroxysms it was most eased by the patient's taking a sitting posture, at the same time that the body was bowed forwards .
ref: 1856, Association medical journal, page 358:
text: Only now we found that the despare seemed more and more more eased with drugs : alcohol , heroin , barbituates .
ref: 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, page 490:
text: But, alas! a white staff will not help gouty feet to walk better than a common cane; nor a blue ribbon bind up a wound so well as a fillet; the glitter of gold or of diamonds will b ut hurt sore eyes, instead of curing them; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown instead of a common night-cap .
ref: 1883, W. Temple, A Homiletic encyclopaedia of illustrations in theology and morals, page 37:
glosses: Soothed or mitigated.
examples: text: What H.R. 2582 suggests is that the claimant would have two bites at the apple: First, the economic portion of his loss in an administrative proceeding, very eased evidentiary requirements; and then a second bit through a tort claim.
ref: 1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism, Implementation of the Superfund Program, page 169:
text: Therefore, the criteria applied to the bank merger are more eased compared with the general criteria.
ref: 2004, Zongle Huang, Jiyuan Chen, The Future Development of Competition Framework, page 218:
text: By leveraging cosine for self-attention, more eased values can be obtained, offering a more accurate measurement of similarity between vectors.
ref: 2023, Image and Graphics, page 314:
glosses: Less extreme or stringent.
Derived terms: uneased
eased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːzd/
rhymes: -iːzd
Senses: glosses: past participle of ease
fior di latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fior di lattes
Etymology: From Italian fior di latte.
Senses: glosses: A style of mozzarella cheese.
glosses: A type of gelato ice cream made without additional flavourings (i.e. plain, unflavoured, milk flavor).
chads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chad
chams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cham
third rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third rail
per stirpes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin per (“by, through”) and stirpēs (“rootstock”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A method of distributing an estate to the descendants or heirs of a deceased legatee in which the estate is divided equally among the branches of a family or designated heirs, without regard to differing numbers of people in different branches.
rail head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail heads
Etymology: From rail + head in the sense of top.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The top part of a railway rail; the part of the rail the wheel runs on.
best of the bunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best of the bunch
Senses: examples: text: I once heard father say that, with all his faults, he was the best of the bunch.
ref: 1853, T. S. Arthur, chapter 11, in The Iron Rule:
text: Then there is Lucy; she is the best of the bunch, which is not saying much.
ref: 1900, Fergus Hume, “‘Enter Mrs Pansey as Chorus’”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 5:
text: He proved the best of the bunch. He deserved better than being frozen like a Popsicle under that glacier.
ref: 2005, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos, Lost City, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 514:
glosses: The best or most preferred person or item within a group.
Synonyms: pick of the litter
palestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palestras
form: palestrae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaestra.
Derived terms: palestric
vitamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamines
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vitamin.
straight man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪtˌmæn/
ipa: /ˌstɹeɪt ˈmæn/
ipa: /ˈstɹeɪt ˌmæn/
Forms: form: straight men
Senses: examples: text: For many years Bud Abbott served brilliantly as Lou Costello's deadpan straight man.
text: Recently he had successfully concluded a case featuring a poet who wore only latex, lived on liquorice allsorts and worshipped a horse she believed to be the reincarnation of Radclyffe Hall. And she was the straight man.
ref: 2010, Caroline Graham, A Ghost in the Machine, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: She was the straight man, he was the comedian, and their audience was “standing room only” when they stepped up to the microphone.
ref: 1982 April, Pam Hait, “Sandra Day O’Connor: Warm, Witty and Wise”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 99, page 46:
synonyms: setup man
stooge
second banana
coordinate_terms: straight woman
glosses: A member (of any gender) of a team of comic performers who plays a supporting role by helping to set up jokes and punch lines through engaging in dialog with another comedian playing a more eccentric or otherwise more interesting character; a foil who plays such a role in theatrical comedy.
examples: text: The committee consisted of two lesbians and a straight man.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight, man; for example, a heterosexual man.
Related terms: word: straight face
word: deadpan
word: feed
word: funnyman
word: second banana
word: top banana
ministration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministrations
Etymology: From Middle English ministracioun, from Old French ministracïon, from Latin ministrātio; equivalent to minister + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Bobby Castleton, who was cured of homosexuality on the Phil Donahue Show through the ministrations of Feona.
ref: 1987 February 1, Dan Page, “Seeing the Lite (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 15:
glosses: The act of ministering.
indecency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdiːsənsi/
Forms: form: indecencies
Etymology: From in- + decent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: One sure sign of indecency is criticizing foreigners constantly, but remaining silent about the problems within your own land, or by your own people, or both.
glosses: Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent.
glosses: Something showing lack of decency; something (such as a word) that is indecent.
Derived terms: gross indecency
public indecency
trainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹeɪˈniz/
[tʃɹeɪˈniz]
Senses: glosses: plural of trainee
living in sin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live in sin
thief in the night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːf ɪn ðə naɪt/
Forms: form: thieves in the night
Etymology: A calque from Ancient Greek κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί (kléptēs en nuktí).
Senses: examples: text: For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 5:2:
glosses: Something stealthy or that occurs without warning.
live in sin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives in sin
form: living in sin
form: lived in sin
form: lived in sin
Senses: examples: text: Ralph: Athene gone and got married?
Builder: No. It's—it's that she's gone and—and not got married. . . . I suppose you'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society.
ref: 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man, act 2:
glosses: To cohabit as if husband and wife without being married.
Synonyms: live over the brush
play house
Related terms: common-law marriage
orphan drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphan drugs
Senses: examples: text: Tragically, her disease is so rare that the only effective medicine is an orphan drug.
glosses: A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply.
topics: law
glosses: A drug as defined under the Orphan Drug Act (1983).
Related terms: orphan disease
forager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.ɪd͡ʒɚ/
ipa: [ˈfo̞ɹ.ɪd͡ʒɚ]
ipa: /ˈfɑɹ.ɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: foragers
Etymology: From forage + -er.
Senses: glosses: An animal or person who forages.
forborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed forborne for ever,
The worm, regret, will canker on,
And time will turn him never.
ref: 1874, William Henley, O, Gather Me the Rose:
glosses: past participle of forbear
force-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcefed
form: force fed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of force-feed
force-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: force-feeds
form: force-feeding
form: force-fed
form: force-fed
form: force feed
form: forcefeed
Senses: examples: text: They were ordered to force-feed the prisoners on hunger strike.
glosses: To force a person or animal to ingest food, for example by stuffing food down the throat, or using a tube passed into the stomach.
examples: text: Mr and Mrs Rakmil, are rocking him back and forth on the carpet while Mrs Brody Nina's mother is trying to forcefeed him with another beer bottle.
ref: 1968, Gil Orlovitz, Milkbottle H., page 16:
text: I finally poured water in a glass and shouted at him, "Keep your cool, man! You're more scared than the rest of us." And I force-fed him the water.
ref: May 2013 Zoya Pirzad, "Things We Left Unsaid" page 277
text: Frederick collapsed upon the stone, coughing up all the water Aerox had force-fed him.
ref: August 2013 Vince Seim, "A Mortal Mistake" page 422
text: He remembers the sound of Fish thrashing under the net, how he was forcefed river until he was still and dead and trampled on by his own frightened kin.
ref: December 2014 Tim Winton, "Cloud Street" page 88
text: Over the next two days, Bray's fever returned, left, and returned again. I'd force-fed him enough water to keep him alive, but the supply was dwindling and he lost so much when he had the bouts of sweating, I knew we were hitting a danger zone.
ref: April 2015 Heather Burch, "Summer by Summer" page 116
glosses: More broadly, also referring to forcing the drinking of a beverage or other liquid
examples: text: The teachers at this school tend to force-feed their students information, rather than encourage critical thinking and debate.
glosses: To force someone to take in information or accept an ideology.
fordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːdəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more fordable
form: most fordable
Etymology: From ford + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There, if you are in luck, you will find the tide out and the place fordable dryshod for a man on a horse.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: However, there were a number of fordable spots in the vicinity.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 66:
glosses: Able to be forded.
raw_tags: of a body of water
Derived terms: fordableness
mama's boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mama's boys
form: Mama's boy
form: mamma's boy
form: Mamma's boy
form: mammie's boy
form: Mammie's boy
form: mammy's boy
form: Mammy's boy
form: momma's boy
form: Momma's boy
form: mommie's boy
form: Mommie's boy
form: mommy's boy
form: Mommy's boy
form: mumma's boy
form: Mumma's boy
form: mummie's boy
form: Mummie's boy
form: mummy's boy
form: Mummy's boy
Senses: examples: text: He's such a mama's boy that he can't even ask a girl out for a date without his mother's approval.
text: And now we have plenty of mama’s boys who just want to have fun, who just want to —I don't know— use some women, have fun, have great sex, but they are not able to offer this responsibility in case something happens (!) so that’s why women, they are insecure because sex is something very precious that we have to offer; we women, because it’s our bodies, and our bodies, uhm, we become pregnant and men cannot become pregnant, so we bear all of these risks. And, for us, it’s a huge opening if we say yes to a man, if we give ourselves to a man, it’s not only that we open —uh, I’m sorry for the expression— our legs, but, it’s just that we open our heart and soul and we trust that this man is responsible; and if something happens (!) he will take action, he will be there (!) for us; he will behave... [nodding] like a man.
ref: 2020, Alexandra, 8:48–9:45 from the start, in Strong women and weak men, spoken by speaker, Family Code, via YouTube:
synonyms: nancyboy
pansy
coordinate_terms: daddy's boy
daddy's girl
glosses: A male who has a very close bond with his mother, and may consequently be perceived as soft or effeminate.
Related terms: cut the umbilical cord
forecaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːkɑːstə/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹkæstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈfɔɹ.kæs.tɚ]
ipa: /ˈfoːkaːstə/
Forms: form: forecasters
Etymology: From forecast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Students will be surprised to see the weather forecaster is not really standing in front of the maps. These are keyed in electronically; the forecaster stands in front of a green/blue screen.
ref: 1995, Keith Kyker, Christopher Curchy, Video projects for elementary and middle schools, page 79:
text: Flooding occurs in areas where the ground is unable to absorb all of the water, according to forecasters, who explained that flash flooding can also be caused by mudslides or breaks in dams or levees.
ref: 2021 July 18, Neil Vigdor, “What Is Flash Flooding, and How Can You Avoid It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022:
text: Many NWS forecast offices have ceased launching their twice-a-day weather balloons, which provide critical data that can alert forecasters to the potential for flooding and other hazardous weather.
ref: 2025 July 5, Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, Mary Gilbert, “Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who forecasts.
glosses: A software program or algorithm that forecasts.
Derived terms: superforecaster
weather forecaster
tramways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramway
bequeathal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bequeathals
Etymology: From bequeath + -al.
Senses: synonyms: bequeathment
bequest
glosses: The act of bequeathing
berberine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.bə.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.bəˌɹin/
Forms: form: berberines
Etymology: From berberis + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of alkaloid C₂₀H₁₉NO₅ originally obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, goldthread, and other plants. It is used in medicine especially for its antimicrobial properties.
Derived terms: epiberberine
protoberberine
fullscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of full-scale.
Oahu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈɑhu/
ipa: /əʊˈɑːhuː/
ipa: /ɐʉˈɐːhʉː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
Forms: form: Oʻahu
Etymology: From Hawaiian Oʻahu, probably a corruption of Hawaiian o + Hawaiian ahu (cognate with Rapa Nui ahu), thus [place] of an altar or platform.
Senses: glosses: The third-largest island of Hawaii, included in the City and County of Honolulu.
Derived terms: Oahuan
Maui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Maui, probably a contraction of Māui (a Hawaiian trickster god); or borrowed from Maori Māui.
Senses: glosses: The second-largest island of Hawaii.
qualifier: Polynesian mythology
glosses: Alternative spelling of Māui.
Derived terms: Maui County
Maui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Delfin Albano, Isabela, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Caramoran, Catanduanes, Philippines.
exchange rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exchange rates
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: The rate at which one currency may be exchanged for another currency.
sarmale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarmales
Etymology: From Romanian sarmale.
Senses: glosses: A Romanian sarma; a roll consisting of minced meat or another stuffing wrapped in cabbage leaves.
sarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarmas
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma).
Senses: glosses: A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.
Related terms: word: dolma
roman: sɛnɛtḥapɛ
word: сэнэтхьапэ
sarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian сарма́ (sarmá).
Senses: examples: text: “You see how the wind has pressed it into a hard layer?” “The sarma did it!” one of the children told Alex. “The sarma wind is mighty. It's so strong it turns ships upside down.” “Ah, that's something I didn't know. Well, we can thank the sarma for making excellent material for us." "The mountain hides our homes from the sarma," said another.
ref: 2011, Michael D. O'Brien, The Father's Tale: A Novel, Ignatius Press, →ISBN, page 749:
glosses: A strong, cold wind that blows down the valley of the Sarma river (which acts as a natural wind tunnel), reaching hurricane strength (uprooting trees) by the time it blows across the western shore and into Lake Baikal.
foredoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːduːm/
ipa: /fɔːˈduːm/
Etymology: From fore- + doom. Compare foredeem.
Senses: synonyms: word: kismet
word: weird
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
hypernyms: doom
glosses: A doom that is predicted; destiny.
foredoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːduːm/
ipa: /fɔːˈduːm/
Forms: form: foredooms
form: foredooming
form: foredoomed
form: foredoomed
Etymology: From fore- + doom. Compare foredeem.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: [W]hen to the inherent difficulties of so delicate and nice a social operation were added the spite and hate of conflict, the hell of war; when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement,—in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large part foredoomed to failure.
ref: 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC:
text: [O]ne feels that no community can really be as purged of peccant humours as the typical American has for the most part found itself foredoomed to look.
ref: 1906 August, Henry James, “Baltimore”, in The American Scene, London: Chapman and Hall, published 30 January 1907, →OCLC, section II, page 312:
text: To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure.
ref: 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
text: They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35:
glosses: To predestine to a doom.
Related terms: foredeem
foreknew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreknow
foreknown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of foreknow
foreknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foreknown
form: most foreknown
Senses: examples: text: My truths are all foreknown,
This anguish self-revealed.
I’m naked to the bone,
With nakedness my shield.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: anticipated or predicted
Derived terms: unforeknown
forelimb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forelimbs
Etymology: From fore- + limb.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: hind limb
synonyms: word: foreleg
word: foreflipper
raw_tags: in sea lions
glosses: The anterior limb (or equivalent appendage) of an animal
forenamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English forenamed, fornamed, fornemned, forenammd, equivalent to fore- + named. Compare Dutch voornoemd (“aforementioned”), German vorgenannt, vorbenannt (“aforementioned”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: previously named; aforementioned
forenamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English forenamed, fornamed, fornemned, forenammd, equivalent to fore- + named. Compare Dutch voornoemd (“aforementioned”), German vorgenannt, vorbenannt (“aforementioned”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forename
foreordain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːɹɔːˈdeɪn/
Forms: form: foreordains
form: foreordaining
form: foreordained
form: foreordained
Etymology: From Middle English for-orden; equivalent to fore- + ordain; probably modeled on Latin praeordināre.
Senses: examples: text: What had Wyrd fore-ordained? Naegling blunted and this time broke into kindling.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46:
text: God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 308:
glosses: To predestine or preordain.
Derived terms: foreordainer
forequarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forequarters
Etymology: From fore- + quarter.
Senses: glosses: The foreleg, shoulder and surrounding area of the body of a quadruped.
glosses: The front half of a side of meat.
Related terms: hindquarter
millihelen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millihelens
form: milli-Helen
Etymology: From milli- + Helen, referring to Helen of Troy, the maiden so beautiful that her abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War and was said, in Christopher Marlowe's 1604 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to have "launched a thousand ships".
Senses: examples: text: Now Maria seems to me to be a wonder in every respect that I have had the pleasure of examining, and her clothes are plainly not meant to conceal defects. So what do we say? I'd say 850 millihelens for Maria. anybody bid higher?
ref: 1983, Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels:
text: During the days when I was a graduate student in the early forties, we were dealing with chemistry in which there were a great many units used in measuring various quantities--in particular the entire metric system. A friend of mine, Mario Castillo, and I therefore whiled away one lunch period by making up units and I finally came up with the "millihelen," which is enough beauty to launch one ship. (After all, Helen of Troy had a "face that launched a thousand ships.")
Years later, I saw "millihelen" in Time, and it wasn't attributed to me, either.
ref: 1992, Isaac Asimov, Asimov Laughs Again:
text: The finest achievement of modern aesthetic theory has been the discovery of a unit of measure of beauty. This is the millihelen: that quantum of beauty required to launch one ship. But the millihelen is an inappropriate measure of beauty in the ascent passage of the Symposium, for application of a measure implies invariance in what is measured, […] So there is no number of millihelens by which Socrates' soul is prettier than Helen of Troy's body.
ref: 1993, R. E. Allen, commentator, The Symposium: The Dialogues of Plato volume 2:
text: three milliHelens more beautiful
ref: 1994, Carl Pollard, Ivan A. Sag, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar:
text: Don was referring to the time at school when Carl had first dated Sarah. ‘She was the best looking girl in the school — at least nine hundred millihelens.’
ref: 2001, Ray Crowther, The Nearest FarAway Place:
glosses: A unit of measurement of beauty, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
wikipedia: Helen of Troy
Trojan War
mastoiditides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastoiditis
deponer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deponers
Etymology: From depone + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who depones.
psyches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psyche
psyches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psyche
higher power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher powers
Senses: examples: text: Your blessings are sent by a higher power.
glosses: God or a god; a deity; a supernatural force capable of affecting outcomes in the material world.
Related terms: higher being
cosmocrat
supreme being
highroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highroads
Senses: examples: text: In most parts of [ancient Italy] women were forbidden to walk on the highroads twirling a spindle, because this was supposed to injure the crops.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119:
glosses: Alternative spelling of high road.
trustful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trustful
form: most trustful
Etymology: From Middle English trustful, trystefull, equivalent to trust + -ful.
Senses: antonyms: distrustful
suspicious
glosses: Trusting; willing to trust.
glosses: Trustworthy.
villany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villanies
Senses: examples: text: There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villany with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter II (The Science of Deduction), page 14:
glosses: Obsolete form of villainy.
vilest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of vile: most vile
viler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of vile: more vile
vibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vibrate
vibrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vibrate
vapors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapor
vapors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vapor
valets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valet
vacancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacancy
limon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lemon.
arguido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arguidos
Etymology: From Portuguese arguido; entered British English in 2007 through extensive news coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal.
Senses: glosses: A person kept for questioning who is not a formal suspect and has certain rights that a witness or suspect would not have.
wikipedia: Madeleine McCann
beeramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beeramids
Etymology: Blend of beer + pyramid
Senses: examples: text: In one case of compensatory behavior, a male in the study had been deprived of breakfast meat for so long, he spent every waking moment in his garage constructing a beeramid with ten thousand cans, only to destroy it time and time again.
ref: 2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, page 72:
glosses: A pyramid made from emptied cans of beer.
glosses: A drinking game that involves laying fifteen playing cards out in a pyramid, and drinking based on the cards laid out.
hypoalgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəʊˌæl.dʒiːzɪə/
Forms: form: hypoalgesias
Etymology: From hypo- + algesia.
Senses: glosses: A decreased sensitivity to painful stimuli.
Derived terms: hypoalgesic
Related terms: algesia
analgesia
keraunopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerauno- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: The pathology of lightning; the scientific study of the effects of lightning on living things, with emphasis on its anatomic and functional effects.
Related terms: keraunomedicine
silicotuberculosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silico- + tuberculosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: silicosis-related tuberculosis.
flambeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflambəʊ/
ipa: /flamˈbəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: flambeaus
form: flambeaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French flambeau.
Senses: examples: text: Saint-Antoine has its cannon pointed (full of grapeshot); thrice applies the lit flambeau; which thrice refuses to catch,—the touchholes are so wetted....
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: […] With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, / With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132:
text: She walked quietly with apparent composure and lowered head but her pallor betrayed her mortal fear – her skin glowed almost nacrous in the warm rose of the flambeaux.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 955:
glosses: A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
Related terms: flambé
flamboyant
garotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garottes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garrotte.
garotte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: garottes
form: garotting
form: garotted
form: garotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garrotte.
Derived terms: garotter
foreseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreseers
Etymology: From foresee + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who foresees
foresighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foresighted
form: most foresighted
Etymology: From fore- + sight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having foresight; foreseeing; provident.
Synonyms: prescient
Derived terms: foresightedly
foresightedness
unforesighted
purveys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of purvey
purveying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of purvey
purveyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of purvey
disciplining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discipline
disciplining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disciplinings
Senses: glosses: The use of punishment to compel behavior.
ambassadress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassadresses
Etymology: From ambassador + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female ambassador.
glosses: The wife of an ambassador.
Synonyms: word: ambassadrix
word: ambassadrice
word: ambassatrix
word: ambassatrice
word: embassadress
Élysée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Élysée.
Senses: glosses: The official residence of the President of France.
glosses: The French government.
car chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car chases
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, Monster Trucks sends its heroes racing against an evil corporation, on a mission to save Creech, his family, and the environment in general (which makes Creech’s appetite for sweet, sweet oil an especially puzzling detail) and to prove that car chases in kids’ movies can still proceed with the casual disregard for human life that adult audiences demand.
ref: 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A Literal Monster Truck is Far from the Stupidest Thing about Monster Trucks”, in The A.V. Club:
text: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
topics: road
transport
glosses: A chase, usually high-speed, between people in two or more cars or other vehicles, normally between the police or other law enforcement and an offender.
Coordinate terms: foot chase
imprese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impreses
Senses: glosses: A heraldic device; an impresa.
the jig is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the jig was up
form: jig's up
form: one's jig is up
form: one's jig's up
form: the jig's up
Etymology: Jig is an old term for a lively dance, and in the Elizabethan era the word also became slang for a practical joke or a trick. This idiom derives from this obsolete slang word.
Senses: examples: text: We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.
ref: 1753, The Skipper:
text: When I first told 'em how the jig was up with us, that the British were going to have the land, without any fighting about it, I never see fellows so mad before in my life, unless it was Major Eaton at Washington when he sot out to flog Mr. Ingham.
ref: 1833, Seba Smith (as Jack Downing), The life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine, Lilly; Wait; Colman & Holden, page 176:
text: After I had returned home in the spring of 1893 from Washington, where I saw so many gray-haired men who had held high elective office begging for the crumbs from Cleveland's table, I gave my wife an account of what I observed, and told her that when the jig was up for me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.
ref: 1920, Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers, page 96:
text: The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.
ref: 2007, Mary Newport, in Jerry Newport and Mary Newport, Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who has just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, where it means "You've been discovered".
wikipedia: Elizabethan era
Synonyms: gotcha
the game is up
sussed
primy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A Shakespearean coinage, from prime + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, / Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 5-10:
glosses: in its prime
cautel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːtəl/
rhymes: -ɔːtəl
Forms: form: cautels
Etymology: From Latin cautēla, from cautus, past participle of caveō.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps he loves you now,
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], pages 14-16:
glosses: deceit
examples: text: Here come institution, by your blasphemous sacrifice, in all cautels and provisions of the Mass
ref: a. 1589, William Fulke, Confutation of the Rhemish Testament:
glosses: caution; prudence; wariness
topics: Christianity
glosses: A traditional caution or written direction about the proper manner of administering the sacraments.
Derived terms: cautelous
credent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more credent
form: most credent
Senses: examples: text: Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.
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 I, scene iii], lines 28–31:
glosses: gullible.
Derived terms: credently
miscredent
Related terms: credence
springe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: springes
form: springing
form: springeing
form: springed
form: springed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sprengen, from Old English sprenġan, sprenġċan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną (“to cause to spring”). See sprinkle.
Senses: glosses: To sprinkle; to scatter.