cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
C-suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-suites
Etymology: From C in chief + suite.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: CXO
text: THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already crowded) C-suite are supposed to look at the business from the customer’s point of view.
ref: 2012 September 22, “Schumpeter: The magic of good service”, in The Economist:
topics: management
synonyms: C-level
glosses: The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.
topics: management
glosses: Senior headquarters executives: the chiefs and their immediate subordinates.
Hyponyms: chief accounting officer
chief audit officer
chief behavioral officer
chief compliance officer
chief customer officer
chief data officer
chief design officer
chief diversity officer
chief executive officer
chief experience officer
chief financial officer
chief human resources officer
chief information officer
chief information security officer
chief learning officer
chief legal officer
chief marketing officer
chief operating officer
chief risk officer
chief scientific officer
chief security officer
chief strategy officer
chief technology officer
CXO
drum major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum majors
Senses: glosses: One who conducts and commands a marching band.
Derived terms: drum majorette
overfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: overful
Etymology: From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).
Senses: glosses: excessively filled; full to overflowing
Derived terms: overfully
overfullness
Related terms: overfill
overfull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overfulls
Etymology: From over- + full house.
Senses: examples: text: […] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.
ref: 2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A full house that beats someone else's full house.
Hypernyms: word: full house
english: poker sense
translation: poker sense
word: hand
xylogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of wood.
Canadianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadianisms
Etymology: From Canadian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Allegiance or loyalty to Canada.
glosses: The status or character of being Canadian.
glosses: A word or phrase that originated in Canada, or has special meaning in Canada.
Derived terms: hyphenated Canadianism
unhyphenated Canadianism
Related terms: un-Canadianism
top dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top dollars
Senses: examples: text: Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter.
ref: 1947 September 8, “Aces Up”, in Time:
text: Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses.
ref: 2006 December 6, “Many ways to say cheese”, in Toronto Star, page F2:
glosses: The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price.
top gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top gears
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (often synonymous) fifth gear, overdrive
text: His Packard rarely saw top gear, because in the 1930s this county barely had any roads smooth and straight enough to use it on.
text: The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for the imminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
antonyms: granny gear
;
low gear
first gear
coordinate_terms: second gear
third gear
fourth gear
;
angel gear
overdrive
;
neutral#Noun
glosses: The highest gear that is available in a motor vehicle or car.
examples: text: Things really shifted into top gear once they found a new angel investor.
synonyms: overdrive
full throttle
antonyms: low gear
glosses: The highest level of performance or activity.
top hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top hats
form: top-hat
form: tophat
Senses: glosses: A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk).
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A kind of steel batten.
Synonyms: stovepipe hat
topper
Derived terms: top-hat pension
top-hat plan
top-hatted
top-hatting
top-hat transform
top-heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-heavy
form: most top-heavy
Senses: examples: text: Legion: Your new platform is inefficient. It has low-volume hydraulics and is top-heavy.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
glosses: having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple
glosses: having an excessive number of administrators or managers
raw_tags: of an organization
examples: text: A defined benefit plan is top-heavy if[…] the present value of the accrued benefits (PVAB) under the plan for the key employees exceeds 60 percent of the PVAB under the plan for all employees.
ref: 2017 September 10, IRS, “4.72.5 Top-Heavy Plans”, in Internal Revenue Service:
glosses: Having a significant portion of the plan assets allocated to key employees to the detriment of lower-wage employees.
raw_tags: of a retirement plan
examples: text: "My figure is topheavy, and I always thought a woman with a large bust had to look mature. Now I know better." An all-in-one girdle is a lifesaver for women like Miss B.
ref: 1941, “Fashion”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 112, page 52:
text: The top-heavy woman finished her whisky. She left fatty finger marks on the glass.
ref: 1970, John McIntosh, The Stonefish, page 112:
qualifier: typically a woman
glosses: having a disproportionately large upper body, especially the bust
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: He who confines his drink to the same level as that of the poor unreasoning soul-less animals, who never take too much and are never “top-heavy,” cannot avoid irritation.
ref: 1886, “A field-day among the city guardians”, in Punch, volume 90, page 61:
glosses: Drunk.
Derived terms: top-heavy fraction
top-heavy with drink
topical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒp.ɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
ipa: /ˈtɑ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɑpɪkəl
Forms: form: more topical
form: most topical
Etymology: From topic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The book is divided into topical chapters.
glosses: Relating to a particular topic or subject.
examples: text: Fair trade has become quite a topical issue.
glosses: Relating to a topic or subject of current interest.
glosses: Local to a particular place.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: systemic
glosses: Applied to a localized part of the body.
examples: text: Terbinafine is available in 250 mg tablets and in a topical 1% ointment. There is no parenteral form available.
ref: 2003, Peter G. Pappas, “Terbinafine”, in William E. Dismukes, Peter G. Pappas, Jack D. Sobel, editors, Clinical Mycology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
glosses: Arranged according to topic or theme; thematic.
Related terms: word: toponymic
sense: applied externally
word: superficial
topical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒp.ɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
ipa: /ˈtɑ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɑpɪkəl
Forms: form: topicals
Etymology: From topic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Small amounts of potent ingredients can, in theory, mean far less skin irritation, as one might get with a one-time high dose of retinol. And with topicals, there is a more uniform delivery of product to the skin’s surface.
ref: 2012 August 8, Alix Strauss, “Marketing Time in a Bottle Pays Off”, in The New York Times:
text: "This is a great introductory line to first-time cannabis users because two of the items are topicals, which don't get you high," says Elisabeth, who prides herself and her growers on having a well-balanced and chemical-free strand.
ref: 2016 March 30, Kate Branch, “Whoopi Goldberg Wants to Cure Your PMS—With Cannabis”, in Glamour:
glosses: A substance, especially a medication, applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A substance, especially a medication, applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
A topical anaesthetic.
examples: text: You can’t do a show at an audience – you have to do a show with an audience and structure the act so that you start with the “hello” gags, then the topicals, then the surreal stuff.
ref: 2017 November 4, Michael Billington, “Ken Dodd at 90: the rib-tickling genius is still crazy after all these years”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A joke dealing with current events or topical subjects.
examples: text: beautiful Pictorials, topicals, commemoratives, airmails. Introductory selection 40% discount. Ralph Rice, 15 Longlane, West Hartford 7, Conn.
ref: 1956 December, “Classified Advertisements: Stamp collecting”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 106, number 6, page 57:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A postage stamp depicting a particular theme or subject (such as birds or trains), potentially sought out by topical stamp collectors.
topically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more topically
form: most topically
Etymology: From topical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a topical manner.
examples: text: If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
ref: 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: (Applied) to a localized part of the body.
top up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops up
form: topping up
form: topped up
form: topped up
Senses: examples: text: I shall top up with petrol before the long trip.
text: Please top up the tank tonight.
text: For the CBD90, the primary power source is a 526kW/h lead acid battery driving four traction motors. As well as charging from a three-phase shore supply or regenerative braking, the batteries can be topped up by an EU Stage V-compliant 56kW JCB Ecomax diesel engine if required.
ref: 2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 56:
synonyms: top off
glosses: To refill (or recharge) something.
examples: text: I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket.
text: Users can top up their wallet balance and start sending and receiving money between mobile phones.
synonyms: top off
add value
glosses: To refill (or recharge) something.
To add to a balance in an account (e.g., mobile payment, debit card, bank account).
examples: text: The waitress topped up my coffee every few minutes.
synonyms: top off
top off
glosses: To refill (or recharge) something.
To refill a drink.
synonyms: top off
glosses: To refill (or recharge) something.
To add to a number or amount, to bring something up to a certain level.
examples: text: We had dinner, went back to her place, and started topping up.
synonyms: tup#Verb
glosses: To have sex (with).
Related terms: word: top-up
top-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: English university students will have to pay top-up fees.
glosses: That serves as an addition
top-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-ups
Senses: examples: text: Energy will be generated from solar panels, water will be recycled and extracted from soil and the astronauts will grow their own food - they will also have an emergency ration and regular top-ups as new explorers join every two years.
ref: 2013, Melissa Hogenboom, “Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars”, in BBC News:
glosses: An addition.
glosses: A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values.
examples: text: I added a $20 top-up on my cellphone's data plan.
glosses: Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone.
examples: text: The reinforcement of anesthesia by an epidural “top-up” in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may be explained by a dual mechanism: a volume effect compressing the dural sac and a local anesthetic effect.
ref: 1999, The Epidural “Top-Up” in Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia: The Effect of Volume Versus Dose:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia
topics: education
glosses: The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.
Related terms: word: top up
toreador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toreadors
form: toreadores
Etymology: From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus.
Senses: examples: text: Such figures formed part of some ivory model of the Bull Ring, and are meant to suggest the toreadors who loom so large in the art and the traditions of Knossos. We can imagine the associations which such young toreadors would suggest, hung in the air by fine gold chains above the back of an ivory bull, when we look at a scene painted on one of the frescoes.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21:
topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A bullfighter, especially one on horseback.
Synonyms: torero
Derived terms: toreador pants
Related terms: matador
Torontonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tə.ɹɑnˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Torontonian
form: most Torontonian
Etymology: From Toronto + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the city of Toronto, Canada.
Torontonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tə.ɹɑnˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Torontonians
Etymology: From Toronto + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Toronto.
torpedo boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo boats
Senses: related: word: TP
hypernyms: boat#Noun
ship#Noun
<
craft#Noun
vessel#Noun
glosses: A high-speed marine vessel (small warship or large boat) designed to fire torpedoes, especially in coastal waters.
Derived terms: motor torpedo boat
MTB
TB
torpedo-boat destroyer
Related terms: patrol boat
gunboat
monitor
cutter
torpedo-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo-boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of torpedo boat.
torpedoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo
torpedoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torpedo
dibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Etymology: Since the early 19th century, of disputed origin. Most commonly thought to be from dibstones (“counters used in a game with the same name”). Also from dib (“to tap”) or related to northern English dip (“small depression in the ground”), or a shortened version of divide.
Senses: examples: text: I call dibs on the hammock!
text: He called dibs on batting first.
text: Who's got dibs on the chips?
text: Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.
ref: 2011 March 23, “We asked mayoral candidates: Do you support 'dibs' on parking spots?”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
text: It aims to give unionized California government workers "more workplace discipline protections and first dibs on state government work," as the Sacramento Bee put it.
ref: 2012 February 16, “Our View: Public Employees Bill of Rights Act all wrong”, in Appeal-Democrat:
glosses: The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
Synonyms: word: bags
Derived terms: first dibs
dibs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Etymology: Since the early 19th century, of disputed origin. Most commonly thought to be from dibstones (“counters used in a game with the same name”). Also from dib (“to tap”) or related to northern English dip (“small depression in the ground”), or a shortened version of divide.
Senses: glosses: Used to claim this right.
dibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Forms: form: dibses
form: dibsing
form: dibsed
form: dibsed
Etymology: Since the early 19th century, of disputed origin. Most commonly thought to be from dibstones (“counters used in a game with the same name”). Also from dib (“to tap”) or related to northern English dip (“small depression in the ground”), or a shortened version of divide.
Senses: glosses: To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.
Synonyms: sense: to reserve
word: bagsy
sense: to reserve
word: bags
dibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Etymology: From Arabic دِبْس (dibs).
Senses: examples: text: Besides what is thus consumed, the village makes about 180,000 pounds of raisins , one third of which is for home consumption , and about 24,000 pounds of dibs, ( grape molasses , ) all of which is for home use
ref: 1874, John William Kirton, The Temperance Hand-Book:
glosses: A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
dibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪbz/
rhymes: -ɪbz
Senses: glosses: plural of dib
glosses: A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.
examples: text: Get hold of the dibs, says he, and then you are bound to be right.
ref: 1897, The Investors Review, volume 10, page 310:
glosses: Money.
Stacy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.si/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Senses: glosses: An English surname, variant of Stacey.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from the surname, popular in the 1970s.
Derived terms: Stacyville
Stacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.si/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: Stacys
form: Stacies
form: stacy
Senses: examples: text: Incels scoff at Beckys, hoping to score exclusively with Stacys because Stacys alone are the sexual currency that will lead to admiration.
ref: 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 41:
text: While incels rant against Stacys for only paying attention to alpha men, they desire and despise them at the same time for being, according to the incel stereotype, attractive, spoiled, successful, and promiscuous all at once.
ref: 2020, Renata Salecl, A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why, pages 120–121:
text: Yet, incels want nothing more than to finally be desired by and be with a Stacy.
ref: 2022, Bonni Rambatan, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism:
qualifier: chiefly incel slang
glosses: An attractive, popular woman who is sexually active, often conceived as the female counterpart of a Chad.
Related terms: Trixie
edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of edge
examples: text: i never could keep my edges and kitchen / straight / even after / supercool/straighterPerm had burned / whiteness onto my scalp
ref: 1969, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Songs of a Black Bird, For Sistuhs Wearin Straight Hair:
text: Her edges were thick and dry and the ends of her hair just as thirsty.
ref: 2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
edges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of edge
tortoiseshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)təˌʃɛl/
/ˈtɔː(ɹ)təsˌʃɛl/
Forms: form: tortoiseshells
Etymology: From tortoise + shell.
Senses: glosses: The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
glosses: The hawksbill turtle.
glosses: A domestic cat (or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
glosses: Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
Synonyms: sense: cat etc.
word: tort
sense: cat etc.
word: tortie
Derived terms: large tortoiseshell
small tortoiseshell
tortoiseshell bracket
tortoiseshell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)təˌʃɛl/
/ˈtɔː(ɹ)təsˌʃɛl/
Etymology: From tortoise + shell.
Senses: glosses: Made of the covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
examples: text: Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
ref: 2023 June 26, Lauren Caruso and Jillian Tracy, “The 22 best sunglasses for summer, according to style experts”, in CNN:
glosses: Having markings resembling covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
Derived terms: tortoiseshell cat
tortoiseshell cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortoiseshell cats
Senses: glosses: a domestic cat whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings
Related terms: calico cat
domestic cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic cats
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A domesticated cat, of the species Felis catus or subspecies Felis silvestris catus, especially one kept as a pet or for vermin control.
Synonyms: cat
house cat
kitty
kitty-cat
moggy
puss
pussy
pussycat
pussy cat
pussy-cat
enacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enact
enacting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enactings
Senses: examples: text: We have said all this: all this we say, and will continue to say; and we have talked, too, and shall talk, about the divers most curious votings and enactings of this House […]
ref: 1824, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume XLIX:
glosses: Enactment.
torture stake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torture stakes
Senses: glosses: An upright stake on which people were nailed to be executed, especially that used to execute Jesus Christ according to the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Stacey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪsi
Forms: form: Stacy
form: Staci
form: Stacie
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.
examples: text: It was just a brief kiss, one that even Bernadine would have thought entirely appropriate between an uncle and niece had she happened to see it. But its briefness wasn’t the whole story. In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely heat flooded her body.
ref: 1990, Candace Schuler, Wildcat, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.
totality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊˈtælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: totalities
Etymology: From total + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed.
ref: 2019 January 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-2935 - O, Death” (0:36 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
glosses: The state of being total.
glosses: An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The phase of an eclipse when it is total.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: entirety
raw_tags: of being total
word: totalness
word: entirety
Derived terms: in its totality
in totality
path of totality
totality of the circumstances
totem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊtəm/
ipa: /ˈtəʊtəm/
rhymes: -əʊtəm
Forms: form: totems
Etymology: From Ojibwe (o)doodem(an).
Senses: glosses: Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.
examples: text: The totem members were forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal, or were allowed to do so only under specific conditions.
ref: 1921, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Edward Leroy Schaub, Elements of folk psychology: outlines of a psychological history:
text: These meanings flow from bear-like characteristics imprinted on totem members. Members of the bear clan may have dispositional, cognitive, and physical capabilities similar to those of bear.
ref: 2014, Michael Pomedli, Living with Animals: Ojibwe Spirit Powers, page 165:
glosses: The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
examples: text: “She became a totem,” he added. “She became the personification of a particular response to the pandemic, which people in the far-flung margins of the internet and the not so far-flung margins used against her.”
ref: 2023 January 19, Damien Cave, quoting Richard Shaw, “How Covid’s Bitter Divisions Tarnished a Liberal Icon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A symbol or personification.
examples: text: The best way to determine if you are dreaming or not is to have a totem in your lucid dreams that does not exist in reality. Inducing yourself is as easy as waking up during the night and practicing as you fall back asleep. Say, "I will be aware I am dreaming while I am dreaming by seeing my totem."
ref: 2010, ren, “Inception and Lucid Dreaming”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet):
glosses: An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.
examples: text: Out the front of the Drive-in rose the town’s main tourist attraction, a totem of signs to bizarre places with impossible distances such as Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and so on.
ref: 2014 February 4, Tom Hayllar, A Long Way Walkin’ in Australia: From the Tasman to the Timor Sea, Bloomington, Indiana: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: A tall object resembling a totem pole.
Derived terms: totemic
totemical
totemically
totemism
totemist
totemistic
totemistically
totem kin
totem pole
totem stone
totem tennis
tottering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of totter
tottering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tottering
form: most tottering
Senses: glosses: Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
glosses: Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
tottering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totterings
Senses: examples: text: Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]
ref: 1918, George Moore, A Storyteller's Holiday:
glosses: The movement of one who totters.
Synonyms: sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: precarious
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: rickety
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: shaky
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: unsteady
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: unsafe
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: unstable
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: wobbly
tot up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒt ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˌtɑt ˈʌp/
Forms: form: tots up
form: totting up
form: totted up
form: totted up
Etymology: From total.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as Debbie can tot up the scores, we'll know who won.
text: Later, when Cora got a chance to tot up her sins for the day, she would vaguely recall hearing the protestors suddenly grow quiet and whisper to each other.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: To calculate the sum of a number of numbers or quantities.
examples: text: The bill tots up to 35 euros.
glosses: To add up (to).
raw_tags: with to
Related terms: tote
touch-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touch-and-go
form: most touch-and-go
Senses: examples: text: His touch-and-go condition kept his wife at the hospital for days.
glosses: Alternative form of touch and go.
touch-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-and-goes
form: touch-and-go's
form: touch-and-gos
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of touch-and-go landing.
Tour de France
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɑːns/
ipa: /ˌtʊə də ˈfɹɒns/
ipa: /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹæns/
ipa: /ˌtʊɹ də ˈfɹɑns/
Forms: form: Tours de France
form: Tour de Frances
Etymology: Borrowed from French Tour de France (literally “Tour of France”).
Senses: examples: text: Sharing my predicament over a breakfast last week, he told me he commutes to his office every day by bike. Yet he was dressed in a smart black suit. His secret, he said, is black denim jeans with a 2 per cent elastane stretch — a great alternative for cyclists who don’t want to go full Tour de France.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
synonyms: Tour
qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: An annual long-distance cycling race through France and other European countries.
Coordinate terms: Giro d'Italia
green jersey
Vuelta a España
yellow jersey
Related terms: Grand Tour
northern lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies. […] Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: The aurora of the northern hemisphere.
Synonyms: word: aurora borealis
word: mirrie dancers
Coordinate terms: aurora australis
southern lights
Derived terms: County of Northern Lights
tourmaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊɚ.mə.lɪn/
ipa: /ˈtʊɚ.məˌlin/
Forms: form: tourmalines
Etymology: From French tourmaline, ultimately from Sinhalese තෝරමල්ලී (tōramallī, “carnelian”)
Senses: examples: text: The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
glosses: A transparent gemstone cut from it.
Hyponyms: blue tourmaline
canary tourmaline
chrome tourmaline
dravite
green tourmaline
indicolite
indigolite
multicolored tourmaline
Paraiba tourmaline
rubellite
schorl
shocking pink tourmaline
watermelon tourmaline
yellow tourmaline
Related terms: luxulyanite
Mohrenkopf
supercharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supercharges
form: supercharging
form: supercharged
form: supercharged
Etymology: From super- + charge.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: turbocharge
;
superturbocharge
turbosupercharge
twincharge
glosses: To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
examples: text: Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
ref: 2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make faster or more powerful.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: electrics
glosses: To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
Related terms: word: supercharger
word: surcharge
word: forced induction
supercharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercharges
Etymology: From super- + charge.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A charge borne upon an ordinary or other charge.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: electrics
glosses: An instance of supercharging.
Related terms: word: surcharge
borosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borosilicates
Etymology: From boro- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various minerals whose structure is formally that of a dual salt of boric and silicic acids.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: silicate
Hyponyms: borophosphosilicate
Related terms: borosilicate glass
borosilicate glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borosilicate glasses
Senses: glosses: A heat-resistant glass made with the addition of boric oxide.
Related terms: Pyrex
pyrex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark Pyrex
Senses: examples: text: This steel tube slips into the pyrex glass focus tube, which is jacketed by a vacuum
ref: 1993, George Samuel Schuyler with Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen, Black Empire, page 53:
text: There is half of a yesteryear's tin of baked beans in a pyrex bowl
ref: 2007, Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine:
text: I tiptoed into the kitchen, turned on the fluorescent light over the stove, and peered into the oven. It was still warm, though the gas had been turned off. My dinner was there, in a pyrex dish with a cover.
ref: 2010, Ross Macdonald, The Ferguson Affair:
hypernyms: borosilicate glass
glass
glosses: A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
glosses: Any borosilicate glass.
glosses: Any glass capable of withstanding high temperatures, such as tempered glass suitable for cooking.
Related terms: -ex
pyro-
supercharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superchargers
Etymology: From super- + charger.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle).
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle).
Such a compressor which is specifically powered from the crankshaft.
synonyms: blower
coordinate_terms: turbocharger
turbosupercharger
superturbocharger
twincharger
qualifier: most commonly
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: electrics
glosses: A device that can rapidly recharge a battery cell/pack.
Related terms: supercharge
supercharged
supercharging
air compressor
turbocharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turbocharges
form: turbocharging
form: turbocharged
form: turbocharged
Etymology: From turbo- + charge.
Senses: glosses: To increase the power of (an internal combustion engine, either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the exhaust air (through using a turbocharger).
examples: text: Six weeks after that moment, in a darkened classroom at Oceanside Community College, I would learn via an anger management class video about the cardiology, neurology, and endocrinology of rage—about how, as I reached for that wrench, my hypothalamus was instant-messaging my adrenal glands to secrete cortisol and adrenaline. How stored fat was dumping into my bloodstream for an energy turbocharge. How my heart was pumping overtime, sending a surge of blood to my muscles and lungs in preparation for what that instructional video called "the evolutionary miracle of fight-or-flight." That morning, I saw Hay and took the former option.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11
text: 6 turbocharge your turkey Commit yourself to healthy, varied lunches, and start by topping your turkey club sandwich with broccoli sprouts. Compared with mature broccoli, these have up to 100 times the potent compound sulforaphane, which is shown to fight cancer.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:
text: Two scholars who are not here are William Baude of the University of Chicago law school and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Minn., whose article “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” turbocharged the disqualification debate when it was posted online last August.
ref: 2024 Mark Walsh, A packed courtroom for the Trump ballot case, in: The Christian Science Monitor, February 8 2024
text: The idea of an alleged Epstein "list" was turbocharged by Trump's own inner circle, most notably by Bondi herself. In a February interview with Fox News, she claimed, "The list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients is sitting on my desk." Her remark, quickly amplified by right-wing influencers, fueled weeks of speculation online and in MAGA circles.
ref: 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek:
glosses: To make faster or more powerful.
Related terms: e-turbo
supercharger
turbocharger
turbosupercharger
twincharger
supercharge
turbocharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbochargers
Etymology: Contraction of turbosupercharger.
Senses: synonyms: turbo
turbosupercharger
hypernyms: supercharger[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] sense>
coordinate_terms: supercharger[Appendix:Glossary#precise|precise]] sense>
turbosupercharger
twincharger
glosses: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air.
Derived terms: e-turbocharger
Related terms: supercharge
turbocharge
seperately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of separately.
tourniquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/
Forms: form: tourniquets
Etymology: From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: […] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
ref: 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 83:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
glosses: Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
glosses: A turnstile.
tourniquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/
Forms: form: tourniquets
form: tourniqueting
form: tourniquetting
form: tourniqueted
form: tourniqueted
form: tourniquetted
form: tourniquetted
Etymology: From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: To apply a tourniquet bandage.
seperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of separation.
tousled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tousled
form: most tousled
form: touzled
Senses: examples: text: His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “‘Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears’”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 261:
text: An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
tousled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tousle
towboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊˌboʊt/
Forms: form: towboats
Etymology: From tow + boat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tugboat.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
glosses: A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
glosses: A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
Related terms: tugboat
tugboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɡbəʊt/
ipa: /ˈtʌɡboʊt/
Forms: form: tugboats
form: tug-boat
form: tug boat
Etymology: From tug + boat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: tug
coordinate_terms: towboat
glosses: A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
Derived terms: monthly tugboat
towpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towpaths
Etymology: From tow + path.
Senses: examples: text: From the 1960s, various local authorities became increasingly involved in improving the neglected waterway, and towpaths were progressively reopened as footpaths.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 44:
synonyms: towing path
glosses: A path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath.
Related terms: pannierway
towel rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towel rails
Senses: glosses: A rail, or system of rails (sometimes heated) in a bathroom, on which towels are hung to dry.
foot-and-mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 301–302:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: aftosa
foot and mouth
hoof-and-mouth disease
glosses: A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
Related terms: foot-in-mouth disease
Unitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Unitarians
Etymology: Related to New Latin ūnitārius (from Latin ūnitās (“unity”)) -an. First documented as unitaria religio, in a decree of the Diet of Lécfalva (1600). In English since 1687
Senses: examples: text: But since Smith's ( of Norwich ) Bill passed , in 1813 , relieving Unitarians, as a religious sect, from the operation of the old law
ref: 1836, Alexander Fleming, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Presbytery of Paisley,:
antonyms: Trinitarian
qualifier: now inexact
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of unitarian: any Christian who denies the doctrine of the Trinity.
examples: text: The Unitarians never kneel. But I want to kneel.
ref: 2020, Jenny Offill, Weather, Granta Books (2021), page 197:
synonyms: Unitarian Universalist
glosses: A follower of Unitarian Universalism or a similar non-credal religion that originated historically from Christian Unitarianism.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of unitarian: any monotheist, particularly non-Christian monotheists (Muslims, Jews, etc.) as discussed from a Christian perspective.
glosses: A member of a political movement advocating a unitary state rather than a federal one, especially the Unitarios of nineteenth century Argentina (known as the Unitarian Party in English).
Derived terms: Unitarianism
Unitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Unitarian
form: most Unitarian
Etymology: Related to New Latin ūnitārius (from Latin ūnitās (“unity”)) -an. First documented as unitaria religio, in a decree of the Diet of Lécfalva (1600). In English since 1687
Senses: examples: text: It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Traps are Laid for a Great Quarry”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Pertaining to Unitarianism.
viscoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From visco- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: Viscous and elastic.
Derived terms: nonviscoelastic
poroviscoelastic
thermoviscoelastic
viscoelastically
viscoelasticity
viscoelasticplastic
viscoelastoplastic
viscoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: viscoelastics
Etymology: From visco- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: Such a material.