cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /flʌʃ/
other: /flɔʃ/
other: /flʊʃ/
ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: flushes
Etymology: Various similar terms are found in dialectal English and Scots as flash and flosh (older Scots flosche), and the variation goes back to Middle English flushe, flosche, flashe, flaske. The DSL suggests a relation between flush, English flash (“pool”), and Middle English flosche, but influence from other water-related senses of flush and flash is also conceivable.
Senses: examples: text: For this point onwards the land slopes gently until it becomes quite low lying, that is, tends to become a "flush" or bog.
ref: 1917, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, page 131:
text: The reason for a "green gair" or flush is the outflow of a spring, and a regular line of these springs may often be traced along a valley slope.
ref: 1918, The Scottish Journal of Agriculture, volumes 1-2, page 263:
text: The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which indicates that the local groundwaters are comparatively basic.
ref: 1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45:
text: Suddenly a way would open down into a flush or bog, even some extensive ones where snowfed springs rose, and so did Asiatic Golden Plover with their plangent cries, and calling from high circling; and I was home again.
ref: 2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems, page 16:
text: The inland distribution of Plantago maritima in Ireland and Britain is … generally associated with base-rich soils or with flushes in more acidic upland soils. … Many of these inland sites are on uplands of both acidic and basic rock. … associated with calcareous, nutrient-poor flushes, …
ref: 2012, M. J. Sheehy Skeffington, D. W. Jeffrey, "Growth performance of an inland population of Plantago maritima in response to nitrogen and salinity", in W.G. Beeftink, A.H.L. Huiskes, Jelte Rozema, Ecology of coastal vegetation: Proceedings of a Symposium, page 264
text: Lowland heath Fen, marsh, and swamp / Upland flushes, fens, and swamps […] Flushes are gently sloping, often linear or triangle-shaped wetlands; they may include small watercourses.
ref: 2016, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Formation:
text: […] Not all the flushes are as basic as might be expected in basalt country, but they do support most of the sedges found in this habitat in the Hebrides. […] in peaty fushes both on Canna and Sanday […]
ref: 2017, John Lorne Campbell, Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island, page xvii:
glosses: A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
ipa: /flʌʃ/
other: /flɔʃ/
other: /flʊʃ/
Forms: form: flushes
Etymology: Probably from Middle French flus (“flow”), cognate with flux.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
Derived terms: busted flush
nut flush
royal flush
straight flush
quarterback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔːtəbak/
Forms: form: quarterbacks
Etymology: From quarter + back, in reference to the position in front of the halfback position.
Senses: examples: text: Standing 6-foot-6, 237 pounds, Herbert’s size and arm strength are consistent with a prototypical N.F.L. quarterback, and he led the Ducks to a Pac-12 championship and a victory at the Rose Bowl in January with not much talent at receiver.
ref: 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times:
text: Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans defended Azeez Al-Shaair after the linebacker was ejected from Sunday’s game for throwing a late hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. […] “A lot of the quarterbacks in this day and age, they try to take advantage of the rule where they slide late, and they try to get an extra yard. And now you’re a defender, a lot of onus is on the defender, right?”
ref: 2024 December 2, David Close, “Houston Texans head coach defends Azeez Al-Shaair as the NFL leans toward suspending the linebacker, source says”, in CNN:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive back who receives the snap (hike) and then blocks the defense from crossing the line of scrimmage; a blocking back.
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A position just behind the forwards, or one who plays this position.
Derived terms: armchair quarterback
dimeback
Monday-morning quarterback
Monday morning quarterback
nickelback
Related terms: cornerback
dimeback
linebacker
nickelback
quarterback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔːtəbak/
Forms: form: quarterbacks
form: quarterbacking
form: quarterbacked
form: quarterbacked
Etymology: From quarter + back, in reference to the position in front of the halfback position.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play the position of quarterback.
examples: text: Wayman's major responsibility is to quarterback the team, coordinating business development, project scheduling and management and quality control.
ref: 1981, “Interiors roundtable”, in Lodging Hospitality, volume 37, page 250:
glosses: To lead a team or group; to be primarily responsible for some group project or activity.
forward pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward passes
Senses: examples: text: They used the break well. England emerged sharper for the second half. Abby Dow had already seen a try wiped off for a forward pass by Kildunne, shortly before a shock-and-awe line-out drive, powered by 10 of the team and covering 22m, ended with Cokayne dotting down.
ref: 2025 September 20, Mike Henson, “Kildunne stars as England see off France to make final”, in BBC Sport:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A pass in the forward direction, advancing toward the goal, generally illegal except in American football, once per play, from behind the line of scrimmage.
neutral-zone infraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral-zone infractions
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an infraction in which a football player, on defense, gets into or crosses the neutral zone during the snap, causing an offensive player to false start. The penalty is against the defense, not the offense. It is a 5 yard penalty.
hand-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from hand off.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass made in a backward direction.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred.
topics: business
glosses: The passing of a completed project to another person or group.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The act of pushing an opponent away with an open hand.
examples: text: Vertex shaders are algorithms that transform the vertex information stored in the model before handoff to the rasterizer.
ref: 2012, Walt Ritscher, HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers, page 6:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transfer of control to another subsystem.
Related terms: drop-off
handoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand-off.
fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsənɚ/
ipa: /ˈfæsnɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːsənə/
ipa: /ˈfɑːsnə/
ipa: /ˈfɐːsɘnɘ/
ipa: /ˈfɐːsnɘ/
Forms: form: fasteners
Etymology: From fasten + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that fastens.
glosses: Something or someone that fastens.
Mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, clasps, bolts and the like.
synonyms: fastening#Noun
hypernyms: hardware
Derived terms: diaper fastener
hook-and-loop fastener
hook-and-pile fastener
nappy fastener
paper fastener
pop fastener
slide fastener
snap fastener
zip fastener
wide receiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide receivers
Senses: examples: text: All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.
ref: 2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːt/
ipa: /ˈtwit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: tweets
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Senses: examples: text: [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
ref: 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
examples: text: Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
ref: 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune:
text: For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
ref: 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:
text: A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
ref: 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:
related: word: Tweet
qualifier: social media
glosses: An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
examples: text: He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.
ref: 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN:
qualifier: social media
glosses: An entry on any microblogging service.
tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːt/
ipa: /ˈtwit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: tweets
form: tweeting
form: tweeted
form: twote
form: tweeted
form: twote
form: twoten
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Senses: examples: text: [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
ref: 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
examples: text: In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
text: =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
ref: 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service, retrieved 25 Jan 2017:
text: First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.
ref: 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:
related: word: Tweet
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post an entry to Twitter.
examples: text: In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social
ref: 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist:
text: As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”
ref: 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post an entry to any microblogging site.
Derived terms: live-tweet
quote tweet
retweet
subtweet
tweeter
tweetup
Related terms: skeet
toot
xeet
tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːt/
ipa: /ˈtwit/
rhymes: -iːt
Etymology: Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
ref: 1977, David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
glosses: used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
Related terms: twitter
one-hit wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-hit wonders
form: one hit wonder
Senses: examples: text: Eleven years ago, Arrested Development became one of Southern hip-hop's first crossover successes with “Tennessee,” a wistful, bohemian-influenced song about the scars of history. But the group was a one-hit wonder.
ref: 2003 September 21, Jon Caramanica, “Music: When Rap Sounds Anything but Urban”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2019, retrieved 03 Aug 2009:
coordinate_terms: no-hit wonder
two-hit wonder
glosses: A recording artist known for only one hit song, especially after failing at subsequent attempts at success.
examples: text: The European company is no one-hit wonder. The company has another best seller in its J-class car, sold as a Vauxhall Cavalier.
ref: 1990 February 19, S. C. Gwynne, “Two Sides of a Giant”, in TIME, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2008:
glosses: A person or group known for achieving only a single major accomplishment.
qualifier: marijuana subculture
glosses: An instance of achieving a high from the first hit.
Related terms: one-trick pony
defragment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːfɹæɡˈmɛnt/
ipa: /diːˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
Forms: form: defragments
form: defragmenting
form: defragmented
form: defragmented
Etymology: From de- + fragment.
Senses: examples: text: SSDs don't need defragmenting. Windows wont' even let you try to defragment an SSD. However, if you could defragment an SSD, you might shorten the device's lifespan.
ref: 2013, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
Synonyms: defrag
Derived terms: defragmentation
defragmenter
desalination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desalinations
Etymology: From de- + salination.
Senses: glosses: The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.
Synonyms: desalinization
desalinisation
Derived terms: desalination plant
Related terms: desalinate
desalinator
pike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: pikes
Etymology: Clipping of turnpike (“a toll road, especially a toll expressway; a spiked barrier across a road, originally used to block access to the road until toll had been paid”)
Noun sense 2 (“gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller”) and verb sense 2 (“to depart, travel, especially to flee, run away”) may refer to someone frequently using turnpikes, or may be derived from Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”).
Senses: examples: text: They tried out every idea that came down the pike.
text: There is heavy traffic on the Mass Pike.
text: Under cover of the woods, they moved still further south, in a direction parallel with the Baltimore pike; but Gregg was moving too, and when they started out toward the pike, they were again confronted.
ref: 1863 June 29, Whitelaw Reid, “Doc. 20. The Battles of Gettysburgh. Cincinnati ‘Gazette’ Account.”, in Frank Moore, editor, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., volume VII, New York, N.Y.: D[avid] Van Nostrand, […], published 1864, →OCLC, section III (Thursday’s Doubtful Issue—Friday’s Victory), page 98, column 2:
glosses: Clipping of turnpike.
examples: text: The true "Pike," however, in the Californian sense of the word, is the wandering gypsy-like Southern poor white. […] "I found a Pike the other day killing and salting hogs, and actually hauling the salt pork off to sell it," said a gentleman in whose company we were discussing these people. / "Certainly that was an industrious Pike," said I. / "Yes, but confound it, they were my hogs," he replied, with natural wrath.
ref: 1873, Charles Nordhoff, “A January Day in Los Angeles”, in California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Residents, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
donkey bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey bids
Senses: glosses: A fake bid at an auction, used by the auctioneer to raise the price and thus raise the commission.
Related terms: dummy bid
graphic novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphic novels
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A comic book containing a single and full nonepisodic story.
Related terms: strip cartoon
comic book
fanzine
Far East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Asia, consisting of East Asia (Korea, Japan, China, the Russian Far East, etc.) and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole.
glosses: Clipping of Russian Far East, a region in Russia.
Derived terms: Far Eastern
Related terms: Middle East
Near East
Levant
hot swap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot swaps
form: hot swapping
form: hot swapped
form: hot swapped
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove or replace a component while the computer is still running.
graphic novelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphic novelists
Etymology: graphic novel + -ist or graphic + novelist
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A person who creates fiction using a succession of pictures interspersed with text (i.e. a comic book).
Related terms: cartoonist
where the sun don't shine
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: where the sun doesn't shine
Senses: examples: text: You can take your unsolicited advice and stick it where the sun don't shine.
glosses: Up or in the anus (usually figuratively).
key logger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key loggers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software or hardware designed to record keyboard entries, often for the purpose of stealing passwords or other sensitive data.
strip cartoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip cartoons
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A series of illustrations depicting a humorous narrative.
Synonyms: sense: illustrations depicting humorous narrative
word: comic
sense: illustrations depicting humorous narrative
word: comic strip
Related terms: funnies
funny pages
funny papers
cocorico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoricos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocrico.
cock-a-doodle-do
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: cock-a-doodle-do!
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock-a-doodle-doo.
cock-a-doodle-do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-a-doodle-dos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock-a-doodle-doo.
cartoonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartoonists
Etymology: From cartoon + -ist.
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.
Hyponyms: mangaka
manhuajia
manhwaga
Coordinate terms: graphic novelist
animator
Derived terms: editorial cartoonist
pocket cartoonist
political cartoonist
webcartoonist
cluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌk/
ipa: /klʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: clucks
form: clutch
form: clock
Etymology: From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
Senses: glosses: The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
glosses: Any sound similar to this.
glosses: A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
glosses: A setting hen.
Derived terms: dumb cluck
cluck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌk/
ipa: /klʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: clucks
form: clucking
form: clucked
form: clucked
form: clutch
form: clock
Etymology: From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
Senses: examples: text: "I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72:
synonyms: chuck
glosses: To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
examples: text: My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
glosses: To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
examples: text: When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
qualifier: drug slang
glosses: To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Derived terms: clucker
cluck one's tongue
clucky
Related terms: cackle
coo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o
ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coup
Forms: form: coos
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.
Senses: examples: text: The male [ring dove] will continue nest-coos for 3–4 days until his female partner begins to nest-coo. At that point the male's nest-coo begins to become less frequent[…].
ref: 1979, Mei-Fang Cheng, “Progress and Prospects in Ring Dove Research: A Personal View”, in Jay S[eth] Rosenblatt, Robert A[ubrey] Hinde, Colin Beer, Marie-Claire Busnel, editors, Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 9, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, section III (Hormones and Behavior: Lehrman’s Hypotheses), page 99:
glosses: The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
examples: text: An infant has only cries and coos with which to communicate distress and well-being. Adults have many more ways of expressing themselves. However, their expressions of disease and ease can be boiled down to sophisticated cries and coos. A call for help in whatever form is a cry. A sense of well-being however expressed is a coo. Healing in the context of cries and coos can be viewed as the process of resolving the cries and fostering the coos.
ref: 2001, Denton L. Roberts, Caddy Roberts-Williams, “What You Need to Know to Be Useful”, in Living as Healer: (Everyone Does Therapy and Should … Know How), Pasadena, Calif.: Hope Publishing House, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: An expression of pleasure made by a person.
Derived terms: coochy coo
coo-coo
cootchie-cootchie-coo
coo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o
ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coup
Forms: form: coos
form: cooing
form: cooed
form: cooed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.
Senses: examples: text: No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.
ref: 1763, C[harles] Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine. A Scots Pastoral, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-street, →OCLC, page 15:
text: DUET—MAYOR and MAUD. […] Like a Dove I'll coo and bill, pretty Maud, / I will not coo and bill, Mr. Mayor.
ref: [1784?], [John] O'Keeffe, Songs, Duets, and Chorusses, in the New Musical Farce of Peeping Tom of Coventry. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:
text: But oh! ſhall I, Misfortune's bondman, ſpeak / Of pleaſures and delights, where ſorrows ſhriek! / Can plaintive nightingale, or turte-dove, / When vultures tear them, ſing or coo of love?
ref: 1784, Voltaire, “Memoirs of Voltaire. Written by Himself. Part the Third”, in Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire. Written by Himself. Translated from the French, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Moncrieffe, Walker, Exshaw, Wilson, Jenkin, Burton, White, Byrne, Marchbank, Cash, and Heery, →OCLC, page 176:
text: The black-bird and the speckled thrush / Good-morrow gave from brake and brush; / In answer cooed the cushat dove, / Her notes of peace, and rest, and love.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza II, page 99:
text: Then did her soft breath stop and she lay still, her eyes yet open and smiling at the blossoms and the doves who sat upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed.
ref: 1896, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Doves Sat upon the Window-ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed”, in A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 360:
text: As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2017:
glosses: To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
examples: text: They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
ref: 2013, Nicola Cornick, chapter 14, in One Night with the Laird (Harlequin HQN Historical Romance), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin HQN, →ISBN:
glosses: To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
Derived terms: bill and coo
cooer
cooingly
coo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o
ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coup
Forms: form: more coo
form: most coo
Etymology: Clipping of cool; compare foo.
Senses: glosses: Cool.
coo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o
ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coup
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: I stood outside the door for a space, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would", as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. "Coo!" she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. "You gave me a start, sir!" […] "If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now." "Coo! So he is."
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: The last track on each of the three sections is a professional course, where you can customise your bike by changing the tyres and the size of chainwheel. Coo!
ref: 1988 November, Sean Kelly, “Professional BMX Simulator [video game review]”, in Teresa Maughan, editor, Your Sinclair, number 35, London: Sportscene Specialist Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2016:
text: We want you to come up with a side splitting caption for a picture drawn by the fair hand of those at System 3. If you turn out to be the Funniest "Person", we'll give you a big wopping model of a dinosaur. Coo.
ref: 1989 November, “Competitions”, in Jim Douglas, editor, Sinclair User: The Independent Magazine for the Independent User, number 92, London: ECC Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2013:
text: Coo, I've only had four gallons of extra caffeine coffee today so I'm not my usual talking-to-PR-girlies-for-hours-on-end self. But bear with me a mo while I get myself together (audience waits for an age while he searches through his coat for the golden envelope). Here it is! Coo, and the winner is The NewZealand Story.
ref: 1990 April, “Crash Readers’ Awards Ceremony”, in Oliver Frey, editor, Crash: ZX Spectrum, number 75, [Ludlow, Shropshire]: Newsfield, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2017:
glosses: An expression of approval, fright, surprise, etc.
perambulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəɹˈæmbjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /pəɹˈæmbjəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: perambulates
form: perambulating
form: perambulated
form: perambulated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin perambulō, perambulātus. Equivalent to per- + ambulate.
Senses: examples: text: Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
ref: 1890, William Booth, “The regimentation of the unemployed”, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
text: They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
ref: 1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam:
glosses: To walk about, roam or stroll; to ambulate.
examples: text: The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation.
ref: 1903, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Edinburgh:
glosses: To inspect (an area) on foot.
Derived terms: absquatulate
perambulation
perambulator
Related terms: amble
protoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosciences
form: proto-science
Etymology: From proto- + science.
Senses: glosses: An unscientific or pseudoscientific field of study which later becomes or spawns a science (e.g., astrology led to astronomy, alchemy led to chemistry, and, most generally, natural philosophy led to science).
examples: text: However, observation alone is not "modern" science; simple observation leads to "proto-science." Proto-science accepts observations without question or verification.
ref: 2008, Donald M. Hassler, Clyde Wilcox, New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction - Page 8:
glosses: A field of study at the initial phase of the scientific method, involving information gathering and hypothesis formulation, but is not yet falsifiable, or if it is, its predictions have not yet been observed.
Synonyms: ur-science
Related terms: prescience
prescient
prescientific
protoscientific
protoscientist
thirty-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following thirty-seven and preceding thirty-nine.
Synonyms: word: 38
word: XXXVIII
engrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more engrossing
form: most engrossing
Senses: examples: text: an engrossing documentary
text: The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.
ref: 2020 October 12, Dwight Garner, “Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are”, in New York Times:
synonyms: absorbing
fascinating
glosses: Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
Derived terms: engrossingly
engrossingness
unengrossing
engrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engross
engrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
Forms: form: engrossings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.
strappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹapi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: strappier
form: strappiest
Etymology: From strap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Looking luminous in a yellow, strappy Cavalli dress with her sun-kissed hair cascading down her back, the pop star-turned-actress demands that the reporter shake her groove thing like Beyonce does in her hit video "Crazy in Love."
ref: 2003 September 14, Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times:
text: The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.
ref: 2006 March 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
text: We read newspaper accounts of the Reagans' black-tie evenings, where the women wore long, shimmering gowns and strappy high heels and everyone toasted equally elegant foreign guests.
ref: 2010, Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heart:
glosses: Of or characterized by straps.
raw_tags: of clothing
Derived terms: strappily
strappiness
strappy top
strappies
sixty-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: sixty eight
form: sixtyeight
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-seven and preceding sixty-nine.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 68
word: LXVIII
sixty-seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: sixty seven
form: sixtyseven
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-six and preceding sixty-eight.
Synonyms: word: 67
word: LXVII
retrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
ipa: /ˈɹiːtɹeɪn/
Forms: form: retrains
form: retraining
form: retrained
form: retrained
Etymology: From re- + train.
Senses: examples: text: New York City's largest hospital has agreed to retrain some unionized employees whose jobs were to be eliminated under an austerity drive, the hospital and its largest labor union said yesterday.
ref: 1989 February 25, “Hospital Will Retrain Workers to Save Jobs”, in The New York Times:
text: In 1995, Sharon Brown and her husband, Daryck, founded Environmental and Occupational Safety Services at their kitchen table. The company, which retrains workers in the fields of environmental engineering and cleanup, started to grow by winning contracts from the state of New Jersey and later branched out to do work for the federal government as well.
ref: 2009 October 7, Sharon McLoone, “Building a Company on Government Contracts”, in The New York Times:
text: If we choose to change our diets and consistently eat healthier foods we retrain our brains, and the foods we initially found distasteful will become enjoyable.
ref: 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 81:
text: The process of retraining a large volume of pilots, who have been idle for different periods of time over the past year is complex and challenging.
ref: 2021 May 7, Ceylan Yeginsu, “‘It’s Not Quite Like Riding a Bike’: Pilots Get Ready to Fly Again”, in The New York Times:
text: For about $1,000 per student annually, the program retrained teachers and administrators and paid for new classroom materials, better aligned to cognitive research.
ref: 2023 December 4, Dana Goldstein, “What Costs $1,000 Per Student and Might Help Children Learn to Read?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
retrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
ipa: /ˈɹiːtɹeɪn/
Forms: form: retrains
Etymology: From re- + train.
Senses: examples: text: This adds a bit of complexity as it means that our solution should not retrain for every request coming in but be able to determine whether a retrain is worth it for a given request or whether the model is already up to date.
ref: 2021, Andrew P. McMahon, Machine Learning Engineering with Python, page 221:
glosses: An instance of training again.
detrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdi.tɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: detrains
form: detraining
form: detrained
form: detrained
Etymology: From de- + train.
Senses: examples: text: If you plan to detrain at the next stop, please begin gathering your belongings.
text: At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 57:
text: Here my party detrained, but the train proceeded to Souk Ahras via Duvivier.
ref: 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:
text: Arriving at York under the station's magnificent curved roof is always a delight. Detraining, I ponder my next move.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 49:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: entrain
glosses: To exit from a train; to disembark.
examples: text: Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab.
text: The trouble occurred on the 10.5 a.m. Paddington-Bristol trip, when gangers' tools left on the track near Swindon punctured one of the unit's fuel tanks and the passengers had to be detrained to wait for the down "Merchant Venturer".
ref: 1961 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: entrain
glosses: To remove (a passenger or passengers) from a train; to evacuate (passengers) from a train.
glosses: To reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
raw_tags: of an athlete
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: entrain
glosses: To transfer air from an organized air current to the surrounding atmosphere.
Derived terms: detrainment
sixty-six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: sixty six
form: sixtysix
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-five and preceding sixty-seven.
Synonyms: word: 66
word: LXVI
renowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: more renowned
form: most renowned
Senses: examples: text: The movie “Three Stars” is about world-renowned chefs.
glosses: Famous, celebrated, or well-known; widely praised or highly honored.
Hyponyms: world-renowned
Related terms: renown
renowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renown
sixty-five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: sixty five
form: sixtyfive
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-four and preceding sixty-six.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 65
word: LXV
KIT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of keep in touch.
haboob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæˈbuːb/
ipa: /hə-/
ipa: /hæˈbub/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: haboobs
Etymology: [Alt: A large dust cloud over the city]
Borrowed from Arabic هَبُوب (habūb, “strong wind, gale; haboob”), from the root ه ب ب (h b b)
(“relating to wind blowing”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: duster
text: Sandstorms were very prevalent during the first three months; they are called "Haboob." A fall in temperature of a few degrees in the hot months was always accompanied by these storms.
ref: 1897 September, Henry T. W. Mann, “Report on the Working of the Army Veterinary Department with the Suakin Force, 1896”, in The Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology, volume XLV, London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, […], →OCLC, page 182:
text: In the Central Sudan storms known as "haboobs" occur. At Khartoum in 6 years 140 haboobs occurred between May and October and 35 between November and April so that they are more frequent in the rainy season. The average duration of these storms obtained from observation of 45 haboobs at Khartoum in 3½ hours.
ref: 1931, H[arold] E[dwin] Hurst, P. Phillips, “Meteorology”, in The Nile Basin (Physical Department Paper; number 26), volume I (General Description of the Basin, Meteorology, Topography of the White Nile Basin), Cairo: Government Press [for the Physical Department, Ministry of Public Works, Egypt], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Haboobs tend to be most frequent along the edges of great deserts. […] Haboobs are fairly short-lived and seldom last more than three hours. […] A great amount of sand can be deposited during a haboob, and it is this type of dust storm that became the symbol of the dust bowl in the Great Plains of the United States, particularly in Oklahoma, in the 1930s.
ref: 1999, Federico Norte, “HABOOB”, in Michael A. Mares, editor, Encyclopedia of Deserts, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 262:
text: Americans used to call these storms “dusters,” but as a sign of increasing globalization, most news outlets now call them by their Gulf Arabic name haboob. In any case, haboobs and tornadoes are intensifying in the United States. In Blackwell, Oklahoma on October 21, 2012, a haboob with a storm front two miles across closed the town and stopped all traffic on I-35 while causing about half a million dollars in damage.
ref: 2013 September, Giles Slade, “Drought in the Carbon Summer”, in American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN, page 154:
hypernyms: duststorm
sandstorm
glosses: A violent duststorm or sandstorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.
zorb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɔː(ɹ)b/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: zorbs
Etymology: Originally the trademarked name of a particular brand of sphere; perhaps from orb.
Senses: examples: text: Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.
ref: 2006 March 25, Susmita Saha, quoting Anurag Mehra, “A different ballgame”, in Calcutta Telegraph:
text: There's even a kids' zorb for the under six.
ref: 2007, William Gray, “Wellington”, in Travel with Kids, →ISBN, page 309:
text: An Interlaken entrepreneur […] came across the activity in the Swiss canton of Valais (the Rhone Valley) and ended up buying the 'zorbs' from a German manufacturer.
ref: 2008, Katrin Blumberg, “Internationalisation in adventure tourism”, in Coles & Hall, editors, International Business and Tourism, →ISBN, page 175:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.
Synonyms: hypersphere
hydrosphere
zorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɔː(ɹ)b/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: zorbs
form: zorbing
form: zorbed
form: zorbed
Etymology: Originally the trademarked name of a particular brand of sphere; perhaps from orb.
Senses: examples: text: People who've zorbed in New Zealand, say Swiss mountains are too steep to allow the leisurely roll-out that's the real thrill.
ref: 2003, Damien Simonis et al., Switzerland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 57:
text: We hadn't even zorbed. Not all bad news then.
ref: 2006, John Gisby, New Zealand with a Hobbit Botherer, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Vieira zorbed — that is, rolled down a hill within an inflatable ball.
ref: 2008 March 3, David Bauder, “What a way to start the day: TV morning hosts doing stunts”, in Seattle Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To roll downhill or engage in sports in a zorb ball.
Related terms: zorbonaut
zorbing
zorbonaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorbonauts
Etymology: From zorb + -o- + -naut.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who zorbs.
untar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untars
form: untarring
form: untaring
form: untarred
form: untarred
form: untared
form: untared
Etymology: From un- + tar.
Senses: examples: text: I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]
ref: 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:
text: This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]
ref: 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To extract from a tar archive.
functionally complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of computing any recursive function.
Related terms: recursive function
Turing complete
Turing complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Turing-complete
Senses: examples: text: All languages that are equivalent to Turing's specification are said to be Turing complete. Turing completeness is a surprisingly low bar. Many hand calculators can understand a Turing complete language. PDF (Portable Document Format), in which many documents on the Internet are available, is itself a Turing complete language.
ref: 2005, Ben Klemens, Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Equivalent in power to a universal Turing machine; equivalently, functionally complete.
Related terms: Turing machine
universal Turing machine
functionally complete
recursive function
action plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action plans
Senses: synonyms: plan of action
campaign plan
plan of campaign
attack plan
plan of attack
glosses: A planned series of actions, tasks or steps designed to achieve an objective or goal.