cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
omnicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omnicides
Etymology: From omni- (“all”) + -cide (“killing; killer”).
Senses: examples: text: How extraordinary that Curtis LeMay believed for the rest of his life that the United States “lost” the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War. If John Kennedy had followed LeMay's advice [to bomb Cuba and take out the missile sites], history would have forgotten the Nazis and their terrible Holocaust. Ours would have been the historic omnicide.
ref: 1995, Richard Rhodes, chapter 27, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb:
glosses: The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe.
examples: text: Our soils have been made sterile over many areas from pesticides, which have been really omnicides. Today, DDT as the greatest culprit, and one which has brought immense profit to the pesticide producing industry, has been spread worldwide.
ref: 1965, Nature Study, volumes 19–23, Morehead, Ky.: American Nature Study Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.
ref: 1985, Fanfare, volume 8, Tenafly, N.J.: Fanfare, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 222:
text: [T]hese ‘super-bombs’ shatter a civilisation’s own planet but ‘the nuclear jets from the explosion could even activate their Sun, transforming it into a giant hydrogen bomb’. Perhaps supernovas are twinkling omnicides in the sky.
ref: 2020, Thomas Moynihan, X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: Someone or something that causes total destruction.
Related terms: omnicidal
genocide
autogenocide
speciecide
open a can of whoop ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens a can of whoop ass
form: opening a can of whoop ass
form: opened a can of whoop ass
form: opened a can of whoop ass
form: open a can of whup ass
form: open a can of whoop-ass
form: open up a can of whoop ass
form: open up a can of whoop-ass
Etymology: From English whoop (variant of whip) + ass.
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna open up a can of whoop-ass on ya.
text: Chan stars in his first all-American production as chan as Hong Kong Detective Inspector Lee, a noble, innocent and caring police officer who can really bust open a can of whoop-ass when given the chance.
ref: 1998, Robert Fletcher, “No rush to see new Chan”, in University Wire:
glosses: A good-humored threat of physical harm.
Synonyms: break out a can of kick-ass
break out a can of whoop ass
break out a can of whoop-ass
bust open a can of kick-ass
bust open a can of whoop ass
bust open a can of whoop-ass
open a can of kick-ass
open up a can of kick-ass
stockyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockyards
Etymology: From stock + yard.
Senses: examples: text: No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
ref: 29 June 1940, Mary Gilmore, "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", in The Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney), p. 5
glosses: An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.
palled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pôld
ipa: /pɔːld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pall
Derived terms: unpalled
palled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pôld
ipa: /pɔːld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
enpr: păld
ipa: /pæld/
rhymes: -æld
enpr: pôld
ipa: /pɔːld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pal
Derived terms: unpalled
palling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pôlĭng
ipa: /pɔːlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pall
Derived terms: pallingly
palling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pôlĭng
ipa: /pɔːlɪŋ/
enpr: pălĭng
ipa: /pælɪŋ/
enpr: pôlĭng
ipa: /pɔːlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pal
eighty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-six.
sixty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-nine.
sixty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixty nines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-nine.
sixty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sixty nines
form: sixty nining
form: sixty nined
form: sixty nined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-nine.
auro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See aur- § Etymology 1.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: gold
Derived terms: auro-plumbiferous
aurotellurite
disodium aurothiomalate
auro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See aur- § Etymology 2.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of aur- (“ear; sound; noise”).
aurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurates
Etymology: From auric + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of auric acid.
Derived terms: aurate of ammonia
aurate of potassium
chloraurate
chloroaurate
polyoxoaurate
sodium aurate
auride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurides
Etymology: From auro- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion of gold; any salt containing such an anion.
Derived terms: caesium auride
cesium auride
rubidium auride
tetramethylammonium auride
Neopaganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beyond that, Neopaganism may be most helpfully identified by what it is not, neither Christian nor Judaic, neither monotheistic nor agnostic, neither Oriental nor humanist.
ref: 2003, Edwin Scott Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America: Since 1877, →ISBN, page 603:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of neopaganism.
tetramethylammonium auride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylammonium aurides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A transparent, crystalline compound, (CH₃)₄N⁺Au⁻, obtained by an ion exchange reaction of caesium auride in liquid ammonia.
tetramethylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylammoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the simplest quaternary ammonium cation (CH₃)₄N⁺
Derived terms: tetramethylammonium auride
tetramethylammonium hydroxide
liquid ammonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pure ammonia cooled or condensed to the liquid state.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aqueous solution of ammonia.
Chebyshev's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pafnuty Chebyshev, the discoverer.
Senses: examples: ∀x∈ℕ:
glosses: The theorem that the prime counting function is of the same order of magnitude as x / ln x, i.e., for the prime counting function π, there are positive constants c and C such that
glosses: Bertrand's postulate, as proven by Chebyshev.
glosses: Chebyshev's inequality.
880 ammonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its density of 0.880 g cm⁻³.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A saturated solution of ammonia in water; ammonium hydroxide 28% (w/w as ammonia).
Related terms: liquid ammonia
ammonium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ionic base, NH₄⁺OH⁻, obtained by dissolving ammonia in water.
Synonyms: E527 when used as an acidity regulator
Related terms: 880 ammonia
Joshua tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joshua trees
Etymology: Apparently from the resemblance of the tree to Joshua holding out his spear.
Senses: examples: text: Joshua trees that were salvaged by hand showed only 4% mortality in the nursery each of the first two years.
ref: 1995, Raymond L. Franson, “Health of Plants Salvaged for Revegetation at the Mojave Desert Gold Mine: Year Two”, in Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann, editors, Proceedings: Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium, page 78:
text: While the Joshua tree ranges into the Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts. it has become synonymous with the Mojave. There are two different subspecies of Joshua trees: the larger Yucca brevifolia brevifolla, which grows at Joshua Tree National Park, and the more densely branched Yucca brevifolia jaegeriana, found in the park and other areas of the eastern Mojave.
ref: 2004, Matthew Jaffe, Mojave National Preserve, page 8:
text: It is possible that all Death Valley Joshua trees are the variety Yucca brevifolia jaegeriana.
ref: 2009, T. Scott Bryan, Betty Tucker-Bryan, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, page unnumbered page:
glosses: A tree-like yucca, Yucca brevifolia, of the southwestern United States, with spiky leaves.
Hypernyms: tree
jugulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jugulates
form: jugulating
form: jugulated
form: jugulated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin iugulātus, perfect passive participle of iugulō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To cut the throat of.
Kinyarwanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkɪn.jə.ruˈæn.də/
/ˌkiːn.jə.ruˈɑːn.də/
Etymology: From Rwanda-Rundi Ikinyarwanda.
Senses: glosses: The dialect Rwanda of the Rwanda-Rundi language.
Related terms: Rwandan
Rwandophone
parametric amplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parametric amplifiers
Senses: glosses: a sensitive, low-noise amplifier of high-frequency or microwave radio waves that uses an inductor or capacitor whose reactance varies periodically at a similar frequency
parametric array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parametric arrays
Senses: glosses: An array of sound sources or receivers formed by variation of appropriate parameters of the propagating medium, typically the local speed of sound.
paramo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish páramo.
Senses: meronyms: frailejon
glosses: A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.
Derived terms: paramoid
treeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tree + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia.
ref: 1941 May, W. Dendy, “The Cyprus Government Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 201:
text: Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
text: A panoramic view of the Falkland Islands shows a windswept, treeless landscape. Scientists have discovered the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean were once home to a temperate rainforest.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
glosses: Having no trees.
grassland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasslands
Etymology: From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
Hypernyms: land
Derived terms: agrograssland
Alpine grassland orange
grasslander
Related terms: ing
lea
llano
meadow
outback
pampa
paramo
prairie
savanna
steppe
veld
book award
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book awards
Senses: glosses: In law school, an award or recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
book awards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book award
bookbinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbinders
Etymology: From Middle English bokebynder, bok-bindere, equivalent to book + binder.
Senses: examples: text: Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978. Many worked in shops that specialize in bookbinding; others work in the bindery departments of book printing firms, commercial printing plants, and large libraries. Some bookbinders worked for the Federal Government. Although bookbinders work in all parts of the country, employment is concentrated in large printing centers such as New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. […] Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement: A 4- or 5-year apprenticeship, which includes on-the-job training as well as related classroom instruction, generally is required to qualify as a skilled bookbinder. Apprenticeship applicants usually must have a high school education, mechanical aptitude, and be at least 18 years of age. […] Employment Outlook: Employment of bookbinders and bindery workers is expected to increase more slowly than the average for all occupations through the 1980's. Nevertheless, some job openings will arise as experienced workers retire, die, or change occupations. Despite the anticipated increase in the amount of bound printed materials, employment growth will be limited by the increasing mechanization of bindery operations. Job opportunities are expected to be better for skilled bookbinders than for bindery workers since many tasks that bindery workers used [to] perform by hand will be done by machine.
ref: 1980, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Bookbinders and bindery workers”, in Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics), Bulletin 2075, 1980–1981 edition, United States Government printing office:
text: During his seven-year apprenticeship to a bookbinder, [Michael] Faraday came across a single volume that changed his life: Isaac Watts's The Improvement of the Mind. Now largely forgotten, it was an early self-help book that contained a list of sixteen general rules for the improvement of knowledge. It also contained an overview of books and reading, a guide for study and meditation, tips on improving one's memory, and other suggestions for the betterment of the self. Faraday happened to read it just as he was developing a fascination with science, particularly the then-mysterious field of electricity, and he embraced the book's principles and suggestions.
ref: 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 79:
synonyms: binder[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
bibliopegist
glosses: A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
Related terms: bindery
bookbindery
bookbinding
bookbinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookbinder
Pareto principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pareto principle
Etymology: From Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist.
Senses: glosses: The principle that describes the phenomenon wherein a small percentage of a population accounts for a large proportion of a particular characteristic of that population.
wikipedia: Vilfredo Pareto
Synonyms: Pareto's law
80-20 rule
20-80 rule
flipside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪpˌsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌsəɪd/
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌsɑɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: flipsides
form: flip side
Etymology: From flip + side.
Senses: glosses: The reverse, in contrast to the obverse.
examples: text: Nice tune. What's on the flipside?
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: B-side
antonyms: A-side
glosses: The B-side of a phonograph record.
examples: text: Walking to work is definitely healthier – on the flipside, though, it takes twice as long.
text: Of course, the drop is partly the flipside of dollars being in demand. The pound does not benefit from safe-haven status like the Swiss franc or Japanese yen.
ref: 2020 March 19, Marcus Ashworth, “Cheap Sterling Has Reasons to Be Cheaper”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A necessary consequence or corollary of something that acts as a negation or counterbalance; especially one seen as opposite, or as pro versus con.
examples: text: See you on the flipside!
glosses: The occasion when we meet again (e.g. when I return from work, etc.; said on parting); later or tomorrow.
particulate matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particulate matters
Senses: examples: text: Particulate matter air pollution contributes to lung cancer incidence in Europe.
ref: 2013 July 13, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen et al., “Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)”, in The Lancet Oncology, volume 14, number 9, →DOI:
text: Ambient particulate matter affects local/regional air quality, human health and climate change significantly. The carbonaceous fractions like organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC, sometimes known as black carbon) are of high […]
ref: 2014, Guofeng Shen, Emission Factors of Carbonaceous Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Residential Solid Fuel Combustions, Springer, →ISBN, page 60:
synonyms: particulates
PM
glosses: Any solid or liquid in a finely subdivided state, especially when considered as an atmospheric pollutant.
Related terms: english: particulate/air mixture
translation: particulate/air mixture
word: aerosol
B-side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-sides
Senses: examples: text: I wonder what is happening on the flip side of the world, / The side you never like to play / I know you say you need the A-side all the time / But the B-side, I just wonder what you say
ref: 1972, Jim Peterik, “Flip Side”, performed by Ides of March:
synonyms: flip
flipside
coordinate_terms: A-side
glosses: The reverse side of a cassette tape or a phonograph record, especially a vinyl single, often containing songs not considered for airplay.
glosses: Any song included on a compact disc single, besides the first song (the A-side).
Pascal's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The law that states that a confined fluid transmits externally applied pressure uniformly in all directions; the basis of hydraulics.
wikipedia: Blaise Pascal
cabotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæbətɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkabətɑːʒ/
Forms: form: cabotages
Etymology: Borrowed from French cabotage (“coasting trade”), from caboter (“to travel by the coast”). It originally (16th c.) referred to restrictions allowing only French ships to trade or transport between French ports. Other countries adopted this concept and extended it to land and air travel.
Senses: examples: text: Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities […].
ref: 1943, William Armistead Moale Burden, The Struggle for Airways in Latin America, page 51:
glosses: The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
examples: text: Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.
ref: 2002, Kevin Colin Ingram, Xingang Li, Maritime Law and Policy in China, page 19:
topics: law
glosses: The right to engage in such transport.
examples: text: Professor Levine distinguishes two kinds of cabotage: "primary cabotage" which can be compared with ninth freedom cabotages and "long-haul limited cabotage" which can be compared with eighth freedom cabotage […].
ref: 1992, Pablo Mendes de Leon, Cabotage in Air Transport Regulation, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
binder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪndə/
ipa: /ˈbaɪndɚ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪndəɹ/
ipa: /ˈbʌɪndəɹ/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈbəi̯nd(ə)ɹ]
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: binders
Etymology: From Middle English byndere; equivalent to bind + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who binds.
glosses: Someone who binds.
Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
glosses: A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.
glosses: Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
examples: text: The runtime binder considers inheritance and name hiding, and does overload resolution.
ref: 2004, Paul Vick, The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language, page 389:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A software mechanism that performs binding.
examples: text: Some of these file binders can produce files that can't be detected by some anti-viruses, and if downloaded and run by an unsuspecting user, it can result in a system compromise.
ref: 2013, John R. Vacca, Managing Information Security, page 291:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or routine that attaches malware to an existing harmless file on the target system.
glosses: A dossier.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: sheaving machine
glosses: A machine used in harvesting that ties cut stalks of grain into a bundle.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.
topics: law
glosses: A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
qualifier: chiefly Minnesota
glosses: A rubber band.
examples: text: He had to send back the binders and return to clothing that was at least gender-neutral.
ref: 2014, Sigrid Rausing, Granta 129: Fate:
glosses: Material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A protein binder.
glosses: One who whines or complains.
Synonyms: sense: chemical etc.
word: binding agent
Derived terms: armbinder
binder clip
binderless
chain binder
footbinder
high-binder
nonbinder
notebinder
reaper-binder
ring binder
self-binder
spellbinder
Paschen-Back effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paschen-Back effects
Etymology: From Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Emil Alexander Back, German physicists.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of the Zeeman effect that affects the spectral lines obtained when a light source is placed in a very strong magnetic field.
Hypernyms: Zeeman effect
passive radar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A receive-only radar that uses ambient radio signals for search, tracking, surveillance, identification, guidance and mapping.
pebble mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebble mills
Senses: glosses: A tumbling mill that grinds or pulverizes materials without contaminating them with iron; used especially for ceramic ingredients.
tumbling mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumbling mills
Senses: glosses: A machine, consisting of a drum that rotates on a horizontal axis, that grinds or pulverizes material mixed with a grinding material such as iron balls.
Related terms: pebble mill
pectolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectolites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a gray-white mineral inosilicate hydroxide of calcium and sodium that crystallizes in the triclinic system, with the chemical formula NaCa₂Si₃O₈(OH).
Derived terms: pectolitic
inosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inosilicates
Etymology: From ino- + silicate, from Ancient Greek ἴς, ἰνός (ís, inós, “fibre”).
Senses: synonyms: chain silicate
glosses: any silicate having interlocking chains of silicate tetrahedra
Hypernyms: silicate
hot water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both students are in hot water from fighting.
glosses: A dangerous situation; trouble.
examples: text: The government's new proposal has landed them in hot water.
text: Zuckerberg got into hot water on Wednesday when he stated that Facebook wouldn’t necessarily remove Holocaust deniers from its platform because people “get things wrong” and because it’s not always possible to understand the deniers’ intent.
ref: 2018 July 20, Johannes Breit, “We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.”, in Slate Magazine:
glosses: Fierce criticism.
related: word: hotwater
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, water.
gamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamines
Etymology: Borrowed from French gamine.
Senses: glosses: A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
glosses: A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
Derived terms: gaminish
gamine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gamine
form: most gamine
Etymology: Borrowed from French gamine.
Senses: examples: text: In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 54:
text: It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness, like Ozon’s teen prostitute fantasy Jeune et Jolie in 2013, which starred his lead actress here, Marine Vacth, in a similarly gamine role.
ref: 2017 May 25, Peter Bradshaw, “L'Amant Double review – camp-classic status beckons for François Ozon's softcore silliness”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having a boyish, mischievous charm; elfish, typically with short hair.
raw_tags: of a girl
Related terms: gamin
dirigisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: dirigismes
form: dirigism
Etymology: Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).
Senses: examples: text: These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system.
ref: 1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2
text: In the name of development, the reformed states adopted the dirigisme of colonial administration – forced labour re-emerged in them as well.
ref: 2011, Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, page 113:
glosses: A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.
Derived terms: dirigiste
Related terms: directionality
directorate
directorship
dirigible
dictatorship
statism
Helena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlənə/
ipa: /hɛˈliːnə/
Etymology: A Latinate form of Helen, borrowed from Latin Helena.
Senses: examples: text: Stay gentle Helena, heare my excuſe: / My loue, my life, my ſoule, faire Helena.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The capital city of Montana, and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jefferson County and Shelby County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Helena-West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Trinity County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former city in Georgia, now part of McRae-Helena.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Antrim County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sand Beach Township, Huron County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Turin Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Scott County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Andrew County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Brasher, St. Lawrence County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Sandusky Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Newberry County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Karnes County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A village in the Demerara-Mahaica region, Guyana.
Derived terms: Helena-West Helena
McRae-Helena
Mount Helena
Saint Helena
St. Helena
clapometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapometers
form: clap-o-meter
Etymology: From clap + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An audience-reaction monitor used to give a visual interpretation of applause; once used on some television game shows.
Synonyms: applauseometer
Evelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: female given name
ipa: /ˈɛvəlɪn/
note: male given name
ipa: /ˈiːvlɪn/
Etymology: Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin aveo (“to wish for”)), or aval “strength”. By folk etymology the name Eve is seen as a diminutive of the female given name. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Evelyn Hope:
text: "I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.
ref: 1980, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Alfred A.Knopf, published 1981, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
examples: text: Evelyn Waugh
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Related terms: Ava
Eileen
Ev
Eveleen
Eveline
Evelynn
Charley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ).li/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name. Alternative form of Charlie.
A diminutive of the male given name Charles.
glosses: A unisex given name. Alternative form of Charlie.
A diminutive of the female given names Charlotte or Charlene.
Charley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ).li/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Charleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Charlie.
Related terms: Charlie
weightlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weightlessnesses
Etymology: From weightless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being free from the effects of gravity (the force).
glosses: An experience or instance of being weightless.
Synonyms: zero-g
Wagnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Wagnerian
form: most Wagnerian
Etymology: From Wagner + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale.
ref: 1949 September 4, H. R. Trevor-Roper, “Hitler Reappraised, Ten Years After”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2025:
text: It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).
ref: 1976 August 14, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Locker Room As The Site Of Religious Ecstasy”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 9:
text: Thus Gilgamesh and Enkidu as a dyad express a Wagnerian leitmotif that plays upon themes from racial memories of the two different races at the dawn of hominization.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 188:
glosses: Of, or characteristic of Richard Wagner, or his music; (by extension) of epic dimensions.
Wagnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Wagnerians
Etymology: From Wagner + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Wagnerite
glosses: An admirer of Richard Wagner.
glosses: A musician who plays Wagnerian music.
glosses: An opera singer who specializes in Wagnerian roles.
tricadecaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triskaidekaphobia.
triatomine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triatomines
Senses: glosses: Any of many bloodsucking insects (kissing bugs etc) of the subfamily Triatominae
sound stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound stages
form: soundstage
Etymology: From sound + stage.
Senses: examples: text: Filmed entirely on a sound stage, with the exception of a single cutaway exterior shot (reproduced exactly in the Swedish version) , the film has all the earmarks of the "canned theatre" style: minimal camera movement[…]
ref: 1992, Robert B. Altman, Sound Theory, Sound Practice, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 145:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
coordinate_terms: silent stage
glosses: A soundproof room or building used for the production of movies or of television programmes.
submontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + montane.
Senses: glosses: Located at the base of a mountain, or in the foothills of a mountain chain.
binders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binder
foothills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊt.hɪlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of foothill
real property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real properties
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of real estate, land, buildings, etc. as property.
synonyms: word: real estate
extra: etc. as property.
word: land
extra: etc. as property.
word: buildings
extra: etc. as property.
real properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real property
down payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down payments
Senses: topics: business
finance
law
synonyms: deposit#Noun
coordinate_terms: advance payment
up-front money
front money
glosses: A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.
examples: text: Her parents considered her school tuition a down payment on her future.
text: After decades of empty rhetoric, that's the down payment that we need on energy independence.
ref: 2009 February 5, Barack Obama, My Door is Always Open:
text: 2009 April 4, Barack Obama, NATO summit
These commitments of troops, trainers, and civilians represent a strong down payment on the future of our mission in Afghanistan and on the future of NATO.
text: After all, when you buy a car, you're making a large down payment on future journeys - buying an annual rail pass or railcard should be no different.
ref: 2022 March 9, Ben Jones, “RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL, number 952, page 26 (supplement):
glosses: Any initial commitment signifying an intention to carry out a larger future commitment, even though no legal rights or obligations are secured.
Derived terms: downposit
downpayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downpayments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down payment.
down payments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down payment
downpayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downpayment
operating cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating cycles
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The business cycle from startup of operations to the profit; from obtaining the raw material, through designing and production, to the distribution and profits.
topics: business
glosses: The average time between purchasing or acquiring inventory and receiving cash proceeds from its sale.
operating expense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating expenses
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: operating expenditure
OPEX
coordinate_terms: capital expense
CAPEX
glosses: An ongoing cost for running a product, business, or system.
ophidiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “serpent”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: His father had a severe case of ophidiophobia, but to his credit he allowed his non-ophidiophobic 12-year-old son to keep a small colony of the Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) in a large box pen in a far corner of their Wisconsin backyard.
ref: 2012 August 5, Robert C. Stebbins, Samuel M. McGinnis, Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of California, Revised edition, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 349:
text: The second-most-common phobia is ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes. Ophidiophobia is one of the most debilitating fears in humans; even the picture of a snake in a magazine or image of one on TV can invoke intense fear in some people.
ref: 2010 October 18, Matthew Murrie, Steve Murrie, The First Book of Seconds: 220 of the Most Random, Remarkable, Respectable (and Regrettable) Runners-Up and Their Almost Claim to Fame, Avon, MA: Adams Media, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Ophiophobia; a fear of snakes.
Derived terms: ophidiophobe
ophidiophobic
slaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Twice slay thrice on a daily basis because they're so talented, thrice are still in denial of twice's improvement as seen in likey's mr removed. These bitches be slaying.
glosses: present participle and gerund of slay
slaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: slayings
Senses: examples: text: The slaying of the civil rights activist brought a storm of protest.
text: وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًا
ref: 1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 17, verse 31:
roman: walā taqtulū ʔawlādakum ḵašyata ʔimlāqin naḥnu narzuquhum wa-ʔiyyākum ʔinna qatlahum kāna ḵiṭʔan kabīran
glosses: Killing, especially the murder of a human.
Derived terms: honor slaying
self-slaying
sighs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪz/
homophone: scise
homophone: size
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of sigh
sighs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪz/
homophone: scise
homophone: size
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sigh
starved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starved
form: most starved
Senses: glosses: Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
examples: text: Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F3, recto:
glosses: Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
examples: text: I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
text: She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:
glosses: Extremely hungry.
starved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of starve
perfumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfumed
form: most perfumed
Etymology: From perfume (noun and verb) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The perfumed pages of the letter contrasted with its doleful writing.
glosses: Scented, having been given a pleasant smell.
Derived terms: nonperfumed
perfumed cherry
perfumedness
perfumed terms of the time
unperfumed
Related terms: beperfumed
perfumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From perfume (noun and verb) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perfume
scented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scented
form: most scented
Senses: glosses: Having a pleasant aroma.
examples: text: a plant with skunk-scented leaves
glosses: Having a smell of any kind.
examples: text: a scented soap
glosses: Having perfume added.
Derived terms: apple-scented mint
hay-scented fern
scented grass
sweet-scented
sweet-scented joe-pye weed
scented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scent
strolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹoʊld/
ipa: /stɹəʊld/
rhymes: -oʊld
rhymes: -əʊld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stroll
quos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quo
quas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kvass.
gentlewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təlˌwʊm.ən/
Forms: form: gentlewomen
Etymology: From Middle English gentilwoman, modelled after gentilman (“gentleman”), equivalent to gentle + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Gentlewoman: Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon[…]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A woman of the nobility.
examples: text: 'The gentlewoman from California.' Or 'the gentlewoman from Texas.' Gentlewoman?
ref: 1998 December 11, “GENTLEWOMEN AND GENTLEMEN DON'T SAY 'LADY'”, in Daily Press:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.
Derived terms: gentlewomanhood
gentlewomanlike
gentlewomanly
Related terms: gentleman
gentlelady
knowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more knowingly
form: most knowingly
Etymology: From Middle English knawyngly, knowyngly. By surface analysis, knowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She smiled knowingly, but kept the secret.
text: He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
glosses: In the manner of one who knows.
examples: text: She would never knowingly pour any pollutant down the drain.
text: We keep our prices low and are never knowingly undersold.
text: The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.
ref: 2021 March 17, Stephen Collinson, “New US intel report shows Russia, Trump and GOP acolytes have same goals”, in CNN:
synonyms: awarely
consciously
antonyms: unknowingly
obliviously
unawarely
;
unconsciously
subconsciously
glosses: With knowledge of all relevant facts.
Related terms: knowledgeably
peon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.ɒn/
ipa: /ˈpi.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.ɑn/
ipa: /pɪˈuːn/
ipa: /pjuːn/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -iɑn
rhymes: -eɪɑn
homophone: paean
homophone: pee-on (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: peons
form: peones
Etymology: From a combination of Middle French pion, peon and Spanish peón, both from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”). Doublet of pawn.
Senses: glosses: A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
examples: text: He is well dressed in cheap clothing. Like an office peon whose wife works in a laundry.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 260:
glosses: A person of low rank or importance.
glosses: A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.
Derived terms: peonism
peonize
Related terms: peonage
each to his own
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: each to their own
form: to each his own
form: to each their own
Senses: examples: text: Certainly I don't mind other people eating turkey — each to his own, after all, is the American Way […]
ref: 1993, Vegetarian Times, number 195, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of to each his own.
family jewels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels.
text: But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels."
ref: 1971 July 5, R. Z. Sheppard, “Three's a Crowd”, in Time:
synonyms: crown jewels
diamonds
glosses: The testicles.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, jewels.
Related terms: sense: Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)
word: a set of reports on the CIA's illegal activities
opus operatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin opus operātum (literally “work done”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite which accrues from the virtue inherent in it, or by grace imparted to it, irrespective of the performer.
Related terms: ex opere operato
opus operantis
organigramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organigrammes
Senses: topics: management
glosses: An organization chart.