cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
put words in someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts words in someone's mouth
form: putting words in someone's mouth
form: put words in someone's mouth
form: put words in someone's mouth
Senses: examples: text: "Let not anger or grief for the absence of thy lover make thee unjust to thy kinsman. . . ."
"The absence of my lover?" said the Lady Edith, "But yes, he may be well termed my lover, who hath paid so dear for the title. Unworthy as I might be of such homage, I was to him like a light, leading him forward in the noble path of chivalry; but that I forgot my rank, or that he presumed beyond his, is false. . . ."
"My fair cousin," said Richard, "do not put words in my mouth which I have not spoken. I said not you had graced this man beyond the favour which a good knight may earn."
ref: 1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 20, in The Talisman:
text: "But thank God," she muttered in a lower tone, "that Shirley is not old enough to go."
"Isn't that the same thing as thanking Him that some other woman's son has to go in Shirley's place?" asked the doctor. . . .
"No, it is not, doctor dear," said Susan defiantly. . . . "Do not you put words in my mouth that I would never dream of uttering.
ref: 1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 14, in Rilla of Ingleside:
glosses: To say or imply that someone has made a statement or remark which they did not precisely or directly make.
examples: text: The defense has contended that the detectives used "psychological threats" to get Mr. Crimmins to make certain admissions and that they "put words in his mouth."
ref: 1981 May 6, E. R. Shipp, “Crimmins jurors are told details of interrogation”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Dec 2016:
text: Obama discussed political polarization. . . . "Republicans, they have their own TV station."
Chris Wallace cut the president off. . . . "Go ahead, you can say Fox News," said Wallace.
Obama did not let Wallace put words in his mouth, but continued: "They've got their own publications, their own blogs. Democrats, same thing."
ref: 2016 April 11, Joel Connelly, “Obama tells Fox News it is Republicans' "own TV network"”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 02 Dec 2016:
glosses: To encourage or induce someone to appear to assert something by asking a leading question or by otherwise manipulating the individual.
Synonyms: sense: say or imply that someone has said a thing which he or she did not precisely or directly say
word: twist someone's words
platinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more platinoid
form: most platinoid
Etymology: From platinum + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or resembling platinum
platinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinoids
Etymology: From platinum + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several metals that resemble platinum in their chemistry; especially osmium, iridium and palladium
glosses: An alloy of copper (60%), zinc (24%), nickel (14%), tungsten (2%), and once used in heating elements
plagiarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plagiarise
cross pattée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses pattée
form: crosses pattées
Senses: hypernyms: cross#Noun
coordinate_terms: cross flory
cross moline
glosses: Any of several forms of cross whose arms are narrow at the center and broad at the extremities.
Related terms: ✠
dichroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dichroic
form: most dichroic
form: dichroous
Etymology: from Ancient Greek δίχρως (díkhrōs, “two-coloured”), (from δι- (di-, “two”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour, complexion”)) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting dichroism.
glosses: Exhibiting dichromatism; dichromatic.
Derived terms: dichroic filter
dichroic glass
dichroic mirror
dichroic polynomial
dichroic prism
dichroic reflector
isodichroic
multichroic
photodichroic
Related terms: dichromic
dichroic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichroics
form: dichroous
Etymology: from Ancient Greek δίχρως (díkhrōs, “two-coloured”), (from δι- (di-, “two”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour, complexion”)) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A dichroic filter
lamproite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamproites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content
Related terms: lamproitic
cratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cratonic
form: most cratonic
Etymology: From craton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a craton.
Derived terms: cratonic sequence
intracratonic
pericratonic
put one's money where one's mouth is
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's money where one's mouth is
form: putting one's money where one's mouth is
form: put one's money where one's mouth was
form: put one's money where one's mouth was
Senses: glosses: To make or take a bet.
examples: text: "The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings," said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss..."So let me put my money where my mouth is: if the Cern experiment proves to be correct and neutrinos have broken the speed of light, I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV."
ref: 2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News:
text: "We've put money towards it and it's up to government to put the money where its mouth is."
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61:
glosses: To take an obvious stake in the truth of a claim that one is making.
Related terms: put up or shut up
talk is cheap
write checks one can't cash
rockhounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + hounding or rock hound + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology.
rock hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock hounds
Etymology: In use by 1910s (see Citations). Originally a playful term for geologists employed in the early days of the oil industry - other similar names included "sand smeller", "oil witch", "wrinkle chaser", "pebble pup". The intended parallel being the likeness of a geologist sniffing out - like a hound - something of value among the rocks. Term popularized perhaps by a 1921 story published in Cosmopolitan titled The Rockhound.
Senses: glosses: A person who collects rocks and minerals from the natural environment as a hobby.
Derived terms: rockhounding
slogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sloggers
Etymology: From slog + -er.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
examples: text: Tom felt the wisdom of the counsel, and saw already that he couldn't go in and finish the Slogger off at mere hammer and tongs, so changed his tactics completely in the third round. He now fights cautious
ref: 1857, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: One who hits hard; a slugger.
Derived terms: mud slogger
slogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sloggers
Etymology: According to Hotten: from slow-goer.
Senses: coordinate_terms: torpid
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: An inferior racing boat.
sprawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprawl
sprawling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sprawling
form: most sprawling
Senses: glosses: That sprawls
examples: text: a sprawling cityscape
text: We looked over Hoihow, a dirty sprawling city of 250,000 people, many of them living in old two-story buildings made of mud and white plaster, across the narrow Hainan Strait to the Liuchow Peninsula on the mainland.
ref: 1972, Seymour Topping, “Departure”, in Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:
text: Donald Trump has decided instead that the NEH’s funds would be better spent on his own dream project: a sprawling sculpture garden with 250 likenesses of people he deems “American heroes.”
ref: 2025 April 15, Gal Beckerman, “Looks Like Mussolini, Quacks Like Mussolini”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Expansive; extensive
sprawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprawlings
Senses: examples: text: Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
ref: 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 176:
glosses: The act of one who sprawls.
dismissively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dismissively
form: most dismissively
Etymology: From dismissive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dismissive manner
pétanque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɑːŋk/
ipa: /pəˈtæŋk/
rhymes: -ɑːŋk
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A form of boules originating from the south of France.
Related terms: bocce
solfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sol-fa.
solfa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solfas
form: solfaing
form: solfaed
form: solfaed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sol-fa.
rehammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehammers
form: rehammering
form: rehammered
form: rehammered
Etymology: From re- + hammer.
Senses: glosses: To hammer again.
impishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impishnesses
Etymology: From impish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
enfant terrible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfants terribles
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French enfant terrible (literally “terrible child”).
Senses: examples: text: He was soon the talk of the town, the enfant terrible of our little world.
ref: 2010, Peter Coleman, Quadrant, March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 86
glosses: An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.
examples: text: Diplomatists have no right to complain of mere lies; it is their own fault, if, educated as they are, the lies deceive them; but they complain bitterly of traps. Palmerston was believed to lay traps. He was the enfant terrible of the British Government.
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
text: The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing.
ref: 2023 March 28, Philip Oltermann, “Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde.
examples: text: “A perfect cherub” she pronounced it the first day, but an “enfant terrible” before the week was over, for the young hero rioted by day, howled by night, ravaged the house from top to bottom, and kept his guardians in a series of panics by his hairbreadth escapes.
ref: 1876, Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom:
glosses: A wild child.
Synonyms: terrible infant
Related terms: bad boy
paint by numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints by numbers
form: painting by numbers
form: painted by numbers
form: painted by numbers
Senses: glosses: To complete a painting by numbers kit
glosses: To perform something in the simplest way
calcino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of muscardine (“fungal disease of silkworms”).
synonyms: word: muscardine
extra: fungal disease of silkworms
painting by numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A recreation in which a board containing a picture to be painted is made up of numbered areas, each number corresponding to a color of paint to be applied.
Related terms: paint-by-numbers
calcinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calcinates
form: calcinating
form: calcinated
form: calcinated
Etymology: Back-formation from calcination.
Senses: glosses: To calcine.
glosses: To react with lime.
Derived terms: decalcinated
calcinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcinates
Etymology: Back-formation from calcination.
Senses: glosses: The product of calcination.
paint-by-numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made from a painting by numbers kit.
raw_tags: of a picture
examples: text: Though flawed by a paint-by-numbers methodology, the security classification process, so frequently sought by nineteenth century humanitarians, has resulted in an array of medium and minimum security jails feeding into scores of community corrections facilities on quiet streets across the country.
ref: 1999, Peter H. Hennessy, Canada's big house: the dark history of the Kingston Penitentiary, page 172:
text: This is not a cookbook full of passive recipes, nor is it a paint-by-numbers approach to teaching. Instead, it provides the fresh clay, the carving tools, and the spirited inspiration to form the clay to match our intent.
ref: 2009, Diane Heacox, Rick Wormeli, Making Differentiation a Habit:
glosses: By rote, without thought or creativity.
Related terms: by the numbers
color by number
tagmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæɡ.mə.tə/
Senses: glosses: plural of tagma
dermatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: dermatological
Derived terms: nondermatologic
psychodermatologic
dermatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɜːmətəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəɫ]
Etymology: From dermatology + -ical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to dermatology
Synonyms: dermatologic
Derived terms: dermatologically
nondermatological
photodermatological
psychodermatological
teledermatological
Related terms: dermatology
dermatologist
dermatological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɜːmətəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəɫ]
Forms: form: dermatologicals
Etymology: From dermatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Such a drug or preparation
dot to dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot to dots
Senses: glosses: A form of drawing in which numbered dots on a page must be connected in ascending order to create a final picture
Related terms: connect the dots
whodunnit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whodunnits
form: who-dunnit
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whodunit.
word search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word searches
form: word-search
form: wordsearch
Senses: examples: text: These word association lists can also be used in pedagogical materials, such as mind-maps, word-searches, weekly spelling lists, etc.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
topics: games
glosses: A word game consisting of a grid of letters, the aim of which is to find an array of given words hidden within the grid.
Synonyms: Wonderword
relinquished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relinquish
prowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prowl
prowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
Forms: form: prowlings
Senses: examples: text: nightly prowlings
text: Most of us out here know that the city alternatives, with "every night fever" and pre-dawn prowlings, are neither attractive nor satisfying.
ref: 1979 February 10, Allen Young, “Living In The Country”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 21:
glosses: The act of one who prowls.
flamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flame
flamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Forms: form: more flamed
form: most flamed
Senses: glosses: Cooked or seared over open flames.
glosses: Having an undulating pattern of wood grain that resembles flames.
Derived terms: unflamed
-fucking-
Language: English
Part of speech: infix
Forms: form: fucking
form: -fuckin'-
form: -fuckin-
Etymology: From fucking, from fuck.
Senses: examples: text: Holy shit! That's unbefuckinglievable!
text: Well, where'd you lose him? He ain't a set of fucking car keys, is he? And it ain't as if he's incon-fucking-spicuous now, is it?
ref: 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Brick Top (Alan Ford):
text: Guaran-fucking-teed
Just sign the deed
Guaran-fucking-teed
Someone will bleed
ref: 2009, “Contractor”, performed by Lamb of God:
synonyms: -bloody-
-goddamn-
-motherfucking-
glosses: An intensifier.
forrit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I was just standin looking about me amang the lang hags that lead out frae the head o' the North Grain, and considering what could be wort of a' the sheep, when I noticed my dog, Reaver, gaun coursing away forrit as he had been setting a fox.
ref: 1817, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, published 1833, page 16:
text: 1828, "Mansie Wauch" (David Macbeth Moir), The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 132,
All o' a sudden I sees a light coming dancing forrit amang the trees; and my hair began to stand up on end. Then, in the next moment, save us a'! I sees anither light, and forrit, forrit they baith cam, like the een of some great fiery monster, let loose frae the pit o' darkness by its maister, to seek whom it might devour.
text: Lang or that, she had had a wean to a dragoon; she hadnae come forrit^([presented as a communicant]) for maybe thretty year; and bairns had seen her mumblin' to hersel' up on Key's Loan in the gloamin', whilk was an unco time an' place for a God-fearin' woman.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men & Other Stories, published 2006, page 67:
glosses: Forwards, forward.
cavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.vaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of cavus
cavate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.veɪt/
Forms: form: cavates
Etymology: From Latin cavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of cavō (“to hollow out, to excavate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Given the absence of other means of dating the cavates, ceramic dating was the focus of the data collection, but we also recorded vessel form.
ref: 1995, Peter McKenna, Analysis of Surface Ceramics From the Study Area:
text: The reader may wonder about the significance of the Ahuitzotl figure in a cavate near Los Alamos National Laboratory.
ref: 2010, Allan MacGillivray III, The Venus Calendar Observatory at Aztec New Mexico, page 135:
text: While the cavate was originally carved out generations, if not centuries, before 1680, the ceramics associated with its final substantial occupation (including Kapo Black, Tewa Polychrome, and Glaze F pottery) have led investigators to conclude that Pueblo people reoccupied it sometime between 1680 and 1700.
ref: 2012, Matthew Liebmann, Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico, page 140:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cliffside dwelling made in the living rock by humans.
Related terms: excavate
parties of the second part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party of the second part
parties of the first part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party of the first part
coneflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coneflowers
Etymology: From cone + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of several similar flowering plants of tribe Heliantheae in order Asterales, in genera Dracopis, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Ratibida, that have a cone-shaped disk of florets.
glosses: Any of certain species of genus Isopogon, in order Proteales, principally of temperate Australia
Derived terms: taxonomic: Isopogon trilobus
word: barrel coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia californica
word: California coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia amplexicaulis
alt: Dracopis amplexicaulis
word: clasping coneflower
taxonomic: Isopogon polycephalus
word: clustered coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia laciniata
word: cutleaved coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia deamii
word: Deam's coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia auriculata
word: eared coneflower
word: eastern coneflower
taxonomic: Isopogon alcicornis
word: elkhorn coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia gramminifolia
word: grassleaf coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia maxima
word: great coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia laciniata
word: greenheaded coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia klamathensis
word: Klamath coneflower
taxonomic: Ratibida columnifera
word: long-head coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia missouriensis
word: Missouri coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia mohrii
word: Mohr's coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia montana
word: montane coneflower
taxonomic: Isopogon teretifolius
word: nodding coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia fulgida
word: orange coneflower
taxonomic: Ratibida spp.
alt: esp. Ratibida columnifera; Lepachys columnifera; Obelisteca columnifera
word: prairie coneflower
taxonomic: Echinacea spp.
alt: esp. Echinacea purpurea
word: purple coneflower
taxonomic: Isopogon formosus
word: rose coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia grandiflora
word: rough coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia scabrifolia
word: roughleaf coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia nitida
word: shiny coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia speciosa
word: showy coneflower
taxonomic: Echinacea laevigata
word: smooth coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia mollis
word: softhair coneflower
taxonomic: Isopogon adenanthoides
word: spider coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia sullivantii
word: Sullivant's coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia heliopsida
word: sunfacing coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia subtomentosa
word: sweet coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia laciniata
word: tall coneflower
taxonomic: Echinacea tennesseensis
word: Tennessee coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia texana
word: Texas coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia triloba
word: three-lobed coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia glaucescens
word: waxy coneflower
taxonomic: Rudbeckia occidentalis
word: western coneflower
taxonomic: Ratibida pinnata
word: yellow coneflower
coli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊ.laɪ/
Forms: form: coli
Etymology: Ellipsis of Bacterium coli or Bacillus coli, obsolete taxonomic names of the species (now called Escherichia coli). The word itself derives from Latin colī, genitive of colon (“colon, large intestine”).
Senses: examples: text: Five of the strains of E. coli are related to only one of the S. dysenteriae strains. Three of the coli are related to two of the strains of S. dysenteriae, four are related to three of the S. dysenteriae strains, and one, A-H6, is related to all.
ref: 1939 January, Thomas T. Mackie, “The Specificity of the Agglutinin Reaction for Shigella dysenteriae: II. Agglutinin Absorption Relationships between Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli”, in Journal of Bacteriology, volume 37, number 1, →PMID, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2020, page 47:
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
synonyms: colibacillus
glosses: Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
wikipedia: Escherichia +
Derived terms: colibacillosis
colibacilluria
colibacillus
coliphage
colisepticemia
Related terms: colicine
coliform
FRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fibre/fiber-reinforced plastic/polymer.
glosses: Initialism of fibre/fiber-reinforced plastic/polymer.
Initialism of fibreglass/fiberglass-reinforced plastic/polymer.
synonyms: GFRP
glosses: Initialism of fire retardant polyester.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of fair and remunerative price.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of fantasy role-playing.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of fail role-playing.
examples: text: More recently, FRP has been implemented in a language called Elm by Evan Czaplicki, targeting JavaScript.
ref: 2014, Dean Wampler, Alex Payne, Programming Scala, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 448:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of functional reactive programming.
Hypernyms: sense: FRC, plastic, polymer
word: fib[er
sense: FRC, plastic, polymer
word: re] reinforced plastic polymer
Related terms: sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: CFRP
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: fiber-reinforced plastic
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: fiber-reinforced polymer
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: fibre-reinforced plastic
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: fibre-reinforced polymer
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: FRC
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: GFRP
sense: fib[re/er] reinforced plastic polymer
word: SFRP
fibre-reinforced plastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibre-reinforced plastics
form: FRP
form: fiber-reinforced plastic
form: fiber reinforced plastic
form: fibre reinforced plastic
Senses: glosses: A composite material of fiberglass (or other fibre) in a polymer matrix
Synonyms: fiber-reinforced polymer
fiber reinforced polymer
fibre reinforced polymer
fibre-reinforced polymer
FRP
Hypernyms: fibre-reinforced composite
FRC
polymer
plastic
Derived terms: carbon fiber reinforced plastic
carbon fibre reinforced plastic
CFRP
FRP
GFRP
glass fiber reinforced plastic
glass fibre reinforced plastic
fire retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire retardants
Senses: glosses: Any of several substances used to delay or prevent combustion when used as a coating or component of a combustible material
mim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mimmer
form: mimmest
Senses: glosses: Demure; shy.
glosses: Prim; prudish.
mim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mims
Senses: examples: text: The esoteric identity and importance of the Perso-Arabic letter, mim, and its Bengali equivalent, ma, were stressed. The letter, when added to Ahad, made Ahmad and Muhammad as well.
ref: 2014, Asim Roy, The Islamic Syncretistic Tradition in Bengal, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of meem (“Arabic letter”).
Related terms: mim-mem
contino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continos
Etymology: From early modern Portuguese and Spanish contino, ellipsis of ombre contino, from Latin continuum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of continuo, a personal guard of the Spanish or Portuguese king.
saltato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltatos
form: saltati
Etymology: From Italian saltato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A "springing" stroke in playing the violin.
Related terms: saltatory
somersault
saltati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltato
saltate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saltates
form: saltating
form: saltated
form: saltated
Etymology: See saltant.
Senses: glosses: To leap or dance.
examples: text: saltate grains
text: saltate particles
text: to saltate freely over a surface, a relatively small concentration (p>0.9) of particles assures undisturbed trajectories for individual particles
ref: 1979, Charles Edward Chapin, Wolfgang E. Elston, Ash-flow Tuffs:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To move by being lifted by wind or water and carried a short distance before being redeposited, possibly multiple times.
Related terms: saltation
saltatory
sauté
gylden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyldens
Senses: glosses: A kind of gold coin.
gilden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldən/
Forms: form: more gilden
form: most gilden
Etymology: From Middle English gilden, gelden, gulden, from Old English gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.
Senses: examples: text: In summer's day, when Phœbus fairly shone / I saw a Bull as white as driven snow / With gilden horns embowéd like the moon / In a fresh flow'ring meadow lying low
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity:
glosses: Golden; made of gold.
gilden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldən/
Forms: form: gildens
form: gildening
form: gildened
form: gildened
Etymology: From gild + -en.
Senses: examples: text: A little of his pleasure was in the anticipation of seeing Southern Italy in bloom, now that spring is there. But George had a cold. He went to the Moses Taylor hospital. Next week when the great ship docks in Southern Italy, perhaps the sun will be gildening, there will be color and laughter at the dock, for the Italians are a happy race; but George will not be there.
ref: 1936, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers' Journal, page 70:
text: Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas.
ref: 1969, John Rekem, Zobor, the mount and the monastery, page 51:
text: You were mine:
In your early morning's gildening ray
I first became aware of bliss and pain, -
Pure like a pearl.
ref: 1992, Stella M. Hryniuk, Twenty Years of Multiculturalism: Successes and Failures, page 137:
glosses: To make or become golden or gilded
maestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maestras
Etymology: From Italian maestra, female form of maestro.
Senses: examples: text: “That is fair,” we say of a rhymed page that sounds as if it might have been indited to the fair Caroline and she only. But the maestra curls her lip contemptuously and utters “umph! Pope!” We are shy of gems. If, therefore, we attribute to Moore what rightly belongs to the scribe here recorded, may his shade forgive us, and appreciate the compliment./[…]/ “The interesting feature of the book,” said the maestra, “is its ministerial records. Do you notice what an assembly of the saints is there represented?”
ref: 1872, “Editorial Department”, “Album Literature”, in The Ladies’ Repository, a Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle, volume XLVII, Boston: The Universalist Publishing House, page 392, column 1:
text: Four o’clock struck, and I and my young companions were setting out when the maestra stopped us. “Where are you going?” she said; “to hear a sermon? These girls must not go without leave.”[…]The manager used to watch as she passed with her Bible in her hand, and tell her that she must never bring that book to the factory. She told him she had a right to bring her Bible to read in the intervals of her work, and she would do it, come what might. The maestra used to tell her that she would turn her out if she ever brought a book or tract with her; but Antonia conciliated her with little attentions, and now the woman has actually bought a New Testament for herself.
ref: 1874 May 1, “Bible Visits in Madrid”, in L. N. R., editor, The Missing Link Magazine, or Bible Work at Home and Abroad, volume X, London: The Book Society, page 142:
text: The central boys’ school has three native masters and the central girls’ school has two maestras.
ref: 1901, Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War, page 551:
text: Her tears fell upon the cold floor she’d found herself dancing upon for several years now. Maestra has forced Katya to do the same taxing routine fourteen times since 7 am.
ref: 2024, Carter Enslein, “Цикл (Cycle)”, in Joey Knizner, editor, Expressions: St. Xavier High School Literary and Fine Arts Journal, number 59, Cincinnati, Oh.: St. Xavier High School, page 42:
glosses: A female maestro.
lacunary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacunary
form: most lacunary
Etymology: From lacuna + -ary.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
Derived terms: lacunary function
lacunary series
lacunary space
lacunary value
lamantin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamantins
Etymology: From French lamantin.
Senses: glosses: The manatee.
lipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪplaɪn/
rhymes: -ɪplaɪn
Forms: form: liplines
Etymology: From lip + line.
Senses: glosses: The outline shape of the lips.
lorgnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorgnons
Etymology: Borrowed from French lorgnon.
Senses: glosses: lorgnette, opera glass
loukoum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loukoums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of locoum.
locoum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locoums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lokum.
Turkish delight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish delights
Etymology: Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Ottoman Turkish name راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), 18th c.
Senses: synonyms: locoum
loukoumi
lumps of delight
glosses: A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings.
maraschino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɹ.əˈʃiː.nəʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæɹ.əˈskiː.nəʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæɹ.əˈʃi.noʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæɹ.əˈski.noʊ/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹ.əˈʃi.noʊ/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹ.əˈski.noʊ/
Forms: form: maraschinos
Etymology: From Italian maraschino, from marasca, from amaro (“bitter”).
Senses: glosses: A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries
Derived terms: maraschino cherry
marasca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marascas
Etymology: From Italian marasca.
Senses: glosses: A European cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus cerasus, that bears bright red fruit used for making maraschino.
wikipedia: Otto Wilhelm Thomé
Related terms: maraschino
marasquino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marasquinos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maraschino.
fairplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is true he had a hard battle for it; but if he had ungenerous detractors who hated everything not English, he had more numerous friends and supporters; and perhaps in no country in the world would a foreigner like him have obtained such fairplay in the race.
ref: 1881, G.S. Godkin, “Antonio Panizzi”, in Helen Mathers, editor, The Burlington: A High-class Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 44:
text: We ask for the creation of a Government Department which will control the hampering influences of landlords, who are the absolute monopolists of our soil and all our mineral wealth, and for the purpose of giving our mines such fairplay as will tend to the enormous development of our mineral interests.
ref: 1891, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition), page 1183:
text: Your whole idea, Mr. Sarnoff, is to leave to the sense of fairplay of broadcasters this problem of giving a proper and adequate hearing to the so-called minor parties?
ref: 1962, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Problems of the Softwood Lumber Industry, page 66:
text: A sense of fairplay would dictate that 2 years is more than a reasonable period of time for this study to be completed and for Congress then to take such action as it deems right and proper.
ref: 1968, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 26603:
text: His deep humanity and sense of fairplay and justice endeared him to all communities.
ref: 1975, H. A. J. Hulugalle, The Life and Times of Don Stephen Senanayake, Sri Lanka's First Prime Minister, page 253:
text: And I hope our Presidency has been one of decency, a sense of honor, a sense of fairplay, and I'm just going to continue to emphasize these themes.
ref: 1993, George Bush, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 404:
text: This will create a sense of disappointment in the subordinates concerned and they will feel that there was no fairplay.
ref: 2006, V. Srinivasan, New Age Management: Philosophy from Ancient India:
glosses: Alternative form of fair play.
marmorised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marmorised
form: most marmorised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marmorized.
marmorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marmorized
form: most marmorized
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Transformed into marble by metamorphism
Related terms: marmoric
marmorization
marmorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marmorize
Memphre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While there have been more than 100 reported sightings of a Lake Memphremagog creature called Memphre, a photograph submitted by two unnamed Quebec residents will not be recorded among them.
ref: 1986 October 11, “Photo of monster exposed as hoax”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F12:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Lake Memphremagog, Quebec, Canada.
Timbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Timbits
Etymology: From Tim + bit.
A brand name: From Tim (the name of Canadian hockey player Tim Horton, and the doughnut shop chain he founded, now Tim Hortons) + bit.
Senses: examples: text: When colleague John Stackhouse was searching for a title for his lovely book on travelling across Canada, he decided to go with Timbit Nation.
ref: 2003 June 26, Roy MacGregor, “When size definitely matters: How you order a coffee reveals what type of Canadian you are”, in The Globe and Mail, page A2:
glosses: A bite-sized doughnut ball sold at the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain and sometimes jocularly regarded as an icon of Canadian culture.
wikipedia: Tim Horton
Tim Hortons
Hypernyms: donut hole
Coordinate terms: alt: the same product from Dunkin Donuts
word: Munchkin
Derived terms: english: genericization of the trademark, used in Canada to refer to any donut hole ball pastry informally
translation: genericization of the trademark, used in Canada to refer to any donut hole ball pastry informally
word: timbit
word: Kimbit
coprophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprophages
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coprophagus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κοπροφάγος (koprophágos), from κόπρος (kópros, “dung”) + -φάγος (-phágos, “eater; glutton”). Equivalent to copro- + -phage.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A living organism that feeds on feces or fecal matter.
Synonyms: scatophage
Related terms: coprophagous
coprophagy
nonsectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.sɛkˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.sɛkˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more nonsectarian
form: most nonsectarian
form: non-sectarian
Etymology: From non- + sectarian.
Senses: synonyms: nondenominational
nonfactious
unfactious
glosses: Not sectarian.
examples: text: The children will not go to church, few will attend Sunday school, but they will attend a nonsectarian Bible school.
ref: 1818, Methodist Review, Methodist Book Concern, page 538:
text: The cottage institutions are first divided into two sections; the nonsectarian and those under some church management.
ref: 1915, William Henry Slingerland, Child Welfare Work in Pennsylvania: A Co-operative Study of Child-helping Agencies and Institutions, Russell Sage Foundation, Dept. of Child-helping, pg. 167
text: Christian Arabs, as members of a restricted minority community, had a special interest in promoting the concept of equality based on nonsectarian considerations, but the appeal of a shared sentiment of Arabness attracted Muslims too.
ref: 2009, William L Cleveland and Martin Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, 4th edition, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 131:
synonyms: nondenominational
glosses: Of or pertaining to nonsectarianism.
Related terms: word: nonsectarianly
nonsectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.sɛkˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.sɛkˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: nonsectarians
form: non-sectarian
Etymology: From non- + sectarian.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a sectarian.
nonsectarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, non + sectarianism, or, by surface analysis, nonsectarian + ism.
Senses: synonyms: nondenominationalism
antonyms: sectarianism
denominationalism
coordinate_terms: ecumenism
ecumenicism
ecumenicalism
glosses: Independence from any particular sect, party or denomination.
vicinal diols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicinal diol
geminal diols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geminal diol
supplemented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supplement
supplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supplement
supplements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supplement
consultantese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consultant + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: The real problem is that the consultant is talking in broad, consultantese abstractions, [...]
ref: 2003, Russell D. Lambert, Executive's Guide to the Wireless Workforce, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 24:
text: We never quite converted him to consultantese (thank goodness), but we did move him a little toward the center.
ref: 1993, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: creating the high-performance organization, Harvard Business School Press, →ISBN, page x:
text: Consultantese for starting out on an assignment with little or no prior outline
ref: 1974, Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords: A Guide to the Language of Leadership, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: Jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
aluminosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminosilicate
seriocomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seriocomic
form: most seriocomic
Senses: examples: text: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers.
text: He addresses the audience directly and confidentially in an extraordinary 124-line adoxograph which is part social satire and part seriocomic plea for our commitment to his suzerainty […].
ref: 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies.
Synonyms: ludicroserious
seriocomedic
seriocomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seriocomics
Senses: examples: text: One day, when Philip had been at the shop for five months, Miss Alice Antonia, the well-known seriocomic, came in and asked to see Mr Sampson.
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 107, in Of Human Bondage:
glosses: A seriocomic performer; especially, a female variety performer working in seriocomic acting and singing.
Related terms: dramedy
tragicomedy
arene epoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arene epoxide
arene oxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arene oxide
arsenic trichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless oily liquid, AsCl₃, used in the synthesis of organic arsenic compounds.
antimony trichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, colourless solid, SbCl₃, that has some use as an analytical reagent
Synonyms: bronzing salt
butter of antimony
zinc chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The zinc salt of hydrochloric acid, ZnCl₂, a white crystalline solid with a number of industrial applications.
propionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propionate
conversi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversus
Timbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Timbit
hoodoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːduː/
Forms: form: hoodoos
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of voodoo.
Senses: glosses: A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
glosses: A practitioner of voodoo.
examples: text: The three men wondered whether they would find Colson at Taylor's Creek. They felt that a hoodoo hung over the place.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:
glosses: Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
examples: text: It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71:
text: This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
Synonyms: sense: spire of rock
word: tent rock
sense: spire of rock
word: fairy chimney
sense: spire of rock
word: earth pyramid
Derived terms: hoodooer
hoodooism
hoodooist
hoodoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːduː/
Forms: form: hoodoos
form: hoodooing
form: hoodooed
form: hoodooed
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of voodoo.
Senses: glosses: To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.
contraindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contraindicate
confers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confer
regaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regale
banishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbænɪʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banish
banishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banish
banishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: banishings
Senses: glosses: A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences.
egg hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg hunts
Etymology: From egg + hunt.
Senses: qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: An Easter egg hunt.
rainbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow
rainbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rainbow
sprinklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprinkler
chocolate eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate egg