cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shoot up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots up
form: shooting up
form: shot up
form: shot up
Senses: examples: text: Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
text: He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
text: As a result, prices have shot up. One hundred kilos of extra virgin olive oil from Jaén in Spain cost €787 in November last year, up from €262.50 five years earlier, making olive oil a more attractive market for fraudsters.
ref: 2024 July 29, Michael Goodier, “Olive oil fraud and mislabelling cases hit record high in EU”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To grow taller or larger rapidly.
examples: text: The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.
text: There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. "Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […]."
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them."
"They are so pretty," she objected. "I cannot bear to think of it being done. It is so directly brutal, you know; so different from shooting them."
"That roof must go on," I answered grimly. "Winter is almost here. It is our lives against theirs. It is unfortunate we haven't plenty of ammunition, but I think, anyway, that they suffer less from being clubbed than from being all shot up. Besides, I shall do the clubbing."
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: What do they do here that you don't like, Elnora?
Elnora: I thought we'd be flying around the galaxy shooting up bad guys and stuff, right?
Elnora: But no, they just sell red sand and illegal weapons tech. They even smuggled an Ardat-Yakshi off-world.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dossier: The Justicar (Commercial Spaceport, Illium):
text: The Johnston emerges from a smokescreen to find the Haruna at close range. So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:00 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To fire many bullets or shells at.
examples: text: Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.
glosses: To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
examples: text: This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.
glosses: To inject (a drug) intravenously.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.
Related terms: shoot-'em-up
shoot-em-up
shoot-up
IFRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of International Financial Reporting Standards.
synechdoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synechdoches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of synecdoche.
farm worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm workers
form: farmworker
Senses: glosses: A person who works on, but does not own, a farm; an agricultural labourer / agricultural laborer.
maxed-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maxed-out
form: most maxed-out
Senses: glosses: Having reached the limits of one's (or something's) capabilities
glosses: Having reached a maximum value
Related terms: maxed out
monetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnətaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɒnətaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌtaɪz/
Forms: form: monetizes
form: monetizing
form: monetized
form: monetized
form: monetise
Senses: glosses: To convert something (especially a security) into currency.
glosses: To mint money.
antonyms: demonetize
glosses: To establish a currency as legal tender.
examples: text: We considered monetizing our computer help forums by inserting ad banners.
text: “Now, when you upload a video to YouTube that accumulates lots of views, we may invite you to monetize that video and start earning revenue from it,” Shenaz Zack, a product manager, wrote on a YouTube blog.
ref: 2009 August 25, Miguel Helft, quoting Shenaz Zack, “YouTube to Monetize Your 15 Minutes of Fame”, in The New York Times:
text: Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth.
ref: 2010 April 26, Lacey Rose, “Glenn Beck Inc”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2010:
text: A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.
ref: 2021 March 10, Taylor Lorenz, “For Creators, Everything Is for Sale”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The past five years have seen a “startling” rise in this “new denial,” according to a CCDH analysis published Tuesday, which also suggests this shift in narrative could also be helping YouTube video creators circumvent the social media company’s ban on monetizing climate denial.
ref: 2024 January 16, Rachel Ramirez, “What is ‘new denial?’ An alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, watchdog says”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: commercialize
glosses: To make an activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and Internet-related activities.
Derived terms: demonetization
demonetize
monetizability
monetizable
monetization
monetizer
nonmonetized
overmonetized
remonetize
unmonetize
unmonetized
Related terms: capitalize
commercialize
monetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monetises
form: monetising
form: monetised
form: monetised
Senses: examples: text: "This is an important success for the Tolkien Estate, which will not permit unauthorised authors and publishers to monetise JRR Tolkien's much-loved works in this way," Steven Maier, the Tolkien Estate's lawyer, said.
ref: 2023 December 19, Andy Chalk, “The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate”, in PC Gamer:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of monetize.
Derived terms: demonetise
remonetise
unmonetise
unmonetised
gimmicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gimmick
gimmicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gimmicked
form: most gimmicked
Senses: glosses: Furnished with gimmicks
Derived terms: ungimmicked
self-congratulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-congratulatory
form: most self-congratulatory
Senses: examples: text: Annabelle came skipping out of the house with an air of self-congratulatory joy that was instantly annoying.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: It sure does feel like a lot of people engaging in this tinhattery and self-congratulatory ‘well, I never lived Diddy’ crap care less about the victims than they do their own egos.
ref: 2024 October 9, Kayleigh Donaldson, “Piers Morgan Finds Out After F***ing Around With Jay-Z and Beyoncé's Reputations”, in Pajiba:
glosses: Alternative spelling of selfcongratulatory.
selfcongratulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selfcongratulatory
form: most selfcongratulatory
form: self-congratulatory
Etymology: From self- + congratulatory.
Senses: glosses: Being in the nature of self-congratulation
Pollyannaish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pollyannaish
form: most Pollyannaish
form: pollyanna-ish
form: Pollyanna-ish
form: pollyannaish
form: pollyannish
form: Pollyannish
Etymology: From Pollyanna + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively.
ref: 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § iii, page 819:
text: Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain.
ref: 2012 December 25, Victor Mair, “Chinese character of the year: mèng 梦 (‘dream’)”, in Language Log:
text: If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners.
ref: 2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: On this basis, Bridle argues, it’s possible to conceive of a new kind of “guardianship” of our frazzled planet and its poisoned wells, one in which we all work together. This seems Pollyanna-ish as much as Panglossian to me […]
ref: 2018 June 30, Will Self, “New Dark Age by James Bridle review – technology and the end of the future”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Unreasonably optimistic.
Synonyms: Panglossian
Derived terms: Pollyannaishly
dumbed-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumbed-down
form: most dumbed-down
Etymology: From dumbed + down.
Senses: glosses: Made condescendingly simple.
Related terms: dumbed down
dumbed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dumb down
Related terms: dumbed-down
near term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more near term
form: most near term
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of near-term.
near-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more near-term
form: most near-term
Senses: glosses: short-term
examples: text: Bodies of the 10-kilogram creatures have been found complete with near-term foetuses, and the contents of their last meal (berries and leaves) in their stomachs.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65:
glosses: Almost at the end of the gestation period.
raw_tags: of a pregnant person or animal
Derived terms: neartermism
neartermist
cash-flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash-flows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cash flow.
cash-flow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cashflow.
binky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: Binkie
Forms: form: binkies
Etymology: * Perhaps a child's pronunciation of blanket.
* (US) Commercial child's pacifier brand name. (1948–1977)
Senses: glosses: A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.
glosses: A baby's pacifier.
binky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: Binkie
Forms: form: binkies
Etymology: * Onomatopoeic. Coined by either Dana Krempels or her sister in 1994 or 1995 for Ken Albin's "UNOFFICIAL PETBUNNY DICTIONARY", an enthusiast project organized on the PetBunny mailing list.
Senses: examples: text: He can have his litterbox, his carpet, his toys, and space to do a little binky in there even.
ref: 1996, amy, “Re: What is a rabbitat?”, in alt.pets.rabbits (Usenet):
text: page 81: As he got to know Susan (and her food), he sometimes raced around on the grass when he saw her arrive, or leapt into the air, kicking his hind feet above him, then shaking his head goofily after he landed. This is the “shimmy” that Southern noticed, or the “frisk” that Lockley described. Among domestic rabbits, it’s referred to as a “bunny dance” by some and a “binky” by others. It looks sort of like an epileptic fit—but it’s an unmistakable gesture of joy.
ref: 2003, Susan E. Davis, Margo DeMello, Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature, Lantern Books,, →ISBN:
english: page 94: […] a rabbit in a cage by himself doesn’t play much. He may flop on his side when he feels relaxed. He may run in circles when he’s excited—if the cage is large enough. He may even pop a binky if the cage is high enough.
translation: page 94: […] a rabbit in a cage by himself doesn’t play much. He may flop on his side when he feels relaxed. He may run in circles when he’s excited—if the cage is large enough. He may even pop a binky if the cage is high enough.
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text: page 41: “It’s called a ‘binky’,” said Crystal. “It’s a rabbit happy-dance.”
ref: 2009, Trina Wiebe, Rabbits Don't Do Homework, Lobster Press,, →ISBN:
english: page 65: Binky did one of his famous binkies. He darted down the length of the run, then hopped and twisted […]
translation: page 65: Binky did one of his famous binkies. He darted down the length of the run, then hopped and twisted […]
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glosses: A high hop that a rabbit may perform when happy, usually with a 180° turn while in the air and a bewildered expression upon landing.
binky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: Binkie
Forms: form: binkies
form: binkying
form: binkied
form: binkied
Etymology: * Onomatopoeic. Coined by either Dana Krempels or her sister in 1994 or 1995 for Ken Albin's "UNOFFICIAL PETBUNNY DICTIONARY", an enthusiast project organized on the PetBunny mailing list.
Senses: examples: text: […] there are photos of rabbits in gardens, on desks and in laps: with dogs, with hamsters and with Santa: and yawning, snoozing, flopping, binkying and eating.
ref: 2003, Susan E. Davis, Margo DeMello, Stories rabbits tell, page 347:
qualifier: rabbit behavior
glosses: To perform a high hop, as when happy.
cashflow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cash flow
cashflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashflows
Senses: examples: text: "Net debt at 31 December 2008 has reduced under $92 million on the back of strong operating cashflows due to substantial growth in revenue."
ref: 2009 January 30, “Coffey International confident of record result”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2009:
text: "The bank's domestic insurance businesses are more valuable to him, not least because they generate substantial cashflows."
ref: 2008 December 29, Richard Wray, “RBS to abandon sale of Direct Line and Churchill”, in The Guardian (UK):
glosses: Alternative form of cash flow.
Nico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈniːkəʊ/
Etymology: Considering the stressed vowel (not found in Nicholas, nor Nick, etc.), presumably borrowed from one or more mainland European languages.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, nickname for Nicholas.
glosses: A female given name, nickname for Nicola.
erizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erizos
Etymology: From Spanish erizo.
Senses: examples: text: The erizo, or water hedge-hog, is very like the armado, but not quite so large.
ref: 1774, Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia, And The Adjoining Parts of South America:
glosses: A sea urchin (Echinoidea spp.).
bandies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bandy
bandied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bandy
vison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪsən/
rhymes: -aɪsən
Forms: form: visons
Etymology: From French vison (“mink”).
Senses: glosses: An American mink (Neogale vison).
mangouste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangoustes
Etymology: From French mangouste.
Senses: glosses: A mongoose.
quines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quine
quines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quine
automat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automats
form: Automat
Etymology: Borrowed from German Automat, as the system was originally developed in Germany. Doublet of automaton.
Senses: glosses: A vending machine for food.
glosses: A cafeteria consisting of vending machines.
Related terms: automatic
automation
automatization
automaton
cross-border
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crossborder
form: cross border
Etymology: From cross- + border.
Senses: examples: text: As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor.
ref: 2001, Thomas Krayenbuehl, Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk: Assessment and Monitoring, →ISBN:
text: At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described.
ref: 2002, Marta Pertegás Sender, Cross-border Enforcement of Patent Rights, →ISBN:
text: Canadians didn't spend as much in the U.S. during the first three months of the year as they did in the previous quarter, as cross-border shopping lost some of its lustre, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
ref: 2008 May 28, “Canadians not cross-border shopping like they used to”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 01 Nov 2011:
text: Having inherited a relatively strong anticrime apparatus from the British administration, the postcolonial state in the HKSAR has had difficulty in combating cross-border crime since its retrocession to the mainland.
ref: 2009, Shiu Hing Lo, The Politics of Cross-border Crime in Greater China, →ISBN:
text: "Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic. Possibly it would be a useful diversionary route if anything happened either on the West Coast route or the East Coast route, but then I suppose it's more difficult to quantify the benefit from that.
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in RAIL, page 54:
glosses: Taking place across a border.
Derived terms: cross-border ticket
cross-border
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: crossborder
form: cross border
Etymology: From cross- + border.
Senses: examples: text: Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing.
ref: 1998, Edna Oppenheimer, Matana Bunnag, Aaron Stern, HIV/AIDS and Cross-Border Migration, →ISBN:
text: In general, groups working cross-border are much better-funded, and have more capacity, than those working inside Burma.
ref: 2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, →ISBN:
text: The statement acknowledged the challenges and complex issues involved in working 'cross-border' but believed that the concept could be realized (WAPOL 2003a).
ref: 2012, Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt, Cross-border Law Enforcement, →ISBN:
text: Have these additional costs dissuaded you from investing cross-border?
ref: 2012, Erwin Nijkeuter, Taxation of Cross-Border Dividends Paid to Individuals from an EU Perspective, →ISBN:
text: The final decision tool consists of three sections: a general section, a section for hospitals not cooperating cross-border and a section for hospitals that are cooperating with hospitals across a national or regional border.
ref: 2013, Issues in Healthcare Technology and Design, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Across a border.
noti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notis
Senses: examples: text: While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at their Story or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at each noti wondering if it’s them.
ref: 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Clipping of notification.
processi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processus
comuni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comune
palæoclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeoclimatology.
palæolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeolithic.
palæontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of palaeontology.
Derived terms: palæontologic
palæontologist
Pangæa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Pangaea.
ed-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English ed-, from Old English ed- (“again, re-”), from Proto-West Germanic *id-, from Proto-Germanic *idi-, *idi, *ida (“back, backwards, again”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti.
Cognate with Dutch et-, German dialectal it- (“again, back”), Icelandic ið- (“again, back”), Gothic 𐌹𐌳- (id-, “again, back”), Welsh ad-, Welsh ed- (“again, back”), Latin et (“and”), Latin at (“but, moreover”).
Senses: examples: eddish, eddy, edgrow, edgrowth, ednew, edquicken
glosses: A prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
Slip Slop Slap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: slip-slop-slap
Senses: examples: text: For example in Australia, the ‘Slip Slop Slap' programme (Slip on a shirt, Slop on sunscreen, Slap on a hat) has resulted in a marked reduction in the total of sunburns during the summer.
ref: 1999, Gabriel A. Kune, Reducing the Odds: A Manual for the Prevention of Cancer, page 190:
glosses: a health campaign in Australia and New Zealand exhorting people to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat" when they go out into the sun in order to prevent skin cancer.
Sanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sannas
Etymology: * As an Italian surname, from Italian Sanna.
* As a Dutch surname, reduced from Susanna.
* As a Greek surname, spelling variant of Sannas, from σανός (sanós, “hay”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
pops in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop in
Cracker Jack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Take me out to the ball game / Take me out with the crowd / Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack / I don't care if I never get back.
ref: 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game:
glosses: A boxed snack consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, well known for including surprise toys of nominal value.
Cracker Jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cracker Jacks
Senses: examples: text: A Cracker Jack fell to the theater floor.
glosses: One kernel of the Cracker Jack snack.
examples: text: He stuffed himself with Cracker Jack.
text: Tiffany's salesman: This, I take it, was not purchased at Tiffany’s?
Paul Varjak: No, actually it was purchased concurrent with, uh, well, actually, came inside of… well, a box of Cracker Jack.
ref: 1961, Breakfast at Tiffany’s:
glosses: A quantity of the snack. Usually Cracker Jacks.
Derived terms: come from a Cracker Jack box
crackerjack
pea-souper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːˌsuːpə/
ipa: /ˈpiˌsupɚ/
Forms: form: pea-soupers
form: peasouper
form: pea souper
Etymology: From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’);
* (dense, yellowish fog”): from the appearance of the fog
* (French-Canadian person): may be from the prevalence of pea soup in French cuisine: compare pea soup (“(slang, derogatory) French person”).
Senses: examples: text: A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.
text: I can hear the bell on the buoy, but I can’t see anything in this pea-souper.
text: The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 35, in Small Island, London: Review, page 346:
synonyms: pea soup fog
pea-soup fog
peasoup fog
hypernyms: fog
glosses: A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
examples: text: Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!
glosses: A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
Related terms: pea-soupy
peasouper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasoupers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pea-souper.
proscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈskɹɪp.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪpʃən
Forms: form: proscriptions
Etymology: From Middle English proscripcion, from Latin prōscrīptiō, from prōscrībō (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībō (“write”).
Senses: glosses: A prohibition.
examples: text: He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
ref: 1837, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Tacitus' Annals, book 1:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
glosses: The act of proscribing, or its result.
glosses: A decree or law that prohibits.
Related terms: proscribe
proscriptive
proscriptively
popping in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop in
popped in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop in
comes about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come about
pops off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop off
comes across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come across
popping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop off
popped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop off
comes around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come around
pops out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop out
coming around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come around
came around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come around
popping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop out
comes back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come back
popped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop out
coming back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come back
comes clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come clean
coming clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come clean
came clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come clean
quenching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛn.t͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkwen.t͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪŋ
Forms: form: quenchings
Etymology: From Middle English quenchinge, equivalent to quench + -ing.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The extinction of any of several physical properties.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A process in which a galaxy loses cold gas, thus strongly suppressing star formation.
examples: 2022 August 27, Michael Le Page, Genetic tweaking increases soy yield by upgrading photosynthesis, New Scientist, Issue 3401, page 16,
When a leaf is in full sunshine, it absorbs more light energy than its photosynthetic machinery can handle. This damages cells unless they turn on a mechanism known as quenching to dissipate the excess energy.
When a leaf is shaded, however, quenching has to be turned off to avoid dissipating energy that could be used.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The dissipation of energy from light in excess of what can be used for photosynthesis.
Derived terms: dequenching
quenching frequency
quenching oil
quenching stress
selfquenching
superquenching
quenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛn.t͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkwen.t͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English quenching, quenchyng, quenchand, quenchende, equivalent to quench + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quench
Derived terms: thirst-quenching
quenchingly
supersensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersensible
form: most supersensible
Etymology: From super- + sensible.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven is a supersensible realm.
text: The imagination, therefore, must furnish to religion and to metaphysics those large ideas tinctured with passion, those supersensible forms shrouded in awe, in which alone a mind of great sweep and vitality can find its congenial objects.
ref: 1900, George Santayana, chapter 1, in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 6:
glosses: Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
examples: text: […] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Extremely sensible; excessively sensitive or aware of something.
Synonyms: supersensory
supersensual
supersensuous
Related terms: extrasensory
supersensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From super- + sensory.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven is a supersensory realm.
glosses: Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
Synonyms: supersensible
supersensual
supersensuous
Related terms: extrasensory
supersensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersensual
form: most supersensual
Etymology: From super- + sensual.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven is a supersensual realm.
glosses: Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
examples: text: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, sexy subject and giant media stars combined with the super-sensual milieu of Hollywood hairdressers who were at that early '70s moment a hot celebrity subspecies.
ref: 2015, Dick Guttman, Starflacker: Inside the Golden Age of Hollywood:
glosses: Provoking or exciting an extremely strong response in the senses; sensual.
Synonyms: supersensible
supersensory
supersensuous
Related terms: extrasensory
supersensuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + sensuous.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven is a supersensuous realm.
glosses: Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
Synonyms: supersensible
supersensory
supersensual
Related terms: extrasensory
experienceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From experience + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The color green is experienceable by any person with normally functioning vision.
text: The world of meaning and value, and the world of the knowable, are the world of the experienceable.
ref: 1982, John A. Broyer, Creative Interchange, Southern Illinois University Press, p. 148
glosses: Capable of being experienced.
Derived terms: unexperienceable
Rottweiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒtvaɪlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɒtwaɪlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Rottweilers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rottweiler, from German Rottweil.
Senses: glosses: A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.
glosses: A very aggressive or short-tempered person.
Derived terms: God's Rottweiler
lecker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lecker
form: most lecker
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lekker.
nozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nozzle
LEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LED
LEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: LED strip lights
ASCE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer.
ref: 2006, P. Aarne Vesilind, The Right Thing to Do: An Ethics Guide for Engineering Students, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of American Society of Civil Engineers.
personæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persona
chicheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chichemes
Senses: glosses: A drink, found almost exclusively in Panama and Costa Rica, made from milk, hominy, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Related terms: chicha
teetotally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more teetotally
form: most teetotally
Etymology: From totally, the reduplicated tee being an intensifier.
Senses: glosses: Very completely, very totally.
Related terms: teetotaller
teetotaler
teetotal
teetotalling
primæval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more primæval
form: most primæval
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of primeval.
quæstor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quæstors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quaestor.
septicæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septicæmias
form: septicæmiæ
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Obsolete spelling of septicaemia.
Gbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the word gbe, meaning "language" in these languages.
Senses: glosses: A family of closely related languages, such as Ewe and Fon, spoken near the south coast of western Africa.
epigastralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigastralgy
Etymology: From epi- + gastro- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: A pain in the epigastric region.
dy-no-mite
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From dynamite; made popular by actor and comedian Jimmie Walker in his role as J. J. Evans in the American situation comedy Good Times in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: good; great.
wikipedia: Good Times
Jimmie Walker
et ux
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of et ux..
fanbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌbɛlt/
Forms: form: fanbelts
form: fan belt
Etymology: From fan + belt.
Senses: hypernyms: belt
endless belt
glosses: A belt which turns a cooling fan in a car engine.
pokal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /poʊˈkɑl/
Forms: form: pokals
Etymology: From German Pokal. Doublet of bocal and boccale.
Senses: glosses: A tall drinking cup.
ad-hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ad hoc.
ad-hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ad-hoc
form: most ad-hoc
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ad hoc.
PLU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: NOKD
NOK
glosses: Initialism of people like us.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Initialism of price lookup.
last mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɑːst ˈmaɪl/
ipa: /ˌlæst-/
ipa: /ˌlæst ˈmaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: last miles
Senses: examples: text: Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road.
ref: 2025 October 1, Gareth Dennis, “The future: a new role for a new British Rail: 2030s”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 30:
topics: transport
synonyms: last kilometre
coordinate_terms: first mile
middle mile
qualifier: logistics
glosses: The final stage of delivery of goods, etc., from a distribution centre to the consumer, often involving greater effort or expense.
examples: text: The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
synonyms: last kilometre
coordinate_terms: first mile
middle mile
glosses: The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end user's business or home, often involving greater expense to install and maintain, and lower transmission speeds.
Derived terms: last mile school
hay-fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hay fever.
pedicurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedicurists
Etymology: From pedicure + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who performs pedicures.
perfumery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈfjuːm(ə)ri/
Forms: form: perfumeries
Etymology: From perfume + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
synonyms: parfumerie
glosses: A shop selling perfumes.
glosses: A factory where perfume is made.
glosses: The manufacture of perfume.
plateful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platefuls
form: platesful
Etymology: From plate + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Witness to this is the appointment by the Minister of Transport of an Under-Secretary who will concentrate on Channel Tunnel affairs—and Mr O. F. Gingell is evidently expected to have a plateful of work for some long time to come.
ref: 1964 June, “News and Comment: Channel Tunnel finance”, in Modern Railways, page 371:
glosses: The quantity contained on a plate.
prearrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪndʒ
Forms: form: prearranges
form: prearranging
form: prearranged
form: prearranged
form: pre-arrange
Etymology: From pre- + arrange.
Senses: examples: I would like to prearrange a hire car to be waiting for me at the airport when I arrive next week.
glosses: To arrange in advance.
brain-teaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain-teasers
Senses: synonyms: brain-tickler
glosses: A complex riddle or puzzle.
bite to eat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bites to eat
Senses: examples: text: Let's stop the toil and catch/grab a bite to eat, shall we?
glosses: A snack or quick meal.
dry up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dries up
form: drying up
form: dried up
form: dried up
Senses: examples: text: I'll go shopping when it dries up.
text: Last summer the lake completely dried up.
text: But those newcomers need water — water that is vanishing as a megadrought dries up reservoirs and rivers across the West. […] Groundwater and streams vital both to farmers and cities are drying up. […] Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah said all but one of the fields on his family’s farm had dried up.
ref: 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021:
synonyms: desiccate
;
dehydrate
hypernyms: dry#Verb
coordinate_terms: dry out
glosses: To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
examples: text: The heatwave dried up all the rivers.
synonyms: desiccate
;
dehydrate
hypernyms: dry#Verb
coordinate_terms: dry out
glosses: To cause to become dry.
examples: text: I'll dry up if you wash up.
synonyms: dry#Verb
wipe up
glosses: To manually dry dishes and utensils.
examples: text: The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.
coordinate_terms: wipe out
ruin#Verb
tank#Verb
glosses: To deprive someone of (something vital).
examples: text: When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.
text: After the stock market crash, the easy financing dried up.
text: This love has dried up and stayed behind
ref: 2008, Adele, First Love:
synonyms: wither away
glosses: To gradually decrease and eventually cease.
examples: text: This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.
coordinate_terms: shut up
;
freeze up
glosses: To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.
coordinate_terms: shut up
;
freeze up
glosses: To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.
To forget one's lines.
raw_tags: of an actor
examples: text: Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!
text: "Oh, dry up,' said Arnold morosely.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 168:
synonyms: shut up
clam up
qualifier: 1930s US slang
glosses: To stop talking or drop a topic.
Derived terms: dry up and blow away
drying-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I'll do the drying-up if you put it all away.
glosses: The act of drying dishes after they have been washed up.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: ablactation
examples: text: The drying-up of this unique and freely-given source of information will leave its mark.
ref: 1950 June, W. A. Willox, “Rawdon Edward Charlewood: An Appreciation”, in Railway Magazine, page 418:
glosses: gerund of dry up.
Related terms: dry up
synthesise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synthesises
form: synthesising
form: synthesised
form: synthesised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synthesize.
Reims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːmz/
note: gallicized
ipa: /ɹæms/
rhymes: -iːmz
rhymes: -æms
Forms: form: Rheims
Senses: glosses: A city in Champagne, Marne department, Grand Est, France.
Derived terms: Rhemish
trigger happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trigger happy
form: most trigger happy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trigger-happy.
Æ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: æ
form: Æs
form: Æ's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ash
glosses: A ligature of vowels A and E, called ash.
glosses: aevum; formerly used on gravestones to indicate the deceased's age at time of death
Related terms: Œ
Æ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The pseudonym of the Irish writer George William Russell.
powertrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊɚˌtɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈpaʊəˌtɹeɪn/
Forms: form: powertrains
form: power train
Etymology: From power + train.
Senses: examples: text: In their model, the researchers assumed that the same number of powertrains would be produced in 2030 as in 2016.
ref: 2018 June 5, Mary McDougall, “Electric cars could put 100,000 German jobs at risk”, in CNN:
text: The EXP 100 GT is a two-door, four-seat behemoth measuring 19 feet (5.8 meters) in length. It’s designed to show what a Bentley GT might look like in the year 2035, complete with a pure-electric powertrain and self-driving capabilities.
ref: 2019 July 10, John McIlroy, “Bentley marks 100th birthday with futuristic new concept car”, in CNN:
glosses: The group of components in a vehicle that generate power and deliver it to the road surface, water, or air.
Meronyms: word: engine
word: motor
word: transmission
word: driveshaft
word: drivetrain
english: major subassemblies
translation: major subassemblies
word: axles
OPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPPs
form: O.P.P.
form: O. P. P.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of other people's problems.
glosses: Initialism of oriented polypropylene.
Related terms: first world problem
OPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O.P.P.
form: O. P. P.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ontario Provincial Police, the police force of the Canadian province of Ontario.
QPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QPPs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Quebec Provincial Police (Sûreté du Québec); the police force of the Canadian province of Quebec..
glosses: Initialism of Quebec Pension Plan.
glosses: Initialism of queerplatonic partner/partnership.
Synonyms: topics: law-enforcement
government
word: QPF
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: SQ
Coordinate terms: sense: pension
word: CPP
sense: pension
word: RPP
sense: pension
word: RESP
sense: pension
word: TFSA
sense: pension
word: OAS
Related terms: sense: pension
word: CPP
sense: pension
word: RPP
becks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beck
barrel fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alcoholic drink is often stored in barrels.
Senses: glosses: intoxication or illness from intemperance in drink
brain fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain fevers
form: brain-fever
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: encephalitis or meningitis
examples: text: We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box:
glosses: A state of hysteria or temporary insanity caused by an emotional shock.
Derived terms: brain-fever bird
brain-fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of brain fever.
enfever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfevers
form: enfevering
form: enfevered
form: enfevered
Etymology: From en- + fever.
Senses: glosses: to cause to have a fever, or frenzy
Derived terms: enfevered
enfevering
fever and ague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: malaria
Derived terms: fever and ague root
feverous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feverous
form: most feverous
Etymology: From fever + -ous.
Senses: glosses: affected with fever or ague
glosses: having the nature of fever
examples: text: a feverous disposition of the year
glosses: having a tendency to produce fever
Derived terms: feverously
haemorrhagic fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemorrhagic fevers
form: hemorrhagic fever
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: viral haemorrhagic fever
Hypernyms: fever
Hyponyms: African haemorrhagic fever
American haemorrhagic fever
arenaviral haemorrhagic fever
Argentine haemorrhagic fever
Bolivian haemorrhagic fever
Brazilian haemorrhagic fever
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
dengue haemorrhagic fever
Ebola haemorrhagic fever
epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Far Eastern haemorrhagic fever
Far East haemorrhagic fever
icterohaemorrhagic fever
Korean haemorrhagic fever
Lassa haemorrhagic fever
Manchurian haemorrhagic fever
Marburg haemorrhagic fever
Omsk haemorrhagic fever
Philippine haemorrhagic fever
renal syndrome with haemorrhagic fever
simian haemorrhagic fever
Singapore haemorrhagic fever
Southeast Asian haemorrhagic fever
Thai haemorrhagic fever
Uzbekistan haemorrhagic fever
Venezuelan haemorrhagic fever
viral haemorrhagic fever
Related terms: haemorrhagic fever virus
haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
hemorrhagic fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemorrhagic fevers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of haemorrhagic fever.
Hypernyms: fever
Hyponyms: African hemorrhagic fever
American hemorrhagic fever
arenaviral hemorrhagic fever
Argentine hemorrhagic fever
Bolivian hemorrhagic fever
Brazilian hemorrhagic fever
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
dengue hemorrhagic fever
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
epidemic hemorrhagic fever
Far Eastern hemorrhagic fever
Far East hemorrhagic fever
icterohemorrhagic fever
Korean hemorrhagic fever
Lassa hemorrhagic fever
Manchurian hemorrhagic fever
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Omsk hemorrhagic fever
Philippine hemorrhagic fever
renal syndrome with hemorrhagic fever
simian hemorrhagic fever
Singapore hemorrhagic fever
Southeast Asian hemorrhagic fever
Thai hemorrhagic fever
Uzbekistan hemorrhagic fever
Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever
viral hemorrhagic fever
Related terms: hemorrhagic fever virus
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
hemorrhagic stroke
Mediterranean fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Familial Mediterranean fever.
Hypernyms: fever