cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
SS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Saints.
glosses: Initialism of social security.
glosses: Initialism of secret service or Secret Service.
glosses: Initialism of spousal support.
examples: Near-synonym: CRES
glosses: Initialism of stainless steel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shiptype
Initialism of steamship.
synonyms: S/S
S.S.
S. S.
S./S.
hypernyms: ship#Noun
<
vessel#Noun
coordinate_terms: SV
MV
MS
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shiptype
Initialism of screw steamer (a screw-driven steamship)
coordinate_terms: PS
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shiptype
Initialism of subsurface, a subsurface ship, a submarine
A conventionally-powered submarine
coordinate_terms: SSN
SSK
SSB
SSG
SSKN
SSBN
SSGN
APSS
LPSS
SSK
SSB
SSG
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shiptype
Initialism of subsurface, a subsurface ship, a submarine
diesel-powered attack submarine
coordinate_terms: SSN
SSK
SSB
SSG
SSKN
SSBN
SSGN
APSS
LPSS
synonyms: SSK
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface missiles developed by the Soviet Union
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of shortstop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of screenshot.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of sum of squares.
glosses: Initialism of Segawa syndrome.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of side seam.
examples: text: SS23 collection
topics: fashion
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: AW
FW
glosses: Initialism of spring/summer, often followed by a year.
SS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The officer who cut off Rachabalizoda’s ear had military patches including a far-right Totenkopf (dead person’s head) previously worn by Nazi SS units.
ref: 2024 March 25, Andrew Roth, Pjotr Sauer, “Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: (It's possible that at least some of the liberals who answered "yes, violence can sometimes be justified" had in mind edge cases like armed resistance by Jews against the SS, not the assassination of peaceful political pundits with whom they disagree.)
ref: 2025 September 16, Jack Nicastro, “J.D. Vance Says 26 Percent of Young Liberals Justify Political Violence. Here's What the Data Really Say.”, in Reason:
glosses: Initialism of Schutzstaffel; from German SS.
glosses: Initialism of Subsahara: a geographic region of Africa, constituting all countries south of the Sahara Desert.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.
glosses: Initialism of South Sumatra: a province of Indonesia.
SS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Subsaharan.
Synonyms: sense: Pokémon
word: SwSh
Related terms: sense: spousal support
word: alimony
sense: submarine
word: DSRV
sense: submarine
word: DSV
sense: NATO
word: CSS
DPOAHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of durable power of attorney for health care.
DOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diː əʊ aɪ/
Forms: form: DOIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of date of incident.
glosses: Initialism of digital object identifier.
DOI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /diː əʊ aɪ/
Forms: form: DOI
form: the DOI
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of the Interior.
CSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of criminal sexual conduct.
glosses: Initialism of close supervision centre, a type of prison.
topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of card security code.
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cancer stem cell.
CSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Computer Sciences Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of Children's Surgical Centre.
glosses: Initialism of Civil Service Commission (Philippines).
GF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of girlfriend.
glosses: Initialism of grand final.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of goals for, a sports statistic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Galois field.
glosses: Initialism of ground floor.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of gradient factor.
Synonyms: sense: girlfriend
word: SO
Related terms: sense: girlfriend
word: BF
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: G
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: GA
GF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of German agent F (US designation for the nerve gas cyclosarin).
GF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gluten-free.
Av.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Avenue (used in street names).
Av.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Avestan.
glosses: Abbreviation of Avestic.
middle class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle classes
Senses: examples: text: All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2013:
synonyms: middling class
middling sort
glosses: A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
glosses: The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.
Derived terms: lower middle class
upper middle class
Related terms: word: middle-class
word: bourgeoisie
word: bourgie
word: white-collar
word: yuppie
word: yuppies
middle-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more middle-class
form: most middle-class
Senses: glosses: Occupying a position between the upper class and the working class.
glosses: Characteristic of the middle class(es); reflective of that class's values and aspirations. Commonly associated with a desire for social respectability and an emphasis on family values and education.
Derived terms: middle-classness
Related terms: middle class
pot pourri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot pourris
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of potpourri.
girllover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girllovers
Etymology: From girl + lover.
Senses: hypernyms: childlover
coordinate_terms: boylover
glosses: A pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile who is attracted to girls.
Related terms: girllove
boylover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boylovers
Etymology: From boy + lover.
Senses: hypernyms: childlover
coordinate_terms: girllover
glosses: A pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile who is attracted to boys.
Related terms: boylove
childlover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childlovers
Etymology: From child + lover, a calque of Ancient Greek παιδοφίλης (paidophílēs).
Senses: glosses: A pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile.
Related terms: childlove
Cowper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Cowpers
Etymology: Variant of Cooper or Couper.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Cowper's fluid
Cowper's gland
ouroboric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr-ə-bôr'-ĭk
ipa: /ɔɹəˈbɔɹɪk/
Forms: form: more ouroboric
form: most ouroboric
form: uroboric
Etymology: * ouroboros + -ic
Senses: glosses: Self-referring, self-reflexive, self-consuming; recursive
examples: text: What could be more ouroboric than members of the media who specialize in blaming the media.
text: Going back in time and becoming one's own grandfather is a rather ouroboric endeavour
text: Like the ouroboric serpent which bites its own tail, the spinal column brings the mysteries of language and sexuality, mouth and genitals together.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 17:
glosses: Relating to the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail.
Related terms: ouroboros
uroborus
stand the test of time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands the test of time
form: standing the test of time
form: stood the test of time
form: stood the test of time
Senses: examples: text: Pop music comes and goes, but classical music has stood the test of time.
text: The urban myth of the sun shining through Box Tunnel on Brunel's birthday may have been knocked on the head, but in its portal facing designs he created structures which have stood the test of time well.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: To remain useful or valued over a long period of time; to last a long time.
Related terms: test of time
future-proof
poxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒk.si/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: poxier
form: poxiest
form: poxie
Etymology: From pox + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Suffering from pox.
examples: text: Being a pop star means its goodbye to starving in a poxy garret.
ref: 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:
text: “Everyone bally [balaclava]^([sic]) up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”
ref: 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
glosses: Unimportant, worthless.
Related terms: pockmark
pockmarked
chickenpox
smallpox
lousy
unintuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintuitive
form: most unintuitive
Etymology: From un- + intuitive.
Senses: glosses: Not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition
glosses: In particular, counterintuitive; counter to what one's intuition expects.
dealie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːli/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: dealies
form: dealy
form: dealie-o
form: dealio
form: dillio
Etymology: From deal + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A thing, especially one seen as complex or having much associated with it.
Derived terms: deely bobber
ignipuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignipunctures
Etymology: From igni- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: The original procedure of closing a retina break in retinal separation by transfixation of the break with cautery.
opisthosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthosomas
form: opisthosomata
Etymology: From opistho- + soma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The posterior segment of the two-part body structure of chelicerates. Often used interchangeably with abdomen.
Related terms: opisthosomal
prosoma
fashion plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion plates
form: fashion-plate
Etymology: Initially produced as engravings.
Senses: examples: text: By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion-plate illustration.
ref: 1917, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Confessions of a Humorist”, in Waifs and Strays:
text: He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters; […] he had abandoned his real calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women's weekly, where fashion-plates and paper patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Nat Hicks's Tailor Shop, on a side street off Main. A one-story building. A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
text: Today, in an age when the promotion of fashion is dominated by social media, video, and photography, fashion plates are nearly forgotten—relics of history consulted by few aside from professional costume designers and scholars of history.
ref: 2015, April Calahan, Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.
examples: text: I'm no fashion plate, and don't dress to impress.
text: “I told you they dressed me up, but I didn’t tell you that they powdered and squeezed and frizzled, and made me look like a fashion-plate. […]”
ref: 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 9, in Little Women: […], 1st part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC:
text: In their stiff, crackling dresses of black silk, with jet-bespangled jackets, and little rows of cylindrical grey curls drooping down on either side of their black bonnets, they looked like two old fashion plates which had wandered off into the wrong decade.
ref: 1892, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Breaking the ice”, in The Great Shadow and Beyond the City, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.
celsius
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Fridges switch themselves on and off regularly as they keep their temperature between 2 and 4 degrees celsius.
ref: 2009 January 13, “Enviro-friendly fridges”, in Herald-Sun, sourced from AAP, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2009:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Celsius.
ria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: rias
Etymology: From German Ria, from Spanish ría (“inlet, estuary”), from Galician ría, from Galician río, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Flinders had advised Baudin to stop in Port Jackson (the ria of what is now Sydney) when in need of refreshment […].
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 49:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
wikipedia: Georges River
drawback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɔːˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈdɹɔˌbæk/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹɔˌbæk]
note: intrusive r, New England
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹɔɹˌbæk]
ipa: /ˈdɹɑˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈdɹoːˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈdɹoˌbæk/
Forms: form: drawbacks
Etymology: From draw + back. Compare setback.
Senses: examples: text: Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
synonyms: encumbrance
hindrance
nuisance
malefit
antonyms: benefit
advantage
boon
glosses: A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
examples: text: East-India goods, not specifically and particularly rated, are to be liable to duties and drawbacks on the value, to be taken by the gross price at the company's public sales.
ref: 1796, David Steel, New and Complete Tables of the Net Duties payable, and drawbacks allowed, on goods, wares, and merchandises..., page 5:
glosses: A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
examples: text: ‘I wanta learn to do the drawback better than Swiftie.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 123:
glosses: The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.
salutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæljuˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæljəˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: salutations
Etymology: From Middle English salutacioun, from Old French salutacion, from Latin salutatio (“a greeting, a wishing health to”), from saluto (“wish one’s health, greet”), from salus (“well-being”). Compare the Latin greeting salve (literally “be well”).
Senses: glosses: A greeting, salute, or address; a hello.
examples: text: Welcome, we²l'ku²m. a.
 Received with gladneſs, admitted willingly, grateful[…]
Welcome, we²l'ku²m. interj.
 A form of ſalutation uſed to a new comer.
ref: 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 550:
glosses: The act of greeting.
glosses: Quickening; excitement.
Derived terms: angelic salutation
Related terms: valediction
detract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɹækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: detracts
form: detracting
form: detracted
form: detracted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French détracter, from Latin detractum, past participle of detraho.
Senses: examples: text: The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To take away; to withdraw or remove.
examples: text: That calumnious critic […] / Detracting what laboriously we do.
ref: 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles:
glosses: To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
Synonyms: sense: to take credit or reputation from, to defame or decry
word: defame
sense: to take credit or reputation from, to defame or decry
word: decry
sense: to take credit or reputation from, to defame or decry
word: derogate
Derived terms: detractable
detraction
detractive
detractor
Related terms: take away from
walk-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walk-ons
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports or athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
examples: text: Did you exchange / A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
ref: 1975, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, “Wish You Were Here”, in Wish You Were Here, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: Such a part in a play or film.
examples: text: If you have a walk-on ticket you can have a full refund before the date of travel without paying the usual £10 administration fee.
ref: 2020 March 25, “Network News: Passengers offered refunds or switched fares: Comment”, in Rail, page 7:
glosses: One who arrives and boards transport (such as a train or ferry) without having booked in advance.
Derived terms: walk-on girl
chicken pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.k(ə)nˌpɑks/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.k(ə)nˌpɒks/
rhymes: -ɑks
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: chicken poxes
form: chickenpox
form: chicken-pox
Etymology: From chicken + pox, under the influence of earlier hen-pox and swinepox, which formed larger blisters.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: chicken pock
glosses: The blisters formed by the varicella zoster virus (VZV).
examples: text: Chickenpox parties, at which children gather so they can all be infected by a child who has the pox, are often held by parents who distrust chickenpox vaccine or want their children to have the stronger immunity that surviving a full-blown infection affords.
ref: 2009 May 7, New York Times, page A12:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: varicella
glosses: The highly contagious airborne disease caused by initial infection with varicella zoster virus, typically causing a skin rash that forms small itchy blisters.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Any disease causing similar symptoms.
Derived terms: chickenpox party
Related terms: herpes zoster
shingles
recruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recruit
blastoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæstəˌdɚm/
Forms: form: blastoderms
Etymology: From blasto- (“germ”) + -derm (“skin”).
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The germination point in an ovum from which the embryo develops.
Derived terms: blastodermal
blastodermatic
blastodermic
preblastoderm
neck and neck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: neck-and-neck
form: neck in neck
Etymology: Figurative, from the image of competing horses abreast in a horse race who are so even (headed for a tie) that their necks are side-by-side.
Senses: examples: text: The polls suggest that the candidates were neck and neck in the election.
text: It lay between me and Dick Riot madam; we were neck and neck for three miles, as hard as we could lay leg to ground, and running every inch, but at the first, I felt for him, found I had the foot […]
ref: 1779, Charles Macklin, Love à-la-mode, etc., page 20:
text: Mr. Prendergast's Rainbow filly, watched closely by Paul Jones, took the lead, and they ran almost neck and neck until near the cords, when Paul Jones made a rush, and came home by a length.
ref: 1825 November, “Sporting Intelligence”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 17, number 98, page 45:
text: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
text: Passing Iver, W.R. 4-6-0 No. 1012 County of Denbigh on the up "Capitals United Express" runs neck-and-neck with a parcels train headed by 4-6-0 No. 6821 Leaton Grange.
ref: 1960 July, Trains Illustrated, page 410, photo caption:
synonyms: nip and tuck
glosses: Very close in progress, as in a race or a contest.
Related terms: dead heat
photo finish
varicella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvæɹɪˈsɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: varicellas
form: varicellae
Etymology: From New Latin varicella, diminutive of variola (“pox”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: chicken pox
glosses: Any of various other eruptive diseases, such as swinepox, hives, and varioloid.
Derived terms: varicella zoster virus
varicelloid
varicellous
pockmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒk.mɑːk/
ipa: /ˈpɑkˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: pockmarks
Etymology: From pock + mark.
Senses: examples: text: When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]
ref: 1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Whitehall before the Cobwebs”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
glosses: A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
Derived terms: pockmarked
wildcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildcards
Etymology: From wild + card.
Senses: examples: text: 1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters
A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.
text: If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
examples: text: There are several technical wildcards, such as how the larger battery packs--four times larger than those of the Prius--will withstand the rigors of city driving, […]
ref: 2008 February 8, Eli Kintisch, “From Gasoline Alleys to Electric Avenues”, in Science, 319(5864), page 751:
qualifier: also written wild card
glosses: An uncontrolled or unpredictable element.
qualifier: also written wild card
glosses: An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency.
examples: text: German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
topics: card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of wild card.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A letter or symbol that substitutes for a generic or poorly identified sound, for example capital C for any or some consonant, or capital V for any or some vowel.
wildcard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wildcards
form: wildcarding
form: wildcarded
form: wildcarded
Etymology: From wild + card.
Senses: examples: text: The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.
ref: 2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
pock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒk/
ipa: /pɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: pocks
Etymology: From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
Senses: glosses: A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
glosses: Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
Derived terms: cowpock
kinepock
pock-fretten
pockmark
pockpit
pockpitted
pock-pudding
pockwood
pocky
pox
quarter point
small pock
the pock
pock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒk/
ipa: /pɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: pocks
form: pocking
form: pocked
form: pocked
Etymology: From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
Senses: examples: text: In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.
ref: 2007 February 23, Greg Myre, “Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes”, in New York Times:
glosses: To scar or mark with pits
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: yen pock
brain fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain farts
form: brainfart
form: brain-fart
Senses: examples: text: This is love in the social media age. Candlelight dinner, fine wine, degustation, a lover's face scrunched over a phone screen live-tweeting brainfarts about the relationship to largely uninterested skim-readers.
ref: 2011 July 8, Grace Dent, The Guardian:
glosses: Something ill-considered and said or done impulsively.
examples: text: Sorry for the brain fart, but what exactly did you say again?
text: Shadow turned off the heaters, packed some clothes into an overnight bag, then turned back to Wednesday and said, ‘Look, I feel kind of stupid. I know you just told me who we're going to see, but I dunno. I just had a brain-fart or something. It’s gone. Who is it again?’
ref: 2001, Neil Gaiman, American Gods, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 276:
glosses: An instance of absent-mindedness or forgetfulness.
Coordinate terms: brain cramp
draw a blank
thinko
paper trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper trails
form: paper-trail
form: papertrail
Senses: examples: text: Keep a good paper trail in case anyone asks you why you arrived at that conclusion.
text: The only paper trail is the cashed money order, and unless it was cashed at a place where they actually know the payee (like the bank), the money order could have been stolen and cashed by someone else.
ref: 2003, Marsha Collier, eBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies, page 109:
glosses: A written record, history, or collection of evidence.
examples: text: With a good paperwork system in place, including a working paper trail, it becomes much easier to manage the flow of relevant information regarding your plants and orders.
ref: 2003, Tony Avent, So You Want to Start a Nursery, page 265:
text: And unless that paper trail exonerated you from guilt—or,if not that, supported some alternative explanation that granted you plausible deniability—then sooner or later you'd find yourself on the ass end of a federal indictment.
ref: 2010, Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street:
glosses: Records left by a person or organization in the course of activities.
examples: text: Beginning in the late 20th century, researchers were able to analyze the mtDNA and Y chromosomes of multiple races around the world, revealing a DNA paper trail that led back to eastern Africa around 200,000 years ago.
ref: 2012, Paul Parsons, Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs:
text: Even if you delete posts or your digital paper trail, the data stills ^([sic]) exists and can be retrieved later in life.
ref: 2016, Katherine Yaun, Etiquette at School, page 37:
glosses: Physical evidence of something that occurred in the past.
Related terms: audit trail
data trail
follow the money
counterintuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/
ipa: [ˌkʰaʊɾ̃ɚɪnˈtʰuɪɾɪv]
Forms: form: more counterintuitive
form: most counterintuitive
form: counter-intuitive
Etymology: From counter- + intuitive. Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1955 as “counter-intuitive”.
Senses: examples: text: With the students who worked on drafts in class, a number of aspects of lexicography proved challenging and counterintuitive.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
glosses: Contrary to intuition or common sense.
wikipedia: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Noam Chomsky
Derived terms: counterintuitively
counterintuitiveness
counterintuitivity
Related terms: counterintuition
counter-intuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-intuitive
form: most counter-intuitive
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterintuitive.
talebearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talebearers
form: tale bearer
form: tale-bearer
Etymology: From Middle English taleberer; equivalent to tale + bearer.
Senses: examples: text: "To speak the truth when my lady commands me," answered the prudential major-domo, "is in some measure my duty, Mistress Lilias; always providing for and excepting those cases in which it cannot be spoken without breeding mischief and inconvenience to myself or my fellow-servants; for the tongue of a tale-bearer breaketh bones as well as Jeddart-staff."
ref: 1820, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 4, in The Abbot:
text: There is always some thoughtless talebearer ready to gather up the arrows of gossip and thrust them into the quivering heart of the victim.
ref: 1902, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 5, in Flip's ‘Islands of Providence’:
glosses: An indiscreet person who spreads gossip or blame.
Synonyms: blabbermouth
gossip
rumormonger
telltale
gossiper
take-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from take up.
Senses: glosses: The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
qualifier: machinery
glosses: That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
examples: text: the take-up of benefits by the unemployed
text: As a first step, Mode Shift Revenue Support (MSRS) funding should be expanded, to ensure a higher take-up of unused freight paths in today's timetable and to help shape a sustainable path for multi-modal UK logistics.
ref: 2023 July 26, Jim Steer, “Where rail can win modal shift”, in RAIL, number 988, page 40:
glosses: Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
Related terms: uptake
talk shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks shop
form: talking shop
form: talked shop
form: talked shop
Senses: glosses: To discuss one's work or (sometimes, by extension) hobby; especially, to do so in a way that only insiders would understand, is tedious or boring to the listener, or both.
Related terms: word: shop talk
word: inside baseball
talk shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk shops
Senses: glosses: A talking shop.
Related terms: think tank
talkativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From talkative + -ness.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: chattiness; see also Thesaurus:talkativeness
glosses: The state of being talkative.
Synonyms: word: chattiness
word: diarrhea of the mouth
word: garrulity
word: garrulousness
word: logorrhea
word: logorrhoea
word: loquaciousness
word: loquacity
word: multiloquence
word: talkativeness
word: talkativity
word: verbal diarrhea
word: verbal diarrhoea
Hypernyms: word: excess
word: talk
word: prolixity
word: verbosity
word: wordiness
Related terms: word: talkative
sportscast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportscasts
Etymology: From sports + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: glosses: The part of a news program reporting on sports and athletics.
sportscaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportscasters
Etymology: Blend of sports + broadcaster.
Senses: examples: text: At the beginning of the all-star game, the sportscaster always says that the players just want to have fun today; at halftime, or in the bottom of the fifth inning, the sportscaster always says that the players' competitive spirit has taken over and now they all really want to win.
ref: 2003, David Shields, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 49:
synonyms: commentator
glosses: One who reports sporting events on television or radio.
glosses: A person who comments on, presents, and reports sport events.
Derived terms: sportscastress
Related terms: sportscast
talker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: talkers
Etymology: From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What this country needs is a smooth talker.
text: That guy's a real talker.
text: Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.
ref: 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012:
text: At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.
ref: 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
examples: text: Some parrots are vociferous talkers.
glosses: Any creature or machine that talks.
topics: media
glosses: A talk show
topics: media
glosses: A talk-show host.
topics: media
glosses: An all-talk radio station.
examples: text: The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.
topics: media
glosses: A popular topic of conversation.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A talking point.
glosses: A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
examples: text: Although on Sundays when the men had finished feeding cattle, the rest of the afternoon was free […] still they weren't comfortable in the bunkhouse if George was abroad; he had a queer authority without even knowing it, an ability to upset you, maybe because he so seldom opened his talker and his silence made you look in upon yourself, on the guilt you always knew was there.
ref: 2009, Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx, The Power of the Dog: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Mouth.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A table talker or shelf-talker.
glosses: An augmentative and alternative communication device.
Synonyms: speaker
Derived terms: code talker
double talker
fast-talker
nontalker
shelf-talker
small-talker
smooth talker
straight talker
sweet-talker
table talker
newscast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newscasts
Etymology: From news + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.
Related terms: newscaster
podcast
webcast
newscast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newscasts
form: newscasting
form: newscast
form: newscast
form: newscasted
form: newscasted
Etymology: From news + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast the news.
newscaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newscasters
Etymology: From newscast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.
ref: 1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin:
text: Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
ref: 1997, Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger, →ISBN, page 154:
text: It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”
ref: 2019 April 19, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, “Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?”, in The East African, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023:
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.
Derived terms: newscastress
Related terms: newscast
ileus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪliəs/
rhymes: -ɪliəs
Forms: form: ileuses
form: ilei
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin īleus, from Ancient Greek εἰλεός (eileós, “intestinal obstruction”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: modern usage
glosses: Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.
examples: text: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume II: Classes of Diseases, IV: Diseases of Association, Ordo III: Retrograde Associate Motions, Genus II: Catenated with sensitive motions,
The perpetual vomiting in ileus is caused in like manner by the defective excitement of the sensorial power of association by the bowel, which is torpid during the intervals of pain; and the stomach sympathizes with it.
text: When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
ref: 1849, Hippocrates, translated by Francis Adams, Aphorisms:
text: You must expect to lose from 40% to 60% of all acute post operative ileuses, and about 20% of your sub-acute cases.
ref: 1921, Western Osteopathic Association et al., The Western osteopath, volume 16, page 20:
text: Thus, ileus also has potential detrimental effects in sterile peritonitis by providing a source and mechanism for entry of bacteria into the peritoneal cavity.
Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus.
ref: 2002, Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, volume 1, page 420:
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: broad definition
glosses: Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause.
Derived terms: adynamic ileus
dynamic ileus
hyperdynamic ileus
ileus subparta
mechanical ileus
meconium ileus
occlusive ileus
paralytic ileus
spastic ileus
Related terms: volvulus
talk over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks over
form: talking over
form: talked over
form: talked over
Senses: examples: text: Come home early, we have a lot to talk over.
text: His reply was brief and to the point. "Come along to Doncaster," it read, "and we'll talk it over."
ref: 1944 March and April, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: VIII—Sir H. N. Gresley”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:
glosses: To discuss; to converse about a matter or issue.
examples: text: I didn't like the idea at first, but they eventually talked me over.
text: She is an expert at talking others over to her views/side.
synonyms: talk around
win over
glosses: To persuade (someone); to talk around.
examples: text: She rudely talked over her opponent in the debate.
glosses: To verbally interrupt (someone); to speak at the same time as someone else.
Derived terms: word: talkover
ileitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪliˈaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: ileitides
Etymology: From ile- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the ileum.
Derived terms: backwash ileitis
gastroileitis
jejunoileitis
Related terms: Crohn's disease
colitis
talk around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks around
form: talking around
form: talked around
form: talked around
form: talk round
Senses: glosses: To persuade someone by spoken arguments.
qwertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A style of keyboard layout used in some European countries.
Coordinate terms: azerty
Dvorak
QWERTY
Related terms: kezboard
Americo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Americ(a) + -o-.
Senses: glosses: America
Derived terms: Americo-Liberian
Related terms: Amero-
prostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔs.teɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
Forms: form: prostates
Etymology: From Middle French prostate, from Medieval Latin prostata, from Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs, “one who stands before, protector, guardian”).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, Paul made me get my prostate checked. As I say, he's already left a legacy. But if you haven't chaps, please get yourself checked over - it's worth it.
ref: 2022 August 24, Pip Dunn, “A Life Remembered: Paul Taylor - February 9 1971-August 9 2022”, in RAIL, number 964, page 24:
glosses: The prostate gland.
Derived terms: benign prostate enlargement
female prostate
prostate cancer
prostatectomy
prostate massage
prostate-specific
prostate-specific antigen
prostatic
prostatism
prostatitis
prostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔs.teɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
Etymology: From Middle French prostate, from Medieval Latin prostata, from Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs, “one who stands before, protector, guardian”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the prostate gland.
prostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔs.teɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
ipa: /pɹəʊˈsteɪt/
rhymes: (UK) -eɪt
ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔs.teɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
Forms: form: more prostate
form: most prostate
Etymology: From pro- + state.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-state.
prostate gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostate glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gland in male mammals surrounding the urethra just below the urinary bladder that controls the release of urine from the bladder and produces a secretion that is the fluid part of semen.
Hypernyms: urogenital sinus - embryological precursor
internal genitalia
retinitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinitides
Etymology: From retina + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
ref: 1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the retina.
Derived terms: retinitis pigmentosa
recapitulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/
Forms: form: recapitulates
form: recapitulating
form: recapitulated
form: recapitulated
Etymology: From Late Latin recapitulātus, past participle of recapitulāre (“to go over the main points of a thing again”), from re- (“again”) + capitulum (“head, main part, chapter”), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix); see capitulate. By surface analysis, re- + capitulate.
Senses: examples: text: The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
text: We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.
glosses: To summarize or repeat in concise form.
examples: text: Being the Joshua/Atonement stanza of this cycle, the fact that the seven steps seem to recapitulate (or precapitulate?) the pattern of dominion is interesting. Situated at the very “gate” of Canaan, was this offer a temptation to be resisted like the plunder of Jericho (Joshua 6:18), or was it sin crouching at the door, the violence of Cain as “keeper” or shepherd over his brother (Genesis 4:7-8)? For Jacob, it was neither. He was waiting on God. For his sons, however, it was both. What Yahweh was offering freely they would take by force.
ref: 2017 April 8, Michael Bull, “Sex, Lies, and Murder: Acts II & III”, in BibleMatrix.com, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2025:
glosses: To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
examples: text: Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.
ref: 1997 May, G. A. Bray, “Growth of a Molecular Base for Feeding”, in Obesity Research, volume 5, number 3, page 272:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
raw_tags: of an organism
Synonyms: sense: to summarize or repeat in concise form
word: recap
sense: to summarize or repeat in concise form
word: sum up
word: abridge
word: abstract
word: capsule
word: concise
word: docket
word: encapsulate
word: epitomize
word: gist
word: nutshell
word: outline
word: précis
word: recapitulate
word: redact
word: run over
word: run through
word: summarize
word: sum
word: synopsize
word: tl;dr
word: wrap up
Hypernyms: word: condense
word: review
Hyponyms: word: brief
Derived terms: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
recapitulation
recapitulative
recapitulatory
Related terms: word: capitulate
word: in summary
cowper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpers
Senses: glosses: A cooper.