cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in effect
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: 2007, The Guardian, Aug 21 2007, George Monbiot.
Separated from the rest of Heathrow, this would, in effect, be a second airport.
synonyms: word: effectively
word: at bottom
word: at heart
word: au fond
word: basically
word: by definition
word: deep down
word: essentially
word: fundamentally
word: in effect
word: in essence
word: in the end
word: in the final analysis
word: substantially
word: ultimately
glosses: For all practical purposes; in practice; actually; essentially; basically.
in practice
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The new tax should have helped the farming community. But in practice farmers generally appear to be worse off than before.
text: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
text: The DfT has yet to announce how the regulations will work in practice.
ref: 2023 October 4, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes: MPs seek assurance on minimum service levels”, in RAIL, number 993, page 24:
glosses: Really, in effect; not just hypothetically.
antonyms: out of practice
glosses: Regularly practising an activity so as to remain skilled in it.
translocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translocation
monospace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + space.
Senses: glosses: Of a typeface, having characters with uniform width.
monospace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monospaces
form: monospacing
form: monospaced
form: monospaced
Etymology: From mono- + space.
Senses: glosses: To type, typeset, or design text using a typeface that has the same width for each character.
Related terms: duospace
ripple effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripple effects
Etymology: An analogy to the spreading ripples on a body of water after an object has struck the surface.
Senses: examples: text: Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.
text: Whatever had happened to her, her behaviour had ripple effects that were still causing upset and grief nearly five years later.
ref: 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Global banks are bracing for the ripple effects of harsh new financial and economic sanctions against Russia intended to hobble its economy and restrict its access to foreign capital.
ref: 2022 February 22, Lananh Nguyen, Alan Rappeport, “Global Banks Poised for Turmoil as West Hits Russia With Sanctions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "If these 35 miles of infrastructure aren't run effectively, the ripple effects are felt by customers as far afield as Swansea, Bristol, Penzance and Worcestershire," says GWR spokesman Dan Panes.
ref: 2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 31:
glosses: The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
Related terms: butterfly effect
domino effect
knock-on effect
snowball effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowball effects
Etymology: By analogy with the way that a growing snowball collects snow faster and faster as it is rolled along.
Senses: examples: text: The success of these women has had the snowball effect of bringing more and more women into the sport over the past few years.
glosses: An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.
Related terms: butterfly effect
chain reaction
domino effect
exponential growth
positive feedback
slippery slope
snowballing
multiple personality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple personalities
Senses: glosses: A dissociative disorder in which several distinct identities or personality states alternate in controlling the sufferer's consciousness and behaviour
Synonyms: dissociative identity disorder
dissociative disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissociative disorders
Senses: glosses: Any of several mental disorders that affect consciousness.
Related terms: dissociative identity disorder
depersonalization-derealization disorder
other specified dissociative disorder
nilgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪlɡaɪ/
Forms: form: nilgais
form: nilgai
form: nilghai
form: nilghau
form: nilgau
form: nylghau
form: nylgau
form: neelghau
form: neelgye
Etymology: From Hindi नीलगाय (nīlgāy, “nilgai”), from नीला (nīlā, “blue”) + गाय (gāy, “cow”).
Senses: glosses: A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.
blue bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue bulls
Senses: glosses: A nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
swallow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swallows up
form: swallowing up
form: swallowed up
form: swallowed up
Senses: examples: text: Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered.
ref: 1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
glosses: To completely enclose or envelop.
examples: text: Yes, there were hundreds of companies in existence, but a form of natural selection was taking place. Weaker companies were swallowed up by larger ones.
ref: 2024 July 24, Richard Foster, “Rail reform has never been easy”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 28:
glosses: To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
glosses: To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
densen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: densens
form: densening
form: densened
form: densened
Etymology: From dense + -en.
Senses: examples: text: I see a singing darkness in my unseeing eyes. Of neither water, nor earth, nor night. It quivers, densens, then explodes in black. Then it falls away in strings of rippling beads. And again it quivers, densens. Can you hear it?
ref: 1992, Wiesław Myśliwski, The palace, page 109:
text: Traffic densens as the morning ticks on. Trucks roar past on the nearside lane, but I'm well protected by a decent width of shoulder.
ref: 2004, Quentin van Marle, Boomerang Road: A Pedalling Pom's Australian Odyssey, page 45:
text: Sit in a chair looking south into blue twilight that arrives earlier every day— as the sky flakes and densens, as the first clear flakes float past the porch's wood to light on dirt of the driveway and on brown frozen grass or dry stalks of the flower border.
ref: 2007, Donald Hall, Eagle Pond, page 5:
glosses: To become dense or more dense.
Derived terms: densening
Related terms: densitize
ecky thump
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.
Senses: examples: text: In Lancashire the comical Ee, ecky thump! is to all intents and purposes extinct
ref: 1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang:
text: […] its bellowing cry of Ecky thump! sounded much friendlier than […]
ref: 1985, Keith Waterhouse, Waterhouse At Large.:
text: The Guardian, Sunday June 10 2007, Kitty Empire
The latest Stripes album title, a play on the Lancastrian exclamation Ecky thump! is, in part, a gasp of surprise...
text: Ecky thump! I've never tasted anything as good.
ref: 2001, Cyril Morris, Morgi, page 122:
glosses: Exclamation of surprise or pleasure, supposedly part of a Northern English dialect.
wikipedia: Kung Fu Kapers
distastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distaste
distasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distaste
distasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distaste
time management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The management of time in order to make the most of it.
attention span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛn.ʃən spæn/
Forms: form: attention spans
Senses: examples: text: He has learning difficulties because of his short attention span.
text: Limit your training sessions to fifteen minutes; twice each day. One half-hour session is not recommended as a rock's attention span is rather short. Remember; a bored rock is an unhappy rock.
ref: 1975, Gary Dahl, The care and training of your PET ROCK:
glosses: The length of time, or span that one can pay attention, or concentrate on one topic without becoming distracted.
hand-to-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Close together, within arm's reach.
examples: soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat
glosses: Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.
surfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surface
surfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: Having a (particular kind of) surface.
surfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surface
surfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfacings
Senses: examples: asphalt road surfacings
glosses: Material used to make a surface.
examples: text: The researchers measured the number of surfacings per minute by each dolphin.
text: I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead. / This art of surfacing is all but dead.
ref: 1979 June 24, “Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing, performed by The Boomtown Rats:
glosses: The act of coming above the surface.
exantlation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exantlate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [T]ruth which wiſe men ſay doth lye in a Well, is not recoverable but by exantlation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Credulity and Supinity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 13:
text: [...] I do not doubt to lay open by Untwisting or Unwinding, and either to draw up by Exantlation, or diſplay by Inciſion.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: The action of drawing something out, as though from a well.
prime decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime decompositions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prime factorization.
synonyms: word: prime factorization
Lutonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /luˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Lutonians
Etymology: From Luton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: I know that representations have been made over the years for this most unsatisfactory situation at Luton to be rectified, but this latest announcement is an insult to all Lutonians.
[signed by] Rex Boston, a Lutonian now residing in Norfolk.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Open Access: Luton is inaccessible”, in RAIL, number 980, page 63:
glosses: Someone from Luton.
mutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːtɪzəm/
Forms: form: mutisms
Etymology: From French mutisme, from Latin mutus (“mute”), equivalent to mute + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A psychological disorder in which the sufferer cannot speak in certain situations.
Derived terms: elective mutism
selective mutism
Related terms: mute
Dundonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnˈdəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Dundonians
Senses: glosses: A person who is native to or grew up in the city of Dundee.
Dundonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnˈdəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Dundonian
form: most Dundonian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the city of Dundee.
yottaliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yottaliters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of yottalitre.
uncastrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + castrated.
Senses: examples: text: "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.
ref: 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not castrated; possessing testicles.
raw_tags: of a male person or animal
examples: text: We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not weakened, censored, or the like.
barbecue sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːbɪkjuː sɔːs/
ipa: /ˈbɑːɹbəkjuː sɑːs/
ipa: /- sɔːs/
Forms: form: barbecue sauces
form: barbeque sauce
form: BBQ sauce
Senses: glosses: A fruity, tangy, usually brown sauce, typically consisting of a vinegar or tomato base with spices and sweeteners, used as a basting sauce, marinade, or condiment, especially for barbecued meat.
Derived terms: Kansas City barbecue sauce
Related terms: sweet-and-sour
dicier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dicey: more dicey
diciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dicey: most dicey
Viv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the unisex given name Vivian.
heli-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heli-skis
form: heli-skiing
form: heli-skied
form: heli-skied
form: heliski
Senses: examples: text: I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes.
ref: 1997, Sharon Wood as cited in John Graham, Outdoor Leadership, page 106:
glosses: To ski down a mountain or glacier that has been reached by helicopter rather than a normal ski lift.
Derived terms: heli-skier
hard-hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-hitting
form: harder-hitting
form: most hard-hitting
form: hardest-hitting
Senses: examples: text: A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
text: I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.
ref: 2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
text: The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.
ref: 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Aggressively vigorous or forceful.
hard-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-shell
form: most hard-shell
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardshell.
heartbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartbreaking
form: most heartbreaking
Etymology: From heart + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...].
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
text: But even with these caveats, it remains a stunning and heartbreaking piece of cinema that strikes a particular chord with LGBTQ+ viewers.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
glosses: That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
Derived terms: word: heartbreakingly
word: heartbreakingness
heartbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartbreakings
Etymology: From heart + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.
ref: 1999, Karen Gayton Swisher, John Tippeconnic, Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education, page 17:
glosses: The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
Related terms: break someone's heart
heartbreaker
heartrending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartrending
form: most heartrending
form: heart-rending
Etymology: From heart + rending.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he old man, who appeared to be an ardent fisherman, told me of the large trout he caught in the neighbourhood thirty years ago, when he came here from Gudbrandsdale, and made the most heartrending complaints of the decrease of fish and increase of saw-dust, just as Sir Humphry Davy makes in his Salmonia.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:
text: It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: heart-breaking
heart-wrenching
glosses: That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
examples: text: I am suddenly assaulted by the most heartrending puppy-dog eyes I've ever seen as Emi pouts.
text: Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: That elicits deep sympathy.
Synonyms: soulrending
Derived terms: heartrendingly
epenthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpənˈθɛtɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπενθετικός (epenthetikós, “inserted”).
Senses: examples: text: “I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.”
ref: 2015 December 7, Julie Beck, “The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'”, in The Atlantic:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to epenthesis.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Inserted into a word.
raw_tags: of a phoneme or syllable
Derived terms: epenthetical
epenthetically
Related terms: epenthesis
bulksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulksome
form: most bulksome
Etymology: From bulk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It is the great quantities of Bulksome Commodities that multiplies ships and men.
ref: 1669, Thomas Tryon, England's Grandeur,:
glosses: Large, massive, heavy, or bulky.
Conestoga wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conestoga wagons
form: Conestogoe wagon
Etymology: From the Conestoga River in Pennsylvania, USA, whose settlers presumably developed early forms.
Senses: examples: text: The heavy and boat-shaped Conestoga wagon should not be confused with the lighter and cheaper prairie schooners that largely replaced them.
text: During the summer and fall the covered broad-wheeled Conestoga wagons, moved by four or six splendid draught-horses, were constantly employed in transporting the productions of the county to market.
ref: 1866, Stewart Pearce, Annals of Luzerne County: A Record of Interesting Events, Traditions, and Anecdotes, J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 344:
glosses: A heavy covered wagon with a curved boatlike body popular in the United States from about 1750–1850.
Synonyms: Dutch wagon
Conestoga
Conestoga wain
Related terms: prairie schooner
prairie schooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie schooners
Etymology: From the sail-like appearance of the wagons' covers when traversing tall grass.
Senses: examples: text: It was what we call a "prairie schooner," covered with cloth, a genuine emigrant wagon.
ref: 1864, Charles S. Bryant, Abel B. Murch, A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota: Including the Personal Narratives of Many who Escaped, Rickey & Carroll, page 112:
glosses: A covered wagon, especially one of the relatively light, cheap, and boxy design popular in the United States during the 19th century.
Related terms: Conestoga wagon
execution-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling an execution; with the victim aware, but unable to defend themselves or resist.
raw_tags: of a murder
execution-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a manner resembling that of an execution.
raw_tags: of murdering
click-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click-throughs
form: clickthrough
form: click-thru
form: clickthru
Etymology: Deverbal from click through.
Senses: glosses: The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An online advertising performance metric representing an individual responding to an ad by clicking on it.
dentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French dentaire.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or bearing, teeth.
Derived terms: extradentary
infradentary
paradentary
postdentary
predentary
supradentary
dentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentaries
Etymology: From Middle French dentaire.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The dentary bone.
come out of one's shell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out of one's shell
form: coming out of one's shell
form: came out of one's shell
form: come out of one's shell
Senses: glosses: To become more socially active or gregarious.
value bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value bets
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A bet placed with the intention of being called in order to extract more money from a likely worse hand.
value bet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: value bets
form: value betting
form: value bet
form: value bet
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To bet with the intention of being called in order to extract more money from a likely worse hand.
value bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of value bet
value bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of value bet
value betting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of value bet
heartsickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartsicknesses
Etymology: From heartsick + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heartsick
heavy-duty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heavier-duty
form: heaviest-duty
Senses: examples: text: The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs.
ref: 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
antonyms: light-duty
glosses: Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
examples: text: Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year.
ref: 2001 January 8, Michael Braga, “Prepackaged programming”, in The St. Petersburg Times:
text: Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.
ref: 2017 September 11, Matt Simon, “The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer”, in Wired:
text: No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition.
ref: 2021 October 8, Joel Drucker, “In an All-American battle, Anisimova shows Scott the ropes”, in Tennis:
glosses: Very serious, intense, or demanding.
Derived terms: heavy-duty vehicle
Related terms: industrial-strength
hemmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemmers
Etymology: From hem + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, hems.
glosses: A device, attached to a sewing machine, that turns over the edge of a fabric before stitching it down.
glosses: A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.
private school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪvɪt ˈskuːl/
/ˈpɹaɪvət ˈskul/
Forms: form: private schools
Etymology: From private + school.
Senses: examples: text: 1953, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 39, page 218,
The Roman Catholic schools comprise the largest group of private schools in Australia. On the basis of the figures available, approximately 222,000 children, or 76 per cent. of the total in private schools, are educated in Roman Catholic schools.
text: If there were no public funding of private schools the level of enrolment would be very low. Demand for private schooling can only become effective demand if private school places are available at the right price.
ref: 1985, Simon Marginson, Education and Public Policy in Australia, page 202:
text: Private schools and educational success Australia has long had three substantially separate streams of secondary education: government schools, Catholic schools, and a diverse collection of private schools not affiliated with the Catholic Church. Of the non-Catholic private schools, about two thirds are associated with Protestant churches - although only a minority have a strong religious character - and another third are non-denominational.
ref: 2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001: Education, Work, and Welfare, page 67:
glosses: A fee-charging private or independent school.
Coordinate terms: public school
state school
private schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private school
foster parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foster parents
Senses: glosses: An adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
Related terms: foster care
foster child
foster family
foster father
foster home
foster mother
cityscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cityscapes
Etymology: From city + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape.
Derived terms: cityscapist
cityscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cityscape
Olof
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wolof.
coaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coal
coaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalings
Senses: examples: text: Apart from brief intervals for watering and coaling, No. 2395 is continuously in steam each week from 4 a.m. on Monday until 3 a.m. on the following Sunday.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
synonyms: bunkering
glosses: The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.
Derived terms: coaling plant
coaling stage
coaling station
coaling tower
Laurens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A town and village in Otsego County, New York, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Laurens County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: A commune of Hérault department, France.
Derived terms: Laurens County
Lauri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A less common spelling of Laurie, a diminutive of the female given name Laura.
sigilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigillum
sigillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sigillate
form: most sigillate
Senses: examples: sigillate pottery
glosses: Decorated with impressed patterns.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Marked with seal-like scars.
Frederica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɛdəˈɹiː.kə/
rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: Fredericka
Senses: examples: text: And there was the basic yet awful matter of my name, Frederica Hatch, due to the unfortunate coincidence of a maternal grandmother named Frieda, who died six weeks before I was born, and a favorite paternal great-uncle Frederic, who'd been a Freedom Rider at eighty. - - - When I asked if an accidental boy would have been Frederic, they said no. It was Frederica they loved.
ref: 2007, Elinor Lipman, My Latest Grievance, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, of quite rare usage, masculine equivalent Frederick.
glosses: A town in Delaware.
Related terms: Freda
Frieda
green lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green lanes
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of wide unsurfaced paths through the countryside, especially ancient ones once used for herding animals.
glosses: An unmetalled rural road.
glosses: A road designated where pedestrians, cyclists and horse-riders have priority, and automobiles must not exceed a low speed limit.
dispute resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispute resolutions
Senses: glosses: The process of resolving disputes between parties.
Derived terms: alternative dispute resolution
dispute resolution organization
Black and Tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the colours of their uniforms.
Senses: glosses: Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force, which was one of two paramilitary forces employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1920 to 1921, to suppress revolution in Ireland.
glosses: plural of Black and Tan
Related terms: english: drink
translation: drink
word: black and tan
word: Tans
Mika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mikas
Etymology: * (Japanese given name): Borrowed from Japanese みか (Mika).
* (Hebrew given name): From Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh)
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A unisex given name from Hebrew, variant of Micah.
word-wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A method of database searching that produces an instantly refreshed list of results as the user enters each character of the term.
Sherpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɝpə/
Forms: form: Sherpas
form: Sherpa
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.
examples: 2018. Borger, Julian (1 December 2018). "G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077.
Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday.
glosses: A high-ranking government official who works tirelessly in the background to conclude the text of an official communiqué, typically from a G7 or G20 summit.
Sherpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɝpə/
Senses: glosses: The Southern Tibetan language of these people.
sherpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)pə/
Forms: form: sherpas
Etymology: From Sherpa. The verb derives from the noun.
Senses: glosses: A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.
glosses: An expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting.
glosses: A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.
Related terms: advance person
emissary
sherpa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)pə/
Forms: form: sherpas
form: sherpaing
form: sherpaed
form: sherpaed
Etymology: From Sherpa. The verb derives from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To serve as a guide or porter for another.
lumia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumias
Senses: synonyms: French lime
pear lemon
sweet lemon
glosses: A certain pear-shaped citrus fruit.
lumia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by the musician and inventor Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), presumably from Latin lumen (“light”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The use of light patterns as an expressive art form, unaccompanied by sound.
Related terms: clavilux
différance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French différance (“deferral”) (coined in this sense by Derrida), from différer (“to postpone”); but punning on différence (“difference”).
Senses: examples: text: This is the final Derridan manoeuvre, the showing up of ‘blind spots’ in a text, or the ‘blindness’ of an author to certain textual ‘différances’ or ‘suppléments’ in his own text, operative though not observed.
ref: 1980 June 5, Roger Poole, “Roger Poole on the seductions and dangers of structuralism”, in London Review of Books, volume 02, number 11, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: The endless deferral of any ultimate meaning in a word or sentence, owing to the necessity of recourse to a potentially infinite series of other, equally uncertain words or signs.
biopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopharmaceuticals
Etymology: From bio- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug produced using biotechnology.
biopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biopharmaceutical
form: most biopharmaceutical
Etymology: From bio- + pharmaceutical.
biopharmaceutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + pharmaceutics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the chemical and physical properties of drugs, and the relationship between these, dosage, and activity
biopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + pharmacology.
Senses: glosses: The pharmacology of drugs produced using biotechnology
gabelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaˈbɛl/
Forms: form: gabelles
Etymology: From French gabelle.
Senses: examples: text: The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.
ref: 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, page 150:
text: Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:
glosses: A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
cavernicole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavernicoles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cavernicolous organism
work at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works at
form: working at
form: worked at
form: worked at
Senses: glosses: To make a physical or mental effort to progress some specified task; to endeavor or struggle on an issue or project.
Tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænz
Senses: examples: text: Intuitively, on Bloody Sunday, the Tans recognized where their trouble lay: the Irish were playing their own game once again.
ref: 1931, John Bowyer Bell, To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sport:
text: Close quarter fighting did not suit them. It does not suit the Essex or the Tans.
ref: 1948, Tom Barry, Guerilla^([sic]) Days in Ireland, published 1949:
text: The Dawn contains two problems for its male protagonists: namely, Ireland's fight against the British forces, the RIC, and the Tans, and the patriotic commitment of the Malone family's sons.
ref: 1995, Lance Pettitt, Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation:
glosses: The Black and Tans, a British irregular army group operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
blot one's copy book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blots one's copy book
form: blotting one's copy book
form: blotted one's copy book
form: blotted one's copy book
form: blot one's copybook
Senses: examples: text: Now, it was the College that had blotted its copybook
ref: 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
text: Indeed, it was not uncommonly heard that the crown should skip a generation and be conferred on Prince William, who, so far at least, had not blotted his copybook and was more popular than his father.
ref: 2023, Theodore Dalrymple, “From Duty to Decadence”, in City Journal:
glosses: To damage one's own reputation through bad behavior.
inferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inference
incurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incur
incurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incur
Chinese juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese junipers
Senses: glosses: Juniperus chinensis, a shrub or tree, very variable in shape, reaching 1-20 m tall, native to northeast Asia.
Chinese junipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese juniper
reproaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reproach
reproaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproachings
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, the churches themselves may be separated from, who tolerate their members in such causeless reproachings.
ref: 1848, Hanserd Knollys Society for the Publication of the Works of Early English and other Baptist Writers, Publications: Williams, Roger. The bloudy tenet of persecution:
glosses: The act of showing reproach.
decapod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəpɒd/
Etymology: Borrowed from French décapode, see deca- + -pod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having ten legs.
decapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəpɒd/
Forms: form: decapods
Etymology: Borrowed from French décapode, see deca- + -pod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
examples: text: Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.
ref: 1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized.
Derived terms: decapodal
decapodan
decapodid
decapodous
Decapod iridescent virus 1
decapods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapod
strives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strive
strives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strive
ferric oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: iron(III) oxide
crocus of Mars
hypernyms: oxide#Noun
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compound#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: ferrous oxide
iron(II) oxide
glosses: The chemical compound Fe₂O₃, iron oxide where iron has a valence of +3.
iron(III) oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iron + translingual III + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: ferric oxide[Appendix:Glossary#dated|dated]]>
hypernyms: iron oxide
coordinate_terms: iron(II) oxide
glosses: The chemical compound Fe₂O₃: the iron oxide in which iron has a valence of +3.
Related terms: english: a principal ore of iron(III) oxide
translation: a principal ore of iron(III) oxide
word: hematite
topics: source
word: red mud
raw_tags: of iron(III) oxide via modern reclamation technologies
english: contains both iron(III) oxide and iron(II) oxide
translation: contains both iron(III) oxide and iron(II) oxide
word: rust
ferrous oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ferrous + oxide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: iron(II) oxide
hypernyms: oxide#Noun
<
compound#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: ferric oxide
iron(III) oxide
glosses: The chemical compound FeO, iron oxide where iron has a valence of +2.
iron(II) oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: ferrous oxide[Appendix:Glossary#dated|dated]]>
hypernyms: iron oxide
coordinate_terms: iron(III) oxide
glosses: The chemical compound FeO: the iron oxide in which iron has a valence of +2.
nonce words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonce word
addle pates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addle pate
adrenal glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adrenal gland
ages of majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of age of majority
principiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹɪnˈsɪpiət/
Forms: form: principiates
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1613, the adjective in 1654; borrowed from Late Latin prī̆ncipiātus, perfect passive participle of prī̆ncipiō (“to begin to speak, commence”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”). With use as noun, compare Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”).
Senses: examples: text: Of Subſtances ſome are Principles, ſome Principiates. By Principles, I mean ſubſtances that are cauſes of other things, but are themſelves uncauſed. By Principiates (give me leave to make an Engliſh word of one not very good Latin) I mean ſubſtances that are cauſed, or compoſed of Principles. Principles make, Principiates are made to be.
ref: 1694, Richard Burthogge, “The Idea or Notion of Substance. […]”, in An Essay upon Reason, and the Nature of Spirits, London: […] John Dunton […], →OCLC, chapter V (Of Substance), page 101:
text: From what hath been ſaid above, it is evident, why all Things of the Body are Principiates, that is, Contextures conſiſting of Fibres from their Principles, which are Receptacles of Love and Wiſdom, and that ſuch as the Principles are, ſuch muſt alſo the Principiates be, wherefore whitherſoever the Principles tend, the Principiates follow, they cannot be ſeparated.
ref: 1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by [Nathaniel Tucker], “As the Love Is, Such Is the Wisdom, and Consequently Such Is the Man”, in The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. […], London: […] W. Chalklen, […], →OCLC, part V, paragraph 369, pages 350–351:
text: The Latin actualitas comes from actus, which in turn comes from agens and agere; so that, in calling a being actual, we name it in virtue of its active principle, its agency. That is why the actual principle of a being is potior, since it is more powerful than anything else that belongs to the ontological make-up of the being. In a word, then, the term actual designates a principle not a principiate, a source not a result.
ref: 1982, Kenneth L. Schmitz, chapter IV [The Ontological Drama], in The Gift: Creation (The Aquinas Lecture, 1982), Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
glosses: The product of a principle.
principiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹɪnˈsɪpieɪt/
Forms: form: principiates
form: principiating
form: principiated
form: principiated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1613, the adjective in 1654; borrowed from Late Latin prī̆ncipiātus, perfect passive participle of prī̆ncipiō (“to begin to speak, commence”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”). With use as noun, compare Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”).
Senses: examples: text: Both the Kingly and Prophetical Offices of Jesus Christ are principiated in this
ref: 1654, Edward Leigh, A Systeme or Body of Divinity:
text: In short, the principles of any science are not proved by the science employing them. Principles are only inadequately and virtually the wholes which they principiate; otherwise, in knowing the principles, the mind would also actually know what is principiated.
ref: 1954, Vincent Edward Smith, St. Thomas on the Object of Geometry (The Aquinas Lecture, 1953), Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, →OCLC, pages 58–59:
text: According to Scotus, then, self-change is possible when one and the same thing has a form φ that grounds the active causal potency to cause equivocally another form ψ and is also in passive potency to receive φ. In the language of principles, one and the same thing has an active principle to produce a form it currently lacks and a passive principle of receiving such a form, and these two principles jointly bring about (or “principiate”) the result (In Metaph. 9, q. 14, nn. 84–5).
ref: 2003, Peter King, “Scotus on Metaphysics”, in Thomas Williams, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 47–48:
glosses: To begin; to initiate.