cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
permyriad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: per myriad
Etymology: From per + myriad.
Senses: examples: text: There has been a 5 permyriad rise in the price of that commodity.
glosses: One out of every ten thousand (myriad); one percent of one percent.
Synonyms: ‱
basis point
Related terms: topics: finance
business
word: basis point
word: percent and %
word: permille and ‰
word: ppm
word: ppb
word: ppt
word: ppq
orthoclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoclases
Etymology: From ortho- + -clase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi₃O₈, a common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic rocks. Orthoclase is the main feldspar of pegmatite occurrences, where it is most commonly flesh-colored. Orthoclase is used in the ceramic and glass industries and as a decorative gravel.
Derived terms: orthoclasic
Related terms: rock
mineral
pegmatite
sanidine
adularia
obesogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊbiːsəˈdʒɛnɪk/
Etymology: From obese + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Some authors have characterized the so-called obesogenic family and have observed the similarity between this kind of family constellation and that of the schizophrenic patient
ref: 1970 July 1, Jimmie Holland with Joseph Masling and Donald Copley, “Mental Illness in Lower Class Normal, Obese and Hyperobese Women”, in Psychosomatic Medicine, volume 32, number 4, pages 351–357:
text: Thus the changes of lifestyle, concerning diet and physical activity, ie obesogenic environment, was assumed responsible. In addition, the effect of thrifty genotype has been also considered - especially in the countries where obesity […]
ref: 1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4:
text: Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.
ref: 2004, New Scientist, 30 October 2004, page 46
glosses: Causing obesity.
Derived terms: antiobesogenic
obesogen
obesogenesis
sanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanidines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σανίς (sanís, “board”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as tabular crystals embedded in volcanic rocks. Some forms (called moonstone) exhibit adularescence.
adularia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒʊˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌædjʊˈ-/
ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒəˈlɛɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌædjəˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: adularias
Etymology: Named for the type locality at Adular, Switzerland.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as colorless to white prismatic crystals in cavities in metamorphic rocks. Some specimens reflect a bluish sheen along crystal faces. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and adularia with this property is called moonstone. (See sanidine).
Related terms: adularescence
adularescent
rock
mineral
gemstone
run-of-the-mill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run-of-the-mill
form: most run-of-the-mill
form: run of the mill
form: run-o'-the-mill
Etymology: From 1922; from the fact that product produced by a mill should be uniform and like that of any other similar run.
Senses: examples: text: This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.
text: The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.
ref: 1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, “Class Notes: 62”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 72, page 26:
text: For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.
ref: 1989, Punch, page 55:
text: In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.
ref: 1995, Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, page 42:
text: Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.
ref: 1999, David Drew, The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings, page 284:
text: Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.
ref: 2001, Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights, published 2002, unnumbered page:
text: Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix [title]
ref: 2019 April 18, Jake Nevins, “Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: common-or-garden
word: typical
word: average
word: banal
word: basic
word: bog standard
word: common
word: common as bums
word: common as muck
word: commonplace
word: common-or-garden
word: common or garden variety
word: conventional
word: dime a dozen
word: everyday
word: familiar
word: garden variety
word: general
word: nonrare
word: normal
word: par for the course
word: pedestrian
word: plain
word: plain Jane
word: plain vanilla
word: quotidian
word: regular
word: routinary
word: routine
word: standard
word: standard issue
word: ten a penny
word: two a penny
word: typical
word: usual
word: run-of-the-mill
word: workaday
antonyms: word: cream of the crop
word: deluxe
word: luxe
word: abnormal
word: atypical
word: exceptional
word: exotic
word: uncommon
word: endangered
word: extraordinary
word: rare
word: strange
word: unconventional
word: unique
word: unusual
glosses: Ordinary; not special.
Related terms: gristmill
rolling mill
sawmill
steel mill
textile mill
burb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝb/
ipa: /bɜːb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: burbs
form: 'burb
Etymology: Clipping of suburb.
Senses: glosses: A suburb.
Derived terms: ethnoburb
'burb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'burbs
Etymology: Clipping of suburb.
Senses: examples: text: Chirp, chirp / Woke up in the 'burbs, 'burbs, with the birds, birds / Where you used to come and get me with the swerve, swerve
ref: 2017, Tyler, the Creator; Frank Ocean; Raymond Calhoun, “911 / Mr. Lonely”, performed by Tyler the Creator, Steve Lacy, and Ocean:
glosses: Alternative spelling of burb, a short form of suburb.
Botox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊtɑks/
ipa: /ˈbəʊtɒks/
Forms: form: botox
Etymology: Blend of botulinum + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: Eric Andre: You look phenomenal. What's your secret?
Asa Akira: Botox.
Eric Andre: Really?
Asa Akira: Yeah. And I'm starving.
ref: 2014, The Eric Andre Show, season 3, episode 1:
glosses: A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.
Derived terms: Botox smile
Botox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊtɑks/
ipa: /ˈbəʊtɒks/
Forms: form: Botoxes
form: Botoxing
form: Botoxed
form: Botoxed
form: botox
Etymology: Blend of botulinum + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.
ref: 2009 January 24, Richard Ouzounian, “A winning Bette”, in Toronto Star:
text: His thirty year younger wife, Monica, has apparently graduated with a magna cum laude honors degree from an Ivy League, but obviously lost it somewhere down the line when she visited her plastic surgeon; double D silicones and Botoxed face!
ref: 2012, Kamini Patel, The Morning After:
text: To be clear, I have no problem with anybody who Botoxes and fills.
ref: 2015, Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella, Truly Funny Stories, Volume 2:
text: […]I probably Botox twice a year.
ref: 2025 May 17, Henry Mance, quoting Trinny Woodall, “Lunch with the FT: Trinny Woodall”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: To inject Botox.
Related terms: botulin
run of the mill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run of the mill
form: most run of the mill
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of run-of-the-mill.
mantilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /manˈtɪlə/
ipa: /-ˈtiːjə/
ipa: /mænˈti(j)ə/
ipa: /-ˈtɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: mantillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mantilla (“large veil; small cape”), from manta (“blanket, cloth, cloth banner”) + -illa (diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: [M]y eyes were oft times [on the] charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.
ref: 1836 July, “London Fashionable Chit-Chat”, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c. (Improved Series. Enlarged.), volume IX, London: Dobbs & Co., Hemlock Court, Carey Street, Lincolns Inn (Formerly at 112, Fetter Lane), →OCLC, page 73:
text: Still the mantilla preserved its sway; it had taken a fast hold of the affections of all classes of the feminine gender; and there is now as much chance of driving roast-beef from our shores as there is of transporting black mantillas. […] no squire's lady, no duke's duchess, no countess, and no queen, can or need, in these days of mantillas, be without one of these coverlids for the shoulders, these hiders of all deformities, and these friends to all ages and proportions. For there are mantillas from seven shillings to seven pounds,—of all sizes and shapes, with or without fringe, lace, tassels, and other ornaments.
ref: 1842 August, “Rushings; or British Popular Vagaries”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume XXVI, number CLII, London: G. W. Nickisson, 215 Regent Street, (Successor to the late James Fraser), →OCLC, page 223:
text: Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat. […] Black lace shawls and mantillas will always be in the best taste—the Spanish origin of the Empress Eugénie, having given her a penchant for these articles, the national mantilla of her country, of which we have borrowed the name.
ref: 1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578:
glosses: A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
examples: text: The Duchess of Alba wrapped herself in a mantilla coat, asked her guest to take a chair in the middle of the patio and placed herself three steps behind him in the shade of a magnolia.
ref: 1980 October, New Writing and Writers, volume 18, London: John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.
Related terms: mandil
mandylion
nerdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜː(ɹ)di/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: nerdier
form: nerdiest
Etymology: From nerd + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That guy is nerdy and weird.
glosses: Being or like a nerd.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: That is a nerdy song.
text: I got a pair of nerdy glasses and clothes for Halloween.
text: The cleverest and most prolific inventors, such as Reiner Knizia (who lives in England) are nerdy superstars. Euro (also “German-style”) games must not be confused with “Ameritrash” games, which generally involve high drama and employ plastic pieces, though arguing over what the difference is seems to be gamers' second-favourite pastime.
ref: 2008 August 28, “German recreation: An affinity for rules?”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2021:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, in the style of, or appealing to nerds.
raw_tags: of a quality or interest
Synonyms: sense: like a nerd
word: nerdish
Derived terms: nerdily
nerdiness
semi-nerdy
supernerdy
ubernerdy
ultranerdy
Related terms: geeky
hologram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈhɑləˌɡɹæm/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈhɑləˌɡɹɛəm]
ipa: /ˈhɔləɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈhɒləɡɹɛm/
ipa: [ˈhɔ̟ləɡɹɛm]
Forms: form: holograms
form: hologramme
Etymology: From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γραμμή (grammḗ, “letter, line”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.
Senses: examples: text: He turned his head and stared out to sea, longing for the hologram logo of Fuji Electric, for the drone of a helicopter, anything at all.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 233:
synonyms: holograph
glosses: A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
Derived terms: hologramize
hologramlike
hologrammic
ID hologram
Related terms: holograph
holography
holon
light field
mediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiːdiˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmidiˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmiːdiˈæɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mediations
Etymology: From Late Latin mediātiō (perhaps via Middle French mediation/mediacion) from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”).
Senses: glosses: Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
glosses: The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
glosses: Heritage interpretation.
Derived terms: cybermediation
hypermediation
mediational
telemediation
transmediation
Related terms: mediate
mediator
mid
arbitration
purdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
homophone: Purdey
Forms: form: purdier
form: purdiest
form: purty
Etymology: Corruption of pretty, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States.
Senses: examples: text: Yes sirree, you're the purdiest li'l thing I ever did see.
text: Why, you got a purdy mouth boy.
qualifier: like Southern US and Appalachia
glosses: pretty.
glurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒi
Forms: form: glurgier
form: glurgiest
Etymology: From glurge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of glurge; sickeningly sweet.
fantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænˈtæstɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /fəɳˈʈastɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfanʈasʈɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: fantastics
form: fantastick
form: phantastick
form: phantastic
form: phantastique
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós, “imaginary, fantastic; fictional”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Equivalent to fantasy + -tic. Doublet of fantastique.
Senses: glosses: A fanciful or whimsical person.
wonderful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/
ipa: /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/
Forms: form: wonderfool
form: woonderful
form: wonderfull
form: wondreful
form: wondrefull
form: 1drfl
Etymology: From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull, equivalent to wonder + -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”). Compare Old English wuldorfull (“glorious”).
Senses: examples: text: […] wherein they were no sooner entered, but they saw that it was wonderful dark, and it seemed unto them that it should be a very large hall, and there they heard very fearful howlings, as though there had been a legion of hell-hounds […]
ref: 1808, Richard Johnson, The famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, page 267:
text: It was wonderful stormy weather that night, and it so befell that there was sailing by the Jutland coast a little north of the east mouth of the Limfirth a man of Iceland bound south […]
ref: 1926, Eric Rücker Eddison, Styrbiorn the Strong, page 196:
synonyms: wonderfully
wondrously
glosses: Exceedingly, to a great extent.
extensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extensible
form: most extensible
Senses: glosses: Capable of being extended.
Synonyms: extendible
extendable
Derived terms: extensibleness
hyperextensible
unextensible
Related terms: extensibility
shortenable
reticence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛtɪs(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈɹɛtəs(ə)ns/
ipa: /-ɾə-/
Forms: form: reticences
form: reticencing
form: reticenced
form: reticenced
form: reticense
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Middle French réticence (“act of keeping silent, silence; reserve; aposiopesis”) (modern French réticence (“tight-lippedness, reticence”)), or derived from its etymon Latin reticentia (“act of keeping silent, silence; aposiopesis”), from reticēns (“keeping silent, reticent, silent; keeping secret, concealing”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Reticēns is the present active participle of reticeō (“to keep silent; to keep secret, conceal”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + taceō (“to be silent, keep quiet”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tak- or *tHk-). The English word is cognate with Italian reticenza (“reticence”), Portuguese reticência, Spanish reticencia (“reticence; reluctance”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.
ref: 1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:
text: It was because he didn't think he'd be recognized that he so ostentatiously lay in ambush—lost and shrouded, a burrowed lay-low, a smoke screen, anonymous, covert, sequestered, disguised and reticenced and secluded, an inference, a stowaway.
ref: 1985, Stanley Elkin, Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, page 135:
text: [I]n the future, as we give these programs more and more direct control as we lose some of the general, reticenced fear of relying on computational technology, more and more of these errors—and more and more serious errors are going to occur
ref: 1990, Intelligent Systems: A Framework for the Future: […], Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association, published 1991, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Aslant mocha—steam swirling, / Daylight searing the blinds / You reticenced that spiky truth: / A rival gorilla in the mists / And I gulped as a giddy spring magic / Turned to something aping madness; [...]
ref: 1996, Michael Carter, “Pyrite Island”, in Broken Noses and Metempsychoses (Gathering of the Tribes; 8), New York, N.Y.: A Gathering of the Tribes/Fly By Night Press, →ISBN, page 10:
synonyms: pass over
glosses: To deliberately not listen or pay attention to; to disregard, to ignore.
taciturnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taciturnities
Etymology: From Middle English taciturnite, or alternatively from taciturn + -ity; both ultimately from Latin taciturnitās.
Senses: examples: text: Humphries broke out more freely into speech than he had done before, for his usual characteristic was that of taciturnity.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter VI, page 69:
text: Gernois’ cordiality was short-lived. No sooner had they ridden out of sight of Captain Gerard and his men than he lapsed once more into his accustomed taciturnity.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 78:
text: "[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: Once he is back on the bench, will Justice Thomas revert to his usual taciturnity?
ref: 2021 May 3, Adam Liptak, “Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The trait of being taciturn.
topics: law
glosses: Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.
microcline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microclines
Etymology: From micro- (“small”) + -cline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic rocks, made of potassium aluminum silicate, with the chemical formula KAlSi₃O₈.
Hyponyms: amazonstone
amazonstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amazonstones
Etymology: From Amazon + stone, after the Amazon river.
Senses: glosses: A bluish-green variety of microcline feldspar used as a gemstone. The best known occurrences are at Crystal Peak and Pike's Peak in Colorado.
Synonyms: word: amazonite
jalousie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʒalʊziː/
ipa: /ʒalʊˈziː/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæləsiː/
Forms: form: jalousies
Etymology: Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.
Senses: topics: architecture
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A component in a ventilation system.
examples: text: A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
text: Nowhere the glitter of a glass casement; Venetian blinds, jalousies, closed every window, and rooms projected in all directions to catch the luxury of a through-draft of air.
ref: 2014, Kate Pullinger, The Last Time I Saw Jane:
glosses: Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
glosses: A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.
Derived terms: jalousied
Related terms: blind
curtain
caisson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.sən/
ipa: /kəˈsuːn/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.sɑn/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.sən/
rhymes: -eɪsən
rhymes: (US) -eɪsɑn
Forms: form: caissons
Etymology: Borrowed from French caisson. Doublet of cassone and cajón.
Senses: examples: text: During the construction of the viaduct, the sinking of the caissons in the river bed caused much difficulty to the engineer and contractors, as a bed of running sand was encountered; in consequence, the expenditure for these foundations proved almost prohibitive.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
text: Caissons were enclosed dry chambers built on river beds to facilitate the construction of bridge piers.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 213:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
glosses: The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
examples: text: Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
ref: 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A large box to hold ammunition.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
topics: architecture
glosses: A coffer.
Coordinate terms: cofferdam
a similar temporary structure
Derived terms: caisson disease
U-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-boats
Etymology: Calque of German U-Boot.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Any German submarine of the First or Second World War, or any Austro-Hungarian submarine of the First World War.
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: A narrow utility cart with tall handles on both ends that is used to carry loads of retail products to be sold, so named because its shape is roughly that of a capital U.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Nickname given to the General Electric Universal Series diesel-electric locomotives.
bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: bingos
form: Bingo
Etymology: Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
Senses: examples: text: He plays bingo with his family on Saturdays.
glosses: A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
examples: animal bingo (animal pictures), ABBA bingo (titles or lyrics of ABBA songs), buzzword bingo
glosses: A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance
examples: text: There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.
glosses: A win in such a game.
topics: Scrabble
board-games
games
glosses: A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
examples: text: An explosion of gay male movies has hit the U.S. in the past few months. Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Parting Glances and My Beautiful Laundrette, among others, have not only demonstrateed that the coming out story can be surpassed, they've also shown the movie industry that substantive gay portrayals can mean box office bingo.
ref: 1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Great, sudden, typically hard-to-predict success; the jackpot.
Synonyms: sense: game of chance
word: housey-housey
sense: game of chance
word: lotto
Derived terms: bingo bango bongo
bingo caller
bingo card
Bingogate
bingo hall
bingolike
bingo wings
bingpot
bullshit bingo
buzzword bingo
chicken bingo
cow bingo
screeno
bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: Bingo
Etymology: Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
Senses: glosses: Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
examples: text: ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:
text: Just have to pick the bfast, lunch and dinner I feel most like eating today and – bingo!
ref: 2009 February 28, Megan Ogilvie, “Flex your plan for healthier eating”, in Toronto Star:
text: Megamind: Boingo!
Minion: I think you mean "bingo", sir.
Megamind: That's what I said. Boingo!
ref: 2011 February 25, Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons, 7:35 from the start, in Simon J. Smith, director, Megamind: The Button of Doom (DVD/Blu-ray), Paramount Pictures:
glosses: Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
glosses: Used to enthusiastically confirm or validate another speaker's point.
Synonyms: sense: used in bingo to claim a win
word: house!
sense: when finding something
word: aha!
sense: when finding something
word: eureka!
sense: when finding something
word: got it!
sense: when finding something
word: that's it!
sense: when finding something
word: yes!
bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: Bingo
Etymology: Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
Senses: examples: text: Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai […]
ref: 1993, Red River Valley Fighter Pilots, page 40:
text: The first pilot to get down to this bingo fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, bingo fuel,” or whatever.
ref: 2012, Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot, page 54:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
raw_tags: of fuel
bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: bingos
form: bingoing
form: bingoed
form: bingoed
form: Bingo
Etymology: Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
Senses: glosses: To play the game of bingo.
glosses: To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
examples: text: With IN on the board, he bingoed with OPERATING for 74 points, while Ann added the CO in front of it for 30 points.
ref: 2009, Joe Edley, John Williams, Everything Scrabble: Third Edition, page 333:
glosses: To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To return to base.
Related terms: english: 1
translation: 1
word: Kelly's eye
english: 5
translation: 5
word: man alive
english: 7
translation: 7
word: lucky for some
word: Maggie's den
word: Major's den
english: 10; in the UK, referring to the Number 10, Downing Street, the prime minister's residence
translation: 10; in the UK, referring to the Number 10, Downing Street, the prime minister's residence
word: Tony's den
english: 8
translation: 8
word: one fat lady
english: 9
translation: 9
word: doctor's orders
english: 11
translation: 11
word: legs eleven
word: unlucky for some
english: followed by the number: any single-digit number
translation: followed by the number: any single-digit number
word: on its own
english: 16
translation: 16
word: sweet sixteen
word: key of the door
english: 21; both forms seem to exist
translation: 21; both forms seem to exist
word: key to the door
english: 22
translation: 22
word: two little ducks
english: 23
translation: 23
word: thee and me
english: 30
translation: 30
word: dirty Gertie
english: 37
translation: 37
word: more than eleven
english: 45
translation: 45
word: halfway there
english: 51
translation: 51
word: tweak of the thumb
english: 59
translation: 59
word: Brighton line
english: 64
translation: 64
word: red raw
english: 66
translation: 66
word: clickety-click
english: 71
translation: 71
word: bang on the drum
english: 76
translation: 76
word: trombones
english: 79
translation: 79
word: one more time
english: 81
translation: 81
word: stop and run
english: 86
translation: 86
word: between the sticks
english: 88
translation: 88
word: two fat ladies
english: 90
translation: 90
word: top of the shop
bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Etymology: Perhaps related to stingo.
Senses: glosses: Brandy.
granite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.aɪt/
rhymes: -ænɪt
Forms: form: granites
Etymology: From French granit (“granite”), from Italian granito (“granite”), from granire (“to granulate”), from grano (“grain”), from Latin grānum (“grain”). Compare granita.
Senses: examples: text: Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe.
ref: 2022 February 21, Tami Luhby, “Headstone makers struggle to serve grieving families as supply chain woes continue”, in CNN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
examples: text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.
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: Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
Hyponyms: sense: rock
word: syenite
Derived terms: bite on granite
cumulogranite
granite blue
Granite City
Granite County
Granite Falls
granitelike
granite poison
Graniteville
graniteware
granitic
granitical
granitification
granitiform
granitisation
granitise
granitite
granitization
granitize
granitized
granitoid
granodiorite
granolith
leucogranite
microgranite
monzogranite
pregranitic
take for granite
Related terms: pegmatite
feldspar
quartz
granodiorite
stonefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonefishes
form: stonefish
form: stone fish
form: stone-fish
Etymology: From stone + fish.
Senses: glosses: A venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock, of the genus Synanceia, found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Derived terms: estuary stonefish
Synanceia horrida
reef stonefish
Synanceia verrucosa
ACLU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Becoming up in arms against the ACLU and others who are PCing Christmas really will amount to nothing in the end.
ref: 2005, Matthew Coker, Explanations 2005, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 272:
text: Now liberal cultural power has increased, the ACLU doesn’t seem very interested in the liberties of non-progressives anymore, and Dr. Seuss sells as pricey samizdat.
ref: 2021 March 7, Ross Douthat, “Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2021:
glosses: Initialism of American Civil Liberties Union.
UEFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juˈeɪfə/
Forms: form: Uefa
Senses: examples: text: Having won the UEFA Champions League title in May – the premier club competition in European soccer – PSG now has the chance to crown an excellent 12 months by becoming world champion.
ref: 2025 July 10, Ben Morse, “FIFA Club World Cup final set after PSG thrashes Real Madrid 4-0”, in CNN:
glosses: Acronym of Union of European Football Associations.
Derived terms: UEFAlona
w/e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w/es
Senses: glosses: Initialism of week ending.
examples: text: For Qishan, Meinong and Foguangshan you’re best off catching a bus outside Kaohsiung Zuoying HSR Station/Zuoying KMRT Station. From there Freeway Bus #10 is the quickest and cheapest service to Qishan (departs every 20mins on w/days 🕘 06.30-23.00 Mon-Fri, less frequent at w/ends; takes 40mins; NTD50).
ref: [2014, Steven Crook, “Kaohsiung and Pingtung”, in Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 246:
glosses: Abbreviation of weekend.
w/e
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: - Did you hear about what happened to John yesterday?
- w/e, I don't care.
glosses: Abbreviation of whatever.
w/e
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of whatever.
w/e
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of whenever.
Related terms: whatever and whatevs
w/i
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: synonyms: w/in
glosses: Abbreviation of within.
glosses: Initialism of with intent.
Related terms: w/
w/o
pegmatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɡmətaɪt/
Forms: form: pegmatites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to attach, join”) + -ite
Senses: glosses: A coarsely crystalline igneous or plutonic rock composed primarily of feldspar and quartz, normally with muscovite and/or biotite mica.
Derived terms: micropegmatite
pegmatitic
pegmatize
pegmatoid
Related terms: feldspar
granite
quartz
supra
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suprā.
Senses: topics: law
antonyms: infra
glosses: Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.
examples: text: Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
ref: 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
glosses: Above, mentioned earlier in a text.
Related terms: vide supra
super-
supra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supras
Senses: examples: text: This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras.
ref: 2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Clipping of supranational.
supra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supras
Etymology: From Georgian სუფრა (supra).
Senses: examples: text: When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality.
ref: 2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125:
text: We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated.
ref: 2011, Paul Manning, Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City”, in Tsypylma Darieva et al., editors, Urban Spaces after Socialism, 279:
text: The supra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost^([sic]) attention.
ref: 2013, Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, chapter i, 14:
glosses: A traditional Georgian feast.
infra
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Discussed later.
Derived terms: infra dig
Related terms: vide infra
infra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fɹə/
Forms: form: infras
Senses: examples: text: However, as the nations 70% is^([sic]) covered with mountains, gathering of the meteorological information of particular regions (mountains, canyons, islands etc) by wired transmission system is difficult and it costs a lot of money. This is one of the obstacles of the construction of an infra for the prevention of disasters caused by meteorological changes.
ref: 2005, Kyung-Bae Chang et al., “Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Using the Wireless Network”, in Rajiv Khosla, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 861:
text: In this paper we focus on the context of infra construction and development – the problem being: lack of relevant tools for management of BIM [building information modelling] implementation actions.
ref: 2012, T. Mäkeläinen, J. Hyvärinen, J. Peura, “BIM practices and challenges framed – an approach to systemic change management”, in Gudni Gudnason, Raimar Scherer, editors, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 498:
text: Technologies in cloud computing have become mature in the infra systems and cloud server-level service providers, which have kept the infra system technologies as the data centers, server clusters, virtualization, service providers by extending services of Private Cloud.
ref: 2014, Yoojin Lim, Eunmi Choi, “Mobile Cloud Computing Architectural Design Taxonomy toward the ‘Cloud Computing in Hand’ Era”, in Young-Sik Jeong et al., editors, Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 519:
text: (Last year Zuckerberg announced a new engineering slogan: “Move fast with stable infra,” using the hacker shorthand for the infrastructure that keeps the site running.)
ref: 2015 April 2, James Somers, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review:
topics: civil-engineering
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of infrastructure.
meatspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat space
form: meat-space
Etymology: Compound of meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh.
Senses: examples: text: In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.
ref: 1998, Josephine Berry, “What is to be screened – Net utopians and their discontents”, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, number 0, pages 66–73:
text: The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
ref: 2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch:
synonyms: fleshspace
;
IRL
offline
real life
antonyms: cyberspace
glosses: The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
begrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begrips
form: begripping
form: begripped
form: begripped
Etymology: From be- + grip. Compare begripe.
Senses: examples: text: Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]
ref: 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:
text: They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.
ref: 1913, Archibald Allan, Space and personality:
text: Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]
ref: 1913, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness:
text: A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]
ref: 2002, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals:
text: He came to be known as Peritus because he seemed expert at every task he begripped him.
ref: 2012, Wilyem Clark, Steadfast:
glosses: To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.
Synonyms: clasp
clutch
grasp
calcareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more calcareous
form: most calcareous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), derived from calx (“lime”). Similar to calcium.
Senses: examples: text: The traveller from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments[.]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 15:
text: Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
ref: 1957, Sidney Frederic Harmer, The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition, page 1106:
text: Instead, the spoil will be used in part to create 127 hectares of new calcareous grassland (alkaline grassland), woodland, wood pasture, and wetland habitats.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: Resembling or containing calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in a chalky habitat.
Derived terms: calcareously
calcareousness
calcareous sponge
noncalcareous
semicalcareous
subcalcareous
uncalcareous
Related terms: calciferous
dipteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Diptera + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having two wings only.
glosses: Belonging to the order of insects Diptera.
glosses: Having a double row of columns on each of the flanks, as well as in front and rear, often said of a temple.
Derived terms: pseudodipteral
biphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + phasic.
Senses: glosses: Having two phases.
Derived terms: biphasically
biphasicity
biphasic sleep
pseudobiphasic
Related terms: biphase
diptych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪptɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: diptychs
Etymology: From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).
Senses: glosses: A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A catalogue of saints.
glosses: Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates.
glosses: A novel published in two volumes forming one continuous story (as opposed to a duology or dilogy).
examples: text: A very simple narrative, a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ […] first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus.
ref: 1942, François Closset, “Review of Bejegegning van Christus by G. Walschap”, in Books Abroad, volume 16, number 2, →JSTOR, page 202:
glosses: A literary work consisting of two contrasting parts, such as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view.
examples: text: “Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert” is the first volume of a diptych “Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert,” for which Ira L. Wiggins is to write the companion volume on the flora.
ref: 1954, Frank E. Egler, “Forrest Shreve and the Sonoran Desert”, in Geographical Review, volume 44, number 1, →JSTOR, page 138:
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Any work made up of two parts treating complementary or contrasting aspects of one general topic.
Hypernyms: topics: art
arts
word: polyptych
Related terms: triptych
hyalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyalins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyaline.
Derived terms: hyalinise
hyalinization
keratohyalin