cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gesith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesiths
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþ (“companion, fellow, comrade; companion or follower of an athel or king”), from Proto-West Germanic *gasinþ, from Proto-Germanic *gasinþô.
Senses: examples: text: Beowulf the son of the noble Ecgtheow became the gesith of King Hygelac, and, when he rose to be a chieftain, had lands, treasures, and gesiths of his own [...]
ref: 1903, William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England in its origin and development:
text: The gesith took him and had his wounds attended to.
ref: 1999, Saint Bede (the Venerable), Judith McClure, Roger Collins, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People:
text: "Now comes before you Luisan the Fat of Littlewood, who stands accused of murder," announced Heldric, gesith of Lord Ossaric's liegemen and most experienced in the ways of the court.
ref: 2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade
Related terms: gesithcund
gesithcundman
gesithman
neo-McCarthyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + McCarthyism.
Senses: glosses: political policies or ideology seen as a resurgence or continuation of McCarthyism after its heyday in the 1950s
ritratto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritrattos
form: ritrattoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritratto. Doublet of retract, retrait, and retreat.
Senses: examples: text: Here are the Ritrattoes of the Family; amongst others some by Titian, Giorgion, &c […]
ref: 1722, Jonathan Richardson, An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, &c, page 344:
text: A little beyond this Vestibule […] is what they call the Painter's Chamber, fill'd from Top to Bottom, with the Ritrattos of all the most famous Men in that Art […]
ref: 1738, John Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, page 147:
text: ——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
glosses: A picture; a portrait.
bassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basso
inexplorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexplorable
form: most inexplorable
Etymology: From in- + explorable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be explored or discovered; inscrutable or unfathomable
pantisocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpæntaɪˈsɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: pantisocracies
form: pantisocrasy
form: Pantisocracy
Etymology: From pant(o)- (“all-”) + isocracy.
Senses: examples: text: We preached Pantisocracy and Aspheterism everywhere. These, Tom, are two new words, the first signifying the equal government of all, and the other the generalisation of individual property; words well understood in the city of Bristol.
ref: Robert Southey ([1849?]), chapter III, in Charles Cuthbert Southey, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 75
english: The date of the letter is from Robert Southey ([1849?]), chapter III, in Charles Cuthbert Southey, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 75.
translation: The date of the letter is from Robert Southey ([1849?]), chapter III, in Charles Cuthbert Southey, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 75.
text: Coleridge, too, had left Cambridge and was at Bristol, drawn thither by his newly formed friendship with Southey, lecturing, writing, dreaming of his ideal Pantisocracy on the banks of the Susquehannah and love-making.
ref: 1883, Anne Gilchrist, Mary Lamb:
text: "Aspheterism," then, the belief that only an abolition of private property would bring about the desired moral transformation, lies at the very heart of Pantisocracy. [Robert] Southey and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge believed that once people returned to sharing a "common ground," they would no longer feel envy or a need to compete. […] But "aspheterism" was not the only milestone on their path to universal philanthropy; it was accompanied by ideas about improving everyday interpersonal behaviour.
ref: 2016, Björn Bosserhoff, “Almost Susquehanna”, in Radical Contra-Diction: Coleridge, Revolution, Apostasy, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Catching Fire: A Politico-biographical Account, 1792–96), page 64:
glosses: A utopian social system in which every member participates equally in government.
Derived terms: pantisocratic
jumar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumars
form: jümar
Etymology: From the name of the Swiss firm Jümar Pangit which manufactured it, in turn from the surnames of Adolf Jüsy and Walter Marti.
Senses: examples: text: Jacob handed her the ATC belay device and jumar.
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 552:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A device, used to clip on a rope, that tightens when weight is applied, thus allowing the rope to be climbed.
jumar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumars
form: jumaring
form: jumarring
form: jumared
form: jumared
form: jumarred
form: jumarred
form: jümar
Etymology: From the name of the Swiss firm Jümar Pangit which manufactured it, in turn from the surnames of Adolf Jüsy and Walter Marti.
Senses: glosses: To climb using this device.
jumar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumart.
never change a running system
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the field of computing, likely from German never change a running system.
Senses: examples: text: That is, applying a specialised new policy to only improve a temporary capacity extension may be unsuitable (“Never change a running system!”).
ref: 2007, Xing Zhou, Thomas Dreibholz, Erwin P. Rathgeb, “Improving the Load Balancing Performance of Reliable Server Pooling in Heterogeneous Capacity Environments”, in Serge Fdida, Kazunori Sugiura, editors, Sustainable Internet: Third Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2007 […], →ISBN, page 126:
text: This is the weakest point of the current practice: the deployment of complex systems on a heterogeneous, distributed platform is typically a nightmare, the required system-level testing is virtually unsupported, and maintenance and upgrading very often turn out to be extremely time consuming and expensive, de facto responsible for the slogan “never change a running system”.
ref: 2012, Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen, “Service-Orientation: Conquering Complexity with XMDD”, in Mike Hinchey, Lorcan Coyle, editors, Conquering Complexity, →ISBN, page 224:
text: “Never change a running system” is a widely used statement in software development, and it is also applicable when you consider moving your application to the cloud.
ref: 2019, Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Peter Jausovec, Cloud Native: Using Containers, Functions, and Data to Build Next-Generation Applications, →ISBN:
text: It’s not a coincidence that the following saying offers insight into the CIOs’ minds: ‘Never change a running system.’ However, just keeping the lights on seems to prevent innovation.
ref: 2021, Andreas Graesser, Escape the Change Dilemma: Transformation to a Smart Data-Driven World, →ISBN:
glosses: Do not change something while it is working (because there is a risk of breaking it).
Synonyms: if it ain't broke, don't fix it
leave well enough alone
pantisocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantisocracy
never-never land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Morocco is the never-never land of Africa. Captious readers of the war news may, in their comfortable zeal, think the term applicable to other regions of ...
ref: 1863, George Smith with William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine, volume 9, page 75:
text: Exit light / Enter night / Take my hand / We're off to never-never land
ref: 1991 July 29, “Enter Sandman”, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich (music), performed by Metallica:
glosses: A fantastic or imaginary place.
Related terms: la-la land
newsfroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsfroups
Etymology: From a typographical error for newsgroup.
Senses: glosses: A newsgroup.
Derived terms: froup
niblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪblət/
Forms: form: niblets
Etymology: From nib + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Jerry Seinfeld: She eats her peas one at a time.[…]I've seen her eat Corn Niblets. But she scooped them.
ref: 1995 September 21, Larry David, “The Engagement”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 1, National Broadcasting Company:
text: “Oh, look at those perfect little toes, so plump, like little niblets. Like little corn niblets.” “Maize.” “That's right, honey. Hot damn it, those things are beautiful! Gimme gimme gimme. Gimme just a little. Gimme just a -- Mmm.” “Ugh.”
ref: 2006 October 8, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Showdown at Cremation Creek, Part 1” (19:08 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 2, episode 11, spoken by Sergeant Hatred (Brendon Small):
glosses: A kernel of corn, usually from a can.
examples: text: niblets of nuts
text: niblets of information
text: niblets of bone
text: Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.
ref: 2018 June 13, Michael Schein, “Author Simon Sinek Is Full Of Hot Air (And Other Reasons You Should Follow His Lead)”, in Forbes:
glosses: A small piece of something, especially of snack food.
Nica
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spanish nica.
Senses: glosses: Nicaraguan.
Nica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicas
Etymology: From Spanish nica.
Senses: examples: text: I got drunk with three Sandinista soldiers in a small town less than 10 miles from the Honduran border. I found it relatively easy to connect with gay Nicas in Managua.
ref: 1985 April 6, Ruben Jara, “Nica: Smiles and Revolution”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: A Nicaraguan.
Nixon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪk.sɪn/
ipa: /ˈnɪk.sən/
rhymes: -ɪksɪn
Forms: form: Nickson
form: Nixson
Etymology: From Nick + -son, an alteration of Nickson, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Nicholas".
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name.
Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States of America
glosses: A township in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States, named after early settlers George, William and Morris Nixon.
glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States, named in honor of George S. Nixon, Nevada senator.
Derived terms: it took Nixon to go to China
Nixonesque
Nixonette
Nixon goes to China
Nixonian
Nixoniana
Nixon in China
Nixonism
Nixonite
Nixonomics
Nixon shock
Nixon to China
only Nixon can go to China
only Nixon could go to China
Related terms: Dixon
Jaxon
Nicholas
Nick
Nicks
-son
son
Nixon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪk.sɪn/
ipa: /ˈnɪk.sən/
rhymes: -ɪksɪn
Forms: form: Nickson
form: Nixson
Etymology: From Nick + -son, an alteration of Nickson, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Nicholas".
Senses: qualifier: narcotics
glosses: A drug of low quality and low potency passed off as a powerful, pure drug.
economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We need to make economies.
glosses: plural of economy
non-science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-sciences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonscience.
nosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑʃ/
ipa: /nɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: noshes
Etymology: From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
Senses: glosses: Food.
glosses: A light meal or snack.
glosses: Fellatio.
Derived terms: topics: food
lifestyle
english: restaurant
translation: restaurant
word: noshery
topics: food
lifestyle
word: nosh-up
topics: food
lifestyle
word: posh nosh
nosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑʃ/
ipa: /nɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: noshes
form: noshing
form: noshed
form: noshed
Etymology: From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
Senses: examples: text: They were noshing on fruit.
glosses: To eat a snack or light meal.
glosses: To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
Related terms: sense: to eat
english: meal; feast
translation: meal; feast
word: nosh up
sense: to eat
word: nosher
word: nosh off
nosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑʃ/
ipa: /nɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Etymology: Abbrevation of no shit.
Senses: synonyms: no shit
no shit, Sherlock
glosses: An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.
no shit, Sherlock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: NSS
Etymology: A reference to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, suggesting that the interlocutor has just made an obvious deduction, which they see as a great one.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: no shit, you don't say, you think
text: "No shit, Sherlock. Take another look, see how they come to be bent."
ref: 1976, Emmett Grogan, Final Score, page 264:
text: My copilot uttered, "I think we are headed for the bridge." No shit, Sherlock.
ref: 2006, Barry Morgan, Never Tell Them You're Dying, page 127:
text: I also find it a little bizarre that, in 2019, we are still seeing reports with names like “Rise of the SHEconomy” which point out that investing in female-focussed brands is probably a good idea. No SHEeet Sherlock!
ref: 2019 August 31, Arwa Mahdawi, “All the single ladies have been an economic force for a long time – marketers are just noticing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The latest line of heat records has been met with a response that climate scientists have made many times before. They say to stop records from tumbling the world needs to stop burning coal, oil, and natural gas. "It's a, 'No shit Sherlock,' moment," Dr Perkins Kirkpatrick said.
ref: 2024 June 5, Tyne Logan, Tom Saunders, “As 12 months of record heat stack up, scientists unpack the impacts around the globe”, in ABC News (Australia):
glosses: A retort to someone who has just said something obvious.
Related terms: Captain Obvious
does a bear shit in the woods?
duh
fork found in kitchen
is the Pope Catholic?
more at eleven
film at 11
no shit
people sit on chairs
water is wet
what was your first clue?
watchhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchhouses
Etymology: From watch + house.
Senses: glosses: A small prison attached to a police station, usually used on a temporary basis.
one man and a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: The Guardian newspaper http://society.guardian.co.uk/publicvoices/story/0,,670358,00.html
I came to Winchester, first as a summer volunteer digger, working for £2 a week and my keep, so I think I'm quite well paid now. Then I became part of the rescue archaeology service, which was one man and a dog - I was the dog.
glosses: Alternative form of one man and his dog.
OOAK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOAKs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one of a kind; widely used on the Internet by artists who make original items such as jewelry, dolls, weapons, art, clothing and other collectibles.
open problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open problems
Senses: topics: sciences
synonyms: open question
glosses: A problem that has been posed in a field of study such as mathematics or theoretical computer science, but whose answer is not yet known.
outbye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English outby, outbi, equivalent to out (adverb) + by (adverb).
Senses: examples: text: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
ref: 1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17:
topics: business
mining
glosses: In the direction away from the coal face.
glosses: A short distance away.
glosses: Outside.
Related terms: inbye
aside from
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: excluding; with the exception of
glosses: in addition to
Synonyms: apart from
Packer whacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Packer whackers
Etymology: The name came about when Kerry Packer, a wealthy Australian media mogul, was resuscitated with a defibrillator in 1990 in Sydney after suffering a heart attack.
After recovering, Packer donated a large sum to the New South Wales Ambulance Service in order to fit all of its ambulances with portable defibrillators.
Senses: examples: text: 2006, Taking heart, The Bulletin, Issues 6502-6509, page not known,
Every NSW ambulance now carries the ultimate heart-starter, the Packer Whacker, thanks to a polo field drama and one man′s generosity.
text: It was no wonder the shipping insustry in Australia was flatlining under the Labor Party. You could not resuscitate the Australian shipping industry with a Packer whacker under Labor.
ref: 2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, volume 279, page 131:
text: 2009, Paul Barry, Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?: The James Packer Story, Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition, page 285,
On this occasion, however, it was not his portable ‘Packer whacker’, but a device the size of a matchbox implanted in his chest.
glosses: A portable defibrillator.
as to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: As to your earlier question, I don't think I know the answer.
glosses: With reference or regard to.
examples: text: grading as to size and color
glosses: According to; in a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion.
Synonyms: sense: with regard to
word: as for
word: concerning
word: regarding
sense: according to
word: by
Related terms: about
so as to
Panzaism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A term used by the author Robert Sheckley in his work Mindswap (1966).
Senses: synonyms: Sancho Panzaism
coordinate_terms: quixotism
glosses: The act or habit of seeing or regarding the most extraordinary things as ordinary and rational.
parcellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcellations
Etymology: From parcel + -ation.
Senses: glosses: division into parcels; especially the dividing up of a large amount of land between the inhabitants of it so that each person receives an equal amount of land.
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
qualifier: medical imaging
glosses: A map or annotation associating spatial locations (e.g., voxels) with parcel identities (e.g., anatomically or functionally circumscribed regions); the map or annotation that results from or delineates the results of parcellation (sense 1)
Parthenos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden”).
Senses: glosses: An epithet of various Greek goddesses, most commonly Athena.
Related terms: Parthenon
pencil whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pencil whips
form: pencil whipping
form: pencil whipped
form: pencil whipped
Senses: glosses: To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved.
examples: text: Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year.
text: So, if you pencil-whipped that last survey, you've probably shot yourself in the foot, according to Stanley.
ref: 1998, Airman, volume 42, page 26:
text: “Nothing should be 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, because the auditors say you're pencil-whipping it. And truth be known, we do pencil-whip it. We can't add by fifteen because that really puts you in a bind. Add by fourteen. That looks pretty come audit time. […]
ref: 2018, Shane Bauer, American Prison:
glosses: To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence.
Synonyms: english: meaning 1
translation: meaning 1
word: rubber stamp
pentalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentalogies
Etymology: From penta- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.
Derived terms: pentalogy of Fallot
Related terms: dilogy
trilogy
tetralogy
hexalogy
heptalogy
octalogy
ennealogy
decalogy
polylogy (2+)
due to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.
text: The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.
text: Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]
text: The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.
ref: 1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:
text: Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
glosses: Caused by; resulting from; because of.
examples: text: The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due, to.
examples: text: The proof we provide is a nice indirect proof due to Euclid.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a proof) from, written by
Synonyms: caused by
as a consequence of
as a result of
because of
thanks to
on account of
eutaxiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We call it the modern teleological argument, although, in the phraseology of Mr. Hicks, in his " Critique of Design Arguments," it is eutaxiological.
ref: 1844, The Universalist Quarterly and General Review:
text: eutaxiological argument so popular with Newton and his disciples, on the other hand, is logically simpler than the teleological one and hides no linguistic subtleties.
ref: 1988, John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle:
text: This eutaxiological definition of miracles also has the advantage of being consistent with all the findings and postulates of modern science . . .
ref: 2001, Michael Anthony Corey, The God Hypothesis: Discovering Divine Design in Our Goldilocks Universe:
glosses: That asserts that order must have a planned cause
raw_tags: of reasoning
Related terms: teleological
charitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charitablenesses
Etymology: From charitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The reader has seen, that my mother, notwithstanding her charitableness to the poor maid-servant, was a woman of strict morals.
ref: 1840, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries:
glosses: The quality of being charitable.
examples: text: "It is a tradition. We must not be too much down on people who have been denied our own advantages." She spoke with an air of mild remonstrance. Vague charitablenesses were in her manner, and gentle expostulations.
ref: 1904, Richard Pryce, The Successor: a novel, page 232:
text: […] the conventionalities, the decencies, the moral behaviors sought in small group — as loyalties, fidelities, fair plays, courtesies, kindlinesses, truthfulnesses, cooperations, purities, generosities, tolerations, charitablenesses, honesties, and […]
ref: 1930, David Snedden, School educations: sociological sources of values, page 70:
text: But when the service of truth and the public good command, there are certain scruples which are immoral and certain charitablenesses which are dangerous.
ref: 1947, The New Era in Home and School, volume 28, page 66:
glosses: A particular kind or instance of this quality.
Synonyms: charitability
charlatanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charlatanisms
Etymology: From charlatan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It will cure by science and philosophy instead of empiricism, and will deal the deadliest blow to charlatanism.
ref: 1861, Benjamin Ridge, Ourselves, Our Food, and Our Physic:
glosses: The state of being a charlatan
glosses: An act of a charlatan
Synonyms: charlatanerie
charlatanry
quackery
Pinkerton syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋkət(ə)n ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkɚt(ə)n ˈsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkɚt(ə)n ˈsɪndɹəm/
Etymology: In reference to the character Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton in the opera Madama Butterfly (first performed in 1904) by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924).
Senses: examples: text: When I’m with my white partner, I am a proponent of the ‘Pinkerton Syndrome’, a caricature not unlike the Other Asia’s mail order bride.
ref: 1996, Westerly, volume 41, Crawley, Perth, W.A.: Western Australia Westerly Centre, the University of Western Australia, →ISSN, page 70:
text: Like vampires, the ang moh crowd comes out at night, dressed in their best shirts and armed with plenty of tax-free Singapore dollars to woo those local darlings tragically struck down by the Pinkerton syndrome. Like the character in Madame Butterfly, they are somehow lured by the attraction of drunken voices and the possibility of a fat wallet.
ref: 2001, Neil Humphreys, Notes from an Even Smaller Island, Singapore: Times Books International, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The Pinkerton Syndrome, then, seems to me non-operative in American cultural masculinity at the moment. […] Pinkerton's casual imperialist hubris, an expression of first-generation Manifest Destiny complete with brass-buttoned naval uniform, has an official status that lone action heroes as implicitly populist individuals must stay well clear of. No, the condition is really much more suited to Europeans.
ref: 2006, William Beard, “M. Butterfly (1993)”, in The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, rev. and exp. edition, Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 346:
text: The home-wrecking bimbo who had succumbed to the Pinkerton Syndrome had been transformed into a 'bad girl' – a phenomenon not unfamiliar to Asian societies – and recovered for herself an empowered cultural agency.
ref: 2015, Chris Hudson, “Dangerous Sexuality in Singapore: The Sarong Party Girl”, in Adeline Koh, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, editors, Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series; 8), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The tendency of some Asians to regard Caucasians as superior or more desirable, especially where marriage or relationships are concerned.
Related terms: english: usually towards Indians
translation: usually towards Indians
word: Macaulay's children
word: sarong party girl
word: jiak kentang
word: banana
Pinkerton syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋkət(ə)n ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkɚt(ə)n ˈsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkɚt(ə)n ˈsɪndɹəm/
Etymology: Named after Scottish antiquarian, author and historian John Pinkerton (1758–1826), coined by J. Derrick McClure: see 1985 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: [page 57] The language of writers who are safely dead, and can be studied without fear of their exerting a subversive influence, bears the respectable label 'old Scots dialect'; the same tongue spoken by the living compatriots of these writers is 'bad grammar'. […] This attitude is of course not new; though perhaps seldom expressed so blatantly. I call it the Pinkerton syndrome, after one of the many memorable figures in out national gallimaufray of scholarly eccentrics. John Pinkerton (1758–1826), poet, critic, historian, dramatist and Celtophobe, in 1786 produced a book, entitled Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print: […] [H]e wrote: "none can more sincerely wish a total extinction of the Scotish colloquial dialect than I do, for there are few modern Scoticisms which are not barbarisms ... Yet, I believe, no man of either kingdom would wish an extinction of the Scotish dialect in poetry." […] [page 58] This is the Pinkerton syndrome: the practice of paying lip-service, and sometimes much more than this, to the Scottish culture of the past while denigrating the Scots language of the present. And it is still prevalent today.
ref: 1985, J. Derrick McClure, “The Pinkerton Syndrome”, in Chapman: Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine, Edinburgh: Chapman Magazine and Publications, OCLC 55590049, pages 2–8; reprinted in Scots and Its Literature (Varieties of English around the World, General Series; 14), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa., John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 978-90-272-4872-5, pages 57–58
text: James Beattie personifies the Pinkerton syndrome perfectly, for, while publishing lists of Scotticisms to be avoided, he still found time to write the occasional verse in Scots himself.
ref: 1986, Billy Kay, Scots: The Mither Tongue, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Having esteem for older Scottish literature but not the modern Scottish tongue.
flue gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flue gases
form: flue gasses
Senses: examples: Holonym: emissions
related: word: fly ash
glosses: The gaseous combustion product (smoke) that comes out of a stove or a furnace.
desulfurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulfurizations
form: desulphurisation
form: desulphurization
Etymology: From desulfurize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
Derived terms: biodesulfurization
fluorodesulfurization
hydrodesulfurization
technopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛkˈnɒ.pɒ.lɪs/
Forms: form: technopolises
form: technopoleis
Etymology: From techno- (“hi-tech, computerised”) + -polis (“city”).
Senses: glosses: A technologically advanced city, or one heavily involved in mechanised manufacture of goods, especially of microelectronics.
Synonyms: technopole
microelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of microelectronic
microelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: The study, science, subject, or manufacture of microelectronic devices.
glosses: Microelectronic devices as a non-specific mass.
anthropophagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anthropophagi
raw_tags: as the name of a supposed people of man-eaters in ancient ethnography
Etymology: From Latin anthrōpophagī, the plural of anthrōpophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos, “man-eating”). First attested in 1581, as an ethnonym. Use of the singular anthropophagus is rare.
Senses: examples: text: Histories make mention of a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men.
ref: 1581, B. Gilpin, A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich:
text: It was my hent to ſpeake, ſuch was the proceſſe:
And of the Cannibals, that each other eate;
The Anthropophagie, and men whoſe heads
Doe grow beneath their ſhoulders: […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 13:
text: A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi.
ref: 1837, J. D. Lang, An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, I. 386:
glosses: plural of anthropophagus
Derived terms: word: anthropophagous
polearm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊlˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: polearms
form: pole arm
Etymology: From pole + arm. The term is of modern provenance, not appearing until the late 1800s.
Senses: synonyms: pole weapon
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hypernyms: cold weapon
white arm
<
weapon
coordinate_terms: spear
;
sword
knife
;
edged weapon
;
firearm
<
gun
<
ranged weapon
glosses: A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
Derived terms: polearmed
Related terms: battle axe
bill
halberd
microelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + electronic.
Senses: examples: text: A microelectronic circuit makes the pulse and measures the vibration rate.
ref: 2017 October 24, “Water Power”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 1:
glosses: Relating to microelectronics.
Derived terms: microelectronically
microelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microelectronics
Etymology: From micro- + electronic.
Senses: glosses: A microelectronic device.
computerised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computerised
form: most computerised
form: computerized
Senses: examples: text: The individual lexicographer has ceded power to the team, the computerised corpus has come to stand side by side with, if not actually to replace, the readers of earlier research, but what has been termed the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' is still the court of last resort.
ref: 1996, Jonathon Green, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Having undergone computerisation.
glosses: Functioning upon or through the medium of computers; digital.
computerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: computerized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of computerise
technopolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛkˈnɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: examples: text: “Techno” reflects an emphasis on technology; “polis” is Greek for city-state and suggests a balance between public and private sectors. The plural form of the word “polis” is “poleis”; therefore, we use the plural “technopoleis” rather than “technopolises” or “technopoli”.
ref: 1994, David V. Gibson, Everett M. Rogers, R & D Collaboration on Trial: The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, page 179:
glosses: plural of technopolis
audiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiometries
Etymology: From audio- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: The first visit includes pure-tone, speech and immittance audiometry, loudness judgments for pulsed tones, assessment of individuals' motivation toward amplification, counselling . . .
ref: 1997, Henry Tobin, Practical Hearing Aid Selection And Fitting:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quantitative assessment of a person's hearing ability, especially by means of an audiometer.
Related terms: audiometer
audiometric
audiometrist
audiometrician
audiogram
high horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high horses
Senses: examples: text: "I tell you Miss Abbott, it's one thing for England and another for Italy. There we plan and get on high moral horses. here we find what asses we are, for things go off quite easily, all by themselves.
ref: 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 6
text: Lawrence would say no more, so I decided that I would descend from my high horse, and once more seek out Poirot at Leastways Cottage.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144:
glosses: An appearance or sense of smug superiority.
Derived terms: on one's high horse
get off one's high horse
ride the high horse
and the horse you rode in on
Australopithecine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australopithecines
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of australopithecine.
Australopithecine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of australopithecine.
soreness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorenesses
Etymology: From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).
Senses: examples: text: The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.
text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
ref: 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD:
glosses: The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
Derived terms: delayed-onset muscle soreness
sordidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sordidly
form: most sordidly
Etymology: From sordid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sordid manner; in a way that is dirty or morally low.
autoradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: radioautography
glosses: The process of making autoradiographs.
Derived terms: microautoradiography
soundproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soundproof
soundproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundproofings
Senses: examples: text: Until the soundproofing is installed, I don't think I'll be able to get to sleep here.
glosses: Something that prevents sound from traveling through it, such as is put on walls so adjacent areas are not disturbed by noise.
examples: text: The soundproofing will take place today.
glosses: The act of installing material to dampen sound.
autoradiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoradiographs
Senses: topics: sciences
synonyms: autoradiogram
;
radioautograph
radioautogram
coordinate_terms: radiograph
radiogram
glosses: An image produced by placing a film in contact with a specimen containing (or treated with) radioactive material.
Derived terms: autoradiographic
autoradiography
microautoradiograph
autoradiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoradiographs
form: autoradiographing
form: autoradiographed
form: autoradiographed
Senses: glosses: To subject to autoradiography.
autoradiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoradiograms
Etymology: From auto- + radio- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autoradiograph.
synonyms: word: autoradiograph
Derived terms: microautoradiogram
Velachery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Velacheri
Senses: glosses: A residential suburb of Chennai city (Tamil Nadu, India).
autoxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoxidations
Etymology: From auto- + oxidation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spontaneous oxidation reaction that results in the slow, flameless combustion of a material.
Synonyms: autooxidation
autooxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autooxidations
Etymology: From auto- + oxidation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: autoxidation
technopoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛkˈnɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Senses: examples: text: The result of these activities is the emergence of technopoleis where state government, local government, private corporations, universities…
ref: 1988, Antonio Furino, Coöperation and Competition in the Global Economy: Issues and Strategies, page 192:
text: “Techno” reflects an emphasis on technology; “polis” is Greek for city-state and suggests a balance between public and private sectors. The plural form of the word “polis” is “poleis”; therefore, we use the plural “technopoleis” rather than “technopolises” or “technopoli”.
Some technopoleis are the result of long-term planning and varying degrees of public / private collaboration…
Two of the oldest and most famous US technopoleis — Silicon Valley, California, and Route 128, Boston — were not based on long-term planning.
Some technopoleis have benefited from varying degrees of visionary planning and sporadic public / private collaboration, such as Austin, Texas; Troy, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; Cambridge and Oxford, England; and Bangalore, India (see Tatsuno, 1988; Morita and Hiraoka, 1988; Onda, 1988; Segal, 1988; Lafitte, 1988; Bozzo and Gibson, 1990; and Singhal et al., 1990).
ref: 1994, David V. Gibson, Everett M. Rogers, R & D Collaboration on Trial: The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, page 179:
text: Worldwide, there are emerging technopoleis in cities in Japan, India, England, Russia, and France.
ref: 2004, George Kozmetsky et al., New Wealth: Commercialization of Science and Technology for Business and Economic Development, page 153:
glosses: plural of technopolis
peace out
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: See you later.
peace out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peaces out
form: peacing out
form: peaced out
form: peaced out
Senses: examples: text: Lauren was peaced-out in her bedroom, and almost everyone had gone home. I started chilling by the pool with the bartender,
ref: 2007, Dana Vachon, Mergers & Acquisitions, page 154:
text: The suspect ate a light bulb and bit through a man’s neck before peacing out in a stolen taco van.
ref: 2008 October 29, “JELLO spells death for some”, in The Daily Evergreen, WA:
glosses: To become unconscious; to pass out.
examples: text: I cracked him with a stone I'd picked up in the garden. The inscription on the stone read PAZ. The man, peaced out, fell back
ref: 2005, David Terrenoire, Beneath a Panamanian Moon, page 253:
glosses: To render unconscious.
examples: text: And she gets all peaced out and says she feels the presence of the Lord
ref: 1982, Stephen Levine with Ondrea Levine, Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, page 177:
text: After experiencing the totally peaced out acid trance, the first thing that occurred to most users was "Let's dose the President!"
ref: 1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture, page 2 59:
text: "As they say out in Californication" — I try to sound peaced-out like someone from Santa Cruz — "Isabella's way bitching."
ref: 2005, Carter Coleman, Cage's Bend, page 360:
text: consider it some sort of "peaced out utopian higherminded enlightenment"
ref: 2008 April 24, “The light and dark side of DNA”, in MSNBC:
text: "You need a jacket?"
Instead of answering me, she screamed at the barking dogs. "Peace out! Shut the fuck up!" Her shouting made them nuts.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.28
glosses: To experience an altered state of consciousness.
examples: text: I am peacing out of that hellhole. Are you still thinking about leaving?"
ref: 2007, Dan Brown, The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle, page 237:
glosses: To depart.
amortised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 2007: Susie Dent, Countdown, 8ᵗʰ of February episode
Amortised. Amortise is when you write off a debt, so amortised is when a debt’s been written off.
glosses: simple past and past participle of amortise
hanmun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 한문(漢文) (hanmun).
Senses: glosses: Classical Chinese in the Korean context.
redevelopment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redevelopments
Etymology: From re- + development.
Senses: examples: text: the redevelopment of the hero's character in a comic book
glosses: The process of developing something anew.
examples: text: The government of New Zealand is looking for a crew to lead the redevelopment of its research headquarters in Antarctica.
Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.
ref: 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN:
text: HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson added: "This station will not only benefit the local community by enabling the comprehensive redevelopment of the area, but will serve as a transport superhub acting as a gateway to the Midlands and the North."
ref: 2022 March 23, Stefanie Foster, “Updated designs unveiled for HS2's Euston station”, in RAIL, number 953, page 23:
glosses: The demolition of old, redundant or unfashionable buildings or infrastructure and the construction of new ones on the same site.
Renascence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Renaissance.
sourdough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊɚˌdoʊ/
ipa: /ˈsaʊəˌdəʊ/
Forms: form: sourdoughs
form: sour dough
Etymology: From Middle English sour dogh, equivalent to sour + dough, compare German Sauerteig. The senses pertaining to California, Alaska and the Yukon derive from the distinctive pouches of bread starter (starter dough used to make sourdough) worn on a belt or around the neck by experienced prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush and California Gold Rush.
Senses: synonyms: sourdough bread
glosses: A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste.
examples: text: The troops went for those fresh tomatoes like sourdoughs going for gold in the Klondike.
ref: 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 80
glosses: An old-timer, especially in Alaska.
antonyms: cheechako
glosses: A permanent resident of the territory. Someone who has lived in the Yukon during all four seasons.
glosses: A 49er, a California Gold Rush miner.
glosses: Leaven; an agent that makes dough rise.
Derived terms: old sourdough
sourfaux
like a cat in a strange garret
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, mass'r, I can't say for Lucinda and Dinah, but I should feel like a cat in a strange garret.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: 1862 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education
Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Having a feeling of uncertainty and misapprehension due to being in an unfamiliar situation.
leavened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: unleavened
glosses: Prepared using leavening.
leavened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leaven
inkblot test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkblot tests
Senses: synonyms: Rorschach inkblot test
glosses: A Rorschach test