cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gothicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Gothicise
daughter nuclide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughter nuclides
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a nuclide (often one of several) that is the product of the radioactive decay of a specific parent nuclide
Gasconading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Gasconade
Gasconaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Gasconade
Frenchifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Frenchify
Frenchifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frenchifying
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Frenchify
Frenchifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenchifying
Senses: glosses: Frenchification
Englishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of English
Englished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Englisht
Senses: examples: text: This kinde of dogge is called in like maner Canis Sarcinarius in Latine, and may aptly be englished a Tynckers Curre.
ref: 1576, John Caius, (translated by Alexander Fleming), Of Englishe Dogges, page 29:
text: Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads). Englished by Richard Francis Burton.
ref: 1880, Luis de Camoens, (translated by Richard Francis Burton), edited by Isabel Burton, The Lusiads, page ii (title page):
glosses: simple past and past participle of English
Englished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Englished
form: most Englished
form: Englisht
Senses: glosses: Anglicised
'scuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 'scuse
'scusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 'scuse
'scused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 'scuse
debuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debuff
zimzum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzimtzum
Etymology: From Hebrew צימצום \ צִמְצוּם (tzimtzúm, “zimzum”, literally “contraction”).
Senses: examples: text: At an early stage in the creative process, En Sof had tried to fill the vacuum it had created by zimzum with divine light, but the "vessels" or "pipes" designed to channel it had broken.
ref: 2007, Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography, Atlantic, published 2008, page 170:
text: Several prominent kabbalists viewed the zimzum as a voluntary divine process intended to make divinity more approachable to the created realms and to the people.
ref: 2006, Joseph Dan, Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 81:
text: Zimzum is a "restrictive contraction" which takes place in the first emanation of light and thus is the seed event which precedes all others in the act of creation.
ref: 1952, Carmine G Barbra, A Search for God, Trafford, published 1952, page 148:
head_nr: 1
glosses: The self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria.
peotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peotomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέος (péos, “penis”) + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: An attack by the renowned Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which the doctor will perform the operation, known as peotomy.
ref: 1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, page 192:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of the penis.
Related terms: autopeotomy
yeallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yellow.
year-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: year-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yearbook.
yearful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearfuls
form: yearsful
Etymology: From year + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done.
ref: 1904, The Congregationalist and Christian World, page 882:
text: This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more.
ref: 1924, H. G. Wells, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The amount that occurs in a year.
yearman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearmen
Senses: examples: text: He's a second-yearman at the university.
glosses: Someone in a particular year of e.g. study.
yearne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yarn.
yarne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yarn.
year-old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: yîrʹōld
Etymology: The combining form -year-old dates from Middle English (ȝeer old(e), yeer old(e), yere old(e)).
Senses: examples: text: He bought a year-old car.
glosses: Of the age of one year.
year-old
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: yîrʹōld
Forms: form: year-olds
Etymology: The combining form -year-old dates from Middle English (ȝeer old(e), yeer old(e), yere old(e)).
Senses: examples: text: The year-olds are kept in the field all winter, in the same way as the calves, but get straw instead of hay, till near Christmas. They, of course, require more hay than the calves; but much hay is saved by their eating up the rough grass, left by the cows that pastured the ground in the summer, the calves and the year-olds being kept, during winter, in the old pasture-lands, never upon the poor, wet, thin clay.
ref: 1840, John Morton, “[Farm-Reports.] A Gloucestershire Hill-Farm.”, in Husbandry: Volume the Third. Comprising Reports of Select Farms; Outlines of Flemish Husbandry; Useful and Ornamental Planting; Road-Making; Cottage Economy. (Library of Useful Knowledge), London: Baldwin and Cradock, […], pages 17–18:
text: The year-olds were promising; but as fillies alter much after that age, it is uncertain how these may turn out.
ref: 1851, “Account of the Show of the Highland and Agricultural Society held at Glasgow in 1850”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], page 400:
text: The year-olds are put into pens by themselves, so that when breeding time comes the addition of the cockerels is all that is necessary.
ref: 1911, John E. Taylor, “How 700 Hens Make a Net Profit of $1300 a Year: […]”, in Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine, volume 24, page 237:
glosses: Someone or something of the age of one year.
Related terms: day-old
yearsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearsmen
Etymology: From year + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: Someone employed for the period of one year.
yearth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of earth.
yeaught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeaughts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yacht.
yeave-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: yeave ho
Senses: synonyms: heave-ho
glosses: An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope.
Julye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of July.
Aguste
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of August.
yech
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [jɛx]
ipa: [jɛχ]
Forms: form: yecch
form: yeugh
form: yeuch
Senses: examples: text: Yech! This jelly donut is the worst on the planet!
text: The author in effect tells the reader it's OK to be gay if you're successful, handsome, well-hung and in no way effeminate. Yech!
ref: 1979 April 28, Allen Young, “The Joy of Gay Lit”, in Gay Community News, page 20:
glosses: An exclamation of disgust.
Synonyms: yuck
Derived terms: yechy
yech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [jɛx]
ipa: [jɛχ]
Forms: form: yechs
form: yecch
form: yeugh
form: yeuch
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of disgust.
yechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yechier
form: yechiest
Etymology: From yech + -y.
Senses: glosses: Highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
Synonyms: disgusting
distasteful
foul
loathsome
nasty
offensive
repugnant
revolting
unpleasant
wicked
yucky
Related terms: yech
yeek
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: eek; the sound of a mouse.
glosses: eek; an exclamation of terror.
prolificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prolificates
form: prolificating
form: prolificated
form: prolificated
Etymology: See prolific.
Senses: examples: text: ...it enables simultaneous and self-consistent treatment of the magnetic circuit together with the associated purely electrical circuits and should prolificate the understanding and usage of electromagnetic components and systems.
ref: 1970 March, R. W. Buntenbach, “A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics:
text: A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
yeep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise or dismay
Synonyms: eep
yeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: yeeps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A quiet yelp or scream.
Synonyms: eep
yeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of year.
Yekaterinburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jɛkətərɪnˈbɜːrɡ/
Forms: form: Ekaterinburg
form: Yekaterinbourg
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Екатеринбу́рг (Jekaterinbúrg), referring to Catherine I of Russia.
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, the fifth-largest in the country by population.
Synonyms: word: Sverdlovsk
raw_tags: from 1924 to 1991
Yekke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjɛkə/
/ˈjɛki/
Forms: form: Yekkes
form: yekke
Etymology: From Yiddish יעקע (yeke). See Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A Jew of German-speaking origin.
Derived terms: Yekkish
yekke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjɛkə/
/ˈjɛki/
Forms: form: yekkes
Etymology: From Yiddish יעקע (yeke). See Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: “No harm has been done,” he says, his supple Yiddish fitted with a stiffening wire of the German accent to which he and his fellow yekkes, even after sixty years, stubbornly cling.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 149:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yekke.
yelamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yelambers
Etymology: From Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore.
Senses: glosses: yellowhammer
Septembr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of September.
Octobr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of October.
Novembr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of November.
Decembr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of December.
Aprill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of April.
Januarye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of January.
Februarye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of February.
Maye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of May.
AJAX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Ajax.
Derived terms: ajaxification
soft skills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft skill
hard skill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard skills
Senses: coordinate_terms: soft skill
glosses: A technical skill, not one that is interpersonal.
hard skill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard skills
form: hard skilling
form: hard skilled
form: hard skilled
Senses: examples: text: Players who can hard skill diplomacy are often power gamers.
qualifier: live action roleplaying games
glosses: As a roleplayer, of a skill that one's character has, to carry that skill out literally.
fagged out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fagged out
form: most fagged out
Etymology: From fag (“to make exhausted”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
text: I busied myself looking for a likely place, began to scrape together some heather and juniper twigs and made a bed on a small slope where it was fairly dry, opened my parcel and took out the blanket. I was tired and fagged out from the long walk and went to bed at once. I tossed and turned many times before I finally got settled.
ref: 2016 [1890], Sverre Lyngstad, transl., Hunger, paperback edition, Canongate Books Ltd., translation of Sult by Knut Hamsun, Part One, page 45:
synonyms: word: knackered
word: shagged out
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Very tired, or exhausted by hard work or physical exercise.
fagged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fag (“to make exhausted”, verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fag out
spool cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spool cannons
Senses: examples: text: He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, […]
ref: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. Ch.2
glosses: A child's homemade toy made by attaching an elastic band to a cotton reel to form a slingshot that could shoot a pencil or other slim object through the bore of the reel.
cotton reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton reels
Senses: glosses: A spool, or bobbin used to keep cotton thread tidy.
glosses: A Scottish highland country dance. A 4x40 bar reel for 4 couples in a 4-couple longwise set.
broomball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomballs
Etymology: From broom + ball.
Senses: glosses: A Canadian team sport resembling ice hockey and played with sticks and a ball.
glosses: The ball used in this sport.
Derived terms: broomballer
country dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country dances
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any set step routine group dance such as ceilidh dance, highland dance, line dance, barn dance or square dance.
country dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: country dances
form: country dancing
form: country danced
form: country danced
Senses: glosses: To take part in country dancing.
ceilidh dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceilidh dances
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: ceilidh
glosses: A type of Scottish dance involving set-step routines, traditionally engaged in at a ceilidh.
ceilidh dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ceilidh dances
form: ceilidh dancing
form: ceilidh danced
form: ceilidh danced
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: ceilidh
glosses: To take part in a ceilidh dance (noun sense).
Related terms: barn dance
highland dance
square dance
barn dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn dances
Senses: glosses: A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance.
barn dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barn dances
form: barn dancing
form: barn danced
form: barn danced
Senses: glosses: To take part in barn dancing.
Related terms: ceilidh dance
highland dance
square dance
murderball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From murder + ball.
* (dodgeball): "murder" as a synonym for being eliminated by being struck by the ball
* (wheelchair rugby): "murder" from the aggressive full-contact nature of this ball-based sport
Senses: glosses: A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated ("murdered") by being struck with the ball.
glosses: Wheelchair rugby.
Synonyms: word: killerball
sense: wheelchair rugby
word: quad rugby
sense: wheelchair rugby
word: wheelchair rugby
antired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: anti-red
Etymology: From anti- + red.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to red in a quark.
antigreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + green.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to green in a quark.
examples: text: Hay's main concern, in the light of an antigreen backlash, is that homocentric democracy is insufficient for the achievement of the ecocentric goals […]
ref: 1999, Douglas Torgerson, The promise of green politics: environmentalism and the public sphere:
glosses: Opposed to environmentally-based politics.
antigreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigreens
Etymology: From anti- + green.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes environmentally-based politics.
antiblue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiblue
form: most antiblue
Etymology: From anti- + blue.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the tetraquark can split up into a red antired meson and a blue antiblue meson.
ref: 2016, Gavin Hesketh, The Particle Zoo:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.
examples: text: Anyone who allowed banned activities to take place on his owned or rented property faced police citations and fines. It took only two years, however, for anti-blue law sentiment to arise, and various exceptions to the original ordinance were passed […]
ref: 2003, Fred Miller, Ocean City:
text: Time Warner […] was also home to Ice-T, whose “Cop Killer” was pointedly and recklessly antiblue in the wake of the 1992 L.A. riots, even if the track had been intended as a statement against police brutality—a generation before the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: Antipolice.
pauciloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pauciloquent
form: most pauciloquent
Etymology: From pauciloquy + -ent.
Senses: glosses: Using few words when speaking.
Derived terms: pauciloquently
gallipots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallipot
contenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛntɚ/
ipa: /kənˈtɛntə/
Senses: examples: text: I thank God, that my children has got two such good homes as they have, and I am a great deal contenter, than in England, and can make a good living.
ref: December 21, 1832, Thomas Adsett, letter to the Rev. Robert Ridsdal, published in Wendy Cameron et al. (eds.), English Immigrant Voices: Labourers’ Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s (McGill-Queen's Press, 2000), p. 87
glosses: comparative form of content: more content
insolvence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of insolvency.
assessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assessee
ruggedise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruggedises
form: ruggedising
form: ruggedised
form: ruggedised
Etymology: From rugged + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ruggedize.
capitonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitonyms
Etymology: From capital + -onym.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: heteronym
;
heterophone
;
homograph
;
homonym
;
homophone
glosses: A case-sensitive word: a word that changes meaning (and in some instances pronunciation) when the letter case used to write it is changed: whether (usually) the casing of its initial letter or (in other instances) the casing of its other letters as well.
Derived terms: word: capitonymic
chocaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocaholics
Etymology: From chocolate + -aholic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chocoholic.
cross compiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross compilers
form: crosscompiler
form: cross-compiler
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compiler that generates code for a platform other than the one it runs on.
Related terms: cross compile
cross-compile
crosscompile
transcompiler
transpiler
highland dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highland dances
Senses: glosses: A type of Scottish set step routine dancing.
highland dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: highland dances
form: highland dancing
form: highland danced
form: highland danced
Senses: glosses: To take part in Highland dancing.
Related terms: barn dance
ceilidh dance
Highland dancing
square dance
crash space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A place where one may crash (stay informally).
Synonyms: crash pad
azimuthally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From azimuthal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner with respect to the azimuth; with respect to the angle above a plane.
clock speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock speeds
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: clock rate
english: sometimes regarded as more correct
translation: sometimes regarded as more correct
glosses: The rate, measured in hertz, at which a processor performs its fundamental operations.
Related terms: overclock
deep geological repository
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep geological repositories
Senses: glosses: A concept that involves the placement of long-lived radioactive waste, often spent nuclear fuel, in rooms excavated deep within stable, low-permeability bedrock.
boresight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boresights
Etymology: From bore + sight.
Senses: glosses: The optical axis of a directional antenna.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A device mounted along the bore axis of a gun barrel for purposes of aligning the barrel with the gun's sights.
boresight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boresights
form: boresighting
form: boresighted
form: boresighted
Etymology: From bore + sight.
Senses: examples: text: A holiday spirit prevailed throughout the task group on these special days; stationkeeping was a bit more lax, and gun crews were off-duty so that the gunners could lubricate, adjust, and boresight their guns[…]
ref: 2022 December 21, Drachinifel, quoting M. Dick van Orden, 11:52 from the start, in Typhoon Cobra - When the weather does more damage than the enemy, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To use a boresight to align a gun barrel with the gun's sights.
paravirtualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paravirtualisations
Etymology: From para- + virtualisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paravirtualization.
paravirtualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paravirtualizations
Etymology: From para- + virtualization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An approximate virtualization in which the emulated operating system has been modified for convenience or efficiency.
characterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characterologies
Etymology: From character + -ology.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:characterology.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The study or attempted deduction of character in individuals.
glosses: The belief in or study of the relationship between physical traits and psychological traits.
Derived terms: characterologic
characterological
tympanic membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanic membranes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of eardrum.
synonyms: word: eardrum
myringitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myring- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the eardrum.
Synonyms: tympanitis
Derived terms: mycomyringitis
Related terms: myringoplasty
myringotomy
myring-
myringo-
crop top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒp ˌtɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: crop tops
form: croptop
Etymology: Because the top is cropped.
Senses: glosses: A short T-shirt or blouse that is cut off above the abdomen, exposing the midriff.
Related terms: tube top
pomset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒmsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: pomsets
Etymology: * By abbreviation.
Senses: examples: As usual, pomsets can be made setlike by requiring that the elements of the sets X should be chosen from a given set.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Partial ordered multiset.
Related terms: tomset
tomset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒmsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: tomsets
Etymology: * By abbreviation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Totally ordered multiset.
Related terms: pomset
asphalt jungle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphalt jungles
Etymology: From W. R. Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle (1949).
Senses: examples: text: The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.
ref: 1962 July 27, “Manhattan's Lower Depths”, in Time (film review of Strangers in the City), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2012:
text: Harlem comes through as an urban hothouse mean with exotic hustle and violence, a tangible asphalt jungle with its own abrasive laws of motion.
ref: 1976, A. Robert Lee, “Violence Real and Imagined: The World of Chester Himes' Novels”, in Negro American Literature Forum, volume 10, number 1, page 13:
glosses: A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
Related terms: concrete jungle
catchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From catch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] arranged so that said one of said intermediate hinge pins is catchable and embracable between both of said second parts, said second part having a respective pressing surface which is pressable against said one of said intermediate hinge pins when in a catch position, […]
ref: 1988, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 705:
glosses: That can be caught.
Derived terms: uncatchable
catapultier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catapultiers
Senses: glosses: The operator of a catapult.
chillis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilli
diffeomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a diffeomorphism.
Derived terms: diffeomorphically
gsm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It produces grayback and whiteback coated duplex of 250-400 gsm.
ref: 2008, Paper Technology, page 54:
glosses: Initialism of grams per square metre (unit for measuring the weight of paper).
Related terms: grammage
g/m²
playthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌθɹu/
Forms: form: playthroughs
form: play-through
Etymology: From play + through.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The act, or a recording, of playing a game from start to finish.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: The cumulative monetary amount that must be wagered before an account may be withdrawn, typically stated as a multiple of the initial deposit.
Synonyms: sense: playing a game from start to finish
word: run
sense: playing a game from start to finish
word: walkthrough
bitplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.pleɪn/
Forms: form: bitplanes
Etymology: Compound of bit + plane.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: bit plane
glosses: The set of bits stored at the same relative position in each byte and thus having comparable effects on the overall data, used for sound and image processing, etc.
bit plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit planes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitplane.
EBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iːbiːˈɛm/
Senses: examples: text: A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths.
ref: 2005, "oldgoth", Theaving Goths (on newsgroup uk.people.gothic)
text: Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.
ref: 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, page 37:
glosses: Initialism of electronic body music.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of evidence-based medicine.
saved game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saved games
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: game save
savegame
glosses: A block of saved data, representing the player's progress in a game, that can be restored at a later time for continued play.
savegame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savegames
Etymology: From save + game.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A saved game.
tokenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/
Forms: form: tokenizes
form: tokenizing
form: tokenized
form: tokenized
form: tokenise
Etymology: From token + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To substitute sensitive data with meaningless placeholders.
glosses: To treat as a token minority.
Derived terms: tokenizable
tokenization
tokenizer
Related terms: tokenism
tokenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tokenises
form: tokenising
form: tokenised
form: tokenised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tokenize.
tokeniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokenisers
Etymology: From tokenise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tokenizer.
non-interactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noninteractive.
lighter fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighter fluids
Senses: glosses: fuel in fluid form used in a cigarette lighter
crivens
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crivvens.
false killer whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false killer whales
Etymology: From false + killer whale; so called for certain similarities to orcas (killer whales).
Senses: glosses: A dolphin of species Pseudorca crassidens, one of the larger dolphin species.
false killer whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false killer whale
rubber boa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber boas
Senses: glosses: A snake of species Charina bottae, found in the western United States.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Charina bottae
word: coastal rubber boa
taxonomic: Charina bottae
word: northern rubber boa
taxonomic: Charina umbratica
word: southern rubber boa
in-engine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Rendered in real-time or pre-rendered by the game engine.
raw_tags: of a cut scene
broad daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːd ˈdeɪlaɪt/
ipa: /bɹɔd ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
ipa: /bɹɑd ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
Etymology: From broad (“(archaic) to the full extent”) + daylight.
Senses: examples: text: VVhen half a dozen ingenous Men are got together over a Glaſs of VVine, by a chearful Fire, in a Room vvell lighted, vve baniſh vvith eaſe all the Spectres of Fancy or Education, and are very clear in our Deciſions. But, as I vvas taking a ſolitary VValk before it vvas broad Day-light in yonder Grove, methought the Point vvas not quite ſo clear; nor cou'd I readily recollect the Force of thoſe Arguments, vvhich uſed to appear ſo concluſive at other Times.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The Fourth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section III, page 211:
text: Broad daylight illumined the apartment, for the sun was high in heaven, though obscured by rolling masses of autumnal vapour.
ref: 1848, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Retreat”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. […], volume III, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: Whilst they had been speaking, she had opened the door, a narrow iron one well hung, for it had opened easily and closed tightly without any creaking or sound of any kind. Within all was dark; but she entered as freely and with as little misgiving or restraint as if it had been broad daylight.
ref: 1911, Bram Stoker, “Exit Oolanga”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 170:
text: We're gonna rock around the clock tonight, / We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight, / We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.
ref: 1952 (date written), Max C[harles] Freedman, Jimmy De Knight [pseudonym; James Edward Myers], “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock”, performed by Bill Haley & His Comets, Philadelphia, Pa.: Myers Music, published 1953, recording released 20 May 1954, →OCLC, page 2:
synonyms: open daylight
coordinate_terms: half-light
twilight
glosses: Abundant natural illumination in daytime, producing clear visibility; hence, daytime.
examples: text: The bank robbery took place in broad daylight.
text: 'But surely,' protested Peter half-heartedly, 'he couldn't carry on a racket like that in broad daylight and get away with it?'
ref: 1934, Leslie Charteris, “The Uncritical Publisher”, in Ian Dickerson, editor, The Saint Intervenes, London: Mulholland Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 125:
text: It's still too dangerous for the wife of a journalist who was murdered in the street in broad daylight.
ref: 2008 January 24, Brian Benntt, “When Iraqis Come to America”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2008:
glosses: Chiefly preceded by in: the full view of observers during the day.
Derived terms: in broad daylight
snoezelen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch snoezelen.
Senses: glosses: controlled multisensory stimulation, a type of therapy
rusty trombone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusty trombones
Etymology: In reference to the hand-mouth coordination and motions required while playing the trombone, and the rust-color of fecal matter.
Senses: examples: text: The “RustyTrombone" you know that I think that is the oldest of all these sickening things uh, 'cause I heard that one years and years and years ago.
ref: 2003, United States. Federal Communications Commission, FCC record, volume 18, number 10:
text: What I did to your mom last night. I think is called a rusty trombone or maybe it's a cherry cheese danish.
ref: 2008, Don Haynes, Lee Gerst, D.N.R.-The Best Show That Will Never Be on Television, page 106:
text: Would you rather live in a world where[…] regardless of where you went to sleep, every morning you always wake up naked and spooning a complete stranger OR once a month a siren randomly goes off and you are required to give a “rusty trombone” to the person standing nearest to you?
ref: 2010, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg, The Big Book: Over 1,500 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder, page 134:
glosses: The act of simultaneously performing anilingus and a hand job.
compos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpəʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of compo
compos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpəʊz/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɒs/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpəʊs/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpəʊz/
Senses: glosses: compos mentis; of sound mind; sane
Derived terms: non compos
savestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪvˌsteɪt/
Forms: form: savestates
form: save state
Etymology: From save + state.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A file that contains an emulator's or virtualizer's state at the moment it was saved to disk. The file contains the contents of the memory, registers and other pertinent data that allows the user to resume the application from the moment the file was created.
virtualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtualizers
Etymology: From virtualize + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that provides virtualization services.
save state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: save states
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of savestate.
risk appetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risk appetites
Senses: glosses: The amount of risk that an investor or other entity is willing to accept in pursuit of a return.
apos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apo
ronson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrɒnsən/
Forms: form: ronsons
Etymology: From Ronson, manufacturer of lighters, in reference to their 1940s jingle "Lights first every time".
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: M4 Sherman tank - due to the proclivity of Shermans to burst into flames from a single hit
Synonyms: Tommy cooker
tommy cooker
RRAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RRATs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of rotating radio transient: a type of pulsar.
Related terms: AXP
PSR
SGR
C-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-rats
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of C-ration.
Synonyms: canned ration
Charlie rat
Coordinate terms: IMP
K-rat
MCI
MRE
rations
cocinera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocineras
Senses: glosses: A female cook, in Spanish-speaking regions.
monoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolines
Etymology: From mono- + line.
Senses: examples: text: The other leading monolines in 2002 were Capital One and Providian.
ref: 2005, David Sparks Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Paying with Plastic, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: business
glosses: A company operating in only one industry or line of business; often specifically a bank specializing in credit card issuance.
examples: text: The premium charged by the monoline is not for funding expected losses, as with insurance, but for enhancing an investment-grade security to a AAA level.
ref: 2005, Charles Austin Stone, Anne Zissu, The Securitization Markets Handbook, →ISBN, page 283:
topics: business
finance
glosses: An insurer specialized in insuring investment-grade securities against loss.
examples: text: […] monolines appear everywhere in the art of the Western letter, and have shaped the alphabet's development as much as the edged line of the broad pen.
ref: 1984, Margaret Shepherd, Calligraphy Now, page 31:
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.
examples: text: A module consists of 21 monolines; a monoline on the other hand is 20 feet (6 m) long and consists of a nylon line plus 3 stakes— 2 at both ends and one at the middle— and 30 plants.
ref: 1982, Jose Rodolfo Lim, Farming the Ocean (the Genu Story), page 73:
glosses: A length of monofilament line, used for culturing forms of seaweed.
examples: text: With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline, the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work.
ref: 1993, Rae Frances, The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria 1880-1939, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A type of composing machine in which each line of type is cast as a single slug.
examples: text: The spectrum of the MS sample also includes the central broad singlet of the nitrous austenite, which is simulated as the superposition of a monoline and a doublet.
ref: 2007, V.A. Shabashov et al., “Deformation-induced transformations in nitride layers formed in bcc iron”, in Materials Science and Engineering: A, volume 452, →DOI, pages 575–583:
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: A single spectrum line.
Related terms: monorail
monotype
multiline
beene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of been.
check scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check scales
Senses: glosses: A scale used in a filling operation to indicate the proper filling level has been reached.
Synonyms: checkweigher
dynamic scale
in-motion scale
conveyor scale
zero coupon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero coupons
Senses: examples: text: They decided to issue a note with a zero coupon.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A non-existent coupon.
examples: text: Their trademarked financial structure involved issuing several kinds of zero coupons.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial security that does not pay interest periodically.
Synonyms: sense: financial security without periodic interest
word: zero
Derived terms: zero coupon bond
zero-coupon bond
zero-coupon note
legal age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal ages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of age of majority.
synonyms: word: age of majority
word count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word counts
form: wordcount
Senses: examples: text: At NIE cafeteria, we estimated the total word count of the combined signage to be about 3000 words.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:
glosses: The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.
paederotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːdɛˈɹɒtɪk/
other: /pɛdɛˈɹɒtɪk/
Etymology: paedo- (“child”) + -erotic, on the pattern of homoerotic.
Senses: examples: text: In this case the fluctuation of the style in a single line is localized on a small scale, but it may of course pederotic poem?
ref: 1986, Bernd Effe, Theokrit und die griechische Bukolik, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, →ISBN, page 31, →ISBN:
text: Now came the quid pro quo of patronage, and the first painting M did for his cardinal betrayed a panicky sense of claustrophobia as M was gently directed into a musical allegory slash paederotic fantasy that belonged to no time or place.
ref: 2001, Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, Picador, →ISBN, page 57, →ISBN:
text: The Greek Anthology, in fact, not only demonstrates — without the shadow of a doubt — the continuity and vitality of paederotic poetry, but provides valuable information on the social rules governing this type of love, which included, in pride of place, the question of the suitable age: I delight in the prime of a boy of twelve, but one of thirteen is much more desirable.
ref: 2002, Eva Cantarella, Cormac Ó Cuilleanain, Bisexuality in the ancient world, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 37, →ISBN:
glosses: Presenting children in an erotic light; concerned with paederastic feelings or relationships.
Tarnów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Tarnów.
Senses: glosses: A city in southeastern Poland.
Chorzów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Polish Chorzów.
Senses: glosses: A southern Polish city near Katowice in Silesia on the River Rawa.
Synonyms: sense: city on the Rawa in southern Poland
word: Königshütte
Kalisz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Kalisz.
Senses: glosses: A city and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
Koszalin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Koszalin.
Senses: glosses: A city and county of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Legnica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Grudziądz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Słupsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Słupsk.
Senses: glosses: A city in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Jaworzno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Jelenia Góra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jelenia Góra.
Senses: glosses: A city in southwestern Poland.
rhymeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhyme + -less.
Senses: examples: a rhymeless poem
glosses: Without rhymes.
examples: text: "Orange" is widely considered to be a rhymeless word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not rhymable; having no perfect rhymes.
glosses: Senseless; without rhyme or reason.
Related terms: rhyme
rhymelessness
rhymable
rhymeable
rhymability
rhymeability
Newfoundland English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Newfinese
Newfunese
glosses: The form of English spoken in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
landskap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landskaps
Etymology: From Swedish landskap.
Senses: glosses: A province in various Scandinavian countries.
cut wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts wind
form: cutting wind
form: cut wind
form: cut wind
Senses: glosses: To pass gas; to break wind.