cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
viddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: viddies
form: viddying
form: viddied
form: viddied
Etymology: From Russian ви́деть (vídetʹ, “to see”); originally a fictional slang term used by the droogs in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange.
Senses: examples: text: You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was like some veshch that used to be there but was not there not no more.
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 1, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 5:
text: In this issue of Brainwave, we viddy the Internet’s many wonders, its dangers, and some of the people responsible for both.
ref: 2011 October, Vinayak Varma, “The Nerdsmith”, in Brainwave, volume 1, number 11, page 1:
text: This party’s at Dozen Street, so you get to viddy the glorious Stefanie Distefano peacock mural, too.
ref: 2015 February 13, The Austin Chronicle, page 38:
synonyms: have a look
take a look
take a gander
glosses: To see; to view.
catrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catrinas
Etymology: From Spanish Catrina, from an etching titled La Calavera Catrina by Jose Guadalupe Posada that showed a skeleton wearing an elegant, European-style hat.
Senses: glosses: An elegantly dressed skeleton figure; used as a symbol of the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, celebration.
wikipedia: Jose Guadalupe Posada
La Calavera Catrina
macroprudential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + prudential.
Senses: examples: text: The thesis is that to improve further the lines of defence against financial instability we should strengthen the macroprudential orientation of the regulatory and supervisory framework.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relating to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
Derived terms: macroprudentially
Related terms: microprudential
pang of conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pangs of conscience
Senses: examples: text: It was clear to Mr. Seely that Dick Shand's story was 'got up,'—and very well got up. He had no pang of conscience as to using it. But when it came to believing it, that was quite another thing.
ref: 1879, Anthony Trollope, chapter 50, in John Caldigate:
text: So it fell that Mistress Anne could go to London without pangs of conscience at leaving her sister in the country and alone.
ref: 1896, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 11, in A Lady of Quality:
glosses: A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
Related terms: guilty conscience
remorse
scruple
compunction
misgiving
pangs of conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pang of conscience
accession country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accession countries
Senses: glosses: A country in the process of joining the European Union
æquator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquators
Senses: examples: text: The ninth of Aprill wee croſt the Tropick of Cancer, of like diſtance from the Æquator...
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
text: For all parts of the earth’s ſurface with the bodies thereto adjacent revolve in the ſame time either in the æquator or in circles parallel thereto; but the æquator is the largeſt of all thoſe circles, and the others grow leſs and leſs as they are more and more diſtant from the æquator.
ref: 1767, Richard Helsham, Bryan Robinson, A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, page 31:
text: Every day is an emblem of the yeare; and therein the sun hath his declination, or distance from the meridian, as from the æquator, his solstice in itt, as in the tropicks; and his different altitudes azimuths every moment. — Wr.
‛T is seemingly strange, but most true, that they who lye betweene the æquator and the tropic, have a hotter summer than they that lye under the æquator; suppose under 12 degrees north or south : bycause with them sommer is twice doubled in 3 months : having the sonn twice over their heads in that space : whereas they under the æquator have him twice, but in 6 months distance, and 2 winters between. For the distance of the son from the center in his auge at summer is 1210 semidiameters of the earth : but his nearest distance is never above 1122, every semidiameter containing 7159¼ of our miles. — Wr.
ref: 1835, James Ashburner Campbell and Simon Wilkin of East Sussex, Sir Thomas Browne’s Works: Including His Life and Correspondence, page 78
text: On the other side of the Azores, and this side of the æquator, the north point of the needle wheeleth to the west; so that in the lat. 36, near the shore, the variation is about 11 gr., but on the other side of the æquator, it is quite otherwise, for in Brasilia the south point varies 12 gr. unto the west, but elongating from the coast of Brasilia toward the shore of Africa it varies eastward, and arriving at the Cape De las Aguillas, it rests in the meridian and looketh neither way.
ref: 1856, Increase Mather, George Offor, Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonisation, page 74:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of equator.
æquators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquator
miller's thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miller's thumbs
Senses: examples: text: [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: The European bullhead (“a species of fish, Cottus gobio”).
tommy logge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tommy logges
Senses: glosses: European bullhead.
Æquator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: That is a Body in the Æquator does preſs leſs towards the Centre than at the Pole where there is no centrifugal force to leſſen its gravity.
ref: 1734, John Keill, Maupertuis, An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, page 93
glosses: Archaic spelling of Equator.
astrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + dynamics.
Senses: synonyms: orbital mechanics
glosses: The study of the motion of rockets and spacecraft, usually from Newton's laws of motion, Newtonian gravity, and Kepler's laws
æquilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquilibria
Senses: examples: text: Now in a ſpherical fluid, all whoſe parts gravitate towards the Centre, I think it is evident from the principles of Hydroſtaticks and fluidity, that all thoſe Bodies which are equally diſtant from the Centre, muſt be equally preſt with the weight of the incumbent fluid, and if one part come to be more preſſed than another, that which is moſt preſſed will thruſt that out of its place which is leaſt, till all the parts come to an æquilibrium one with another, and this is known by a common and eaſy experiment, if you take a recurved tube as in the figure, [Fig. 4. Plate II.] and fill it with water or any other fluid, it will riſe equally in both Legs of the Tube, ſo that the ſurfaces C E and F I are equally preſſed by the weight of the incumbent columns B C E D, G F I H, but if one of the Legs of this Tube ſhould be filled with oil, or ſome other lighter fluid, and the other with water, the lighter fluid will riſe higher than the other, for otherways, theſe ſurfaces which are equally diſtant from the Centre could not be equally preſſed.
ref: 1734, John Keill, Maupertuis, An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, page 93
glosses: Archaic spelling of equilibrium.
æquilibria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To Hydroſtaticks belongs whatever relates to the Gravities and Æquilibria of Liquors, with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities.
ref: 1759, Philip Miller, “HYDROSTATICKS”, in The Gardeners Dictionary, 7th edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author; and sold by John Rivington, [...], column 2:
text: The structural analysis indicates two levels; plain fibres, which can be described more geometrico, and complex æquilibria of fibres, which cannot be accounted for geometrically: wherefore it is necessary to subordinate geometry to observation.
ref: 1982, Roger L. Emerson, Gilles Girard, Roseann Runte, Man and Nature: proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education, →ISBN, page 212, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of æquilibrium
cryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The scientists placed the patient into cryonic suspension.
glosses: Of or pertaining to cryonics.
Derived terms: cryonically
cryonicist
Related terms: cryogenic
say wha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Relaxed pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: say what.
giraffe weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giraffe weevils
Etymology: It derives its name from an extended neck, much like that of the common giraffe.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) endemic to Madagascar.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lasiorhynchus barbicornis
word: New Zealand giraffe weevil
twist in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists in the wind
form: twisting in the wind
form: twisted in the wind
form: twisted in the wind
Etymology: An allusion to being hanged by the neck and then left for dead in a suspended state.
Senses: examples: text: There seemed to be a shared perception of Colonel North as a good and honorable serviceman who had been left to twist in the wind, the scapegoat of an operation gone awry.
ref: 1987 July 12, William E. Schmidt, “Iran-Contra Hearings”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2008:
glosses: To be unassisted and without comfort in a situation likely to result in distress or failure.
examples: text: McGuinty just says, "Don't worry, the investigation will be over soon enough, we'll do something in due course," and people are expected to twist in the wind in the meantime.
ref: 2008 August 21, Josh Wingrove, “Toronto facing $2-million cleanup bill”, in Globe and Mail, Canada:
glosses: To wait for an uncomfortably long period of time.
Related terms: hang out to dry
leave someone high and dry
leave someone holding the bag
leave someone in the lurch
twisting in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
ref: 2019 July 19, Noah Kulwin, “Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: present participle and gerund of twist in the wind
hung out to dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang out to dry
trichosanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: punicic acid
electoral district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electoral districts
Senses: examples: text: When comparing voting systems, it is important to know how many representatives are elected from each electoral district.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: constituency
word: district
word: division
word: electorate
word: riding
word: ward
glosses: A district represented by one or more elected officials.
hypogaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogaeums
form: hypogaea
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypogeum.
soogee-moogee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soogee moogee
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of strong cleaning product for wood and paint on board a boat.
Synonyms: soogee
soogee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: soogee-moogee
glosses: A type of strong cleaning product for wood and paint on board a boat.
soogee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soogees
form: soogeeing
form: soogeed
form: soogeed
form: soogie
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To clean with soogee.
soogees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soogee
soogeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soogee
soogeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soogee
suji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soojee
form: sooji
form: soojy
form: soujee
form: sujee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सूजी / Urdu سوجی (sūjī).
Senses: glosses: Wheat that is granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.
sujee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suji.
soonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːn.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more soonish
form: most soonish
Etymology: From soon + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Some time in the not so distant but not yet definable future.
Synonyms: soonly
exoenthalpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exoenthalpic
form: most exoenthalpic
Etymology: From exo- + enthalpic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In which enthalpy increases; exothermic.
endoenthalpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endoenthalpic
form: most endoenthalpic
Etymology: From endo- + enthalpic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In which enthalpy decreases; endothermic
sooey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːˈi/
ipa: /suˈi/
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to sow; perhaps related to Sus, Suidae, and suid.
Senses: examples: text: Sooey, sooey! Come here, piggy!
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sooey.
related: word: sooee
word: soo wee
word: soo-wee
word: soowee
glosses: A cry to get the attention of swine.
Related terms: suey
sui
soopolallie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpəˈlæli/
Forms: form: soopolallies
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon, from soop (“soap”) (from English) + olallie, ollalie (“berry”) (from a Kwak'wala or Chinook word for berries). Compare soapberry.
Senses: glosses: A variety of deciduous shrub (Shepherdia canadensis), the Canadian buffaloberry, the red fruit/berries of which may be used in the production of a frothy, aromatic drink.
Synonyms: buffalo-berry
buffaloberry
russett buffalo-berry
soapberry
sooterkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sooterkins
Etymology: From dialectal Dutch zoeterke(n) (“sweatheart”) (compare zoetje, zoetke (“sweetheart”)), equivalent to sweet + -kin or soot + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A mouse-like creature which, according to folklore, Dutch women who sit over stoves give birth to.
examples: text: Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: An abortive scheme.
glosses: A Dutch person.
soothful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soothful
form: most soothful
Etymology: From sooth + -ful.
Senses: glosses: soothing
sootiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sootinesses
Etymology: From sooty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being sooty
sootier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sooty: more sooty
sootiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sooty: most sooty
screechier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of screechy: more screechy
screechiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of screechy: most screechy
aandblom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːnt.blɒm/
ipa: /ˈɑnt.blɑm/
Forms: form: aandblomme
form: avondbloem
form: aandbloem
form: aandblommetjie
form: avondbloemetje
form: avondblometjie
form: aandblommetje
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans aandblom (“evening flower”), aand (“evening”) + blom (“flower”)
Senses: examples: text: This 22-ha area protects a fragment of granitic soil that nurtures a host of species, most striking of which are bulb-like plants such as the multi-hued babianas and lachenalias; white, read and pink sundews (carnivorous plants that meet their mineral needs by feeding on insects); the 'evening flowers', or aandblomme, whose heady scent fills the air at dusk, and the lovely chincherinchees, creamy blooms that grow profusely in the area.
ref: 2004, Peter Joyce, Flower Watching in the Cape: Scenic Routes Throughout the Year:
glosses: Any of several, typically evening blooming, flowers related to the Iris, in particular of the genus Hesperantha.
zygoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygosis
Related terms: word: zygose
hillslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillslopes
Etymology: From hill + slope.
Senses: glosses: A slope of a hill.
Derived terms: hillslope process
Related terms: hillside
hillslopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillslope
hollow out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hollows out
form: hollowing out
form: hollowed out
form: hollowed out
Senses: examples: text: After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
ref: 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
glosses: To make something hollow.
glosses: To become hollow.
glosses: To reduce the power or influence of something.
intervalometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervalometers
Etymology: From interval + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures intervals of time.
stepping stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepping stone
stomach ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomach aches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stomachache.
enregister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enregisters
form: enregistering
form: enregistered
form: enregistered
form: inregister
Etymology: From en- + register.
Senses: synonyms: inregister
glosses: To record on a register.
examples: text: Enregistering a value during compilation of a program may improve runtime performance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To store in a register of the CPU.
examples: text: Thus, by systematically labelling Singlish as 'broken English', official discourses enregister Singlish as a low-proficiency version of English and a hindrance to the nation's path toward globalisation.
ref: 2022 January 13, Tong King Lee, “Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore”, in Language in Society, volume 52, number 2, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 249:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To become a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").
Derived terms: enregistered
enregisterment
inregister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inregisters
form: inregistering
form: inregistered
form: inregistered
Etymology: From in- + register.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of enregister.
second-storey man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-storey men
form: second-story man
Senses: examples: text: They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page 4:
text: For a brief period in Warsaw in the 1890s, Kornblum had been forced into a life of crime, as a second-story man, and the prospect of prizing the Golem out of its current home, unsuspected, awoke wicked old memories of gaslight and stolen gems.
ref: 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Random House, page 16:
synonyms: second-storey worker
glosses: A thief, especially one who climbs into buildings above ground level.
socio-economic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: socioeconomic
Etymology: From socio- + economic.
Senses: examples: text: China has experienced significant socio-economic development over the past number of decades.
text: Accordingly, the report advised that middle and higher-socioeconomic-strata neighborhoods should not fall at least within the one-mile and five-mile radii of the proposed site.
ref: 2002, Eileen Guana, Essay on Environmental Justice: The Past, the Present, and Back to the Future, page 17:
text: This will benefit reopening projects that have wider network benefits - such as the Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne section, which has wider socio-economic benefits that do not accrue to individual local authorities.
ref: 2020 December 16, Industry Insider, “Rail's prospects turn full circle”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a combination of social and economic factors.
Derived terms: socioeconomically
Related terms: politico-economic
Borrowdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From borrow + dale.
Senses: glosses: A valley and civil parish in Cumberland council area, in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Grange in Borrowdale
old boy network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old boy networks
form: old-boy network
Senses: examples: text: His hiring and promotion of senior officers rested not on merit but on an old-boy network of connections from Wall Street and the Social Register.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page 7:
text: Another BWMT member said bars have no open advertising for bartenders and no affirmative action policy. He said bars hire "young, good looking white men" through an "old-boy network."
ref: 1982 April 10, David Morris, “Highly Segregated”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
synonyms: good old boy network
glosses: A presumed unacknowledged system of association between childhood friends (especially those at school or university together), used for mutual assistance or favouritism.
Related terms: cronyism
male, pale and stale
old boys' club
glycoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycoprotein
hard-working
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-working
form: harder-working
form: most hard-working
form: hardest-working
Senses: examples: text: Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:
text: Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism.
ref: 1963, David Ogilvy, “How to Get Clients”, in Confessions of an Advertising Man, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 29:
text: ‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’
ref: 2017, Reza Pakravan, “Motherland”, in Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back; Race to the End of the Earth, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, →ISBN, part two (Leg One), page 133:
text: One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of hardworking.
litterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litterer
bar mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈmɪts.və/
Forms: form: bar mitzvahs
form: b'nai mitzvah
form: bar-mitzvah
Etymology: From Hebrew בר מצווה / בַּר מִצְוָה (literally “of the age of mitzvah”).
Senses: glosses: A Jewish coming of age ceremony for boys.
glosses: A boy who has come of age.
Derived terms: bark mitzvah
Related terms: bat mitzvah
bas mitzvah
b'mitzvah
b-mitzvah
b'nai mitzvah
b'not mitzvah
bar mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈmɪts.və/
Forms: form: bar mitzvahs
form: bar mitzvahing
form: bar mitzvahed
form: bar mitzvahed
form: bar-mitzvah
Etymology: From Hebrew בר מצווה / בַּר מִצְוָה (literally “of the age of mitzvah”).
Senses: examples: text: He was bar mitzvahed at the Kotel.
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony.
translogarithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more translogarithmic
form: most translogarithmic
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing functions that are both transcendental and logarithmic
trade route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade routes
Senses: glosses: A route used by traders for commercial transport of goods.
buck private
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck privates
Senses: examples: text: Bedell Smith was a shopkeeper's son from Indiana who rose from buck private to general without the polish of West Point or a college degree.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, pages 15–16:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A private soldier keen ("bucking") for promotion; an ambitious private.
Related terms: buck general
podgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of podgy: more podgy
podgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of podgy: most podgy
smurfier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smurfy: more smurfy
smurfiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smurfy: most smurfy
white-shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-shoes
Etymology: For the noun, from their traditional footwear. For the adjective, from the preponderance of Ivy League graduates hired by such firms.
Senses: glosses: A stereotypical male Ivy League college student.
white-shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white-shoe
form: most white-shoe
Etymology: For the noun, from their traditional footwear. For the adjective, from the preponderance of Ivy League graduates hired by such firms.
Senses: glosses: Effeminate or immature.
examples: text: Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page 26:
text: In “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change,” Ellen K. Pao traces a journey of disillusionment that culminated in the lawsuit she brought against her employer, the white-shoe venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination.
ref: 2017 September 19, Jennifer Szalai, “The Education of Ellen Pao”, in New York Times:
glosses: Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
Derived terms: white-shoe firm
geolithological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + lithological.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the branch of geology that studies the distribution of different forms of stone
Related terms: geolithology
stong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stongs
Etymology: A form of stang (“staff; unit of land measure”).
Senses: examples: text: […] with other 3 stong of land called Orchortofts, the which Humphrey Greyfe holds by year, paying therefore . . . . . Also for farm of 2 acres pasture, lying in Wythorne - tofts, the which William Fysher holds by year . . . . . Also for farm of one stong of land lying in Algarkyke,[…]
ref: 1856, Pishey Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston: And the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle : Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln : Including Also a History of the East, West, and Wildmore Fens, and Copious Notices of the Holland Or Haut-Huntre Fen, page 132:
text: Thomas, son of Gilbert, 1 acre 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre 20 perches. Conan, his brother, 4 acres 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre and half a stong. […]
ref: 1903, Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk, page 296:
text: The terriers mention a little close or pingle, containing half a stong, called 'the Chappell yarde,' which is surrounded by the lands of Dunsthorpe grange on every side. This close has now been thrown into the adjoining grass field […]
ref: 1924, Lincoln Record Society, The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society:
text: None the less the figures in the survey are of interest. They are: Crosneuland, 29 acres 1 stong 2 perches 52½ feet divided into thirty-six pieces; Estneuland, 14 acres 1½ stongs 1½ perches 27 feet divided into seven pieces; Westneuland, 15½ acres 1½ stongs 18 perches 31 feet divided into eighty-one pieces. […] Note that 4 stongs equal 1 acre and 40 square perches 1 stong. […] Sixty perches, forming one piece, are simply in Neuland and the rest is either in nouo neulond or in ueteri neulond—22 acres 35½ perches 26½ feet in the former, in fifteen pieces; 12 acres 1 stong 5 perches 22½ feet in the latter, in twelve pieces. The whole amounts to 34 acres 3 stongs 2 perches 21 1 feet in twenty-eight pieces. […] Terra mensurata was usually measured in acres, stongs (or roods) and perches, but often the measurement was taken to the nearest foot and sometimes to the nearest half foot.
ref: 1965, H[erbert] E[noch] Hallam, Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge Studies in Economic History), Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, pages 14, 15, and 160:
glosses: An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.
stonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stonifies
form: stonifying
form: stonified
form: stonified
Etymology: From stone + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To petrify (as a mineral, to harden).
glosses: To become stone, to turn to stone.
glosses: To immobilize.
stonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonkers
Etymology: From stonk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Every record he played was a stonker.
glosses: Something highly impressive.
glosses: A large or intense penile erection.
stonker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stonkers
form: stonkering
form: stonkered
form: stonkered
Etymology: From stonk + -er.
Senses: synonyms: stonk
glosses: To defeat decisively; to trounce.
examples: text: This sort of stonkers me, but I says to him: […]
ref: 2018, Arthur W. Upfield, Kees de Hoog, Up and Down Australia Again:
synonyms: snooker
glosses: To baffle or dumbfound.
Derived terms: stonkered
stooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stookers
Etymology: From stook + -er.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: One who stooks, as:
A person (e.g., smallholder, farm laborer) who gathers sheaves into stooks (shocks).
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: One who stooks, as:
A piece of mechanized farm equipment that does such a job, such as a bale stooker behind a baler or a sheaf stooker behind a binder (the latter type is largely obsolete).
Synonyms: english: but this sense of that word is rare
translation: but this sense of that word is rare
word: shocker
stookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stookies
Etymology: From stucco + -ie.
Senses: glosses: plaster of Paris
examples: text: So it was a stookie on my arm. The bone would get better. If it knitted.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 70:
glosses: A plaster cast.
glosses: idiot
glosses: small plaster statue
Derived terms: stand like a stookie
stoole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stooles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stool.
stooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːli
Forms: form: stoolies
Etymology: From stool + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stoolie.
stoopball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoop ball
Etymology: From stoop + ball.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game played by bouncing a ball off a step or stoop.
stoop ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stoopball.
lictorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lictorial
form: most lictorial
Etymology: From lictor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lictor
stoopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stoopy
form: most stoopy
Etymology: From stoop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Prone to stooping or being bent.
stoove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stooves
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stove.
rype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rypes
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish rype.
Senses: examples: text: The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.
ref: 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, volume 32, page 426:
glosses: A bird, the ptarmigan.
rype
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ripe.
Stoppardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: more Stoppardian
form: most Stoppardian
Etymology: From Stoppard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or similar in style to, Tom Stoppard, a British playwright and screenwriter
Ephesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfiːʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Etymology: From Ephesus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Ephesus.
Ephesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfiːʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: Ephesians
Etymology: From Ephesus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Ephesus.
examples: text: It is thine host, thine / Ephesian, calls.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 16:
glosses: A jolly companion; a roisterer.
Derived terms: Ephesians
Colossian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Colossae
Colossian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colossians
Senses: glosses: Someone from Colossae
Philippian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Philippi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Philippi.
Philippian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philippians
Etymology: From Philippi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Philippi.
Philippian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philippians
Senses: glosses: A Philippist.
Philippian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Philippists or to Philip Melanchthon.
farmhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmhand
farrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farrow
farrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of farrow
farrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of farrow
farrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Producing a litter of piglets.
farrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farrowings
Senses: glosses: The act of producing a litter of pigs.
farrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of farrow
fantasises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fantasise
fantasising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fantasise
fantasising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasisings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fantasizing.
fantasised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fantasise
fatties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatty
glosses: Wider than standard vehicular tyres.
flutists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutist
faultier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of faulty: more faulty
faultiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of faulty: most faulty
feistier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of feisty: more feisty
feistiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of feisty: most feisty
fearfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fearful: more fearful
fearfullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fearful: most fearful
fetlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetlock
fussier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fussy: more fussy
fussiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fussy: most fussy
equilibrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equilibrists
Etymology: First attested in the mid 18th century. From French équilibriste, from équilibre (“balance”).
Senses: glosses: A tightrope walker.
equilibrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equilibrist
egg nog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg nogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eggnog.
formal semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the semantics, or interpretations, of formal languages.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages
primitive concept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitive concepts
Senses: examples: text: Every concept admitted in geometry is either a primitive concept, or else is obtained by a definition in terms of the primitive concepts.
ref: 1936, Arnold Dresden, An Invitation to Mathematics:
text: A primitive concept is essential to the representation of the specialty. A defined concept is built from one or more primitive concepts and one or more relationships.
ref: 2005, Rolf Engelbrecht, A. Geissbuhler, C. Lovis, Connecting Medical Informatics and Bio-Informatics:
glosses: Synonym of primitive notion.
synonyms: word: primitive notion
radium dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radium dials
Senses: glosses: The dial of a watch or clock on which the hours have been marked with a radium compound to make them luminous
radix sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radix sorts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various sorting algorithms in which items are processed according to the value of each digit or character in turn
bridge spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridge spiders
Senses: glosses: A large orb weaver often found on bridges and near water (Larinioides sclopetarius).
Synonyms: gray cross spider
tangental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tangent + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of tangential.
pulse detonation engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse detonation engines
Senses: glosses: A jet engine driven by repeated detonations within the engine.
Synonyms: PDE
Related terms: pulsejet
turbojet
scramjet
ramjet
metaevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaevolutions
form: meta-evolution
Etymology: From meta- + evolution.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, however, it has become increasingly realized that symbiosis is at the core of the evolution of evolutionary levels and mechanisms—of a metaevolution—in the microevolution of life.
ref: 1980, Erich Jantsch, “Ethics and Evolution”, in The North American Review, volume 265, number 3, page 16:
text: The notion of event is also associated with that of metaevolution in biology (the evolution of the evolutionary processes themselves).
ref: 2004, Elías Palti, “The ‘Return of the Subject’ as a Historico-Intellectual Problem”, in History and Theory, vol. 43, no. 1, p. 76, note 53:
ref: 2000, David Hunter Tow, The Future of Life: Meta-Evolution: A Unified Theory of Evolution:
topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems. Applying evolutionary concepts to non-living systems. Applying evolutionary concepts to individual learning and personal development. Examining the implications and past and future developments of evolution.
Third World War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Third World War
Senses: glosses: World War III
Related terms: First World War
Second World War
argumentum ad hominem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argumenta ad hominem
form: argumentums ad hominem
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: “He is an ass on two legs, the like of which was never seen before; so go home with your logic you old heathen vagabond, and teach your grandmother to milk the ducks!” The legend which we draw on, and which, never having been in print, we quote from memory, states that this argumentum ad hominem drew down great applause from the saint's supporters, and loud cries of "order" from the ministerial side of the house.
ref: 1843 March 13, “St. Patrick's Day”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 2, number 46, page 185:
text: [T]hey prefer argumentum ad hominem, which is a hell of a way to conduct a discussion.
ref: 1976, Scott Beach, “Religion & Politics”, in Dr. Demento’s Dementia Royale:
text: The Fat Clown Derek keeps saying that I am making an argumentum ad hominem against him[.]
ref: 2002 January 13, “Latin & Logic: Derek the Fat Clown knows neither”, in alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian (Usenet):
glosses: A type of fallacious argument in which the attempt is made to refute a theory or belief by discrediting the person(s) who advocate that theory or belief; an ad hominem argument.
Synonyms: ad hominem
ad hominem argument
Related terms: tu quoque
two wrongs don't make a right
clinical death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinical deaths
Senses: examples: text: The body dies in stages, beginning at clinical death, then brain death, biological death, and finally, cellular death.
ref: 1988, Andrea K. Scott, “Death Unto Life: Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors,”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 74, number 8, page 1533:
topics: law
medicine
sciences
glosses: A state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived.
Related terms: clinically dead
brain death
information-theoretic death
clinically dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours.
ref: 1974, “Natural Sciences: Supercooling dogs,”, in Science News, volume 106, number 23, page 360:
topics: law
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived.
Related terms: clinical death
brain-dead
kabaragoya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabaragoyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese කබරගොයා (kabaragoyā).
Senses: examples: text: The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter[…].
ref: 1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287:
text: […]I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas;[…].
ref: 2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37:
text: Cobras had nothing to fear from men; their most deadly enemy was the kabaragoya, of which two called our campus home.
ref: 2009, H. Ronken Lynton, Veiled Destinies, page 52:
text: 2012, Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne), Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, page 150,
A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail.
glosses: The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
water monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water monitors
Senses: glosses: An Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), a large lizard native to Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: word: kabaragoya
Derived terms: taxonomic: Varanus cumingi
word: Cuming's water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus marmorata
word: marbled water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus mertensi
word: Mertens's water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus cumingi
word: Mindanao water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus mitchelli
word: Mitchell's water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus palawanensis
word: Palawan water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus cumingi
word: Philippine water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus cumingi
word: yellow-headed water monitor
kabassou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabassous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cabassou.
cabassou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæbəsuː/
Forms: form: cabassous
form: kabassou
Etymology: From French kabassou.
Senses: glosses: The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
Synonyms: sense: Cabassous unicinctus
word: twelve-banded armadillo
kabaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabayas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kebaya.
common snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common snipes
form: common snipe
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Gallinago gallinago.
kabballah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
kabbalah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabbalahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
common snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common snipe
kabbelow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabeliau
form: cabilliau
Senses: glosses: A meal consisting of potato and cabbage mashed together.
glosses: Cod that has been salted and hung for a few days.
kabeljou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːbəljaʊ/
Forms: form: kabeljous
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans kabeljou, from Dutch kabeljauw (“cod”).
Senses: glosses: A type of fish from southern Africa, Argyrosomus coronus.
Synonyms: word: dusky kob
english: occasionally spelled cob
translation: occasionally spelled cob
word: giant kob
taxonomic: Argyrosomus thorpei
word: not to be confused with the squaretail kob
word: daga salmon
kabitka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabitkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibitka.