cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Miguel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈɡɛl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish.
glosses: A surname from Portuguese or Spanish.
Derived terms: Río Grande de San Miguel
San Miguel de Mercedes
San Miguel de Tucumán
San Miguel Ilawod
San Miguel Ilaya
San Miguel Tepezontes
wordplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordplays
Etymology: From word + play.
Senses: examples: text: Even this modest wordplay was an outlier: Sagers counted only three backronyms across the ’70s and ’80s.
ref: 2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2022:
glosses: A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
glosses: A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.
examples: text: delete the T from another part in the wordplay
ref: 2012 June 13, Denise Sutherland, Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 105:
text: However, some clues include words that do not form part of the wordplay or the definition.
ref: 2014, Henry Howarth, Learn How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords: A Course for Beginners, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 59:
coordinate_terms: definition
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: The part of a cryptic clue that indicates but does not define the solution.
Synonyms: joke
Related terms: wordplayer
pun
repartee
word game
heartbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːt.bɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/
Forms: form: heartbreaks
Etymology: From heart + break. Compare heartache § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: broken heart
glosses: Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
Derived terms: heartbreak grass
Related terms: word: break someone's heart
word: broken heart
word: broken-hearted
word: heartachingly
word: heartbroken
Armstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːmˌstɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɑŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, arm + strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928).
Senses: examples: text: With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”
ref: 2025 May 26, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Jesse Armstrong, “From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:
glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms.
glosses: A city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
glosses: A small town in the Rural City of Ararat, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A city in the Regional District of North Okanagan, British Columbia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A township in Timiskaming District, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A rural community and First Nation settlement in Thunder Bay District, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Synonym of Termo, California.
synonyms: word: Termo
word: California
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in St. Johns County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Wilkes County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Emmet County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Howard County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kenedy County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Osceola, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Armstrong County
Armstrong limit
Armstrong line
Armstrong number
Armstrong oscillator
Armstrong's axioms
Bowen-Armstrong syndrome
Captain Armstrong
King-Armstrong unit
Armstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːmˌstɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɑŋ/
Forms: form: Armstrongs
Etymology: By surface analysis, arm + strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928).
Senses: examples: text: There would be a special commendation for the Royal Artillery, who were handling their Armstrongs with great precision and a speed Wolseley had never seen before in muzzle-loading guns.
ref: 2010, Peter G. Tsouras, A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril:
glosses: Ellipsis of Armstrong gun.
buttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of button
buttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttoned
form: most buttoned
Senses: examples: text: a buttoned sofa
glosses: Having a button or buttons.
glosses: Having the buttons fastened.
Derived terms: buttoned-down
buttoned-up
buttoned up
multibuttoned
unbuttoned
pick and roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick and rolls
Senses: examples: text: He and [Dennis] Schröder developing pick-and-roll chemistry will certainly be an objective. [Markieff] Morris has a tendency to linger around the mid-range area after setting ball screens, but when he’s popping beyond the 3-point line, he can hurt defenses.
ref: 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass.
Related terms: pick and pop
Eliza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlaɪzə/
rhymes: -aɪzə
Etymology: Shortened from Elizabeth.
Senses: examples: text: "My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."
ref: 1993, Ruth Rendell, The Crocodile Bird, page 76:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.
360 backflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 360 backflips
Etymology: From 360, the number of degrees in a full rotation, + backflip, the class of maneuvers that begin similarly.
Senses: glosses: A maneuver in various sports (such as skateboarding) in which the player flips backwards, rotates a full turn, and finishes travelling in the original direction.
elevator music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Used in the first elevators to reduce anxiousness.
Senses: glosses: Bland, inoffensive music played as a background in elevators and businesses (such as offices and shopping malls).
Synonyms: word: lift music
word: muzak
Related terms: Muzak
wiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: wizzes
Etymology: Clipping of wizard.
Senses: examples: text: a maths wiz
glosses: A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
examples: text: One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.
ref: 2000, Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, revised edition, page 154:
text: The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
ref: 2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:
glosses: A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
wiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: wizzes
form: wizzing
form: wizzed
form: wizzed
Etymology: Clipping of wizard.
Senses: examples: text: I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.
glosses: To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest.
wiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: wizzes
Etymology: Onomatopoeic for the sound made by urination.
Senses: examples: text: I have to take a wiz.
glosses: Alternative spelling of whiz: an act of urination.
Derived terms: take a wiz
wiz
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: See with.
Senses: qualifier: especially represents slurred or drunken speech
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with.
suplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuplɛks/
rhymes: -uːplɛks
Forms: form: suplexes
Etymology: Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.
Derived terms: fisherman's suplex
suplex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuplɛks/
rhymes: -uːplɛks
Forms: form: suplexes
form: suplexing
form: suplexed
form: suplexed
Etymology: Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To subject to this maneuver.
magneto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɡˈniːtəʊ/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: magnetos
Etymology: Clipping of magneto-electric (machine).
Senses: examples: text: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
ref: 1965, Popular Mechanics, volume 123, number 3, page 140:
glosses: A small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine (now mostly used in aircraft).
recluse spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recluse spiders
Senses: synonyms: brown spider
fiddle-back
violin spider
reaper
glosses: Any of many small venomous spiders of the genera Loxosceles and Sicarius.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Loxosceles reclusa
word: brown recluse spider
taxonomic: Loxosceles laeta
word: Chilean recluse spider
taxonomic: Loxosceles rufescens
word: Mediterranean recluse spider
taxonomic: Loxosceles devia
word: Texas recluse spider
yuzu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːzuː/
Forms: form: yuzus
Etymology: From Japanese 柚子 (yuzu).
Senses: examples: text: She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.
ref: 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: clementine#Noun
tangerine#Noun
mandarin
mandarin orange#Noun
sweet orange#Noun
orange#Noun
lemon#Noun
lime#Noun
grapefruit#Noun
glosses: A citrus fruit originating in East Asia, Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata var. austera.
puddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puddle
puddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puddle
gestation period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gestation periods
Senses: glosses: the average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant
glow discharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glow discharges
Senses: glosses: A form of electrical conduction in low-pressure gases (plasmas) that emits light.
Related terms: word: dark space
word: cathode
word: Aston dark space
word: cathode glow
alt: also called Crookes dark space or Hittorf dark space
word: cathode dark space
word: negative glow
word: Faraday dark space
word: positive column
word: anode glow
word: anode dark space
word: anode
word: cathode fall
gnotobiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science involved with maintaining a microbiologically controlled environment.
Related terms: word: gnotobiont
word: gnotobiota
word: gnotobiote
word: gnotobiotic
superpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpowers
Etymology: From super- + power.
Senses: examples: text: Our superpower competition will be reunified Germany (perhaps together with its European satellites) and expanding Japan (perhaps allied with China, if they can bring that off).
ref: 1990 February 5, William Safire, “Staying a Superpower”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The year 1945 marked the end of Europe's global hegemony and confirmed the US and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.
ref: 1999, David Held, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, page 97:
text: Deals unveiled during US President Donald Trump's recent visit to the region showcased Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates' aspirations to become AI superpowers.
ref: 2025 June 7, “Gulf states tussle to become AI superpowers using imported chips and talent”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 8:
glosses: A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
examples: text: Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures.
ref: 1994, C. J. Lee, Caldwell Lee the Poet to Be: The Forthright Omnipotence Era, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:
text: This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking.
ref: 2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 258:
text: If I could have a superpower id^([sic]) want to be able to teleport. I hate walking and driving gives me headaches.
ref: 2021 December 6, Givinuplol, belugasareneat, “What superpower you would like?”, in reddit.com:
text: Trump’s superpower at home has long been to command intense loyalty from fellow Republicans.
ref: 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic:
text: This is an incredible superpower on demand that would have been unimaginable at any previous time in history.
ref: 2025 August 7, Sam Altman, Introducing GPT-5:
glosses: An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
glosses: Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: power tower
antonyms: superlogarithm
glosses: A tetration.
glosses: Excessive or superior power.
Derived terms: superpowerdom
superpowerhood
superpower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superpowers
form: superpowering
form: superpowered
form: superpowered
Etymology: From super- + power.
Senses: glosses: To give extraordinary powers to.
breasticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breasticle
sex on a stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1996, Ken Follett, Third Twin http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Third_Twin.html?id=IcYbe7qsPsQC
She put in her favorite nose jewel, a small sapphire in a silver mount. In the mirror she looked like sex-on-a-stick.
2002, Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=hC3U4yk1uwgC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&sig=UoDnDEgc0Xv00HQ2KSi8d-5JvLw
Tina was sex-on-a-stick, so he had to be vigilant.
2002, Katie Fforde, Second Thyme Around http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=Za42q2adovIC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&sig=XHyGyje1ah66H9DqRtbA7iPIR6k
But then, Geoff couldn’t exactly be described as sex on a stick, not even by a frustrated divorcee like herself.
2004, Karin Slaughter, Indelible http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=TaG66xrpjCwC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=23AgA9D-Mh-EoC8iHA4_TPtgOvY
“What’d Jill-June say?” / “That he’s sex on a stick.[”] / Sara smiled at the understatement.
glosses: A very sexually attractive person or persons.
Synonyms: sex on legs
pwn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: other: /əʊn/
other: /oʊn/
ipa: /pəʊn/
ipa: /pɔːn/
ipa: /piˈəʊn/
ipa: /poʊn/
ipa: /piˈoʊn/
ipa: /pɔn/
ipa: /piˈɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -əʊn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -oʊn
Forms: form: pwns
form: pwning
form: pwned
form: pwned
form: pwnd
form: pwnd
form: pwnt
form: pwnt
Etymology: From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).
Senses: examples: text: I pwned them in game!
text: 2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"
ref: 1999 August 5, Quaestor, “Re: [SP] So..the first victim of the Evil/Hero System”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 2016, message-ID <37AA8154.D77E6EB8@Skara.Brae>:
text: Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack. Fury completely pwns!
ref: 2001, Edward Glamkowski, alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet):
text: When you get to the Temple of Marr, look very closely at the vases at zone-in and see if you can find the picture where Mith Marr "pwns" someone.
ref: 2003, James Grahame, alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
text: My Trident pwns the Cirrus Logics!
ref: 2004, Bronney Hui, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet):
text: NOOBZ STILL R NOT PWNED. CONTINUE PWNERSHIP UNTIL ALL NOOBZ R PWNED.
ref: 2005, AlphaDream, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Nintendo:
text: The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).
ref: 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: games
gaming
synonyms: own
pwnz0r
glosses: To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
Derived terms: pwnage
pwner
pwnz0r
pwn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /əʊn/
other: /oʊn/
ipa: /pəʊn/
ipa: /pɔːn/
ipa: /piˈəʊn/
ipa: /poʊn/
ipa: /piˈoʊn/
ipa: /pɔn/
ipa: /piˈɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -əʊn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -oʊn
Forms: form: pwns
Etymology: From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).
Senses: glosses: Triumph, victory. Often exclaimed after an opponent in a video game is defeated.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code.
tropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropic
tropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the tropics
Senses: examples: text: The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 165:
text: ‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
Synonyms: tropical zone
torrid zone
Related terms: tropical
reinsurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinsurances
Etymology: From re- + insurance.
Senses: examples: text: Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business.
ref: 2019 June 19, “Sompo International to Leverage AIR's Innovative Casualty Analytics Solution for Multi-Line Risk Analysis”, in CNN Money:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized.
Derived terms: Re
minimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.əˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmɑɪz/
Forms: form: minimizes
form: minimizing
form: minimized
form: minimized
form: minimise
Etymology: From Latin minimus + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We have to minimize the budget.
text: Try to minimize your biases.
text: Terry, author of the indispensable Terry's Guide to Mexico, has a name for it – atrabiliousness. "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects. To the observer it minimizes the grandeur of the conception […]"
ref: 1948, Willard Price, Roving South, Rio Grande to Patagonia, New York, N.Y.: J. Day Co., →OCLC, page 13:
text: For accurate stopping, the drive must incorporate means for minimizing inertia overdrift.
ref: 1954, Instruments and Control Systems - Volume 27, page 1466:
text: One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.
ref: 2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime:
glosses: To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
examples: text: The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.
glosses: To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
examples: text: I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
examples: text: […] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […]
ref: 1993, Jan McDaniel, One Golden Summer, page 95:
glosses: To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
Derived terms: minimand
minimizable
minimization
minimizer
unminimize
unminimized
superpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpower
associations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz/
ipa: /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃənz/
ipa: /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃənz/
ipa: /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of association
boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊts/
ipa: /boʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of boat
boats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊts/
ipa: /boʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boat
suppletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈpliːʃən/
Forms: form: suppletions
Etymology: From German Suppletivwesen, from Latin supplēre (“to supply”), perfect stem supplet-, + -ion.
Senses: coordinate_terms: supplementation
;
repletion
;
completion
;
augmentation
glosses: The supplying of something lacking.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives.
Related terms: supplement
supplementary
suppletive
supply
noncognate
associates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsoʊʃi.əts/
ipa: /əˈsoʊsi.əts/
ipa: /əˈsəʊʃi.əts/
ipa: /əˈsəʊsi.əts/
Senses: glosses: plural of associate
associates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsoʊʃieɪts/
ipa: /əˈsoʊsieɪts/
ipa: /əˈsəʊʃieɪts/
ipa: /əˈsəʊsieɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of associate
associating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of associate
privileges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of privilege
privileges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of privilege
privileged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of privilege
privileged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more privileged
form: most privileged
Senses: examples: text: "You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
glosses: Having special privileges.
topics: law
glosses: Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.
Derived terms: negatively privileged
privileged debt
privileged sanctuary
white privileged
shitake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitakes
form: shitake
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shiitake.
accompanies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accompany
privileging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of privilege
privileging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privilegings
Senses: examples: text: We must not forget such similar privilegings of harmonic elements as the medieval theologian's analogy between the interrelation of musical sounds and the silences punctuating them […]
ref: 2011, Stephen Gersh, Concord in Discourse:
glosses: The process by which something is made privileged.
accompanying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more accompanying
form: most accompanying
Senses: examples: text: The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge
ref: 1848, S. T. Coleridge, Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life, Preface:
glosses: Present together.
Derived terms: nonaccompanying
accompanying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accompany
accompanying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: accompanyings
Senses: examples: text: He was seated / Among his equals; and a holiday / With its accompanyings — loud laughs, and jests, / And boisterous mirth — sped merrily […]
ref: 1839, William Thompson Bacon, Poems, page 46:
glosses: That which accompanies; accompaniment.
transrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more transrational
form: most transrational
Etymology: From trans- + rational.
Senses: qualifier: experience etc.
glosses: Beyond the rational; of a scope superseding yet including the rational.
raw_tags: of thought
Synonyms: metaphysical
superrational
harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹi.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: harriers
Etymology: From harry + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who harries.
glosses: Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.
glosses: A runner, specifically, a cross country runner.
glosses: A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.
Derived terms: word: African harrier-hawk
word: African marsh harrier
word: Circus ranivorus
word: black harrier
word: Circus maurus
word: cinereous harrier
word: Circus cinereus
word: eastern marsh harrier
word: Circus spilonotus
word: harrier carrier
word: harrier-hawk
word: Harrier jump jet
word: hen harrier
word: Circus cyaneus
word: long-winged harrier
word: Circus buffoni
word: Malagasy marsh harrier
word: Circus maillardi
taxonomic: Circus spp.
word: marsh harrier
word: Montagu's harrier
word: Circus pygargus
word: northern harrier
word: Circus hudsonius
word: pallid harrier
word: Circus macrourus
word: pied harrier
word: Circus melanoleucos
word: spotted harrier
word: Circus assimilis
word: swamp harrier
word: Circus approximans
word: Western marsh harrier
word: Circus aeruginosus
decathlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæθliːt/
Forms: form: decathletes
Etymology: From deca- + athlete.
Senses: examples: text: Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait.
ref: 2007 February 9, Juliet Macur, “Decathletes Struggle for Any Recognition”, in The New York Times:
text: “Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”
ref: 2021 June 7, Shauna Farnell, “An Olympic Hurdle: Why Is the Decathlon Only for Men?”, in The New York Times:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the decathlon.
Related terms: heptathlete
Lisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: lēʹsə
enpr: lēʹzə
enpr: līʹzə
ipa: /ˈliːsə/
ipa: /ˈliːzə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪzə/
enpr: lēʹsə
enpr: lēʹzə
enpr: līʹzə
ipa: /ˈlisə/
ipa: /ˈlizə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪzə/
rhymes: -iːsə
rhymes: -iːzə
rhymes: -aɪzə
homophone: LISA
homophone: Liza
homophone: liza
Forms: form: Lisas
Etymology: Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.
Senses: examples: text: You were born in the '70s? Were you named after Lisa on As the World Turns?
text: Elizabeth coloured.
"Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully.
"Nonsense, Lisa!" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake."
ref: 1868, William Meynell Whittmore, editor, Sunshine, page 138:
text: Lisa is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.
ref: 1997, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, Grove Press, →ISBN:
text: Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen?
I did.
ref: 2007, Elinor Lipman, My Latest Grievance, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Lisa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēʹsə
enpr: lēʹzə
enpr: līʹzə
ipa: /ˈliːsə/
ipa: /ˈliːzə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪzə/
enpr: lēʹsə
enpr: lēʹzə
enpr: līʹzə
ipa: /ˈlisə/
ipa: /ˈlizə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪzə/
rhymes: -iːsə
rhymes: -iːzə
rhymes: -aɪzə
homophone: LISA
homophone: Liza
homophone: liza
Forms: form: Lisas
Etymology: Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.
Senses: examples: text: Both Macs and Lisas, along with Imagewriter printers, are part of the convention network organized by Sytek of Mountain View, California.
ref: 1984 July 23, Peggy Watt, “Democrats Computerize Politics”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 30, page 24:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Apple Lisa.
glosses: An idealised girlfriend.
avoision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of avoidance + evasion
Senses: examples: text: "Avoision" is how I referred to the panoply of questionable conduct about whose status as either avoidance or evasion we couldn't make up our minds.
ref: 1996, Leo Katz, Ill-Gotten Gains, University of Chicago Press, page 52:
text: "Seldon (1979) coined the term 'Avoision' to indicate 'the blurring between tax avoidance and evasion that arises from the looser connection between the legal and the moral'"
ref: 2008, Alan Lewis, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, page 306:
topics: economics
government
law
sciences
taxation
glosses: Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
Synonyms: tax avoision
tax avoision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
government
law
sciences
taxation
glosses: Synonym of avoision.
synonyms: word: avoision
tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: tropics
form: trop.
form: tropick
form: Tropic
Etymology: From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
Senses: examples: text: O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]
ref: 1645, James Howell, “England’s Tears, for the Present Wars, which for the Nature of the Quarrel, the Quality of the Strength, the Diversity of Battels, Skirmishes, Encounters, and Sieges, (Happened in so Short a Compasse of Time) Cannot be Parallel’d in Any Precedent Age”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]: Dodona’s Grove, or The Vocall Forrest. The Third Edition More Exact and Perfect than the Former; with the Addition of Two Other Tracts: viz. Englands Tears for the Present Wars. And The Pre-eminence of Parlements, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 189:
text: For since on ev'ry Sea, on ev'ry Coast,
Your Men have been distress'd, your Navy tost,
Sev'n times the Sun has either Tropick view'd,
ref: 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil, Aeneas, Book I, lines 1062-64
roman: The Winter banishish'd, and the Spring renew'd.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
Derived terms: Northern Tropic
Southern Tropic
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more tropic
form: most tropic
form: trop.
form: tropick
form: Tropic
Etymology: From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
Hot and humid.
examples: text: The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
examples: text: This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]
ref: 2006, Aaron Santesso, A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Tropes may also interact with other tropes: a trope (for example, a metonymic association) may become an element in a different trope (for instance, a metaphor), and thus undergo a transformation of its tropic identity.
ref: 2006 October 27, Jens Kreinath, J.A.M. Snoek, Michael Stausberg, Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, BRILL, →ISBN, page 702:
text: As these examples indicate, the functioning of ritual symbols as “pivots” for the projection of efficacy between frames involves the use of symbols as tropes. The tropic uses of symbols in ritual specify the aspects of their range of[…]
ref: 2021 January 14, Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey, James W. Fernandez, Tropological Thought and Action: Essays on the Poetics of Imagination, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
Derived terms: dual-tropic
intertropical
semitropical
subtropical
subtropics
tropic acid
tropical
tropic hormone
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Related terms: trope
-tropic
tropism
tropo-
-tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Compare trope and tropic.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Turning or changing.
examples: text: psycho- (“mind”) + -tropic (“altering”) → psychotropic (“mind-altering”)
topics: sciences
glosses: Affecting or attracted to the thing specified.
Related terms: trope
-trope
tropic
-tropism
tropism
tropo-
-tropy
torrid zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
glosses: The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.
Tropic of Cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tropic of Cancer
Etymology: The Sun was in the constellation Cancer at the June solstice when it was named.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: Northern Tropic
coordinate_terms: Tropic of Capricorn
glosses: The parallel of latitude 23°26′ north of the equator, marking the northern boundary of the tropics; the sun is directly overhead at the June solstice.
Tropic of Capricorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tropic of Capricorn
Etymology: The Sun was in the constellation Capricorn at the December solstice when it was named.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: Southern Tropic
coordinate_terms: Tropic of Cancer
glosses: The parallel of latitude 23°26′ south of the equator, marking the southern boundary of the tropics; the sun is directly overhead at the December solstice.
decurions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decurion
decurion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkjʊəɹɪən/
Forms: form: decurions
Etymology: From Latin decuriō.
Senses: glosses: An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
glosses: A member of local government in ancient Rome.
Synonyms: word: tithingman
decuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decurias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decury.
decurtate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decurtate
form: most decurtate
Etymology: First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt.
Senses: examples: text: Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
ref: 1859, F. Hall, Vásavadattá (Preface 8):
glosses: Shortened, curtailed.
decurtate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decurtates
form: decurtating
form: decurtated
form: decurtated
Etymology: First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt.
Senses: examples: text: Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein.
ref: 1973, Sōji Iwasaki, The Sword and the Word: Shakespeare's Tragic Sense of Time, page 15:
glosses: To cut short.
Related terms: decurtation
deep-rooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹʊtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;
ref: 1662, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: Thomas Williams, page 186:
text: 1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193,
Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves,
Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves;
Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand,
Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?
text: 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302,
And now the flying bark full near approach’d,
When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm
Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became
Deep-rooted stone.
text: [His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 517:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a plant, having deep roots; (of a non-living object) deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.).
examples: text: They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.
text: […] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.
ref: 1631, John Ball, A Treatise of Faith, London: Edward Brewster, Part 1, Chapter 3, p:
text: Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.
ref: 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:
text: 1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177,
Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch:
text: “He may be very well okay as a person. But other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”
ref: 1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 14, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 263:
text: The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.
ref: 2022 March 9, “Network News: East London drainage work”, in RAIL, number 952, page 16:
synonyms: ineradicable
bred-in-the-bone
deep-seated
deep-lying
glosses: Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.
Derived terms: deep-rootedness
de-escalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɛskəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: de-escalations
form: deescalation
Etymology: From de- + escalation.
Senses: examples: text: The efforts at de-escalation have been many and varied. The most obvious have been high-level visits to Israel from US, UK and German leaders.
ref: 2023 October 22, Jason Burke, “The week the world tried to stop Gaza spinning out of control”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
antonyms: escalation
glosses: A decrease in scope, extension or severity.
Related terms: de-escalate