cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
do time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does time
form: doing time
form: did time
form: done time
Senses: examples: text: My wife is unavailable for three months, as she's doing time for fraud.
text: Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
In a Federal prison for his infamous crime
ref: 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
glosses: To spend time in prison (as a prisoner) or in the military (as a servicemember).
Synonyms: be banged up
be inside
do bird
do porridge
live at Her Majesty's pleasure
serve time
Derived terms: do one's own time
if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
orthostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ortho- + stasis
Senses: examples: text: lightheadedness during orthostasis
topics: sciences
synonyms: orthostatism
glosses: The act or status of standing upright.
examples: text: A history of orthostasis prompts some caution in prescribing of antihypertensives.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of orthostatic hypotension.
Related terms: word: clino-orthostatic
word: orthostat
word: orthostatic
down under
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: Down Under
Etymology: Refers to the fact that the Australian continent lies south of, colloquially thought of as 'below' or 'under', the equator.
Senses: examples: text: Surfing is a popular sport down under.
glosses: In Australia.
examples: text: We traveled down under for our vacation.
text: Thank you Boris and I want to thank that fella down under. Thank you very much, pal; appreciate it Mr. Prime Minister.
ref: 2021 September 15, Joe Biden, White House:
glosses: Into Australia; to Australia.
glosses: By extension, anywhere, or to anywhere, south of the Equator
glosses: Hell; in Hell.
Related terms: stateside
land down under
OTIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: DIFOT
glosses: Initialism of on time in full (delivery), referring to project deliverables being delivered according to plan and complete.
outlying field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outlying fields
form: OLF
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An airfield outside of the homebase.
lowliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowlinesses
Etymology: From lowly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lowly.
drop someone a line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops someone a line
form: dropping someone a line
form: dropped someone a line
form: dropped someone a line
Senses: examples: text: If you get a chance, drop me a line when you arrive in Cairo.
glosses: To write and send (someone) a note or telegram.
Synonyms: buzz
call
ring up
low-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low-minded
form: most low-minded
Senses: examples: text: To low-minded, wanton, and passionate persons it appears most cruel that there should be an obstacle in their way to satisfy their carnal appetite, or that a punishment should be inflicted for their doings.
ref: 2015, Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a coarse, unrefined, vulgar demeanor.
examples: text: Should you go out with a boy just in order to leave the house and be seen in other places? This seemed mean and low-minded.
ref: 2013, Caroline B. Cooney, Fatal Bargain, →ISBN:
text: 'Now, upon my soul, you know,' said Mr Chuckster, shaking his head gravely, as men are wont to do when they consider things are going a little too far, 'this is altogether such a low-minded affair, that if I didn't feel for the governor, and know that he could never get on without me, I should be obliged to cut the connection.'
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop:
glosses: Dishonorable.
Derived terms: low-mindedly
low-mindedness
high-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-minded
form: most high-minded
Senses: examples: text: Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Author and the Actress”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Given to idealism.
examples: text: After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
glosses: Proud or arrogant.
glosses: Magnanimous.
Derived terms: high-mindedly
high-mindedness
owner-operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owner-operators
Senses: glosses: Someone who both owns and operates a piece of equipment, especially a semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry). They are a contractor; they may be a commercial carrier, but most often they provide capacity (trucks and drivers, with or without trailers or chassis) to either commercial or private carriers as a subcontractor.
Related terms: cabowner
owner-driver
truck driver
people's republic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's republics
form: People's Republic
Etymology: Calque of Russian народная республика (narodnaja respublika) (from народный (narodnyj) + республика (respublika) “people's republic, popular republic, national republic”), coined in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attested in English from 1918.
Senses: examples: text: The Ukrainian People’s Republic brings the following to the knowledge of all belligerents: The Central Rada, on Nov. 20, proclaimed a People’s Republic
ref: 1918, New York Times, Current History, volume VII, page 289:
text: Some China experts argue that the internal difficulties of the People’s Republic in the foreseeable future would prevent it from taking military attack against Taiwan.
ref: 1977, Hungdah Chiu, Normalization of Relations with the People's Republic of China (U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs), page 218:
text: The Front’s aim is to create a new republic, a true people’s republic.
ref: 2018 December 30, Jyoti Rahman, “A people’s republic”, in Dhaka Times:
glosses: A self-designation of states with Marxist–Leninist governments.
examples: text: Remember, this study was conducted in Massachusetts, in the politically liberal climate of the “People's Republic of Cambridge,” where parents strive almost as hard to create racially nonbiased behavior in their children as they do to get them into the proper school.
ref: 2013, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People, page 133:
text: Boulder is one of the few places in the country where you don’t pull weeds out of your garden — you mix them into your brownies. You gotta love a city that everyone refers to as, “The People’s Republic of Boulder.”
ref: 2015, “In Boulder, the People’s Republic revisted”, in The Denver Post:
glosses: A particular area with strong, left-leaning tendencies, especially one with a certain level of autonomy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see people, 's, republic.
Synonyms: word: popular republic
word: national republic
Derived terms: Donetsk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic
Mongolian People's Republic
People's Republic
People's Republic of Bangladesh
People's Republic of China
Related terms: word: Soviet republic
word: Soviet Socialist Republic
english: any of the SSRs that constituted the USSR, the union of SSRs
translation: any of the SSRs that constituted the USSR, the union of SSRs
word: SSR
cultured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃəd/
Forms: form: more cultured
form: most cultured
Senses: glosses: Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
examples: cultured voice
cultured plant
glosses: Artificially developed.
Synonyms: cultivated
Derived terms: aquacultured
cocultured
cultured meat
culturedness
cultured stone
encultured
histocultured
like-cultured
miscultured
monocultured
multicultured
noncultured
overcultured
polycultured
precultured
recultured
subcultured
uncultured
cultured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of culture
cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture
cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of culture
subculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃɚ/
Forms: form: subcultures
Etymology: From sub- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.
text: Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
ref: 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 7:
text: Joybubbles (the legal name of the former Joe Engressia since 1991), a blind genius with perfect pitch who accidentally found he could make free phone calls by whistling tones and went on to play a pivotal role in the 1970s subculture of “phone phreaks,” died on Aug. 8 in Minneapolis.
ref: 2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2022:
text: White Americans are transitioning toward minority status for the first time. As they do, perhaps their ways will be treated less as the default mainstream, and more as subcultures among subcultures.
ref: 2014 November 24, Anand Giridharadas, “How to Talk About Race Without Talking About Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2021:
text: White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.
ref: 2021 July 9, Michelle Goldberg, “The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2021:
glosses: A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features, often in contrast to the larger mainstream culture.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A culture made by transferring microorganisms from a previous culture to a fresh growth medium
Related terms: idioculture
subculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃɚ/
Forms: form: subcultures
form: subculturing
form: subcultured
form: subcultured
Etymology: From sub- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d.
ref: 1990, Heidi F. Kaeppler et al., “Silicon carbide fiber-mediated DNA delivery into plant cells”, in Plant Cell Reports, volume 9, number 8:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
fat chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fat chance that I’ll ever go back to Swansea.
text: As soon as the word comes out of your mouth […] your own servant is going to size you up as one of those limousine liberals, or whatever epithet they use, who are busy pouring white soul all over the black movement, and would you do as much for the white lower class, for the domestics of the East Side, for example, fat chance, sahib.
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Little or no chance, a low or nonexistent likelihood of occurrence or success; a faint chance.
wikipedia: Fat Chance
Related terms: fat lot
no chance
not a chance
chance'd be a fine thing
slim chance
luxuriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: luxuriations
Etymology: From luxury + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Oliver. I’m sure he does. The wavy he suns himself here—like a cat purring in his luxuriation.
ref: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Touch and Go, Act II, page 69:
glosses: The act of enjoying or experiencing luxury.
lyricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyricisms
Etymology: From lyric + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Great enthusiasm.
glosses: The emotional style of lyric poetry.
examples: text: This is an album whose most memorable songs are definitely its strangest. Most ambitious of all perhaps is Dark Ballet, a long concept-song about Joan of Arc in which the lyricism of the piano lines startles. Madonna herself is heavily Auto-tuned, mumbling stuff about being a witch; she seems to blow on the flames of a pyre.
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Suitability to be sung or used as lyrics.
Oytaben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, originating in Mid- to Northern Europe, with members in the UK, Australia/New Zealand, and in parts of America and Europe.
lop-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lop + eared.
Senses: examples: text: He's always taking in some lop-eared stray dog.
glosses: Having ears that lop, having ears that hang down pendulously.
Synonyms: word: flop-eared
word: floppy eared
english: for animals
translation: for animals
word: flap-eared
give 110%
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives 110%
form: giving 110%
form: gave 110%
form: given 110%
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: give it one's best shot
text: This is a very important game, ladies, and the only way we'll win is if every one of you gets out there and gives me 110%.
synonyms: give one's all
go all out
hypernyms: strive
glosses: To apply oneself completely and accomplish more than one thought possible.
longtime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longtime
form: most longtime
form: long-time
Etymology: From long + time.
Senses: examples: text: My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me.
text: longtime favorite
text: It was an outgrowth of Jobs's embrace of 60's counterculturalism -- he was a longtime, and rather irritating, vegetarian and lived in a commune.
ref: 2000 October 8, James Poniewozik, “Operating System”, in The New York Times:
text: Criminal justice reform has become a national topic of discussion given recent police killings of Black men, and Jones points out that he's been a longtime activist on this issue, with his experience in Palo Alto and as an NAACP youth organizer. Also, he notes, as a Black man, "People like me are overpoliced, overarrested, overprosecuted."
ref: 2020 June 22, Trudy Ring, “Mondaire Jones Could Be the Nation's First Black Gay Congressman”, in The Advocate:
glosses: Having endured for a long period of time.
Synonyms: long-standing
long-term
Derived terms: long-timer
longtimer
longtime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more longtime
form: most longtime
form: long-time
Etymology: From long + time.
Senses: examples: text: longtime married
glosses: Having been for a long time
people's army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's armies
Senses: glosses: A communist-based military organization, often linked to a communist political party; the armed forces of a communist state.
Derived terms: People's Liberation Army
personas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persona
Mapudungun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mapundungun
Etymology: From Mapudungun mapu(n) (“earth, land”) + dungun (“speak, speech”).
Senses: glosses: A language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.
Synonyms: word: Araucanian
Related terms: alt: Wikibooks
urls: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mapudungun
word: Learn Mapudungun
erred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːd/
ipa: /ɜɹd/
ipa: /ɛɹd/
ipa: /øːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /eːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: aired (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of err
erred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːd/
ipa: /ɜɹd/
ipa: /ɛɹd/
ipa: /øːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /eːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: aired (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of er
Leicester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛstə/
enpr: lĕsʹtər
ipa: /ˈlɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
homophone: Lester
Etymology: From Middle English Ledecestre, from Old English Ligoraċeaster.
Senses: glosses: A city, unitary authority, and borough in and the county town of Leicestershire, England.
glosses: A locality in Big Lakes County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Clay County, Nebraska.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Livingston County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Addison County, Vermont.
glosses: A coastal town in Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone.
glosses: An islet of the Cook Islands.
glosses: An English earldom.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Border Leicester
Leicestershire
Leicestrian
Red Leicester
Leicester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛstə/
enpr: lĕsʹtər
ipa: /ˈlɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
homophone: Lester
Forms: form: Leicesters
Etymology: From Middle English Ledecestre, from Old English Ligoraċeaster.
Senses: examples: text: The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.
ref: 1869, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases, page 328:
glosses: A sheep of an English breed, valued for its meat and fleece.
Powys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ.ɪs/
rhymes: -əʊɪs
rhymes: -aʊɪs
Forms: form: Powyses
form: Powis
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Powys, from Latin pagēnsis (“provincial”). Cognate with Italian paese and French pays (“country”).
Senses: glosses: A county and preserved county of Wales. Headquarters: Llandrindod Wells.
glosses: A habitational surname from Welsh.
glosses: A historical kingdom of Wales, in the middle of the country.
Derived terms: Dinas Powys
pomiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊmɪˌkʌlt͡ʃə/
ipa: /-t͡ʃʊə/
ipa: /ˈpoʊməˌkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
Etymology: From Latin pomum + culture.
Senses: glosses: the cultivation of fruit; fruit-growing
sulfamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphamic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the compound H₂NS(=O)₂OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-hydrocarbyl derivative of this substance
Synonyms: sulfamidic acid
sulfamidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphamidic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfamic acid
sulphamidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfamidic acid.
sulfatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfatides
form: sulphatide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfates of glycosphingolipids
sulphatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphatides
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of sulfatide
glycosphingolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosphingolipids
Etymology: From glyco- + sphingolipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a lipid that contains at least one monosaccharide unit and either a sphingoid or a ceramide
Derived terms: glycosphingolipidosis
Related terms: glucosphingolipid
glycosylsphingoid
glycosylceramide
sphingoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from, or similar in structure to, sphingosine.
sphingoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphingoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of long-chain aliphatic amino alcohols related to sphingosine.
some people
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: Person A: You do realise that she has just jumped on the table and started shouting at the rest of the people in the room, don’t you?
Person B: Oh, some people!
glosses: Expresses disapproval at the actions of a person; a disapproving response to a person doing something silly, bizarre, nonsensical or ill-mannered.
yellowbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛləʊbɛli/
Forms: form: yellowbellies
Etymology: * From yellow + belly.
* (someone from Lincolnshire or Isle of Ely): An allusion to the frogs and yellow-bellied eels caught there.
Senses: glosses: A coward.
glosses: Someone from Lincolnshire, or from the Isle of Ely.
glosses: Someone from Wexford.
examples: text: The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.
ref: 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151
glosses: The golden perch, Macquaria ambigua.
hypernyms: woodpecker
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glosses: A yellow-bellied sapsucker.
Derived terms: yellow-bellied
Related terms: yellowbelly slider
ceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.əˌmaɪd/
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmaɪd/
Forms: form: ceramides
Etymology: Blend of cerebroside + amide, or from Latin cēra (“wax”) + amide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various lipids formed by linking a fatty acid to sphingosine and found widely but in small amounts in plant and animal tissue
Derived terms: ceramidase
deoxyceramide
dihydroceramide
galactoceramide
galactosylceramidase
galactosylceramide
lactosylceramidase
lactosylceramide
neolactotetraosylceramide
phosphoceramide
phosphorylceramide
phytoceramide
admissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the admissions tutor
glosses: plural of admission
glosses: The department, section, administrative team, etc., that process admissions for an institution, hospital, etc.; the place where such a department is located.
Derived terms: preadmissions
drinking fountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinking fountains
Senses: qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: A device in a public place that provides water to drink.
Synonyms: word: water fountain
word: bubbler
inclusivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪŋkluːˈsɪvɪti/
Forms: form: inclusivities
Etymology: From inclusive + -ity, modeled after exclusivity, 1920s, but in more common usage only since the late 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: Corporate citizenship is about employee and stakeholder inclusivity. Stakeholder inclusion requires a long-term, and continuous, relationship to be […]
ref: 2001, Jörg Andriof, Malcolm McIntosh, Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship, page 60:
text: Modern states have ordered and arranged their racial inclusivities on the necessity of racist exclusivities.
ref: 2002, David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, page 256:
text: These are the terms on which Gandhi gives birth to Hindu inclusivity. It is worth pausing to distinguish Hindu inclusivity from Christian inclusivity.
ref: 2003, Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, page 133:
text: Within a single organization scheme, you will need to balance the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity.
ref: 2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, page 66:
text: Progress on inclusivity and equality within organisations remains frustratingly slow. […]The challenge is that focusing solely on women is actually the antithesis of inclusivity. Inclusivity is not about cherry-picking one group for success; it is about removing the barriers to success that exist for everybody.
ref: 2015 October 5, Roxanne Hobbs, “Why we must stop framing inclusivity as a women’s issue”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: So I was glad to see the Brown document declare, “a priority in the coming year will be to collect comprehensive quantitative and qualitative information on the climate of inclusivity,” and flesh out a specific effort to get beyond anecdotes:[…]
ref: 2015 November 24, Conor Friedersdorf, “Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan”, in The Atlantic:
text: Drake, Justin Bieber, and Kanye West may skip the show because of its “irrelevance”—which is to say its lack of inclusivity. […] But if major stars bow out due to aesthetic objections, it’ll be a reminder that relevance and inclusivity often amount to the same thing—awards that don’t reflect the culture won’t be respected by the culture.
ref: 2017 January 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Superstars May Be Rebelling Against the Grammys”, in The Atlantic:
text: Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:
text: Yet the diversity that AI [artificial intelligence] can provide is always going to be virtual – a computer-generated sense of inclusivity.
ref: 2023 April 3, Alaina Demopoulos, “Computer-generated inclusivity: Fashion turns to ‘diverse’ AI models”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2023:
antonyms: exclusivity
glosses: The quality of being inclusive; inclusiveness.
Derived terms: gender inclusivity
overinclusivity
Related terms: diversity
equality
rice burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice burners
Senses: glosses: An ordinary automobile, especially a Japanese one, made to look fast or special by adding aftermarket parts.
glosses: A person who drives such an automobile.
Synonyms: rice car
rice rocket
rice rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice rockets
Etymology: So called because rice is a staple food in Japan, and rockets are known for their high speed.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.
Related terms: crotch rocket
video journalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video journalists
Senses: examples: text: BBC Video Journalist (VJ) Trainer Warwick Wise says: With video journalism, you are working harder, there's no getting away from that, but you're also seeing genuine benefits.
ref: 2008, Deborah Wilson, in Chapman & Kinsey (Eds.), Broadcast Journalism: A Critical Introduction, Taylor & Francis 2008, page 22
text: The video journalist Mohamed Abdelfattah has posted some distressing tweets – using the Twitter for Blackberry^([sic]) app – from the scene of the protests, where he says he has been arrested.
ref: 2011 January 25, The Guardian:
glosses: A journalist who handles all aspects of production on their own, acting as a reporter, cameraman and editor.
crotch rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotch rockets
Senses: glosses: A high-performance motorcycle, especially sport bikes.
glosses: Any high performance powered vehicle which is ridden astride, such as a snowmobile, or, jetski.
Related terms: rice rocket
OOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: OOVs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.
OOV
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Senses: examples: text: Rather, the n-grams are calculated as usual only for the most common k words, and all other words are regarded as Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) items and mapped to a single token such as .
ref: 1991, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 199:
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of out of vocabulary: describing a term encountered in the input which is not present in a system's dictionary or database of known terms.
breakables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakable
limitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmɪˈteɪʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of limitation
kidneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidney
delusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: dilutions
Senses: glosses: plural of delusion
legitim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitims
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Common in Continental Law jurisdictions, a portion of property fixed by law, which a testator with issue is bound to bequeath to his children.
blondie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑndi/
ipa: /ˈblɒndi/
rhymes: -ɒndi
Forms: form: blondies
form: blondy
Etymology: From blond + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “I'll give you five,” said the drunken man. “Come along.” He grabbed her arm, waved his other hand at Etta. “So long, blondie. 'Nother time. Good luck.”
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
glosses: A nickname for a person with blond hair, particularly an attractive woman.
glosses: A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.
treatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treatment
kickstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪkˌstænd/
Forms: form: kickstands
Etymology: From kick + stand (the bar is typically kicked into place with the foot, and enables the vehicle to stand).
Senses: glosses: A levered bar that can be folded down from the frame of a bicycle or motorcycle to prop it upright when not being ridden.
glosses: A folding bar to prop up a mobile phone, tablet or similar device when it is being used on a surface.
kickstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickstand
space group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space groups
Senses: examples: text: Dorothy also learned to identify the space group of a molecule, an essential prerequisite for finding the structure, by looking for spots that were missing from the regular array in an X-ray photograph.
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The set of all symmetry operations that can be applied to a given crystal without changing it.
tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trip
tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: more tripping
form: most tripping
Senses: glosses: Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
examples: text: a buck tripping
text: Robinson, [...] vert, on a chev. betw. three bucks, tripping, or, as many cinquefoils gu.—Crest, a buck, tripping, or.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
text: [A] buck tripping proper (of its natural colour), is borne by the name of Williams; Argent, a buck tripping proper, attired and unguled (horned and hoofed) or, by the name of Holme, in Scotland. The same arms are borne by the[…]
ref: 1846, William Newton, A Display of Heraldry, page 97:
text: Ar. three stags tripping ppr.
ref: 1894, Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, page 53:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if trotting; trippant.
glosses: Undergoing a hallucinogenic trip.
glosses: Saying crazy things or acting foolishly.
tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: trippings
Senses: examples: text: At present we only produce some of those slips and trippings of the tongue and pen to which we are all liable in our unguarded moments[…]
ref: 1821, The Recreative Review, or Eccentricities of Literature and Life:
glosses: The act of one who trips.
Derived terms: countertripping
ego-tripping
night-tripping
paper tripping
power-tripping
tripping line
longings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longing
teeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːmɪŋ/
homophone: teaming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teem
teeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːmɪŋ/
homophone: teaming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more teeming
form: most teeming
Senses: glosses: Abundantly filled with especially living things.
glosses: Referring to large quantities of rain.
unstomachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstomachable
form: most unstomachable
Etymology: From un- + stomachable.
Senses: examples: text: I'm starving, but that rotting meat is unstomachable.
text: The rebels found the suggested terms of surrender unstomachable, and went straight back to fighting.
glosses: Not stomachable; distasteful to the point that it cannot be accepted.
Related terms: stomachable
stomach
stomachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomach
stomachs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stomach
stomachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachable
form: most stomachable
Etymology: From stomach + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The grog was strong, but stomachable nonetheless.
glosses: tolerable; capable of being stomached; not so distasteful as to be unacceptable.
stomached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stomach
stomached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a specified number or kind of stomach.
Derived terms: high-stomached
proud-stomached
well-stomached
a.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abbreviation.
glosses: Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
glosses: Abbreviation of accommodation.
glosses: Abbreviation of account.
glosses: Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
glosses: Abbreviation of acronym.
glosses: Abbreviation of act; acting.
glosses: Abbreviation of activity.
glosses: Abbreviation of adjective.
glosses: Abbreviation of adjutant.
glosses: Abbreviation of adult.
glosses: Abbreviation of afternoon.
glosses: Abbreviation of age.
glosses: Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
glosses: Abbreviation of alto.
glosses: Abbreviation of amateur.
glosses: Abbreviation of ampere.
glosses: Abbreviation of annealing.
glosses: Abbreviation of anode.
glosses: Abbreviation of answer.
glosses: Abbreviation of anthracite.
glosses: Abbreviation of apprentice.
glosses: Abbreviation of arc.
glosses: Abbreviation of are or ares.
glosses: Abbreviation of area.
glosses: Abbreviation of argent.
glosses: Abbreviation of assist; assists.
glosses: Abbreviation of atmosphere.
glosses: Abbreviation of attendance.
glosses: Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
glosses: Abbreviation of aunt.
glosses: Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
glosses: Abbreviation of axis.
Derived terms: ppl. a.
a.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of absent.
glosses: Abbreviation of absolute.
glosses: Abbreviation of abundant.
glosses: Abbreviation of accepted.
glosses: Abbreviation of accidental.
glosses: Abbreviation of acting.
glosses: Abbreviation of active.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of active.
Abbreviation of transitive.
glosses: Abbreviation of aerial.
glosses: Abbreviation of alto.
glosses: Abbreviation of amateur.
glosses: Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
glosses: Abbreviation of anonymous.
glosses: Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
glosses: Abbreviation of anterior.
glosses: Abbreviation of aqua.
glosses: Abbreviation of argent.
glosses: Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
glosses: Abbreviation of automatic.
glosses: Abbreviation of available.
a.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of anno (“in the year”).
glosses: Abbreviation of annually.
a.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of about.
glosses: Abbreviation of at.
glosses: Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
a.
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of also.
capitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capitalize
two-price advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Comparison, or two-price, advertising is used when advertisers compare their current prices to previous or future prices.
ref: 2011, William Chitty, Integrated Marketing Communications, page 181:
glosses: A sales and marketing practice whereby the seller shows two prices, a normal price and a lower special discounted price, in order to attract customers by the apparent saving, but where the "normal" price is in fact a fiction, the goods having never actually been sold and/or offered at that price.
DIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /diː aɪ ɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Distributed Interactive Simulation.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Defense Investigative Service, now the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Walt Disney Company.
glosses: Initialism of Draft International Standard (usage from ISO)
lamenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lament
lamenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamentings
Senses: examples: text: I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,
ref: 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd, If gronyngs greate, get grace at God, and loude lamentyngs, loue
roman: shall God to mercie moue.
text: The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death[…]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,
ref: 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48, Lose not the Moments In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past
glosses: Lamentation.
Derived terms: lamentingly
unlamenting
fitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtf(ʊ)l/
ipa: /ˈfɪtf(ə)l/
Forms: form: more fitful
form: most fitful
Etymology: From fit (“convulsion, seizure; sudden burst of activity”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun).
Senses: examples: text: Duncane is in his Graue:
 After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well,
 Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon,
 Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing,
 Can touch him further.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:
glosses: Characterized by fits (convulsions or seizures).
examples: text: His breathing was fitful.
text: Troubled by her unfinished work, she fell into a fitful sleep.
text: Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung
 On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring,
 And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung,
 Till envious ivy did around thee cling,
 Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,— […]
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza I, page 3:
text: Like the figures on arras, that gloomily glare
 Stirred by the breath of the wintry air,
 So seen by the dying lamp's fitful light,
 Lifeless, but life-like, and awful to sight; […]
ref: 1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 33, lines 575–578:
text: The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door,—a thin one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Musket”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 567:
text: So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
ref: 2012 October 27, “The economy: Don’t say ‘green shoots’: Britain emerges from its second recession in four years”, in The Economist, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2012:
synonyms: word: capricious
word: changeable
word: changing
word: erratic
word: shifting
word: spasmodic
word: broken
word: fitful
word: catchy
word: discontinuous
word: intermissive
word: intermittent
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
antonyms: word: unfitful
word: broken
word: discontinuous
word: discrete
word: ending
word: intermittent
word: interrupted
word: stopped
glosses: Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.
Derived terms: fitfully
fitfulness
unfitful
Related terms: in fits and starts
pepsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛpsɪn/
Forms: form: pepsins
Etymology: From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.
Derived terms: apepsinia
aspergillopepsin
candidapepsin
isopepsin
pepsinated
pepsinhydrochloric
pepsinhydrochloric acid
pepsinogen
pepsinolysis
propepsin
retropepsin
rhizopepsin
Related terms: dyspepsia
Pepsi
peptic
peptide
Pepto-Bismol
peptone
son of privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of privilege
Senses: glosses: a boy born into a wealthy or powerful family, to be raised without the hardships experienced by the poor or the working class
Coordinate terms: daughter of privilege
sons of privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of privilege
MRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRAs
Senses: examples: text: And while Esmay cites several instances of feminist “bullying” and “censorship,” the talk and user pages — which record disciplinary action against Wikipedians — suggest that most MRAs were banned for edit-warring (i.e., redoing the same changes over and over), for editing a topic with a conflict of interest, or for making personal attacks against other editors — all of which are violations of Wikipedia’s terms.
ref: 2014 April 8, Caitlin Dewey, “Men’s rights activists think a “hateful” feminist conspiracy is ruining Wikipedia”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2014:
glosses: Initialism of men's rights activist.
glosses: Initialism of mail retrieval agent.
topics: law
qualifier: international trade
glosses: Initialism of mutual recognition agreement.
examples: text: Finerenone, a nonsteroidal MRA, was among the drugs in the trials.
ref: 2024 January 9, Jacqueline Howard, “Kidney disease medication found to reduce risk of cardiovascular death in certain heart failure patients in new study”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist.
Related terms: MRM
TMRA
Mandip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage, meaning "Light of the mind".
manu militari
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin manū mīlitārī.
Senses: examples: text: As they did not present themselves their addresses were obtained, and one fine morning soldiers called at their houses and manu militari led them to the shops.
ref: 1916, Bernard Miall, transl., Belgians Under the German Eagle, translation of original by Jean Massart:
topics: law
glosses: With military aid.
zenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From zeno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the planet Jupiter.
Related terms: zenographic
frugivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more frugivorous
form: most frugivorous
Etymology: From Latin frūx (“fruit”) + -vorous.
Senses: examples: text: Although the vampire bat is known for feeding on blood, most species of bat eat insects, and many are frugivorous.
text: All four primary objectives (development of diagnostic DNA tools for maggot identification; selection of natural enemies for biological control of tephritid pests; taxonomic work on tephritid flies; and discerning patterns of utilization wild host plants by frugivorous tephritid pests) were accomplished.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
glosses: Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
Derived terms: nonfrugivorous
Related terms: frugivore
dipody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipodies
form: dipod
Etymology: From di- + -pody, from Ancient Greek δι- (di-, “two”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A unit of two metrical feet.
glosses: A metre or a line comprising one such a unit
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of metrical feet
word: monopody
word: tripody
word: tetrapody
word: pentapody
word: hexapody
word: heptapody
word: octapody
Derived terms: dipodic
noblesse oblige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˌblɛs ɒˈbliːʒ/
ipa: /noʊˌblɛs əˈbliʒ/
rhymes: -iːʒ
Etymology: Borrowed from French noblesse oblige (literally “nobility obliges”), primarily used as a phrase. See noblesse and obliger.
Senses: glosses: The honourable obligation that is the responsibility of those of high rank; in American English this often includes the expectation of benevolent actions such as helping those less fortunate.
noblesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈblɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: noblesses
Etymology: From Middle English noblesse, from Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Senses: examples: text: But thou, whose noblesse keeps one stature still
ref: 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams:
glosses: The quality of being noble; nobleness.