cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hookah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊ.kə/
ipa: /ˈhu.kə/
ipa: /ˈhʊ.kə/
rhymes: -ʊkə
rhymes: -uːkə
homophone: hooker (UK, non-rhotic)
Forms: form: hookahs
form: hooka
form: hooker
form: houka
form: hukka
form: hukkah
form: huqqa
form: huqqah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and , in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
Senses: examples: text: In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
ref: 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:
text: Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
text: The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:
text: When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 9, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: water pipe
hubble-bubble
hubbly bubbly
narghile
shisha
qualifier: recreational inhalants
glosses: A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.
Derived terms: topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah air compressor
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah air pump
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah-burdar
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah compressor
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah dive
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah dive compressor
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah dive pump
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah diving
topics: diving
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hookah pump
glutton for punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluttons for punishment
Senses: examples: text: I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.
text: Other gluttons for punishment include Phil Whittingham, from Avanti West Coast, who has returned for four events in a row.
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Bigland, “The hills were alive... again”, in RAIL, number 941, page 54:
synonyms: sucker for punishment
glosses: One who persists in an effort in spite of harmful or unpleasant results.
SSDD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of single-sided, double density.
raw_tags: of a diskette
SSDD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of same shit, different day.
Related terms: different clowns, same circus
same shit, different toilet
MASH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæʃ/
ipa: [maʃ]
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
examples: text: Don, who is now a member of the Kings Counsel, has been practicing law for over four decades. Focused on municipal law in the MASH sector, his law firm, Lidstone and Company – Barristers and Solicitors has evolved to include 26 lawyers, two articling students and 12 support staff.
ref: 2024 October 7, “Homecoming 2024 caps off with memorable reunion”, in University of Winnipeg News, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
qualifier: public sector
glosses: Initialism of municipal, academic, schools and hospitals
frisky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪski/
rhymes: -ɪski
Forms: form: friskier
form: friskiest
Etymology: From frisk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He had his hands full, with three frisky kittens in the house.
synonyms: energetic
enthusiastic
frolicsome
lively
playful
glosses: Abounding in energy or playfulness.
examples: text: It was the shots. It had to be. LeClair had declined to explain what was in them, but they'd all been feeling energized, sharper, friskier since the injections. Something to do with McInnis' promise of advanced Foundation healthcare, he supposed. Maybe even O5 shit. Well, no harm done so far.
ref: 2023 October 22, HarryBlank, “Waiting to Happen”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
synonyms: word: horny
glosses: Sexually aroused.
Derived terms: friskily
friskiness
unfrisky
initialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initializations
form: initialisation
Etymology: From initialize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of preparing something to begin.
glosses: An act of preparing something to begin.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
Derived terms: deinitialization
lazy initialization
preinitialization
reinitialization
uninitialization
scaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scalers
Etymology: From scale + -er.
Senses: glosses: An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one.
glosses: An electronic or computer system that adjusts the size of a signal or graphic to fit on a screen etc.
examples: text: The explorer was renowned as a scaler of the world's tallest mountains.
glosses: One who scales.
synonyms: descaler
glosses: A tool or device for scaling fish.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dentistry tool with two hooks.
Derived terms: high scaler
log scaler
Related terms: rescaler
Parliament House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The building in which a National (or State) Parliament convenes.
Synonyms: word: Capitol
Related terms: House of Parliament
Houses of Parliament
leap day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːp deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: leap days
Etymology: See leap year.
Senses: examples: text: This yere leapt, and the leap day was the morrow after the feast Terminalia.
ref: 1600, Livy, translated by Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie of T. Livius of Padua, Book XLV, Section xliv, 1232:
text: The lunar cycle among the Chaldeans was called the saros and sara, from סהרא, sahara, the moon. This cycle it is said contained two hundred and twenty-three synodical months, or eighteen Julian years, ten days, when the same cycle or period contains five leap days, and eleven days when it contains four leap days, seven hours, forty-eight minutes, and one-fourth; in which time all the corresponding new and full moons and eclipses return again.
ref: 1820 July, Thomas Yeates, "Catalogue of Ancient Eclipses" in The Philosophical Magazine and Journal, Vol. LVI, No. 267, OCLC 1641414, p. 18
text: We observe then, with respect to the Julian cycle of leap-year, that, though we speak of it commonly as the cycle of the leap-year, it is in reality only the cycle of the leap-day. And this distinction is of much importance, especially to the present question. For the cycle of leap-year according to the Julian rule is one of four years, because the cycle of the leap-day in the Julian calendar is one of four also.
ref: 1852, Edward Greswell, Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariae, Vol. II, OCLC 457298519, p. 51
text: According to our current calendar, on what day of the week will January 1 fall in the year 3000? in the year 1,000,000? in the year 10^(1,000,000)? […] In the thousand years from the year 2000 to the year 3000, there are 365,000 days, plus 250 leap days, minus 10 century leap days omitted, plus 3 leap days restored in the years 2000, 2400, and 2800, for a total of 365,243 days, or 57,177 weeks and 4 days. Since January 1 falls on a Saturday in the year 2000, it will fall four days later on a Wednesday in the year 3000.
ref: 2000, Frank Morgan, The Math Chat Book, pages 9–10:
text: According to the new leap rule, leap years are years whose last two digits are divisible by 4. To correct for the slightly shorter length of the solar year, 3 leap years are omitted every 400 years, and to that end, leap days are omitted in the secular years whose unit is not divisible by 4. Accordingly, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was one again.
ref: 2002, Klaus Mainzer, translated by Josef Eisinger, The Little Book of Time, page 20:
synonyms: leap-year day
glosses: An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.
Synonyms: bissext
bespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈspiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: bespeaks
Etymology: From Middle English bespeken, bispeken, from Old English *bespecan, besprecan (“to speak about, speak against, accuse of, claim at law, complain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisprekan (“to discuss, blame”), from Proto-Germanic *bisprekaną (“to speak about, discuss, blame”), equivalent to be- + speak. Cognate with Scots bespeke (“to beseech, speak or negotiate with”), Saterland Frisian bispreke (“to discuss”), West Frisian besprekke (“to discuss”), Dutch bespreken (“to discuss, review, debate”), German besprechen (“to discuss, review, talk about”).
Senses: examples: text: "By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night."
"When?" asked Nicholas.
"The night of her bespeak. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons bespeak the play."
"Oh! I understand," replied Nicholas.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
magna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnə/
Senses: glosses: plural of magnum
Related terms: english: Descendants
translation: Descendants
word: Latin magna
sepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛpsɪs/
Forms: form: sepses
Etymology: coined by Hippocrates From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).
Senses: examples: text: Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing [Jimmy Connors] must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.
ref: 1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
Related terms: antiseptic
asepsis
aseptic
haematosepsis
septic
septicemia
septicity
verruca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹuːkə/
ipa: /vɛˈɹuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: verrucas
form: verrucae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin verrūca.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rounded projection or wart.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sexine element similar to a wart.
Derived terms: verruca sock
Related terms: verruca plantaris
beri-beri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beriberi.
nothing to sneeze at
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their music may not be worthy of radio time, but it's nothing to sneeze at.
glosses: Something that is decent, acceptable, or worthwhile.
Related terms: no mean feat
get a leg up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a leg up
form: getting a leg up
form: got a leg up
form: got a leg up
form: gotten a leg up
Senses: examples: text: I can climb over the fence if I get a leg up from you.
glosses: To get a boost or a lift.
examples: text: He hopes that all the extra advertising will allow him to get a leg up on the competition.
glosses: To gain some advantage; to get a head start.
Related terms: have a leg up
lend a hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lends a hand
form: lending a hand
form: lent a hand
form: lent a hand
Senses: examples: text: If we all lend a hand, the work will go quickly.
glosses: To help or assist, especially voluntarily.
Related terms: lend an ear
lending hand
helping hand
chalk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalks up
form: chalking up
form: chalked up
form: chalked up
Etymology: Probably from the fact that many problems were figured out using chalk on a chalk board.
Senses: examples: 2012 The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Rural activism: Working the system
In recent years Mr Li, a divorced farmer with a laptop and internet access, has chalked up some stunning successes in resisting his village officials.
glosses: To achieve something.
examples: text: Give me another drink and chalk it up to John.
glosses: To assign a debt to someone.
examples: text: I know we lost, but can we chalk it up as a win?
glosses: To attribute to something, often tangentially.
Related terms: chalk up to
highway robbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highway robberies
form: highway-robbery
Etymology: Compare Old English weġrēaf (“highway robbery”, literally “road-theft”).
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.
examples: text: They think they can charge $400 for a shirt? That's highway robbery.
glosses: Said of excessive or exorbitant prices.
Synonyms: sense: robbing on a highway or road
word: padding
sense: robbing on a highway or road
word: high pad
sense: the asking of an excessive or exorbitant price
word: daylight robbery
sense: the asking of an excessive or exorbitant price
word: price gouging
Related terms: highwayman
going forward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Going forward we plan to leverage our core competencies to gain market share.
text: […] Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that going forward, when flash floods were forecast, the city would go door-to-door in neighborhoods with high concentrations of such apartments and evacuate residents.
ref: 2021 September 3, Andy Newman, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Tracey Tully, Jonah E. Bromwich, “Latest Updates: Death Toll Grows From Ida Flooding in Northeast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
government
politics
glosses: In the immediate future and beyond.
Synonyms: henceforward
hereafter
moving forward
lede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
ipa: /lid/
homophone: lead
homophone: lied
homophone: leed
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: lede
form: leed
form: leod
Etymology: From Middle English lede, leode (“man; human being, person; lord, prince; God; sir; group, kind; race; a people, nation; human race; land, real property”) [and other forms], from three closely related words:
* Old English lēod (“man; chief, leader; (poetic) prince; a people, people group; nation”);
* Old English lēoda (“man; person; native of a country”), related to lēod; and
* Old English lēode (“men; people; the people of a country”), originally the plural of lēod.
Lēod is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *liudi, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“man; person; men; people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis (“man, people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”). Doublet of leud.
Cognates
The English word is cognate with Dutch lieden (“people”), lui(den) (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Norwegian lyd (“people”), Polish lud (“people”), Russian люди (ljudi, “people”), West Frisian lie (“people”).
Senses: examples: text: & after to callice hee [Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey] arriued, / like a noble Leed of high degree, / & then to Turwin soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found King Henery; […]
ref: p. 1544, “fflodden ffeilde”, in John W[esley] Hales, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, [Francis James] Child, W[illiam] Chappell, et al., editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances, volume I, London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1867, →OCLC, page 318, lines 9–12:
text: Sweet, yes sweet is over (beyond) measure / The marrying for the young lede (people); / Most sweet it is, I say yet (once more), / When it goes with the rede (counsel) of the elders.
ref: 1836, J[oseph] Bosworth, “Friesic”, in The Origin of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages, and Nations: […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 72:
text: Gramércy, liegé King, / This is to me a comforting: / I tell you sickerly / For to have land or lede / Or other riches, so God me speed, / It is too much for me.
ref: c. 1870s, “Transition English: From the Conquest to Chaucer.—a.d. 1066 to a.d. 1352 [Sir Cleges.]”, in Henry Morley, editor, Shorter English Poems (Cassell’s Library of English Literature), London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 28, column 2, lines 409–412:
glosses: A man; a person.
Related terms: leden
lede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
ipa: /lid/
homophone: lead
homophone: lied
homophone: leed
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: See lead.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).
gloating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloat
Derived terms: gloatingly
ungloating
gloating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: gloatings
Senses: examples: text: There are not-so-disguised gloatings as a freelancer gets the job he has been looking for and gets access to powerful and productive television filmmakers.
ref: 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand, page 69:
glosses: The act of one who gloats.
gloater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gloaters
Etymology: From gloat + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gloats.
Salmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in British Columbia, Canada.
huitlacoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwit.ləˈkoʊ.t͡ʃeɪ/
Forms: form: cuitlacoche
Etymology: From Spanish huitlacoche, an alteration of cuitlacoche, from Classical Nahuatl cuitlacochin.
Senses: examples: text: I told him how much I'd liked my fish course, a black sea bass fillet with pickled lotus root and huitlacoche sauce […]
ref: 2006, Pete Wells, “Putting Le Bec-Fin to the Test”, in Best Food Writing 2006, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Consider huitlacoche (corn fungus), miracle berries (that trick taste buds into thinking sour is sweet), Casu Marzu (maggoty black-market cheese) or turu (a worm-like mollusc).
ref: 2009 February 2, Susan Sampson, “1001 foods you must taste”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
cuitlacoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuitlacoches
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cuitlacoche.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huitlacoche.
Stahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stahls
Senses: glosses: A surname.
seta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːtə/
Forms: form: setas
form: setae
form: setæ
Etymology: From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).
Senses: examples: text: The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.
ref: 1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83:
glosses: A bristle or hair.
examples: text: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
Derived terms: microseta
setation
nieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: nieves
Senses: glosses: variant form of nief
Derived terms: nieveful
objective case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objective cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: object case
objective
antonyms: subjective case
glosses: the form of a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb or a preposition.
Related terms: oblique case
grammatical case
Englishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For this analysis, let's combine the Englishes- American English, British English, etc.
glosses: plural of English (used of dialects etc)
Englishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of English
catastrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kætəˈstɹɒfɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˌkæɾəˈstɹɑfɪk]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌkætəˈstɹɒfɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˌkæɾəˈstɹɒfɪk]
ipa: /kætəˈstɹɔfɪk/
ipa: [kæɾəˈstɹɔfɪk]
rhymes: -ɒfɪk
Forms: form: more catastrophic
form: most catastrophic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταστροφικός (katastrophikós). By surface analysis, catastrophe + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
examples: text: The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
text: Some experts, such as geographer Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, “Collapse,” used Easter Island as a cautionary tale of how the exploitation of limited resources can result in catastrophic population decline, ecological devastation and the destruction of a society through infighting.
ref: 2024 September 14, Katie Hunt, “New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024:
glosses: Disastrous; ruinous.
examples: text: catastrophic failure
glosses: From which recovery is impossible.
Synonyms: catastrophal
Derived terms: catastrophically
catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
catastrophic backtracking
catastrophic failure
catastrophic forgetting
catastrophic interference
catastrophic kill
catastrophic mortality
catastrophic moult
megacatastrophic
noncatastrophic
postcatastrophic
subcatastrophic
supercatastrophic
uncatastrophic
intolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɑləɹənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɒləɹənt/
Forms: form: more intolerant
form: most intolerant
Etymology: From Latin intolerāns. By surface analysis, in- + tolerant.
Senses: examples: text: I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.
text: When our bodies no longer create the enzyme needed to break down lactose, we can become intolerant to it.
ref: 2013, Sarah Taylor, Vegetarian to Vegan: Give Up Dairy, Give Up Eggs for Good:
text: The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade.
ref: 1892, Harry Marshall Ward, The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany:
text: The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
ref: 1751, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
glosses: Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
synonyms: bigoted
glosses: Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas; indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.
Derived terms: intolerantness
lactose intolerant
Related terms: intolerance
intolerantly
intolerate
intoleration
tolerance
tolerant
intolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɑləɹənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɒləɹənt/
Forms: form: intolerants
Etymology: From Latin intolerāns. By surface analysis, in- + tolerant.
Senses: examples: text: […] a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants, might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.
ref: 1856, John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell:
glosses: One who is intolerant; a bigot.
statute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstatjuːt/
ipa: /ˈstat͡ʃuːt/
ipa: /ˈstæt͡ʃuːt/
Forms: form: statutes
Etymology: From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).
Senses: examples: text: The new statute limited working hours.
text: Parliament passed a statute on environmental protection.
text: criminal statute
text: statute book
text: Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
glosses: A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
glosses: A rule of an organization or institution.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
topics: law
glosses: A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
topics: law
glosses: A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
Legal status of being subject to this.
glosses: A statute fair.
Coordinate terms: topics: law
sense: written law as laid down by the legislature
word: regulation
raw_tags: as laid down by a regulatory agency of a governmental executive body
Derived terms: creature of statute
laughing heir statute
long arm statute
long-arm statute
nonclaim statute
slayer statute
statute book
statute law
statute mile
statute of frauds
statute of limitations
statute of repose
statutorily
statutory
statutory rape
survival statute
wrongful death statute
taphephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of taphophobia.
forestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏrʹ-ĭst-rē
ipa: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪst.ɹi/
other: /ˈfɔɹ.ɪst.ɹi/
other: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪst.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹ.ɪst.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪstɹi
Forms: form: forestries
Etymology: From Middle English *forestrie, *forsterie (suggested by Middle English forster, forester (“forester”)), from Old French foresterie, from forest.
Senses: glosses: The science of planting and growing trees in forests.
glosses: The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.
glosses: The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
glosses: Commercial tree farming.
glosses: A tree farm.
glosses: A forest-covered area.
Synonyms: silviculture
sylviculture
Derived terms: agroforestry
ecoforestry
forestry machine
mycoforestry
nonforestry
authenticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/
ipa: /ɑθənˈtɪsɪti/
ipa: [ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪɾi]
ipa: [ɑθənˈtɪsɪɾi]
Forms: form: authenticities
Etymology: From authentic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
text: The authenticity of this painting is questionable.
text: This is the dim path where […] a legitimate candidate of the working class will be hammered over and over in an authenticity battle with a campaign that weekly releases some “How do you do, fellow kids?” embarrassment and whose Instagram manager is a woman with her own HBO series.
ref: 2016 February 2, Jeb Lund, “The Electability Spin Machine”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:
text: Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
glosses: The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original, of having the same origin (or attribution, commitment, intention, etc.) as claimed.
glosses: The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
Synonyms: sense: quality of being genuine
word: genuineness
Derived terms: certificate of authenticity
inauthenticity
nonauthenticity
ring of authenticity
unauthenticity
Related terms: word: authentically
word: authentication
word: authenticism
word: authenticness
word: authentification
cnemis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniː.mɪs/
Forms: form: cnemides
Etymology: From New Latin cnēmis, from Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shin”).
Senses: glosses: The section of the leg from the knee to the ankle; shin.
Related terms: cnemid
IDE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDEs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of insulin-degrading enzyme.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of integrated development environment.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of integrated drive electronics.
parking lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking lots
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: parking space, parking spot, parking place
text: Should we park in that parking lot, or in the garage up the street?
text: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
ref: 1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”:
hypernyms: parking
;
car park
carpark
coordinate_terms: parking garage
glosses: A parking area, generally paved and open-air (sometimes with limited overhead covering), where automobiles may be left when not in use.
examples: text: The 101 was a parking lot again today.
glosses: A road blocked by stop-start traffic.
examples: text: Let's put this question in the parking lot for now, and we'll follow up on it later this week.
topics: business
management
glosses: A holding area in which to set aside some question or concern for likely future consideration.
examples: text: America believed it had smashed Israel’s greatest enemy and turned Iraq into a parking lot, so now Israel could take risks it had never been able to take before.
ref: 1992 April 15, Dore Gold, “The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Mounting Misperceptions in Washington”, in Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
text: I was one of the people understanding the need to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot on the way to finding Bin Laden and bringing him to justice.
ref: 2005, John Grevstad, Red State, Blue State: Defending the Liberal Jesus and Blue State Morality from Red State Religion and Hypocrisy, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Eager for “round two,” a member of Israel’s regional council adjoining Gaza exhorted the military that next time they should “flatten Gaza into a parking lot, destroy them.”
ref: 2018, Norman G. Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, →ISBN, page 56:
text: While the former called for end to the fighting in Gaza in his first Sunday address, Mr. Prevost said that after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israelis by members of Hamas, “I’d have flattened Gaza and made it a parking lot.”
ref: 2025 May 13, Richard Fausset, quoting Louis Prevost, “The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A place in a state of complete destruction, especially one achieved through military means.
pluralia tantum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plurale tantum
Bering Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹɪŋ ˈsiː/
Etymology: Named after Vitus Bering, the first European to systematically explore it.
Senses: synonyms: Imarpik Sea
glosses: The sea between Siberia and Alaska, north of the Pacific Ocean, that is connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait.
wikipedia: Vitus Bering
Derived terms: Old Bering Sea
NCSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rŭg
ipa: /ɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: rugs
form: rugging
form: rugged
form: rugged
Etymology: Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).
Senses: examples: text: It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
ref: 1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45:
glosses: To cover with a rug.
examples: text: “this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
glosses: Clipping of rug pull
Derived terms: rug up
Faraday cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faraday cages
Etymology: Named after Michael Faraday.
Senses: examples: text: Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
ref: 2024 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Meet Me in the Eternal City”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: Any conductive surrounding, idealized or practical, used to interrupt the transmission of electromagnetic energy or electrostatic discharge across it.
wikipedia: Michael Faraday
Synonyms: Faraday shield
Related terms: Faraday bag
centerpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerpunches
Etymology: From center + punch.
Senses: glosses: A hand tool used to prepare a workpiece prior to drilling a hole. It typically compresses and then suddenly releases a spring, creating a small indentation that, in turn, guides and centers the drill.
glosses: The indentation left by such a tool.
centerpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centerpunches
form: centerpunching
form: centerpunched
form: centerpunched
Etymology: From center + punch.
Senses: glosses: To prepare a workpiece for drilling by using a centerpunch to create an indentation.
glosses: To place something directly in the middle.
drilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: drillings
Etymology: From drill + -ing.
Senses: coordinate_terms: boring#Noun
reaming#Noun
turning#Noun
milling#Noun
broaching#Noun
shaping#Noun
planing#Noun
grinding#Noun
glosses: The act or process of drilling.
drilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From drill + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drill
Derived terms: antidrilling
biodrilling
drilling fluid
drilling rig
nondrilling
postdrilling
rope drilling
well drilling
drilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: drillings
Etymology: From German Drilling (“gun with three barrels; triplet”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: vierling
glosses: A long firearm with three barrels (typically a mix of shotgun and rifle barrels).
drilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill.
make up one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes up one's mind
form: making up one's mind
form: made up one's mind
form: made up one's mind
Senses: examples: text: I can't make up my mind whether to have ice cream or cake.
text: "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
text: By that time, Labour had made up its mind.
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
glosses: To decide; to reach a conclusion.
Related terms: have a mind of one's own
change one's mind
moment of truth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moments of truth
Etymology: A calque of Spanish momento de la verdad, which refers to the time of the final sword thrust in a bullfight.
Senses: examples: text: The moment of truth comes when you try to start the engine you have just rebuilt.
glosses: A deciding instant; the time when a test determines or makes it apparent whether something will succeed.
Related terms: defining moment
kairos
do-or-die
sink or swim
next to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Would you mind if I sit next to you?
text: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
glosses: Beside, alongside, by, adjacent to, or near.
examples: text: The living room was the main gathering spot in Fine Manor, and next to that the most used room was the dining room, where, on Sunday nights, Larry and Mabel hosted card games, penny-ante poker nights, and even bingo nights...
ref: 2006, Steve Cox, Jim Terry, One Fine Stooge: Larry Fine's Frizzy Life in Pictures : an Authorized Biography, Cumberland House Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:
text: “Next to you, I'm all Lani has,” she confided. “But you knew that already, too, right?” He should have. That message came loud and clear. “She loves flowers, did you know that?” Jennie asked.
ref: 2016, Jill Shalvis, The Bachelor's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Immediately after, in choice or consideration; aside from.
examples: text: This last he explained to me once, though the explanation didn't matter much, not next to the feeling of those low hairy clouds and the sea bashing itself against the shore. The explanation, in fact, made the poem less wonderful, ...
ref: 2002, Michael Hettich, Greatest hits, 1987-2001, Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 5:
text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: Compared to, in comparison with.
Derived terms: next to last
next to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more next to
form: most next to
Senses: examples: text: It is next to impossible to get him to admit it, but he writes very well.
text: The job paid next to nothing.
text: The Puritans who groaned under it, and so bitterly resisted when it was administered at the hands of bishops, forgot, or never knew, that it was invented, or next to invented, by the episcopal founder of Nonconformity.
ref: 1885, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction, page 465:
glosses: Almost; nearly, well-nigh.
Derived terms: next to nothing
next to no time
shrug off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrugs off
form: shrugging off
form: shrugged off
form: shrugged off
Senses: examples: text: He shrugged off the insults and proceeded despite them.
text: Manchester United shrugged off injuries to Phil Jones and Ashley Young to thrash a lifeless Fulham side.
ref: 2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0 - 5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: "I... don't understand." "I assume he doesn't, either, and were you anyone else, he would shrug it off. He, however, is your father. His default response is protective concern, and he doesn't understand why you transform. Lacking understanding, he is burdened by questions."
ref: 2021 November 12, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Nov 12, 2021:
glosses: To ignore or disregard; to be indifferent to.
examples: text: Other social groups that had attained a comparable level of economic prosperity had comfortably shrugged off a wide definition of self-interest that encompassed other people and other groups. Jews, on the other hand, retained this broader perspective.
ref: 1987 December 27, Gordon Gottlieb, “Coming Home As Lesbian And Gay Jews”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 16:
text: He's shrugged off his gang days and gotten into a decent school.
ref: 2021 July 23, Andrea Martin, Another Man's Wife, Andrea Martin:
text: The United States shot back as second row Erica Jarrell-Searcy shrugged off Breach in midfield and showed superb pace to scamper in.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To dispose of, rid oneself of, in a careless or effortless manner.
Synonyms: misregard
take no notice of
tune out
ignore
mentch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentches
Senses: examples: text: What do you do when you talk a mentch (civilized, decent human being), ask politely for something you deserve and don't get it. Eventually you do something.
ref: 2002, Givon Zirkind, Tales of a Recalcitrant Husband and His Journeys, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mensch.
trellis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛlɪs/
Forms: form: trellises
Etymology: From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Senses: glosses: An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
examples: text: It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Declaration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
topics: communications
computing
computing-theory
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
Synonyms: treillage
Derived terms: trellis drainage
trellised
trellis frame
trellis modulation
trellis quantization
trellis rust
trelliswork
trellis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛlɪs/
Forms: form: trellises
form: trellising
form: trellised
form: trellised
Etymology: From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Senses: examples: to trellis vines
glosses: To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
Derived terms: trellissing
B.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A group of eleven inscribed tablets of jade and stone, dating from about the sixth century B.C., is said to have been discovered around 1940 at Ch’in-yang, Honan.
ref: 1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, “Engravings on Stone and Jade”, in Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: Several fragments of reddish-brown clay statuettes of the Hongshan culture, found at Dongshanzui in Kazuo county, Liaoning province and dating to 3500 B.C., all seem to be kneeling or seated figures of about half life-size or smaller.
ref: 1997, Helmut Brinker, “On the Origin of the Human Image in Chinese Art”, in "Visions of Man in Chinese Art" with Selected Japanese Paintings, Kaikodo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: The following year ten thosuand Hsiung-nu cavalry invaded Shang-ku,⁹⁶ but in 121 B.C. General Huo Ch’ü-ping, at the head of ten thousand cavalry, setting off from Lung-hsi⁹⁷ marched for over one thousand li, crossed the Yen-chih Mountains,⁹⁸ and attacked the Hsiung-nu.
ref: 2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, “From Peace to War: China's Shift from Appeasement to Military Engagement”, in Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:
text: A Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, for example led the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian, dating to circa 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, and also helped establish evidence of “prehistoric” culture, in the form of early painted ceramics at the Neolithic site of Yangshao, dating to circa 5,000 to 3,000 B.C.
ref: 2021 May 11, Rowan K. Flad, “It’s a golden age for Chinese archaeology — and the West is ignoring it”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2021, PostEverything:
text: During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over flames. A feature of royal court cuisine during the Joseon dynasty (1392 to 1910), neobiani is considered a predecessor to today’s beloved bulgogi.
ref: 2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food:
glosses: Alternative form of BC; initialism of Before Christ.