cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
more than one can shake a stick at
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more than one can poke a stick at
form: more than you can shake a stick at
Etymology: Unknown. American English, in use since about 1800.
Senses: examples: text: Q: How many units did they complete last month? A: Almost two hundred, which is more than you can shake a stick at.
text: Q: How much grain did they harvest last month? A: Almost six thousand tons, which is more grain than you can shake a stick at.
text: Q: I wonder how much water that company uses in a month. A: Probably more of it than you can shake a stick at.
text: "[L]aziness, cousin, laziness,—which ruins more souls than you can shake a stick at."
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 16, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: "[H]e's laid out more 'Federates dan he can shake a stick at."
ref: 1883, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 39, in His Sombre Rivals: A Story of the Civil War:
text: "I've got more companies than you can shake a stick at. There's the Alameda & Contra Costa Land Syndicate, the Consolidated Street Railways, the Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the United Water Company, the Piedmont Realty Company, the Fairview and Portola Hotel Company, and half a dozen more that I've got to refer to a notebook to remember."
ref: 1910, Jack London, chapter 16, in Burning Daylight:
text: There are more billionaires than you can shake a stick at.
ref: 2004 August 15, Ben Stein, “For Sale: The Ultimate Status Symbol”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2014:
glosses: Occurring in abundance; of a large quantity; many.
hot glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot glues
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hot melt adhesive.
synonyms: word: hot melt adhesive
flashpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashpoints
Etymology: From flash + point.
Senses: examples: text: Chances came and went at both ends before the flashpoint involving Vardy and Nasri, who took an age to leave the pitch after Daniele Orsato, the Italian referee, brandished a red card.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in The Guardian:
text: In a match which contained several flashpoints in the crowd, including loud jeering when England's players took the knee before kick-off, objects being thrown and racist chanting, they came through a mediocre first half to take total control after the break and run out easy winners.
ref: 2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of flash point.
MGTOW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪɡtaʊ/
Forms: form: MGTOWs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of maximum gross takeoff weight (“the maximum gross weight of a given aircraft, including its own weight and that of everything it is carrying, beyond which it would be unable to take off”).
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: MGLW
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: MTOW
MGTOW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɪɡtaʊ/
Senses: examples: text: This is my command - to spread this Declaration to all MGTOW and never surrender it to outsiders for they have no knowledge or wisdom in living well and free forever.
ref: 2007 July 27, MCP [username], “Bachelor Declaration”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: The MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement began as a way for desperate men to avoid exploitation by women.
ref: 2012 November 11, BetterOffSingle [username], “New Video: Why MGTOW is the new PUA!”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):
text: Is Zed the Zenpriest still around, or has Mr. Elam permanently retired that persona in favor of its MGTOW philosophy of copping out from the real world?
ref: 2013 April 23, Revelations [username], “Re: The Victory (Over Semiramis) Is the Lord's”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: ... who gets a little too addicted to the kindred "broship" he gets from MGTOW blogs and subreddits. If you haven't already guessed, the manosphere does have a few female ecelebrities on board, some of whom exhibit confounding behavior, ...
ref: 2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!: The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do, Metro Clarion Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Acronym of Men Going Their Own Way (“an anti-feminist movement”).
Coordinate terms: GLOM
incel
Derived terms: MGTOWer
unstressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈstɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more unstressed
form: most unstressed
Etymology: From un- + stressed.
Senses: examples: text: Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
ref: 2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:
glosses: not stressed or accentuated
raw_tags: of a vowel
glosses: not subject to stress
calibrated focal length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calibrated focal lengths
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An adjusted value of the equivalent focal length, so computed as to equalize the positive and negative values of distortion over the entire field used in a camera.
dazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dazzle
dazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dazzled
form: most dazzled
Senses: glosses: Experiencing dazzlement; overcome by light or brilliance.
examples: a dazzled ship
glosses: Painted in dazzle camouflage.
Derived terms: undazzled
verifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verifiabilities
Etymology: From verify + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Mill distinguished between hypotheses which rest on mere analogy and such as are capable of "being ultimately brought to the test of actual induction," claiming for the latter a verifiability which he denied to the former.
ref: 1887, J. M. Rigg, “The Place of Hypothesis in Experimental Science”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, page 559:
text: 1973 , James C. McKeown, "Comparative Application of Market and Cost Based Accounting Models," Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 99,
The verifiabilities of the other measurement systems were very similar.
text: The issues of veracity and verifiability raised by testimony in trials emerge with a vengeance in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
ref: 2004, Mark Sanders, “Truths and Contestation: Literature in Law”, in Law and Literature, volume 16, number 3, page 481:
glosses: The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
Derived terms: criterion of verifiability
principle of verifiability
verifiability criterion
verifiability principle
dazzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dazzle
confirmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confirmable
form: most confirmable
Etymology: From confirm + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being checked, verifiable.
Derived terms: confirmably
unconfirmable
satiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪʃɪˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: satiations
Senses: glosses: The state of being satiated or sated, of being full, of being at maximum capacity.
Synonyms: satiatedness
satiety
Derived terms: nonsatiation
predator satiation
semantic satiation
Related terms: satiate
satiated
satiatory
unattested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unattested
form: most unattested
Etymology: From un- + attested.
Senses: examples: text: The plural form of this noun must surely have existed in the speech of medieval farmers, although it is unattested in surviving books from the period.
glosses: Not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.
descender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: descenders
Etymology: From descend + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: coordinate_terms: ascender
glosses: A person or thing that descends.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: tail
coordinate_terms: ascender
glosses: The part of a letter or number that is drawn below the baseline (the bottom of most lowercase letters).
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: ascender
glosses: A letter that has such a portion, such as g, j, or in some fonts Q.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cyclist who excels at fast descents.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A belay device used in rock climbing, or as a fire escape.
distributive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹɪbjʊtɪv/
Forms: form: more distributive
form: most distributive
Etymology: From Middle French distributif.
Senses: glosses: Relating to distribution.
examples: text: [I]t is worth obſerving the diſtributive Juſtice of the Authors, which is conſtantly applied to the Puniſhment of Virtue, and the Reward of Vice; […]
ref: 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
examples: If function f is distributive with respect to function g, then f(a,g(b,c))=g(f(a,b),f(a,c)).
If the operation ⋆ is distributive with respect to the operation ∘, then a⋆(b∘c)=(a⋆b)∘(a⋆c).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Assigning the species of a general term.
examples: text: a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
text: a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
Derived terms: distributive education
distributive justice
distributive lattice
distributively
distributiveness
distributive number
distributivism
nondistributive
selfdistributive
semidistributive
temporal distributive
distributive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹɪbjʊtɪv/
Forms: form: distributives
Etymology: From Middle French distributif.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: distributive case
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A distributive adjective or pronoun.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A distributive numeral.
identifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more identifiable
form: most identifiable
Etymology: From identify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know where he was from because he had no identifiable accent.
text: We acknowledge that the tidal volume utilized for the SHVT group is far from the one utilized in the clinical setting, however, this choice was based on our previous studies supporting that 20 ml/kg was the minimal level of overdistention in healthy rats causing an identifiable injury comparable to that experienced by ALI patients.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Lung Transcriptomics during Protective Ventilatory Support in Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: The only other identifiable plant macrofossil present was a nutlet of club-rush that was morphologically most similar to grey club-rush (Schoenoplectus cf tabernaemontani). This form of club-rush is most often found near the sea, although it also grows in marshes and dune-slacks.
ref: 2017 January 9, Dan Garner, Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: Capable of being distinguished and named.
Derived terms: deidentifiable
identifiability
identifiableness
identifiably
nonidentifiable
reidentifiable
unidentifiable
sightseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɪtˌsiːə/
Forms: form: sightseers
Etymology: From sight + seer.
Senses: glosses: One who goes sightseeing; one who goes around to look at sights or see things of interest; a tourist.
poised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪzd/
rhymes: -ɔɪzd
Forms: form: more poised
form: most poised
Senses: synonyms: unruffled
glosses: Possessing poise, having self-confidence.
examples: text: He stood there, poised to act, and then suddenly he drew his gun in a smooth arc.
text: A free-kick from Matthew Etherington caused more confusion on the stroke of half-time but Mehmet Aurelio was able to hook the ball clear with Cameron Jerome poised to strike.
ref: 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Ready, prepared.
examples: text: The Titanic stands on end, poised briefly for the plunge.
ref: 1934 January, Hanson W[eightman] Baldwin, “R. M. S. Titanic”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 168, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, section II, page 176, column 2:
glosses: Balanced, in position, equilibrium
Derived terms: unpoised
poised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪzd/
rhymes: -ɔɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poise
Sunday driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday drivers
Etymology: From Sunday + driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving.
Senses: examples: text: I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
text: Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.
ref: 1990 July 30, Davide Thigpen, “Real-Life Days of Thunder”, in Time:
glosses: One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
glosses: One who drives infrequently, and often poorly.
readability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːdəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌɹiːdəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˌɹidəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌɹidəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /ˌɹiːdəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌɹiːdəˈbɪləɾi]
Forms: form: readabilities
Etymology: From readable + -ity or read + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: When done correctly, kerning helps to improve the readability of text by adding or removing space between two letters. Bad kerning, also known as keming, leads to misreadings, and in the worst cases, incredibly bad (but humorous) misunderstandings.
ref: 2018 April 20, jkohorst, “FR E SH A VOCA DO^([sic])”, in Writing for Designers^([dead link]):
text: Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.
ref: 2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: The property of being capable of being read; legibility.
examples: text: The book had a clever plot, but lacked readability.
glosses: The property of being easy or engaging to read.
Related terms: readable
unreadable
readableness
stoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈstəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stokers
Etymology: From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke.
Senses: examples: text: For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?
ref: 1960, J.E. Macdonnell, Escort Ship, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1972, page 22:
glosses: A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
glosses: A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
examples: text: As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works.
ref: 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 278:
glosses: A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
glosses: A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
Synonyms: sense: fireplace utensil
word: firestick
sense: fireplace utensil
word: poker
Derived terms: mechanical stoker
stoker-fired
Related terms: fireman
speckled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛkəld/
rhymes: -ɛkəld
Forms: form: more speckled
form: most speckled
Senses: examples: text: The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.
glosses: Marked with dots or spots, spotted.
glosses: Sporadically and irregularly marked.
Synonyms: speckly
Derived terms: cute as a speckled pup
Indonesian speckled carpetshark
pretty as a speckled pup
speckled alder
speckled bass
speckled-belly
speckled boobook
speckled carpetshark
speckled footman
speckled kingsnake
speckled monster
speckled softshell turtle
speckled teal
speckled trout
speckled warbler
speckled wood
splake
headset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdsɛt/
Forms: form: headsets
Etymology: From head + set.
Senses: glosses: A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone.
examples: text: If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.
ref: 2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent:
glosses: Any electronic device worn on the head.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On a bicycle, the system of bearings that connects the fork to the frame.
examples: text: One member has this whole collection of 50s rockabilly by women. Like the blues, the lyrics reflect the headset of the time, so of course it's not all "non-sexist." But it's a great record, really connected to the roots of rock 'n roll.
ref: 1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, quoting Mary Ann Peacott, “Rock Against Sexism”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 6:
glosses: A mindset.
Derived terms: headset rumble
headsetted
neuroheadset
decoupage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ/
Forms: form: decoupages
Etymology: Borrowed from French découpage, from découper (“to cut up”).
Senses: glosses: An art technique in which paper cutouts (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated
glosses: An artwork made by this technique
Related terms: papier-mâché
collage
decoupage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ/
Forms: form: decoupages
form: decoupaging
form: decoupaged
form: decoupaged
Etymology: Borrowed from French découpage, from découper (“to cut up”).
Senses: glosses: To perform or use the art technique of decoupage.
hot metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A Fleet Street veteran of the hot-metal days, he had moved to the Mediterranean and spotted an anglophone niche among the marinas and yacht brokers.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 127:
text: In the mid-80s, most British newspapers were still produced using hot metal, despite the widespread use elsewhere of modern offset litho technology.
ref: 2011 July 27, Jon Henley, “Rupert Murdoch and the battle of Wapping: 25 years on”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Printing type cast from molten metal; hot metal typesetting.
hot metal typesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any method of typesetting that involves injecting a molten metal alloy into a matrix to form a relief printing surface.
Related terms: Linotype
Monotype
phototypesetting
hot money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Money, or other financial instruments, that moves regularly between different markets in search of the best interest rate.
glosses: Stolen currency.
examples: text: The hot money is on Fishface to win the 3:30.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: The largest total of money staked on a race, etc.
hot on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He is hot on white-water rafting.
glosses: Enthusiastic for.
examples: text: He is hot on Anglo-Saxon history.
glosses: Knowledgeable about.
examples: text: He is hot on mental arithmetic.
glosses: Skilled at.
hot-panted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hotpanted
form: hot panted
form: hot-pantsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot-pantsed.
hotpanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot-pantsed.
hot panted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot-pantsed.
hot-pantsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hot panted
form: hot-panted
form: hotpanted
Etymology: From hot pants + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing hot pants.
hot pint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot pints
Etymology: From Scots het pint.
Senses: glosses: a drink made from boiling beer to which is added nutmeg, eggs, sugar and whiskey; drunk during first footing.
scaled question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaled questions
Senses: glosses: A question, usually part of a questionnaire, in which the response is chosen from a range of values
hotpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotpresses
form: hotpressing
form: hotpressed
form: hotpressed
form: hot press
Etymology: From hot + press.
Senses: glosses: To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process, or as a method of printing.
examples: text: She remembered, when a girl, seeing a short poem written by the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, for which her papa gave three guineas; she did not suppose there was a single copy sold in the city or the country, so that her grace had really the satisfaction of knowing that her beautiful hotpressed folio was opened alone by courtly hands.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:
coordinate_terms: coldpress
glosses: To apply both heat and mechanical pressure in order to extract oil or juices.
Derived terms: hotpressed
hotpresser
hotpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotpress
hotpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has been heated and pressed.
hotpresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotpressers
Etymology: From hotpress + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person, in a laundry or in a paper mill, whose job was to hotpress.
hotrodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotrodders
form: hot-rodder
form: hot rodder
Etymology: From hot rod + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who has an enthusiasm for hot rods
hot-rodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hotrodder.
hot rodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hotrodder.
hot saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot saws
Senses: examples: text: The 445-E is matched with a Quadco 22-inch hot saw and works a roadside logging system.
ref: 2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, volume 33:
text: Finally, she showed me the "hot saw." These are not machines so much as bulky beasts of destruction: souped-up chainsaws with snowmobile or motorcycle engines, some of which run on airplane fuel, that weigh forty to sixty pounds and kick like a rifle when started.
ref: 2006, Christ Ballard, The Butterfly Hunter: Adventures of People who Found Their True Calling Way Off the Beaten Path, page 84:
text: Specialized equipment such as blade mowers and hot saws will be used.
ref: 2007, Agricultural Impact Statement, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, page 4:
glosses: A saw with a continuously rotating circular blade; used for cutting trees.
examples: text: When double length rails are rolled, the piece is divided in the middle by the hot saw only, and the two fag ends are made the exact length by the cold saw.
ref: 1882, Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, volume 1, page 409:
text: The ordinary hot saw, for sawing iron at a blight red heat, differs but little from a common circular wood-saw.
ref: 1888, Park Benjamin, Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics:
text: After the mandrel bar extractor pulls out the mandrel, a hot saw cuts off the closed bottom and also the open end of the tube.
ref: 2009, Vukota Boljanovic, Metal Shaping Processes, page 145:
glosses: A saw used for cutting hot metal.
hot set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot sets
Senses: glosses: A film set in which furniture and props have been positioned for an imminent shoot, so labeled to prevent said items from being moved and thus compromising continuity in the finished product
Inver-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.və-/
ipa: /ˈɪn.vɚ-/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic inbhir (“river mouth, confluence”), from Old Irish *in(d)ber, from Proto-Celtic *endo-ber-o (“carrying in”), from *endo (“in”), from Proto-Indo-European *en-do-, from *h₁én. Analogous to Welsh aber (“river mouth, confluence”), from Old Welsh oper, aper, from Proto-Brythonic.
Senses: glosses: mouth of a river; confluence
Derived terms: Invergordon
Inverkeithing
Inverloch
Related terms: Loch Inver
film set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film sets
form: film-set
form: filmset
Senses: glosses: The enclosure in which a film scene is shot; includes scenery and props.
kleptocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kleptocracies
form: cleptocracy
Etymology: From klepto- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Quevedo, no ordinary person, is very amusing. His Visions of Hell in particular, though of a very different kind from Dante's, are more edifying. But our business at present is with his "History of Paul the Spanish Sharper, the Pattern of Rogues and Mirror of Vagabonds." We do not know that he deserves these appellations so much as some others but they are to be looked upon as titular ornaments, common to the Spanish Kleptocracy.
ref: 1819 December 29, Leigh Hunt, “THIEVES, ANCIENT AND MODERN”, in The Indicator, number 12, page 95:
text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
synonyms: corruptocracy
kleptarchy
glosses: A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.
Derived terms: narcokleptocracy
Related terms: kleptocrat
kleptocratic
mafia state
thiefdom
nuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌf/
ipa: /nɐf/
ipa: /nʊf/
homophone: knuff
Senses: qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular or Jamaica
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of 'nough, shortening of enough,
Derived terms: fairy nuff
nuff said
sho nuff
anti-foaming agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-foaming agents
Senses: glosses: Any food additive added to prevent excessive effervescence
glazing agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glazing agents
Senses: glosses: Any food additive added to produce a shiny protective coating.
candelilla wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candelilla waxes
Senses: glosses: a yellow-brown wax obtained from leaves of several plants of the Euphorbia genus
Synonyms: E902 when used as a glazing agent
carnauba wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnauba waxes
Senses: glosses: A yellow-brown wax obtained from the leaves of the Brazilian carnauba palm (Copernicia prunifera); used in cosmetics, polishes etc.
Synonyms: E903 when used as a glazing agent
shellac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈlæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: shellacs
Etymology: From shell + lac, calque of French laque en écailles (literally “lac in scales/shells”).
Senses: examples: text: But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
ref: 2002 April 29, Norman Pearlstine, “A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday Blues"--one for every doggone working day of the month.”, in CNN Money:
text: At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
ref: 2019 November 5, Alice Bell, “Can science break its plastic addiction?”, in CNN:
glosses: A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.
glosses: A beating; a thrashing.
Synonyms: E904 when used as a glazing agent
shellac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈlæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: shellacs
form: shellacking
form: shellacked
form: shellacked
Etymology: From shell + lac, calque of French laque en écailles (literally “lac in scales/shells”).
Senses: glosses: To coat with shellac.
glosses: To beat; to thrash.
examples: text: In 1964 Goldwater ran rambunctiously, flat-out against government. He got shellacked.
ref: 1987, George F. Will, The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election, Simon and Schuster, page 21:
text: In another the Mets were shellacked, 9-1, with a stray ninth-inning home run by Strawberry after two outs, preventing a shutout.
ref: 1987, Tim McCarver, Ray Robinson, Oh, Baby, I Love It!, Villard Books, page 220:
glosses: To inflict a heavy defeat upon.
mineral oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral oils
Senses: glosses: Any mixture of aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons derived from petroleum used for very many applications, but not as a fuel.
Synonyms: E905a when used as an anti-foaming agent
petrolatum
microcrystalline wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcrystalline waxes
Senses: glosses: a wax produced by removing oil from petrolatum; used in cosmetics etc
Synonyms: E905c when used as a glazing agent
penumbrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈnʌmbɹəs/
Forms: form: more penumbrous
form: most penumbrous
Etymology: From penumbra + -ous.
Senses: examples: the penumbrous calm of the cathedral interior
glosses: Partially shaded.
examples: text: Yet such Commissions were awarded, and far more frequently than might be supposed in view of the infinitely wider gulf—both social and educational—which divided the eighteenth-century Officer from the rank and file, than the penumbrous border line which separates them today.
ref: 1951, Reginald Hargreaves, This Happy Breed: Sidelights on Soldiers and Soldiering, page 237:
text: Everyone knows God in his penumbrous knowledge of common esse.
ref: 1961, Gerard Smith, Lottie H. Kendzierski, The philosophy of being: Metaphysics I, page 326:
text: This is that from which metaphor springs dissatisfying, penumbrous - the silence on occult matters, or those of predestination, of genetics or environment - and the source of circumlocution, the ambiguous alchemical directives.
ref: 1982, Open Letter, page 119:
text: In the early nineteenth century, when high school and college education was a rare experience for the average American citizen, judicial determination of vague, penumbrous fundamental rights was carried out by the educated classes.
ref: 1992, James R. Cooper, Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Price of Happiness in America, page 39:
glosses: Vague; ill-defined; unclear.
analysis situs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Topology.
constituencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɪtjuənsiːz/
ipa: /kənˈstɪt͡ʃʊənsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of constituency
countered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəd/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntəɹd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counter
Silicon Fen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses around Cambridge, <.
Silicon Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses around Portland, Oregon.
choroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹˌɔɪd/
Etymology: From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).
Senses: examples: choroid plexus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.
choroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: choroids
Etymology: From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pigmented vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera.
Derived terms: choroidal
choroideal
choroiditis
choroidopathy
choroidoretinitis
choroidoscleral
leptochoroid
pachychoroid
pachychoroidopathy
suprachoroid
Related terms: chorioid
choroid coat
Silicon Glen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses in central Scotland.
Silicon Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses around Austin, Texas.
Silicon Prairie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses around Schaumburg, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; or Ames, Iowa.
Silicon Sentier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the Sentier neighborhood, a neighborhood in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, due to the concentration of high-tech businesses in the area.
Silicon Wadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of high-tech businesses in Israel.
payoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay-off.
Derived terms: sucker's payoff
pay-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.ɒf/
/ˈpeɪ.ɔːf/
Forms: form: pay-offs
form: payoff
Etymology: Deverbal from pay off.
Senses: examples: text: At the current monthly payment level, it'll take 32 more months to reach pay-off.
glosses: A payment in full; the state of having been paid in full.
examples: text: What's the pay-off for putting up with her nonsense for ages on end?
glosses: A reward.
examples: text: How soon could we realistically expect any pay-off from loading up on shares of that company?
glosses: A return on investment.
examples: text: The prison break never could have succeeded if it hadn't been for multiple pay-offs to various corrupt officers.
text: Darlinghurst cops will get you/Clean and bright/Rich and white/See where pay-offs will get you
ref: 1981 September, “Sex and Vice”, in Songs of the Gay Liberation Quire:
synonyms: word: backhander
word: bribe
word: bung
word: coffee money
word: cold drink money
word: dash
word: douceur
word: inducement
word: kopi money
word: pay-off
word: payola
word: subornation
word: sweetener
word: tea money
glosses: A bribe.
examples: text: Where's the pay-off for that whole segment of the plot?
text: If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on. When the event that was foreshadowed occurs, that's the payoff.
ref: 2013, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, How to Write a Collaborative Novel, Pigeon Park Press, →ISBN:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred.
examples: text: The bases are loaded, so he'd better make the pay-off count.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of payoff pitch.
Derived terms: payoff function
payoff pitch
Related terms: word: payback
word: paydown
silicon iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon irons
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ferrosilicon.
boucle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boucles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bouclé.
siliconise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: siliconises
form: siliconising
form: siliconised
form: siliconised
Etymology: From silicon + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of siliconize.
siliconize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: siliconizes
form: siliconizing
form: siliconized
form: siliconized
Etymology: From silicone + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat or coat with silicone.
credited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: [ˈkɹɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˈkɹed.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈkɹed.ɪ.ɾɪd]
Forms: form: more credited
form: most credited
Etymology: From Latin credere (“to trust in”).
Senses: examples: text: He was credited with the invention of the alarm clock.
glosses: Having something attributed to oneself.
Derived terms: noncredited
uncredited
credited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈkɹɛd.ɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: [ˈkɹɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˈkɹed.ɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈkɹed.ɪ.ɾɪd]
Etymology: From Latin credere (“to trust in”).
Senses: glosses: past participle of credit
Related terms: accredited
silicon steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon steels
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron and silicon that has important magnetic properties.
disclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: disclosures
Etymology: From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.
Senses: examples: text: Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; […]
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of revealing something.
examples: text: get full disclosure
topics: law
glosses: The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
glosses: That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
Synonyms: revelation
Derived terms: full disclosure
nondisclosure
overdisclosure
predisclosure
redisclosure
self-disclosure
serodisclosure
Related terms: disclose
sulcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌl.kəs/
rhymes: -ʌlkəs
Forms: form: sulci
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").
Senses: examples: text: The sulci and gyri are the grooves and ridges, respectively.
text: The Union’s soft latex-polymer roof is cerebrally domed and a cloudy piamater pink except in spots where it’s eroded down to pasty gray, and everywhere textured, the bulging rooftop, with sulci and bulbous convolutions.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 186:
text: The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.
ref: 1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience, page 55:
text: Unlike most other sulci, the lateral sulcus is very deep.
ref: 2006, Inderbir Singh, Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy, 7th edition, page 72:
text: The large surface area of the human cerebral cortex results in a pattern of gyri and sulci.
ref: 2014, John Kiernan, Raj Rajakumar, Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint, 10th edition, page 213:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: gyrus
english: elevation
translation: elevation
word: ;
english: depression
translation: depression
word: fossa
word: fovea
word: fissure
word: cleft
word: lacuna
word: vallecula
glosses: A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.
Derived terms: gluteal sulcus
hemisulcus
hyposulcus
intermammary sulcus
pseudosulcus
sulcal
sulcate
sulciform
sulcus cutis
silicon wafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon wafers
Senses: glosses: A thin slice of silicon used to fabricate semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits.
strained silicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A layer of silicon atoms deposited onto a substrate of silicon germanium constrained to be wider apart than normal; this decreases resistance and increases performance when made into a chip.
Castiglione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castigliones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Castiglione.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmplɚ/
Forms: form: samplers
Etymology: From Old French essamplaire, from Latin exemplāris. Doublet of exemplar.
Senses: glosses: A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmplɚ/
ipa: /ˈsæmplɚ/
ipa: /ˈsæmpəlɚ/
ipa: /ˈsæmplɚ/
Forms: form: samplers
Etymology: From sample + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone whose job is to take samples.
glosses: A device that takes samples.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples of recordings.
examples: text: He also made a sampler CD, with one minute samples of 26 of their songs, for free distribution to people they met in Buffalo, and to others who showed an interest in their music.
ref: 2012, Eric Bishop-Potter, A Ruined Boy, page 76:
glosses: A representative selection of a larger group.
Derived terms: rosette sampler
Whitman's sampler
insalata caprese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: caprese salad
Capri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpɹi/
ipa: /kəˈpɹiː/
ipa: /ˈkɑːpɹi/
enpr: kăʹprē
enpr: kə-prēʹ
enpr: käʹprē
rhymes: -i
Etymology: From Italian Capri.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Bay of Naples; part of Campania.
glosses: Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light dry white wine.
Derived terms: capri
capri pants
pizze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt.seɪ/
Etymology: English irregular plural forms are usually from the plural form of the singular form’s etymon, which is Neapolitan pizze, the plural of pizza; however, it is much more likely to have been borrowed from Italian pizze, due to the worldwide influence of Italian cuisine.
Senses: examples: text: […] they manufacture the detestable tarts called pizze, very popular in this part of the world.
ref: 1938, Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller, page 321:
text: Twice a week his mother baked bread, and twice a week there were pizze fritte for breakfast instead of cocoa and stale bread.
ref: 1957, Armando T. Perretta, Take a Number, page 82:
text: The city seemed like one gigantic fry-shop, with ‘zeppole’, ‘pizze’ and ‘calzoni’ sizzling on every street-corner.
ref: 1973, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Partito Comunista Italiano, et al., Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser, page 121:
text: The variety of pizze is immense. The true Roman pizza, for instance, is made with onions and oil, no tomato.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth David, Italian Food, page 115:
text: The most exquisite pizze are cooked in a forno a legna (woodfired oven).
ref: 2000, Matthew Evans, Italy: World Food, page 2:
text: Umbria is rich in paste, pizze, savoury torte, minestre and polenta dishes.
ref: 2004, Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy, page 203:
glosses: plural of pizza
farinata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farinate
form: farinatas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian farinata.
Senses: examples: text: To begin: a Ligurian specialty, farinata, half pancake, half pizza, made from chickpea flour, immersed in olive oil and baked until it sets but doesn’t crisp; the insides barely make it past gooey.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ligaya Mishan, “Hungry City: Fitzcarraldo in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A flat baked pancake, somewhat similar to a pizza, made from chickpea flour and olive oil.
Related terms: besan cheela
socca
uniformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjunəfɔɹmli/
ipa: /ˈjuːnɪfɔːmli/
Forms: form: more uniformly
form: most uniformly
Etymology: From uniform + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Pullmans have been painted green, uniformly with the rest of the stock, and only their characteristic outline distinguishes them from the rest of the stock.
ref: 1945 July and August, “Notes and News: B.L.A. Leave Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 231:
text: After decades of observation, it's pretty obvious to me that all governments are uniformly useless at actually running anything, so we need to employ the private sector to do the job for us on properly specified contracts [...].
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
glosses: In a uniform manner, consistently.
Synonyms: word: consistently
word: invariably
word: always
word: constantly
word: immutably
word: invariously
word: still
word: unalterably
word: unchangeably
word: unchangingly
word: uniformly
word: unvaryingly
Hyponyms: word: continually
word: nonstop
word: persistently
Derived terms: uniformly continuous
emulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmjəˌleɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: emulators
Senses: examples: text: I admire the conqueror of Tlajcala and of Culna, but I find in the life of this emulator of Caesar actions which, if necessity warranted, the heart must still refuse to approve […]
ref: (volume 1)
glosses: A person or thing that emulates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.
Derived terms: emulatress
Related terms: emulate
forethought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)θɔːt/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈθɔːt/
Forms: form: forethoughts
Etymology: From Middle English forethouht, forethoght, from Old English *foreþōht (“forethought”); equivalent to fore- + thought. See also forethink.
Senses: examples: text: With a little forethought we'd have planned for this contingency and not been stuck here now.
glosses: Thinking beforehand or in advance, planning; prior or previous consideration; premeditation.
glosses: Anticipation.
glosses: Provident care; prudence.
Derived terms: fearthought
forethoughted
forethoughtful
forethoughtless
unforethought