cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abjad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒæd/
/ˈɑbˌd͡ʒɑd/
Forms: form: abjads
Etymology: From Arabic أبجد (ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters: أ (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), د (d)). Compare English ABC and alphabet.
Linguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels.
Senses: examples: text: In Rabghuzi's Stories of the Prophets, a teacher asked Jesus, who was seven years old at the time, to repeat the alphabet and the abjad by rote.
ref: 2014, Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli, Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy, Cornell University Press, unnumbered page:
text: Abjad is the writing system used in this book, and it's also the writing system used throughout the Arabic world. For instance, most newspapers you pick up in the Middle East use the abjad writing system, whereby the consonants are included but not the vowels.
ref: 2018, Amine Bouchentouf, Arabic for Dummies, 3rd edition, Wiley, page 16:
glosses: A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.
examples: text: Languages that use abjads include Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
examples: text: 1971, Mohibbul Hasan, History of Tipu Sultan, Aakar Books, 2nd Edition, 2005 Reprint, page 399,
The other names had no significance, except that the initial letter of each month denoted its place in the calendar according to the abjad system, which assigned a certain numerical power to every letter in the alphabet.
text: As Islam spread eastward throughout the eighth century AD as far as the Indus River, the Indian style of numeration began to diffuse westward and supplant the Arabic abjad, which itself was still a novelty in western regions such as North Africa.
ref: 2010, Stephen Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, Cambridge University Press, page 166:
glosses: The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.
Synonyms: sense: writing system with a glyph for each consonant
word: consonantary
Hypernyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: signary
Derived terms: abjadic
Related terms: word: abugida
word: abgad
english: alphabetic orders
translation: alphabetic orders
word: halaham
english: alphabetic orders
translation: alphabetic orders
word: halḥam
word: abjad numeral
paralytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paralytic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He was paralytically drunk.
text: But if it stay not with the Patient, it must be repeated again: For it's no unusual Thing in these Cases, for Glysters to come slip away presently, by reason that the Intestines having their Fibres benumbed, and paralytically relaxed, lose their retentive Faculty.
ref: 1710, Thomas Fuller, Pharmacopœia extemporanea:
text: But to the top of the House is Mankind, thus paralytically diseased, to be carry'd by the four Evangelists, his Bearers.
ref: 1729, Thomas Woolston, A Discurse on the Miracles of our Saviour in view of present controversy between infidels and apostates:
text: They are paralytically fixed, existing simply as inert conduits which are not capable of acting expulsively on the contents themselves, and only discharge this part of their function in as far as they are acted upon by other contractile agents.
ref: 1883, William Robertson, A Text-book of the Practice of Equine Medicine, page 518:
text: Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid.
ref: 2014, Emily Spivack, Worn Stories, page 45:
glosses: In a paralytic manner.
nonspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + speaking.
Senses: antonyms: speaking
glosses: Not speaking.
disenfranchisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈfɹæn.t͡ʃaɪzmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈfɹæn.tʃɪzmənt/
Forms: form: disenfranchisements
Etymology: From disenfranchise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Explicit or implicit revocation of, or failure to grant, the right to vote, to a person or group of people.
nonspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-specific
Etymology: From non- + specific.
Senses: examples: See also: nonspecific symptom, specificity
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not specific or precise, as:
Not specific to one possible cause; caused by any of various possible causes.
antonyms: pathognomonic
coordinate_terms: assident
raw_tags: of a symptom or other finding
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not specific or precise, as:
Not specific to one pathogen; affecting multiple strains or species of pathogen.
hypernyms: broad-spectrum
raw_tags: of an antimicrobial
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not specific or precise, as:
Not known to be caused by any specific pathogen.
coordinate_terms: cryptogenic
nonfocal
raw_tags: of an infection
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not specific or precise, as:
Not caused by previous infection or vaccination, and/or affecting more than one antigen.
coordinate_terms: crossreactive
raw_tags: of a person's immunity
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not specific or precise, as:
That does not just stain one type of tissue.
raw_tags: of a stain in microscopy
Synonyms: word: unspecific
english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: inspecific
Derived terms: nonspecificity
gesticulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gesticulate + -ive?
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or using gesticulation.
Derived terms: gesticulatively
Related terms: gesticulate
gesticulation
gesture
gestural
nonsummativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + summativity.
Senses: glosses: the state of a system that is not the sum of its parts
Related terms: summativity
nonvolant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-volant
Etymology: From non- + volant.
Senses: examples: text: Given this ability for long-distance oceanic dispersal, giant tortoises must have been often among the first large, non-volant vertebrates to colonize islands.
ref: 20178, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 1 March
synonyms: flightless
nonflying
glosses: Incapable of flight.
normalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of normalize
normalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that normalizes
Derived terms: normalizing constant
normativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normativities
Etymology: From normative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being normative.
glosses: The state of being a norm.
glosses: That which is normative.
Synonyms: word: normativeness
Derived terms: ablenormativity
aetonormativity
allonormativity
amatonormativity
antinormativity
Ashkenormativity
chrononormativity
cisnormativity
heteronormativity
metronormativity
mononormativity
pornonormativity
queernormativity
repronormativity
transnormativity
Related terms: descriptivity
prescriptivity
normotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + tonic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: having normal muscle tone
Related terms: eutonic
normotonia
not bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: nonbad
text: What did you think of the guitarist?
Not bad, but that solo could have been better.
synonyms: word: not half bad
word: OK
word: acceptable
word: adequate
word: all right
word: average
word: close enough
word: close enough for government work
word: close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
word: decent
word: favoursome
word: fair
word: fine
word: jake
word: good enough
word: good enough for government work
word: hunky dory
word: kosher
word: mustn't grumble
word: nonbad
word: not bad
word: not half bad
word: OK
word: okay
word: okayish
word: passable
word: pretty good
word: tolerable
word: up to par
word: up to scratch
word: up to snuff
word: reasonable
word: respectable
word: satisfactory
word: snug
word: sufficient
word: suitable
word: tickety-boo
coordinate_terms: good
glosses: Reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.
notefile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notefiles
Etymology: From note + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file containing plain text with little or no formatting.
novelistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more novelistic
form: most novelistic
Etymology: From novelist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a novel.
Derived terms: novelistically
Nyakyusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a people of Tanzania and Malawi
Nyakyusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Bantu language of this people.
Nyamwezi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of Tanzania.
Synonyms: Wanyamwezi
Nyamwezi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by this people.
Nyaturucha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Nyaturuwil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Nyiha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Zambia
Nyiramba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
souverain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souverains
Senses: glosses: A gold coin of the Austrian Netherlands.
saucisson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucissons
Etymology: Borrowed from French saucisson.
Senses: glosses: A saucisse.
spangled kookaburra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spangled kookaburras
Senses: glosses: A kookaburra of the Aru Islands, with blue wings and tail, a white chest and belly, dark eyes, and a striking white-spotted black head, Dacelo tyro.
Synonyms: Aru giant kingfisher
gayer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gay: more gay
gayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gayers
Senses: examples: text: Many ex-gayers are encouraged to bond with an older straight man from their church.
ref: 1999, Dann Hazel, Witness: gay and lesbian clergy report from the front:
text: shut the fuck up you gayer :)
ref: 2002, Marblehead Johnson, “universal is no more”, in alt.music.oasis (Usenet):
text: Facist ^([sic]) Frankie, PMSL, you gayers are funny.
ref: 2008, Frankie Carbone, “Frankie's passed out”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):
glosses: Somebody who is gay (in the sense of either homosexual or uncool).
philippine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Philippine.
Philippine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪpiːn/
Senses: examples: text: Three Philippine women working in Dubai died in their car, trapped by waters gushing down the street.
ref: 2024 April 25, Angela Dewan, “Scientists find the fingerprints of climate change on Dubai’s deadly floods”, in CNN:
synonyms: Filipino
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Philippines.
Derived terms: Philippine cedar
Philippine coucal
Philippine fowl disease
Philippine ironwood
Philippine lemon
Philippineness
Philippine Standard Time
Philippine Time
Philippine violet
Philippinist
Philippinization
Philippinize
Proto-Philippine
demulsifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demulsifiers
form: de-emulsifier
Etymology: de- + emulsifier
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance used to break an emulsion into its constituent liquids.
Related terms: demulsification
demulsify
emulsion
spendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spendier
form: spendiest
form: spenny
Etymology: From spend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Amy: When I get married, I'm gonna register at the UCLA cadaver lab.
Penny: Eww, why?
Amy: Cause I've always wanted a whole human skeleton, and they are really spendy.
ref: 2012 October 4, “The Decoupling Fluctuation”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 2, spoken by Amy Farrah Fowler and Penny (Mayim Bialik and Kaley Kuoco):
qualifier: especially Upper Midwestern US and Northwestern US
glosses: Expensive, costly.
oafish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more oafish
form: most oafish
Etymology: From oaf + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid.
Derived terms: oafishly
oafishness
oceangoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ocean + going.
Senses: examples: an oceangoing seal
glosses: Travelling out to sea.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: designed for use on ocean voyages
raw_tags: of a vessel
Synonyms: seafaring
seagoing
bluewater
octette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of octet.
octett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octetts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of octet.
oenomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enomania
form: œnomania
form: oinomania
Etymology: From oeno- + -mania, from Ancient Greek: οἶνος (oînos, “wine”) combined with μανία (manía, “insanity”).
Senses: glosses: Morbid desire for wine; dipsomania; alcoholism.
off-base
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-base
form: most off-base
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off base.
offprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offprint
offprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offprint
off the back foot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: By analogy with a cricket shot.
Senses: glosses: From a defensive position.
oilsmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oil + smoke.
Senses: hypernyms: smoke
<
emission
coordinate_terms: coal-smoke
peat-smoke
woodsmoke
;
cigar smoke
glosses: Smoke from burning oil; especially, such smoke that is thick and black.
Related terms: oil burner
oil-burning
oil-fired
oil tanker
oilwell
omnificence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being omnificent.
omnificent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omnificent
form: most omnificent
Etymology: From omni- + form of Latin faciens, a participle of facere (“to do”).
Senses: glosses: all-creating, omnific.
Related terms: magnificent
omnium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒm.ni.əm/
ipa: /ˈɒm.njəm/
Forms: form: omniums
Etymology: From Latin omnium (literally “of all”), genitive plural of omnis (“all, every”).
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. Currently it consists of the following six events: flying lap, points race, elimination, individual pursuit, scratch race, and time trial.
examples: text: When a loan is contracted , the prices of Omnium may be quoted for delivery of the receipts , and afterwards for money , and the next succeeding payment .
ref: 1855, Charles Fenn, Fenn's Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, Debts and Revenues of All Nations, Banks, Railways, Mines, and the Principal Joint Stock Companies:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is usually funded.
Related terms: omnibus
omnium-gatherum
omoplatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omoplate + -o- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: divination by use of a shoulder blade
gaffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæfs/
rhymes: -æfs
Senses: glosses: plural of gaffe
on point
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on-point
Etymology: Possibly from the French en pointe meaning to be on the tip of the toes in ballet and reflects a higher degree of skill. On point also describes a degree of competence and in the military the man on point was at the front and most exposed position in a combat military formation, that is, the leading soldier or unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory. In recent American youth (especially hip hop) culture, the idiom on point refers either to someone who possesses abundant and various qualities of competence, leadership or style, or to specific acts which demonstrate such qualities.
Senses: examples: text: The last time Madonna was indisputably on point, she had hooked up with French producer Mirwais for Music (2000) and the sensuous possibilities of club culture.
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Excellent; bold; performing well.
examples: text: We have no decisions in our state directly on point. With us the problem is one of first impression. None of the cases cited is on point.
ref: 1937, Herdman Motor Co. v. State Bd. of Tax Appeals, 119 N.J.L. 164, 166
text: His historical discussions always appear on point, well researched, and indicate a great deal of care.
ref: 1984, Eike-Henner W. Kluge, “Review of Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics by Michael D. Resnik and Gottlob Frege by Hans D. Sluga”, in Noûs, volume 18, number 2, page 342:
text: Eitingon raised Jung's idea of substituting a new complex; Freud did not answer on point, but talked at length about transference.
ref: 1994, John Kerr, A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, →ISBN:
text: The second question of the night was about the shortage of flu vaccine. Bush gave a fine answer, on point.
ref: 2004 October 13, Dick Meyer, “Opinion: Bush Did Well, But Kerry Won”, in CBS News, retrieved 22 Jun 2012:
topics: human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having a direct application to the case or topic under consideration; apposite, relevant.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: On the tips of the toes; en pointe.
examples: text: Halo interrupted, “We are all dialed in. Music begins in five minutes. Security is on point. Light show is programmed. Do this for me: roll up the road and grab us some smokes at the convenience store across the street. Here's some cash.”
ref: 2003, Aaron Traylor, chapter 14, in The DJ Chronicles: A Life Remixed, Port Hole Publications, →ISBN, page 71:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Having taken point; responsible for leading an operation; more generally, deployed and alert.
Related terms: en pointe
en pointe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French en pointe.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: On the tips of one's toes.
ontogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒntoʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more ontogenic
form: most ontogenic
Etymology: From onto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: ontogenetic
Derived terms: dysontogenic
ontogenically
ontogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to ontogenesis
Derived terms: dysontogenetic
ontogenetically
oojamaflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oojamaflips
Etymology: From oojah + -ma- (probably after thingamabob or whatchamacallit) + flip (perhaps initially with reference to the folding action of a type of collapsible trolley).
Senses: examples: text: "Have you got an oojamaflip for tracing system calls that you could use?"
ref: 2001 January 31, Richard, “Re: Ingres II, unable to run mklicense”, in comp.databases.ingres (Usenet):
text: 2003, HunkyMandrake, HunkyMandrake's Review of ‘Scrubs: My Lucky Night’, http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-lucky-night/episode/281544/reviews.html?review_id=19067&flag= TV.com, Episode 50, Season 3, First Aired: Thursday October 30, 2003,
"J.D. needs a recommendation for some hospital oojamaflip. Cox needs a recommendation for some other residency related oojamaflip. They both decide to vouch for each other."
text: "And if he gets a follow up call or email asking if everything is okay and did he get his 'ujamaflip' on time and in good condition? You will have an ecstatic customer who will stay with you forever."
ref: 2003, Michael Moore, The Kicking Fraud to Death: And Complaints While Your at It Handbook, →ISBN, page 18:
text: "It's my computer. I can't seem to put the oojamaflips in!" [referring to diacritical marks]
ref: 2004, Emma, "Re: Moshe + Christianity" http://groups.google.com/group/alt.messianic/msg/adbcc38c794476ba, in alt.messianic
glosses: Something that one does not know the name of.
Synonyms: thingy
oozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ooze
oozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oozings
Senses: examples: text: A 12-acre field of good, deep land on the farm of Frenchlaw, in Berwickshire, was rendered swampy by springs and oozings of water from the surrounding rising ground being retained upon the clay subsoil.
ref: 1855, Henry Stephens, John Stuart Skinner, The book of the farm, page 320:
glosses: Something that oozes; a seepage.
examples: text: One of the side effects of having the hot end set to the optimal temperature for extrusion is oozing.
ref: 2015, Charles Bell, 3D Printing with Delta Printers, page 251:
glosses: Synonym of stringing (“defect in 3D printing”).
synonyms: word: stringing
extra: defect in 3D printing
ophiuroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiuroids
Etymology: From class name Ophiuroidea.
Senses: examples: text: Other ophiuroids are more delicate: they pick, feel and spread themselves over corals, gorgonians and other organisms like courtesans in feather boas.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 48:
glosses: An echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea; the brittlestar.
turmit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turmits
form: turmat
form: turmut
form: tormit
form: tummit
Senses: examples: 1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words in Use
TORMIT, TURMIT, a turnip.
1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York
TURMAT, A turnip.
1863, Joseph Philip Robson (ed.), Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or a choice collection of original songs, chiefly in the Newcastle dialect
We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English
TORMIT, s. A turnip. North.
1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire
Tur′mit. s. A turnip.
1890, John Drummond Robertson & Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester
TURMIT or TURMUT. sb. Turnip. [Common.]
1918, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village
“I be a turmut hower,
Vram Gloucestershire I came;
glosses: turnip
nauseated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːziˌeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more nauseated
form: most nauseated
Senses: glosses: Having a feeling of nausea.
Synonyms: word: nauseatic
word: queasy
word: barfy
word: nauseated
word: pukey
word: pukish
word: sick
word: sick to one's stomach
word: vomity
Hyponyms: word: airsick
word: carsick
word: seasick
word: trainsick
word: crapulent
word: crapulous
word: wamble-cropped
Derived terms: unnauseated
Related terms: word: regurgitate
word: vomit
word: yuck
nauseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːziˌeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nauseate
Related terms: nauseous
finicking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Late 16th century. Earliest occurrence as finical, probably coined from fine + -ical. Finicking is recorded from the mid-17th century.
Senses: examples: text: […] he had wasted much time trying to teach her to keep house to suit his finicking taste […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 29:
glosses: finical
Derived terms: finickingly
finickingness
finicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finickings
Etymology: Late 16th century. Earliest occurrence as finical, probably coined from fine + -ical. Finicking is recorded from the mid-17th century.
Senses: glosses: finicky behaviour; fussing
moussaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːˈsɑːkə/
rhymes: -ɑːkə
Forms: form: moussakas
form: mousaka
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek μουσακάς (mousakás), from Turkish musakka, from Arabic مُسَقَّعَة (musaqqaʕa) or originally from Arabic مُصَقَّعَة (muṣaqqaʕa), from the trilateral root ص ق ع (ṣ q ʕ): “to hit, to pound, to smash”.
Senses: glosses: A dish consisting of layers of minced lamb or beef, sliced aubergine (eggplant) or potatoes, tomatoes and béchamel sauce, baked in the oven.
zun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [zʌn]
Forms: form: zuns
Senses: examples: text: Zome woys avore the zun is down,
So long’s the sky is clear;
ref: 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:
text: GOOD bwye ta thee Cot! whaur tha dâs o’ my childhood
Glaw’d bright as tha zun in a mornin o’ mâ;
ref: 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sun.
zun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [zʌn]
ipa: /zʊn/
ipa: /dzʊn/
rhymes: -ʊn
ipa: [zʌn]
Forms: form: zuns
form: zun
Etymology: Romanized from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 樽 (zūn).
Senses: glosses: A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal.
sling psychrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sling psychrometers
Senses: glosses: a form of wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer in which the pair of thermometers are attached to a cord and spun round in the air
béchamel sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: béchamel sauces
form: Béchamel sauce
Etymology: Partial calque of French sauce béchamel,
named after French gastronome Louis Béchameil de Nointel (1630–1703).
Senses: glosses: A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which is added hot milk.
Synonyms: white sauce
brittle star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brittle stars
Etymology: From brittle + star.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, explorers discovered a seamount near Antarctica covered in tens of millions of brittle stars packed ray tip to ray tip, in a massive underwater ‘city’, alongside other strange species such as giant bubble gum coral.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 48:
glosses: Any of various echinoderms, of the class Ophiuroidea, that resemble starfish and have long, slender arms that regenerate when snapped off.
Synonyms: ophiuroid
Related terms: sea star
buttle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buttles
form: buttling
form: buttled
form: buttled
form: butle
Etymology: Back-formation from butler. Compare bottle (verb).
Senses: examples: text: ...even the stoic and impeccable maid of Miss Ethelwyn Arthur-Jones, who ‘buttled’ as well as the most time-honoured butler.
ref: 1909, J. T. Grein, Sunday Times:
text: Houses where Negroes buttled or cooked were marked for a visit.
ref: 1989, Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War:
text: At times like this, he buttled when Spriggan the butler was not on duty, or if an extra hand was needed, he footed as well.
ref: 2000, Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum:
glosses: To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
Lavukaleve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken on the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands.
Related terms: Lavukal
dura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjʊə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: durae
Etymology: Ellipsis of dura mater.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of dura mater.
Derived terms: dural
durectomy
durotomy
dura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjʊə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: duras
Etymology: Borrowing from Arabic ذُرَة (ḏura, “Indian millet”).
Senses: examples: text: Kafir makes better forage than the duras.
ref: 1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of durra.
Related terms: pietra dura
LFG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of looking for group.
coordinate_terms: let's go
glosses: Initialism of let's fucking go.
LFG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lexical functional grammar.
Elisabeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪzəbəθ/
ipa: /əˈlɪsəbəθ/
Forms: form: Elizabeth
Etymology: The spelling of Elizabeth used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”).
Senses: examples: text: There was in the dayes of Herode the king of Iudea, a certaine Prieſt, named Zacharias, of the courſe of Abia, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:5, column 1:
glosses: The mother of John the Baptist according to the Christian and Islamic scriptures
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a less common form of Elizabeth in English.
pursuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsjuː.ənt/
ipa: /pɚˈsu.ənt/
Forms: form: more pursuant
form: most pursuant
form: pursuaunt
Etymology: Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant.
Senses: examples: text: And pursuant to this idea of a holiday, he insisted upon playing cards after we had eaten.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:
glosses: In conformance to, or in agreement with; used with to.
Related terms: pursue
pursuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsjuː.ənt/
ipa: /pɚˈsu.ənt/
Forms: form: more pursuant
form: most pursuant
form: pursuaunt
Etymology: Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant.
Senses: glosses: Accordingly; consequently.
Related terms: as per
tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: even-tempered
text: The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a specified disposition or temper.
examples: text: "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!"
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
glosses: Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
examples: text: The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: [N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: mellow
word: sober
word: measured
word: mellow
word: middle of the road
word: mild
word: moderate
word: nonexcessive
word: nonextreme
word: nonfanatic
word: proper
word: reasonable
word: reasonous
word: sober
word: temperate
word: tempered
word: unexcessive
word: unextreme
glosses: Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Derived terms: bad-tempered
equal-tempered
even-tempered
evil-tempered
foul-tempered
good-tempered
hot-tempered
ill-tempered
mild-tempered
quick-tempered
short-tempered
sweet-tempered
temperedness
well-tempered
tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Partly from Middle English temperd, temprede, from Old English temprode, first and third person singular preterit of Old English temprian; and partly from Middle English tempred, i-tempred, from Old English ġetemprod. Equivalent to temper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of temper
storm sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm sewers
Senses: glosses: An underground sewer or open canal for channeling surface runoff (as from a rain storm); distinct from a sanitary sewer.
Synonyms: storm drain
storm window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm windows
Senses: synonyms: word: storm
glosses: A second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside.
Coordinate terms: storm door
screen window
Related terms: storm cellar
storm door
storm shutter
screen window
window screen
nuanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nuanced
form: most nuanced
Etymology: From nuance + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The setting sunlight played through the gently waving branches, creating subtly nuanced transitions of color and tone.
text: I would like to have heard his intonation delicately nuanced so as to carry the greatest punch. I would like to have seen the changes of expression that played across his face as he spoke.
ref: 1989, R. Kent Hughes, Preaching the Word: 1-9:1:
text: ...the pattern normally straightens into an almost pure latticework of identical quarries and the foliage painting becomes much more nuanced and delicate.
ref: 1998, Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre:
antonyms: naive
glosses: Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning.
Derived terms: nuancedly
unnuanced
nuanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From nuance + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nuance
nuances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuance
nuances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nuance
storyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storyboards
Etymology: From story + board.
Senses: examples: The storyboard process helps promote brainstorming, highlights missing tasks, and allows the team to incorporate changes prior to traveling too far down a particular path. — By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley, NASA & SAIC here
glosses: A series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film or series, especially an animated one.
glosses: Any sequence of drawings or diagrams which illustrate a sequence of events, e.g. in an accident or as a flowsheet for computer programming.
storyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: storyboards
form: storyboarding
form: storyboarded
form: storyboarded
Etymology: From story + board.
Senses: examples: Storyboarding allows students to work together as they generate ideas and eliminates the territorial defensiveness that often occurs when new ideas are suggested. — "Using Storyboarding to Determine components of Dellness for University Students" J Am Coll Health. 1996 Jan;44(4):180-3 Abstract
glosses: To create and arrange storyboard drawings.
sight read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪt ˌɹiːd/
/ˈsaɪt ˌɹɛd/
Forms: form: sight reads
form: sight reading
form: sight read
form: sight read
form: sightread
Etymology: From sight + read, in reference to not being able to rely on muscle memory developed through practice.
Senses: examples: text: I can sight read really simple music, but hard pieces need a lot of practice so I don't have to stop and figure out what I'm doing.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To perform a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
topics: video-games
glosses: To complete a video game level (particularly an autoscroller) while playing it for the first time, without practice.
Derived terms: sightreadable
Related terms: sight sing
sight-translate
jabberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabberers
Etymology: From jabber + -er.
Senses: examples: Ned was a horrible jabberer about Star Trek; I could hardly get a word in edgewise around his incomprehensible techno-babble.
glosses: One who jabbers.
Synonyms: babbler
chatterbox
jabberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jabberer
stridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪdɚ/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stridors
Etymology: From Latin strīdor (“shrill or harsh sound”), from strīdō (“make a shrill or harsh sound”).
Senses: examples: text: But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they come, that the stridor or bony creak of their gaunt double-jointed pinions was audible.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
glosses: A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
examples: text: Her breath-holding increased in duration to almost a minute; her expirations became complicated by stridor, forced retching, and forced phonations ('Oouuggh!').
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 50:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
Derived terms: strident
stridulous
strikebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strikebreakers
Etymology: From strike + breaker.
Senses: glosses: A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.
Synonyms: word: scab
word: blackleg
word: scalie
Related terms: strikebreaking
jacketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jacketted
Senses: examples: text: For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,
Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,
ref: 1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm”, in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, page iv:
text: 1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895,
From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.
text: The residence of the British Council representative was in a quieter and perhaps more patrician part of Lija than my own. Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:
glosses: Dressed in a jacket.
examples: text: One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...
ref: 1861, Annual Reports, United States War Dept:
text: The metal can completely jacketed must have iron, steel or wooden jacket completely covering the can, except the mouth.
ref: 1920, Edward J. Martin, The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification:
text: Much of the time, when no customers came, he spent reading the yellow-jacketed trash that the library contained. Books of that type you could read at the rate of one an hour.
ref: 1936, George Orwell, chapter 10, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
glosses: Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
Synonyms: bejacketed
Derived terms: unjacketed
Related terms: bed-jacketed
bomber-jacketed
dinner-jacketed
full-metal-jacketed
jacketed hollow point
jacketed soft point
lumber-jacketed
pea-jacketed
reefer-jacketed
sport-jacketed
sports-jacketed
jacketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacketted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jacket
jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacket
jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jacket
strikebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strike + bound.
Senses: examples: a strikebound company
a strikebound railway
glosses: Not operating normally because of strike action.
jacketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacketting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jacket
jacketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacketings
form: jacketting
Senses: glosses: Material used to make jackets.
glosses: A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
examples: text: When they come home I'm more than half inclined to give them a good jacketing, but I'm glad to see them, and perhaps none the less because they cost me so much.
ref: 1872, Jonathan's Bunkum. [A satire on the Alabama Question.], page 15:
glosses: A thrashing; a beating.
strikeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strikeovers
Etymology: From strike + over.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Strikeover or strikeout text, i.e., fonts where each letter appears to be "crossed out".
jig-jig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jig jig
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic. Compare jig and jiggle.
Senses: examples: text: JIG JIG. Intercourse. American soldiers heard it as zig zig in France and also in New Caledonia and elsewhere in the South Pacific.
ref: 1948, Eugene B. Vest, “Native Words Learned by American Soldiers in India and Burma in World War II”, in American Speech, volume 23, number 3/4:
text: ‘Pretty girl jig jig by-and-by.’
ref: 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter:
text: ‘No jig-jig here,’ Wordsworth said. ‘If you wan jig-jig you take her to hotel.’
ref: 1969, Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt:
text: I infuriated them when they came to me by answering only the British officer and acting as if the French one could only understand music-hall pidgin-Franglais (he spoke English perfectly well). “Nice country, non? Mini-skirts, mademoiselles, oo la la. It rains always but plenty jig-jig, wee-wee — you wanna go?”
ref: 1996, Albert Meltzer, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels:
text: “Only twenty-eight days more, I go to fucking India. Plenty jig-jig. No more whanimidi!” Abdullah gestured with his hands to signify masturbation. “Jig-jig” clearly meant the preferred alternative.
ref: 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:
text: “Ah! you want jig-jig?”
“No, goddamnit, I don’t want no fucking jig-jig,” Jordan replied impatiently. The boy’s vocabulary in English was limited to ‘You buy, hubba-hubba, booze-o,’ and a few other important phrases leading to a multiplication of numbers equaling yen.
ref: 2002, Jan Merlin, Ainoko:
qualifier: chiefly pidgin English
glosses: sexual intercourse, sex
Synonyms: horizontal mambo
humpa humpa
rumpy-pumpy
snu snu
copulation
jig-jig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jig-jigs
form: jig-jigging
form: jig-jigged
form: jig-jigged
form: jig jig
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic. Compare jig and jiggle.
Senses: examples: text: Doc jig-jig pretty much with anyone interested in jig-jigging him.
ref: 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:
glosses: to have sex
Synonyms: bang
do it
get it on
copulate
jailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailors
Etymology: By surface analysis, jail + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jailer.
Derived terms: jailoress
jailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailer
jailors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolers
form: jailers
Senses: glosses: plural of jailor
gaolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailers
form: jailors
Senses: glosses: plural of gaoler
corrections officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrections officers
form: correction officer
form: correctional officer
Senses: examples: text: Frank was proud of the fact that in all his years as a corrections officer, he had never been assaulted by an inmate.
glosses: A jailer.
Synonyms: guard
jailor
turnkey
corrections officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrections officer