cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
Etymology: 1796 in English, from French, on ne saurait faire d'omelette sans casser des œufs (1742 and earlier), attributed to François de Charette.
Senses: examples: text: It was remarked to him that he had caused the death of a great many persons. Yes, he replied, omlets are not made without breaking eggs.
ref: 1796, Walker's Hibernian Magazine
text: She. Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?
He. One or two. One can't make omelets without breaking eggs.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 93:
glosses: In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.
wikipedia: François de Charette
Related terms: a revolution is not a dinner party
collateral damage
no pain, no gain
side effect
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
there's no such thing as a free lunch
unintended consequence
you don't get something for nothing
errancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errancies
Etymology: from Old French errance.
Senses: glosses: the state of being in error; fallibility
glosses: holding the view that the Pope is not infallible
daycare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪkeə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: daycares
form: day care
Etymology: From day + care.
Senses: glosses: Daytime supervision, usually of children or pets.
glosses: A daycare centre.
Derived terms: daycare centre
daycare center
playcare
Related terms: babysitting
childcare
creche
kindergarten
keyword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiː.wɜːd/
ipa: /ˈki.wɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: keywords
form: key word
form: key-word
Etymology: From key + word.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: password
passcode
coordinate_terms: keyphrase
glosses: Any word used as the key to a code.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: operative word
workword
hypernyms: keystring
coordinate_terms: keyphrase
glosses: Any important word in a text or document, which may be linked to other words or other information, or listed in the metadata for searches to find.
examples: text: Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword.
ref: 1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 9-12, page 113:
text: Since C++11, the auto keyword is used to tell the compiler to deduce the actual type of a variable that is being declared from its initializer.
ref: 2017, Wisnu Anggoro, Learning C++ Functional Programming, page 8:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: collocation
statistically improbable phrase
glosses: Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
Derived terms: keyword-driven testing
keywordless
keyword stuffing
unkeyworded
Related terms: topics: information-science
human-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: index term
topics: information-science
human-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: descriptor
keyword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiː.wɜːd/
ipa: /ˈki.wɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: keywords
form: keywording
form: keyworded
form: keyworded
form: key word
form: key-word
Etymology: From key + word.
Senses: examples: text: Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording, or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers.
ref: 2008 March 12, Philip Gefter, “Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos”, in New York Times:
glosses: To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
adiabatic lapse rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiabatic lapse rates
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The rate of decrease of temperature with height of a parcel of dry air lifted upward through the atmosphere with no addition or deletion of heat.
warpedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From warped + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: warpage
glosses: The state, quality or condition of being warped.
pissing war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissing wars
Etymology: The phrase is derived from the territorial behaviour of certain animals, such as male cats, which mark territorial claims with urine.
Senses: glosses: An often vicious conflict in which combatants contend for dominance over certain territory.
synonyms: pissing contest
glosses: An immature dispute over some trivial matter.
wull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of will.
big daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big daddies
Senses: synonyms: word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A man of importance by reason of power, size or seniority.
coordinate_terms: big mama
glosses: In the southern United States, the male head of a household; sometimes a grandfather.
coordinate_terms: mack daddy
glosses: A stud; a handsome, well-built man.
examples: text: The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.
ref: 2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 11:
coordinate_terms: Big One
glosses: Something large, powerful, or superlative.
Anasazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnəˈsɑːziː/
ipa: /ˌɑnəˈsɑzi/
Forms: form: Anasazis
form: Anasazi
Etymology: From Navajo anaasází (“enemy ancestors, ancient enemy”), from anaaʼí (“enemy”) + bizází (“their ancestors”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ancestral Puebloan.
synonyms: word: Ancestral Puebloan
alow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈləʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊ
Etymology: From Middle English alowe, equivalent to a- + low.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow, / Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Low down.
examples: text: I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
ref: 1859, James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale:
text: Ay, Ay, Ay, all is up; and I must up too / Early in the morning, aloft from alow.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 26, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks.
alow
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈləʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊ
Etymology: From Middle English alowe, equivalent to a- + low.
Senses: glosses: Below.
Related terms: aloft
alow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈləʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊ
Etymology: From a- + low, from low (“flame”).
Senses: glosses: alight; ablaze
anti-marketeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-marketeers
Etymology: From anti- + marketeer.
Senses: glosses: someone who was opposed to Britain or Ireland joining, or (during the UK's 1975 referendum campaign) remaining in, the "Common Market" (European Union)
Arrernte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɹəndə/
/ˈæɹəndə/
Forms: form: Arrerntes
form: Arrernte
form: Arrente
form: Aranda
form: Arrarnta
form: Arunta
Senses: glosses: A member of an Australian Aboriginal people of central Australia, largely within the southern part of the Northern Territory.
Arrernte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈaɹəndə/
/ˈæɹəndə/
Forms: form: Arrente
form: Aranda
form: Arrarnta
form: Arunta
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan language or group of related languages and dialects spoken by these people.
asymptotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: asymptotic
Derived terms: asymptotically
back straight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back straights
Senses: examples: text: He got boxed in amongst four African runners in the back straight of the last lap, and was only able to get out into the clear coming into the home straight.
topics: athletics
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line; the backstretch.
Synonyms: backstretch
Related terms: home straight
home straight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home straights
Senses: examples: text: He was only able to get out into the clear coming into the home straight.
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: home stretch
coordinate_terms: back straight
glosses: The straight part of a running track (or similar) leading to the finishing line.
synonyms: home stretch
glosses: The final part of something, especially the final part with respect to time of a long process.
baked goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baked good: bread, cakes, biscuits or similar foodstuffs that have been baked.
Synonyms: english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: baking
bath kimono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath kimonos
form: bath kimono
Etymology: From bath + kimono.
Senses: examples: text: They came pell mell, gathering up their bath kimono and towels, and putting them on in the passage.
ref: 1905, Modern Sanitation, volumes 2–3, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., →OCLC, page 29, column 2:
glosses: A bathrobe in the style of a Japanese kimono.
mosbolletjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosbolletjies
Etymology: Afrikaans mos (“must”) + biskuit (“biscuit”).
Senses: glosses: Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
glosses: A biscuit made of mosbolletjie dough.
battle rapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle rappers
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in a freestyle rap battle, attempting to insult an opponent by using witty improvised rapping.
cherry picker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry pickers
form: cherrypicker
form: cherry-picker
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: man lift
text: Earlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure built to block the road at Oxford Circus.
ref: 2019 October 18, “Extinction Rebellion: Central London targeted despite ban”, in BBC News:
text: Between filling the sandwiches, Nicole Moy and Shazza McCormack collect donations for the flags and pass on quietly offered suggestions by local people, anxious about possible illegality, as to where the flaggers should visit next with their ladders and cherrypickers.
ref: 2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: boom lift
basket crane
hydraladder
bucket truck
glosses: A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
synonyms: engine crane
engine hoist
glosses: A cantilevered tool for installing or removing a vehicle's engine block.
examples: text: A relatively high proportion of the cost of production of RSP cherries is in the picking. Pickers are paid […]. There is considerable interest in a mechanical cherry picker which is reported to be able to double each picker's output.
ref: 1947, John Trecartin Ogden, Food Freezing:
text: A mechanical cherry picker shakes a cherry tree to loosen the fruit. The cherries drop onto outstretched cloths, roll onto a conveyor, and are deposited in a tank of salt water. The fruit floats in the water and thus is […]
ref: 1994, The World Book Encyclopedia:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries.
synonyms: goalhanger
glosses: A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
examples: text: Two conclusions stand out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double standards.
ref: 2006, Manfred Weidhorn, An Anatomy of Skepticism, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
Related terms: word: cherry-pick
word: teleporter
english: definition 2
translation: definition 2
word: manlift
beerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beerily
form: most beerily
Etymology: From beery + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The politically ambitious and the beerily dissolute artisan of whom you read in the newspapers by no means constitute all the odder varieties of the species.
ref: 1876, Richard Whiteing, The Democracy:
text: Hamper bent to Dunbar and whispered, beerily, in his ear . . .
ref: 1915, Sax Rohmer, The Yellow Claw:
text: He belched beerily. Well, eating would have to wait.
ref: 1988, Dan W Smith, Silver Spoon Murders:
glosses: In a beery manner; while smelling of, or under the influence of, beer.
beery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈbɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈbɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈbiɹi/
ipa: /ˈbi.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈbi.ɹe/
ipa: /ˈbiə.ɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈbɛː.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
homophone: beary (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: beerier
form: beeriest
Etymology: From beer + -y.
Senses: glosses: Smelling or tasting of beer.
examples: text: Waldemar Fornalik's side had phenomenal backing from their raucous, beery, fire-cracking supporters.
ref: 15 OCtober 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Under the influence of beer.
Synonyms: sense: smelling or tasting of beer
word: beerish
sense: smelling or tasting of beer
word: beerlike
sense: under the influence of beer
word: drunk
Derived terms: beerily
beeriness
unbeery
apatheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəˈθi.ɪzəm/
enpr: ăp'ə-thēʹĭz-əm
Etymology: Reportedly coined in 2001, as a blend of apathy + theism, by author Robert J. Nash.
Senses: examples: text: [A]patheism is an attitude, not a belief system, and the over-riding fact is that these people are relaxed about religion.
ref: 2003 May 24, Jonathan Rauch, “Let It Be”, in The Atlantic:
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: apnosticism
coordinate_terms: agnosticism
atheism
atheophobia
ignosticism
glosses: Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.
Derived terms: apatheist
cherry pick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cherry picks
form: cherry picking
form: cherry picked
form: cherry picked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cherry-pick.
cherry picking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cherry pick
cherry picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The selection of desirable items and rejection of undesirable ones in order to obtain an advantage or present something in the best possible light.
Related terms: berrypicking
vetkoek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetkoeks
form: vetkoek
Etymology: From Afrikaans vetkoek (literally “fat-cake”).
Senses: glosses: A deep-fried ball of dough, usually unsweetened, cut open and filled with various fillings.
painting rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pointless or futile work organised by the government, supposedly to increase employment but in fact merely disguising the unemployment level.
befuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befuddle
begrudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begrudge
begrudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: grudgeful, envious
glosses: reluctant
Derived terms: begrudgingly
begrudgingness
unbegrudging
behavioralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: behaviouralist
Etymology: From behavioral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to behavioralism.
behavioralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioralists
form: behaviouralist
Etymology: From behavioral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of behavioralism.
piss lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss lilies
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A funnel in the shape of a lily stuck into the ground and used as a urinal.
GRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of George Rex Imperator, the official cipher of King George V.
GRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Graduate of the Realtor Institute.
bias distortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bias distortions
Senses: glosses: Distortion in an electronic circuit caused by the potential applied across elements to provide a zero signal.
bijective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Senses: examples: text: 1987, James S. Royer, A Connotational Theory of Program Structure, Springer, LNCS 273, page 15,
Then, by a straightforward, computable, bijective numerical coding, this idealized FORTRAN determines an EN. (Note: In this FORTRAN example, we could have omitted restrictions on I/O and instead used a computable, bijective, numerical coding for inputs and outputs to get another EN determined by FORTRAN.)
text: 1993, Susan Montgomery, Hopf Algebras and Their Actions on Rings, American Mathematical Society, CBMS, Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Number 83, page 124,
Recent experience indicates that for infinite-dimensional Hopf algebras, the “right” definition of Galois is to require that β be bijective.
text: 2008, B. Aslan, M. T. Sakalli, E. Bulus, Classifying 8-Bit to 8-Bit S-Boxes Based on Power Mappings, Joachim von zur Gathen, José Luis Imana, Çetin Kaya Koç (editors), Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 2nd International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 5130, page 131,
Generally, there is a parallel relation between the maximum differential value and maximum LAT value for bijective S-boxes.
text: An isomorphism is a bijective homomorphism.
ref: 2010, Kang Feng, Mengzhao Qin, Symplectic Geometric Algorithms for Hamiltonian Systems, Springer, page 39:
text: 2012 [Introduction to Graph Theory, McGraw-Hill], Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, A First Course in Graph Theory, 2013, Dover, Revised and corrected republication, page 64,
The proof that isomorphism is an equivalence relation relies on three fundamental properties of bijective functions (functions that are one-to-one and onto): (1) every identity function is bijective, (2) the inverse of every bijective function is also bijective, (3) the composition of two bijective functions is bijective.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Associating to each element of the codomain exactly one element of the domain; establishing a perfect (one-to-one) correspondence between the elements of the domain and the codomain; (formally) both injective and surjective.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: Proving the conjecture is equivalent to constructing a PCP that reads 2 symbols and accepts iff these symbols satisfy a bijective constraint.
ref: 2002, Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, ACM Press, page 774:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a component that is (specified to be) a bijective map; that specifies a bijective map.
Derived terms: bijective numeration
bijectively
nonbijective
bijectivity
Related terms: bijection
injective
surjective
reversible
wolfbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfbanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wolfsbane.
Cape triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape triangles
Etymology: From its shape and origin.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the Cape Triangles are very rare and expensive, depending on grade and condition.
ref: 2003, Cape of Good Hope Wine Co.
glosses: One of several denominations of triangular postage stamps issued by the Cape of Good Hope during the period 1853-1864.
dewpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewpoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dew point.
Penny Black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Penny Blacks
Etymology: From its color and face value.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The world's first official national mail postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of the postal reforms establishing a uniform penny post.
wikipedia: Queen Victoria
wolfsbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlfsbeɪn/
Forms: form: wolfsbanes
form: wolf's bane
form: wolfbane
Etymology: From wolf + -s- + bane, a calque of Ancient Greek λυκοκτόνον (lukoktónon), from λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + κτείνω (kteínō, “I kill”). Influenced by Latin lycoctonum.
Senses: glosses: Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum.
glosses: Arnica montana.
Synonyms: sense: herb of the genus Aconitum
word: aconite
sense: herb of the genus Aconitum
word: monkshood
sense: Arnica montana
word: arnica
sense: Arnica montana
word: leopard's bane
sense: Arnica montana
word: leopardsbane
sense: Arnica montana
word: wolf's bane
sense: Arnica montana
word: mountain tobacco
sense: Arnica montana
word: mountain arnica
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aconitum anthora
word: healing wolfsbane
Related terms: lycanthropy
werewolf
bugler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buglers
Etymology: From bugle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a bugle.
Synonyms: bugle-player
Derived terms: scarlet bugler
anesthetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈniːsθ.ə.tɪst/
Forms: form: anesthetists
form: anaesthetist
Etymology: From anesthet(ize) + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who gives an anesthetic.
Related terms: anesthesia
anesthesiologic
anesthesiological
anesthesiologically
anesthesiologist
anesthesiology
anesthetical
anesthetically
anesthetize
wormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mi
Forms: form: wormier
form: wormiest
Etymology: From worm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 417:
glosses: Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.
examples: text: I am your witness. If their Ladyships so much as mention the word FIRE or STEERPIKE, you shall take them with you under wormy ground.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:
glosses: Infested with worms.
Synonyms: sense: of or like a worm
word: vermian
sense: of or like a worm
english: in shape
translation: in shape
word: vermicular
sense: of or like a worm
english: in shape
translation: in shape
word: vermiform
sense: infested with worms
word: worm-eaten
sense: infested with worms
word: wormed
sense: infested with worms
word: wormridden
Derived terms: wormily
worminess
Related terms: earwormy
drinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drinkable
form: most drinkable
Etymology: From Middle English drinkable, drynkeable, equivalent to drink + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be drunk (as liquid).
glosses: Safe to drink.
raw_tags: of water
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Of good or satisfactory quality.
raw_tags: of an alcoholic beverage
Synonyms: sense: safe to drink
word: potable
sense: safe to drink
word: drinkworthy
sense: safe to drink
word: safe to drink
word: chuggable
word: downable
word: drinkable
word: potulent
word: quaffable
Hypernyms: word: ingestible
Hyponyms: word: cidery
Coordinate terms: edible
eatable
comestible
Derived terms: drinkableness
Related terms: word: potent
word: drink
drinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinkables
Etymology: From Middle English drinkable, drynkeable, equivalent to drink + -able.
Senses: examples: text: During the course of the day we know how to face acute hunger, and learn the value of abstaining from using our eatables and drinkables.
ref: 1931, Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy, Fear Allah and take your own part, page 112:
glosses: That which can be drunk.
Valhalla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vælˈhælə/
ipa: /vælˈhælə/
ipa: /vɑlˈhɑlə/
rhymes: -ælə
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: Valhall
Etymology: From New Latin, from Old Norse Valhǫll (from valr (“dead warriors”) + hǫll (“hall”)).
Senses: examples: text: [S]uch souls as were detruded from the body by any violent method went strait to Valhalla. (Latin original: Nostratibus sane hoc erat infallibiliter persuasum, animas, non vulgares, neque senio morbove, sec cruenta morte & vi corporibus exeuntes, recta ad Vahlallam ferri)
ref: 1791 May 1, “Moore's Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide”, in Monthly Review, London, pages 24–25:
text: In some poems they are envisaged as divine figures, women who serve mead to the dead warriors in Valhall, and who fulfil the will of Odin in overseeing battle and making sure that victory is awarded to the right man.
ref: 1996, Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda, Folio Society, published 2016, page xvii:
text: So it’s hardly a surprise that the “Call of Duty” and “Assassin’s Creed” franchises put out new releases this week. “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” about Vikings and Norse mythology, debuted on November 10, the same day as the Xbox Series X. Three days later, “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,” set in the 1980s, was released.
ref: 2020 November 15, Shannon Liao, “Next-gen consoles are here. So are the games”, in CNN Business:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
examples: text: Investigators are not sure why the woman’s Mercedes SUV stopped on the tracks Tuesday night in Valhalla, about 30 miles north of New York City, National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt said Wednesday.
ref: 2015 February 4, Ray Sanchez and Ben Brumfield, “6 killed when train hits SUV in New York”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
Derived terms: Valhallan
Related terms: Valgrind
Valhalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vælˈhælə/
ipa: /vælˈhælə/
ipa: /vɑlˈhɑlə/
rhymes: -ælə
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: Valhallas
form: Valhall
Etymology: From New Latin, from Old Norse Valhǫll (from valr (“dead warriors”) + hǫll (“hall”)).
Senses: examples: text: “The swans are singing again,” said to one another the gods. And looking downwards, for my dreams had taken me to some fair and far Valhalla, I saw below me an iridescent bubble not greatly larger than a star shine beautifully but faintly, and up and up from it looking larger and larger came a flock of white, innumerable swans, singing and singing and singing, till it seemed as though even the gods were wild ships swimming in music.
ref: 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Return of Song”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:
text: You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas / Go directly, do not pass 'GO', do not collect two hundred dollars
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:
text: Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled.
ref: 1964, Jan Morris, “Envoi: State of Being”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: An abode of the gods or afterlife in general.
drink and drive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks and drives
form: drinking and driving
form: drank and drove
form: drunk and driven
Senses: examples: text: Don't drink and drive, or you can lose your license.
glosses: To drive a motor vehicle shortly after having consumed alcohol beverages.
Related terms: drink-driver
drink-driving
drunk driver
DUI
DWI
drink-driving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink driving
Senses: examples: text: A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight,[…]
ref: 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2014, China Insider:
text: Another outcome of rising motor car use was the increased danger around Christmas through drink-driving, which became a matter of particular concern among policy makers.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: Operation of a motor vehicle after recently consuming an alcoholic beverage.
examples: text: A reformed alcoholic with an “appalling” history of drink-driving between three and five times the legal limit was jailed yesterday.
ref: 2008 June 26, Rae Wilson, “Ex-alcoholic jailed for repeat drink-driving”, in Sunshine Coast Daily, Australia:
topics: law
glosses: A criminal offence committed by a person who operates a vehicle when the measured amount of alcohol in his or her blood exceeds the legal limit.
Synonyms: drunk driving
Related terms: drink and drive
drink-driver
drunk driver
DUI
DWI
drink-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink-drivers
form: drink driver
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in drink-driving.
examples: text: A drink driver is anyone who is over the legal alcohol limit for driving.
ref: 2008, “Drink driving”, in Kent County Council, UK, retrieved 26 Jun 2008:
topics: law
glosses: A person who operates a motor vehicle when legally intoxicated.
Synonyms: word: drunk driver
Related terms: drink and drive
drink-driving
drunk driving
DUI
DWI
Scotsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɑts.mən/
Forms: form: Scotsmen
Etymology: From Scots + -man.
Senses: synonyms: word: Sandy
word: Sawney
word: Scotchman
word: Scottishman
hypernyms: Scot
coordinate_terms: Scotswoman
glosses: A man from Scotland; a Scot.
Derived terms: no true Scotsman fallacy
Related terms: Scotsperson
Scotswoman
previously disadvantaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, “She said the biggest challenge facing them was how to provide access to information to previously disadvantaged people”, in Weekend Argus June 10 2006, p.6.:
text: a. 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20051124000427/http://ings.rucus.net/satnacV7.pdf
This project aims to modelInternet connectivity to previously disadvantaged schools in theEastern Cape by investigating known networking technologies in the context of such schools.
glosses: Belonging or relating to the previously disenfranchised population groups in South Africa, i.e. blacks, coloureds, and Indians.
wobbegong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒbɪɡɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɑbiˌɡɑŋ/
Forms: form: wobbegongs
Etymology: From Dharug wabigang. A parallel in Tharawal dhabigang suggests a common Yuin-Kuric origin.
Senses: examples: text: The wobbegong is of little use; the liver will make some oil, and which is particularly good for parasites on animals, but the fish is not sought after, and the natives attack it when in their way, but do not meddle with it otherwise. South, as far as Jervis Bay, they call this fish thubbegong.
ref: 1882, Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, “Sharks”, in Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales, Thomas Richards, page 95:
text: The Shark Attack File lists only one authenticated wobbegong attack, but contains fourteen "unauthoritative" attacks, and given the distinctive appearance of these sharks, it is very likely that at least some of the sharks were wobbegongs.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Any of several species of bottom-dwelling carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae, distinguished by their small vegetation-like flaps of skin around the mouth.
wikipedia: Edward Smith Hill
Tharawal language
Yuin-Kuric languages
Derived terms: taxonomic: Orectolobus parvimaculatus
word: dwarf spotted wobbegong
taxonomic: Orectolobus floridus
word: floral banded wobbegong
taxonomic: Orectolobus maculatus
word: spotted wobbegong
falleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fall + -eth
Senses: examples: text: He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 17:20:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall
gathereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:23:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gather
groweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Thessalonians 1:3:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grow
hangeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English hangeth, hongeth, from Old English hangaþ, hongaþ (“hangeth; hangs”, verb), from Proto-Germanic *hangōþi, equivalent to hang + -eth (archaic third-person singular present tense suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 26:7:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang
hideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:44:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hide
holdeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hold + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 2:1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold
honoureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: honoreth
Etymology: From honour + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 8:54:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honour
bleachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleacher
substitution of attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A document in which the party to a lawsuit states that his/her attorney of record is being substituted for by another attorney or by the party acting for himself/herself (in propria persona).
brim over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brims over
form: brimming over
form: brimmed over
form: brimmed over
Senses: glosses: To overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.)
examples: text: When he proposed, my heart brimmed over.
glosses: To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion.
examples: text: Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 234:
glosses: To be bustlingly full of something
browbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browbones
Etymology: From brow + bone.
Senses: glosses: The orbital ridge of the eye.
orbital ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital ridges
Senses: glosses: the bony ridge beneath the eyebrow; the browbone
brûlée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brûlées
Senses: examples: text: Cook four extra brûlées to allow for casualties when turning them out […]
ref: 2013, Philip Howard, The Square: Sweet, page 131:
text: Use a chef's torch to lightly brown the tops of the brûlées, or place them under a hot broiler for just a couple of minutes […]
ref: 2009, Grady Spears, June Naylor, Kelly Frazier, Cooking the Cowboy Way:
glosses: Synonym of crème brûlée.
synonyms: word: crème brûlée
brûlée
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brûlées
form: brûléeing
form: brûléed
form: brûléed
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To create a sugary crust (on food), using a chef's torch.
bulk technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk technologies
Senses: glosses: Technology that is based upon the manipulation of atoms and molecules in bulk - as distinct from that involving individual atoms or molecules in nanotechnology etc.
bull shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull sharks
Senses: glosses: A shark, Carcharhinus leucas, that is common in both temperate and tropical coastal waters.
burrobrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrobrushes
Etymology: From burro + bush.
Senses: synonyms: cheesebush
glosses: an allergenic perennial shrub of species Hymenoclea salsola, found in the deserts of Arizona and neighboring states.
BVI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Virgin Islands.
BVI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of blind or visually impaired.
calquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calque
calquing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calquings
Senses: glosses: Loan translation.
air sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air sports
Senses: examples: text: The World Air Games is the biggest gathering of air sports in the world and over one week brings together the World Champions and top competitors in ten different air sport disciplines.
ref: 2007 November 16, “The candidatures to host the "World Air Games 2011" opened”, in AvioNews:
glosses: Any recreational activity performed in flight or during freefall from a flight through the atmosphere.
autoconstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + construction.
Senses: glosses: The process of building one's own house with little or no professional help.
valley fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Coccidioidomycosis, a mammalian fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii.
Synonyms: sense: coccidioidomycosis
word: San Joaquin Valley fever
sense: coccidioidomycosis
word: California valley fever
Hypernyms: fever
Related terms: word: Rift Valley fever
word: Ohio River Valley fever
english: tularemia, Pahvant Valley plague
translation: tularemia, Pahvant Valley plague
word: Pahvant Valley fever
word: Yangtze Valley fever
close protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: professionally trained bodyguards.
condop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condops
Etymology: Blend of condo + co-op.
Senses: glosses: A condominium with at least one unit being controlled by a residential/housing co-op board.
glosses: A co-op that behaves like a condominium.
Related terms: condotel
diamond number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond numbers
Senses: glosses: A memorable mobile phone number.
doxophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
ref: 2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A fear of expressing one's opinion.
glosses: A fear of being praised.
dry hire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hire of equipment or a venue without any accompanying operators or staff.
apatheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apatheist
sappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: more sappy
form: most sappy
form: sapy
Etymology: Compare Latin sapere (“to taste”).
Senses: examples: text: sappie or unsavourie flesh
ref: 1580, Barret in V. Restie, Alv. 1580
text: Sapy [denotes] a moisture contracted on the outward surface of meats, which is the first stage of dissolution.
ref: 1783, Lemon's Etymological Dictionary:
text: Some housekeepers prepare their hung beef in this manner: Take the navel piece, and hang it up in your cellar as long as it will keep good, and til it begins to be a little sappy.
ref: 1804, John Farley, The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant:
text: Sappy meat was explained to consist of a number of little vesicles filled with very minute particles, which presented the Brownian motion, and which Mr. Berkeley suggested, from their known effects on meat, might possibly be the cause of cholera, hospital gangrene, or other diseases.
ref: 1875, English mechanic and world of science:
text: In this respect lamb is peculiarly suspectible to deterioration on passing the “sappy” stage.
ref: 1921, National Wool Grower - Volumes 11-12, page 17:
glosses: Musty; tainted; rancid.
neonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniː.əʊ.neɪt/
ipa: /ˈni.oʊ.neɪt/
ipa: /ˈni.ə.neɪt/
Forms: form: neonates
Etymology: From New Latin neonātus (“newborn”).
Senses: glosses: A newborn infant; recently born baby.
Synonyms: newborn
Derived terms: neonatal
neonaticide
neonatologist
neonatology
neonatometer
NICU
nonneonate
failover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failovers
Etymology: Deverbal from fail over.
Senses: examples: text: Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling.
ref: 2004, Gregory Nyberg, Robert Patrick, Paul Bauerschmidt, Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and ..., page 638:
text: while Tungsten is not heavily redundant as these systems, the ability of Lustre to support some failover can be leveraged to eliminate single points of failure.
ref: 2005, Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society, page 338:
text: you have to make sure you can access it or ensure it can provide some failover," says Tarzey.
ref: 2007 July 11, “Business continuity for SMEs”, in Computer Weekly:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.
Related terms: failback
fail over
hot spare
lunch kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch kettles
Senses: glosses: A lunchbox.
fail over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fails over
form: failing over
form: failed over
form: failed over
Senses: examples: text: If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
Related terms: failover
fallback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/
Forms: form: fallbacks
form: fall-back
Etymology: From the verb fall back.
Senses: examples: text: A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.
text: The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.
glosses: An act of falling back.
examples: text: As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.
glosses: A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
examples: text: Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.
ref: 1970, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3595:
glosses: Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
Synonyms: sense: act of falling back
word: ebbing
sense: act of falling back
word: recession
sense: act of falling back
word: retreat
sense: backup plan
word: back-up
sense: backup plan
word: backup
word: plan B
word: recourse. Thesaurus:option
Hyponyms: automatic fallback
modulation fallback
fallback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/
Forms: form: fall-back
Etymology: From the verb fall back.
Senses: examples: text: a fallback plan
glosses: That can be resorted to as a fallback.
Synonyms: alternate
alternative
back-up
backup
secondary
Derived terms: fallback font
fallback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/
Forms: form: fall-back
Etymology: From the verb fall back.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fall back.