cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
defensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛn.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: [dɪˈfɛn.sɪ.bɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈfen.sɪ.bɫ]
Forms: form: more defensible
form: most defensible
Etymology: From Old French defensable, from Latin defensibilem. Equivalent to defense + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Not only were those cities fortified, but their architects based their whole system on the strategical possibilities of the site, and closely followed its defensible contours.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 11:
glosses: Capable of being defended against armed attack.
raw_tags: of an installation
examples: text: Those who are most familiar with the working of the present society are also usually interested in the preservation of particular features of that society which may not be defensible on general principle.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430:
glosses: Capable of being justified.
raw_tags: of an argument
Synonyms: sense: capable of being defended
word: defendable
Derived terms: defensibility
defensibleness
defensibly
undefensible
chemisorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemisorbs
form: chemisorbing
form: chemisorbed
form: chemisorbed
Etymology: Blend of chem- + adsorb
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To adsorb a substance on the surface or another by chemical bonding.
Related terms: chemisorption
chemisorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the process in which a substance is adsorbed on the surface of another by means of chemical rather than physical bonding
Related terms: chemisorb
chemisorptive
physisorption
chemoautotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoautotrophs
Etymology: From chemo- + autotroph, the latter from auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a simple microorganism, such as a prokaryote (bacteria and Archaea), that derives its energy from chemical processes rather than photosynthesis
Synonyms: chemolithotroph
Related terms: auto-
-troph
chemoautotrophic
chemoautotrophy
chemotrophic
chemotrophy
chemotroph
autotrophic
autotrophy
autotroph
photoorganotroph
chemokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemokines
Etymology: From chemo- + -kine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.
Synonyms: chemocytokine
cytochemokine
eotaxin
Derived terms: adipochemokine
optochemokine
cytokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.tə(ʊ)(ˌ)kaɪn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.təˌkaɪn/
ipa: [ˈsaɪ.ɾəˌkaɪn]
Forms: form: cytokines
Etymology: From cyto- + -kine from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have been defined as cytokines.
ref: 1975 July 24, Bigazzi PE, Yoshida T, Ward PA, Cohen S., “Production of Lymphokine-Like Factors (Cytokines) by Simian Virus 40-Infected and Simian Virus 40-Transformed Cell”, in The American Journal of Pathology, volume 80, number 1, page 69:
text: A fundamental feature expressed by the vast majority of cytokines is a profound immunomodulatory activity.
Many cytokines, presently available in pure recombinant form, modify bone cell metabolism.
ref: 1991, Maxine Gowen, Cytokines and Bone Metabolism, page 26:
text: The cytokines are generally considered to be a group of peptides secreted by cells of the immune system such as macrophages, lymphocytes and T cells, although the same peptides may also be secreted by non-immune cells such as neurological tissues and adipocytes.
ref: 2012, Victor R. Preedy, Ross Hunter, editors, Preface: Cytokines, page v:
text: The cytokines provide a classic example of products of the immune system which alter brain and endocrine activities. A variety of cytokines, including interleukin 1, interleukin 2, interleukin 6, and tumor necrosis factor α, have been traditionally associated with peripheral control of the immune system, inflammation, and acute phase response.
ref: 2013, Errol B. De Souza, editor, Preface: Neurobiology of Cytokines: Methods in Neurosciences, volume 16, page xiii:
text: Surprisingly, mTOR inhibitors displayed little inhibitory efficacy regarding receptor modulation and cytokine production which may be clinically relevant in terms of the risk of underimmunosuppression with this class of drugs.
ref: 2015 July 6, “NK Cells of Kidney Transplant Recipients Display an Activated Phenotype that Is Influenced by Immunosuppression and Pathological Staging”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
Derived terms: adipokine
anticytokine
chemocytokine
cytokinase
cytokine cascade
cytokinemia
cytokine release syndrome
cytokine storm
cytokinic
cytokinome
immunocytokine
intracytokine
kinoid
lymphokine
multicytokine
myocytokine
myokine
noncytokine
polycytokine
precytokine
procytokine
virokine
chemoprevention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemopreventions
Etymology: From chemo- + prevention.
Senses: glosses: the prevention of disease by the use of food supplements, drugs etc
Derived terms: chemopreventive
nanochemoprevention
chemopreventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemopreventive
form: most chemopreventive
Etymology: From chemo- + preventive.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to chemoprevention
Derived terms: photochemopreventive
chemopreventive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemopreventives
Etymology: From chemo- + preventive.
Senses: glosses: a food supplement etc used for chemoprevention
chemoprophylaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + prophylaxis.
Senses: glosses: chemoprevention; the prevention of disease using food supplements or drugs.
chemoreception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoreceptions
Etymology: From chemo- + reception.
Senses: glosses: the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus
Related terms: chemoreceptive
chemoreceptivity
chemosensor
chemoreceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemoreceptive
form: most chemoreceptive
Etymology: From chemo- + receptive.
Senses: glosses: able to respond to a chemical stimulus
raw_tags: of a sense organ
Related terms: chemoreception
chemoreceptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + receptivity.
Senses: glosses: the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus
Related terms: chemoreception
chemosensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosensors
Etymology: From chemo- + sensor.
Senses: glosses: a cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action
Related terms: chemoreception
chemoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoreceptors
Etymology: From chemo- + receptor.
Senses: glosses: a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
Derived terms: chemoreceptor trigger zone
chemoreceptorial
Related terms: chemoreception
chemosensory
chemosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From chemo- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a chemosensor, or to the perception of chemical signals by the senses; especially of the perception of taste and smell
Derived terms: nonchemosensory
Related terms: chemoreception
chemosorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemosorbs
form: chemosorbing
form: chemosorbed
form: chemosorbed
Etymology: Blend of chemo- (“chemical”) + adsorb, from Latin sorbere (“to suck”)
Senses: glosses: to chemisorb
chemosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemospheres
Etymology: From chemo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The region of the Earth's atmosphere (from 20 to 120 miles above the surface) in which photochemical reactions take place.
Related terms: ozone layer
chemosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The selective destruction of diseased or malignant tissue by means of chemical substances; used especially in the treatment of the skin.
chemosystematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + systematics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chemotaxonomy; the classification of organisms based on their biochemistry
Related terms: chemosystematic
chemotaxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: chemotaxonomies
Etymology: From chemo- + taxonomy.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The classification or taxonomy of organisms based on differences and similarities in biochemistry, especially on differences in amino acid sequence in proteins that the organisms have in common.
chemotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemotropisms
Etymology: From chemo- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: chemotaxis
glosses: The movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus
Related terms: chemotropic
chemotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more chemotropic
form: most chemotropic
form: chemotrophic
Etymology: From chemo- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: of, related to, or in response to chemotropism
Derived terms: chemotropically
resound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: resounds
Etymology: From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)).
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/
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* (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/
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* Rhymes: -aʊnd
* Hyphenation: re‧sound
Senses: examples: text: Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.
ref: 1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter XIV, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, book fifth, pages 375–376:
glosses: An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
examples: text: And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]
ref: c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf.
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XXXIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part I, page 40:
glosses: The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
resound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -aʊnd
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: resounds
form: resounding
form: resounded
form: resounded
form: re-sound
Etymology: From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).
Senses: examples: text: Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.
ref: 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, Philadelphia, Pa.: Emergency Care Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117, column 2:
glosses: To echo or repeat (a sound).
glosses: To sound again.
resounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzaʊndɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resound
resounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: more resounding
form: most resounding
Etymology: From resound + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: word: canorous
word: remugient
word: booming
word: boom-boom
word: canorous
word: orotund
word: remugient
word: resonant
word: resounding
word: reverberant
word: rotund
word: sonoral
word: sonorous
word: tympanic
word: vibrant
glosses: Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
examples: text: He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: That causes reverberation.
examples: text: We had a resounding win against the rival team.
text: On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.
ref: 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
text: Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.
ref: 2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:
synonyms: huge
massive
tremendous
glosses: Emphatic, noteworthy.
Derived terms: resoundingly
resounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: resoundings
Etymology: From resound + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.
ref: 2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13:
glosses: gerund of resound
resounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology: From resound + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resound
unequivocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪˈkwɪvək(ə)li/
enpr: ŭn'ĭ-kwĭvʹə-kəl-ē
enpr: ŭn'ĭ-kwĭvʹə-klē
ipa: /ˌʌnɪˈkwɪvək(ə)li/
ipa: /ˌɐnɪˈkwɪvək(ə)liː/
rhymes: -ɪvəkəli
rhymes: -ɪvəkli
Forms: form: more unequivocally
form: most unequivocally
Etymology: From unequivocal + -ly or un- + equivocally.
Senses: examples: text: They strove to make their product unequivocally the best in the industry.
text: 'Surely, in hindsight, you realise she was an unsuitable wife for you,' he stated unequivocally.
'Don't go there, Dad,' Luc warned, hard ruthless steel in his own eyes. 'You've lost one son. You're very close to losing another.'
ref: 2009, Emma Darcy, Sara Craven, Diane Hamilton, The Italian's Love-Child (Mills & Boon By Request):
text: The millettioid group involves the unequivocally sustained millettioid and phaseoloid clades including numerous vital crop species, for example, the cultivated soybean […]
ref: 2017, Deepak G. Panpatte, Yogeshvari K. Jhala, Rajababu V. Vyas, Microorganisms for Green Revolution: Volume 1, page 66:
glosses: In a way that leaves no doubt; in an unequivocal or unambiguous manner, unquestionably.
Synonyms: expressly
unambiguously
explicitly
resonating chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resonating chambers
Senses: glosses: A chamber whose dimensions allow sound to echo and build up.
glosses: A similar chamber that allows resonance of electromagnetic waves.
Related terms: Helmholtz resonator
macroburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobursts
Etymology: From macro- + burst.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
Related terms: microburst
microburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkroʊˌbɝst/
Forms: form: microbursts
Etymology: From micro- + burst.
Senses: examples: text: This resulted in the aircraft’s encounter at low altitude with a microburst-induced, severe wind shear from a rapidly developing thunderstorm located on the final approach course.
ref: 1986 August 15, National Transportation Safety Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Delta Air Lines, Inc., Lockheed L-1011-385-1, N726DA, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, August 2, 1985, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2021, page 1:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strong downdraft, of less than 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds and powerful wind shear.
Hypernyms: downburst
Coordinate terms: macroburst
hummingbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɝd/
ipa: /ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɜːd/
ipa: /ˈhʌmɪnˌbɜːd/
Forms: form: hummingbirds
form: humming bird
form: humming-bird
Etymology: From humming (noun) + bird, in reference to the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings.
Senses: examples: text: Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, …
ref: 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
text: Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
Synonyms: word: hummer
word: hummingbird
Hypernyms: word: bird
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: avocetbill
word: awlbill
word: barbthroat
word: blossomcrown
word: brilliant
word: carib
word: comet
word: coquette
word: coronet
word: emerald
word: fairy
word: firecrown
word: flowerpecker
word: goldentail
word: goldenthroat
word: helmetcrest
word: hermit
word: hillstar
word: inca
word: jewelfront
word: lancebill
word: metaltail
word: mango
word: mountain-gem
word: piedtail
word: plovercrest
word: plumeleteer
word: puffleg
word: racket-tail
word: sabrewing
word: sapphire
word: sapphirewing
word: sheartail
word: sicklebill
word: snowcap
word: spatuletail
word: starfrontlet
word: starthroat
word: streamertail
word: sunangel
word: sunbeam
word: sungem
word: sylph
word: thornbill
word: thorntail
word: topaz
word: trainbearer
word: treeswift
word: velvetbreast
word: violet-ear
word: visorbearer
word: white-tip
word: woodnymph
word: woodstar
Meronyms: word: See Thesaurus:bird
Derived terms: Allen's hummingbird
Anna's hummingbird
bee hummingbird
Costa's hummingbird
garnet-throated hummingbird
hummingbird hawkmoth
hummingbirdlike
hummingbird moth
hummingbird sage
hummingbird vine
Lucifer hummingbird
ruby-throated hummingbird
rufous hummingbird
sword-billed hummingbird
vegetable hummingbird
vervain hummingbird
Related terms: trochilidine
bee
brilliant
emerald
hermit
mango
snowcap
topaz
bullfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌfɪnt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: bullfinches
form: bull-finch
Etymology: From bull + finch.
Senses: glosses: The Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
glosses: Any of various other Old World finches in the genus Pyrrhula.
examples: text: Young Hurrell turned them on the right; the officer on the polo pony and Mr. Westall, between them, dissected a "bullfinch" on the left, but the ditch and the briars took toll of the former.
ref: 1900, H. B. Yerburgh, Leaves from a hunting diary in Essex, page 180:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A large, thick quickset hedge.
glosses: An obstacle for a horse, consisting of a solid fence with brush above it, through which the horse should jump.
Synonyms: alt: P. pyrrhula
word: Eurasian bullfinch
word: common bullfinch
word: pope
greenfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːn.fɪnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹin.fɪnt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: greenfinches
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
English greenfinch
Compound of green + finch.
Senses: examples: text: The Vietnamese Greenfinch is the only greenfinch found in the Da Lat area, and as such is unmistakeable.
ref: 2016 July 14, Peter Davidson, Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:
synonyms: green bird
glosses: Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Europe and Asia.
synonyms: green bird
glosses: Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Europe and Asia.
European greenfinch, a common Old World finch (Chloris chloris, syn. Carduelis chloris), mainly green with yellow in the wings and tail.
glosses: A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
A female member of the Royal Irish Regiment.
Hypernyms: finch
passerine
songbird
bird
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Chloris ambigua
word: black-headed greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris kittlitzi
word: Bonin greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris chloris
word: European greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris sinica
word: grey-capped greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris sinica
word: Oriental greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris aurelioi
word: slender-billed greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris triasi
word: Trias greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris monguilloti
word: Vietnamese greenfinch
taxonomic: Chloris spinoides
word: yellow-breasted greenfinch
hawfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawfinches
Etymology: haw (“berry of the common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna”) + finch. Named by English ornithologist Francis Willughby in 1676.
Senses: glosses: A large Eurasian finch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), with a thick bill.
wikipedia: Francis Willughby
Synonyms: grosbeak
Derived terms: black-tailed hawfinch
Japanese hawfinch
masked hawfinch
Turkey Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the turkey, the traditional main course of Thanksgiving dinner, and an occasional motif in Thanksgiving decorations.
Senses: examples: text: Thanksgiving.— This Day will be observed in all the New England States, except Massachusetts, as a day of public Thanksgiving. It will be Turkey-day in this State, this day week.
ref: 1835 November 26, Boston Morning Post, volume IX, number 141, [Boston, Massachusetts]: Beals & Greene, →OCLC, page [2], column 2:
glosses: Thanksgiving; an American holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
American Thanksgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈθæŋkskɪvɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Rosanne Knorr, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Living in France http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=R7atQdT72pIC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&sig=-LWSb8QTiLpIt2Ort_Z-fmqUnnI
… then theoretically, you’ll cut your electric bill. I say theoretically because red days always seem to occur on American Thanksgiving (not a holiday in France), just when we want the oven for turkey and pies that will take exactly seven hours and twenty-seven minutes of the most expensive hours on the planet.
text: Bill came back to town for American Thanksgiving, and we spent the day tracking down the required entry visas.
ref: 2004, Steven E Keenan, Sojourns in West Africa:
text: The McCarrolls were coming to Thanksgiving dinner. American Thanksgiving was not until November and, as Mimi told Sharon over the phone, “We can't let you be the only ones in the PMQs without a turkey dinner next week.”
ref: 2004, Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies:
qualifier: chiefly non-US
glosses: Thanksgiving Day, an American holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
bejabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of bejesus.
Senses: glosses: bejesus
ogling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oglings
Senses: examples: text: The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings[…]
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
glosses: Action of the verb to ogle.
ogling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ogle
ohnosecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ(ˈ)nəʊˌsɛkənd/
Forms: form: ohnoseconds
Etymology: From oh no + second, in imitation of terms like nanosecond and attosecond.
Senses: examples: text: In the ohnosecond (one minuscule fraction of a nanosecond, the time it takes to realize you just made a BIG mistake) that followed, I realized my log of the conversation was lost.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Powell Crowe, The Electronic Traveller: Exploring Alternative Online Systems, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:
text: Exabyte Corp. of Boulder entered the consumer and small-office market last year with a product aimed at reducing the number of ohnoseconds experienced annually by computer users.
ref: 1 June 1997, Lisa Greim, “Exabyte Takes On The Oh-Ohs”, in Rocky Mountain News, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2016:
text: Before you hit the "send" button — and experience that twinge of regret an ohnosecond later (see "The Top 18 Techno-Jargon Terms," page 259), read over what you've written.
ref: 2002, Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, The All-New Book of Lists for Kids, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 257:
text: Today's declarer took the ace of diamonds and saw that a high diamond in dummy would provide a pitch for his spade loser. So South led a trump to the king next — and regretted it in an ohnosecond.
ref: 14 April 2006, Frank Stewart, “Bridge”, in Bangor Daily News:
text: For example, you ridicule your boss in an e-mail to colleagues and, an ohnosecond after clicking Send, you realize the boss was one of those in the address list.
ref: 2008, Ken Cox, ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
text: As I sat, the moment seemed to stretch into five minutes of slo-mo "ohnoseconds." As projective A [the (now highly agitated) cat] slid off the table and hit the carpet running, leaving a milk and gumbo vapor trail, projectiles B & C (garlic bread and milk) slid off the table in that order, landing one upon the other, on the top of the ottoman, whereupon they collectively slid slowly off onto the carpet.
ref: 2008, Greg Scott, Notes from Beyond the Fringe, iUniverse, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 267–268:
glosses: The fraction of time between making a mistake and realizing it.
accrual bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accrual bonds
Etymology: accrual + bond
Senses: glosses: A fixed-interest bond that is issued at its face value and repaid at the end of the maturity period together with the accrued interest.
Synonyms: zero-coupon bond
capital appreciation bond
oik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪk/
rhymes: -ɔɪk
Forms: form: oiks
Etymology: Unknown, early 20th century. Possibly onomatopoeic, in imitation of uncultivated speech.
Senses: examples: text: The other three were gifted metal oiks, but Cliff was a musician, schooled in theory, transmitting from a private universe of inspiration and expertise.
ref: 2011, James Parker, “Rediscovering Metallica with a new bio”, in The Boston Phoenix:
glosses: a member of the lower classes.
Derived terms: oikball
oikish
indistinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndɪsˈtɪŋkt/
Forms: form: more indistinct
form: most indistinct
Etymology: From Middle French indistinct, from Latin indistinctus. English equivalent in- + distinct.
Senses: synonyms: fuzzy
ill-defined
glosses: not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim
raw_tags: of an image etc
synonyms: word: ambiguous
word: equivocal
word: ambiguous
word: equivocal
word: fuzzy
word: generic
word: gray
word: imperspicuous
word: imprecise
word: indeterminate
word: indefinite
word: indistinct
word: turbid
word: uncertain
word: unclear
word: undefined
word: undefinable
word: vague
word: woolly
qualifier: idea etc
glosses: hazy or vague
raw_tags: of a thought
glosses: difficult to understand through being muffled or slurred
raw_tags: of speech
Synonyms: word: dim
word: fuzzy
word: hazy
word: ill-defined
word: ill-marked
word: indefinite
word: indistinct
word: indistinguishable
word: muzzy
word: obscure
word: undefined
word: vague
Hyponyms: word: dark
word: shadowy
word: faint
word: cloudy
word: nebulous
word: turbid
word: blurred
word: blurry
word: smudged
word: out of focus
word: unfocused
word: hazed
Derived terms: indistinctly
indistinctness
Related terms: word: hidden
OK yah
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: upper class
glosses: an affirmative response
Sloane Ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sloane Rangers
Etymology: Blend of Sloane Square + Lone Ranger. Popularized by Ann Barr and Peter York in The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982).
Senses: examples: text: Come summer, the brasserie terraces teem with stereotypical blonde Sloane Rangers sipping rosé; an artier crop of whatever's stylishly edgy will have taken up residence outside the Royal Court Theatre.
ref: 2012, Time Out Shortlist London 2012 […] , Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A fashionable young woman of the London upper classes.
wikipedia: Ann Barr
Peter York
Sloane Square
Synonyms: Sloane
Sloanie
Related terms: Hooray Henry
Essex girl
Old Dart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from the river Dart in Devonshire which enters the sea at Dartmouth, location of a Royal Navy College. Royal Navy officers who were returning to England at the end of a foreign tour of duty referred to going back to the "Old Dart" for further training.
Alternatively a variation of "old dirt" (compare old sod).
Senses: examples: text: J. A. W. has still, I am persuaded, any amount of friends in the Old Dart.
ref: 1872, Pen-name Auld Lang Syne, Original Correspondence, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Victoria, 20 July 1872, page 2:
text: You recollect that when I left the Colony to visit the old dart, besides the usual allowance granted...
ref: 1876, Magguffin, Random Notes, Oamaru Mail, 24 June 1876, page 2:
text: The ‘Old Dart’ mattered little to German Australians but the empire was another matter and Australia was their home.
ref: 2003, John Williams, German Anzacs And The First World War, page 9:
text: ‘I have a whole range of new talents, Dad. I can muster a mob of cattle, break in a horse, speak pidgin, and at a pinch, stitch up someone′s head.’
‘Very useful in the Old Dart,’ he commented dryly and returned to his newspaper.
ref: 2003, Di Morrissey, Barra Creek, published 2010, page 432:
text: Marsh′s experiences during his first days in the Old Dart were no different from most Australian cricketers′.
ref: 2004, Mark Browning, Rod Marsh: A Life in Cricket, page 55:
synonyms: the old country
glosses: Britain, England, London, or Ireland; the Old Country.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Dartmouth Royal Navy College.
continuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuːɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
glosses: present participle and gerund of continue
continuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuːɪŋ/
Forms: form: continuings
Senses: glosses: A continuation.
contributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹɪˌbjuːtɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjutɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjətɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contribute
convincing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more convincing
form: most convincing
Senses: examples: text: Our convincing evidence was sufficient in the end to win the trial.
text: While they have still only suffered one home defeat by Spurs in 19 years, this was not as convincing a victory as the scoreline suggests.
ref: November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355
glosses: Effective as proof or evidence.
Derived terms: clear and convincing evidence
convincingly
convincingness
nonconvincing
unconvincing
convincing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convince
convincing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
Forms: form: convincings
Senses: examples: text: Convincings depend on someone trying to do the convincing and someone who is supposed to be convinced.
ref: 2002, Richard L. Epstein, Critical Thinking, page 2:
glosses: The process by which somebody is convinced.
completing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpliːtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of complete
combining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbaɪnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of combine
combining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbaɪnɪŋ/
Forms: form: combinings
Senses: examples: text: these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
glosses: The act by which things are combined or brought together.
Derived terms: combining mark
coercing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coerce
comparing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /kəmˈpɛɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /kəmˈpeː.ɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compare
culturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of culture
culturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturings
Senses: examples: text: Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results.
ref: 1975, Dan Danielsson, Lennart Juhlin, Per-Anders Mårdh, Proceedings of the Symposium on Genital Infections and Their Complications, held in Stockholom, Sweden, October 9-11, 1974:
glosses: An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
chichi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃi.ʃi/
Forms: form: more chichi
form: most chichi
form: chi-chi
form: chi chi
form: shi-shi
form: shi shi
Etymology: Borrowed from French chichi.
Senses: examples: text: Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.
ref: 1951, Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek:
text: We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.
ref: 1969 January 22, Daily Telegraph:
text: Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.
ref: 2017 September 20, Sophie Gilbert, “The Good Place Is Still TV Heaven”, in The Atlantic:
text: If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.
ref: 2019 September 9, Nick Trend, “Why now is the perfect time to rediscover an old favourite across the Channel”, in Daily Telegraph:
text: But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?
ref: 2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
synonyms: bougie
bourgie
glosses: Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way.
chichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃi.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈʃi.ʃi/
Forms: form: chichis
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish chichi.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.
ref: 2011, Barbara Samuel, The Girls in the Basement: Celebration Book:
text: And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.
ref: 2014, Stephen May, Wake Up Happy Every Day:
glosses: A woman's breast.
spotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒt.ə/
ipa: /ˈspɑ.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spotters
Etymology: From spot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who observes something.
glosses: A member of a sniper team who in addition to this function is responsible for providing additional information about targets from a different point of view.
examples: text: Due to a spotter's lack of action in holding the weight when a lifter lost her balance, the lifter badly pulled some muscles.
ref: 1981 December 12, Melissa Wills, “Moving Metal”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
topics: climbing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it.
synonyms: banksman
dogman
lookout
observer
signalman
glosses: A person who gives directions for a crane or vehicle (that is challenging to navigate) from a different point of view to the moved load.
synonyms: spotted dolphin
glosses: Dolphins of the genus Stenella, and specifically Stenella attenuata distinguished from the streaker (Stenella coeruleoalba) and the spinner (Stenella longirostris).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A team member responsible for communication with the driver to keep them up-to-date about on-track events, such as other nearby cars.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A person employed to assist a sports presenter by identifying the players or events during a game.
Derived terms: locospotter
planespotter
plane spotter
spotter plane
talent-spotter
train spotter
weather spotter
Related terms: G-spotter
preconception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹikənˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsepʃən/
Forms: form: preconceptions
Etymology: From pre- + conception.
Senses: examples: text: With many of the more general preconceptions of socialist thought the connection of their more practical proposals is by no means at once obvious, and in consequence many men who believe themselves to be determined opponents of that system of thought become in fact effective spreaders of its ideas.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 422:
text: He told RAIL: "We had no preconceptions, but you would assume a newer train to have better air quality than an older one. We found that was not necessarily the case.
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: RSSB research exposes poor air quality on diesel trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 14:
glosses: An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.
glosses: A prejudice that prevents rational consideration of an issue.
preconception
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹikənˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsepʃən/
Etymology: From pre- + conception.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Preconceptional.
satanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: homophone: seitanic
ipa: /seɪˈtænɪk/
ipa: /səˈtænɪk/
Forms: form: more satanic
form: most satanic
Etymology: From satan + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Satanic (of, pertaining to or resembling Satan).
examples: text: Can Abrahamic religious leaders call other religions "satanic" without being in jail?
text: Instead, the 30-year-old singer's subjects include that modern satanic mill, the call centre.
ref: 2007 January 21, Peter Culshaw, “Martha Tilston”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: The working class just looks different. "Call centres are the new dark satanic mills. We have people who have to put their hand up to ask to go to the toilet.
ref: 2010 April 9, Aida Edemariam, quoting Mark Serwotka, “Mark Serwotka: 'Call centres are the new dark satanic mills'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Evil, fiendish, devilish or diabolical.
glosses: Of or pertaining to any form of Satanism.
Derived terms: dark satanic mill
satanically
satanic mill
satanicness
satanic panic
satanic ritual abuse
Related terms: Satanic
manwhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manwhores
form: man-whore
form: man whore
Etymology: From man + whore.
Senses: examples: text: A schmo who finds love by prostituting himself is...rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way.
ref: 1999 December 10, Michael O'Sullivan, “Not Just a 'Gigolo'”, in Washington Post:
text: He's a man-whore, Paige. He seduces women for money. He seduced you and countless married women without any care for the consequences.
ref: 2006, Farrell Kaye, Helltown: The Adventures of the Midnight Man, page 217:
synonyms: gigolo
he-whore
hustler
manslut
qualifier: occasionally vulgar
glosses: A man who has sex with clients for money; a male prostitute.
examples: text: The whole room fell silent, the girls all paused with glee. Turning left, turning right, are they looking at me? Well, I was looking at them, there, there, on the dance floor. Now, they got me in the middle, feeling like a manwhore.
ref: 2003, Big Boi, “The Way You Move”, in Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, New York: Arista Records:
text: We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.
ref: 2017, E. L. Todd, 400 First Kisses, New York, NY.: Hartwick Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
synonyms: word: womanizer
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
qualifier: occasionally vulgar
glosses: A promiscuous man who has no regard for his sexual partners or the emotional value of his relationships.
Related terms: whoreman
manwhore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manwhores
form: manwhoring
form: manwhored
form: manwhored
form: man-whore
form: man whore
Etymology: From man + whore.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Charles ain't exactly got his feet on the ground. Last week he swore to me that he was spending his nights in New Orleans manwhoring hisself.[…]’
ref: 2020, Eoin Colfer, Highfire, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: To prostitute oneself, as a man.