cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kurdaitcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurdaitchas
form: kadaitcha
form: kooditcha
form: kardaitcha
Etymology: From Arrernte gadaidja.
Senses: examples: text: In the morning sharp eyes would be dilated by tracks surely made by the dreaded Kurdaitcha without his feathered feet. Those prints would be followed back to the tree, where the Kurdaitcha put on his great boots and mounted a bike to go back to Mitford.
ref: 1953, Arthur Upfield, Murder Must Wait, page 105:
glosses: An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
examples: text: The “kurdaitcha” is a party consisting of a medicine-man and three others, sent by the elders of a local group to avenge a magically-caused death, the offender having been beforehand identified.
ref: 1968, Gerald Clair Wheeler, The Tribe, and Intertribal Relations in Australia, page 150:
text: However, the kurdaitcha (or gadaidja) and illapurinja are more properly expeditions carried out for the specific purpose of performing sorcery. (Spencer and Gillem, ibid.: 476-88) In the kurdaitcha men use special slippers of that name, made from emu feathers stuck together with blood, with an upper rim of netted hair string.
ref: 1985, Ronald Murray Berndt, Catherine Helen Berndt, The World of the First Australians, page 324:
glosses: An expedition taken to heal or avenge someone afflicted by evil sorcery.
examples: text: ‘[…]One day when he was going to a creek to catch fish he saw a Kurdaitcha man - one who was going out alone to kill an enemy, and he had shoes of a very strange kind.’
ref: 1987, Catherine Martin, The Incredible Journey, page 77:
glosses: A man chosen to go on such an expedition.
examples: text: Now Detective–Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte has solved his last case and laid away his kurdaitcha boots for ever.
ref: 1964, Walkabout, volume 30, page 40:
text: The blacks crept up on their camp in their feathered kadaitcha boots to spear them.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 152:
glosses: The boots worn by someone on such a mission, typically made from emu feathers.
Coordinate terms: english: female version of ritual
translation: female version of ritual
word: Illapurinja
Derived terms: kurdaitcha man
Related terms: point the bone
Arunta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈrʌntə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arrernte.
heeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: healing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heel
heeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: healing
Forms: form: heelings
Senses: examples: text: One reason why a ship will not sail close-hauled on even keel with helm amidships, is that the masts are too far aft, and this may be proved by a “stiff ship” going “upon a wind” five or six knots an hour without perceptible heelings, […]
ref: 1871, The Nautical Magazine, volume 40, page 405:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An inclination to one side; a tilt.
heads-up display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads-up displays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of head-up display.
propugn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: propugns
form: propugning
form: propugned
form: propugned
Senses: glosses: To fight for, defend, or contend for something
Related terms: propugnacle
propugner
propugnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propugnacles
Senses: glosses: A defence, rampart or fortress.
Related terms: propugn
pavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cement and concrete both make excellent pavements.
glosses: plural of pavement
rivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rival
rivals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rival
interocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəɹˈɒkjələɹ/
Etymology: From inter- + ocular.
Senses: examples: interocular distance
glosses: Between the eyes.
Parisienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəɹɪzɪˈɛn/
Forms: form: Parisiennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Parisienne, feminine of Parisien, from Paris.
Senses: examples: text: It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.
ref: 1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157
text: It was at most but a vague hint dropped by a certain notorious Parisienne in a jealous mood that had caused suspicion to rest upon the lieutenant.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 56:
text: Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.
ref: 2001, Lisa Tierstan, Marianne in the Market, California, page 122:
glosses: A woman from Paris.
Related terms: Parisien
circumorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ).kəmˌɔː(ɹ)b.ɪt.əl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: From circum- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the eye.
circumorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ).kəmˌɔː(ɹ)b.ɪt.əl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: circumorbitals
Etymology: From circum- + orbital.
Senses: glosses: Any of the scales around a reptile's eye.
short-circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-circuits
form: short-circuiting
form: short-circuited
form: short-circuited
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of short circuit.
photocathode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocathodes
Etymology: From photo- + cathode.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A cathode that emits electrons when exposed to light.
photocell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocells
form: photo-cell
Etymology: From photo- + cell.
Senses: glosses: A photoelectric cell.
photoelectric cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoelectric cells
Senses: synonyms: electric eye
photocell
glosses: A transducer that generates an electric current proportional to the light intensity.
photoglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: glycin
short circuit operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short circuit operators
form: short-circuit operator
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning true if the first operand evaluates as true, without evaluating the second operand).
glycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycins
Etymology: From glycine, modified with -in.
Senses: examples: text: Glycin is a versatile paper developer that produces a strong, deep black on bromide papers and brown to sepia tones on warm-tone chloride and chlorobromide papers.
ref: 2008, Robert Hirsch, Photographic Possibilities, page 142:
text: Glycin immersed in LN₂ formed an amorphous product. Upon heating to –65 °C an unidentified crystalline phase of glycin was observed, which transformed at ≈ 55 °C to 2-glycin.
ref: 2008, Georg-Wilhelm Oetjen, Peter Haseley, Freeze-Drying, page 23:
text: Glycin developers are non-staining and have exceptionally good keeping properties, but are too slow in action for general use.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Allen, Sophie Triantaphillidou, The Manual of Photography, page 257:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic derivative of glycine, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)glycine, used as a photographic developer.
examples: text: The level of glycin (Table 4) in the serum and the plasma of autistic patients does not show consistent changes.
ref: 2007, Katalin Köves, Andrea Heinzlmann, “Chapter 1: Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in Autism”, in Barbara S. Mesmere, editor, New Autism Research Developments, page 51:
glosses: Misspelling of glycine.
Synonyms: photoglycine
Related terms: glycine
short-circuit operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-circuit operators
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of short circuit operator.
play one against another
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays one against another
form: playing one against another
form: played one against another
form: played one against another
Senses: examples: text: You would expect that we would stick together more, but no way Pete! They lie and snitch on each other and so the system has even more control over us by playing us against each other.
ref: 1989 December 10, Glenda Edwards, “They Can't Keep Me Away From My Stink”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:
glosses: To manipulate two persons into competing against one another in a way that benefits the person carrying out the manipulation.
Stockholm syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndrom. Named after the robbery of Kreditbanken at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. Originally, this term was directly translated from Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndromet as the Norrmalmstorg syndrome, but later Norrmalmstorg was replaced with Stockholm, a word far more commonly known outside Sweden.
Senses: examples: text: You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 259:
text: Natascha Kampusch, the 18 year old Austrian woman who escaped from her kidnapper last week after eight years in captivity,[…] is thought to be suffering from an extreme version of Stockholm syndrome, in which victims begin to associate and sympathise with their attackers.
ref: 2006 May 28, Cape Times:
glosses: A psychological condition in which a hostage emotionally bonds to their captor.
Synonyms: word: capture-bonding
word: Helsinki syndrome
Stockholm syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Stockholm syndromes
form: Stockholm syndroming
form: Stockholm syndromed
form: Stockholm syndromed
Etymology: Calque of Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndrom. Named after the robbery of Kreditbanken at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. Originally, this term was directly translated from Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndromet as the Norrmalmstorg syndrome, but later Norrmalmstorg was replaced with Stockholm, a word far more commonly known outside Sweden.
Senses: examples: text: The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.
ref: 2015 July 17, Sarah Lyall, “Review: In 'Pretty Is,' Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
text: Eventually, you Stockholm Syndromed yourself into believing that what happened to the Bills mattered to your life. Off the top of my head, I can still list more members of the 1990-93 Super Bowl-averse Bills than kids in my Grade 8 class.
ref: 2021 January 17, Cathal Kelly, “The curious case of all the Bills fans who are not from Buffalo”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022:
text: Britannia's is the best because they understand that a bunny is as much a feat of engineering as cooking. The quarter loaf of bread must, must be of the generic, mass-produced sort (not a farmhouse loaf, definitely not a milk bread, just standard unsliced white), with the light crust a dam wall holding in a reservoir of rich mutton curry that's Stockholm-syndroming massive potato halves, the sauce riveted with cloves and singing to the tune of ginger and curry leaves, the whole edible edifice capped with a dome built of the belly of the bread.
ref: 2022 March 6, “AA Gill Award winner 2022: introducing Sanjiv Mistry”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.
cote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊt/
ipa: /koʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -oʊt
homophone: coat
Forms: form: cotes
Etymology: From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.
Senses: glosses: A cottage or hut.
examples: text: Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
Synonyms: shed
Derived terms: bellcote
dovecote
hogcote
sheepcote
swinecote
cote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊt/
ipa: /koʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -oʊt
homophone: coat
Forms: form: cotes
form: coting
form: coted
form: coted
Etymology: See quote.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quote.
cote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊt/
ipa: /koʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -oʊt
homophone: coat
Forms: form: cotes
form: coting
form: coted
form: coted
Etymology: Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.
Senses: examples: text: A dog cotes a hare.
text: We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: …strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
ref: 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37
glosses: To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
autokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + -kinesis.
Senses: synonyms: autokinetic effect
glosses: A visual illusion in which a stationary source of light appears to move.
glosses: Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.
soak up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soaks up
form: soaking up
form: soaked up
form: soaked up
Senses: examples: text: The tissue soaked up all of the spilled milk.
glosses: To absorb or draw in a substance, especially all of that substance.
examples: text: Tan was not at Stamford Bridge and Mackay's tactics proved effective as his side soaked up Chelsea's attacks despite conceding the majority of possession, and frequently threatened on the break.
ref: 2013 October 19, Chris Bevan, BBC Sport:
glosses: To absorb or deflect a series of actions; to endure a behavior from someone.
glosses: To learn, especially passively or eagerly; to allow an experience to affect oneself.
examples: text: soak up the sun
text: Even so, this delightful station is well worth a visit, - either to admire the architecture, sip a coffee from the shop, or just soak up the relaxed atmosphere of the area and watch the birds and other wildlife on the shores right outside the station.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
glosses: To enjoy some effects.
adsorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adsorbent
form: most adsorbent
Senses: glosses: Tending to adsorb.
Derived terms: bioadsorbent
coadsorbent
hemoadsorbent
immunoadsorbent
nonadsorbent
adsorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adsorbents
Senses: glosses: The solid or liquid in the process of adsorption on which the adsorbate accumulates.
affability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæfəˈbɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: affabilities
Etymology: From affable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: O conspiracy,
Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free? O, then by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
Hide it in smiles and affability:
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: The Landlady […] was not without some Concern for the Confinement of poor Sophia, of whose great Sweetness of Temper and Affability the Maid of the House had made so favourable a Report, which was confirmed by all the Squire’s Servants […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 3, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XVI, page 191:
text: […] he would sometimes pass me haughtily and coldly, just acknowledging my presence by a distant nod or a cool glance, and sometimes bow and smile with gentlemanlike affability.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XIV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: He [Toussaint L'Ouverture] knew how to listen to a subordinate officer with dignity and yet with affability.
ref: 1938, C. L. R. James, chapter 11, in The Black Jacobins, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 251:
glosses: The state or quality of being affable, friendly, or approachable.
adsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adsorptions
Etymology: Borrowed from German Adsorption, from ad- + (Ab)sorption.
Senses: glosses: The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.
Derived terms: adsorptional
adsorption calorimetry
bioadsorption
coadsorption
deadsorption
hemadsorption
hemoadsorption
immunoadsorption
photoadsorption
physisorption
postadsorption
preadsorption
readsorption
sodium adsorption ratio
Related terms: adsorb
adsorbability
adsorbable
adsorbate
adsorbent
absorption
sorption
recklessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more recklessly
form: most recklessly
Etymology: From Middle English reklesly, from Old English rēcelēaslīce; equivalent to reckless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
text: Zoe popped her head up to watch in terror through a little window, as they spread chaos and carnage in their wake, not to mention quite a few broken-off wing mirrors. Burt was driving so recklessly, she was frightened he would kill them both.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Brooks was also convicted of 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety with the use of a dangerous weapon, six counts of fatal hit and run, two counts of felony bail jumping and one count of misdemeanor domestic battery.
ref: 2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, in CNN:
text: But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.
ref: 2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN:
glosses: In a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence
glosses: With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.
Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soviet Socialist Republics
Senses: examples: Holonyms: USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Union
Meronym: autonomous oblast
synonyms: Soviet republic#Noun
hypernyms: republic#Noun
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polity#Noun
glosses: Any of the republics belonging to the former Soviet Union.
Related terms: people's republic
People's Republic
Russian Federation
Armenian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Armenian SSR
Senses: glosses: One of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics that made up the former Soviet Union (1920-1991, name changed in 1990). Became independent as the Republic of Armenia in 1991, after the collapse of the USSR.
wikipedia: Armenian SSR
Synonyms: Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Armenia
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
vividness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vividnesses
Etymology: From vivid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118:
text: As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:
glosses: The quality or state of being vivid.
Synonyms: word: vividity
Azerbaijan SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Azerbaijan SSR
Senses: glosses: Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for Azerbaijan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1936–1991, name changed in 1990).
wikipedia: Azerbaijan SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Byelorussian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbjɛləˈrʌʃən.ɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: the Byelorussian SSR
Senses: glosses: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for Bolshevik Belarus which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1919–1991), member of the United Nations since 1945.
wikipedia: Byelorussian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Estonian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Estonian SSR
Senses: glosses: Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Estonia while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1991, name changed in 1990).
wikipedia: Estonian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Georgian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Georgian SSR
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic: the Republic of Georgia while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1936–1991, name changed in 1990).
wikipedia: Georgian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Kazakh SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæzæk ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
/ˈkɑːzɑk ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: the Kazakh SSR
Senses: examples: text: Not far inside the USSR, to the south of the Ili on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway, sits Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Founded by the Russians a century ago, it contains over 456,000 inhabitants, mainly Russian. From its position, the city is able to command the western approach to the upper Ili.
ref: 1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 9:
glosses: Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Kazakhstan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1936–1991).
wikipedia: Kazakh SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Kyrgyz SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪə(ɹ)ɡɪz ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
/ˈkɜː(ɹ)ɡɪz ˌɛsɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: the Kyrgyz SSR
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic.
wikipedia: Kyrgyz SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Latvian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Latvian SSR
Senses: glosses: Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name of Latvia when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1940–1941 and 1944–1991).
wikipedia: Latvian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Lithuanian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lithuanian SSR
Senses: glosses: Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Lithuania while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1991, name changed in 1990).
wikipedia: Lithuanian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Moldavian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Moldavian SSR
Senses: glosses: Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Moldova while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1941 and 1945–1991).
wikipedia: Moldavian SSR
Related terms: Moldavian
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Russian SFSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Russian SFSR
Senses: glosses: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the name for modern day Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union (1917-1991).
wikipedia: Russian SFSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Tajik SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tajik SSR
Senses: glosses: Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Tajikistan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1924–1991).
wikipedia: Tajik SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Turkmen SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Turkmen SSR
Senses: glosses: Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Turkmenistan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1925–1991).
wikipedia: Turkmen SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Ukrainian SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ukrainian SSR
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
wikipedia: Ukrainian SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Uzbek SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Uzbekistan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1924-1991).
wikipedia: Uzbek SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
programmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of programmer
unswerving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unswerving
form: most unswerving
Etymology: From un- + swerving.
Senses: examples: text: They followed the ritual with unswerving faith.
glosses: Not deviating; not yielding or straying or varying.
reverberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: reverberations
form: reverbation
Etymology: From Old French reverberation, from Medieval Latin reverberatio. Morphologically reverberate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.
glosses: A violent oscillation or vibration.
examples: text: The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.
glosses: An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes.
examples: text: Like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking glasses.
glosses: The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror.
examples: text: Reverberations from the Vietnam war affect our society to this day.
glosses: An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion.
Derived terms: reverberation time
avatars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avatar
mahseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahseers
Senses: glosses: An endangered large-scaled carp of the family Cyprinidae, found in rivers and lakes of India, Malaysia, and Southern Asia generally, valued as a game fish.
rotogravure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotogravures
Etymology: From German Rotogravur, derived from the Berlin printing firm Rotogravur Deutsche Tiefdruck Gesellschaft, the name of which is conjectured to be a portmanteau of Rotophot and Deutsche Photogravur.
Senses: glosses: A printing process by which the paper is rolled through intaglio cylinders.
glosses: A print made by such a method.
examples: text: On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us, And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
ref: 1933, Irving Berlin, Easter Parade:
text: On the desk before her lay the rotogravure section of the Sunday Chronicle.
ref: 1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Book 2: Chapter 5, page 248:
glosses: A portion of a printed work produced by this method.
Related terms: gravure
permissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more permissive
form: most permissive
Etymology: From French permissif.
Senses: examples: text: "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:
glosses: Giving permission, or predisposed to give it; lenient.
qualifier: bridleway or similar
glosses: Open to the public by permission of the landowner.
raw_tags: of a footpath
topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: nonpermissive
glosses: That allows the replication of viruses.
Derived terms: hyperpermissive
impermissive
nonpermissive
overpermissive
permissive-action link
permissively
permissive mood
permissiveness
permissive parent
permissive parenting
permissive waste
permissive working
permissivism
permissivist
permissivity
semipermissive
unpermissive
permissive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permissives
Etymology: From French permissif.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical form indicating that an action is permitted by the speaker.
predisposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more predisposed
form: most predisposed
Etymology: From pre- + disposed.
Senses: glosses: Inclined.
examples: text: Not only for the adult excluded from work because of his infirmity, but also for the child excluded from the school because of its being tuberculous or predisposed must suitable provision for its cure and education be provided in preventorial and open air schools, the value of which has already been emphasized.
ref: 1907, Nova Scotia. Dept, “Report”, in Public Health, page 35:
glosses: Made susceptible to.
predisposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pre- + disposed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predispose
wakey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.ki/
ipa: /ˈwæɪ.ki/
rhymes: -eɪki
Etymology: From wake + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war[…]
ref: 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane:
text: Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).
ref: 2010, Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War, page 542:
text: When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.
ref: 2011, Richard "Barney" Bigwood, We Were Reos: Australian Infantry Reinforcements in VIETNAM (page 47)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
wakey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.ki/
ipa: /ˈwæɪ.ki/
rhymes: -eɪki
Etymology: From wake + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: examples: text: “Wakey Brother Monster,” he said to Rose as he spread his replacement piece of toast.
ref: 2016, W S Markendale, Owen Pendragon: Guild of the Round Table:
text: 'Come on now, wakey!' called Diane, who was already up and dashing round the room.
ref: 2021, Margaret Thornton, Cast the First Stone:
synonyms: wakey wakey
glosses: Used to encourage someone to wake up.
erotology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eroto- + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 104:
glosses: The study of sexual stimuli and behaviour.
Derived terms: erotologist
Related terms: erotic
bodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Asparagus beans.
sistren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sistern
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Analysable as sister + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: My wyfe to have my dwelling house during her widowhood, that is to say, the hall, the parlor, and the small seller: to my sistren Catheryn and Ellen Tyrry their grinding in my myll during their lives, paying noo toll nor multhe money.
ref: 1570 March 13, Will of David Tyrry Fitz Edmonde:
text: 2003 April 16 (airdate). Angel (TV series), episode "The Magic Bullet"
LORNE: Blessings and moon pies, brethren and sistren!
text: I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom.
ref: 2010 April 26, “The Calm Before the Storms”, in Neo-Neocom, retrieved 14 Mar 2012:
text: Among my brethren and sistren in incubation I count the folks working at places like idealab, betaworks, alleycorp, as well as certain current and former university venture lab specialists I hold in high esteem.
ref: 2011 February 17, Dave Lerner, “I Am Incubator”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 14 Mar 2012:
glosses: plural of sister
sistren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sistern
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Analysable as sister + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: […] teachers, parents, and above all his classmates the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority.
ref: 1997, Enrico Brizzi, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band:
glosses: The (female) body of members, especially of a sorority or religious order.
Coordinate terms: brethren
sistren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sistrens
form: sistern
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Analysable as sister + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: Come out of the dark and come into the light, sistren.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 157:
glosses: A close female friend, family member, or comrade.
Coordinate terms: bredrin
Bernhard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bernhardian
bernard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bernards
Senses: glosses: Shortened form of Saint Bernard (the dog).
anormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anormal
form: most anormal
Etymology: From Middle French anormal and probably also partly Latin anōrmālis, equivalent to a- + normal.
Senses: glosses: Not according to normality; abnormal.
dum dum bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dum dum bullets
form: dum-dum bullet
form: Dum-Dum bullet
form: Dum Dum bullet
Senses: synonyms: dum dum#Etymology_1
glosses: Hollow-point bullet designed to expand on impact.
anti-homosexualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + homosexualism.
Senses: examples: text: I write 'homosexuality ' with some trepidation, since anti-homosexualism is a prejudice as discreditable as anti-semitism; and I am not the late Roy Campbell. Recent legislation, though, makes a difference, lightening matters for critics, and biographers as well. If a heterosexual subject went markedly after women, his biographer will usually say so. It may be relevant; and It may be no less relevant if a subject of a different constitution went 'markedly after men.
ref: 1967, The Listener:
text: Such terrors about people with aids are only a blurred line away from anti-homosexualism. Violence against homosexuals has risen.
ref: 1990, The Economist:
text: [R]ealize that racism, sexism, and anti-homosexual attitudes and actions are not simply problems for those on the receiving end but problems for everyone. Racism is not only a black problem, it is also a white problem with consequences for the entire society. Sexism is not only a women's problem, but a men's problem as well, with consequences for the entire society. Anti-homosexualism likewise is not simply a gay and lesbian problem, but a problem for the entire society.
ref: 1999, Edward E. Sampson, Dealing with Differences: An Introduction to the Social Psychology of Prejudice (Harcourt College Pub)
glosses: Homophobia; prejudice against homosexual (gay) people.
head-up display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-up displays
form: heads-up display
Senses: synonyms: HUD
glosses: A semitransparent graphical and textual display of information projected upon the field of view of a pilot of an aircraft.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of radar or electronic chart display where the top of the display always represents the direction the vessel is heading.
topics: video-games
glosses: A display of score, status, etc. superimposed over the playfield.
boondoggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boondoggle
paraquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraquats
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous yellow herbicide derived from bipyridine
commensurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commensurable
form: most commensurable
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Latin commensurabilis (“having a common measure”) in 1550s, from Latin com- (“with”) + mensurabilis (“measurable”). Equivalent to com- + mensurable.
Senses: examples: text: A yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches.
glosses: Able to be measured using a common standard.
glosses: Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate.
examples: text: The numbers 12 and 18 are commensurable, as both are divisible by 6, while 12 and 19 are incommensurable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of two or more numbers) Divisible by the same number ᵂᴾ
Derived terms: commensurableness
commensurably
noncommensurable
uncommensurable
combe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞om
ipa: /kuːm/
homophone: coom
homophone: cwm
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: combes
form: comb
form: coomb
form: coombe
Etymology: From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”).
Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.
Senses: examples: text: its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
ref: 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
text: gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
ref: 1805, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
text: You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 264-265:
glosses: A valley, often wooded and often with no river
glosses: A cirque.
Derived terms: Comberow
Comstock
coombe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coombes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of combe.
plamasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plamassers
Senses: examples: text: Pat just frowned, thinking there was no better plamasser than Franky when he was up to no good.
ref: 2000 October 5, Catherine, “Why did the Rabbit keep the bribe... for a bit?”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):
text: To that I would add that he has a robust Ulsterman's detestation both of plamas and of plamassers.
ref: 2000 February 15, Philip J. Gormley, “High Court Inspector's Fees”, in Irish Times:
text: It’s the bull-shitters and plamassers, the ones who habitually make promises that are not theirs to make.
ref: 2013 October 17, Suzanne Rhatigan, “10. Loser – 11. Wish You Well”, in FIFTY (Greatest Misses):
glosses: A person who convinces another to do something by means of sweet talk and flattery.
lagering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The stage in the manufacture of a lager beer when it is stored at a low temperature for maturing and clarification
lagering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lager
assumed name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assumed names
Senses: glosses: An alias, especially one adopted in order to deceive others.
Ullans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʌlənz/
Etymology: From Scots Ullans, or an acronym of "Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech".
Senses: examples: text: The Northern song repertoire include those from Scotland which include some Scottish texts, those written in Ulster including some of the Ullans language, the religious Presbyterian songs sung in the Ullans language, and songs sung in Ulster English.
ref: 2016, Susan H. Motherway, The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance, page 73:
glosses: A variety of the Scots language spoken in Northern Ireland (Ulster).
Synonyms: Ulster Scots
chlorinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorinities
Etymology: From chlorine + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A quantitative measure of the amount of chlorine and other halides in water, especially in seawater
Related terms: chlorosity
chlorosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorosities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amount of chlorine and other halides in one litre of seawater
Related terms: chlorinity
JO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of jerk off.
glosses: Initialism of job order.
glosses: A job order employee.
glosses: Initialism of job offer.
coordinate_terms: JO1
JO2
glosses: Abbreviation of jail officer.
coordinate_terms: JO1
JO2
glosses: Abbreviation of junior officer.
bodhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊdi/
ipa: /ˈbɒdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: bodhis
form: bodai
Etymology: From Sanskrit बोधि (bodhi). Doublet of synonymous bodai, which came via Japanese.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The state of enlightenment that finally ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana.
Derived terms: bodhi tree
Related terms: bodhisattva
bodhi tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodhi trees
Senses: glosses: The Indian fig tree, sacred fig, Ficus religiosa, that is sacred to Buddhism.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The specific fig tree under which the Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment; the descendant of that tree on the same spot at Bodh Gaya.
Hypernyms: tree
above the fold
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: Situated in the upper half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, and thus more prominent, as the lower half is not usually visible when the folded newspaper is displayed for sale.
qualifier: web and application design
glosses: By extension, situated near the top of a web page or application screen; not requiring scrolling. See above the scroll.
glosses: Occupying an exclusive position of relative prominence
Synonyms: sense: near the top of a web page or application screen
word: above the scroll
acid jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Humorously coined by DJ Gilles Peterson after blending jazz records with acid house in 1988.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A genre of popular music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco.
wikipedia: Gilles Peterson
zero-emission vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-emission vehicles
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that does not emit exhaust gas or other pollutants from the onboard source of power.
Related terms: low-emission
photochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.
ref: 2007, Robert B. Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN:
text: Between 1826 and 1837, Nicéphore Niépce, credited with taking the first successful photograph, in 1827, and Louis Daguerre, the most famous photographic innovator of his day, found that silver iodide was especially light sensitive, and they used this discovery as the basis for their early work, which even then had begun to gain international notice. By 1842, others found that when sunlight hit a gelatin emulsion containing silver iodide, soon to be called a daguerreotype plate, it induced a photochemical reaction. Practical photography was born.
ref: 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: thermochemical
glosses: Of, relating to, or produced by photochemistry or by photochemical reactions.
Derived terms: nonphotochemical
photochemical logic gate
photochemically
photochemical oxidant
photochemical reaction
photochemical reduction
photochemical smog
photochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochemicals
Etymology: From photo- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: […] Kodak's production of photochemicals, and Sheppard worked out a method of suspending pulverized coal in fuel oil for use in U.S. Navy ships. By the spring of 1918 Sheppard had developed a collodial mixture containing chemical […]
ref: 1990, Douglas Collins, The Story of Kodak, Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Troubleshooting emulsion artifacts: Many problems will be averted by consulting Kodak materials and Reference 4 before the first experiment. Because nuclear track emulsions are very sensitive to chemical contaminants, especially metals and photochemicals, Kodak recommends three controls for every experiment: blank, charged slides (no tissue), charged slides with unlabeled tissues (not hybridized), and charged slides with hybridized (radioactive) tissue sections.
ref: 2000, John P. Sundberg, Dawnalyn Boggess, editors, Systematic Approach to Evaluation of Mouse Mutations (Research Methods For Mutant Mice), CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Any chemical compound (such as silver halides) used in photography.