cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cicatrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cicatrizes
form: cicatrizing
form: cicatrized
form: cicatrized
form: cicatrise
Etymology: From cicatrix + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming cicatrized.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 14, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126:
glosses: To form a scar.
examples: text: The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound.
ref: 1923, Edward Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:
glosses: To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
Derived terms: uncicatrized
Sampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Sampa.
Senses: examples: text: This is Sampa my friend; anything can happen.
glosses: a nickname for the city of São Paulo.
TPH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tph
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of trains per hour.
tph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Transport for London is working to increase capacity on the East London line stretch of London Overground. Work is underway to increase frequencies from the current 16 trains per hour (tph) to 18tph, with new funding now announced to further improve this to 20tph in the future.
ref: 2019 September 5, “Funding for 20tph East London line service”, in Modern Railways, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2019:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TPH (“trains per hour”).
hoshin kanri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese: 方針管理 (hōshin kanri); composed of 方針 (hōshin), "plan"/"policy" + 管理 (kanri), "management".
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A system of management planning developed in Japan; strategic management.
variety store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variety stores
Senses: examples: text: […] the enduring old variety store that sells out-of-town newspapers, warm unshelled peanuts, and dirty magazines for queers as well as straights.
ref: 1981, John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich:
synonyms: word: dollar store
word: dime store
word: five-and-dime
word: ten-cent store
word: pound shop
word: $2 shop
glosses: A shop where many small and inexpensive items can be bought.
plodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plod
plodding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plodding
form: most plodding
Senses: glosses: Progressing slowly and laboriously.
Derived terms: ploddingly
ploddingness
unplodding
plodding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploddings
Senses: examples: text: I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.
ref: 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
glosses: Slow, laborious progress.
maggots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡəts/
Senses: glosses: plural of maggot
maggots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡəts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maggot
plowshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowshares
Etymology: From plow + share.
Senses: examples: text: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 2:4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ploughshare.
incites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incite
pruninghooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pruninghook
supped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sup
slumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slumber
slumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.
text: Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Temporarily inactive.
slumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumberings
Senses: examples: text: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 33:15:
glosses: sleep
haunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haunch
grubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌbz/
rhymes: -ʌbz
Senses: glosses: plural of grub
grubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌbz/
rhymes: -ʌbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grub
crystallized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having definitive and fixed form, solidified.
glosses: being crystalline, in the form of crystals.
glosses: to give something a definite or precise form.
Derived terms: crystallized fruit
noncrystallized
semicrystallized
crystallized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crystallize
mee
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /miː/
ipa: /mi/
homophone: me
homophone: Me
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
Senses: examples: text: Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, scene vii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of me.
examples: text: Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book LXIX”, 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, lines 236-238:
glosses: obsolete emphatic of me
mee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miː/
ipa: /mi/
homophone: me
homophone: Me
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: mees
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).
Senses: examples: text: He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: bee hoon
kway teow
lamian
mai fun
mee hoon
mee sua
mei fun
ramen#Noun
glosses: Chinese-style wheat noodles.
examples: text: curry mee    prawn mee soup
text: We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.
ref: 1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107:
text: Hokkien Prawn Mee – Pork and prawns in yellow noodles. […] Mushroom Mee – Noodles with Chinese mushrooms, minced pork and green vegetables.
ref: 1992, Hugo Dunn-Meynell, “Singapore Street Food”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, London: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Penang-style prawn mee is spicier and is usually served with more pork than Singapore-style prawn mee. Like Singapore-style prawn mee, the Hokkien mee in this recipe can be combined with fine rice vermicelli.
ref: 2007, Lee Geok Boi, “Wheat Noodles in Soup and Gravy”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Classic Asian Noodles, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Braised. Thick. Heavy. These are the key words people associate with lor mee, and it's all true! And it's so dam shiok! If you're a fan of braised dishes with that dark gooey sauce, you'll love this lor mee recipe.
ref: 2016, “Noodles and Rice”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Meatmen Cooking Channel Hawker Favourites: Popular Singaporean Street Foods, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 38:
text: My former student's kouyteav sachko (mee Champa) is not just any other mee soup. In it is one person's constant reminder of his/her identity heightened in its unique ingredients, taste and flavour and presented vis-a-vis other types of mee soup available in restaurants, kopitiams, hawkers' stalls or at home.
ref: 2023 May 21, Linda Lumayag, “Our identity is reflected in our food”, in The Sun, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Sun Media Corporation, →OCLC:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
Derived terms: Hokkien mee
Maggi mee
Related terms: mee chiang kueh
mee goreng
mee hoon
mee kia
mee krob
mee pok
mee rebus
mee siam
mee sua
mee tai mak
confusticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈfʌstəkeɪt/
Forms: form: confusticates
form: confusticating
form: confusticated
form: confusticated
Etymology: Fantastic alteration of confound or confuse.
Senses: examples: text: Massa Clifford’s eye sezs, plain as eber eye did, dat de niggers dat ’specs to confusticate him, mus’ be smarter dan eber yer was, or will be ter de fift’ generation.
ref: 1852, Charles Jacobs Peterson, The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters, T. B. Peterson, page 76:
text: I had to come and go,
Receive with pomp and show
From nations, deputations,
Which confusticate one so !
ref: 1868, W. S. Gilbert, “Ruy Blas”, in Tom Hood, editor, The 5 Alls: A Collection of Stories, page 53:
text: ‘Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!’ he said aloud.
ref: 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, chapter 1:
text: it is bound to make of medical malpractice trials veritable wars of even more lengthy attrition; with each side employing such a published congeries of conflicting medical views as would thoroughly confusticate any jury...
ref: 1973, Rules of Evidence [unintelligible], Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, [unintelligible] Special Subcommittee on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 12
text: well it sorta isn't YOU, it is rather you quoting me and him quoting you quoting me see how many little greater than signs there are? But it doesn't work if what comes after *my* line is his line and not yours, easy to get confusticated eh?
ref: 1993 February 16, Jessica L. Babylon, “Re: Jessica wins new title: NET.TRAMP”, in alt.personals (Usenet), message-ID <1993Feb16.093030.11303@oz.plymouth.edu>:
text: He tapped the side of his pack: on it was written: CHARMED, ENCHANTED, ENSORCELLED AND CONFUSTICATED. 'I used to be confusticated,' he confided, 'but you know how these things go.'
ref: 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 71:
text: The shoulder-Satan whispered into Fred’s ear, “How many chances do you get to confusticate Satan himself?”
ref: 2001, Peter J. Dabbene, Mister Dreyfus' Demons, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: To confuse, confound, or perplex.
Synonyms: confuscate
Related terms: confustication
fedi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mastodon refers to this setup as a "federated" one. They're also part of the "fediverse," or "fedi" for short — which simply means the sum of all servers.
ref: [2022 November 11, Sophie Kiderlin, “Musk's Twitter takeover sent thousands flocking to Mastodon. Here's what I discovered using the app”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2022:
text: Much of this is my opinion, based on my personal observations and experiences as someone who's been all-in on fedi since November and has been on it since April 2022, starting off on Mastodon.social and moving to my own instance in November.
ref: 2023 July 29, Mark Bayliss, “Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn't quite pan out”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023:
text: "Frankly supporting meta, twitter or google joining the fediverse at this point is so completely against the entire point of the fedi that I won't even bother entering this discussion," writes one Reddit user on a discussion of Mosseri's post. "We ended up on the fedi trying to escape these companies in the first place."
ref: 2023 July 6, Paolo Confino, “Mark Zuckerberg is replacing the metaverse with his 'Twitter killer' Threads and a new dream: The 'fediverse.' Here's what that is”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fedi.
jam session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jam sessions
Senses: examples: text: There were some prerehearsals in small groups, but more often they were put together on the spot or just minutes prior to the practice jam sessions.
ref: 2016, C. Victor Fung, Lisa J. Lehmberg, Music for Life, page 170:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: word: hootenanny
english: folk music
translation: folk music
glosses: An informal gathering of musicians to play music, especially improvised jazz or a similar genre.
Related terms: jam
jam band
jamming
jam out
jam sesh
alum rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mineral alunite.
Central Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəl ˈjʊəɹəp/
ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəl ˈjʊɹəp/
Senses: examples: text: Western Christendom's centuries-long confrontation with the Oriental and Islamic empire of the Ottoman Turks also helped define Central Europe as a cultural and historical region.
ref: 1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 4:
glosses: A geographic region in the center of Europe, usually including Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Germany.
Coordinate terms: word: Eastern Europe
Derived terms: Central Europe Time
Central European
Related terms: East-Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
alunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alunites
Etymology: From its earlier name aluminilite, given in 1824.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gray whitish, water-soluble mineral, potassium aluminium sulphate; the natural source of alum, KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.
Synonyms: alum stone
Derived terms: ammonioalunite
natroalunite
demeanour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demeanours
Senses: examples: text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: At Paisley, a station staff member politely but firmly asks why RAIL is taking so many photographs. The reply - that it's a magnificent station worthy of pictures - changes his demeanour and he's then very apologetic and says he "has to ask".
ref: 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 43:
glosses: UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Commonwealth spelling of demeanor.
go to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to
form: going to
form: went to
form: gone to
Senses: examples: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.
examples: text: We went to a concert for my birthday.
glosses: To attend an event or a sight.
examples: text: He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.
glosses: To attend classes at a school as a student.
examples: text: The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
glosses: To tend to support.
examples: text: Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges VII:3:
glosses: To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
examples: text: Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.
ref: c. 1588, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene I:
text: Benedict the Jew in vain pleaded parchments; his usuries were too many. The King said, “Go to, for all thy parchments, thou shalt pay just debt; down with thy dust, or observe this tooth-forceps!”
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: ‘Go to! — you’re dreaming, man! — there’s no one here.’
‘Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Used imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".
go to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go tos
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The branching construct GOTO.
Related terms: going to
go to bed
accident waiting to happen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accidents waiting to happen
Etymology: Attested 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: Someone needs to repair that worn-out old bridge. It's an accident waiting to happen!
text: Maguire looked totally devoid of confidence, a lost soul and an accident waiting to happen, which it eventually did.
ref: 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A thing or situation which is almost certain to eventually lead to an accident.
Derived terms: disaster waiting to happen
waiting to happen
Related terms: court disaster
-in-waiting
time bomb
trainwreck in slow motion
angel's advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel's advocates
form: angels' advocates
Senses: glosses: Someone who sees what is good about an idea and supports it.
aromatic vegetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromatic vegetables
Senses: glosses: Any vegetable used as a flavor base for cooking, usually by sweating or sautéeing. Carrots, onions, garlic, peppers, and celery are often used for this purpose.
babymoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.biˌmuːn/
Forms: form: babymoons
Etymology: Blend of baby + honeymoon.
Senses: examples: text: You and your partner should by now have agreed on your ideal babymoon together, so how it looks will be unique to you. If you already have children, you can involve them in the planning, perhaps with some special babymoon treats organised just for them: friends or relatives taking them out for the day for a special excursion, for example.
ref: 2010, Caroline Deacon, The Babymoon Experience, unnumbered page:
text: However, these outsiders spot the first signs of trouble when the babymoon refuses to wane, as they recognize this as an indication that weaning has not yet begun.
ref: 2014, Iniobong Obong, From Paralympics to Olympics Glory, page 20:
glosses: A period of calm spent together by a newborn baby and its parents.
examples: text: The trendiest new trend among young expectants is to go on a “babymoon.” You know, like a honeymoon except the woman is fatter, and there's not as much action.
ref: 2007, Linda Oatman-High, The Hip Grandma's Handbook, page 8:
text: Humidity and flying will worsen your sausage-like legs, so a trip to the Caribbean rain forest is not an ideal babymoon destination.
ref: 2014, Jill Hoefs, Denise Jagroo, Your Best Pregnancy, page 84:
glosses: A last vacation taken by expectant parents before a baby is born.
babymoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.biˌmuːn/
Forms: form: babymoons
form: babymooning
form: babymooned
form: babymooned
Etymology: Blend of baby + honeymoon.
Senses: glosses: To travel on or spend a babymoon.
bobtailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bobtail
brickmould
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickmoulds
Etymology: From brick + mould.
Senses: glosses: A decorative trim used around exterior doors and windows.
bubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bubbers
Etymology: From Old English.
Senses: glosses: A person who steals plate from public houses.
glosses: A drinking bowl.
glosses: A person who drinks a lot of alcohol.
bye-blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-blows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of by-blow.
cattle call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle calls
Senses: examples: text: The other extreme is a cattle call audition, when dozens or even hundreds of performers are auditioned in groups, only getting a chance to speak a few lines, sing a few bars, or dance a few steps.
ref: 2016, Thomas S. Hischak, Theatre as Human Action, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 108:
text: And to what extent is there a world beyond it? Is there going to be a moment where populism needs a new leader and you’re back to that cattle call in New Hampshire looking at different opportunities?
ref: 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.
Related terms: casting call
dead-in-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That has partially developed but died without hatching.
raw_tags: of the embryo in an egg
dudeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːˈdiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: dudeens
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish dúidín.
Senses: examples: text: He usually had in his mouth a short dudeen; but in an evil moment he put the dudeen, lighted, in the pocket among the powder.
ref: 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21:
text: And I marches him back with me all serene,
With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.
ref: 1916, Robert William Service, “The Black Dudeen”, in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136:
text: From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.
ref: 2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80:
glosses: A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
English strong ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English strong ales
Senses: glosses: An ale brewed to over 5% ABV that uses malt barley. It is brewed in England and also in America.
frontin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fronting; present participle of front
gametophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gameto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: One phobia they don't have is gametophobia (marriage). No living-in-sin for them, only licit thrills.
ref: 1998, Rose Dorrance Beser, Why Some People Act So Stupid and What You Can Do About It, Dewey Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:
text: No, but supposedly i have gametophobia
ref: 2005 May 14, ChicKita [username], “Re: Are you paraskevidekatriaphobic?”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet):
text: The Houston vet returns to the game to confess that he suffers from gametophobia, the fear of marriage.
ref: 2008 February, Spin, page 30:
glosses: The fear of marriage.
Synonyms: gamophobia
high end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high end
form: most high end
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high-end (“the best and generally most expensive of a class”).
inside lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside lags
Senses: topics: banking
business
economics
sciences
glosses: The amount of time it takes for the government or the central bank to respond to a shock in the economy.
Related terms: outside lag
M-business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for mobile business.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The practice of running business transactions and applications on mobile devices.
MTPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of motor third party liability: a kind of vehicle insurance.
N-facility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-facilities
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: In the Open Systems Interconnection-Reference Model (OSI-RM), the transfer of data from one layer (N) to the next higher layer (N+1).
nucleomituphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These last few weeks I have been experiening^([sic]) nucleomituphobia. I am truly afraid for the future of the world.
ref: 2003 August 7, Sarton Dragonbane [username], “Telus downtime?”, in calgary.general (Usenet):
text: There are probably plenty out there, for instance, who suffer from nucleomituphobia, the abnormal fear or hatred of nuclear weapons.
ref: 2008 January 10, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in Daily Mail:
text: Israel should also be invited to the negotiation table otherwise the nucleomituphobia will remain so forever.
ref: 2012, J. Jeganaathan, “Iran and the Nuclear Conundrum: A War in Waiting?”, in Nuclear South Asia, July-September/October-December 2012, page 16:
glosses: Misspelling of nucleomitophobia (“fear of nuclear weapons”).
old bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old beans
Etymology: Possibly from playful mid-word substitution of "boy" in "old boy"
Senses: examples: text: […] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]
ref: 1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238:
text: When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, vi. §4:
glosses: An old friend; an old chap or fellow.
Related terms: old boy
old chap
overbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbuilders
Etymology: From overbuild + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or organization that overbuilds.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A company that uses or builds on an existing telecommunications operator’s network (which includes telco and cable networks). These are often associated with advanced fiber-optic networks.
picket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: pickets
Etymology: From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Senses: examples: text: a picket fence
glosses: A stake driven into the ground.
glosses: A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
glosses: A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
examples: text: So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 59:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
examples: text: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: A sentry.
examples: text: Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The card game piquet.
Derived terms: counterpicket
flying picket
outpicket
picketable
picket boat
picket bullet
picketee
picketer
picket fence
picket-house
picket house
picketless
picket line
picketmate
picket pin
picket rope
screw picket
star picket
white picket fence
picket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: pickets
form: picketing
form: picketting
form: picketed
form: picketed
form: picketted
form: picketted
Etymology: From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Senses: glosses: To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
examples: text: One of the most striking was the silver pin presented to all members of the National Women’s Party who served time for picketting the White House for women’s suffrage.
ref: 2003, Christopher Fowler, “Hop”, in Demonized: Short Stories, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2004, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
examples: text: to picket a horse
text: [T]he Moors kept a good Guard all Night, and did not unſaddle their Horſes, but picketted them before the Tent-Doors; […]
ref: 1729, [John] Braithwaite, The History of the Revolutions in the Empire of Morocco, upon the Death of the Late Emperor Muley Ishmael; […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […], →OCLC, page 127:
text: [F]rom the outskirts of the fair, where are picketted the horses and the herds for sale, comes the tinkle of bells, a mule’s shrill scream, mingled with the music of a guitar or the rattle of castanets.
ref: 1876, Arthur Griffiths, “San Roque Fair”, in Lola: A Tale of the Rock. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
glosses: To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
glosses: To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Derived terms: word: picketing
word: unpicketed
plankboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plankboards
Etymology: From plank + board.
Senses: glosses: A flat piece of wood; a plank or board.
reception desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reception desks
Senses: glosses: A designated area, typically situated near the entrance of a building such as an office, hotel, hospital or other public establishment, where visitors are greeted and assisted.
reclama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclamas
Senses: examples: text: Subject: DAWN Cancellation Reclama
ref: 2006. Rex Geveden. Written NASA memo
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A request made to the authority to reconsider its decision or action. It is normally sent through official channels, i.e. through the chain of command.
reclama
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclamas
form: reclamaing
form: reclamaed
form: reclamaed
Senses: glosses: To request that a decision be reconsidered.
sanctimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæŋk.tɪ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈsæŋk.tɪˌməʊ.ni/
ipa: /ˈsæŋk.tɪˌmoʊ.ni/
ipa: /ˈsæŋk.təˌmoʊ.ni/
Forms: form: sanctimonies
Etymology: From Middle French sanctimonie, from Latin sānctimōnia (“sanctity, sacredness; purity, chastity”), from sanctus (“holy”) + -monia (“action or result of an action”).
Senses: glosses: A hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show.
examples: text: At its best[…] “The Newsroom” has a wit, sophistication and manic energy that recalls James L. Brooks’s classic movie “Broadcast News.” But at its worst, the show chokes on its own sanctimony.
ref: 2012 June 21, Alessandra Stanley, “So Sayeth the Anchorman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: much older meaning: a state of holiness
Related terms: sanctimonious
sanctimoniousness
self-righteous
phony
holier-than-thou
virtue signalling
sanitation engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study, design, construction and operation of landfills.
scanability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scannability.
schizotrichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Comes from the Greek root schizo (divided or division) and trich or thrix (hair).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: trichoptilosis
glosses: Splitting of hairs at the ends; often called split ends.
scotomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scotomizations
Etymology: The word was borrowed from the word scotoma (blind spot) by psychiatrists in the 1920s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
Related terms: scotomize
shock mount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock mounts
Senses: glosses: A particular type of microphone mount in which the microphone is suspended by elastic, and so is partially isolated from vibrations that might otherwise be better transmitted to the microphone through the mic stand, causing unwanted sounds to be added to the output signal.
still wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: still wines
Senses: glosses: A type of table wine, produced by a method of vinification that leaves it free from carbon dioxide and therefore not sparkling or effervescent.
Related terms: still water
stringify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪŋɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: stringifies
form: stringifying
form: stringified
form: stringified
Etymology: From string + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: To find the first digit in a positive number, stringify it and take the first character.
text: For example, when you stringify a data type (turn the data type into its string representation), the technique differs based on data type. For example, when you want to stringify an int, you might use the following template: […]
ref: 2009, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 662:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To convert to a textual representation.
Synonyms: serialize
Related terms: stringification
stringize
stringly-typed
whorl foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorl feet
Senses: examples: text: A French design, the whorl foot was first seen on furniture in the mid-18th century.
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A foot that takes the form of a scroll at the end that rests on a shoe.
Synonyms: scroll foot
winter warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter warmers
Senses: glosses: A traditional English strong ale that is brewed in the winter months. It is usually quite dark, but not as dark as a stout, and may be spiced.
examples: text: This vegetable soup is a great winter warmer.
glosses: Any food or drink that gives a feeling of warmth in the winter months.
xenolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzinoʊˈleɪliə/
ipa: /ˌzɛnoʊˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From xeno- + -lalia.
Senses: glosses: The ability to speak in a language which the individual has not learned.
Related terms: xenography
riverbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪv.əˌbæŋk/
ipa: /ˈɹɪv.ɚˌbæŋk/
Forms: form: riverbanks
Etymology: From river + bank.
Senses: examples: text: "The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 8, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
Related terms: creekside
riverside
collapsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collapsible
form: most collapsible
form: collapsable
Etymology: From collapse + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: collapsible shovel
glosses: Designed to be collapsed, especially so as to be more compact when not in use.
Derived terms: collapsibility
noncollapsible
uncollapsible
Related terms: folding
foldup
telescopable
telescoping
mobile
portable
collapsible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collapsibles
form: collapsable
Etymology: From collapse + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Some umbrellas can be unfolded manually, while the others can spring open automatically. Umbrellas are genuine collapsibles.
ref: 2017, Bipin Kumar, Suman Thakur, Textiles for Advanced Applications, page 64:
glosses: Any object that can be collapsed to save space.
glosses: Any object that can be collapsed to save space.
A kind of boat that can be collapsed for greater portability.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any object that can be collapsed to save space.
A display element that can be collapsed to hide it from view.
NLEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NLECs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of no longer enemy combatant.
et alios
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛt ˈɑːliɒs/
Etymology: From Latin et (“and”) + alios (“others”).
Senses: glosses: And others; used of people, unless exclusively of female gender
Synonyms: sense: and others
word: et al
Related terms: inter alios
et alia
et aliae
et alii
et alibi
et alia
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin et (“and”) + alia (“others”).
Senses: glosses: And others; used of things; neuter plural
Synonyms: sense: and others
word: et al.
Related terms: et alii
et aliae
et alios
et alibi
et aliae
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin et (“and”) + aliae (“others”).
Senses: glosses: And others; used of females; feminine plural.
Synonyms: sense: and others
word: et al.
Related terms: et alii
et alia
et alios
et alibi
et alibi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: et al.
Etymology: From Latin et (“and”) + alibi (“elsewhere”).
Senses: glosses: and elsewhere; used to terminate lists of passages in a text
Related terms: et alii
et alia
et aliae
et alios
et seq.
et alii
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin et alii (“and others”).
Senses: glosses: And others; used of males, or groups of mixed gender; masculine plural
Synonyms: & al.
et al
et al.
Coordinate terms: et alia
et aliae
et alios
Related terms: &c
&c.
et alibi
et cetera
Ors
hawkeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawkeyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hawk-eye.
single-phasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From single-phase.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The abnormal operation of a three-phase machine when its supply is changed by the accidental opening of one conductor.
single-phasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From single-phase.
Senses: examples: text: That drill-press sounds like it is single-phasing - and look at the smoke coming from the motor!
glosses: present participle and gerund of single-phase
Related terms: single-phased
Alexis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛks.ɪs/
rhymes: -ɛksɪs
Forms: form: Alexises
Etymology: From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).
Senses: examples: text: To the maid of his choice, / With a heart palpitating, / Comes Alexis the brave.
ref: 1877 W. S. Gilbert - Arthur Sullivan, The Sorcerer, Act I
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
examples: text: He wondered how parents who had named their daughter Alexis could possibly have known she'd turn out to be such a beauty.
ref: 1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin, published 1991, →ISBN, page 120:
text: "It's almost too realistic, too digital and computery," complains Alexis Vogel, a veteran celebrity makeup artist who recently worked on "Stacked," a high-def show starring Pamela Anderson.
ref: 2005 June 12, Clive Thompson, “Not Ready for Their Close-Up”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2021:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
Anton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antons
Etymology: Borrowed from German Anton and from other northern European languages. Doublet of Anthony.
Senses: examples: text: 'As far as I'm concerned, he's Benjamin Rigby,' said Kit, after the first time we met him. 'He seems like a decent baby and he deserves a decent name. Not that his father's got one, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.' Kit thinks it's only acceptable to 'go around calling yourself Anton', as he puts it, if you're Spanish, Mexican or Colombian, or if you're a hairdresser or a professional ice-skater.
ref: 2011, Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Анто́н (Antón).
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Colorado.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Hockley County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A river in Hampshire, England, a tributary of the River Test.
glosses: A village and municipality in Sofia province, Bulgaria.
Derived terms: Ruzicka Goerz Anton syndrome
againe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: What, ha's this thing appeard againe to night?
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 I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of again.
Chopin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃoʊˈpæn/
Forms: form: Chopins
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chopin: see there for more.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Frédéric Chopin, a Polish-born classical composer.
Derived terms: Chopinian
chopin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopins
Etymology: Variant of chopine, borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -in.
Senses: examples: text: I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
ref: 1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J. Traill and G. Crawford, […]; and by J. Barry […], →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: A liquid unit of measure of almost half a pint.
Waverley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English wǣfre (“restless, wavering”) + lēah (“meadow”), thus "the woodland clearing with swaying trees".
Senses: glosses: A very rare Scottish surname of unknown origin.
examples: text: Waverley has plenty of eateries scattered around its 21 platforms, giving opportunities to stock up during our 20-minute connection period.
ref: 2025 March 19, “Investment pays off in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 56:
glosses: The main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT258738).
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
An eastern suburb and local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A rural locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A suburb of the city of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A ghost town in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A town in south Taranaki, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A local government district with borough status in southern Surrey, England.
glosses: Any of several placenames in several countries:
A community and civil parish with a community council in Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4187).
Derived terms: Glen Waverley
Waverleyan
Related terms: Waverly
sillcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillcocks
Etymology: From sill + cock.
Senses: glosses: A faucet designed to be installed horizontally on the outside wall of a building, typically to attach a hose.
Synonyms: word: bibb
word: bibcock
word: spigot
Hypernyms: cock
Coordinate terms: petcock
seacock
stopcock