cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
auteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈtɝ/
ipa: /ɔːˈtɜː/
ipa: /əʊˈtɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: hauteur
Forms: form: auteurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author.
Senses: examples: text: The libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe.
ref: 1974 February 11, William Bender, “Call to vespers”, in Time:
text: Since Mr Luhrmann first tackled the opera, he has entered the select circle of celebrity directors on the basis of only three films, including “Moulin Rouge”. And his “La Bohème”—designed by Mrs Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, a double Oscar-winner for “Moulin Rouge”—is avowedly the work of an auteur.
ref: 2003 April 24, “Broadway is bigger than ever”, in The Economist:
text: Ginette Vincendeau describes the cinéma du look as a typical example of ‘mainstream co-optation’ of ‘avant-garde, artisanal, or auteur’ cinema (1996: 14).
ref: 2008, Rosanna Maule, Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: If a widely respected auteur such as Martin Scorsese, Allen or Malick has given you the stamp of approval, you might not live fast or die young, but you'll leave a good-looking legacy.
ref: 2011 June 23, Jane Graham, “Terrence Malick to Woody Allen – the directors actors will kill to work for”, in The Guardian:
text: The cult of the auteur has weakened, as symbolised by the reconsideration of rock star Bertrand Cantat, frontman of the band Noir Désir, who was convicted in 2004 of beating his girlfriend to death.
ref: 2025 May 10, Leila Abboud, “France awaits Depardieu verdict that will define state of MeToo movement”, in FT Weekend, page 3:
text: That all of these screen luminaries apparently just popped to Anderson’s set for a day to film a tiny scene is indicative of where the auteur stands at this point in his 31-year career.
ref: 2025 May 29, Alissa Wilkinson, “‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Benicio Del Toro Plans to Save His Soul”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: At the same time, the round-faced, soft-spoken Mr. Wilson — who didn’t surf — became one of pop’s most gifted and idiosyncratic studio auteurs, crafting complex and innovative productions that awed his peers.
ref: 2025 June 11, Ben Sisario, “Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works.
Derived terms: auteurial
auteurism
auteurist
auteurship
auteur theory
Related terms: author
auteur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈtɝ/
ipa: /ɔːˈtɜː/
ipa: /əʊˈtɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: hauteur
Forms: form: auteurs
form: auteuring
form: auteured
form: auteured
Etymology: Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author.
Senses: glosses: To work as an auteur.
catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɛt͡ʃ-/
rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: catchers
Etymology: From catch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that catches.
examples: text: Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.
ref: 1989 February 13, Roger Angell, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion, Ballantine Books, page 22:
text: A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
ref: 2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210:
text: At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.
ref: 2021, University of the District of Columbia, “The plate umpire may suspend play because of darkness”, in Course Hero:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
synonyms: bottom
glosses: The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
glosses: A wrestler.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
synonyms: trapper
glosses: The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
glosses: Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)
Coordinate terms: sense: baseball player
word: infielder
sense: baseball player
word: outfielder
sense: baseball player
word: pitcher
Derived terms: baby-catcher
babycatcher
beau-catcher
birdcatcher
bird-catcher tree
bluff catcher
boot catcher
catcatcher
catcher interference
catcher-upper
caterpillar catcher
cony-catcher
cootie catcher
cow catcher
cowcatcher
cum-catcher
cum catcher
dogcatcher
dog-catcher
dream catcher
dreamcatcher
eye-catcher
eyecatcher
fartcatcher
fishcatcher
flack catcher
flack-catcher
flak catcher
flak-catcher
flycatcher
fly-catcher
gamecatcher
gnatcatcher
grass catcher
mailcatcher
man catcher
molecatcher
oyster-catcher
oystercatcher
podcatcher
ratcatcher
slavecatcher
spear catcher
spider-catcher
spycatcher
stonecatcher
suncatcher
tear catcher
time-catcher
torpedo catcher
windcatcher
goofball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡufˌbɔl/
rhymes: -uːfbɔːl
Forms: form: goofballs
Etymology: From goof + ball.
Senses: examples: text: If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well.
glosses: A foolish or silly person or animal.
examples: text: Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides.
ref: 1953 April 27, “Capsules”, in Time:
text: That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially a barbiturate.
goofball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡufˌbɔl/
rhymes: -uːfbɔːl
Etymology: From goof + ball.
Senses: examples: text: He announced, with his usual goofball humor, that he'd like to marry me!
glosses: Silly.
Derived terms: goofballery
goofballness
spoofball
Related terms: screwball
doofus
oddball
Einsteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/
Etymology: From German Einstein, the surname of Albert Einstein (1879–1955) + English -ian (suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’).
Senses: examples: text: Referring to equations (1) and (2), which give respectively the Newtonian-Einsteinian transformations and the transformations from R and L times to Newtonian or Einsteinian times, we see a decided resemblance between them.
ref: 1924, University of California Publications in Philosophy, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 250:
text: The blasphemies which appeared on earth, it was hinted, came from the dark planet Yuggoth, at the rim of the solar system; but this was itself merely the populous outpost of a frightful interstellar race whose ultimate source must lie far outside even the Einsteinian space-time continuum or greatest known cosmos.
ref: 1931 August, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XVIII, number 1, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, chapter 3, page 45, column 1:
text: If a physicist in the early part of this century were trying to decide whether to accept an Einsteinian conception of space and time, the issue would not be, 'Is the Einsteinian account true?' […] The issue to be addressed is the pragmatic question of whether the new Einsteinian conception seems to solve what are regarded as the most pressing current puzzles, has the greater scope for future explanation, etc.
ref: 1993, Joseph Runzo, “World Views and the Epistemic Foundations of Theism”, in World Views and Perceiving God, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →DOI, →ISBN, section X, pages 133–134:
text: This talk of pre-Einsteinian and Einsteinian worlds reveals another facet to the dilemma between the two interlocutors.
ref: 1997, Floyd Merrell, “Rules are There to be Broken?”, in Peirce, Signs, and Meaning (Toronto Studies in Semiotics), Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, part IV (If so, then into the Breakers, Vortices, Cross-currents, and Undertows of Semiosis), page 254:
text: [H]e was ushered into a neat little office on the third floor, where he was greeted by a charming, roly-poly man with gold-rimmed spectacles and a huge shock of Einsteinian hair, dressed in an old-fashioned tweed suit with a vest and gold watch chain, looking like a man out of a Dickens novel.
ref: 2014, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, chapter 5, in The Lost Island (A Gideon Crew Novel; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: Einsteiny
antonyms: non-Einsteinian
un-Einsteinian
glosses: Of or relating to the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein or his scientific theories.
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Derived terms: Einsteinian relativity
Einsteinianism
Related terms: Einstein
einstein
Einstein field equation
Einsteinism
einsteinium
Einstein-Rosen bridge
Einstein's constant
relativistic
extradimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + dimensional.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Coming from a world outside Einsteinian space-time.
Related terms: extraterrestrial
otherdimensional
convenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈviːniənt/
ipa: /kənˈvinjənt/
Forms: form: more convenient
form: most convenient
Etymology: From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
Senses: examples: text: Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
text: Some re-arrangement of equipment in the driving cars has produced a more convenient working space for the driver.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Prototype Tube Trains For London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 688:
synonyms: expedient
simple
easy
antonyms: inconvenient
glosses: Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
examples: text: How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
glosses: Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
examples: text: Feed me with food convenient for me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 30:8:
text: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:4:
text: […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: Fit; suitable; appropriate.
Derived terms: convenientness
disconvenient
nonconvenient
superconvenient
ultraconvenient
unconvenient
Related terms: convene
convenience
conveniently
supervenient
batholith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batholiths
Etymology: From batho- + -lith.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large irregular mass of intrusive igneous rock that has melted or forced itself into surrounding strata
Derived terms: batholithic
meantime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēnʹtīm
ipa: /ˈmiːntaɪm/
Forms: form: meantimes
form: mean time
Etymology: From Middle English menetime, equivalent to mean + time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime.
Senses: examples: text: We'll come back asap; just wait here for the meantime.
glosses: The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
Synonyms: between-time
meanwhile
interim
Derived terms: for the mean time
for the meantime
in mean time
in meantime
in the mean time
in the meantime
this mean time
this meantime
Related terms: meanwhile
meantime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: mēnʹtīm
ipa: /ˈmiːntaɪm/
Forms: form: mean time
Etymology: From Middle English menetime, equivalent to mean + time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime.
Senses: examples: text: Repairs will be done tomorrow so meantime restrain from using the bath.
text: Meantime Pope Urban II convoked two councils, one after another.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
text: Lunch will be in twenty minutes. Meantime: I have[…]
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam edition, published 1992, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with "East London Line Special" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.
ref: 1951 May, J. Pelham Maitland, “A Memorable Run by a Brighton "Terrier"”, in Railway Magazine, page 347:
glosses: During the interval; meanwhile.
peneplain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːnɪpleɪn/
/ˈpɛnɪpleɪn/
Forms: form: peneplains
form: peneplane
Etymology: From pene- + plain.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low-relief plain representing the final stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability.
expedient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspiːdi.ənt/
Forms: form: expedients
Etymology: From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient”), from ex (“out”) + pēs (“foot, hoof”).
Senses: examples: text: To secure such a market, there is no other expedient, than to promote manufacturing establishments.
ref: 1791 December 5, Alexander Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volume 10, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC:
text: He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
text: Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709:
glosses: A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
white noise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwaɪt ˈnɔɪz/
Senses: examples: text: Conventional statistical analyses presuppose that intrinsic variability is white noise. White noise yields a jagged and irregular line with a fractal dimension of 1.5, because successive observations are statistically independent of each other.
ref: 2005, John G. Holden, Gauging the Fractal Dimension of Response Times from Cognitive Tasks:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density; a signal with a power spectral density that has equal power in any band, at any centre frequency, having a given bandwidth.
glosses: Any nondescript noise used for background or to mask or drown out other noise.
examples: text: The rest was white noise; I was sick of listening to who I was supposed to be.
ref: 2017, C. R. Robertson, Elements of Fae, page 137:
glosses: Speech that goes ignored or uncomprehended.
Related terms: pink noise
red noise
blue noise
violet noise
grey noise
prewhiten
pink noise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: flicker noise
text: It was Gilden, Thorton, and Mallon (1995) who first reported pink noise in response time variability during the fundamentally cognitive task of estimating fixed intervals of time.
ref: 2005, John G. Holden, Gauging the Fractal Dimension of Response Times from Cognitive Tasks:
glosses: A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f).
Related terms: white noise
red noise
blue noise
violet noise
grey noise
dendrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛndɹaɪt/
Forms: form: dendrites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs, “of or pertaining to a tree”). Equivalent to dendr- + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.
ref: 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, pp. 12–13 (online edition)
text: A typical brain neuron has perhaps a thousand little wires, called dendrites, which connect it with its fellows.
ref: 1979, Carl Sagan, “Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt”, in John Carey, editor, Eyewitness to Science, Harvard University Press, published 1997, page 437:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
glosses: A hermit who lived in a tree.
Derived terms: apical dendrite
cytodendrite
dendritic
dendritogenesis
multidendrite
oblique dendrite
somatodendrite
Related terms: axon
neuron
synapse
wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪəz/
ipa: /ˈwaɪɚz/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of wire
wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪəz/
ipa: /ˈwaɪɚz/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wire
Related terms: cords
nerve cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve cells
Senses: examples: text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.
flume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: flumes
Etymology: From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: Near the upper end of the portage the river falls 100 feet in as many rods, the water going at lightning speed through a natural flume in the rock. So rapid is the descent that the water in the flume is but 3 feet deep. We named this the "Devil's Slide."
ref: 1898, Recreation, page 31:
glosses: A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
examples: text: [...] the flumes are generally not dark rides and they run much faster. Two notable exceptions are the Timber Mountain[…]
ref: 2001, Dale Samuelson, Wendy Yegoiants, The American Amusement Park, Motorbooks International, →ISBN, page 90:
text: […] aqueducts, wooden half-barrels laid on their sides and elevated on rusty trestles, to rush the icy spring water down the mountainside to the fields. This system of irrigation through flumes was simple, but effective. There were miles of flumes and, […] the children of the island used the flumes as water slides. The location of certain especially fast and dangerous flumes was kept secret in families for generations and passed on in unquestioned solemnity . It was against the law to use the flumes as water slides[…]
ref: 2012 July 4, Susanna Moore, The Whiteness of Bones, Vintage, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.
Derived terms: log flume
up the flume
flume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: flumes
form: fluming
form: flumed
form: flumed
Etymology: From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: glosses: To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.
at the top of one's lungs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She started screaming at the top of her lungs when she saw a snake.
text: Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues
He's going on and on at the top of his lungs
ref: 2020, Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul:
synonyms: at the top of one's voice
glosses: As loudly as vocally possible.
loudly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: loud′lē
ipa: /ˈlaʊdli/
Forms: form: more loudly
form: loudlier
form: most loudly
form: loudliest
Etymology: From Middle English loudly, equivalent to loud + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke loudly so that his brother could hear him from across the street.
text: And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!
ref: 1846, R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, in Echoes from Old Cornwall, London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 76:
text: Instead of that his hot hand suddenly seized mine and his dull-shining eyes swept my face for a moment, whilst he cried out, much loudlier and distinctlier than he had as yet spoken anything: “Edith! Ah, Edith, this is you at last. Where have you been keeping yourself?”
ref: 1873, Edgar Fawcett, Purple and Fine Linen. A Novel., G[eorge] W[ashington] Carleton & Co.; London: S[ampson] Low, Son & Co., page 404:
text: "Holy crap on a cracker! That paint job would cost three or four thousand dollars in the city," exclaimed John loudly.
ref: 2006, Dana Myrick, Brothers and Sons:
synonyms: loud
antonyms: quietly
glosses: In a loud manner; at a high volume.
nerve impulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve impulses
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The signal transmitted along a nerve fibre, either in response to a stimulus (such as touch, pain or heat), or as an instruction (such as causing a muscle to contract).
Related terms: action potential
synapse
nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous systems
Etymology: 1703, nervous + system.
Senses: examples: text: Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Biotics manipulate mass effect fields using dozens of element zero nodules within their nervous system that react to electric stimuli from the brain. Amplifiers allow biotics to synchronize the nodules so they can form fields large and strong enough for practical use.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Biotic Amps Codex entry:
synonyms: systema nervosum
meronyms: brain
brainstem
ganglion
nerve
spinal cord
glosses: An organ system whose principal constituent is nervous tissue that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses, and initiates actions.
Synonyms: word: nervous system
Meronyms: word: central nervous system
word: peripheral nervous system
word: nerve
word: neuron
word: ganglion
Derived terms: autonomic nervous system
central nervous system
enteric nervous system
peripheral nervous system
lepra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛprə/
Etymology: From Latin lepra (“psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Koine Greek λέπρα (lépra, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, suffix forming adjectives). The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.
ref: 1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th edition, page 914:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of leprosy.
synonyms: word: leprosy
examples: text: Lepra and psoriasis are identical, though the two names are retained.
ref: 1864, William Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases, page 43:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of psoriasis.
synonyms: word: psoriasis
examples: text: Lepra is frequently met with on the trunks, especially of young trees.
ref: 1805, translation of Karl Ludwig Willdenow as The Principles of Botany and of Vegetable Physiology, p. 344
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.
Derived terms: lepra Arabica
lepra bacillus
lepra cell
lepra colony
lepra Graeca
lepraphobia
lepra reaction
cami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmi/
Forms: form: camis
Etymology: Shortened from camisole.
Senses: examples: text: He noticed how she had a little black leather under-the-arm purse and a cami and a trucker hat. It was as though she had time-traveled from early-aughts Kitson.
ref: 2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:
glosses: A camisole.
Derived terms: brami
sari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑː.ɹi/
homophone: sorry (father-bother merger)
note: Indic
ipa: /sɑɽi/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /sɑri/
note: Indic
ipa: /sari/
homophone: sorry (father-bother merger, some speakers)
Forms: form: saris
form: saree
form: shari
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī) ultimately from Sanskrit शाट (śāṭa), शाटी (śāṭī).
Senses: glosses: The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.
Sari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Sari County's Central District and the capital of Mazandaran Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
PIN number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪn.nʌm.bɝ/
Forms: form: PIN numbers
Senses: glosses: A common pleonastic form of PIN (in the sense of "personal identification number").
chip and PIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A system for verifying that the bearer of a debit card or credit card is its owner by checking a PIN supplied by the bearer against a PIN stored on a silicon chip within the card.
netizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.tɪ.zən/
rhymes: -ɛtɪzən
Forms: form: netizens
form: Netizen
Etymology: Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen.
Senses: examples: text: The netizen posted their question on the forum.
text: Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?
ref: 2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.
ref: 2012 January 19, Jonathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012, page A1:
text: A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.
ref: 2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2020:
text: The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.
ref: 2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2021:
synonyms: Internet user
cybercitizen
cybernaut
internaut
glosses: A member of the community of Internet users.
Derived terms: netizenry
Usenetizen
Related terms: Twittizen
empathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmpəθi/
Forms: form: empathies
Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- + -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
Senses: examples: text: She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
text: Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair?
ref: 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, performed by Em Beihold:
text: While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
ref: 2025 March 5, Zachary B. Wolf, “Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy”, in CNN:
synonyms: fellow feeling
glosses: Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
glosses: The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
synonyms: ecstasy
glosses: MDMA.
Derived terms: cold empathy
double empathy problem
empath
empathic
empathist
empathogen
empathy belly
empathyless
empathy map
hot empathy
hyperempathetic
hyperempathy
pseudo-empathy
suicidal empathy
telempathy
Related terms: sympathy
technopathy
telepathy
neural network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɝɹəl ˈnɛtwɝk/
Forms: form: neural networks
Senses: examples: text: A neural network is a computer system built to simulate, or act like, the human brain.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A real or virtual computer system designed to emulate the brain in its ability to "learn" to assess imprecise data.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any network of neurons etc., that function together to achieve a common purpose.
Synonyms: neural net
Hypernyms: network
Hyponyms: artificial neural network
capsule neural network
convolutional neural network
deep neural network
feedforward neural network
graph neural network
random neural network
recurrent neural network
recursive neural network
Siamese neural network
simulated neural network
spiking neural network
time delay neural network
new age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Age
form: new-age
Senses: glosses: A modern spiritual and religious movement, covering a wide variety of alternative spiritual and philosophical ideas, that developed towards the end of the 20th century.
glosses: New Age music.
new age
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new age
form: most new age
form: New Age
form: new-age
Senses: examples: At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the "edge of history." There would be a real New Age - Ken Wilber
glosses: Of or relating to the New Age movement.
glosses: Of or relating to New Age music.
Derived terms: New Age traveller
new ager
new agey
new-agey
new jack swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A variety of swingbeat dance music combining elements of rhythm and blues, soul music, hip hop and rap.
glosses: The combination of heroin and morphine, as a recreational drug.
Related terms: hip hop soul
neo soul
new jill swing
R & B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R&B
form: r&b
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of rhythm and blues.
glosses: Ellipsis of contemporary R&B.
Derived terms: snap R&B
rhythm and blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First use appears c. 1924, in Billboard, replacing earlier race music.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: R & B
glosses: A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.
glosses: Shoes.
Derived terms: contemporary R&B
Related terms: race music
R&B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad."
ref: 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of R & B.
swingbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swing + beat.
Senses: glosses: an early form of new jack swing music
asswipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæswaɪp/
Forms: form: asswipes
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of ass + wipe. First use appears c. 1947 in the writings of Mari Sandoz.
Senses: examples: text: He is such an asswipe!
text: ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
ref: 1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:
glosses: An annoying, contemptible, or worthless person.
examples: text: I rapidly expended my own and everyone else’s supply of tiny C-ration rolls of asswipe and was reduced to wiping my nasty behind with leaves and grass.
ref: 1976, Micheal Clodfelter, The Pawns of Dishonor, Branden Press, →ISBN, page 249:
text: “[…] Into your packs you put your toilet articles, mess kits, extra socks, and skivvies and longjohns if you have them. If you have a roll of asswipe, put that in, too. […]”
ref: 1983, Nicholas Proffitt, Gardens of Stone, Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, page 317:
text: I doubt a dime would buy a single square of asswipe in this city, […]
ref: 2008, Joseph Heywood, Death Roe: A Woods Cop Mystery, Globe Pequot, page 252
glosses: Toilet paper.
Synonyms: sense: toilet paper
word: wipebreech
sense: toilet paper
word: torchecul
sense: toilet paper
word: arsewipe
sense: toilet paper
word: bumfodder
sense: toilet paper
word: tail-napkin
sense: toilet paper
word: wipe-breech
dance music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: Music composed to accompany social dancing.
examples: text: Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.
ref: 2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer:
qualifier: modern usage
glosses: Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
Related terms: ballet music
vernacular dance
Sheandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage.
ballet music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Piano and drums make for very good ballet music!
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music composed primarily to accompany a ballet performance.
soul music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music that originated in black American gospel, characterized by the use of secular lyrics, and an earthy, intensely emotional style.
Derived terms: soullike
soul-blues
neo-soul
gospel music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gospel musics
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of Christian music genre that is a cornerstone of the Christian media that originated amongst African-Americans based on the folk music melodies with the addition of elements of spirituals and jazz.
Derived terms: Southern gospel
gospel-blues
negro spiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negro spirituals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.
folk music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk musics
Senses: glosses: Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.
glosses: Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms.
Related terms: folk song
melodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melody
New Labour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.
wikipedia: Tony Blair
Related terms: Blairite
stakeholder society
Third Way
nationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nationalizations
Etymology: From national + -ization.
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalisation.
Derived terms: antinationalization
denationalization
overnationalization
prenationalization
renationalization
seminationalization
stakeholder society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakeholder societies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A society whose members have both rights from it, and duties or responsibilities to it; a concept within the New Labour movement.
Third Way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of third way.
spinal cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ.nəl ˈkɔɹd/
Forms: form: spinal cords
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: medulla spinalis
myelo-
spinal marrow
glosses: A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system. It extends from the brain stem down through the spine, with nerves branching off to various parts of the body.
brainstem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainstems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brain stem.
infect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: infects
form: infecting
form: infected
form: infected
Etymology: From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
Senses: examples: text: Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.
ref: 2020 February 18, Isabella Kwai, “How a Pharmacy Handles Mask Hoarders and Coronavirus Fears”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2020, Asia Pacific:
glosses: To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
glosses: To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
examples: text: Her passion for dancing has infected me.
text: Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
Synonyms: sense: to contaminate
word: leper
Derived terms: autoinfect
camfecting
coinfect
infectability
infectable
infectee
infectible
infection
infective
infectome
infector
noninfecting
reinfect
superinfect
uninfecting
Related terms: infectious
infect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
Senses: examples: text: And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 187:
glosses: Infected.
infect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
ipa: /ˈɪnfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɪnfɛkt
ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: perfect
imperfect
glosses: Representing an action not yet completed.
raw_tags: of a tense or verb form
reflexive pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈflɛksɪv ˈpɹoʊnaʊn/
Forms: form: reflexive pronouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In many languages: a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
Synonyms: word: reflexive pronoun
Hypernyms: word: personal pronoun
word: pronoun
Derived terms: word: possessive pronoun
spinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spaɪ.nəl/
ipa: /spaɪ.nl̩/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Of or relating to the spine.
Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Of or relating to the spine.
(of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.
Hypernyms: neuraxial
Coordinate terms: spondylo-
vertebro-
Derived terms: anospinal
audiospinal
bulbospinal
cerebellospinal
cerebrospinal
ciliospinal
coeruleospinal
corticospinal
craniospinal
diencephalospinal
encephalospinal
epispinal
extraspinal
hemispinal
holospinal
hypothalamospinal
infraspinal
interspinal
intraspinal
medullospinal
medullispinal
midspinal
musculospinal
neurospinal
nonspinal
olivospinal
opticospinal
paraspinal
perispinal
postspinal
prespinal
propriospinal
reticulospinal
sacrospinal
spinal artery
spinal board
spinal butterfly ray
spinal canal
spinal column
spinal cord
spinal disc herniation
spinal fluid
spinal ganglion
spinalize
spinalise
spinally
spinal marrow
spinal muscular atrophy
spinal nerve
spinal tap
Spinal Tap-ian
spinospinal
subspinal
supraspinal
tectospinal
thoracospinal
transspinal
trigeminospinal
vestibulospinal
spinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spaɪ.nəl/
ipa: /spaɪ.nl̩/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: spinals
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spinal anesthesia.