cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
octonion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɑkˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: octonions
Etymology: Blend of Latin octō (“eight”) + quaternion.
Senses: examples: text: According to the logic of doubling the dimensions on which Cayley–Dickson algebra is built, after quaternions the so-called 8D octonions (#92;mathbbO—Octonions) can be obtained, followed by 16D sedenions, 32D pathions, 64D chingons, 128D routons, and 256D voudons.
ref: 2022, Zlatka Valkova-Jarvis, Vladimir Poulkov, Viktor Stoynov, Dimitriya Mihaylova, Georgi Iliev, “A Method for the Design of Bicomplex Orthogonal DSP Algorithms for Applications in Intelligent Radio Access Networks”, in Symmetry, volume 14, number 3, MDPI AG, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: There is no theoretical limit to multispace dimensional numbering as there are definitions for octonion (8D), sedenion (16D), pathion (32D), chingon (64D), routon (128D), and voudon (256D) numbered space.
ref: 2023, Melanie Swan, Renato P. dos Santos, “Quantum Intelligence: Responsible Human-AI Entities”, in AAAI 2023 Spring Symposia, Socially Responsible AI for Wellbeing, March 27–29, 2023, USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7 imaginary parts (each a real multiple of a distinct square root of −1).
Hypernyms: hypercomplex number
Derived terms: octonionic
octonionically
octonionics
Related terms: imaginary unit
quaternion
sedenion
kinkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kinky: more kinky
beltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From belt + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing or not possessing a belt.
glosses: Not wearing or not possessing a belt.
Not wearing a seatbelt.
glosses: Not requiring a belt.
Derived terms: beltlessness
kung-fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kung fu.
hail fellow well met
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail fellows well met
form: hail-fellow-well-met
Senses: examples: text: All his life he had been a jolly hail fellow well met: he had put on a rather becoming paunch, his cheeks were well filled out and red as a beet, his manners were easy and indolent, and he seemed destined to live on into a ripe old age, sound and healthy as a nut.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 150:
text: I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions.
ref: 1990, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Penguin, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A sociable, friendly, usually male person.
hail-fellow-well-met
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Hear of the ‘Red Fox’”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 108:
text: N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22,
Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all;
Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
text: N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60,
"You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."
glosses: Sociable, friendly.
hail-fellow-well-met
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail-fellow-well-mets
form: hail-fellows-well-met
Senses: examples: text: My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.
ref: 2003, James Patterson, Peter De Jonge, chapter 17, in Beach House, Warner Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person.
flash fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash fictions
Senses: synonyms: drabble
flashfic
short short story
sudden fiction
glosses: A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
examples: text: Even those stories range from short-short, "sudden," or "flash" fiction of just three to five pages to more conventionally constructed stories than run nearly twenty pages.
ref: 1997, Ron McFarland, “Another Kind of Violence: Sherman Alexie's Poems”, in American Indian Quarterly, volume 21, number 2, page 259:
synonyms: flashfic
microfiction
sudden fiction
glosses: The genre of such stories.
short short story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short short stories
form: short-short story
Senses: examples: text: We do not mean the length of the average short story, but rather that of the "short short story" that ranges from 500 to 1200 words.
ref: 1936, E. M. Vickrey, “The Integration of Composition and the Short Story”, in Peabody Journal of Education, volume 13, number 4, page 182:
topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: short short
glosses: A work of fiction that is briefer than a typical short story.
Related terms: drabble
flashfic
flash fiction
microfiction
sudden fiction
short-short story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-short stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short short story.
perturbative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perturbative
form: most perturbative
Etymology: From perturb + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing perturbation
Derived terms: nonpertubative
nonperturbative
perturbatively
perturbativity
sudden fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudden fictions
Senses: glosses: A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
glosses: The genre of such stories.
Synonyms: sense: individual story
word: drabble
sense: individual story
word: flash fiction
sense: individual story
word: flashfic
sense: individual story
word: short short story
sense: genre
word: flash fiction
sense: genre
word: flashfic
sense: genre
word: microfiction
mollydookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollydooker
on one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: cleopatra [vehemently] He has shed the blood of my servant Ftatateeta. On your head be it as upon his, Cæsar, if you hold him free of it.
ref: 1898, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Cæsar and Cleopatra”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published 1901, →OCLC, Act V, page 198:
glosses: Assumed or borne, as a responsibility or something blameworthy.
examples: text: [M]y father is a man / Outlawed and exiled, under ban; / The price of blood is on his head, […]
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto IV. The Prophecy.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 168:
text: ["T]here wasn't a man around there but had a price on his head and didn't dare show himself in the settlements," […]
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 78:
text: The Bush Administration had made the capture of General Noriega a principal objective, putting a $1 million bounty on his head.
ref: 1989 December 25, Larry Rohter, “Fighting in Panama; Noriega Seeks Asylum at Vatican Embassy”, in New York Times:
text: There was a Rs 2.5 million reward on his head.
ref: 2007 December 13, “Demon dacoit resurrected, sent back to underworld”, in Daily Times, Pakistan:
glosses: Assigned by government authorities as a bounty or penalty.
Related terms: word: price on someone's head
word: it's someone's funeral
sense: to be
word: to blame
1-connected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
synonyms: simply connected
glosses: Having a singleton as its fundamental group.
raw_tags: of a topological space
wikipedia: 1-connected
fundamental group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundamental groups
Senses: examples: text: From the definition it will be clear the group is a topological invariant of X; i.e., if two spaces are homeomorphic, their fundamental groups are isomorphic.
ref: 1991, William S. Massey, A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology, Springer, page 35:
text: Therein came into focus the far-reaching vision that the perspective of non-abelian fundamental groups could lead to a fundamentally new understanding of deep arithmetic phenomena, including the arithmetic theory of moduli and Diophantine finiteness on hyperbolic curves.
ref: 2011, John Coates, Minhyong Kim, Florian Pop, Mohamed Saïdi, Peter Schneider, editors, Non-abelian Fundamental Groups and Iwasawa Theory, Cambridge University Press, page vii:
text: During the more than 100 years of its existence, the notion of the fundamental group has undergone a considerable evolution.
ref: 2012, Jakob Stix, editor, The Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups: PIA 2010, Springer, page ix:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: For a specified topological space, the group whose elements are homotopy classes of loops (images of some arbitrary closed interval whose endpoints are both mapped to a designated point) and whose group operation is concatenation.
Derived terms: algebraic fundamental group
étale fundamental group
orbifold fundamental group
Related terms: fundamental groupoid
imitative harmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imitative harmonies
Senses: examples: text: Primitive languages being founded on the direct imitation of natural sounds, necessarily abound in imitative harmony.
ref: 1869, J. G. Hincks, “The Process of Derivation of the Spanish Language from the Latin”, in Anthropological Review, volume 7, number 25, page 158:
text: The chapter on "Sound" discussed completely and interestingly what is often called by the rather barbarous name onomatopoeia and for which I prefer imitative harmony.
ref: 1966, H. A. Grubbs, “Review: Stange Clamor, A Guide to the Critical Reading of French Poetry by Frederick O. Musser”, in The Modern Language Journal, volume 50, number 3, page 170:
glosses: Onomatopoeia.
health club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛlθ ˌkləb/
Forms: form: health clubs
Senses: examples: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
glosses: A facility with exercise equipment, and sometimes instructors, open to the public or those on some membership list.
Synonyms: sense: facility with exercise equipment
word: fitness center
sense: facility with exercise equipment
word: gym
sense: facility with exercise equipment
word: gymnasium
psychiater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychiaters
Etymology: Apparently from German Psychiater.
Senses: glosses: A psychiatrist.
mastheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masthead
civil laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil law
Bornean clouded leopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bornean clouded leopard
Fortune 500
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fortune 500
Senses: examples: text: I'm betting they're more listings from the Fortune 500.
ref: 1987, Katherine V. Forrest, Murder at the Nightwood Bar, Alyson Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
text: If he were a corporation instead of a criminal he'd be in the Fortune 500 by now.
ref: 2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Myra Rutledge, heiress to a Fortune 500 candy company, looked around her state-of-the-art kitchen, at the pots bubbling on the stove, at the table set for two.
ref: 2004, Fern Michaels, Payback, →ISBN, Prologue:
glosses: A list published annually by Fortune magazine of the 500 United States companies with the highest revenue.
examples: text: Abbott was in his late sixties and looked like a retired Fortune 500 executive in a three-piece suit, complete with manicured nails and a Rolex watch.
ref: 1990, Sue Grafton, "G" is for Gumshoe, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 154:
text: In other words, a majority of the Fortune''' 500 are of the size of universities, from 500 up to about 40000 employees.
ref: 1990, Michael Novak, Toward a Theology of the Corporation, American Enterprise Institute, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Few sportswear or sports equipment companies could be found pitching their products on television; and even fewer could be found among the Fortune 500.
ref: 1999, Steve Fiffer, Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Bennett didn't appear on CNBC, or kibitz with Maria Bartiromo, or speak at Fortune 500 conferences, or get himself profiled in the Wall Street Journal.
ref: 2003, Joel C. Rosenberg, The Last Jihad, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Collectively, the members of that list.
Fortune 500
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fortune 500s
Senses: examples: text: If logic and demonstrations of success are not impetus enough, realize that activists are now looking beyond Fortune 500s.
ref: 2000, Susan F. Shultz, The Board Book, →ISBN, page 13:
text: I shrink a little at the idea of Portia breaking another glass ceiling on her way to what can only be president or CEO of a Fortune 500.
ref: 2005, Amy Scheibe, What Do You Do All Day?, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Any member of that list.
isotope dilutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotope dilution
sniper rifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniper rifle
drugmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugmakers
Etymology: From drug + maker.
Senses: glosses: A pharmaceutical manufacturer.
examples: text: And in the areas controlled by the militias, the drugmakers are cooking up a storm.
ref: 2019 July 4, Michael Sullivan, “In Myanmar, Methamphetamine, Synthetic Drug Production Soars”, in NPR.org:
glosses: A producer of illegal drugs.
inspectorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspectorates
Etymology: From inspector + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office, a body of people performing it, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: examples: text: What makes a great primary? Let's deal with this one straight away – it isn't what Ofsted says. All the inspectorate has cared about in the past few years is data progression in maths and literacy.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
text: Once the next stage of funding is agreed, EWR Co will submit the DCO [Development Consent Order] application to the Planning Inspectorate, which will examine the proposals (during which time the public can comment on the application).
ref: 2023 November 15, Chris Howe, “East West Rail and the Cambridge connection”, in RAIL, number 996, page 57:
glosses: An organized group of inspectors.
glosses: The office of an inspector.
glosses: The jurisdiction of an inspector.
astrophotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From astro- + photography.
Senses: examples: text: As in most nature photography, the 35mm single lens reflex camera is probably the best choice for astrophotography.
ref: 1967, H. Charles Laun, The Natural History Guide, Alsace Books and Films, page 44:
text: Their^([CMOS sensors']) pixel size, linearity and noise performance are not necessarily ideal for astrophotography.
ref: 2017, Chris Woodhouse, The Astrophotography Manual, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 10:
text: Astrophotography is a craft requiring development of skill, not just good equipment.
ref: 2018, Michael A. Covington, Digital SLR Astrophotography, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 18:
topics: arts
astronomy
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
synonyms: astronomical imaging
glosses: The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.
Related terms: sense: Terms related to the noun astrophotography
word: astrophoto
sense: Terms related to the noun astrophotography
word: astrophotograph
sense: Terms related to the noun astrophotography
word: astrophotographer
sense: Terms related to the noun astrophotography
word: astrophotographic
word: astrograph
involucrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnvəˈluːkɹəm/
Forms: form: involucra
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin involūcrum. Doublet of involucre.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sheath that covers or envelopes, especially one that forms around the sequestrum of new bone.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An involucre.
sequestrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequestrums
form: sequestra
Senses: glosses: A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis.
Related terms: sequestrectomy
sequestrotomy
neurogeneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͝oə'rōjĭnĕtʹĭsĭst
ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəʊd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪsɪst/
enpr: no͝o'rōjənĕtʹĭsĭst
ipa: /ˌnʊɹoʊd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪsɪst/
Forms: form: neurogeneticists
Etymology: From neuro- + geneticist, on the pattern of neurogenetics.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specialist or expert in neurogenetics.
exosolar planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosolar planets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exoplanet.
neurogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of the role of genetics in the development of neurological disorders
jacaranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacarandas
Etymology: From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.
Senses: examples: text: They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 147:
glosses: Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.
glosses: The hard, dark wood of these trees.
glosses: A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.
Galilean satellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The four Galilean moons of Jupiter.
terrestrial planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrestrial planets
Senses: synonyms: rocky planet
tellurian planet
telluric planet
glosses: Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense that it is composed primarily of metals and rock, in contrast to a planet which is a gas giant.
Hypernyms: major planet
planet
Hyponyms: english: in the Solar System
translation: in the Solar System
word: inner planet
word: silicate planet
word: silicon planet
word: carbide planet
word: carbon planet
word: super-Earth
word: sub-Earth
Coordinate terms: gas giant
ice giant
giant planet
Related terms: dwarf planet
minor planet
terrestrial planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrestrial planet
Northern Lights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of northern lights.
marg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: marge
Etymology: Clipping of margarine.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of margarine.
marg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
-ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
-ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: margs
Etymology: Clipping of margarita.
Senses: examples: text: I'm wedged in between a couple of squealing woo girls who are guzzling margs like it's last call […]
ref: 2022, Jennifer Bonds, Catching Quinn:
glosses: Clipping of margarita (“cocktail with tequila, orange liqueur, and lime”).
marg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
-ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
-ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
-ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
-ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: margs
Etymology: From Hindi मार्ग (mārg). Doublet of marga.
Senses: glosses: A road.
inside job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside jobs
Etymology: First attested in 1908. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: ... while the police are calling it an inside job just because the old lady's nephew teaches a Bible class.
ref: 1908, O. Henry, The Complete Works of O. Henry [pseud.].: The gentle grafter, page 142:
text: It seems to me it must have been what the police at home call "an inside job"; because whoever it was apparently knew the combination of the safe.
ref: 1921, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 10, in Alias The Lone Wolf:
text: In Britain, where the British BeeKeepers Association (BBKA) has been urging members to microchip their hives for some time, the continuing mystery and the belief that the crimes are inside jobs are taking their toll.
ref: 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
antonyms: outside job
glosses: A crime or other illicit action committed by or with the assistance of someone either having a relationship with a victim or entrusted with access to the victim's affairs and premises.
Related terms: inside man
insider
insider trading
peil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch peil (“level”).
Senses: examples: text: Tokyo Peil (TP); Yedogawa Peil (YP); Osaka Peil (OP)
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: water level
kleptocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛptəˌkɹæt/
Forms: form: kleptocrats
Etymology: From klepto- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: The difference between a kleptocrat and a wise statesman is merely on of degree: a matter of just how large a percentage of the tribute extracted from producers is retained by the elite, and how much the commoners appreciate the public uses to which the redistributed tribute is put.
ref: 1997, Diamond Jered, Guns, Germs, and Steel, W. W. Norton & Co, page 276:
text: Adams repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the Justice Department is taking specific steps to seize assets belonging to Putin but suggested that prosecutors have mapped out how the Russian President and wealthy kleptocrats are attempting to hide their money.
ref: 2022 May 5, Kara Scannell and Zachary Cohen, “DOJ unwinds complex web in hunt for Russian wealth belonging to Putin and influential players”, in CNN:
text: “We’re forking over more taxpayer money so some Ukrainian kleptocrat can buy a bigger house,” Ramaswamy said in a furious exchange on Fox News on Thursday, when he was asked why he would be comfortable “giving up” Eastern Europe to Russia.
ref: 2023 December 8, Stephen Collinson, “How the impasse over Ukraine aid could have critical global ramifications”, in CNN:
text: Kleptocrats pose a serious threat to global security as this money can be used for espionage, terrorism, political manipulation, disinformation, and many other nefarious purposes.
ref: 2024 September 27, Jess Daly, “Russia Evading US Sanctions Through Shell Companies”, in UNITED24 Media, retrieved 02 Oct 2024:
glosses: A ruling figure in a kleptocracy.
gramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grama
dtn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: duplex, tray, network: In relation to the selling of laser printers, a designation that a printer has duplex (double sided printing) capability and paper trays and is networkable.
insipidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insipid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness, lymphatism, and inversion."
ref: 1948, William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142
text: This poem suffers from structural weakness, indeed insipidness.
ref: 1977, K. C. Bennett, "Practical Criticism Revisited,' College English, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 575
text: His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life.
ref: 1983, Kiyoshi Takeyama, “Tadao Andô: Heir to a Tradition,”, in Perspecta, volume 20, page 180:
glosses: A lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.
Synonyms: insipidity
tastelessness
vapidity
lymphatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lymphatism. Post-mortem examination on a boy 10 years of age who died after receiving a blow on the head revealed a thymus gland of considerable bulk, 4 inches long.
ref: 1914, Hugh Stannus Stannus, “Congenital Anomalies in a Native African Race”, in Biometrika, volume 10, number 1, page 6:
text: Status lymphaticus (lymphatism) is a condition found in children and some adults, characterized by an enlargement of the lymphoid tissues throughout the body and more particularly by enlargement of the thymus gland.
ref: 1911, “Lymphatic_System”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Enlargement or swelling of the lymphatic tissue, associated in the past with sudden death of children but no longer considered to be an authentic ailment.
examples: 1948, William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142,
As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness, lymphatism, and inversion."
glosses: Bloating, sluggishness.
apathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apathists
Senses: examples: text: ...Apathist alone, equally superior to the violent attacks of passion, and the teasing impertinence of fretfulness...
ref: 1827, Robert Lynam, The British Essayists: Microcosm. Olla podrida, page 14:
text: ...apathist is thought despicable not simply because he is indifferent but because he is indifferent to something others regard as so vital as to require everyone's or at least certain others' concern.
ref: 1966, Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.). Meeting, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society:
text: ...apathist, of one "whom man delighteth not, nor woman either."
ref: 1808, Lady Morgan (Sydney), The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, page 200:
glosses: One who has no feeling towards anything, or more specifically religion.
Synonyms: apathete
durva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit दूर्वा (dūrvā). Doublet of doob as in doob grass.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doob (“type of grass”).
bitter pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter pills
Senses: examples: text: By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat.
ref: 2004 November 7, Simon Turnbull, “Young Scots give Williams a silver lining”, in The Independent, UK:
glosses: Ellipsis of bitter pill to swallow.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bitter, pill.
bitter pill to swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter pills to swallow
form: bitter pill
Senses: examples: text: [T]o see himself dethroned, the object of her contempt, was a bitter pill to swallow.
ref: 1886, George Gissing, chapter 10, in Demos: A Story of English Socialism:
text: "[W]e cast loose from the ice after a very careful inspection which left us no hope whatsoever of penetrating it. […] It was a bitter pill to swallow, but we decided to search for Winter quarters somewhere along the coast."
ref: 1920 May 1, “Amundsen to Try Again for Pole”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Giving them amnesty would be a bitter pill for the U.S. to swallow.
ref: 2006 June 26, Tony Karon, “Inside Iraq's 'Amnesty' Plan”, in Time, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2010:
synonyms: difficult pill to swallow
hard pill to swallow
tough pill to swallow
hypernyms: pill to swallow
glosses: Something unpleasant that must be accepted or endured.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bitter pill, swallow.
Related terms: difficult pill to swallow
hard pill to swallow
hard to swallow
pill to swallow
swallow a bitter pill
tough pill to swallow
sugarcoat the pill
squirt gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirt guns
Senses: examples: text: He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night.
ref: 1926 April 19, “Miscellany”, in Time:
glosses: A toy gun used to shoot water.
Synonyms: water pistol
water gun
water gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water guns
form: watergun
Senses: examples: text: Apparently it was a water gun, but it was a very, very realistic replica.
ref: 1998 August 24, Michael Cooper, “Mistaking Water Pistol for Gun, Police Shoot Brooklyn Youth, 16”, in New York Times:
glosses: A toy gun used to shoot water.
Synonyms: squirt gun
water pistol
tubular bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtjuːbjʊlə ˈbɛlz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuː-/
ipa: /-bjə-/
ipa: /ˌt(j)ubjələɹ ˈbɛlz/
ipa: /-bju-/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Forms: form: tubular bell
Etymology: From tubular (adjective) + bells.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: chimes
tubular chimes
glosses: A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal tubes that are struck with a mallet, producing sounds like those of church bells.
lunar occultation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar occultations
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The passage of the Moon, as it moves through the nighttime sky, in front of a celestial object, such as a star or planet.
plastic deformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic deformations
Senses: glosses: A permanent change in the shape or size of an object without breaking it or putting it under excessive stress
guilloche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɪˈlɒʃ/
Forms: form: guilloches
Etymology: From French guilloche.
Senses: examples: text: A railroad right-of-way, straight across the Balkan Peninsula, conceded in Cyrillic and Arabic script all woven in and out of the loveliest green guilloche by the no-longer-quite-unabsorbed entity of East Roumelia.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1015:
glosses: A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
glosses: The tool used to create such work.
Derived terms: guilloched
guilloche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡɪˈlɒʃ/
Forms: form: guilloches
form: guilloching
form: guilloched
form: guilloched
Etymology: From French guilloche.
Senses: glosses: To decorate with intersecting curved lines.
togue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊɡ/
rhymes: -oʊɡ
Forms: form: togues
form: togue
Etymology: Via Canadian French from an Algonquian word.
Senses: glosses: Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, a freshwater char of northern North America.
Synonyms: grey trout
lake char
lake trout
mackinaw trout
tuladi
touladi
namaycush
kiddie car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddie cars
Senses: examples: text: Select one of the children who have had no previous practice in riding a tricycle or a kiddie car with pedals.
ref: 1931, F. L. Goodenough, J. E. Anderson, Experimental Child Psychology, Century, page 338:
text: Five-year-old Brooke is extremely interested in racing and even has her own motorized kiddie car.
ref: 2003, Kathy Shaskan, "Midget car racer on fast track to thrills," dailyrecord.com (New Jersey), 15 Jul.
glosses: A miniature toy car designed to be operated by a child, propelled by foot motion, pedals, or an electrical motor.
carillonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carillonists
Etymology: From carillon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the carillon.
Synonyms: carillonneur
castanetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castanetists
Etymology: From castanet + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the castanet.
dodgem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒd͡ʒ.əm/
Forms: form: dodgems
Etymology: From dodge 'em, from dodge them.
Senses: examples: text: What better way to let off a little steam, than by zipping around on the dodgems, or flying high on the Cosmic Typhoon roller coaster?
ref: 2007 December 19, “Special Offer”, in North Devon Gazette, UK:
glosses: A bumper car in an amusement park.
Derived terms: dodgem car
nudely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nudely
form: most nudely
Etymology: From nude + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nude manner.
Godzone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒdzəʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɑdˌzoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdzʌʉn/
Etymology: Contraction of God’s own country, modelled after zone (“area or region of the world”). The word was possibly modified from the title of the poem “God’s Own Country” (1890) by the New Zealand poet and politician Thomas Bracken (1843–1898).
Senses: examples: text: It always looks so ridiculous, Joe hefty and twice his child's size – but that's the way we do it in good old Godzone.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 95:
glosses: New Zealand.
wikipedia: Thomas Bracken
Related terms: God's own country
God's own county
QALY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɑli/
Forms: form: QALYs
Senses: examples: text: Forbes got more granular, contrasting the value of a statistical life (VSL) with the value of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) to arrive at a more precise figure.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 13, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
related: word: QUALY
coordinate_terms: DALY
glosses: Acronym of quality-adjusted life year.
environmental science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environmental sciences
Senses: glosses: The integrated study of factors that influence the environment and environmental systems, especially the interaction of the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment.
Related terms: environmental scientist
environmental scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environmental scientists
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is environmental science.
reh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehs
Senses: glosses: The Arabic letter ر.
reh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi रेह (reh, “salt marsh”); compare Sanskrit रेणु (reṇu, “grain of salt, dust, powder”).
Senses: glosses: A saline efflorescence that comes to the surface on the usar plains of northern India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh.
cloyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cloyingly
form: most cloyingly
Etymology: From cloying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
glosses: In an excessively sweet manner.
Related terms: cloy
postulata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒstjʊˈleɪtə/
ipa: /pɒstjʊˈlɑːtə/
Senses: examples: text: I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state. These two laws, ever since we have had any knowledge of mankind, appear to have been fixed laws of our nature, and, as we have not hitherto seen any alteration in them, we have no right to conclude that they will ever cease to be what they now are, without an immediate act of power in that Being who first arranged the system of the universe, and for the advantage of his creatures, still executes, according to fixed laws, all its various operations. […] Assuming then my postulata as granted, I say, that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
ref: 1798: the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS, An Essay on the Principle of Population, chapter 1
glosses: plural of postulatum
four-vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-vectors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector in four-dimensional vector space, especially one having three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension.
waterproofness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From waterproof + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the fabric section, a textile twisting and tearing machine and a "Lissajou curve" [sic] abrader (covering a complete area in overlapping curves) are supplemented by apparatus for evaluating waterproofness, fibre diameter and light-fastness.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: New L.T. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 77:
text: To find the best rain jacket, we tested everything from waterproofness and breathability to fit, feel and packability.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
glosses: The property of being waterproof.
waterproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterproofed
form: most waterproofed
Senses: glosses: Having been made waterproof.
waterproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waterproof
Watergate salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Watergate salads
Etymology: Various unsubstantiated hypotheses; see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A sweet dessert salad made with pistachio-flavoured instant pudding, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, and small marshmallows, and sometimes other ingredients.
white gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white golds
Senses: examples: text: It’s a slender band of white gold. It’ll be rather lovely once it fades.
ref: 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 371:
glosses: Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
glosses: Any white commodity seen as valuable.
Cotton
glosses: Any white commodity seen as valuable.
Sugar
glosses: Any white commodity seen as valuable.
China or porcelain
examples: text: Fleets of planes flew in their daily cargo of white gold, first extracted from coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia and then refined in Colombia.
ref: 1989, Gabriel G. Nahas, Helene Peters, Cocaine: The Great White Plague, page 122:
glosses: Any white commodity seen as valuable.
Cocaine.
glosses: Platinum.
Russian gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its popularity in Russia in the early 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Rose gold.
rose gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose golds
Senses: synonyms: pink gold
red gold
Russian gold
glosses: A gold-copper alloy used in jewelry for its reddish color.
examples: text: I walk around the house, billowy clouds reflecting a rose-gold sunset.
ref: 1998, Douglas Hobbie, This Time Last Year, page 125:
text: […] as she watched the Middle Eastern sun paint Jerusalem stones bathed in rose-gold.
ref: 2007, L. A. Banks, The Cursed, unnumbered page:
text: Over the bikini she pulled on the rose-gold dress that was so loose and flowing, and yet so sensual.
ref: 2018, Carol Marinelli, Claiming His Hidden Heir, unnumbered page:
glosses: An orange-pink color, similar to the alloy.
prosodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈzɒdɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɒdɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /pɹəˈzɑdɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /pɹəˈsɑdɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /pɹəˈzɒdɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /pɹəˈsɒdɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈzɔdɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɔdɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈzɒdɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɒdɪk/
Forms: form: more prosodic
form: most prosodic
Senses: synonyms: prosodiac
prosodiacal
prosodial
prosodical
glosses: Of, or relating to, prosody.
Derived terms: aprosodic
extraprosodic
microprosodic
nonprosodic
prosodical
prosodically
prosodicity
prosodic unit
toothaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothache
coldsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold sleep
Etymology: From cold + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough.
ref: 1941 August, Robert A. Heinlein, “Methuselah's Children”, in John W. Campbell, editor, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 6:
text: He had always believed Arcadia lovely, an undespoiled planet waiting for man like a bride, more than worth decades in coldsleep aboard a spaceship, toil and danger of pioneering, isolation from the rest of humankind.
ref: 1968 September, Poul Anderson, “The Faun”, in Boys' Life, volume 58, number 9, page 33:
synonyms: cryo
cryopreservation
cryosleep
glosses: A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
coldsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coldsleeps
form: coldsleeping
form: coldslept
form: coldslept
form: cold sleep
Etymology: From cold + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: Damnation, he was quite capable of refusing to let me cold-sleep.
ref: 1956 October, Robert A. Heinlein, “The Door into Summer”, in Anthony Boucher, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 11, number 4:
text: The escape capsule in which he'd cold-slept had had another minor malfunction that left him staring drugged and half conscious through the port glass at open space for two days before the cryogenic process had kicked in.
ref: 1990, Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, The Death of Sleep:
synonyms: cryopreserve
glosses: To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature; to engage in cryogenic sleep.
Related terms: aestivation
catatonic
comatose
cryogenic state
hibernation
hypersleep
suspended animation
torpor
vegetative state
tweeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweeter
Thomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thomist
forgathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forgather
forgathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgatherings
form: foregathering
Senses: glosses: A gathering together; an assembly.
forgathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foregathering
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forgather
forgathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forgather
dawn of a new day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A distant gleam shone through the weight of his troubles, seeming to promise the dawn of a new day.
ref: 1881, Georg Ebers [Clara Bell], chapter 15, in Der Kaiser [The Emperor]:
english: The Emperor
translation: The Emperor
text: This—this is the dawn of a new day in human living.
ref: 1914, H. G. Wells, "The World Set Free", section 8:
text: It’s the dawn of a new day—a new era, even—for the Queens Chamber of Commerce.
ref: 2007 November 29, Michael Cusenza, “New Leader Selected For Queens Chamber”, in Queens Tribune Online, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2008:
synonyms: new dawn
glosses: A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point.
timpanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timpanist
chloroforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chloroform
chloroforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chloroform
2 gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: II gauge
Senses: glosses: A model railway gauge of 64 mm, standardised in 1909 but since fallen into disuse.
Related terms: 1 gauge
perching birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perching bird
Jacobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bən/
ipa: /ˈdʒeɪk.ə.bən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒak.ə.bɪn/
Forms: form: Jacobins
Etymology: From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In reference to the Jacobin Club, from its 1789 founding at the former Dominican convent. In reference to the Syrian church, from Jacob bar Addai, bishop of Edessa during the mid-6th century.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
synonyms: word: Dominican
extra: a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter
examples: text: The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 429–30:
glosses: A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
glosses: A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
glosses: A leftist radical in other contexts.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
synonyms: word: Jacobite
extra: a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jacobin, various birds.
Derived terms: antijacobin
anti-Jacobin
jacobin
Jacobin cuckoo
Jacobinic
Jacobinical
Jacobinically
Jacobinism
Jacobinization
Jacobinize
Related terms: Jacobean
Jacobian
Jacobic
Jacobine
Jacobite
Jacobitic
Jacobitical
Jacobitish
Jacobin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bən/
ipa: /ˈdʒeɪk.ə.bən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒak.ə.bɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In reference to the Jacobin Club, from its 1789 founding at the former Dominican convent. In reference to the Syrian church, from Jacob bar Addai, bishop of Edessa during the mid-6th century.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.
examples: text: […] Mosse argued the most fascist and totalitarian in particular but also radical Jacobin regimes, continued to have an investment in not merely disciplining human bodies but harnessing their sense of glory toward worshiping themselves […]
ref: 2015, Matthew Quest, "George L. Mosse: Unconventional Historian", New Historian
glosses: Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
synonyms: word: Dominican
word: of or related to the Dominican Order
word: particularly its French chapter
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
synonyms: word: Jacobite
word: of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church
Synonyms: word: Jacobinic
word: Jacobinical
packs on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pack on
packing on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pack on
packed on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pack on