cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ubac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuː.bæk/
ipa: /ˈjuː.bæk/
ipa: /ˈu.bæk/
ipa: /ˈju.bæk/
Forms: form: ubacs
Etymology: Borrowed from Occitan ubac, from Latin opācus. Doublet of opaque.
Senses: examples: text: The distribution of barley is generally on the adret slope, the ubac seeming to be disregarded. A sunny slope is the most important natural factor in the cultivation of barley and wheat. Very rarely they are cultivated in ubac fields, but close investigation showed them to be of secondary adret nature. In this case seeds are sown a month earlier and mown ten days later than on the adret slope.
ref: 1942, Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography: Transactions, Titles and Abstracts, Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi [Science Council of Japan], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:
text: Viticulure in an alpine (Savoie) or sub-alpine environment (like the Jura) is a precarious activity […] Exposure, by contrast, exaggerates or modifies the quantity of the altitudinal elements in terms of ubac (shady) versus adret (sunny) positions, wet and dry positions, or windy and protected positions, respectively. The advantages of adret slopes, which are usually drier and more protected, are evident and of paramount importance. Adret aspects receive much higher levels of direct sunlight, which produces higher soil and plant temperatures.
ref: 1987, John J. Baxevanis, “The Wines of Savoie”, in The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern and Southern France, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 70–71:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
antonyms: adret
glosses: The shady side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, especially a north-facing slope.
fightworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fightworthy
form: most fightworthy
Etymology: From fight + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: […] being informed that Knut is still in England, but preparing for war, he sends home the less fightworthy part of his host [...]
ref: 1905, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library: Volume 6 - Page 149:
text: However, the Americans were not portrayed as fightworthy.
ref: 2000, Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm, Steven Spielberg: Interviews, page 78:
text: He was worthy—fightworthy, trick-worthy, magic-worthy. All he had to do now was jump.
ref: 2010, Laura Quimby, The Carnival of Lost Souls:
text: "[…] I'm normally more fightworthy than this, but he took me by surprise and had me sprawled before I knew what hit me."
ref: 2011, Debra White Smith, Lone Star Intrigue:
glosses: Worth being fought or fought for.
combatworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combatworthy
form: most combatworthy
Etymology: From combat + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: "Their Buships does not consider it combatworthy."
ref: 2005, John Ringo, Against the Tide:
text: In March 1937 the regime called up reemplazos from 1927 onward and mobilized combatworthy males in the Nationalist zone between the ages twenty-one and thirty-one.
ref: 2011, Stanley G. Payne, The Franco Regime, 1936-1975 - Page 135:
glosses: Worthy, ready, or fit for combat; fightworthy.
shunworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shunworthy
form: most shunworthy
Etymology: From shun + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of shunning or of being shunned; reproachable; avoidable.
spinworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinworthy
form: most spinworthy
Etymology: From spin + -worthy. In the sense relating to music, refers to the spinning of a record on a turntable.
Senses: qualifier: linen; fabric; linen; fabric
glosses: Worthy of being spun (into thread).
qualifier: song; recording; song; recording
glosses: Worthy of being played or listened to.
raw_tags: of a record
honnour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honnours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of honor.
honnour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: honnours
form: honnouring
form: honnoured
form: honnoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of honor.
areally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From areal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We propose in this paper to use the comparison of genetically and areally unrelated languages in the study of universals of semantic change
ref: 1985, Jacek Fisiak, Historical Semantics, Historical Word Formation, page 59:
glosses: With respect to area; over an area.
archpirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archpirates
form: arch-pirate
Etymology: From arch- + pirate.
Senses: examples: text: […] he says a man might deem there were as many archpirates as there were oars.
ref: 1869, William Barnes, Early England and the Saxon-English:
text: Not improbably those foreign aggressors, as they are naturally styled by the then owners — those archpirates, the host of Lochlinn — were invited to assist in resisting the Roman oppressors by natives who, sooner than submit, had retreated […]
ref: 1873, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire:
glosses: A leader of pirates.
arch-pirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-pirates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archpirate.
Heine-Borel theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the German mathematician Eduard Heine (1821–1881) and the French mathematician Émile Borel (1871–1956).
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem which states that for any subset S of an n-dimensional Euclidean space, S is compact if and only if it is both closed and bounded.
wikipedia: Eduard Heine
Émile Borel
prefixoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefixoids
Etymology: From prefix + -oid, coined c. 1966 by Yakov Malkiel.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A wordinitial segment that does not have all characteristics of a prefix.
Coordinate terms: suffixoid
Related terms: combining form
wordinitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: word-initial
Etymology: From word + initial.
Senses: examples: a wordinitial consonant cluster
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Occurring at the beginning of a word.
Coordinate terms: wordfinal
word-initial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wordinitial.
word-final
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wordfinal.
subspace topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspace topologies
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topology of a subset S of a topological space X which is obtained by considering any subset of S to be an open set if it corresponds to the intersection of S with some open set of X.
Synonyms: relative topology
earnester
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of earnest: more earnest
collor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of color.
collor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collors
form: colloring
form: collored
form: collored
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of color.
relative topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative topologies
Etymology: So called because open sets of such a (subspace) topology are defined in terms of open sets in the topology of the enclosing space.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: subspace topology
skedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skedules
form: schedule
Etymology: From Old French cedule ( > French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: The United States is the land of "skedule. ... I had only lived under "skedule" once before, and that for a short three weeks in tiny England. Now ... In the States, even a hero nervously clutches his "skedule" to heart or hip, as pockets determine.
ref: 1935, Friends' Intelligencer, Volume 92, Issues 27-52, Digitized edition, Pennsylvania State Univ., published 2010, page 567:
text: Chisum says to the Sheriff I can make out a skedule of what I have.
ref: 1972, Lily Klasner, John Simpson Chisum, My Girlhood Among Outlaws, Univ. of Arizona Prss, →ISBN, page 277:
text: At least theres more work on the skedule.
ref: 2008, Edward Streeter, Dere Mable (History), ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 6:
text: nor has he any income other than that is contained in the skedule here […] Skedule of Property […]
ref: 2009, Lelia Thornton Gentry, Chpt Dar Ga Chpt Da, Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 165:
text: The league has its skedule meeting here to-morrow […]
ref: 2011, Ring Lardner, You Know Me All, Transactions Publishers, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Dated form of schedule.
skedule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skedules
form: skeduling
form: skeduled
form: skeduled
form: schedule
Etymology: From Old French cedule ( > French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: The Request for Proposal (RFP) is skeduled for release in mid-July.
ref: 1994, Black Congressional Monitor, Volumes 8-10, Digitized edition, Len Mor Publications, published 2011, page 39:
text: […] since my Hairdresser can no longer claim that she was not aware of the Date for our Regularly Skeduled Appointments.
ref: 1999, Andrew Glassner, Recreational Computer Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Dated form of schedule.
smooth manifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth manifolds
Senses: glosses: A manifold which is infinitely differentiable (C ᪲).
Synonyms: differentiable manifold
Hypernyms: topological manifold
Hyponyms: Riemannian manifold
touring company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touring companies
Senses: examples: text: Last fall's strike by the New York City Opera orchestra killed the company's regular season, but it did not cast its shadow over the endeavors of its touring troupe. . . . The touring company was established in 1979 by Beverly Sills as a kind of training troupe in which promising young singers could get some performing and touring experience before joining the company's regular roster.
ref: 1990 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “City Opera's 'Boheme' Tour Has Early Stop in Brooklyn”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2012:
text: I never saw the original production of Hair, but I did catch the show a couple of years after its 1968 Broadway debut, when the touring company came to San Francisco.
ref: 2008 July 31, Richard Zoglin, “A New Dawn for Hair”, in Time:
text: Jones won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in 1953, and soon joined its touring company.
ref: 2011 January 4, Victoria Summerley, “The Royal Ballet's history through an insider's lens”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 12 Jul 2012:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A troupe of theatrical, musical, or other performers who constitute an ancillary unit of an established company of performers, and who usually provide entertainment at locations other than the main venue where the established company performs.
Related terms: B team
second string
abrocome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ɹəˌkoʊm/
Forms: form: abrocomes
Etymology: From New Latin abrocoma, from Ancient Greek ἁβροκόμης (habrokómēs, “with delicate hair”), from ἁβρός (habrós, “splendid, delicate”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).
Senses: glosses: Either of the ratlike rodents that form the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.
abrocomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrocome
company man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company men
Senses: examples: text: [B]oth sides accuse him of favoring the other. Certain players have accused him of being a company man.
ref: 1957 Feb. 16, Ralph Bernstein (AP), "Bell ‘Savior’ of Pro Football," Spokesman-Review (USA), p. 58 (retrieved 12 July 2012)
text: What was expected of men, it seemed, was to be a company man. Foster (1969:156) refers to this as the assumption that "achievement of organizational goals represents the highest value."
ref: 1981, Donald Alan Messerschmidt, Anthropologists at Home in North America, →ISBN, page 226:
text: "He was an old-fashioned company man. He lived and breathed Columbia Pictures."
ref: 1997 August 21, James Sterngold, “Leo Jaffe, Hollywood Deal Maker, Dies at 88”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2012:
text: Like virtually every other director in the '30s and '40s, Ford was obliged to be a company man, rankling under his boss's gaze.
ref: 2007 September 26, Richard Corliss, “John Ford at Fox”, in Time:
synonyms: organization man
suit
yes man
glosses: A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
examples: text: But many say he nevertheless is more in the mold of the quiet, no-questions-asked company men who built the C.I.A. in the 1960's and 70's and ran it in the 80's.
ref: 1990 November 20, Michael Wines, “Washington at Work: After 30 Years in Shadows, a Spymaster Emerges”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Jul 2012:
text: Body of Lies is set in the grim and violent world of Middle East counter-terrorism. Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is the CIA’s man on the front line. . . . His every move is instructed and monitored by his boss Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), a fast-talking and amoral company man running the war on terrorism via satellite.
ref: 2008 November 24, James Luxford, “REVIEW: Body Of Lies”, in entertainmentwise.com, retrieved 13 Jul 2012:
glosses: A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
glosses: A male homosexual.
organization man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organization men
form: organisation man
Senses: examples: text: As a result, the cultural divide between the hippie and the organisation man has now become rather fuzzy.
ref: 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of company man.
synonyms: word: company man
abrotanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɑt.n̩.əm/
Forms: form: abrotanums
Etymology: From Medieval Latin, from Latin abrotonum, from Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, “wormwood, southernwood”).
Senses: glosses: A bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer, southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.
abrotanums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrotanum
abrotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bɹəˌtin/
Forms: form: abrotines
Etymology: From Medieval Latin abrotanum (“wormwood”) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained from abrotanum, C₂₁H₂₂N₂O.
abrotines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrotine
abruptio placentae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.ʃiˌoʊ pləˈsɛnˌti/
ipa: /ɑˈbɹʊp.tiˌoʊ plɑˈkɛnˌti/
Forms: form: abruptio placentarum
form: abruptiones placentarum
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin abruptiō placentae (literally “a breaking off of the placenta”).
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ablatio placentae
placental abruption
glosses: A premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall.
abruptio placentarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.ʃiˌoʊ ˌplæs.n̩ˈtæ.ɹəm/
ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.ʃiˌoʊ ˌplɑ.kɛnˈtɑˌɹʊm/
Senses: glosses: plural of abruptio placentae
abruptiones placentarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə.bɹʌp.ʃiˈoʊ.niz ˌplæs.n̩ˈtæ.ɹəm/
ipa: /ə.bɹʌp.tiˈoʊˌneɪs ˌplæs.n̩ˈtæ.ɹəm/
ipa: /ə.bɹʌp.ʃiˈoʊ.niz ˌplɑˌkɛnˈtɑ.ɹʊm/
ipa: /ə.bɹʌp.tiˈoʊˌneɪs ˌplɑˌkɛnˈtɑ.ɹʊm/
Senses: glosses: plural of abruptio placentae
Abruzzi ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈbɹut.si/
ipa: /əˈbɹut.si/
Etymology: From Italian [Term?]; named after the area it came from, Abruzzi e Molise, a compartimento of Italy.
Senses: glosses: Ornate Italian pottery from the 15th century.
Absaroka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɑ.ɹə.kə/
Forms: form: Absarokas
form: Absaroka
form: Absaroke
form: Absarokee
form: Upsaroka
Etymology: Borrowed from Dakota Absaroka (literally “crow people, bird people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Siouan people from between the Platte and the Yellowstone Rivers; the Crow.
Absarokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Absaroka
Absaroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɑ.ɹə.ki/
ipa: /æbˈsoɹ.ki/
Forms: form: Absaroke
form: Absarokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Absaroka.
Absarokee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɑ.ɹə.ki/
ipa: /æbˈsoɹ.ki/
Forms: form: Absarokee
form: Absarokees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Absaroka.
Absarokees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Absarokee
Absarokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Absaroke
abscess root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɛs ɹut/
ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs ɹut/
Senses: glosses: A perennial, blue-flowered herb from the eastern United States, Polemonium reptans.
JAXA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk.sə/
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: Acronym of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
FKA
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: related: word: f.k.a.
word: fka
word: f/k/a
glosses: Initialism of formerly known as.
FKA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: Synonym of RKA.
synonyms: word: RKA
abscissio infiniti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪ.siˌoʊ ɪn.fəˈni.ti/
Forms: form: abscissiones infiniti
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abscissio infiniti (“abscission of that which is infinite”).
Senses: glosses: A logical process of elimination by eliminating successively all of the inapplicable cases.
abscissiones infiniti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌsɪ.siˈoʊˌniz ˌɪn.fəˈni.ti/
Senses: glosses: plural of abscissio infiniti
abscission layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩ ˈleɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩ ˈleɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlɜ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlɜ.ɚ/
Forms: form: abscission layers
form: absciss layer
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer of cells in a plant that differ from those above and below, and contain abundant starch and dense cytoplasm, which upon disorganization, begin the process of abscission, or the natural separation of the leaf from the rest of the plant.
abscission layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abscission layer
Okinawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Okinawan
abscission zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩ ˈzoʊn/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩ ˈzoʊn/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩ ˈzəʊn/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩ ˈzəʊn/
Forms: form: abscission zones
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The area in a plant's leaf, stem, or fruit stalk, where the abscission layer if formed along with weakened sclerenchyma, absent collenchyma, and dense cytoplasm.
abscission zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abscission zone
subclavian arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclavian artery
hearership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hearer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Hence also it is said : — "More than any earthly power, "More than all the joys of heaven, "More than rule o'er all the worlds," Is the fruit of 'Hearership.' [...]"
ref: 1907, Nyanatiloka (Bhikkhu.), The Word of the Buddha:
text: And, wedged in between sinner and heretic, critic and doubter, and all the motley elements of the casual hearership, are the citizens of this Zion — young people joining in the service with palpable zest; [...]
ref: 1912, Hugh Sinclair, Voices of to-day:
text: Gaze is central to these processes and Goodwin (1981) has shown both that the addressee's gaze towards the speaker is central in establishing hearership and that in the normal course of a speaking turn the addressee should bring his/her [...]
ref: 1989, Derek Roger, Peter Bull, Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective:
text: Zimmerman draws attention to the other side of Goffman's concept of footing, "participation framework," which Goffman divides into addressed or unaddressed hearership and a ratified or unratified hearership.
ref: 2003, A. Javier Treviño, Goffman's Legacy:
glosses: The state of being a hearer; hearers collectively; audience; listenership.
standard topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topology of the real number system generated by a basis which consists of all open balls (in the real number system), which are defined in terms of the one-dimensional Euclidean metric.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topology of a Euclidean space ℝⁿ such that any subset of that space is open (i.e. belonging to the topology) if it can be written as a union of open balls from that space.
bitsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bitsy: more bitsy
bitsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bitsy: most bitsy
diving platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving platforms
Senses: synonyms: diving tower
coordinate_terms: diving board
glosses: structure used for competitive diving, consisting of a vertical rigid tower with one or more horizontal platforms extending out over a deep pool of water.
peek-a-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peekaboo.
peek-a-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “You have a bad cold? No wonder! If I went around with a peek-a-boo coat, no waistcoat and a sleeveless shirt, I would have a cold too, and serve me right.”
ref: 1922 February, Poiret, “The Clothes of Women”, in The O. A. C. Review, volume XXXIV, number 6, London, Ont.: The Ontario Agricultural College Students’ Publishing Association, page 242, column 1:
text: It had made its reputation selling peek-a-boo jeans in the last days of the hard rock concerts.
ref: 1982, Victoria Webb, A Little Ladykilling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Next came the more conservative black peek-a-boo swimsuit that covered more than it seemed.
ref: 2002, Natalie Dunbar, Everything but Love, Genesis Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 52:
text: Wayne would smile back, but that’s all; her beauty, coupled with her sexy perfume and low cut peek-a-boo dress, left him a little awestruck.
ref: 2003, David Roland, The Last Drive to Vegas, 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 174:
text: You’ve got a peek-a-boo skirt that shows off your best assets!
ref: 2007, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng, Melissa Rannels, Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture, The Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 107, column 2:
text: Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados.
ref: 2016, Christopher Carr, Mayday, 2nd edition, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of peekaboo.
peek-a-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peek-a-boos
form: peek-a-booing
form: peek-a-booed
form: peek-a-booed
Senses: examples: text: The rose stands to me for the sunshine / That helps to make all burdens light; / And silver I’d use for the star-shine / That peek-a-boos through the dark night.
ref: 1927, Audrey E. Cann, “Silver and Rose”, in The Year Book, Marlborough, Mass.: Marlborough High School, page 18:
text: It was the same sun of forty years before, when I had wanted to believe it was no bigger than a sunflower; the same sun peek-a-booing through the palm trees in Miami since I was a child; the same sun my soul had taken in countless times rising over the ocean.
ref: 2013, Richard Blanco, For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: She was wearing a stiff maroon saree and as she talked, her lacy black bra peek-a-booed from under her blouse.
ref: 2015, SJ Sindu, “Husband Hunting”, in Rosalie Morales Kearns, editor, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, Albany, N.Y.: Shade Mountain Press, →ISBN, part III (Entanglements), page 172:
glosses: Alternative form of peekaboo.
peek-a-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: So he took a deep breath, popped up with a six gun in each hand, and said, “Peek-a-boo!” as he opened up at point blank range with both of them!
ref: 1981, Ramsay Thorne (pseudonym; Lou Cameron), Citadel of Death (Renegade; 11), New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: One of the shooters looked under a desk and found 17-year-old Kacey Ruegsegger cowering there. He said “Peek-a-boo” and shot her at nearly point-blank range.
ref: 2000, Gregory K. Moffatt, “Homicide by Children, Part II: Columbine”, in Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Daniel started playing peek-a-boo with his son, who was using Ayse’s dark hair as a hiding place. The boy laughed every time Daniel would surprise him, saying, “peek-a-boo,” as he did.
ref: 2003, Charles Sobczak, A Choice of Angels, Sanibel Island, Fla.: Indigo Press LLC, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Alternative form of peekaboo.
product topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product topologies
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topology of the Cartesian product of two or more topological spaces which is generated from a basis whose elements are Cartesian products of open subsets of the original spaces, such that for each such Cartesian product only a finite quantity of such subsets are proper.
Related terms: box topology
mixed company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . ."
"Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company."
ref: 1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 5, in Clever Woman of the Family:
text: "Took 'er home all right, did yuh?" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company.
ref: 1908, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Long Shadow:
text: Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
ref: 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
text: "Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company."
ref: 2001 June 24, Leon Jaroff, “The Man's Cancer”, in Time:
text: Only a Cancer female can describe in mixed company a night spent with a lover and a double-sided dildo without a sniff of shame or irony.
ref: 2004, Stella Starsky, Quinn Cox, Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes, page 189:
glosses: Men and women, both present at a gathering.
Dacres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæk.ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈdæk.əɹz/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Dacre
inverse system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse systems
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of algebraic structures (which are part of a concrete category; e.g., groups) and a set of morphisms between them (e.g., group homomorphisms) which all together form a small category which is the image of a contravariant functor whose domain is a directed poset.
Related terms: inverse limit
inverse limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse limits
Senses: examples: text: An inverse limit has “natural projections” which are restrictions of the projections of the Cartesian product (to a domain which is the inverse limit). The reason why the projections are described as “natural” would be the following: besides the functor from an index poset to the inverse system, there is another functor from the same index poset to the inverse limit of that system, this functor being a constant functor. Then there is a natural transformation from the constant functor to the inverse limit’s functor: the components of such natural transformation are the said “natural projections”.
text: Inverse limits are concrete-categorical versions of limits.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of the Cartesian product of all the members of an inverse system, such that a member M of the subset is a sort of “cross section” of the inverse system (as fiber bundle) induced by the morphisms of it. (If i<j in the indexing poset then f_ij:A_j→A_i in the inverse system and if a_i∈A_i, a_j∈A_j are components of M then f_ij(a_j)=a_i).
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a limit
Synonyms: projective limit
Related terms: inverse system
conceptual fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptual fallacies
Senses: glosses: A fallacy due to a misunderstanding or misapplication of concepts, or of the relationships between concepts.
Diedre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪədri/
Etymology: From Irish Deirdre.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, variant of Deirdre.
byfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byfalls
Etymology: From by- + fall. Compare befall.
Senses: examples: text: The ceremonies are as it were an income or a byfall.
ref: 1575, Arthur Golding, Calvin on Psalms:
glosses: A falling about; an incidental accessory or accretion; a happenstance; occurrence; instance.
examples: text: There was the small byfall to which I have referred; there was the weir proper; there was a broadish lasher, the whole between them making a very fair description of tumbling bay, flanked by strong, individual streams.
ref: 1888, William Senior, Near and far:
glosses: A fall of water, usually lesser in size, near to or beside a larger, more predominant waterfall.
byground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bygrounds
form: by-ground
Etymology: From by- + ground.
Senses: glosses: Ground or a piece of ground lying out of the way.
glosses: A secondary ground or cause.
onhanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onhangers
form: on-hanger
Etymology: From on- + hanger. Compare West Frisian oanhinger, Dutch aanhanger, German Anhänger.
Senses: examples: text: He was one of Queen Mary's Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth's Protestants ; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon, and now he lives as master of the manor-house.
ref: 1821, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley:
text: The seemingly widespread belief that aphasia is almost exclusively an onhanger of the apoplectic state seems to necessitate emphasizing the fact that some.
ref: 1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of diseases of the nervous system:
text: The form is has no place in these sentences and seems to have been imported into them as an onhanger of it.
ref: 1974, Anne D. Pick, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology:
glosses: That which, or one who, hangs on to, relies on, or is dependent upon another; a dependent.
Related terms: hanger-on
absence without leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absences without leave
form: absent without leave
form: AWOL
Senses: glosses: The military offense of not being present when expected without proper authority.
absente reo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɛn.ti ˈɹi.oʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin absente reō.
Senses: glosses: The defendant being absent.
absentest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: absent + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of absent: most absent
absentest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: absent + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of absent
absent over leave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: AOL
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Failing to return from leave or liberty on time.
absent voter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absent voters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of absentee voter.
absent voters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absent voter
absent without leave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: AWOL
form: awol
form: a.w.o.l.
form: A.W.O.L.
Senses: glosses: In the armed forces, being absent from one's post without prior authorization.
absidiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absidioles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apsidiole.
absidioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absidiole
thars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thar
camel spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camel spider
skunkweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skunkweed
absinthe green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪnθ ɡɹin/
Senses: glosses: A moderate yellow green.
glosses: A moderate yellow green.
absinthe green:
absinthe green
absinthe oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪnθ ɔɪl/
Senses: synonyms: absinthium
glosses: A dark green narcotic oil derived from wormwood and used in liqueurs; wormwood oil.
forda
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /fɔɹdə/
Etymology: Compound between English words for, and the in informal speech. From the early 2020s.
Senses: glosses: down (comfortable [with]) for something
absinthe yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪnθ ˈjɜ.loʊ/
Senses: glosses: A grayish, greenish yellow.
absinthine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌsɪn.θən/
ipa: /ˈæbˌsɪn.θaɪn/
Forms: form: more absinthine
form: most absinthine
Etymology: From absinthe + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Like absinthe.
what's good for the goose is good for the gander
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From earlier what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (1670s). Other early forms include “as deep drinketh the goose as the gander” (1562).
Senses: glosses: Literally, what is good for a female goose is equally good for a male goose (gander); or, what is good for a woman should be equally good for a man.
glosses: If something is good for one person, it should be equally good for another person; someone who treats another in a certain way should not complain if the same is done to them.
nurse-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nurse-ins
Etymology: From nurse + -in, by analogy with sit-in.
Senses: examples: text: A nationwide nurse-in descended on Target stores this week after a mom in Texas complained when employees said she could not feed her baby in the store.
ref: 2011 December 31, Beth Brelje, “Mother defends breastfeeding in public despite criticism”, in Pocono Record, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012:
glosses: A demonstration in which women gather in public to breastfeed their children.
Related terms: lactivism
nurse-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nurse-in
banded mongooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banded mongoose
company town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company towns
Senses: examples: text: The workmen lived farther along the line, in a sort of company town, which at present greatly resembled a Western mining-camp, though ultimately it was to be a bungalow town.
ref: 1917, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 5, in The Treasure-Train:
text: Now here we have a company town depicted by our authority in the UMW [United Mine Workers] as one of the worst imaginable company towns, where the employer ran the schools, the local administration of justice, and even the churches.
ref: 1946 May 29, Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough”, in Reading Eagle, page 4:
text: Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.
ref: 1994 October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022:
text: The firm's sprawling factory complexes lie only a short distance from the town center, and, as in any company town, the paychecks of Toyota employees are the main source of support for its restaurants and shops.
ref: 2010 February 10, Michael Schuman, “At Toyota's Home Base, Townspeople Are Worried”, in TIME, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2012:
glosses: A town, city, or other municipality in which a single large business has a controlling influence over the economy and, sometimes, over the societal structure and the local government.
Related terms: company store
absit omen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪt ˈoʊ.mn̩/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absit omen (“may what is said not come true”, literally “may omen be absent”).
Senses: examples: text: Now it was very obvious we should require a much stronger Navy in the event of war, say with France and Russia—absit omen—if we were obliged to maintain our flag in the Mediterranean, than if we were to withdraw from the Mediterranean.
ref: 1895 March 18, Henry Labouchere, SUPPLY—NAVY ESTIMATES, 1895–6. Hansard HC Deb vol 31 c.1295
text: It was only after the younger branch annexed the elder in 679 that Tsin became powerful and began to expand; and it was only when a policy of "home rule" and disintegration set in, involving the splitting up of Tsin's orthodox power into three royal states of doubtful orthodoxy, that China fell a prey to Ts'in ambition. Absit omen to us.
ref: 1908, Edward Harper Parker, chapter XXII, in Ancient China Simplified, Chapman & Hall:
synonyms: word: God forbid
word: heaven forfend
word: absit omen
word: heaven forbid
word: God forfend
word: I should hope not
glosses: May what is said not come true.
bomoh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomohs
Etymology: From Malay bomoh.
Senses: examples: text: “She got one Chinese bomoh giving her black magic.”
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 267:
glosses: A Malay shaman or witch doctor.
armourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armourist
interior angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interior angle
two-hander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-handers
Senses: glosses: Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
A two-handed sword.
hyponyms: Zweihänder
examples: text: She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.
ref: 2002, Amy L. Talford, Dying to Meet You, page 142:
text: The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.
ref: 2007, Sheree Puccio, Meet Me at Crossbones, page 23:
glosses: Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
A food item requiring two hands to eat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Two-handed backhand.
examples: text: In May 2011, Chéreau came to the Young Vic theatre in London to direct I Am the Wind, a 70-minute two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse, which Michael Billington in the Guardian found "hypnotic", admiring the production's "visual bravura".
ref: 2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.
ref: 2021, Jenelle Riley, Variety:
text: All the President's Men, the 1976 chronicle of the exposé of Watergate that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, is a consummate two-hander with Hoffman.
ref: 2025 September 20, Nicolas Rapold, “Obituary: Robert Redford”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
examples: text: Ambidexterity is represented by such names as […] Sir Daniel Wilson […] whom, after nearly eighty years of Ambidextral experience as a highly developed two-hander […]
ref: 1905, John Jackson, Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness:
glosses: An ambidextrous person.
reefings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reefing
inhabiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhabiter
enhabits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhabit
enhabiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enhabit
enhabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enhabit
doe party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doe parties
Etymology: By analogy with stag party.
Senses: examples: text: There was a doe party for a young girl who was getting married in a week; […]
ref: 1983, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis, Lightning That Lingers, Loveswept, published 2011, →ISBN:
glosses: A party held for a woman who is about to be married.
doe parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doe party
company store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company stores
form: company-store
Senses: examples: text: Skeelty, who thought he knew how to manage these people, allowed every man, at the close of work on Saturday, to purchase a pint of whiskey from the company store, charging an exorbitant price that netted a huge profit.
ref: 1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 9, in Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:
text: In the year and more that he had worked, faithfully and persistently, to get out coal for Peter Harrigan, he had never once been able to get ahead of his bill for the necessities of life at Old Peter's store. . . . [I]n any case, the best he could hope for in life was to work for some other Harrigan, and run into debt at some other company-store.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, chapter 26, in King Coal:
text: You load sixteen tons what do you get—
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store.
ref: 1946, Merle Travis, “Sixteen Tons”:
topics: business
glosses: A retailer of provisions and general merchandise, owned by a firm which operates a mine or other industry nearby, and at which the firm's employees are required to shop, to pay high prices, and to make payments through payroll deductions or a truck system, typically resulting in the accumulation of considerable employee indebtedness.
Synonyms: industrial store
Related terms: company town
company-store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company-stores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of company store.
industrial store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial stores
Senses: glosses: Synonym of company store.
synonyms: word: company store
prop blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop blasts
Senses: synonyms: prop wash
hypernyms: blast#Noun
wash#Noun
coordinate_terms: jet wash
downwash
glosses: The blast of air created by an airplane propeller.
Related terms: propfan
turboprop
shower of shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showers of shit
form: shower of shite
Senses: examples: text: It looks likes we're in for a shower of shit.
text: Terribly big name of course, but the writing . . . well, I'm afraid it isn't . . . well, to be quite candid about it, it's a perfect shower of shit. Pity.
ref: 1966, Patrick Dennis, Tony:
text: The whole month here has been one long shower of shit about America, just because we took a punch at the Libyans.
ref: 1989, P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in hell:
glosses: A mass of something poor.
examples: text: You shower of shit don't have the right to wear a uniform.
text: For Christ's sake, lay off one another – do you hear? You fucking miserable shower of shit.
ref: 1977, Archie Hill, A cage of shadows:
text: Never again would the Stones hear his immortal, “Come on my little showers of shit, you're on,” as he herded them towards the stage of some gigantic auditorium.
ref: 2006, Nick Talevski, Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries, page 619:
text: 'Right, lad, stand up! You're going up to A2 landing.' Ronnie was slow to respond, so the screw dragged him to his feet, shouting as though they were on a parade ground. 'Come along, come along! Move yourself, you steaming shower of shit!'
ref: 2009, Larry Harrison, Glimpses of a Floating World, page 21:
synonyms: shower
glosses: An individual or group.
penall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penall
form: most penall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penal.
bride-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brides-to-be
Etymology: From bride + -to-be.
Senses: examples: text: The etiquette of a royal wedding might vary according to the status of those entering into wedlock, but wherever possible it was preferred that a foreign bride-to-be should make the journey to be married, and settled, in England.
ref: 2011, Emily Brand, Royal Weddings, Shire Publications, published 2011, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: groom-to-be
glosses: A woman who is soon to be married.
brides-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bride-to-be
prop shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop shafts
form: propshaft
Senses: glosses: propeller shaft; driveshaft.
anti-labor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-labor
form: most anti-labor
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antilabor.
anti-labour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-labour
form: most anti-labour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-labor.
antilabour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilabour
form: most antilabour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antilabor.
prop shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prop shaft
absolute of enfleurage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut əv ɑn.fluˈɹɑʒ/
Forms: form: absolutes of enfleurage
Senses: glosses: A concentration obtained during the enfleurage process, by removal of the alcohol from the extracts of the pomade.
absolute altitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut/
ipa: /ˈæl.tɪˌtud/
ipa: /ˈæl.tɪˌtjud/
Forms: form: absolute altitudes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The vertical distance between the airplane and the surface below.
rainshower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainshowers
Etymology: From Middle English rayne-shour, reyne showre, from Old English reġnsċūr, equivalent to rain + shower. Cognate with Icelandic regnskúr (“rainshower”).
Senses: examples: text: Under these circumstances, fair weather, with just scattered cumulus clouds in the afternoon, will prevail for about 2 or 3 days with very little, if any, rainshower activity
ref: 1944, United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Division, Studies on local forecasting:
text: A brief rainshower falling on the smooth surface of fine-grained sediment spatters it with tiny crater-like pittings known as rain prints.
ref: 1993, P. M. Duff, Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology:
text: Thomas Jefferson was laid to rest in the Monticello graveyard at 5:00 P.m. on July 5, during a soft summer rainshower.
ref: 2002, Jerry Holmes, Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, page 308:
glosses: Alternative form of rain shower.