cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
play the field
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the field
form: playing the field
form: played the field
form: played the field
Senses: topics: hobbies
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To cut one's losses by betting on every racehorse other than the crowd favorite.
examples: text: He says I'm the only one, but my friends say he's playing the field.
text: I know you got charm and appeal / You always play the field / I'm crazy to think you're all mine
ref: 1980, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, “Upside Down”, in Diana, performed by Diana Ross:
text: In a world where you can get a sexual partner faster than a pizza delivery, it has never been easier to play the field.
ref: 2020 January 28, Lizzie Cernik, “The power of celibacy: ‘Giving up sex was a massive relief’”, in The Guardian:
text: But ostriches in breeding season are relentlessly promiscuous, with both males and females seeking liaisons with multiple partners. No doubt they have their reasons. But from an evolutionary perspective, playing the field is a way to get diverse DNA into as many nests as possible and compensate for the fact that most nests fail.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
glosses: To have numerous romantic partners, without or before committing exclusively to one.
no diggity
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊ ˈdɪɡɪti/
Etymology: Compare African American Vernacular English dig, diggety.
Senses: examples: text: I like the way you work it / No diggity, I got to bag it up, bag it up
ref: 1996, “No Diggity”, performed by Blackstreet ft. Dr. Dre:
text: “I think we’re the only ones singing an original song,” I whisper in Galleria’s ear. ¶ She pokes me in the stomach and says, “No diggity, no doubt!”
ref: 2015, Deborah Gregory, Hey, Ho, Hollywood! The Cheetah Girls, Book 4, page 53:
glosses: No doubt.
wikipedia: African American Vernacular English
pedometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
ipa: /pɪˈdɒmətə/
Forms: form: pedometers
Etymology: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, combining form for Latin pēs (“foot”), plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). By surface analysis, pedo- (“foot”) + -meter = pedo- + -ometer.
Senses: examples: text: He thought that buying a pedometer would spur him on to exercise.
text: A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.
ref: 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
recipiangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recipiangles
Senses: glosses: An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.
fastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːsənɪŋ/
Etymology: From fasten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fasten
fastening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːsənɪŋ/
Forms: form: fastenings
Etymology: From fasten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Rail Accident Investigation Branch's preliminary examination of the site of a cement train derailment at Sheffield station on November 11 found that a series of rail fastenings had broken, some before the accident, causing the tracks to spread under the train.
ref: 2020 December 16, “Network News: Broken fastenings caused derailment”, in Rail, page 13:
synonyms: fastener
closure
glosses: A hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together; fastener.
cute as a bug's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: LISA: I'm an ugmo.
HOMER: Now, that's not true. You're cute as a bug's ear.
LISA: Fathers have to say that stuff.
ref: 1992, "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (episode of The Simpsons animated TV series)
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very cute; adorable.
carbon oxychloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of carbonyl chloride.
carbonyl chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: More of a French term. Phosgène. We prefer to call it carbonyl chloride. Less. . .disquieting, somehow.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic gas, COCl₂, used in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides etc, and once used as a chemical weapon.
Synonyms: carbon oxychloride
phosgene
phosgene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒsd͡ʒiːn/
ipa: /ˈfɒzd͡ʒiːn/
Forms: form: phosgenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) + -gene, due to its first synthesis involving sunlight.
Senses: examples: text: “‘Poison gas’?” A new one on Lew. But Dr. De Bottle had taken on a somber look. “Phosgene.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265:
text: Remote and cold, H-276 is nevertheless of interest due to phosgene gas in its thick chlorine atmosphere. This could indicate primitive chlorine-based life. However, no detailed study has been completed.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: H-276, Pytheas System:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbonyl chloride
Derived terms: diphosgene
phosgene oxime
phosgenic
thiophosgene
triphosgene
synaesthesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synaesthesia
broached spire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broached spires
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An octagonal spire rising from a square tower without a parapet, with pyramidal forms at the angles.
yellowhammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowhammer
xerophthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Forms: form: more xerophthalmic
form: most xerophthalmic
Etymology: From xerophthalmia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: After becoming deficient in vitamin A, the patient became xerophthalmic.
glosses: Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
xylographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylographer
xylophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylophage
Grand Prix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: partly anglicised
ipa: /ɡɹɑ̃ ˈpɹiː/
note: partly anglicised
ipa: /ɡɹɒ̃ ˈpɹiː/
note: UK, anglicised
ipa: /ɡɹɒn ˈpɹiː/
ipa: /ɡɹæn(d)ˈpɹiː/
ipa: /ɡɹɑn ˈpɹiː/
Forms: form: Grands Prix
form: grand prix
form: GP
Etymology: Borrowed from French Grand Prix, from Grand Prix de Paris (“Great Prize of Paris”), an international horserace at Longchamps.
Senses: glosses: An international motorsport race, especially one part of a Formula One series.
glosses: A major sporting event or award in any field.
Derived terms: eprix
ePrix
chapelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapelries
Etymology: From Old French chapelerie, corresponding to chapel + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 59:
glosses: The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
lifeform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeforms
form: life form
form: life-form
Etymology: From life + form.
Senses: glosses: Any specific living organism.
shafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shaft
shafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shafted
form: most shafted
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a shaft.
examples: text: Arms Azure, a hart's head cabossed and attired or, between the attires a dirk ppr. shafted gules, point downwards.
ref: 1907, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, page 169:
text: […] a dexter cubit arm, in armour, ppr., garnished or, gules, cinctured with a bracelet, sa., holding a Danish battle-axe, proper, shafted gules, garnished or, for WOLRICH.
ref: 1852, Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852, page 1287:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
qualifier: axe; etc; axe; etc
glosses: Having a shaft (or handle) of a specified tincture, typically different from the head.
raw_tags: of a spear
glosses: Cheated; screwed; ripped off.
Derived terms: red-shafted flicker
yellow-shafted flicker
abcoulomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.kuˈlɑm/
Forms: form: abcoulombs
Etymology: From ab- (“absolute”) + coulomb.
Senses: glosses: A unit of electromagnetic charge equal to ten coulombs.
drama queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drama queens
Senses: examples: text: If he is thwarted in his effort to enjoy them, he may either go to the dogs or the drama queens, become short-tempered, sullen, grouchy and eventually feel that, in a way he is a failure.
ref: 1923 December 10, The Washington Post:
text: I’ve known quite a few drama queens in my time, and I always have the same thought: She reminds me of junior high. Most girls are drama queens at that age.
ref: 2009, Mark Atteberry, So Much More Than Sexy, Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:
synonyms: word: attention whore
word: DQ
glosses: An overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a woman or a girl.
Derived terms: comma queen
drama queenery
drama queenish
drama queenism
drama queen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drama queens
form: drama queening
form: drama queened
form: drama queened
Senses: examples: text: Stop the drama queening. Stop the pity parties. You've maxed out. Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.
ref: 2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, Primitive Baptist Heritage Corporation / Lulu.com, page 337:
glosses: To behave in an exaggerately dramatic fashion.
Related terms: drama king
show-off
status dramaticus
discontented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-kən-tɛnt'əd
ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɛd/
Forms: form: more discontented
form: most discontented
Etymology: From dis- + contented.
Senses: examples: text: After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.
glosses: Experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.
examples: text: He lived a discontented life.
text: Clara, like many self-willed and discontented persons, was really very apt, without knowing it, to do as other people told her, and to let her destiny be decided for her by intelligences much below her own.
ref: 1912, Cather, Wil[el]la Sibert (author), The Bohemian Girl, published 1912, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2020:
glosses: Of or pertaining to discontent.
Derived terms: discontentedly
discontentedness
coulombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulomb
abcoulombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abcoulomb
mafioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mafiosos
form: mafiosi
Senses: examples: text: Ask any FBI man who's ever tried to harass a mafioso.
ref: 1988 August 19, Neil Elliot, “Copping Out”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mafioso.
clank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: clanks
Senses: glosses: A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
Derived terms: clankless
clanky
clank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: clanks
form: clanking
form: clanked
form: clanked
Senses: examples: text: The chains clanked.
text: Slung from his shoulders clanks a two-handed sword, the pommel a huge star-ruby carven in the image of a heart, for the heart is his sign and symbol.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: To make a clanking sound
examples: text: The prisoners clank their chains.
glosses: To cause to sound with a clank.
Derived terms: clanker
clankingly
dummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dummy
dummies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dummy
metaphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪkəl/
Forms: form: metaphysickal
Etymology: From Middle English metaphisicalle, methafisical, from Medieval Latin metaphysicālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
glosses: Being an adherent of the philosophy of metaphysics.
examples: text: The roots of authority, on the contrary, always had a metaphysical character.
ref: 1995, Julius Evola, “Regality”, in Guido Stucco, transl., Revolt against the Modern World, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, translation of Rivolta contro il mondo moderno, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Immaterial, supersensual, beyond the physical.
Derived terms: ametaphysical
antimetaphysical
antimetaphysicalism
extrametaphysical
hypermetaphysical
metametaphysical
metaphysicality
metaphysically
metaphysical naturalism
metaphysicalness
metaquotidian
nonmetaphysical
postmetaphysical
pseudometaphysical
unmetaphysical
Related terms: transcendental
controversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more controversal
form: most controversal
Etymology: From Latin contrōversus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: Facing opposite directions.
glosses: Subject to controversy; controversial.
littler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From little + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I've been his apprentice ever since I was little. Well...littler.
ref: 2010, Will Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, 3:00 from the start, in Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, directors, How To Train Your Dragon, spoken by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Jay Baruchel):
glosses: comparative form of little: more little
aularian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːˈlɛə.ɹi.ən/
other: /ˌɔˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
other: /ˌɑˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more aularian
form: most aularian
Etymology: From stem of Late Latin aularis (from Latin aula (“a hall”), from Ancient Greek αὐλά (aulá)) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In 1839 Lyceum Hall was built at Meeting-House Hill. Mr. Henry A. Clapp, writing of it, says, " Few buildings of its sort in New England have been allied in more intimate and diverse fashion to the life of a community during a half-century of what we may call aularian existence."
ref: 1893, William Dana Orcutt, Good old Dorchester: A Narrative history of the town, 1630-1893, page 184:
text: explore the text in terms of the traditional culture of this warrior society. Especially important to remember in this context is the enjoyment of aularian conviviality which the opening of the poem suggests,
ref: 1989, Rosemary N. Combridge, John L. Flood, Martin Durrell, "Mit regulu bithuungan": neue Arbeiten zur althochdeutschen Poesie:
text: The annex's interiors contain the refectory and large aularian hall, which are characterized by spatial ... The aularian hall on its trussed, wood/steel load-bearing structure offers a view to the east over a wide glass-clad opening
ref: 2002, Walter Zschokke, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a large hall.
aularian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːˈlɛə.ɹi.ən/
other: /ˌɔˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
other: /ˌɑˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: aularians
Etymology: From stem of Late Latin aularis (from Latin aula (“a hall”), from Ancient Greek αὐλά (aulá)) + -ian.
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A member of a hall rather than a college.
Related terms: collegian
flicflac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flicflacs
Senses: examples: W. M. Thackeray
He teaches pirouettes and flicflacs.
glosses: A brushing movement of the foot used in ballet as a connecting step.
brute force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːt ˈfɔːs/
ipa: /bɹut ˈfɔɹs/
Forms: form: brute-force
Senses: examples: text: We lifted the car by brute force.
text: Chloe pulled the leaflet out of Annabelle’s hand. There were some advantages to being the older sister; sometimes you could use brute force.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A method of accomplishing something primarily by means of strength, without the use of great skill, mechanical aids or thought.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A method of computation wherein the computer is let to try all permutations of a problem until one is found that provides a solution, in contrast to the implementation of a more intelligent algorithm.
Related terms: brute strength
trial and error
Military incompetence
brute force
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːt ˈfɔːs/
ipa: /bɹut ˈfɔɹs/
Forms: form: brute forces
form: brute forcing
form: brute forced
form: brute forced
form: brute-force
Senses: examples: text: "In trying to solve the problem in this simplified space, it does different things than it did when it was brute forcing its way through the original space."
ref: 1960, Scott Cameron, Marshall Clinton Yovits, Self-organizing Systems: Proceedings - Page 187:
glosses: To solve (a computational problem) by brute force.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To break a password, encryption, or any other protection mechanism by brute force.
Related terms: shotgun approach
brute de forge
sought-after
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sought-after
form: most sought-after
form: sought after
Senses: examples: text: The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the much sought-after red wines.
glosses: Popular, desired, in demand.
sons of guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of a gun
in no uncertain terms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The latter held up the lamp where it wouldn't get smashed and admonished them in no uncertain terms that he wanted me alive.
ref: 1919, Stewart Edward White, chapter 11, in The Killer:
text: Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain.
ref: 1961 November 3, “Toughening Up”, in Time:
text: We think it's time the people whose lives are being affected by callous indifference and malignant neglect let elected representatives and government agencies know their concerns in no uncertain terms.
ref: 1991 December 1, Dawn Schmitz, quoting Reggie Williams, “African American AIDS Money Cut”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 2:
text: In no uncertain terms do I believe that we should outlaw or 'wuss down' contact sports!!!
ref: 2011 January 31, Ben McGrath, “Does football have a future: The NFL and the concussion crisis”, in The New Yorker:
qualifier: especially a threat or admonishment
glosses: Definitely, clearly; bluntly, forthrightly; explicitly, categorically, unequivocally.
raw_tags: of a statement
Related terms: in words of one syllable
not to mince words
patch file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patch files
form: patchfile
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text file or binary file that lists differences between two versions of a file.
diff file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diff files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file produced by a diff program.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file describing changes made to a computer file or files.
Related terms: patch
hijacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hijack
hijacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a vehicle, aircraft, vessel, computer, etc.: whose control has been seized by force
Michele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, anglicized form of Michèle, a French spelling variant of Michelle
glosses: A male given name.
honu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honus
Etymology: From Hawaiian honu.
Senses: glosses: A green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas.
Karina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina.
Kira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kiːrə/
/kɪrə/
Etymology: Variant of Kyra or borrowed from Russian Ки́ра (Kíra), ultimately from Persian کوروش (Kūrūš). Also used as a respelling of Ciara, from Irish [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: The ordeal is a world away from Kira now as she plays games on her new iPad while absently talking about downloading more apps to play music, and voicing her excitement over reuniting soon with her grandfather’s girlfriend.
ref: 2022 April 28, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, “After epic journey, orphaned Ukrainian girl is reunited with grandfather”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Persian or Irish.
class clown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class clowns
Senses: examples: text: He was always the class clown, constantly telling jokes and attracting everyone's attention in school.
glosses: A student who frequently makes jokes or pokes fun; a wiseacre.
raced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of race
raced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced.
ref: 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction, page 39:
text: In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors.
ref: 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, page 48:
qualifier: social studies
glosses: Belonging to a certain race of people.
reinterpret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinterprets
form: reinterpreting
form: reinterpreted
form: reinterpreted
Etymology: From re- + interpret.
Senses: examples: text: If you look at it that way, you can reinterpret all the old evidence so that it supports the new theory.
text: On a recent morning, which started by stirring a pot and ended with pouring a drink, Mr. Alexander offered his ideas on rye’s resurgence, reinterpreting the classics and creating the perfect winter cocktail.
ref: 2010 December 25, Meribah Knight, “Bartender, I’d Like a Classic, or Maybe a Specialty Drink”, in The New York Times:
text: Isopoll maps can be reinterpreted to show the migration of a particular genus or ecotone through time by isochrones (equal time lines).
ref: 2013, Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, page 420:
glosses: To interpret again.
Related terms: reinterpretation
you bet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you betcha
Senses: examples: text: You bet they'll re-run such a successful show next season.
glosses: Expresses support, agreement, certainty or emphasis.
examples: text: “Hey, thanks for all your hard work yesterday.” / “You bet!”
text: “Could you give me a hand?” / “You bet!”
text: “Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps,” said the former, “but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky.”
“You bet,” Dobbs agreed. “I don't believe this here valley ever was trapped. We ain't come across no sign of any old camp—not so much as a blazed tree[…]”
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
glosses: Certainly, you're welcome; a reply to thank you or to a request.
gelotology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛləˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛləˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γέλωτος (gélōtos) (the genitive of γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”)) + English -logy (suffix denoting the study of a particular subject), coined by the anthropologist and linguist Edith Trager with participation from the American psychiatrist William F. Fry, Jr. (1924–2014) in March 1964.
Senses: examples: text: Let's not develop a cult of laughology (though the study of laughter in medicine has already been christened gelotology from the Greek root meaning "laughter.") Humor is an important and documented adjunct in the life of both the well and the unwell, but as a therapy it rarely can stand alone.
ref: 1996, Robert R. Cadmus, “Humor and Enhanced Well-being in the Later Years”, in Len Sperry, Harry Prosen, editors, Aging in the Twenty-first Century: A Developmental Perspective (Issues in Aging; 5; Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 1053), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:
text: One of the founders of gelotology (gelos is Greek for "laughter"), Stanford University professor William F. Fry, also experimented on himself in the early 1960s. He drew blood samples at regular intervals while watching Laurel and Hardy and other comedic movies and had the samples analyzed. He found that laughter enhanced the activity of certain immune system cells responsible for killing infectious pathogens.
ref: 2005 October 1, Charmaine Liebertz, “A Healthy Laugh”, in John Rennie, editor, Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature American, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021:
text: Gelotology, the study of laughter, was established in the late 1960s in an effort to determine the possible physiological and psychological effects humor and laughter can have. One of the pioneers of Gelotology, William F. Fry, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, has done extensive research on the physiological benefits of laughter with very encouraging findings.
ref: 2013 November 29, Robert T. Muller, “LOL: How Laughter can Improve Your Health”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
physiology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The study of humour and laughter, and its effects on the body.
wikipedia: James V. McConnell
Derived terms: gelotological
gelotologist
Related terms: gelotophile
gelotophobia
dasyphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæsɪˈfɪləs/
ipa: /ˌdæsɪˈfɪləs/
ipa: /-sə-/
Etymology: From New Latin dasyphyllus (from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy; dense”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”)) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: dasyphyllous (Gr. dasus, hairy, rough; phullon, a leaf), woolly-leaved; syn. codio-, erio-phyllous.
ref: [1899, R. L. Heinig, “dasyphyllous”, in Glossary of the Botanic Terms Used in Describing Flowering Plants, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Therefore, the forest stands formed by the tree species that endure excessive moisture (the alder, dasyphyllous birch, and poplar) are dominant in the composition of forests.
ref: 2013 March, V. V. Furyaev, V. I. Zabolotskiy, S. D. Samsonenko, V. A. Chernykh, “Space-time Impact of Fire Events on Swamp-forest Ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain”, in Contemporary Problems of Ecology, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 156–161:
text: However, compared to Masson pine needles, the waxy of camphor leaves showed thinner and more dasyphyllous.
ref: 2018 August, Jun Zhou, Zhangwei Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, “Deposition and Fate of Mercury in Litterfall, Litter, and Soil in Coniferous and Broad‐Leaved Forests”, in Biogeosciences, volume 123, number 8, →DOI, pages 2590–2603:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: codiophyllous
eriophyllous
glosses: Having downy leaves.
Related terms: dasymeter
dasymetric
dasypygal
sure thing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Thanks a lot for your help." / "Sure thing!"
glosses: A polite reply to thank you.
examples: text: "Can you finish by tomorrow?" / "Sure thing!"
glosses: An affirmative reply; yes; certainly.
sure thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sure things
Senses: examples: text: That horse is a sure thing in the race at 3:30.
synonyms: certainty
safe bet
glosses: That which is certain.
Synonyms: word: banker
word: cert
word: certainty
word: certitude
word: cinch
word: dead cert
word: fatality
word: inevitability
word: racing certainty
word: sure thing
word: fair bet
word: good bet
word: safe bet
word: sure bet
Hyponyms: word: fate
Related terms: word: in the bag
word: on ice
word: under control
word: in hand
word: inevitable
word: inevitably
word: easy thing
izzat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani عِزَّت ('izzat) / इज़्ज़त (izzat), from Classical Persian عِزَّت (izzat), from Arabic عِزَّة (ʕizza).
Senses: examples: text: ‘But whether the native swaggers or cringes there's always something behind every remark he makes, always something, and if nothing else he's trying to increase his izzat – in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:
text: ‘She has cut off our noses. And our izzat.’
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 10:
glosses: Honour, pride; reputation.
izzat
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: izat
form: zat
form: 'zat
Senses: glosses: Contraction of is that.
fabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: fabbier
form: fabbiest
Etymology: From fab + -y.
Senses: glosses: fabulous, very good, excellent
sputter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌtɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sputters
Etymology: Probably representing Middle English *sputren, *sputrien, a frequentative form of Middle English sputen (“to spout, vomit”), equivalent to spout + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian spüttern (“to inject, spray, splash”), West Frisian sputterje (“to sputter”), Dutch sputteren (“to sputter”), Low German sputtern, spruttern (“to sprinkle”), German sprudeln (“to spout, squirt”). Compare splutter.
Senses: glosses: Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
glosses: Confused and hasty speech.
sputter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌtɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sputters
form: sputtering
form: sputtered
form: sputtered
Etymology: Probably representing Middle English *sputren, *sputrien, a frequentative form of Middle English sputen (“to spout, vomit”), equivalent to spout + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian spüttern (“to inject, spray, splash”), West Frisian sputterje (“to sputter”), Dutch sputteren (“to sputter”), Low German sputtern, spruttern (“to sprinkle”), German sprudeln (“to spout, squirt”). Compare splutter.
Senses: examples: text: The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Milborough as Ambassador”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
examples: text: They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
ref: 1700, William Congreve, The Way of the World:
text: In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest and falsest accusations.
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret:
glosses: To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
examples: text: Like the green wood [...] sputtering in the flame.
ref: 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:
glosses: To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
Derived terms: sense: all parts of speech
word: sputter coating
sense: all parts of speech
word: sputter out
Related terms: spit nails
investors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of investor
noter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noters
Etymology: From note + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes notice.
glosses: An annotator.
glosses: A small rod, usually made of wood, pressed against the melody course of a lap dulcimer to change the pitches.
Related terms: big-noter
callisthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
calisthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).
Senses: examples: text: I will pass over the days of pap and petting, red shoes and blue sash, as being that only period when any thing of equality subsists between the sexes; and pass on to the time when all girls are awkward, and most of them ugly—days of back-boards and collars, red elbows, French, Italian, musical and calisthenic exercises.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 102-103:
glosses: Of, or relating to calisthenics.
Synonyms: gymnastic
calisthenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.lɪsˈθɛ.nɪks/
Forms: form: callisthenics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + Ancient Greek σθένος (sthénos, “strength”) + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Just before sacktime, the Captain stood beside his sleeping bag doing his daily calisthenics; stripped down to his flaming red long johns, […]
ref: 1968, Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis, Polar Secrets: A Treasury of the Arctic and Antarctic, page 105:
glosses: Physical exercises with the participation of a multitude of muscles and often minimal equipment (thus, usually bodyweight exercises); strength training aspects and cardio aspects are both involved, and stamina is often a focus.
glosses: A system of such exercises.
Derived terms: anarchist calisthenics
Related terms: gymnastics
diegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈdʒɛ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: diagetic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διηγητικός (diēgētikós). By surface analysis, diegesis + -etic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: narrative
antonyms: nondiegetic
commentative
glosses: Of or relating to diegesis; existing within a fictional universe (rather than as background), and able to be perceived by the characters.
Derived terms: autodiegetic
extradiegetic
heterodiegetic
homodiegetic
hypodiegetic
infradiegetic
intradiegetic
metadiegetic
nondiegetic
non-diegetic
Related terms: diegesis
get by the balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets by the balls
form: getting by the balls
form: got by the balls
form: got by the balls
form: gotten by the balls
Etymology: See balls (“testicles”).
Senses: examples: text: Too bad she's got you by the balls.
ref: 1974, Rolling Stones, Short And Curlies:
text: If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
text: (Theodore Roosevelt)
glosses: To have complete control over someone, especially of a woman abusing a man's infatuation with her.
Synonyms: have by the short and curlies
dandelion greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The leaves of the dandelion, eaten as a vegetable.
Related terms: dandelion salad
dandelion wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandelion wines
Senses: glosses: A wine made from dandelion flowers and usually other ingredients, including citrus.
pálinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pálinkas
Senses: glosses: A traditional fruit brandy in the Carpathian Basin, known under several names, and invented in the Middle Ages.
pálenka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pálenkas
Senses: glosses: Any kind of distilled beverage, especially fruit brandy.
C. E. F.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of CEF.
Siegel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Daentl Townsend Siegel syndrome
Landau-Siegel zero
Siegel disc
Siegel disk
Siegel-Walfisz theorem
Siegel zero
orangish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orangish
form: most orangish
form: orangeish
Etymology: From orange + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: That coat that you're wearing looks almost orangish in the evening sun.
glosses: Relatively orange in colour.
examples: text: That ice cream tastes very orangish - are you sure it's just passion fruit?
glosses: Similar to an orange.
Synonyms: word: orangelike
word: orangey
word: orangish
Hypernyms: word: orange
word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: brassy
word: coppery
word: gingery
Derived terms: orangishness
about time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Our food has finally arrived. ― (And) about time (too), if you ask me! We've been waiting about 45 minutes for it!
glosses: Far past the desired time.
examples: text: It's about time for the wedding to start, let's run to the church.
glosses: Close to the right time.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see about, time.
Synonyms: sense: far past the desired time
word: high time
sense: far past the desired time
word: not a moment too soon
Related terms: at last
it's about time
double negative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double negatives
Senses: examples: text: Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
ref: 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
glosses: A phrase including two negative words (no, not, never, etc.) especially when used as intensifiers in informal English.
wikipedia: A Walk on the Wild Side
Related terms: litotes
negative concord
contranym
bottle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottles up
form: bottling up
form: bottled up
form: bottled up
Senses: glosses: To put into bottles.
examples: text: Paul Brunner spoke over his shoulder, "In the last war the cruiser Königsberg hid in an African river and made her repairs." / Kurt answered, "Yes, sir, but she didn't get out again. The Royal Navy bottled her up and finally destroyed her."
ref: 1990, Alan Evans, Orphans of the Storm, London: Coronet Books, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
examples: text: Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.
text: Pennsylvania gay activists were taken by surprise at the bill's assignment to the Labor Relations Committee. They had hoped to "bottle up" the bill in another House committee but an early poll of Labor Relations members indicates that attempts to stop the bill may now be more difficult.
ref: 1975 December 27, “Anti-Gay Bill on the Move”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 3:
text: Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand more.
ref: 1990, Ronald Reagan, [Robert Lindsey], An American Life, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 373:
text: Young man in need of someone to share all this bottled up love with.
ref: 1985 December 7, Merrill Symonds, “Personal advvertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 12:
glosses: To keep suppressed and hidden.
examples: text: Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—and bottled him up in the town of Lamia.
ref: 2011, Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: To comprehensively defeat.
examples: text: Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.
ref: 2023 March 25, “San Diego State ousts Alabama as all four No. 1 seeds fall short of Elite 8 for 1st time”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023:
text: Arguably the most important sequence of the game came with less than 30 seconds to play and the Nuggets clinging to a 90-89 lead. Butler drove to the rim but got bottled up in the post by Murray and Jokic then tried to find teammate Max Strus in the corner, but the ball was stolen by Nuggets swingman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope -- and the Heat were forced to foul.
ref: 2013 June 13, Nick Friedell, “Spoelstra, Heat bow out with 'no regrets on our end'”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.
carbon nanofibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon nanofibres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carbon nanofiber.
non-diegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nondiegetic.
Solent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊlənt/
rhymes: -əʊlənt
Forms: form: the Solent
Etymology: From Old English Solentan, ultimately of unknown origin, but possibly related to the noun sol (“mud, wet sand”).
Senses: examples: text: One, two, three Victorian military forts in the Solent—an early indication they have a thing about foreign invasion down here.
ref: 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 13:
glosses: A strait separating Hampshire from the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Derived terms: Lee-on-the-Solent
Lee-on-Solent
Solent goose
carbon oxysulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon oxysulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbonyl sulfide
carbon oxysulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carbon oxysulfide.
carbon printing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the photographic process of making a carbon print
carbon print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon prints
Senses: examples: text: It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate
Ben Nevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛn ˈnɛvɪs/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic beinn (“peak”) + "Nevis" having an unknown etymology.
Senses: examples: text: But narrative, after all, is Mr. Gilfillan’s forte, and his picture of the flood is a masterpiece. First, we have the march of the animals — lions and tigers, “the solemn elephants,” the hyena, “horrible even in its transient tameness,” “the fox and lamb embracing each other” — “thick streams of reptile existence, from the serpent to the scorpion, from the boa-constrictor to the lizard, wriggling on their ark-ward way” — “overhead flights of birds, here all oracular of doom—the earnest eagle, the gloom-glowing raven, the reluctant vulture,” sweeping to their destined home. Then, we have mountains submerged and volcanoes extinguished, “Ben Nevis sunk fathoms and fathoms more beneath the waves” — “the eye of Mount Blanc darkened, Old Taurus blotted out,” the tide “rolling over the summit of Mount Everest, and violating its last particle of virgin snow” — and lastly, “some human scenes of extraordinary interest,” which Mr. Gilfillan descries amidst the surrounding confusion.
ref: 1860 July 21, George Gilfillan, quotee, “Alpha and Omega”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 10, number 247, →OCLC, page 87, column 2:
glosses: The highest mountain in the United Kingdom, in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN1671).
carbon process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the process of making carbon prints
Synonyms: carbon printing
Snowdonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊˈdəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /snoʊˈdoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: From Snowdon + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A mountainous region and national park in North Wales, United Kingdom.
carbon resistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon resistors
Senses: glosses: a simple electrical resistor containing carbon granules in a binder
Brecon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛkən/
rhymes: -ɛkən
Etymology: From Welsh Brychan, name of a legendary king of Brycheiniog.
Senses: examples: text: Brecon or Aberhonddu, a typical Welsh town of 5,350 inhabitants, stands in a grand amphitheatre of hills and mountains at the confluence of the rivers Usk, Honddu, and Tarell.
ref: 1939 September, A. F. N. Barnsdale, “The Neath & Brecon Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:
glosses: A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0428).
wikipedia: Brycheiniog
Related terms: Brecon Beacons
carbon star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: any of a class of red giant stars having a high proportion of carbon because of helium burning
carbon steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon steels
Senses: examples: text: All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
ref: 1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
hypernyms: steel
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metal#Noun
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material#Noun
coordinate_terms: stainless steel
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alloy steel
glosses: Any of a range of alloys of iron and carbon whose properties depend on the proportion of carbon.
Related terms: mild steel
Breconshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Brecknockshire
carbon suboxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The gas C₃O₂, having a heterocumulene structure O=C=C=C=O
Derived terms: macrocyclic carbon suboxide