cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
counterintuitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more counterintuitively
form: most counterintuitively
Etymology: From counterintuitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat counterintuitively, but perhaps due to indirect effects on the renin–angiotensin system, Scherer and colleagues (2013) found that appropriate uptitration of BBs improves HRQoL in elderly HF patients with reported benefits in general health, vitality, and physical function, although physical capacity was not objectively quantified. Regarding the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, as discussed above, administration of ACE inhibitors in normal aging may have a modest effect in slowing the progression of muscle-related weakness, although results are variable.
ref: 2015 July 13, Deena S Goldwater, Sean P Pinney, “Frailty in Advanced Heart Failure: A Consequence of Aging or a Separate Entity?”, in Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology, volume 9, →DOI:
text: Similarly, people who regularly post political content on social media counterintuitively have a 50% wider perception gap than those who don’t.
ref: 2019 November 14, Daniel Yudkin, “Americans exaggerate the extremism of the other side”, in CNN:
glosses: In a manner contrary to intuition or common sense.
cost objective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cost objectives
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The purpose for which costs are measured.
proacrosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + acrosin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is a precursor of acrosin.
acrosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acrosome + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteolytic enzyme, found in the acrosome of spermatozoa, that enables penetration of the egg.
Derived terms: proacrosin
cow tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The medieval cow tippers were a rutheless lot, to be sure, with their Knights of the Round Bovine Topplers, and Cowalot...But times changed and so did the fashion and style of cow tipping.
ref: 2005, Duke Rightious, The Official Cow Tipper's Handbook, →ISBN:
text: If setting up your database server feels like as much work as raising cattle, but with-out the glamor, you may mix business with pleasure and perform some virtual cow tipping: sneak up on your database server and try to push it over.
ref: 2005, Michael D. Bauer, Linux Server Security, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 245:
text: cow tipping v: a high school or college prank of sneaking up to a standing sleeping cow and pushing her over[…]
ref: [2006, Jeremy Smith, Bum Bags and Fanny Packs: A British-American American-British Dictionary, Carroll & Graf, →ISBN:
glosses: A fictional pastime wherein a person sneaks up on a sleeping cow and pushes it over.
glosses: The practice of drawing the attention of a lolcow to the fact that they are being mocked.
Naija
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 9ja
form: Naij
Senses: examples: text: ‘If you come [...] you will meet a lot of Naija people there.’
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 325:
glosses: Of or from Nigeria.
Naija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naijas
form: 9ja
form: Naij
Senses: glosses: A person from Nigeria.
Naija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 9ja
form: Naij
Senses: examples: text: We stopped at the mudhif of an important Sayid, and even a spectacled white-turbaned priest from Naija treated us with courtesy, and did not, as did most of those whom we met later, leave the building as soon as we had entered it.
ref: 1957, Gavin Maxwell, People of the Reeds, page 102:
text: There were obituaries, poems, hastily scratched out but very heartfelt dirges, and a unity that I have never before seen in Naija: a unity that, although it technically lasted about a week, still has lingering effects to the present day.
ref: 2000, Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political Activist, page 139:
text: But, it is correct to say most of our leaders in Naija are not leaders but looters.
ref: 2005, Shrubs and Trees: A Collection of Short Stories, page 31:
text: He remembered that the process of clearing immigration and locating your luggage in Murtala Muhammad Airport was no small feat for a first time visitor to Naija.
ref: 2011, Peter Ladi Thompson, The New Eden, page 10:
antonyms: Jand
glosses: Nigeria (a country in West Africa).
Naija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naijá
form: 9ja
form: Naij
Etymology: Borrowed from Nigerian Pidgin Naijá.
Senses: synonyms: Nigerian Pidgin
glosses: An English-based creole of Nigeria, combining vocabulary and grammar from the English language as well as various indigenous Nigerian languages and remnants of Portuguese.
La Niña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lə ˈniːn.jə/
Forms: form: La Niñas
Etymology: Spanish feminine of El Niño.
Senses: examples: text: Climate scientists think a La Niña event may develop this summer, meaning water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean will be cooler that normal. Although the relationship is not fully understood, historically there tends to be more hurricane activity during a La Niña event.
ref: 2007 May 23, Houston Chronicle:
text: Scientists predict that La Niña this winter will lead to below average precipitation in a large swath of California, stretching from the Bay Area to the state’s southern border. They expect warmer than average temperatures for Southern California and eastern parts of Central California.
ref: 2021 November 16, Soumya Karlamangla, “What La Niña Means for California’s Drought”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A sustained negative sea-surface temperature anomaly of more than 0.5°C across the equatorial zone of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean; the negative phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes variations in local and regional weather patterns.
fabrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabric
zone of avoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of the Universe in alignment with the galactic plane of the Milky Way where few galaxies were initially seen due to dust interfering with the view of ground-based telescopes.
forefingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefinger
torchlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torchlights
Etymology: From torch + light.
Senses: examples: text: A number of towns in East Sussex, and on the borders of Kent and Surrey, make a special feature of huge bonfires and torchlight processions with fireworks on Guy Fawkes day or an early November Saturday.
ref: 1953 January, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:
glosses: The dim light produced by a burning torch.
glosses: The light produced by a flashlight.
glosses: A torch or flashlight.
sculler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scullers
Etymology: From scull + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman, which forthwith falling downe dead, the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in his boate […]
ref: 1580, John Stow, “Queene Mary”, in The Chronicles of England from Brute vnto this Present Yeare of Christ, London: Ralphe Newberie, page 1082:
text: The first and second guns had been fired, and the scullers in their boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.
ref: 1859, Frederic Farrar, chapter 9, in Julian Home, Philadelphia: Lippincott, published 1860, page 108:
glosses: One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.
examples: text: 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33,
Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a Sculler; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy […]
text: The Boats being clear, the Captain’s Boat, which was Oars, and consequently had two Watermen, went before the Maid’s Boat, which was but a Sculler; and as he passed by, looking at the Wench, he thought he knew her Face, but did not call to mind who she was […]
ref: 1718, Daniel Defoe, The Family Instructor, London: Eman. Matthews, The Fifth Dialogue, page 356:
text: At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen’s boats were far more numerous. […] Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide […]
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 237–238:
text: They watched that boat. It was a double sculler, with two female figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was not very good […]
ref: 1927, Warwick Deeping, chapter 30, in Kitty, New York: Knopf, published 1928, page 336:
glosses: A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.
Synonyms: sense: athlete
word: rower
sense: boat
word: scull
4-8-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-8-4s
Senses: examples: text: No sooner had a waiting locomotive backed on to its train, the vociferous 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 re-emerged from under the bridge, and the two red marker lights on the last vehicles passed, than the headlight of the electric engine hauling the following train could be seen under the bridge and the waiting queue of locomotives had moved up one.
ref: 1954 January 24, H. P. White, “Vignettes of the Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 54, at Harmon station, New York:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, eight coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
Synonyms: Northern
leading axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æksəl
Forms: form: leading axles
Senses: glosses: On a steam locomotive, an axle connecting a coupled pair of unpowered wheels located in front of the driving wheels.
Related terms: leading truck
trailing axle
trailing wheel
trailing axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailing axles
Senses: glosses: On a steam locomotive, an axle connecting a coupled pair of unpowered wheels located behind the driving wheels.
Related terms: trailing truck
leading axle
leading wheel
trailing truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailing trucks
Senses: examples: text: After trying but not mass-producing a heavy Pacific and tabulating indifferent tests of a three-cylinder 4-8-2, Central was in a mood to explore the possibilities of four-wheel trailing trucks.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 19:
glosses: On a steam locomotive, a railroad truck to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) for one or more coupled pairs of unpowered wheels are attached through bearings, located behind the driving wheels.
Related terms: leading truck
trailing axle
trailing wheel
leading truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading trucks
Senses: glosses: On a steam locomotive, a railroad truck to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) for one or more coupled pairs of unpowered wheels are attached through bearings, located in front of the driving wheels.
Related terms: leading axle
leading wheel
trailing truck
4-8-4+4-8-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-8-4+4-8-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Garratt steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted in opposite directions on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler, and each engine having a 4-8-4 wheel configuration.
seaworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seaworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea.
point of reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of reference
form: reference point
Senses: glosses: A particular location which is used as an endpoint when measuring distances or charting maps.
glosses: A unique, intellectual premise used to relate other ideas.
Synonyms: point of departure
Related terms: point of view
gambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamb.
corvée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corvées
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corvee.
rallying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: My mother entered my room at that moment; but Mademoiselle went on rallying, and it seemed to me that the subject was not disagreeable even to her.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: present participle and gerund of rally
rallying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rallyings
Senses: examples: text: We are convinced that these public rallyings around the banner of Christ the King are a most effective means of counteracting "the diabolical program" and "the brazen unfurlings of the satanical banners of war against God and religion" […]
ref: 1935, Worship: A Review Devoted to the Liturgical Apostolate:
glosses: The act of one who rallies.
glosses: A wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive elements such as test of speed and navigation.
Derived terms: rallying cry
rallying point
corbeille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbeilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French corbeille.
Senses: glosses: A decorative basket.
glosses: A basket of clothing and accessories given as part of the dowry from groom to bride.
agnomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnominations
form: agnominatio
form: adnominatio
form: adnomination
Etymology: From Latin agnominatio.
Senses: glosses: A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
glosses: An alliteration.
glosses: polyptoton.
glosses: Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.
alickadoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alickadoos
Etymology: Legend attributes the term to former Irish full back and captain Ernie Crawford, who was rumoured to remark on a book read by a teammate by saying "You and your bloody Ali Khadu." Another possible origin dates from the amateur days of the game, when hard-pressed club helpers, when asked for more balls, players, games and etc., the reply was "it's all I can do". Hence alickadoo.
Senses: glosses: A non-playing member of a rugby union club who helps in the running of the club by performing various roles, usually on match days. These roles are not committee positions but are essential if the club is to function properly.
Related terms: blazer
old fart
anacolouthon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anacoloutha
form: anacolouthons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anacoluthon.
Derived terms: anacolouthic
anacolouthistic
Asthana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asthanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अस्थाना (asthānā). This surname is predominantly found in Uttar Pradesh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
burn off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns off
form: burning off
form: burned off
form: burned off
form: burnt off
form: burnt off
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: burn away, burn up
text: The weather by the beach can be considerably cooler—ten degrees or more— and usually starts with fog and haze that burn off by late morning.
ref: 2005, Lark Gould, Los Angeles Off the Beaten Path®, page xix:
glosses: To dissipate as the result of heat.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: burn away, burn up
text: When he tried to light the cigarette in his mouth, he discovered he was about to burn off the filter and a fair bit of his mouth.
ref: 2013, Wen Zhu, The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan:
glosses: To cause to dissipate by applying heat.
examples: Near-synonyms: burn away, burn up
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: To dispose of (unusable explosive natural gas from an oil well) by burning it as it emerges from the well.
examples: Near-synonym: burn up
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To fail due to overheating.
raw_tags: of an axle bearing
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To fill (low-value air time) with programming not suitable for its original purpose.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: burn away, burn up
text: It's to encourage boys to burn off excess energy.
ref: 2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn's House of Fun: Thirteen Years of (Labour) Madness, page 78:
text: To get rid of just 0.5kg (1lb) of excess fat you must burn off around 3500 calories.
ref: 2010, Efua Baker, 15 Minute Calorie Burn Workout, page 11:
text: But you can burn off calories more ways than you know. Do you know you burn off a calorie by just standing still every two minutes?
ref: 2015, James Egan, Over 100 Ways to Stop Sabotaging Your Life, page 13:
glosses: To expend energy resulting from metabolizing food.
examples: text: Near-synonym: burn through
text: We burn off speed. We have come around very fast. Must burn off more speed.
ref: 2019, David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon:
text: “I want to burn off some of the clock before going into the end zone.
ref: 2022, James R. Welke, The International Football League:
glosses: To use up a resource in a nonproductive manner.
examples: text: Slick use of the resulting turnover ball gave Koroibete the space to burn off Daly, only the third try England have so far conceded in this tournament.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Cause to waste energy.
examples: text: The other competitors were way behind, having been burned off at the starting line.
glosses: To speed past (someone), such as in a race, especially when first starting off.
Synonyms: sense: dispose of unusable natural gas
word: flare
Derived terms: word: burnoff
Related terms: burn out
canadew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canadews
Etymology: Blend of cantaloupe + honeydew
Senses: glosses: A melon that is a cross between a honeydew and a cantaloupe.
carriage house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage houses
Etymology: Originating from the time when most transportation was a horse-drawn carriage.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: driveshed
hypernyms: outbuilding#Noun
;
house
coordinate_terms: garage#Noun
glosses: A building for keeping a horse and carriage when not in use, separate from the house.
Related terms: carriage door
colletor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colletors
Senses: examples: text: Colletors are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
discriminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discriminative
form: most discriminative
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
qualifier: feature
glosses: Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
raw_tags: of an element
Synonyms: excludent
Derived terms: antidiscriminative
discriminatively
discriminativeness
discriminative stimulus
indiscriminative
nondiscriminative
undiscriminative
Related terms: discriminating
dolce far niente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒltʃeɪ ˌfɑː nɪˈɛnteɪ/
ipa: /ˌdoʊltʃeɪ ˌfɑɹ niˈɛnteɪ/
ipa: /ˌdoʊltʃi ˌfɑɹ niˈɛnti/
rhymes: -ɛnti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dolce far niente (literally “sweet doing nothing, sweet idleness”).
Senses: examples: text: 1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe
This gentleman is seen, / With a maid of seventeen, / A-taking of his dolce far niente; / And wonders he'd achieve, / For he asks us to believe / She's his mother—and he's nearly five-and-twenty!
text: We should so organize our rank and mobilize our forces that our influence may not be dissipated before the advancing hosts of quackery and ignorance. This we can do effectively if only the wise and successful ones among our leaders can be induced to forgo the dolce far niente of the noontime of their lives.
ref: 1890, J.W. Collins, “Society proceedings of the Colorado State Medical Society”, in The Omaha Clinic, volume 3, number 5, retrieved 20 Mar 2021, page 131:
glosses: Sheer indulgent relaxation and blissful laziness, the enjoyment of idleness.
Related terms: dolce vita
dulcet
billet-doux
drive-by media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: This term was used by Rush Limbaugh during his national radio program to describe elements of the mainstream media as similar to drive-by shooters.
Senses: glosses: Media that provides broad or misleading statements in quick succession without context or explanation.
wikipedia: Rush Limbaugh
Related terms: Gish gallop
drop grommet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop grommets
Senses: glosses: A type of grommet (hole) on the topside of office furniture through which cables can fit.
dym
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Corruption of the word dumb.
Senses: glosses: dumb, stupid
dym
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Corruption of the word dumb.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dig your message.
glosses: Initialism of do you mind.
glosses: Initialism of do/did you mean.
expressive language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Receptive language is the phrases and vocabulary that we understand, whereas expressive language is what we actually use.
ref: 2002, Penny Tassoni, Sheila Riddall-Leech, Diploma in Child Care and Education, Harcourt Heinemann, page 213 http://books.google.com/books?id=xWL0GqzUYloC&pg=PT227&dq=expressive+language+date:1970-2008&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=kZzyNty1CESsm4GJWVqGnmEjn50
glosses: Language in any of a number of different modalities such as speech, sign or writing.
forme fruste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formes frustes
Etymology: Borrowed from French forme fruste.
Senses: examples: text: Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's disease.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An incomplete form or partial symptom of a disease.
good egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊd ɛɡ/
Forms: form: good eggs
Etymology: Probably a humorous antonym of bad egg (“someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue”).
Senses: examples: text: The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth, […]
ref: 1915, Good Housekeeping, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: Phelps Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 371:
text: Tom speaks: "I have a girl friend I want you to meet. She's a good egg."
ref: 1942, The Texas Outlook, volume 26, Austin, Tex.: Texas State Teachers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Johnny Parker is in town. I like Johnny. He's a big shot in pictures and he's a good egg.
ref: 1944, James T[homas] Farrell, To Whom It May Concern: More Stories, Garden City, N.Y.: The Sun Dial Press, →OCLC, page 23:
text: In contrast, Saito […] was one of the good eggs … He would let us rest whenever the coast was clear and even shared the odd cigarette.
ref: 1997, Brereton Greenhous, “Liberation”, in “C” Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, 1941–1945 (Canadian War Museum Historical Publication; no. 30), Toronto, Ont.; Oxford: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: "And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you." "He is a bad egg. We stick to good''' eggs."
ref: 2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017:
text: Drogon sniffs Jon [Snow]—and Dany [Daenerys Targaryen] apparently doesn't care enough about Jon's life to get off Drogon so she can witness their interaction on the other side of his fat neck and make sure her son isn't eating his cousin—and seems to sense he's a good egg at the least and quite possibly that he's a Targaryen.
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown Offers One Last Game-changing Secret as Game Of Thrones Goes behind Enemy Lines (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2017:
antonyms: bad egg
glosses: A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
hardwired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardwired
form: most hardwired
form: hard wired
form: hard-wired
Etymology: From hard + wired.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Designed to perform a specific task.
qualifier: electronic communications
glosses: Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
glosses: Not changeable.
examples: text: I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
glosses: Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
raw_tags: of humans and animals
glosses: Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
raw_tags: of humans and animals
hardwired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard wired
form: hard-wired
Etymology: From hard + wired.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hardwire
Related terms: hard code
Indo-Pak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the Indo-Pak War
glosses: Indo-Pakistani
Related terms: Indo-Bangla
jacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: more jacked
form: most jacked
Senses: glosses: High on drugs or stimulants.
examples: text: This computer is so jacked, I'm surprised it can still turn on!
synonyms: jacked up
glosses: Broken; imperfect.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: ripped, shredded
text: Wow, that guy is jacked!
glosses: Strong and/or muscled.
Synonyms: sense: strong and/or muscled
word: ripped
Derived terms: unjacked
jacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Senses: examples: text: Dude, he just jacked my bike!
glosses: simple past and past participle of jack
Karambelkar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karambelkars
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi करंबेळकर (karambeḷkar).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Marathi.
Letters and Science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: arts and sciences
glosses: The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, considered together.
liponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liponyms
Senses: glosses: A text which deliberately excludes a certain word, usually a very common word, occasionally used as a technique in novels.
Related terms: lipogram
longpig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of long pig.
METT-TC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: METT-T
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of mission, enemy, terrain, troops available, time, and civilian considerations. Used by the United States military to help commanders remember the considerations in the planning of any operation.
on the ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder.
glosses: On a property ladder, owning property.
secus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin secus.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: otherwise, to the contrary.
senior note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior notes
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: senior bond
coordinate_terms: junior note
glosses: A bond that takes priority for receipt of principal and interest over other debt securities sold by the issuer in the event the issuer goes bankrupt.
social pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social patterns
Senses: glosses: The systems of control mechanisms to dominate these entities of the organization to achieve a defined goal.
stockinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockinettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stockinet.
technoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoetic
form: most technoetic
Etymology: From τέχνη (tékhnē) + νοητικός (noētikós), coined by British artist Roy Ascott in 1997.
Senses: examples: ref: 1997 June 19, Roy Ascott, The Connective State: Europe's technoetic dimension:
text: So within the telematic embrace we hope to reach this social synchronicity, an identical rhythm of the heart, a dynamic technoetic equilibrium.
ref: 1998, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Art @ Science, page 286:
text: The 'Red Lady' in his palaeoecological and technoetic context (chapter title)
ref: 2000, Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Paviland Cave and the 'Red Lady': A Definitive Report, page 227:
text: Amergent music is a generative style developed to complement the innate dynamics or ontology of technoetic environments.
ref: 2014, Norbert Herber, “Musical Behavior and Amergence in Technoetic and Media Arts”, in Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio, page 365:
glosses: Combining technology and consciousness.
Yathi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit यति (yati, “striver, sage”), synonymous to a spiritual person, yogi or monk. Derives from य (ya) and -ति (-ti).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
à gogo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡəʊ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /əˈɡoʊ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊɡəʊ
Forms: form: agogo
form: a go-go
form: à go-go
form: agogue
form: au go-go
Etymology: Borrowed from French à gogo.
Senses: examples: Going to a Go-Go, a 1965 album by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Monster A Go-Go, a 1965 B-movie
The Supremes A' Go-Go, a 1966 album by The Supremes
Agogo, a 1998 album by KMFDM
A Go Go, a 1998 album by John Scofield
Global a Go-Go, a 2001 album by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
JoJo a Go! Go!, an art book for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
Whiskey a Go-Go, famous New York punk venue
glosses: In abundance, galore.
Derived terms: go-go
golden section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the golden section
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the division of a whole into two parts such that the ratio of the smaller part to the larger is equal to the ratio of the larger part to the whole.
Related terms: golden ratio
Dutch corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch corners
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Laying bricks with a three-quarter brick closure at the corner.
in turn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The teacher answered the students each in turn.
text: Each member of the group, in turn, rose to share a personal story, until nearly everyone in the room had spoken.
text: Eventually, each of the countries in turn would be brought to submission by the invading force.
glosses: One after the other; one at a time; in succession; successively.
examples: text: You are next in turn to bat.
text: The boy was next in turn to sit on Santa's lap.
glosses: In due order; in proper sequence; in a determined or measured sequence, as a waiting line or queue.
examples: text: The musical ambassadors finished their performance, and the local musicians in turn played for them a traditional ballad.
text: With great humility, I call upon all Americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt. I want in turn to assure my fellow Americans and all of those who love peace and liberty throughout the world that I will support and defend those ideals with all my strength and all my heart.
ref: 1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 9:21 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: As was the case with the "Merchant Navy" locomotives, some of these features have proved troublesome, and this in turn at times has reflected on performance as well as on maintenance.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 727:
text: The initiated member gave a gift of a coin for the goddess, for which he received in turn a phallus and some salt.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85:
glosses: In response; in return.
examples: text: The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings.
text: My car was hit by a truck, which in turn was hit by the van.
text: Mr. X leaked the secret to Mr. Y who in turn leaked it to Mr. Z.
glosses: Having a relationship sequentially comparable to one just mentioned; accordingly or similarly, with respect to sequence, precedence, or hierarchy.
Synonyms: sense: one after the other
word: in order
word: step by step
word: sequentially
Related terms: by turns
in turns
in line
La Nina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: La Ninas
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of La Niña.
neuroevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuro-evolution
Etymology: From neuro- + evolution.
Senses: glosses: The class of methods for training artificial neural networks with genetic algorithms.
Related terms: neuroevolutionary
neuroevolutive
aurae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aura
sniffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniffers
Etymology: From sniff + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sniffs.
glosses: The nose.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
Derived terms: diaper sniffer
glue sniffer
jock sniffer
packet sniffer
people sniffer
petrol sniffer
posy sniffer
sniffer dog
sniffer plane
throne sniffer
maestri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maestro
maharanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharanees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maharani.
maharishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharishis
Etymology: From Sanskrit महर्षि (maharṣi, “great seer”) from महा (mahā, “great”) + ऋषि (ṛṣi, “saint, seer”).
Senses: examples: text: His lineage of teachers and masters included several famous maharishis.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 66:
glosses: A teacher of Hindu mysticism.
mahatma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahatmas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit महात्मा (mahātmā, “great spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: Certain cults and individuals from the West look towards Tibet as the abode of mysterious Mahatmas and "Masters", and the home of the Great White Brotherhood.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176:
glosses: In India or Tibet, a person thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity.
Derived terms: Mahatmaism
sugar soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar soaps
Etymology: From the resemblance of the dry powder form to table sugar.
Senses: examples: text: A detailed discussion of the work of J. Boes and H. Weyland on the value of sugar soap was made by F. G. as had been already pointed out in last year's report.
ref: 1918, The American Perfumer and Essential Oil Review:
text: Sugar soap, states a writer in the "Pharmaceutical Journal," is a soap powder used by painters for washing down purposes before applying new coats of paint and varnish. It owes its name to its resemblance to Demerara sugar crystals, and is retailed in 1 lb. cartons at sixpence or less, and some of it is packed loose in casks.
ref: 1930, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer:
text: Previously painted surfaces should be wiped down with sugar soap solution to remove dirt and grease, and any rough patches or holes should be filled and sanded.
ref: 2002, Vinny Lee, The Essential Guide to Decorating:
glosses: An extremely powerful detergent used for washing surfaces prior to painting.
Chinese hamster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese hamsters
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cricetulus griseus of hamsters originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia.
Derived terms: Chinese hamster ovary cell
CHO
CHO cell
Chinese whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is no doubt the reason why children play Chinese Whispers. One child whispers a message to another and it travels around the circle of children, only to be revealed by the last member of the chain.
ref: 2014, Darian Leader, Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN:
topics: games
synonyms: word: telephone
word: broken telephone
word: operator
word: pass it down
word: Russian scandal
word: telephone game
word: a whisper down the lane
glosses: A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbor, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.
examples: text: Rightly famed for their year 2000 project, RMX//A Visual Remix Project, for which they remixed each others' work in a Chinese Whispers-style process, they have also printed T-shirts with their eye-catching graphics […]
ref: 2004, Helen Walters, 200% Cotton: New T-Shirt Graphics, page 141:
glosses: Any situation where something is changed or misunderstood as a result of passing through successive people or processes.
spirits of salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some have succeeded in sculpturing Marble in very delicate designs by the aid of an acidulous liquor, which is formed by a mixture of spirits of salts and distilled vinegar.
ref: 1856, “Section Sixth”, in Mary Louise Booth, transl., The Marble-Workers' Manual:
text: https://web.archive.org/web/20060910002024/http://www.physchem.co.za/Acids/Introduction.htm
Acids which are commonly found in the laboratory are hydrochloric acid, HCl (still sometimes called by its ancient name spirits of salts), nitric acid, ...
text: Strong acid solutions (e.g. hydrochloric acid or "spirits of salts") are sometimes used to clean masonry and tiling of buildings but they should never be permitted to come into contact with metals, including stainless steel.
ref: http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=1182
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of spirit of salt.
spirits of wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit of wine
Senses: examples: text: The genuine also ought to dissolve entirely in a mixture of four parts of spirits of wine , with one of rectified ether
ref: 1837, James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Latest Pharmacopoeias of London […] :
glosses: Ethanol.
smell-o-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smell-o-meters
Etymology: From smell + -o-meter.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the American Library Association should commission high tech wizards to develop a "smell-o-meter" which could standardize our judgments.
ref: 1993 May, Anne M. Turner, It Comes with the Territory: Handling Problem Situations in Libraries, McFarland & Company, page 10:
text: 1997 May 7, William Greene, misc.fitness.weights, Usenet
Somebody needs to invent a "smell-o-meter" for gyms
text: In other words, the wolf scent that is old, though it registers on the deer’s “smell-o-meter,” causes a far different behavioral reaction than one that is fresh.
ref: 2003 November, Shawn Perich, Michael Furtman, Whitetail Hunting: Top-Notch Strategies for Hunting North America's Most Popular Big-Game Animal, Creative Publishing international, page 13:
glosses: That which registers the magnitude of odor.
cinematise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cinematises
form: cinematising
form: cinematised
form: cinematised
form: cinematize
form: cinemize
Senses: examples: text: Because of its importance, the director will cinematise the story.
glosses: To adapt (an event or story) for the cinema.
Related terms: cinematisation
cinematises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cinematizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cinematise
cinematised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cinematise
cinematising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cinematizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cinematise
shutup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutups
Etymology: A herd of cattle (or a person) in such a steep valley is largely shut up (enclosed).
Senses: examples: text: [page 53:] […] shutups, the most spectacular in the Lefthand Shutup southeast of hill 4787 […] Slickenlines document strike-slip, oblique-slip, and some normal fault movement and form as mullions, as in the Lefthand Shutup southeast of hill 4787, or fine grooves, as in both the Lower and Righthand Shutups.
[page 94:] In contrast, Corry and others (1990, p. 13) believed that the Shutups are ancient features that "must have drained the central basin since it was formed in the late Eocene. The youthful appearance of the shutups, with canyon walls that are very steep to vertical (Fig. 9), is the result of their structural control. The canyons of the shutups […]
ref: , University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, issue 240
text: […] Except in the driest seasons, a shallow flowing stream two or three feet wide meanders over gravel bars between these pools, disappearing and re-emerging as if by whim. But the calm, steep-shadowed serenity of the Shutups is deceiving: floods accompanying late-summer thunderstorms transform them into places of mortal peril, roaring gorges where giant boulders are tumbled about by the current's overwhelming force. So rugged is the interior of the Solitaro that a good day's expedition seldom covers more than fifteen miles, and then only with the aid of a sturdy four-wheel-drive vehicle.
ref: 1983, Forgotten Texas: A Wilderness Portfolio, page 138:
text: Figure 9. Looking west through the Righthand Shutup. [Wiktionary editor's note: The photo depicts a valley with thick brush and trees filling its bottom; its left wall rises at a 45 degree angle and its right wall at a 70 degree angle; another slope fills the horizon, where the valley either curves left or another terrain feature rises outside the valley.] The narrow, steep canyons formed by the shutups, and the steep slopes of the rim escarpment, make it possible to pen cattle inside the central basin with limited fencing. At this location, the right side of the shutup is a rhyolite dike that has prominent columnar jointing near here. The shutups have drained the central basin since the late Eocene.
ref: 1990, Charles E. Corry, Eugene Herrin, Fred W. McDowell, Geology of the Solitario, Trans-Pecos Texas, page 13:
text: The shutups are training grounds for aspiring geologists, a glimpse into geological history through a succession of Cretaceous rocks from youngest to oldest as you ascend the drainages. The canyons are storehouses […]
ref: 2024, Roy Morey, The Other Side of Nowhere:
glosses: A steep canyon in the Solitario region of Texas in the United States.
Related terms: shut-in
shutup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: A herd of cattle (or a person) in such a steep valley is largely shut up (enclosed).
Senses: qualifier: always imperative
glosses: Alternative spelling of shut up.
Derived terms: word: shaddup
Cestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛstɹiːən/
Forms: form: Cestrians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of any of the places called Chester (or Chester-le-Street, etc), especially Chester, England.
Cestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛstɹiːən/
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to any of the places called Chester (or Chester-le-Street, etc), especially Chester, England.
Cestrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cestrian
circumlocutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜːkəmləˈkjuːʃənəɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɝːkəmləˈkjuːʃəˌnɛɹi/
Forms: form: more circumlocutionary
form: most circumlocutionary
Etymology: From circumlocution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The old man's rambling yarn was circumlocutionary.
glosses: Articulated in a roundabout manner; tautological or with repetitive language.
glosses: Evasive, avoiding difficult questions or key points.
raw_tags: of speech
cohere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈhɪə/
ipa: /koʊˈhɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coheres
form: cohering
form: cohered
form: cohered
form: cohære
Etymology: From the Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).
Senses: examples: text: Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
text: Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.
ref: 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To stick together physically, by adhesion.
examples: text: Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
text: That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:
text: A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses.
ref: 2024 April 15, Charles Hugh Smith, Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive:
glosses: To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
examples: text: This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.
ref: 2022 October 2, Nicholas Carl, Kitaneh Fitzpatrick, Zachary Coles, and Frederick W. Kagan, “Iran Crisis Update, October 2”, in Iran Project, Institute for the Study of War:
glosses: To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
Derived terms: coherer
decohere
recohere
uncohered
Related terms: adhere
coherence
coherent
cohesion
cohesive
inhere
coheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cohere
cohered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cohere
cohering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cohere