cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rainy season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainy seasons
Senses: examples: text: If the tourist wishes to avoid the clouds of dust that rise on the great plateau of Mexico, he should travel in the rainy season, i. e., June to September.
ref: 1884, Alfred Ronald Conkling, Appleton's Guide to Mexico, page 3:
glosses: The portion of the year during which the most rain falls.
Synonyms: monsoon
monsoon season
rains
wet season
monsoon season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monsoon seasons
Senses: glosses: The part of the year when the monsoon occurs, the rainy season.
monsoon seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monsoon season
wet seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet season
torce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torces
Senses: examples: text: On a torce, an armed arm embowed, the hand grasping a sword with a serrated edge. The whole surrounded by a garland of flowers tied at the top with a ribbon. Below is the word “Hartsheath."[…]
ref: 1899, Ex Libris Society, The Journal of the Ex Libris Society, page 68:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of torse.
bread-and-butter issues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread-and-butter issue
pilau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilaus
Senses: examples: text: […] the dishes went away almost as full as when they were brought. To-day the king has almost finished the pilau and now he is busy with the curry and rice!
ref: c.1885, A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle
glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pilau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hawaiian pilau (“putrid”).
Senses: glosses: filthy
visual arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual art
visual arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Art forms that are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.
Related terms: english: Art involving three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture.
translation: Art involving three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture.
word: plastic arts
disaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disaggregate
form: most disaggregate
Etymology: From dis- + aggregate.
Senses: glosses: not aggregate
disaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disaggregates
form: disaggregating
form: disaggregated
form: disaggregated
Etymology: From dis- + aggregate.
Senses: glosses: to separate or break down into components
Derived terms: disaggregation
interquartile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + quartile.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Between quartiles.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Between quartiles.
Specifically between the first and third quartiles.
Derived terms: interquartile range
interquartile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interquartiles
Etymology: From inter- + quartile.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The range or content of an interquartile.
zanjero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zanjeros
Etymology: From Spanish zanjero.
Senses: glosses: An official in charge of water supplies in Latin America.
mandioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.
ref: 1863, Henry Walter Bates, chapter IV, in The Naturalist on the River Amazons, volume 1:
glosses: manioc
overcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcards
Etymology: From over- + card.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A card higher than any other card or pair. Often used in reference to the community cards in Texas hold 'em
overcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcard
poker faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poker face
common dandelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common dandelions
Senses: glosses: The most common and well-known species of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
toxicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxicity
Pandion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πανδίων (Pandíōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The name of two kings of Athens (Pandion I and Pandion II).
birds of prey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird of prey
detorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detorses
form: detorsing
form: detorsed
form: detorsed
Etymology: Back-formation from detorsion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To apply detorsion.
computerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of computerize
computerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computerized
form: most computerized
Senses: examples: text: Formal SignWriting is one particular computerized design for Sutton SignWriting that envisions a sign as a two part word.
ref: 2022 January 30, Steve Slevinski, “Formal SignWriting”, in IETF, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024:
glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of computerised.
Derived terms: microcomputerized
noncomputerized
uncomputerized
computerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of computerize
digitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of digitize
digitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of digitize
digitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more digitized
form: most digitized
Senses: glosses: That has been converted from analog to digital
Derived terms: nondigitized
undigitized
resider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residers
Etymology: From reside + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who resides in a place; an inhabitant.
parthenote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenotes
Etymology: Blend of parthenogenesis + zygote
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: a cell or embryo generated through parthenogenesis
cardshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardsharks
form: card shark
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of cardsharp.
salivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salivate
salivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salivate
salivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salivate
bestirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestir
bestirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bestir
bestirred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bestir
shikar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɪˈkɑː/
Forms: form: shikars
Etymology: From Urdu شکار / Hindi शिकार (śikār), from Persian شکار (šekâr).
Senses: examples: text: Where other men took ten days to the Hills, Strickland took leave for what he called shikar, put on the disguise that appealed to him at the time, stepped down into the brown crowd, and was swallowed up for a while.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 25:
text: They climbed up the ladder, and he mounted shikar fashion, treading first on the sharp edge of the heel and then into the looped-up tail.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 130:
glosses: Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
examples: text: With us we had fifteen of the keenest and most cheerful hillman I have ever been associated with on a shikar.
ref: 1954, Jim Corbett, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1988, page 1:
glosses: A hunt.
examples: text: I became an immense favourite with the simple inhabitants of the country, who called me the Burra Feringhee Shikar, or great European hunter[.]
ref: 1855, [Michael] Rafter, chapter XVI, in Percy Blake; or, The Young Rifleman, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 249:
glosses: Alternative form of shikari (“a hunter or tracker”)
Related terms: shikari
shikar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʃɪˈkɑː/
Forms: form: shikars
form: shikarring
form: shikaring
form: shikarred
form: shikarred
form: shikared
form: shikared
Etymology: From Urdu شکار / Hindi शिकार (śikār), from Persian شکار (šekâr).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I wish I could have made him a gun-boy. There's no fun in shikarring alone, and this fellow would have been a perfect shikarri. I wonder what in the world he is.’
ref: 1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 198:
glosses: To hunt; to go hunting.
ardi gasna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Basque ardi (“ewe”) + gasna (“milk”).
Senses: glosses: A medium-soft aromatic sheep's milk cheese from the Basque region of France. The rind is edible, of an orange or terra cotta color and often colored or seasoned with the controllee Espelette peppers of the region.
ten million
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The number 10,000,000.
Synonyms: crore
decamillion
one hundred million
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: We shall not forget the one hundred million victims of Communism: to them we pray, respect, and pay tributes for.
synonyms: centimillion
hectomillion
glosses: The number 100,000,000.
12-hour clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 12-hour clocks
Senses: coordinate_terms: 24-hour clock
glosses: A timekeeping convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem.
electric toothbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric toothbrushes
Senses: glosses: A toothbrush that uses electric power, usually supplied by a battery, to move the brush head rapidly.
Synonyms: power toothbrush
power toothbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power toothbrushes
Senses: glosses: A toothbrush with bristles moved by electric power; an electric toothbrush.
wroughten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A wroughten cup shall be my gift, Hephæstus' work of old , — 'Tis all of silver finished off, with rim of purest gold, […]
ref: 1880, The Odyssey, books i.-xii., translated into English by Charles du Cane, page 75
text: ... and generous courser, with a richly wroughten bridle, curbed with fine gold, and a saddle of exceeding great price, […]
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello (bishop of Agen.), The Novels: Now First Done Into English Prose and Verse, page 27
text: Soft, deep rugs with the spell of far-off places, tapestries woven by masters of the middle ages, a piece of gleaming ivory, a wroughten silver bowl — possibilities are endless in these great rooms.
ref: 1927, Town & Country:
glosses: Synonym of wrought.
synonyms: word: wrought
wroughten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: El Aziz ordered him & sumptuous dress of honour and expended monies galore, giving unto each who had wroughten, after the measure of his work.
ref: 1901, Oriental Tales: Tales from the Arabic ... done into English by John Payne, page 61:
glosses: Synonym of wrought.
synonyms: word: wrought
traffic ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic tickets
Senses: glosses: A notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws.
Hyponyms: speeding ticket
speeding ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speeding tickets
Senses: synonyms: word: green stamp
glosses: A traffic ticket issued for exceeding the speed limit.
connegative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connegatives
Etymology: From con- + negative.
Senses: examples: text: The present connegative has a unique stem form homophonous with that of the imperative (ei tule ‘doesn't come,’ tule!, ‘come!’).
ref: 2023, Daniel Abondolo, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi, editors, The Uralic Languages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 380:
glosses: A verb form used with a negative verb in certain languages.
connegatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connegative
traffic violation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic violations
Senses: glosses: A violation of the rules of the road.
candy bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candy bars
Senses: examples: text: He got another candy bar out of the refrigerator and ripped the wrapper and threw it on the floor. He was sick of candy bars, his mouth full of sugary slop.
ref: 1984, Daniel Curzon, The World Can Break Your Heart, page 229:
synonyms: word: chocolate bar
glosses: A kind of candy in the shape of a bar, often made of chocolate.
Derived terms: candy bar phone
chaperoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaperoned
form: most chaperoned
Senses: glosses: Accompanied by a chaperone
Derived terms: unchaperoned
chaperoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chaperone
soccer player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer players
form: soccer-player
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: One who plays soccer, especially professional soccer.
Synonyms: sense: one who plays soccer
word: footballer
sense: one who plays soccer
word: football player
chaperoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chaperone
chaperoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaperonings
Senses: examples: text: In all my shopping chaperonings, I do not remember to have leant against the door-post, or stood with my back to the fire-place, […]
ref: 1826, Peter George Patmore, Rejected Articles, page 239:
glosses: The act or process of a person being chaperoned.
baseball player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball players
form: baseball-player
Senses: glosses: One who plays baseball, especially professional baseball.
basketball player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketball players
form: basketball-player
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: basketballer
hooper
hypernyms: baller
player
athlete
glosses: A person who plays basketball, especially professionally.
bathroom break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathroom breaks
Senses: examples: text: At 1:30, there will be a bathroom break.
synonyms: toilet break
potty break
glosses: A scheduled time when people can go to the toilet.
Related terms: coffee break
fag break
jalapeños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jalapeño
September eleventh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From September + eleventh.
Senses: glosses: The terrorist attacks that took place in the United States on September 11, 2001.
Synonyms: 9/11
9-11
chiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chile
yellow light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow lights
Senses: glosses: A traffic light, between the green light and the red light, indicating that vehicles should stop if safely possible.
glosses: Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, light.
Synonyms: sense: traffic light
english: dated in US; slightly different meaning to traffic in Britain
translation: dated in US; slightly different meaning to traffic in Britain
word: amber light
Coordinate terms: word: green light
word: red light
word: stoplight
english: = red light
translation: = red light
word: stop light
Related terms: 🔴
🟡
🟢
soccerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccerballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soccer ball.
home team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home teams
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The team that is playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the visitor team.
visitor team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visitor teams
Senses: glosses: The visiting team; the sports team that is not playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the home team.
Synonyms: away team
handicapped space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicapped spaces
Senses: glosses: A parking space reserved for handicapped people.
handicapped sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicapped signs
Senses: glosses: A sign indicating that a certain facility (e.g. parking space, toilet) is reserved for disabled people.
eye doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye doctors
Senses: glosses: An optometrist or ophthalmologist.
you snooze you lose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: If one is not alert and attentive, one will not be successful.
Related terms: snoozer
loser
the early bird gets the worm
cordless phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordless phones
Senses: glosses: A telephone unit that has a battery-powered telephone handset that uses, instead of a cord, wirless RF signals to communicate to a base station which is attached by wires to a landline and can function as a charger for a receiver.
e-tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-tools
Etymology: From e- + tool.
Senses: glosses: A computer- or Web-based application intended to make a task easier.
symmetric difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetric differences
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set that contains all elements belonging to either of given two sets but not to the both; the relative complement of the intersection in the union of given two sets.
dyadic operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyadic operations
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation taking two operands.
Synonyms: binary operation
Related terms: unary operation
unary operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unary operations
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation taking one operand, such as the square, factorial or absolute value operation.
Related terms: binary operation
unary operator
set operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set operations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A mathematical operation that returns a set taking one or more sets as input.
Synonyms: set-theoretic operation
unary operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unary operators
Senses: topics: algebra
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol representing unary operation; an operator taking one operand.
binary operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary operators
Senses: examples: text: The "four rules" +, -, × and ÷ are examples of binary operators.
topics: algebra
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: binop
glosses: A symbol representing binary operation; an operator taking two operands.
conject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-jĕktʹ
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: conjects
form: conjecting
form: conjected
form: conjected
Etymology: From Latin conjectus.
Senses: examples: text: I doe beſeech you,
Though I perchance am vicious in my gheſſe,
As I confeſſe it is my natures plague,
To ſpy into abuſes, and oft my iealouſie
Shapes faults that are not, I intreate you then,
From one that ſo imperfectly coniects,
You’d take no notice, nor build your ſelfe a trouble,
Out of my ſcattering, and vnſure obſeruance; […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 46:
glosses: To conjecture.
examples: text: these men […]congested and conjected at a masse upon the church of England
ref: 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
glosses: To throw together, or to throw.
full to the gills
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even though the room was full to the gills with people, they managed to push enough people aside to open up a small dance floor.
glosses: Completely or overly full.
thiefdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːf.dəm/
rhymes: -iːfdəm
Forms: form: thiefdoms
Etymology: From thief + -dom.
Senses: synonyms: theftdom
glosses: The fact or practice of thieving; theft.
glosses: A place inhabited by thieves, or where thieves are in charge.
Synonyms: sense: a place governed by thieves
word: kleptocracy
lerp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lerps
Etymology: Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba lerep.
Senses: examples: text: These insects sit on the veins of tree leaves, sucking their sap and excreting a sugary solution known as lerp.
ref: 2010, Wendy Zukerman, “Receding gums”, in New Scientist, page 44:
glosses: A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
glosses: One of the lice whose larvae produce this secretion.
lerp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lerps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of linear interpolation.
lerp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lerps
form: lerping
form: lerped
form: lerped
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To interpolate linearly.
Derived terms: bilerp
trilerp
pardalote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardalotes
Senses: examples: text: Pardalotes, honeyeaters and thornbills are among several birds that feed on carbohydrate-rich sugars from trees: manna, the crystalline sap which oozes from injuries to trees made by insects or other animals; honeydew, the exudate of sap-sucking coccids and aphids; and lerps, the protective sugary coating of psyllid larvae.
ref: 2011, Penny Olsen, Leo Joseph, Stray Feathers: Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds, CSIRO Publishing, page 258:
text: They are pardalotes, tiny little feathered jewels with stubby bills and stubby tails, giving an oddly ladybird-like silhouette.
ref: 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 137:
text: The forty-spotted pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) is the first Australian bird found to encourage trees to release manna, a sugary crystallised sap.
ref: 2016 March 12, “Mining bird farms trees for manna”, in New Scientist, number 3064, page 16:
glosses: Any of the Australian birds of the genus Pardalotus, which feed on lerps.
Synonyms: peep-wren
Related terms: Pardalotidae
misspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈspiːkɪŋ/
Etymology: From misspeak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misspeak
misspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈspiːkɪŋ/
Forms: form: misspeakings
Etymology: From misspeak + -ing.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: speako (countable)
synonyms: misspeech
coordinate_terms: misphrasing
miswording
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miswriting#Noun
glosses: The fact or instance of speaking incorrectly, falsely, or unclearly.
glosses: Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
hyperosmolar coma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperosmolar comas
Senses: glosses: Any coma that results from a greater than normal amount of glucose in the blood
Derived terms: nonketotic hyperosmolar coma
falsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of falsify
falsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsifyings
Senses: glosses: falsification
hyperosmolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperosmolar
form: most hyperosmolar
Etymology: From hyper- + osmolar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
Derived terms: hyperosmolar coma
hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketoic coma
hyperosmolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperosmolarities
Etymology: From hyper- + osmolarity.
Senses: glosses: An abnormally high osmolarity
Related terms: hyperosmolar
relative complement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative complements
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set containing exactly those elements belonging to B but not to A.
raw_tags: of set A "in" set B
Synonyms: set-theoretic difference
Related terms: relative pseudo-complement
CGEL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985).
glosses: Initialism of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002).
absolute complement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute complements
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set that contains exactly those elements belonging to the universal set but not to a given set.
peel me a grape
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: First recorded use by Mae West in the film I'm no Angel (1933): "Beulah, (yes ma'am) peel me a grape."
Senses: examples: text: His early, brilliant "Peel Me a Grape," which has long been one of Blossom Dearie's anthems, laughs at social ennui in the seventies and eighties in the way that Cole Porter laughed at it in the thirties: Peel me a grape, crush me some ice, Skin me a peach, save the fuzz for my pillow, Start me a smoke, talk to me nice, You gotta wine me and dine me, Don't try and fool me, bejewel me, Either amuse me or lose me, I'm gettin' hungry -- peel me a grape.
ref: 2006, Whitney Balliett -, American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Can't you hear Adam say to her, “Peel me a grape, Lilith.” And her response: “Peel it yourself! And while you are at it, where's dinner?”
ref: 2009, Ronald B. Allen, Beverly Allen, Liberated Traditionalism: Men and Women in Balance, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Half an hour later when dad and I ventured into the lounge, mum glaring at us with a face like thunder, Kim was lying contentedly next to Armalade in front of the fire, a real con merchant if ever there was one, basking in all the attention. Talk about peel me a grape!
ref: 2011, Maggie Graham, Me and My Animals, →ISBN, page 80:
text: “Daaaahlings I say, please refill my glass and peel me a grape.” She grinned and mugged it up for us gathered proletariat.
ref: 2011, Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of Adventure and Intrigue, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: A request to be pampered or to have one's whims indulged.
wikipedia: I'm no Angel
Mae West
set-theoretic difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-theoretic differences
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set that contains exactly those elements belonging to A but not to B; the relative complement of B in A.
raw_tags: of two sets A and B
Synonyms: relative complement
volge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /voʊlɡ/
Etymology: From Latin vulgus.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ea, he would profer to fight with any mean perſon, if cried up by the volge for a tall man: this daring being a generall fault in great ſpirits, and a great fault in a Generall, who ſtaketh a pearl againſt a piece of glaſſe.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Prince Edwards Performance in Palestine: He is Dangerously Wounded; yet Recovereth, and Returneth Home Safe”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 219:
glosses: The common people; the crowd, the mob.
Related terms: voulge
volga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of volatility + gamma
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
Synonyms: DvegaDvol
vega convexity
vomma
Hypernyms: sense: measure of derivative price sensitivity
english: includes list of coordinate terms
translation: includes list of coordinate terms
word: Greeks
Derived terms: cross volga
emanating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emanate
Pecheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/
Forms: form: Pechenegs
form: Pacheneg
form: Patzinak
form: Petcheneg
form: Petchenek
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian печене́г (pečenég).
Senses: examples: text: The Pechenegs had already ceased to be a major threat by the time Kievan Rus’ converted to Christianity in 988, and most references to them in the chronicle are in the period before this, earlier in the tenth century.
ref: 1987, Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, Indiana University Press, page 13:
text: One of the earliest Arab geographers who referred to the Pechenegs in south-eastern Europe was al-Iṣṭakhrī (circa 950).
ref: 1993, Harry Thirlwall Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, University of South Carolina Press, page 26:
text: The siege of Dristra failed, as the emperor found himself surrounded by the Pechenegs.[…]Fearing a Cuman–Pecheneg alliance, Alexios immediately sued for peace and the Pechenegs agreed to a truce, which they immediately broke in order to take advantage of Alexios' notorious lack of troops and invade Thrace.
ref: 2006, Florin Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Cambridge University Press, page 301:
glosses: A member of a specific semi-nomadic Turkic people from central Asia, some of whom migrated into eastern Europe.
Pecheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/
Forms: form: Pacheneg
form: Patzinak
form: Petcheneg
form: Petchenek
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian печене́г (pečenég).
Senses: examples: text: […]these loanwords are later borrowings from the Pecheneg and Comanian, respectively.
ref: 1991, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Volume 7, Peter de Ridder Press, page 286:
glosses: The now extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs.
Pecheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/
Forms: form: Pacheneg
form: Patzinak
form: Petcheneg
form: Petchenek
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian печене́г (pečenég).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language.
Related terms: Cuman
Kipchak
Via Egnatia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Gnaeus Egnatius, the Roman proconsul of Macedonia, who ordered its construction.
Senses: glosses: A Roman road running across the Balkan peninsula, from Dyrrachium to Byzantium.
Outremer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈuːtɹəmɛː/
Etymology: From French outre-mer (“beyond the sea”), from outre (“beyond”) and mer (“sea”).
Senses: examples: text: 1997: After the capture of Jerusalem, the genuine pilgrims had begun to trickle home; the Franks who remained in Outremer (as the Crusader lands in the Middle East had come to be called) were military adventurers, now out for what they could get. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 260)
text: Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 269:
glosses: The French Crusader States established in the Middle East after the First Crusade.
raw_tags: of France
nomismata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomisma
sods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sod
sods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sod
blue-eyed boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-eyed boys
Senses: examples: text: ...this cove was so deucedly civil, and all that, that now she won't look at anybody else. He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress:
text: "Keep it up, Mandrake," he said. "Just keep it up. You may be the Prime Minister's blue-eyed boy now, but how long's that going to last if you don't deliver?"
ref: 2004, Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye:
glosses: The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed, boy.
Synonyms: fair-haired boy
teacher's pet
golden boy
yexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛksɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yex
yexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Etymology: From yex + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yex
yexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Forms: form: yexings
Etymology: From Middle English ȝyxynge, ȝoxing, from Old English ġeoxung, ġeocsung, ġiscung (“sobbing”), from Old English ġiscian (“to sob; sigh”), equivalent to yex + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Frequent, convulsive Yexings, or Hickets.
ref: 1714, Titus Lucretius Carus, Thomas Creech, Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books, volume 2:
glosses: A hiccup.
yexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yex
handicapped permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicapped permits
Senses: glosses: A permit allowing handicapped people to park in handicapped spaces.
Wirtshaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wirtshäuser
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wirtshaus.
Senses: glosses: A pub.
altissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altissimos
Etymology: From Italian altissimo.
Senses: examples: text: He could fold the full pitch range of the horn into a short solo, from altissimo to the lowest notes, and connect rarefied ideas to the rich, soulful phrasing of saxophonists like Junior Walker.
ref: 2007 January 14, Ben Ratliff, “Michael Brecker Dies at 57; Prolific Jazz Saxophonist”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The highest register of a woodwind instrument, or a specific note in this register
Derived terms: in altissimo
columbium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columbiums
form: colombium
Etymology: From Columbus + -ium, named after Christopher Columbus by the element’s discoverer, Charles Hatchett.
Senses: glosses: Former name of niobium.
wikipedia: Charles Hatchett
Christopher Columbus
Derived terms: coltan
columbiferous
columbite
scaldino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaldinos
form: scaldini
Etymology: From Italian scaldino.
Senses: glosses: An Italian earthenware brazier.
comparate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of two things being compared.
comparate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comparate
form: most comparate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 5. Between the ſimple Velleity of the will, and the choice that followeth the Comparate act of the intellect.
ref: 1662, Richard Baxter, chapter IV, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 9th edition, London: […] Francis Tyton and Jane Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 831:
glosses: Involving comparison, comparative.
sartorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sartorial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An interest in matters of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
Related terms: sartorial
sartorialist
sartorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sartorialists
Etymology: From sartorial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who practices or is interested in sartorialism.
disexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disexcitations
Etymology: From dis- + excitation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The change in state of an excited state as it loses a quantum of energy.
erbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: erbium oxide Er₂O₃; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.
erbium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erbium oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of erbium, but especially the pink amorphous solid Er₂O₃ (erbia) that is used as a phosphor and in optics
bastnasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastnasites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bastnaesite.
ytterbium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ytterbium oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of ytterbium, but especially the colourless solid Yb₂O₃ (ytterbia)
terbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terbias
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rare earth terbium oxide Tb₂O₃
terbium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terbium oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of terbium, but especially the white solid Tb₂O₃ (terbia)
ittria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of yttria.
lutecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lutetium oxide
lutetium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutetium oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of lutetium, but especially the white solid Lu₂O₃ (lutecia)
triple crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple crowns
Senses: examples: 1997: The last in this series of deaths was that of Pope Eugenius’s successor Anastasius IV, who was succeeded by a man of a very different calibre: Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only Englishman ever to wear the Triple Crown. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 281)
glosses: The three-tiered tiara formerly worn by Popes.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An award representing victory in three events, especially in horse-racing.
Popes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pope
sweatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sweaty: more sweaty
praline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑː.liːn/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪ.liːn/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪˌlin/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑˌlin/
ipa: /pɹɑˈlin/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔ.lin/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.lin/
Forms: form: pralines
Etymology: Borrowed from French praline.
Senses: examples: text: A typical praline is roundish, about three inches in diameter and a half-inch thick. The taste is faintly regressive, reminiscent of the pleasure to be found in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when one is ravenously hungry.
ref: 1992 March 15, Frances Frank Marcus, “A Sweet Pleasure From New Orleans: The Praline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: And so it is with praline, that crunchy, sweet, nut brittle that marries so irresistibly with chocolate.
ref: 2017 March 26, Nigel Slater, “Nigel Slater’s chocolate and praline recipes”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: brittle
glosses: A confection made from almonds and other nuts, caramelized sugar, and sometimes milk or cream.
Derived terms: pralined
praetorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈtɔːɹiən/
Forms: form: pretorian
form: prætorian
Etymology: From Middle English pretorian, from Latin praetōriānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a praetor.
examples: text: The praetorian gate was directly in front of the general's tent, and nearest to the enemy.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pretorium in an ancient Roman camp.
examples: text: praetorian guard
text: Hey, sir? Sir, excuse me?” The blonde was calling out to him, in imperious tones that insisted on a reply. Her satraps became watchful, like a Praetorian guard.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the special bodyguard force used by Roman emperors.
glosses: Corruptly mercenary and venal.
Derived terms: praetorian band
praetorian guard: the bodyguard of the emperor in Ancient Rome
praetorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈtɔːɹiən/
Forms: form: praetorians
form: pretorian
form: prætorian
Etymology: From Middle English pretorian, from Latin praetōriānus.
Senses: examples: text: I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Prætorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world’s); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 108, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A praetor; a person of praetorian rank.
examples: text: Durry's work is still cited as the definitive study of the praetorians, and in fact most modern scholarship on the praetorians is based on material from his work.
ref: 2013, Sandra Bingham, The Praetorian Guard, I.B.Tauris, page 6:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Praetorian (“member of a special bodyguard force used by Roman emperors”).
examples: text: The Trump praetorians who initially denied there was any effort to pressure the Ukrainians into action on a Biden probe, possibly including the withholding of congressionally approved military aid, suddenly surfaced a new talking point: “They’re trying to turn what was a Biden scandal into a Trump scandal.”
ref: 2019 September 23, Jonah Goldberg, “Column: The most noxious part of Ukraine-Biden whistleblower affair is Team Trump thinks we’re all idiots”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A venal mercenary.
praetor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prēʹtôr
ipa: /ˈpɹiːtɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːtɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪːtɚ/
Forms: form: praetors
form: praetores
Etymology: From Middle English pretour, pretor, from the Anglo-Norman pretour, pretore, the Middle French preteur (from the Old French pretor; compare the Modern French préteur), and their etymon, the Classical Latin praetor (“leader”, “commander”, “magistrate”); the Latin praetor being contracted from *praeitor (“one who goes before”), from praeeō (“I go before”), from prae (“before”) + eō (“I go”); compare the Italian pretore, the Portuguese pretor, and the Spanish pretor.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
A consul in command of the army.
qualifier: originally
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
raw_tags: after 366 BC
glosses: A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
qualifier: translating Italian "pretore"
glosses: The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.
Synonyms: sense: Roman office
word: provost
Derived terms: lieutenant-praetor
peregrine praetor
praetoral
praetorical
praetorship
urban praetor
Related terms: praetorial
→ Praetorian Guard
praetorian
praetorium
praetory
praeturate
propraetor
plodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plodders
Etymology: From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,
Grave old plodders, gay young friskers […]
ref: 1842, Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, London: Frederick Warne, published 1888, page 18:
glosses: One who plods.
examples: text: Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun
That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks:
Small have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: 1899, Pansy (pseudonym of Isabella Macdonald Alden), Three People, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 21, p. 271,
What an indefatigable plodder you are to get those papers ready so soon, and an unmerciful man besides to make me go over them to-night.
text: Throughout my life […] I have been fortified in the conclusion that it is much more important for a young man to be a worker, even though not brilliant, than to be brilliant and not a worker. As one looks back at some companions who attended lectures, and follows the records of their lives, one is strengthened in this belief because the facts show that the steady plodders have gone further than have some of those brilliant lads of other days.
ref: 1939, Robert James Manion, Life is an Adventure, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Part Two, II, p. 43:
glosses: A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
examples: text: From the mill the soap passes into the hopper of the plodder. This machine feeds it automatically into a compartment where it is subjected to an enormous pressure, forming it again into a compact mass.
ref: 1893, Henry Gathmann, American Soaps, page 258:
glosses: A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Related terms: sense: machine that extrudes
word: extruder
postscripta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postscriptum
plea-bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plea-bargains
form: plea bargain
form: pleabargain
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of plea bargain (“an agreement between a defendant and the prosecution in which the defendant agrees to a plea such as guilty or nolo contendere to a lesser charge rather than contesting a greater charge”).