cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
herpes simplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That's the whole point of Ashearh. It's both. As an example, look at herpes simplex.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 373:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A viral disease caused by Human herpesvirus 1 or Human herpesvirus 2 in genus Simplexvirus.
Hypernyms: herpes
Derived terms: herpes simplex virus
feijoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/
/feɪˈd͡ʒoʊ.ə/
/feɪˈhoʊ.ə/
/ˈfiːd͡ʒɐʉ.ɐ/
Forms: form: feijoas
Etymology: From the New Latin former genus name Feijoa, which was named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó by the German botanist Otto Karl Berg.
Senses: glosses: A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana).
glosses: The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste.
Synonyms: guavasteen
pineapple guava
fast friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast friends
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of friends who are often in each other’s company, and appear to be inseparable
fashion-forward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fashion-forward
form: most fashion-forward
Senses: examples: text: His fashion designs are very fashion-forward.
glosses: Having characteristics that conform to current fashion trends.
Synonyms: on trend
far and wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English fer and wide (“far and wide”). Compare Middle English wide and side, widen and siden (“far and wide”), from Old English wīde and sīde (“far and wide”).
Senses: glosses: Over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.
Related terms: high and low
far and away
fanfaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfarons
Etymology: From Middle French fanfaron.
Senses: examples: text: Peregrine glowing with resentment, called him a Fanfaron, and withdrew, in expectation of being followed into the street.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A boaster; a braggart.
fancruft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌkrʌft/
Etymology: From fan + cruft.
Senses: examples: text: Fancruft (sometimes shortened to just cruft) is a derogatory term for these types of articles, which are sometimes just barely tolerated.
ref: [2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 225:
text: This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.
ref: 2012, Jason Mittell, “Wikis and Participatory Fandom”, in Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, editors, The Participatory Cultures Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.
ref: 2014, Michael Restivo, Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way (dissertation), Stony Brook University, page 1:
text: Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.
ref: 2017, David Letzler, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 5:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.
examples: text: Here, Talking Dead forwards its own subtle policing strategy, celebrating the moment of canonical coupling in which Richonne is elevated from feminine “fancruft” to a legitimate topic of conversation, simultaneously reveling in and poking fun at Brown's deep emotional investment in coupling.
ref: 2019, Suzanne Scott, Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Low-quality material (especially literature) produced by fans of a performer, group, author etc.
Romish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romish
form: most Romish
Etymology: From Middle English *Romish, equivalent to Rome + -ish. Compare Dutch Roomsch, Rooms (“Roman”), German Römisch (“Roman”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to Rome.
examples: the friars of the Romish church
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: papish
popish
glosses: Of, like, pertaining to, or supporting Romanism or the Roman Catholic Church.
Derived terms: Romishly
Romish Methodists
Romishness
hyperthetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypothetical.
hyperthetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting hyperthesis, long-distance metathesis
Synonyms: hyperthetic
ethnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛtniː/
Forms: form: ethnie
form: ethnies
Etymology: Borrowed from French ethnie.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ethnie.
glosses: An ethnic group; an ethnicity.
remediating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: When remediating a project, the basic approach should be to determine the path that the project should have taken
glosses: present participle and gerund of remediate
barking dogs never bite
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barking dogs seldom bite.
never look a gift horse in the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Punch and Judy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punch and Judies
Senses: glosses: A traditional sideshow often found at seaside resorts, consisting of various glove puppets operated by one person in a small tent-style booth theatre.
examples: text: Like all binary debates, while it's certainly true that questions about public service broadcasting and the role of the BBC have risen up the agenda recently, it is easy, even from the offices of the BBC in White City, to get stuck in a Punch and Judy discourse.
ref: 2008 July 21, Mark Thompson., “How much money does the BBC need?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A two-sided ideological battle, or contradictory arguing.
Related terms: no show without Punch
glove puppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glove puppets
Senses: glosses: A type of puppet designed to be worn on the hand like a glove.
Synonyms: hand puppet
convention bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convention bumps
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The rise in support (as shown in polls) a presidential candidate receives after the national party nominating convention.
direct primary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct primaries
Senses: glosses: A primary in which voters directly select candidates for office by popular vote
romanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of romance
dual primary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual primaries
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Two primaries held concurrently.
resonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resonance
gender gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender gaps
Senses: examples: text: Surveys show a gender gap with women favoring Democrats 12 percent more than men.
text: But in the light of last month's election returns, the gender gap looks less like a striking electoral phenomenon and more like a pollster's product. To judge from the way women actually voted, they do not compose a voting bloc with especially compassionate clout.
ref: 1982 December 10, Ann Hulbert, “What Gender Gap?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The report found that no countries had managed to eliminate a gender gap entirely, but the Nordic countries were the best at narrowing it and providing a workable model for the rest of the world.
ref: 2005 May 17, “Nordic gender gap is thinner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.
Related terms: pay gap
remediated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remediate
remediated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: corrected; improved
Germanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝmənaɪz/
ipa: /ˈdʒɜːmənaɪz/
Forms: form: Germanizes
form: Germanizing
form: Germanized
form: Germanized
form: Germanise
Etymology: From German + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: to Germanize a province, a language, or a society
text: Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?
ref: 1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.:
glosses: To give a German character to (something).
glosses: To adopt German customs or culture.
Related terms: Germanization
remediates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remediate
cut someone some slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts someone some slack
form: cutting someone some slack
form: cut someone some slack
form: cut someone some slack
Senses: examples: text: He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this.
glosses: To make allowances for someone, and not treat a failure severely.
Synonyms: give someone a break
give someone enough rope
Related terms: short leash
googleability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googlability
form: Googlability
form: Googleability
Etymology: googleable + -ity. First use appears c. 2001. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: So, how far does cultural literacy go? Where does Trivial Pursuit end and cultural literacy begin? Is there significant overlap? The things that follow are probably "Googleable" (maybe not "Matamoros"). How much does "Googleability" correlate with cultural literacy? To what extent are mass media the "drivers" of cultural literacy?
ref: 2001 June 25, Jerry Bauer, “Cultural Literacy”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
text: The good news is that you can improve your Googleability (or ability to show up on any search engine) so that people who search for information about you on the Internet will find you.
ref: 2007, Lindsey Pollak, Getting from college to career, page 39:
text: If you don't exist on Google, Yahoo and MSN, you don't exist. A strong "googleability" rating and online presence will enhance your Personal Brand.
ref: 2009, Hubert K. Rampersad, Authentic Personal Branding, page 117:
text: Thanks to Joop van Eijk, my father, for offering advice and guidance, for keeping track of my googleability, for making my Dutch summary readable and for having taught me to always explore all opportunities.
ref: 2010, G. Van Eijk, Unequal networks: spatial segregation, relationships and ...:
glosses: The likelihood of finding something using Google or another similar Internet search engine.
Related terms: googleable
googlability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From googlable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I e-mail a quick thank-you-for-increasing-my-googlability to a blogger, hoping they'll mention the thank you, adding another page to my number.
ref: 2006, Jill Soloway, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants:
glosses: Alternative form of googleability.
Related terms: googlable
graveyard shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graveyard shifts
Etymology: By association of the spooky, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: night shift (sometimes synonymous; sometimes coordinate)
text: I had to work the graveyard shift for most of that year, and at first I hated it, but eventually I even kind of liked it, in some ways.
text: Now she's workin' the graveyard shift at the hospital. She'll be comin' home in less than an hour and a half. Make your phone calls, talk to your people, then get the fuck out of my house.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jimmie (Quentin Tarantino):
text: It is generally believed that when rotating shifts are necessary the rotation should move clockwise (that is, day shift first, then swing shift, then graveyard shift, then back to day shift, and so on)
ref: 2006, Roberto Refinetti, Circadian physiology, volume 1, page 580:
antonyms: day shift
coordinate_terms: first shift
;
second shift
;
third shift
;
swing shift
glosses: A work shift late at night, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.
examples: text: Near-synonym: night shift (sometimes synonymous; sometimes coordinate)
text: You'll have to ask the graveyard shift — the equipment was here when we left.
antonyms: day shift
coordinate_terms: first shift
;
second shift
;
third shift
;
swing shift
glosses: A group of workers who work during this time slot.
Related terms: graveyard watch
reassurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reassurance
graveyard watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graveyard watches
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: first watch
night watch
glosses: The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am.
Related terms: graveyard shift
graveyard poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.
exercise machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise machines
Senses: glosses: Any of a great variety of devices, powered either by electricity or by the user, used to improve strength or physical fitness.
evaporitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evaporitic
form: most evaporitic
Etymology: From evaporite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an evaporite
Derived terms: endoevaporitic
evagination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evaginations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēvāginātiō. By surface analysis, evaginat(e) + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of evaginating.
glosses: An outgrowth or protruded part.
'pon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: pon
Etymology: Compare identically formed Swedish på, Norwegian på, Danish på.
Senses: examples: text: So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 12, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Contraction of upon.
euglena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈɡliːnə/
Forms: form: euglenas
Etymology: From translingual Euglena, from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + γλήνη (glḗnē, “eye”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several protists, of the genus Euglena, that contain chloroplasts and a single flagellum.
rabbiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabbitting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rabbit
rabbiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbitings
form: rabbitting
Senses: examples: text: Periodically there are rabbitings here, which usually yield a good result. Then all the normal life of the wood seems to be disturbed, paralysed. Not only the hunted rabbits, but the birds are scared, and go flying wildly in all directions; […]
ref: 1893, Alexander Hay Japp, Hours in My Garden: And Other Nature-sketches, page 90:
glosses: A hunt for rabbits.
epithalamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The dorsal posterior segment of the diencephalon; it includes the habenula, the stria medullaris and the pineal body.
Derived terms: epithalamic
rabbited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabbitted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rabbit
epeiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epeiric
form: most epeiric
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros) or a related word (+ -ic).
Senses: glosses: Describing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf
entextualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entextualizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of entextualisation.
entering tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entering tones
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: checked tone
ru tone
coordinate_terms: level tone
rising tone
departing tone
entering tone
glosses: A short, sharp tone found with syllables that end in plosives (usually /-p -t -k -ʔ/).
Related terms: checked syllable
ensorcelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This hastily ensorcelled collection of body parts is channeling raw magical energy.
ref: 2002, Neverwinter Nights (video game)
text: I wanted to understand how anyone not already ensorcelled by the cult....
ref: 2024 February 2, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “When Heterodoxy Goes Too Far”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ensorcell
examples: text: The unusual order generated coverage across the legal blogging community, which was apparently ensorcelled by a spell requiring headline writers to use dragon-related puns…
ref: 2025 May 1, Nate Anderson, “Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 02 May 2025:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ensorcel
encipherment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encipherments
Etymology: From encipher + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of enciphering; encryption
Derived terms: superencipherment
long face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long faces
Senses: examples: text: Why the long face? Is something wrong?
text: Come on, don't look so worried! Now, Chewy is not gonna want to come to a house of long faces, is he? Come on Malla, let's see a little smile. There that's better.
ref: 1978 November 17, 14:01 from the start, in The Star Wars Holiday Special (Science Fiction), spoken by Mark Hamill, →OCLC:
glosses: An expression of sadness and disappointment or gloom.
Related terms: long-faced
electrosmog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + smog.
Senses: glosses: the electromagnetic radiation emitted by all the computers, mobile phones etc. in the environment
Related terms: electropollution
elapid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elapids
Etymology: From translingual Elapidae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of many species of snakes of the family Elapidae, including the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes
elapid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elapid
form: most elapid
Etymology: From translingual Elapidae.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these snakes.
drekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From directly (“immediately”).
Senses: examples: text: I will do it drekly.
glosses: At an unspecified time, ranging from straight away to a short or long time in the future; eventually
Synonyms: at some point
somewhen
sometime
egg donation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg donations
Senses: glosses: The process by which a woman provides one or several eggs (ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research.
more haste, less speed
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: The word speed is used here in the dated sense of “success, luck”, though probably with a pun on the sense “velocity”. Compare the same in Low German je gröter Hast, je minder Spood.
Senses: glosses: When one is in a hurry, one often ends up having less success and completing a task more slowly.
Related terms: haste makes waste
slow and steady wins the race
landscape genetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A discipline that analyses the influence of landscape and environmental features on the genetic structure of a population.
repairmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repairman
rattans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattan
rattans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rattan
rabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabble
echography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From echo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of ultrasound as a diagnostic aid.
Derived terms: cardioechography
Related terms: echogram
echograph
echographer
echographic
ecography
energy crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy crises
Senses: examples: text: Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly.
ref: 1977 April 18, Jimmy Carter, President's Address to the Nation on Proposed National Energy Policy:
glosses: An economic problem caused by a dwindling supply of energy, at an increasing price.
dygogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dygograms
Etymology: Blend of dynamic + goniometric + diagram
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chart showing the horizontal variation in the magnetic force acting on a ship's compass needle by the iron within the ship, as a function of course steered
duplation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplations
Senses: glosses: doubling
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A historic form of multiplication based on doubling
dumpty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dumptier
form: dumptiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumpy.
Related terms: humpty-dumpty
driftnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driftnets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drift net.
driftnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: driftnets
form: driftnetting
form: driftnetted
form: driftnetted
Senses: glosses: To fish using a drift net
abporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abporal
form: most abporal
Etymology: From ab- + poral. First defined by the palynologist Roger Philip Wodehouse in 1928.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Located to the side of an ectoaperture such as a pore. Typically used in reference to an abporal lacuna or hemisphere.
Related terms: interporal
paraporal
poral
drift net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drift nets
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat.
Related terms: drift fishing
drifter
dolichoderine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolichoderines
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any ant of the subfamily Dolichoderinae
dolichoderine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dolichoderine
form: most dolichoderine
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these insects
DMDM hydantoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydantoin derivative 1,3-dimethylol-5, 5-dimethyl hydantoin, widely used as an antimicrobial preservative in cosmetics.
hydantoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydantoins
Etymology: From hydrogenation and allantoin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The heterocycle imidazolidine-2,4-dione derived from urea and glycolic acid; any of its many derivatives
Derived terms: benzylhydantoin
clodantoin
dantrolene
DMDM hydantoin
hydantoic
hydantoinase
nitrofurantoin
spirohydantoin
thiohydantoin
divine intervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divine interventions
Senses: examples: text: Nature cannot tell beforehand how a Divine intervention is to accomplish its object, for that intervention must be beyond nature, beyond all its findings and experience.
ref: 1851, James McCosh, The Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral, New York: Robert Carter & Bros., p. 479 (Google preview)
text: And indeed if he does escape it will seem a miracle, and almost a divine intervention, not only to the pursued but to the pursuers.
ref: 1920, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 12, in The New Jerusalem:
text: Unlike some of the more colorful faith healers of the past, Dr. Krieger does not claim miraculous cures or divine interventions.
ref: 1977 November 6, Ronald Sullivan, “Hospitals Introducing a Therapy Resembling 'Laying On of Hands'”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2016:
text: Farmers in the Midwest are literally praying for rain: the St. John Catholic Church in Spearville, Kansas is holding four special services this week to seek divine intervention.
ref: 2002 April 10, Jessica Reaves, “How Dry We Are”, in Time, retrieved 03 Aug 2016:
text: As Silversides now commenced its best imitation of a two-and-a-half-thousand-ton roller coaster heading down into the depths, one of the junior officers half-ran, half-fell through the submarine into the forward torpedo room, to demand of Chief Smiley "do something!" about the stuck bow planes. Illustrating the completely-useless system shattered by the bomb blast, the chief informed the officer that the most-useful thing he was able to do right now was pray for divine intervention.
ref: 2022 September 28, Drachinifel, 18:04 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Struggle is Real (Jan'43 - Jun'43), archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Direct and obvious intervention by a god in the affairs of humans.
examples: text: I knew who you were as a [RuPaul's] Drag Race fan. So I was gagged personally and I still am gagged, but it was quite divine intervention. Thom Kerr, the photographer, really got the ball rolling and I had no idea what to expect of this shoot besides greatness.
ref: 2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper:
glosses: An unexpected fortunate turn of events; a miracle.
Related terms: God wink
miracle
acalymmate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + calymmate.
Senses: examples: text: When loosely associated, each tetrad retains most of its outer exine layer, leading to calymmate tetrads, but an acalymmate massula (since the exine is not continuous around each massula […]).
ref: 1996, John V. Freudenstein, Finn N. Rasmussen, “Sectile Pollinia and Relationships in the Orchideaceae”, in Plant Systematics and Evolution, volume 205, →DOI, pages 125–146:
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.
Related terms: calymma
discommend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪskəˈmɛnd/
Forms: form: discommends
form: discommending
form: discommended
form: discommended
Etymology: From dis- + commend.
Senses: antonyms: commend#Verb
praise#Verb
glosses: To show disapproval of (something or someone), to find fault with.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: disrecommend, unrecommend (rare); deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh
text: Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus […], calling it a filthy beast, and rammish […].
ref: , New York, 2001, p.218
antonyms: recommend#Verb
endorse#Verb
encourage#Verb
support#Verb
glosses: To speak dissuasively of (something or someone), to advise against.
Derived terms: discommender
diphyodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos) (genitive of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”)).
Senses: glosses: The condition, in some animals, of having only one set of replacement teeth following a first erupted set.
Related terms: diphyodont
dihybrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈhaɪbɹɪd/
Forms: form: dihybrids
Etymology: From di- + hybrid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hybrid that is heterozygous with respect to two independent alleles
pollinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollinium
polliniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pollinium + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: This is a polliniate orchid.
topics: biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming pollinia, coherent masses of pollen dispersed as a single unit.
Related terms: pollinial
pollinium
pollinial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollinial
form: most pollinial
Etymology: From pollinium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The pollinial mass will attach to the insect's leg.
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pollinium, or large coherent mass of pollen grains.
Related terms: polliniate
pollinium
devil take the hindmost
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Devil take the hindmost
form: the Devil take the hindmost
form: the devil take the hindmost
Senses: examples: text: What if a toy take um ith heeles now, and they runn all away, and cry the Divell take the hindmoſt.
ref: c. 1608–1610 (date written), Francis Beaumont, Iohn Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies a Bleeding. […], 4th edition, London: […] VV[illiam] J[ones] for Richard Hawkins, […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act V, page 66:
text: Land Alianable which would bring in the Stock Jobbing Temper, the Devill take the Hindmost.
ref: 1742, James Oglethorpe, “Letter to the Honorable Trustees”, in Lucian Lamar Knight, Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready, editors, The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, volume 23, published 1914:
text: Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
‘Bethankit’ hums.
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, Address to a Haggis:
text: And [we] coldly see the all-conquering valiant Sons of Toil sit enchanted, by the million, in their Poor-Law Bastille, as if this were Nature’s Law;—mumbling to ourselves some vague janglement of Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, Cash-payment the one nexus of man to man: Free-trade, Competition, and Devil take the hindmost, our latest Gospel yet preached!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Two Centuries”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 170:
text: "Oh, don't talk to me about your socialists, I've got no patience with them," she cried. "It only means that another lot of lazy loafers will make a good thing out of the working classes. My motto is, leave me alone; I don't want anyone interfering with me; I'll make the best of a bad job, and the devil take the hindmost."
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CVIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 572:
text: Choose your hand, try your best. He who wins, wins it all. Devil take the hindmost.
ref: 2010, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Love Never Dies, Song nr. 22
glosses: An imprecation that everyone should look after their own interests, leaving those who cannot cope to whatever fate befalls them.
Related terms: every man for himself
zettai ryouiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zettai ryōiki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 絶(ぜっ)対(たい)領(りょう)域(いき) (zettai ryōiki, literally “absolute territory”).
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
synonyms: absolute territory
glosses: The area of bare skin above the top of above-the-knee socks but below the hemline of a miniskirt or pair of shorts.
determinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nɪst/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɪst/
Forms: form: determinists
Etymology: Borrowed from French déterministe, equivalent to determine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: However we understand the defect, most divine determinists will likely wish to say that the relation of inconformity between act and law obtains (when it does obtain) merely in virtue of the intrinsic natures of the relata. In other words, the relation of inconformity follows merely upon the nonrelational characteristics of the relata
ref: 2019, Peter Furlong, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, page 94:
glosses: An advocate of determinism.
Derived terms: biological determinist
hard determinist
nondeterminist
self-determinist
soft determinist
superdeterminist
technodeterminist
techno-determinist
determinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nɪst/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɪst/
Forms: form: more determinist
form: most determinist
Etymology: Borrowed from French déterministe, equivalent to determine + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of determinism.
irrelevances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrelevance
irrelevancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrelevancy
itemisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itemisations
Etymology: From itemise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of itemization.
sesame leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesame leaves
Etymology: sesame + leaf
Senses: glosses: a leaf of the sesame plant
sesame leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesame leaves
Etymology: Calque of Korean 깻잎 (kkaennip, “sesame leaf”).
Senses: glosses: a leaf of the perilla plant
antigogglin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antigoglin.
regular coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular coffees
Senses: glosses: Coffee of the sort which is considered the default in a given area:
Coffee with cream and sugar (in contrast to the expected meaning of "black coffee" in other regions of the US).
examples: Gimme three regular coffees and three blacks.
glosses: Coffee of the sort which is considered the default in a given area:
Coffee with one cream and one sugar.
glosses: Coffee of the sort which is considered the default in a given area:
Black coffee.
glosses: Coffee of the sort which is considered the default in a given area:
Coffee with caffeine (as opposed to decaffeinated).
glosses: Coffee of the sort which is considered the default in a given area:
American coffee, as opposed to espresso, or a derived coffee drink (cappuccino, latte, iced coffee, etc).
news anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news anchors
Etymology: For the meaning see anchorman.
Senses: glosses: A presenter of news broadcasts.
Synonyms: anchorman
anchorperson
anchorwoman
newscaster
newsreader
bambakion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bambakions
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek βαμβάκιον (bambákion).
Senses: examples: text: In his quilted gray bambakion with its frayed hood, worn over a ragged white tunic, there was a hint of service in the armies of Byzantium, while the brass eyelets on the straps of his buskins suggested a sojourn in the West.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 4:
glosses: A type of padded under-garment, worn under armour, especially by Byzantine troops.
ganse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ganza (“type of metal”).
sclate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sclates
form: sclating
form: sclated
form: sclated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slate (“cover with slates”).
sclate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slate.
power down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powers down
form: powering down
form: powered down
form: powered down
Senses: examples: text: Google Glass batteries power down after 45 minutes of continuous recording, making it unlikely anyone could capture an entire film.
ref: 2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent:
glosses: To switch off (something electrical).
no wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A punning rejection of the more commercial new wave movement.
Senses: examples: text: To dream that tall, mean, vegan Jeff, in turtlenecks and chinos like Sterling Morrison, was the only one I talked to at all the no wave shows I went to alone.
ref: 2020, “Jinx”, in Timmy's Unbuttoned Gen X Meditations, performed by Good Fuck:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A broad musical and artistic movement originating in the mid-1970s in New York City, typified by experimentation and performance art.
context-sensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: context-free
glosses: Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
examples: text: We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
Related terms: context-dependent
Chomskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chomskian
form: most Chomskian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chomskyan.
group box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group boxes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rectangular control that can contain other controls, intended for grouping similar items visually.
opinionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionnaires
Etymology: Blend of opinion + questionnaire.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:opinionnaire.
glosses: A form containing a list of statements, each of which the members of a selected group are asked to endorse or reject; the purpose being to gather information for a survey.
whitherward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: whitherwards
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English whiderward, from whider (“whither”). By surface analysis, whither + ward.
Senses: glosses: In what direction; towards what or which place.
raw_tags: in interrogatives
Synonyms: whither
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
bad ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad endings
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An ending that occurs when the player finishes the video game but is not completely successful for some reason, as opposed to a good ending.
glosses: The least optimal outcome or conclusion to a given situation, problem or event.
good ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good endings
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An ending that occurs when the player finishes a video game and is completely successful, as opposed to a bad ending.
glosses: The most optimal outcome or conclusion to a given situation, problem or event.
Related terms: true ending
happy ending
happily ever after
eucatastrophe
don't cry over spilled milk
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of don't cry over spilt milk.
murderee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murderees
Etymology: From murder + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: ...and so the problem becomes how to salvage the murderer, since the murderee is beyond recall.
ref: 1970, David Cort, Revolution by Cliché:
text: This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.
ref: 2001, Jim Crace, Being Dead:
glosses: A murder victim.
Japanesey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japanesey
form: most Japanesey
Etymology: From Japanese + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The lawns are spotted with curious, low-spreading, Japanesey-looking trees, and under these trees students squat on the grass with their books.
ref: 1922, Harper's Magazine:
text: The American tourist in Japan looks less for what is Japanese than for what is Japanesey.
ref: 1973, Daniel Joseph Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America:
synonyms: Japanesish
glosses: Somewhat Japanese; affecting a Japanese style.
Derived terms: easy peasy Japanesey
mirrorball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirrorballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mirror ball.
querulousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querulousness
regionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionality
deltoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltoid muscle
isopleths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopleth
quadratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadratrix
falling stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling star
guyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guyfriend
erythrofuranoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythrofuranose
goalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goaler
adlayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adlayer
flea bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea bag
addictivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addictivities
Etymology: From addictive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The two-player option is brilliant (one takes control of the jeep and the other the helicopter) and increases the addictivity.
ref: 1989, "Silkworm" (video game review) in Crash (issue 66, pages 24-25)
text: 2004, Lowinson et al, Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook
At any one time, 70% of smokers would like to be able to quit but cannot do so primarily because of the extraordinary addictivity of nicotine.
text: Apparently, with heroin-like euphoria and addictivity, it's taking over as the drug of choice for inner-city youths, as well as college students.
ref: 2006, Dan L Dudgeon, The Plant:
glosses: The characteristic of being addictive.
Synonyms: addictiveness
foreign tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreign tongue
paper airplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper airplane
subsynchronous orbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsynchronous orbit
extruders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extruder
cigarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigaret
yottabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒtəbaɪt/
Forms: form: yottabytes
Etymology: From yotta- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
ref: 2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A yobibyte.
Synonyms: YB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: zettabyte
sense: Next
word: ronnabyte
sense: Next
alt: non-SI
word: brontobyte
Related terms: yobibit
yobibyte
yottabit
yobibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒbɪˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: yobibytes
Etymology: From yobi- + byte.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2⁸⁰ (1024⁸, 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) zebibytes, as opposed to a yottabyte.
Synonyms: YiB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: zebibyte
zebibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛbɪˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: zebibytes
Etymology: From zebi- + byte.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2⁷⁰ (1024⁷, 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) exbibytes, as opposed to a zettabyte.
Synonyms: ZiB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: exbibyte
sense: Next
word: yobibyte