cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guyot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiː.əʊ/
ipa: /ɡiˈoʊ/
rhymes: -iːəʊ
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: guyots
Etymology: Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.
Senses: examples: text: It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A flat-topped seamount.
wikipedia: Arnold Henry Guyot
Harry Hammond Hess
Princeton University
second messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second messengers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance used to transmit a signal within a cell, especially one which triggers a cascade of events by activating cellular components
second sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A wave of fluctuating temperature or entropy propagated in the superfluid phase of liquid helium.
secondary emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary emissions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The emission of electrons from the surface of a solid when bombarded with electrons or other charged particles
secondary ion mass spectrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIMS
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique used to visualize the three-dimensional structure of solids by employing an energetic ion beam to fragment the atomic or molecular constituents from a surface
sedimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedimentations
Etymology: From sediment + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.
Derived terms: erythrocyte sedimentation rate
sedimentational
sedimentation constant
sedimentation rate
sedimentation time
Zeleny sedimentation value
sedimentology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedimentologies
Etymology: From sediment + -ology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of natural sediments and of the processes by which they are formed
who writes this stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical question commenting on the writing of a book, play, movie, etc.
ev'ry
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛvɹi/
ipa: /ɛvɹi/
rhymes: -ɛvɹi
Etymology: Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.
Senses: examples: text: America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!
ref: 1895, Katharine Lee Bates, "America the Beautiful", first published as "Pikes Peak", The Congregationalis, July 4th, 1895)
text: There’s a boy snail for ev’ry girl snail, There’s a boy quail for ev’ry girl quail/ There’s a boy mouse for ev’ry girl mouse, There’s a boy grouse for ev’ry girl grouse
ref: 1943, Cole Porter, “There Must Be Someone for Me”, in The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, published 1992, page 345:
text: Ev’ry night when ev’rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own.
ref: 1963, John Lennon, "It Won't Be Long", in Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1991) p. 185
glosses: Every.
Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Johns
form: Johnses
Etymology: Variant of John with genitival or excrescent -s or a variant of Jones.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from John.
examples: text: Johns Hopkins
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A township in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States, named for the many early settlers named John.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A former community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Johns Valley, Oklahoma.
Related terms: Jones
Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From John + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of John
Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From John + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of John
Aharon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew אהרן (Ahărōn).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Aaron
da capo al fine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈkæpəʊ ælˈfiːneɪ/
Forms: form: D.C. al fine
Etymology: From Italian da capo al fine (literally “from the beginning to the end”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Repeat from the beginning up to the word fine ("end").
Related terms: da capo
egocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egocentrisms
Etymology: From ego- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: The constant following of one's egotistical desires to an extreme.
Synonyms: egocentricity
narcissistic personality disorder
megalomania
Derived terms: technocentrism
Related terms: egocentrist
Abundius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Name of an early Italian saint, from Latin abundiantus (“abundant, plentiful”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, of historical usage.
Elmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlmɚ/
Etymology: Medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, from Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre (“famous”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname in the 19th century U.S.
glosses: A city in Missouri.
glosses: A borough of New Jersey.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
Related terms: Elmers End
Elmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlmɚ/
Forms: form: Elmers
Etymology: Medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, from Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre (“famous”).
Senses: glosses: A person who provides personal guidance and assistance to ham radio enthusiasts.
Derived terms: Elmering
intension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/
homophone: intention
Forms: form: intensions
Etymology: From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”).
Senses: examples: text: Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: intensity or the act of becoming intense.
examples: text: 'Is a plant', 'has a trunk', 'has leaves' are intensions of the concept tree. Its extension is the set of all trees existing in the real world.
text: This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
antonyms: extension
holonyms: comprehension
glosses: Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
examples: text: the intension of a musical string
glosses: A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
Derived terms: cointension
intensional
magnetic bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic bearings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Directional bearing relative to the nearest magnetic pole, as shown by a compass.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A contactless mechanical bearing in which a rotating part, such as a shaft, is held in place by a magnetic field.
Related terms: true bearing
Paske
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paskes
Etymology: Various origins:
* A variant of the English surname Pask.
* Americanized spelling of Danish Paaske, a short form of Pascal.
* Borrowed from German Paske or Päske.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
magnetic circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic circuits
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A closed path of magnetic flux.
nonlethal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lethal.
Senses: examples: text: As part of the global F-35 supply chain, we contribute components and parts that are nonlethal in nature.
ref: 2025 July 28, Penny Wong, parliamentary debates (Senate):
glosses: Alternative form of non-lethal.
nonlethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlethals
Etymology: From non- + lethal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-lethal.
proposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proposers
Etymology: From propose + -er.
Senses: synonyms: proponent
antonyms: opponent
opposer
detractor
glosses: Agent noun of propose: someone who proposes; someone who makes a proposal.
Related terms: adherent
advocate
backer
champion
exponent
supporter
nationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæʃənəlaɪz/
Forms: form: nationalizes
form: nationalizing
form: nationalized
form: nationalized
form: nationalise
Etymology: From French nationaliser. By surface analysis, national + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Probably no Hindu who could make intelligent use of political freedom ever dreams of the present possibility of a nationalized India, […]
ref: 1910, History for Ready Reference from the Best Historians, page 316:
glosses: To make into, or to become, a nation.
examples: text: Near-synonym: socialize
text: The government plans to nationalize the energy industry.
synonyms: deprivatize
antonyms: denationalize
privatize
glosses: To bring a private company, or an industry comprising such companies, under the control of a specific government.
glosses: To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
examples: ref: 2018, Daniel J. Hopkins, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, The University of Chicago Press:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To change from having local and regional variation to being national in character and scope.
glosses: To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
Derived terms: nationalization
nationalizer
renationalize
magnetic mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic mines
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: mine
coordinate_terms: limpet mine
glosses: A mine, often a naval mine, which responds to the magnetic field of a target.
holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holiday
holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Where are you going for your holidays this year?
text: We're on our holidays.
glosses: (usually after possessive) holiday, vacation; time off work, especially if spent travelling away from home
examples: text: Where will you be spending the holidays?
glosses: The season around Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Day.
Derived terms: happy holidays
high days and holidays
summer holidays
holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holiday
holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: On holidays.
magnetic compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic compasses
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: word: compass
glosses: An instrument containing a freely suspended magnetic element which displays the direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field at the point of observation.
glosses: A supposed organ, in some animals, that allows then to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field.
spiritus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirituses
form: spiritus
Etymology: From Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spirytus, sprite, spright, and esprit.
Senses: glosses: A breathing.
glosses: An aspirate.
glosses: Any spirituous preparation.
Related terms: spiritus asper
spiritus lenis
spiritus mundi
magnetic declination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic declinations
Senses: examples: text: In the Ste Genevieve District, magnetic declination varies significantly within short distances due to iron-rich bedrock, and this might account for magnetic declinations varying from five to ten degrees east in Soulard's surveys.
ref: 2002, Walter A. Schroeder, Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District 1760-1830, footnote, page 159:
text: By the 17th century several instruments had been designed to measure the magnetic declination.
ref: 2002, Michael Windelspecht, Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the 17th Century, page 149:
text: This is corrected by setting the magnetic declination of the compass. This is a correction value given on all navigation maps. Once set with the magnetic declination, a compass will point to the true North Pole also known as the “Geographic North Pole." All places on Earth have a slightly different magnetic declination depending on how you line up with both poles. In an extreme case, if you stood between the two poles and faced the real North Pole, your masgnetic compass would point to the magnetic North Pole behind you—a magnetic declination of 180 degrees!
ref: 2005, Phil Medina, Homework Helpers: Earth Science, page 53:
glosses: The horizontal angle between magnetic north and true north at a given place.
Related terms: magnetic inclination
magnetic meridian
magnetic variation
agonal line
magnetic variation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic variations
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
qualifier: navigation
glosses: In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: In cartography, the annual change in direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field.
Related terms: magnetic declination
satirize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsatɪrʌɪz/
Forms: form: satirizes
form: satirizing
form: satirized
form: satirized
form: satirise
Etymology: From satire + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different.
ref: 1910, Charles Shirley Potts, Crime and the treatment of the criminal: Issue 8:
text: Nat Habib, the producer‐director at the Scarsdale theater, says that “Flahooley,” which satirizes big business, was in part a victim of the McCarthyism of the times.
ref: 1979 May 8, Judith A. Handelman, “Play From the 50's ‘Premieres’”, in The New York Times:
text: It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap.
ref: 2007 December 17, Daniel M. Gold, “The Early Years of Rock, Later Than Previously Thought”, in The New York Times:
text: But Reitman, who also coscripted the film (with Sheldon Turner) from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham.
ref: 2009 December 9, Peter Howell, “Clooney at his funny best finds first-class isn't tops”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To make a satire of; to mock.
parens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paren
anisogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænaɪ̯ˈsɒɡəmi/
Etymology: From aniso- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Sexual bonding or marriage involving partners of widely differing social status.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Sexual reproduction involving the union or fusion of two dissimilar gametes.
Synonyms: heterogamy
Coordinate terms: isogamy
Derived terms: anisogamous
anisogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aniso- + -gamous.
Senses: glosses: being married to someone whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own.
glosses: having a sexual partner whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own.
Related terms: anisogamy
anisonogamist
anisonogamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisonogamists
Senses: glosses: One who is married to someone whose age is unusually different to their own.
glosses: One who has a sexual partner whose age is unusually different to their own.
slacktivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of slack + activism
Senses: examples: text: By “fight back,” he meant, basically, tweeting. Internet activism is sometimes derided as “slacktivism”—a fair characterization when an online campaign tries to, say, cure aids or end child labor.
ref: 2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 02 Dec 2017:
synonyms: clicktivism
hyponyms: hashtivism
glosses: Half-hearted activism, usually in the form of posting badges, images, apps, or text on social media without taking further action.
Related terms: slacktivist
Carribean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carribeans
Senses: examples: text: Such is, even at present, the Degree of Foresight in the Carribean: he sells his Cotton Bed in the Morning, and comes in the Evening, with Tears in his Eyes, to buy it back, not having foreseen that he should want it again the next Night.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 43:
text: The analysis of Dr. Duncan enumerates ten European Miocene species allied to, if not identical with, Carribean forms.
ref: 1869, James Gay Sawkins, Reports on the Geology of Jamaica; Or, Part II. of the West Indian Survey, page 316:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Caribbean.
Krisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krissa
Senses: glosses: A village in Sandaun province, Papua New Guinea.
glosses: the language of this village and the surrounding area.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: I'saka
insentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insentient
form: most insentient
Etymology: From in- + sentient.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed.
ref: 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 367:
glosses: Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
examples: text: His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Insensitive, indifferent.
Britcom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Britcoms
form: Brit-com
Etymology: Blend of British + sitcom.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A British sitcom.
wikipedia: British sitcom
bus buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus buddies
Senses: glosses: A person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport.
examples: text: Mark Flint, who teaches kindergarten in a small rural school in central New York, was disturbed when several of his students complained that they were being picked on by older students on the bus. He is now trying to start a “bus buddies” program whereby each of his children will have an older student to watch over them—and even read to them—during their bus ride.
ref: 2009 September 2, Thomas Lickona, Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility, New York City: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 334:
topics: education
glosses: A student who is paired with another student when riding a school bus.
dentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnteɪt/
Forms: form: more dentate
form: most dentate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dentātus, from dēns (“tooth”, oblique stem in dēnt-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: see Thesaurus:notched
glosses: Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.
Derived terms: bidentate
bisdentate
dentatectomy
dentate fascia
dentate gyrus
dentately
dentate nucleus
denticulate
heptadentate
hexadentate
monodentate
multidentate
octadentate
octodentate
paucidentate
pentadentate
peridentate
polydentate
predentate
quadridentate
quinquedentate
repandodentate
subdentate
tetradentate
tridentate
tubulidentate
unidentate
ebonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebony
stage right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stage + right.
Senses: examples: text: He enters stage right.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The area to the right of the stage when looking towards the audience.
stage right
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stage right
form: most stage right
Etymology: From stage + right.
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Located at stage right.
examples: text: Whether Bannon was sacked, resigned or left by mutual agreement – as usual with the Trump administration there are contradictory accounts – is immaterial. His exit, stage right, follows that of a clutch of other senior White House aides and reinforces the impression that his presidency is unravelling chaotically only seven months after he entered the Oval Office.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer:
glosses: Involving a change of whether one is involved in a situation.
raw_tags: with the verb exit or enter
Related terms: centre stage
center stage
stage left
stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: stage + left
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The area to the left of the stage when looking towards the audience.
Derived terms: exit stage left
stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stage left
form: most stage left
Etymology: stage + left
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Located at stage left.
Related terms: centre stage
center stage
stage right
centre stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes they would even take centre stage - as in 1978's Overture One-Two-Five, which portrayed the train (and a journey on it) as a symphony, set to music specially composed by David Gow.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 51:
glosses: Standard spelling of center stage.
center stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre stage
Etymology: center + stage
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The area in the center of the stage, especially one towards the front.
examples: text: In terms of pure screen time and action, Helena often takes center stage in a film that should by all accounts belong to Indy, meaning Dr. Jones ends up feeling oddly secondary in a story that’s supposed to be his grand finale.
ref: 2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:
glosses: An important or prominent position.
Related terms: downstage
stage left
stage right
upstage
downstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: more downstage
form: most downstage
Etymology: From down- + stage.
Senses: glosses: Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
glosses: Towards a motion-picture or television camera.
downstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: more downstage
form: most downstage
Etymology: From down- + stage.
Senses: glosses: At the front of a stage.
downstage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Etymology: From down- + stage.
Senses: glosses: The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.
downstage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: downstages
form: downstaging
form: downstaged
form: downstaged
Etymology: From down- + stage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).
Related terms: center stage
upstage
stage left
stage right
understage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + stage.
Senses: glosses: underneath the stage
raw_tags: of machinery etc
understage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understages
Etymology: From under- + stage.
Senses: examples: text: When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer
ref: 1900, William Paul Gerhard, Theatres: Their Safety from Fire and Panic, Their Comfort and Healthfulness, page 97:
text: The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages
ref: 1996, James M. Saslow, The Medici wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as Theatrum Mundi, page 86:
text: dozens of strapping stage-hands in the understage manipulating warships, cannons dispatching balls of fire, blue smoke.
ref: 2001, Augusto Boal with Adrian Jackson and Candida Blaker, Hamlet and the baker's son: my life in theatre and politics:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The area beneath a stage.
understage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understages
form: understaging
form: understaged
form: understaged
Etymology: From under- + stage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness
Related terms: overstage
overstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + stage.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
antonyms: understage
qualifier: machinery etc
glosses: Above the stage.
raw_tags: of lighting
overstage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstages
form: overstaging
form: overstaged
form: overstaged
Etymology: From over- + stage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: understage
glosses: To overestimate the severity of a patient's illness.
exocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocarps
Etymology: exo- + Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”); exo- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp
Related terms: exocarpic
exocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of a cyclic compound) not forming part of, or not attached to the ring
exocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: exocytoses
Etymology: From exo- + -cytosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function.
Derived terms: exocytotic
neuroexocytosis
Related terms: endocytosis
fire and forget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of missile guidance system which does not require further control after launch, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target.
examples: text: An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on. A mediator, though, might use events to make decisions, but it is definitely not fire and forget.
ref: 2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:
text: Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
ref: 2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The practice of transmitting or raising something, such as an event, and then proceeding without checking for any result or response.
fire and forget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not requiring further control, feedback, or response after an initial action, launch, etc.
Related terms: set-and-forget
antifeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifeminist
form: most antifeminist
Etymology: From anti- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.
ref: 2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University)
glosses: Antagonistic to feminism.
glosses: Advocating antifeminism.
Derived terms: anti-antifeminist
antifeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifeminists
Etymology: From anti- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
ref: 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:
glosses: A person who is antagonistic to feminism.
glosses: An advocate of antifeminism.
Derived terms: anti-antifeminist
verbal communication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Oral communication; speech.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of sending and receiving messages with words, including writing and sign language.
antifeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifeminisms
form: anti-feminism
Etymology: From anti- + feminism.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”
ref: 2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Opposition to feminism.
Derived terms: anti-antifeminism
Related terms: antifeminist
anti-feminist
antfeministic
anti-feministic
postfeminism
masculism
Mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: Mickeys
Senses: glosses: A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
glosses: A 375-milliliter (13.2 imperial fluid ounce; 12.7 US fl oz) bottle of liquor, such as whiskey.
glosses: A Catholic.
glosses: Alternative form of Mick (“an Irishman”).
Derived terms: Texas mickey
Mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: Micky
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.
Derived terms: Mickey Finn
Mickey Mouse
take the mickey
conversational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more conversational
form: most conversational
Etymology: From conversation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: ...and her object being to procure Helen's smiles for the marquis, and the marquis's suffrage for Helen, the gay and the handsome were much less in request than the highly respectable, the agreeable, and the conversational; and, with her usual far-seeing cares, she carried her object completely, save in the case of the marquis, who did not reascend the stairs.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Easy in conversation, chatty.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
examples: text: The patient is awake and conversational.
text: My aim is to become conversational in German.
text: 2009, Journal of American Indian Education, Volumes 48-49, Center for Indian Education, page 35,
This is the only way, she believes, students will become conversational enough in Navajo to pass on the language (NLА fieldnotes, July 2005).
text: The colorful responses from BlenderBot show the limitations of building automated conversational tools, which are typically trained on large amounts of public online data.
ref: 2022 August 11, Catherine Thorbecke, “It didn’t take long for Meta’s new chatbot to say something offensive”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Capable of engaging in conversation.
Derived terms: conversational commerce
conversationalist
conversationality
conversationalization
conversationalize
conversational journal
conversational journaling
conversationally
conversationalness
conversational partner
conversational scoreboard
nonconversational
preconversational
protoconversational
subconversational
unconversational
skin flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin flutes
form: skinflute
Senses: glosses: A penis.
Derived terms: english: to perform fellatio, or (of a man) to masturbate
translation: to perform fellatio, or (of a man) to masturbate
word: play the skin flute
cubbyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: cubbyholes
Etymology: From cubby + hole.
Senses: glosses: A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy and safety by children
glosses: A small compartment; a pigeonhole
glosses: A glove compartment
cubbyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: cubbyholes
form: cubbyholing
form: cubbyholed
form: cubbyholed
Etymology: From cubby + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.
ref: 1989, ASNE: Proceedings of the 1989 Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, page 13:
text: A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education.
ref: 1994, Rita Dove, ““Either I’m Noboby, or I’m a Nation””, in Herbert A. Leibowitz, editor, Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, The University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 244:
text: The Americans wanted to have enclosed offices, or at the very least, shoulder-high partitions cubbyholing individual desks.
ref: 2006, J. J. Fucini, S. Fucini, “A Third-Culture Plant”, in Ed Rhodes, James P. Warren, Ruth Carter, editors, Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader, The Open University; Blackwell Publishing, page 289:
text: And, if we do so, it would be useful to bear in mind Sloterdijk’s insights regarding the amphibian quality of discourse within the Weimar Republic and the compelling ways in which it eludes easy generalization and comfortable cubbyholing.
ref: 2011, Eric Rentschler, “Rudolf Arnheim’s Early Passage Between Social and Aesthetic Film Criticism”, in Scott Higgins, editor, Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, Routledge, pages 62–63:
text: Delimited files and spreadsheets compartmentalize data by separating each piece of info with a comma or a tab, or by cubbyholing them into columns and rows in a spreadsheet file.
ref: 2013, Bonnie Biafore, QuickBooks 2014: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly:
text: In the current era, there is too much demand for customer service and the restrains on budgets too great for you to allow cubbyholing.[…]And finally, out of necessity, a small organization like ours, with an increasing workload, could not afford to cubbyhole anyone, let alone 10 percent of our workforce. I advised my directors of my expectation that everybody had to work, that there was to be no cubbyholing, and that there would be no exceptions.
ref: 2015, Vince Meconi, A Practical Guide to Government Management, Bernan Press, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, pages 83 and 89:
text: If you have more than two dozen databases on your server, consider cubbyholing them into schemas in a single database.
ref: 2015, Regina O. Obe, Leo S. Hsu, PostgreSQL: Up and Running: A Practical Introduction to the Advanced Open Source Database, 2nd edition, O’Reilly:
glosses: To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.
Gunners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Arsenal football club.
Micky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mickey
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Michael, Mike or Mick.
examples: text: "What's yor name?" "Micky." "That's a name for a boy or a mouse. So it's probably Michelle. Most women your age are named Michelle or Heather or Courtney." "My age?" "No offense meant." "It's Michelina."
ref: 2001, Dean Ray Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Michaela or Michelle.
Derived terms: take the Micky
Micky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mickies
form: Mickey
Senses: examples: text: National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: 'Little Italy'; 'Little Sicily'; 'Polish colony'; […] 'Mickies' (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]
ref: 2011, Barry Goldson, Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of Mick (“an Irishman”).
Jérémie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and commune, the capital of Grand'Anse department, Haiti.
gunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunner
dataveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of data + surveillance
Senses: glosses: The systematic surveillance of all the electronic records of a person's activities, especially the usage of credit cards, mobile phones, email and the Internet.
diabulimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of diabetes + bulimia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The manipulation of insulin dosage by a diabetic person in order to effect loss of weight.
Dianamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Diana + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The significant and horrible thing about the Dianamania is that it is sentiment without reason or judgement...
ref: 1998, The Salisbury review:
text: Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever.
ref: 2005, Philip Norman, Shout!: the Beatles in their generation:
text: In the early days of Dianamania, she was defined by her marriage, her fashions and her children, Princes William and Harry.
ref: 2009, Andrew Morton, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography:
glosses: Excessive fanaticism concerning Diana, Princess of Wales.
digital television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital televisions
Senses: glosses: The broadcasting and receiving of television services via digital (rather than analog) signals, either broadcast, or via cable or satellite.
glosses: A television set that is capable of handling such signals.
Derived terms: word: DT
disentangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disentangle
disentangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɪsɪnˈtæŋɡəɫ]
Forms: form: disentangles
form: disentangling
form: disentangled
form: disentangled
Etymology: From dis- + entangle.
Senses: examples: text: I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
text: In my own opinion, “criminal religious movements” (CRMs) is a more accurate and useful category than “cults.” It uses, although selectively, elements from the criminological tradition. It avoids the word “cult” and tries to disentangle the category from both the folk psychology of brainwashing and the politics of “extremism” in theology.
ref: 2023 March 29, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
examples: text: This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
glosses: To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
glosses: To become free or untangled.
Synonyms: untangle
Derived terms: disentangler
Related terms: tangle
domophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A compulsive flight from domesticity.
Related terms: domestic
domophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dome + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Antagonism towards the Millennium Dome (later known as the O2).
ecological footprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecological footprints
Etymology: First used by by William E. Rees in 1992 and further refined by Mathis Wackernagel in his PhD thesis.
Senses: examples: text: Cities are graphically represented as a human foot to make a straightforward connection between the ecological footprint metaphor and the impact of urban life on local and distant environments.
ref: 2017, Luca Marazzi, Our Ecological Footprint, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 44:
coordinate_terms: carbon footprint
glosses: A measure of how much biologically productive land and water area an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices.
wikipedia: Mathis Wackernagel
Related terms: carrying capacity
Euro-wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro-wasps
Senses: examples: text: Eighteen years after its first recorded appearance, the dolichovespula media - or Euro-wasp - has reached record numbers in Britain after many survived the mild winter, and then prospered in the humid summer that has followed.
ref: 1998 July 22, “Euro-wasps make beeline for Britain”, in BBC News (online):
text: Gardeners and parents are being warned about giant "Euro-wasps" colonising parts of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
ref: 2005 July 29, “Giant 'Euro-wasp' plague warning”, in BBC News (online):
glosses: Alternative spelling of Euro wasp.
exformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Danish eksformation, or from explicitly discarded information.
Senses: glosses: All the shared body of knowledge which is not explicitly used when people communicate, but without which communication would be impossible.
may of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of may have.
explornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Blend of explore + pornography, coined by columnist John Tierney.
Senses: examples: text: 1998, John Tierney, “Explornography: The Vicarious thrill of Exploring When There's Nothing Left to Explore”, The New York Times Magazine, July 26, section 6, page 18+
Age of Exploration has been succeeded by the Age of Explornography
text: The success of Outside magazine and its ability to generate blockbuster books such as The Perfect Storm, Into Thin Air, and the IMAX film Everest reflect an “explornography” trend of vicariously breaking free of civilization by entering into the natural world at its most capricious and violent.
ref: 1999 March, Michael J. Wolf, The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-media Forces are Transforming Our Lives, Times Books, page 169:
text: 2002 March, Elizabeth Haiken, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives (multiple authors), page 171, NYU Press
A core sample taken from the refuse pile reveals...Gore-Tex, that miracle fiber of “explornography”, then, a layer of Teflon and several layers of silicone solids
text: Re-enactors are the ultimate “explornographers”—voyueristic seekers of long-lost explorer’s experiences.
ref: 2006 January, Peter Charles Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 12:
glosses: A fascination with historic explorations, particularly by reenacting them.
Jims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were three Jims at my old workplace.
glosses: plural of Jim
Jameses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There were five Jameses in the building yesterday.
glosses: plural of James
Related terms: Jaimes
James
Jamies
Britneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were two Britneys at this place.
glosses: plural of Britney
Brittanys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were two Brittanys in my class.
glosses: plural of Brittany
finished good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finished goods
Senses: glosses: A single article of finished goods.
facial profiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The automated identification of people (especially criminals) in video images
faith-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faith-based
form: most faith-based
Etymology: From faith + based. The political sense emerged from the 1970s to the 1980s. The term "faith-based organization" dates from 1971.http://books.google.com/books?id=yXLwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22faith-based+organizations%22&dq=%22faith-based+organizations%22&hl=en&ei=zaFrTPbWLcuMOOKMja0B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg
Senses: examples: text: […] a self-confidence which stems from faith in the Buddha and His power. By this faith-based confidence they cure themselves.
ref: 1982, Melford E. Spiro, Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
qualifier: religious studies
glosses: based on religious faith
examples: text: You are requesting a $2,100,000 increase for a "Faith Based and Community Initiatives," for a total of $37,432,000 […]. What distinguishes these projects from faith-based initiatives of the Employment and Training Administration?
ref: 2006, Senate Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations:
glosses: of civic associations connected with religious groups, specifically of such organizations sponsored by government funds
fat tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat taxes
Senses: glosses: Any tax on unhealthy food, especially food with a high fat content, usually proposed as a way of improving society's eating habits.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The additional airfare charged to obese individuals who take up more than one seat on an aeroplane.