cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polyamorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑliˈæmərəs/
Etymology: From a 1990 article by Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, "A Bouquet of Lovers", from poly- + amorous or polyamory + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex.
ref: 2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2022:
glosses: Having relationships with multiple partners, with the knowledge and consent of all involved; engaging in polyamory.
glosses: Open to having such relationships, regardless of one's experience or current practices.
Synonyms: word: poly
word: polyam
Derived terms: polyamorously
polyamorousness
solo polyamorous
Related terms: monoamorous
ambiamorous
monogamous
polyfidelitous
polysexual
indexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of index
indexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indexings
Senses: examples: text: In zero-based indexing, array variables in a computer program are numbered upwards from zero.
glosses: A system used to assign indexes.
Derived terms: autoindexing
indexing language
negative indexing
spamdexing
subject indexing
patiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪʃəntli/
Forms: form: more patiently
form: most patiently
form: paciently
Etymology: From patient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: In a patient manner.
pushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push
pushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more pushing
form: most pushing
Senses: examples: text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
examples: text: Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair[…]
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Aggressively assertive; pushy.
Derived terms: forthpushing
pushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊʃɪŋ
Forms: form: pushings
Senses: examples: text: We were soon separated by the pushings and shovings of the crowd.
glosses: The act by which something is pushed.
Derived terms: pencil pushing
pushing-jack
pushing school
square-pushing
symbol pushing
greasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹi.si/
ipa: /ˈɡɹi.zi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.si/
note: Scotland, Ireland, some speakers in Birmingham
ipa: /ˈɡɹi.zi/
rhymes: -iːsi
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: greasies
form: greasey
Etymology: From Middle English gresi, gressy, equivalent to grease + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the day, when my baby is hungry, you’re going to see a boob. It’s natural, it’s beautiful, and it’s something that should be celebrated. Shout out to the dude who gave me a greasy at my local cafe last week. This one is for you.
ref: 2024 August 22, Scarlett Keddie, “Simone Holtznagel: It’s time we got comfortable with public breastfeeding”, in Women's Health, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
glosses: An annoyed or contemptuous look; a dirty look.
precipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˌsɪpɪˈteɪʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: precipitations
Etymology: From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipitātiō, praecipitātiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text: Some rain was expected to fall in Pennsylvania and South Jersey on Thursday, but no precipitation made it to the rest of New Jersey, New York City and most of New England -- all regions in desperate need of moisture following an extremely dry fall.
ref: 2024 November 15, Julia Jacobo, “Updated drought map shows worsening conditions in Northeast as fire danger persists”, in ABC News:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount of water precipitated in any form.
glosses: A hurried headlong fall.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
examples: text: Immediately on returning home, highly satisfied with the result of his visit to Mrs. Belmour, Melliphant found on his table a letter from Sir Howard, over which he cast his eyes with precipitation.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49:
text: The young man thanked me, and took his leave with some little precipitation, after declining a glass of liquor.
ref: 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
text: […] had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase.
ref: 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise:
glosses: Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
Derived terms: acid precipitation
aptaprecipitation
aptoprecipitation
bioprecipitation
co-precipitation
coprecipitation
cryoprecipitation
immunoprecipitation
microprecipitation
nanoprecipitation
paleoprecipitation
postprecipitation
precip
precipitation hardening
precipitation reaction
reprecipitation
thermoprecipitation
Related terms: haste
rashness
humidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: /hjuːˈmɪd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /hjuˈmɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ti]
ipa: [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /hjʉːˈmɪd.ə.ti/
ipa: [hjʉːˈmɪɾ.ə.ti]
ipa: [hjʉːˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪdəti
Forms: form: humidities
Etymology: From Middle English humidite, from Old French humidité, from Medieval Latin humiditas, from Latin umidus (“damp, moist, wet”). Morphologically humid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The high humidity made the air feel sticky and hot.
glosses: Dampness, especially that of the air.
examples: text: Plants in the greenhouse thrive in constant humidity.
glosses: The amount of water vapour in the air.
Derived terms: absolute humidity
antihumidity
humidex
humiture
paleohumidity
relative humidity
specific humidity
temperature-humidity index
Related terms: humid
humidifier
humidify
dew point
hygrometer
Bahr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bahrs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
LSM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSMs
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Initialism of linear synchronous motor (“a synchronous motor that provide an output of linear force rather than torque”).
head_nr: 1
glosses: Initialism of leaf spring mount.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Initialism of liquid state machine.
capstan screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capstan screws
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of screw commonly used to regulate the height of the action in a piano.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Mainly on sailboats, the mechanism for winding ropes under a lot of tension; a capstan.
gun it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guns it
form: gunning it
form: gunned it
form: gunned it
Senses: examples: text: You're going to have to gun it to pick up that much speed in such a short distance.
glosses: To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.
druthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌðɚz/
Etymology: From the expression I'd rather (“I would prefer to”), often pronounced "I druther" in some dialects.
Senses: examples: text: "If I had my druthers, I would not be a king. I'd druther be just what I am than any other thing."
ref: 1929, Harry McClintock, "If I Had My Druthers":
text: "If you had your druthers—" Old Lew was always saying, "If I had my druthers, gimme one of them there Shevrolics."
ref: 1950, Alice Walworth Graham, The Natchez Woman:
text: "If I had my druthers," he informs us, "I'druther be myself — not because I'm anythin' special, just because it's convenient."
ref: 1957, Society of Arts and Crafts, Theatre Arts, volume 41, page 29:
text: If I'd had my "druthers," our engagement would not have been two and one half years long. But schooling made our druthers invalid.
ref: 1977, Carole Mayhall, From the Heart of a Woman:
text: If I had my "druthers," I'd screw a chimpanzee. Call it, pointless.
ref: 1993, Les Claypool, DMV:
glosses: Wishes, preferences.
Related terms: druther
airstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airstrikes
Etymology: From air + strike.
Senses: examples: text: The US President himself accused Iran of being behind the provocation, threatening airstrikes on Iran last week – but calling them off just minutes before they were to begin.
ref: 2019 June 26, Frederik Pleitgen and Eliza Mackintosh, “US is ‘not in a position to obliterate Iran,’ Iranian foreign minister says”, in CNN:
text: An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.
ref: 2025 April 27, Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, “Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of air strike.
airstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airstrikes
form: airstriking
form: airstruck
form: airstruck
form: airstriked
form: airstriked
Etymology: From air + strike.
Senses: glosses: To attack a ground target through the use of aircraft or missiles.
Derived terms: airstriker
APACS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Association for Payment Clearing Services.
manges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mange
Beograd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Бе̏оград (Bȅograd), from Ekavian Serbo-Croatian бе̏о (“white”) + гра̑д (“city”). Doublet of Belgrade, Berat, and Belgorod.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Belgrade, The capital of Serbia.
synonyms: word: Belgrade
word: The capital of Serbia
fourth estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The three (in England) estates were originally the three classes of people who could participate in government, either directly or by electing representatives – originally the clergy, barons/knights, and the commons (though they changed over time). Later the "three estates" were misunderstood as being the three governmental powers necessary for legislation: the Crown, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons; from there, the idea of a "fourth estate" was often used in satirical or jocular expressions, before developing a fixed association with the Press.
In the modern sense often attributed to Edmund Burke (1787), popularized by essayist William Hazlitt in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: What is more barbarous than to see a nation […] where justice is lawfully denied him, that hath not wherewithall to pay for it; and that this merchandize hath so great credit, that in a politicall government there should be set up a fourth estate [tr. quatriesme estat] of Lawyers, breathsellers and pettifoggers […]
ref: 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 104
glosses: A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.
examples: text: “Of what profession is Mr. Archer?”
“Of the Corporation of the Goosequill—of the Press, my boy,” said Warrington; “of the fourth estate.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The fourth estate is a term to describe the power that journalists and news media have to keep the powers of government in check by informing the citizens. The way citizens have received news and information has always evolved, but throughout that whole time, having an informed audience was seen as a necessity to a functioning democracy. The newspaper itself has been dying for a while, even before social media, all thanks to 24-hour news.
ref: 2020, AlternateHistoryHub, 16:26 from the start, in The 2010s: A Reflection Back On A Wacky Decade, spoken by Cody Franklin:
glosses: Journalism or journalists considered as a group; the press.
Related terms: fifth estate
Fleet Street
hacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: more hacking
form: most hacking
Etymology: From Middle English *hackynge, hackande, hakand, equivalent to hack + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.
text: “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
Derived terms: hacking cough
hackingly
hacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English *hackynge, hackande, hakand, equivalent to hack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hack
hacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: hackings
Etymology: From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack + -ing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
glosses: A kick in the shins.
qualifier: massage
glosses: The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
glosses: A riding or journey on horseback.
glosses: The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
topics: gem-cutting
jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
topics: brick-making
business
manufacturing
glosses: The piling of bricks for drying.
Derived terms: antihacking
biohacking
bodyhacking
cyberhacking
growth hacking
hacking coat
hacking jacket
hacking-seat
hacking run
lifehacking
p-hacking
phone hacking
reward hacking
wallhacking
Related terms: pirate
senescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɛsəns/
ipa: /səˈnɛsəns/
Forms: form: senescences
Etymology: From senescent + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: Over the next 150 years the known age of the Earth expanded a millionfold and lost worlds of the past were found to have overflowed with species now gone. The chain stretched, aged, and eventually succumbed to senescence.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 6, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: oldhood
word: senectitude
word: vetustity
word: age
word: chair days
word: codgerhood
word: eld
word: elderliness
word: fogeydom
word: geezerdom
word: golden years
word: old age
word: oldhood
word: senescence
word: senectitude
word: twilight years
word: sunset years
word: vetustity
glosses: The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
examples: 2018, University of Edinburgh, "Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development.
Tests in mice found that inducing senescence in bile duct cells - mimicking the process seen in human bile duct disease - led to liver scarring and damage of liver function.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
topics: gerontology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Condition when the cell ceases to divide.
raw_tags: of a cell
Related terms: senescent
senesce
senility
biological immortality
quiescence
jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: plural of jump
jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump
jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: more jumping
form: most jumping
Senses: examples: text: When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
ref: 1998, Baha Men, “Who Let the Dogs Out?”:
glosses: Exuberantly active; in full swing.
jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump
jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: jumpings
Senses: examples: text: When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.
ref: 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion, page 291:
glosses: The act of performing a jump.
Derived terms: Asian jumping worm
backjumping
bail jumping
bailjumping
barfly jumping
barrel jumping
BASE jumping
B.A.S.E. jumping
base jumping
buckjumping
bungee jumping
bungy jumping
claim-jumping
dirt jumping
gun jumping
jumping bean
jumping bristletail
jumping cactus
jumping castle
jumping cholla
jumping cushion
jumping disease
jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome
jumping gene
jumping-jack
jumping jack
jumping Jehoshaphat
jumping Jesus
jumpingly
jumping mouse
jumping-off place
jumping-off point
jumping plant louse
jumping salad
jumping-sheet
jumping shrew
jumping spider
jumping worm
kite jumping
meadow jumping mouse
Mexican jumping bean
peacock jumping spider
rap jumping
rattler-jumping
shark-jumping
ski jumping
waka-jumping
jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌmpt/
rhymes: -ʌmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump
loganberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loganberries
Etymology: From Logan + berry, named for the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928).
Senses: examples: text: Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: A hybrid berry, produced by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry, considered a species Rubus loganobaccus, a variety Rubus ursinus var. loganobaccus, or a nothospecies Rubus × loganobaccus.
wikipedia: James Harvey Logan
senescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more senescent
form: most senescent
Etymology: From Latin senescens, present participle of senescere (“to grow old”), from senere (“to be old”), from senex (“old”).
Senses: examples: text: And now, as the night was senescent / ⁠And star-dials pointed to morn— / ⁠As the star-dials hinted of morn— / At the end of our path a liquescent / ⁠And nebulous lustre was born
ref: 1859, Edgar Allan Poe, “Ulalume”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume 2:
text: The history of philosophic opinion itself in interpreted by Dr. Hall in terms of a similar development, in which immature adolescent systems, staid senescent and blasé philosophies have appeared and appealed to their public in direct relation to the status of the culture-periods in which they found origin and favor.
ref: 1905 March, Joseph Jastrow, “The Natural History of Adolescence”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 66:
text: Put all of this together and one can envision a world two generations hence in which the richer parts of Europe and the Pacific Rim are senescent walled cities, instability and authoritarian decay predominate across much of Eurasia, and real dynamism is sustained mostly in the parts of America that are growing and building at the moment[…]
ref: 2024 February 3, Ross Douthat, “Only America Can Save the Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
glosses: Characteristic of old age.
examples: text: When such lines and forms of organic development prevail, the individual, as the cell of the body, becomes soon senescent, drifting inevitably into age, decay, and death.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That ceases to divide.
raw_tags: of a cell
Related terms: senate
senator
senescence
senile
senior
seniority
fastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːsn̩d/
ipa: /ˈfæsn̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fasten
Derived terms: unfastened
bolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊltɪd/
ipa: /ˈboʊltɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bolt
Aristotle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹɪˌstɒtəl/
ipa: [ˈæɹɪˌstɒtᵊɫ̩]
enpr: ăʹrĭstŏt'əl
ipa: /ˈæɹɪˌstɑtəl/
ipa: [ˈæɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹɪˌstɑtəl/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈɛɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /ərɪsˈʈɔʈl̩/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: Arist.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A male given name.
An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Derived terms: Aristotelian
Aristotelean
Aristotlean
Aristotle's lantern
Related terms: Archimedes
Plato
Pythagoras
Socrates
cruise missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruise missiles
Etymology: From cruise + missile.
Senses: glosses: A missile designed for guided flight over the full course of its path.
Related terms: ballistic missile
guided missile
warped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /woɹpt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pt
Forms: form: more warped
form: most warped
Etymology: From warp + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape
examples: a warped sense of humour
glosses: Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.
Derived terms: warped wall
warpedness
warped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /woɹpt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pt
Etymology: From warp + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of warp
becoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʊm.ɪŋɡ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of become
becoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʊm.ɪŋɡ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: becomings
Senses: examples: text: By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
ref: 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The act or process by which something becomes.
becoming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʊm.ɪŋɡ/
ipa: /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: more becoming
form: most becoming
Senses: examples: text: This is our latest, said the salesgirl. Victory Red. Or here I've Carmine, which is very becoming on sallower skin like yours, so it is. If you don't mind me saying.
ref: 2022, Lucy Caldwell, These Days, Faber:
glosses: pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
glosses: decent, respectable
Derived terms: becomingly
becomingness
Fleet Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/
Forms: form: Fletestreete
Etymology: From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs; see fleet (“arm of the sea; stream”) for more.
Senses: examples: text: And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete.
ref: 1569, C. R., The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on thursday was sennight, the .xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God. M.DLX.ix.:
glosses: A street in Westminster borough, London, England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism.
examples: text: "They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" "Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.
ref: 1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141:
text: We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
text: It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen.
ref: 2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: English journalism or journalists as a group.
Derived terms: Fleet Street dove
kors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kor
ghetto blaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghetto blasters
form: ghettoblaster
Etymology: From ghetto + blaster. First use appears c. 1980. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: We got tired of him carrying his ghetto blaster down our street every day.
text: “Mr. Johnson, in future I’d like you to leave your ghetto blaster at home, please.” She cast a withering look at the giant radio.
ref: 1980 May, Fleischer, Leonore, Fame: A Novel, page 63:
text: Amid the noise of air horns, wolf whistles, and ghetto blasters shouting out old calypso tunes.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 158:
glosses: A portable stereo system capable of playing music (from several sources) at a relatively high volume; a boom box.
examples: text: We got tired of him driving his ghetto blaster down our street every day.
glosses: A car stereo used in a similar way (loudly and, often, rudely); the hooptie in which it is mounted.
HiFi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hi-fi.
absolute humidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut hjuˈmɪd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut hjuˈmɪd.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: absolute humidities
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: In a system of moist air, the ratio of the mass of water vapor present to the volume occupied by the mixture, that is, the density of the water vapor component. Absolute humidity is usually expressed in grams of water vapor per cubic meter or, in engineering practice, in grains per cubic foot. Because this measure of atmospheric humidity is not conservative with respect to adiabatic expansion or compression, it is not commonly used by meteorologists. (Also called vapor concentration and vapor density). See relative humidity.
Related terms: specific humidity
relative humidity
relative humidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative humidities
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ratio of the actual amount of water vapor (absolute humidity) present in the air to the saturation point at the same temperature, usually expressed as a percentage.
Related terms: specific humidity
specific humidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific humidities
Senses: glosses: The ratio of the mass of water vapour to mass of air.
Related terms: absolute humidity
relative humidity
jeremiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/
rhymes: -aɪəd
Forms: form: jeremiads
Etymology: From French jérémiade, from Jérémie, from Latin Ieremias, from Hebrew ירמיה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”). Named after biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and predicted her downfall.
Senses: examples: text: "Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all."
ref: 1895, Mary Gaunt, The Moving Finger: A Digger's Christmas:
text: “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, The Disuniting of America.”
ref: 2006 May 5, The Columbus Dispatch:
text: Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.
ref: 2007 May 19, Charlotte Higgins, “US government trying to seize new Michael Moore film, says producer”, in The Guardian:
text: His warnings ignored in Washington, Dalio issued more jeremiads to his clients. “If the economy goes down, it will not be a typical recession,” his newsletter said in January, 2008.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
text: What few of us realised at the time was that Osborne, while endorsing most of Jimmy’s jeremiads, also had a sneaking sympathy for his father-in-law, Colonel Redfern, an upper-class relic of the Raj.
ref: 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: lament
word: lamentation
word: tirade
word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: diatribe
word: dithyramb
word: harangue
word: impugnation
word: j'accuse
word: jeremiad
word: philippic
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: slanging match
word: tirade
glosses: A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
earlobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earlobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ear lobe.
Derived terms: earlobeless
nascent hydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monatomic hydrogen that exists transiently after the reduction of a hydrogen ion; generated from zinc and hydrochloric acid; it is a strong reducing agent
scatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: scatologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
examples: text: […] lingo of the streets with its spewed out scatologies and its anti-womanist rhetoric of "hoes and bitches" — all so evocative of life in the ghetto […]
ref: 2008, Daniel Bernardi, The Persistence of Whiteness:
glosses: A filthy epithet.
examples: text: Like James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in the novel Ulysses (1922), Mozart seemed utterly comfortable with himself, bodily functions, and all.[…] In our view Mozart’s so-called scatology is part of his culture and personality and, as we have argued, intimately connected with his creativity.
ref: 2015, Henry Powell, Howard Kushner, “Mozart at play: The limitations of attributing etiology of genius to Tourette syndrome and mental illness”, in Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller, editors, Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience, page 290:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement.
examples: text: The move to out-and-out scatology in humorous texts for junior readers takes off in the later 1990s, following the overt scatological humor of ground-breaking ‘bum and poo’ picture books for younger readers, such as Holzwarth’s The Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business (1998).
ref: 2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, page 48:
glosses: Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting.
Synonyms: sense: scientific study of faeces
word: coprology
sense: interest in or obsession with faeces
word: coprophilia
Derived terms: bovine scatology
scatological
Related terms: scatolia
scatologia
scatophilia
annum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annums
form: a
form: ann.
Etymology: From Latin per annum (“yearly”), from annus (“year”).
Senses: related: word: mul:a
glosses: Synonym of year.
A one-year period, particularly (finance) a fiscal year or (sciences) a Julian year of exactly 365.25 days.
topics: astronomy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
related: word: mul:a
glosses: Synonym of year.
A "year" determined by the revolution of an extraterrestrial planet.
Derived terms: kiloannum
mega-annum
giga-annum
Gaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic gall (“foreigner or stranger”), meaning:
* (Ireland) a person from Wales or England who immigrated after the Norman invasion, or
* (Scotland) a person from Scandinavia or the English-speaking lowlands.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
truth value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truth values
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A value indicating to what extent a statement is true; in classical logic, these are the values "true" and "false".
Related terms: truth table
Kramer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪmɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Kramers
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Kramer and German Krämer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Warren County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A minor city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Kramer Junction
Kramer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪmɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Kramers
form: Kramering
form: Kramered
form: Kramered
Etymology: In reference to the televion sitcom Seinfeld, where the character Cosmo Kramer often suddenly enters unannounced.
Senses: examples: text: I fell at work yesterday. A floor had just been mopped and there was no sign up about the floor being wet. I "Kramered" through, and slipped and wrenched my left knee.
ref: 2006 June 12, Ricki <ricki@asarian-host.net>, “Re: Kween Klutz”, in alt.support.depression.recovery.sanctuary (Usenet):
text: I showed him how to open doors by fully turning the handle before you start to push it open instead of just Kramering through like usual, and he took it to heart!
ref: 2022 June 1, u/prettywannapancake, “Bout to Throat Punch My Husband”, in Reddit, r/breakingmom:
text: When a man comes Kramering into a thread to say "But not me!" that's annoying, because the topic was on rape in general, and the guy came in there and made it about him.
ref: 2022 September 26, u/NotTheMarmot, “Why is "not all men are rapists" considered a bad/offensive thing to say?”, in Reddit, r/TooAfraidToAsk:
synonyms: barge in
glosses: To suddenly enter or go through somewhere unexpectedly and suddenly.
centile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centiles
Etymology: From centi- + -ile.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of percentile.
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile)
tercile
tertile
quartile
quintile
sextile
septile
octile
decile
hexadecile
ventile
vigintile
centile
percentile (100)
millile (1000)
Derived terms: intercentile
percentile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pər-sĕnʹ-tīl
ipa: /pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/
ipa: /pəˈsɛn.taɪl/
rhymes: -ɛntaɪl
Forms: form: percentiles
Etymology: Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
examples: text: She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
Synonyms: %ile
centile
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile)
tercile
tertile
quartile
quintile
sextile
septile
octile
decile
hexadecile
ventile
vigintile
centile
percentile (100)
millile (1000)
Derived terms: equipercentile
interpercentile
percentile dice
percentiler
percentile rank
caecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.kəm/
rhymes: -iːkəm
Forms: form: caecums
form: caeca
form: cæcum
form: cecum
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron).
Senses: examples: text: After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.
ref: 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: blind gut
glosses: A cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct), especially a blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.
Derived terms: caecal
caecally
caecitis
caeco-
caec-
caecostomy
caecotrophy
mesocaecum
punctum caecum
pyloric caecum
BESM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of big eyes, small mouth, describing the odd proportions with which much Japanese manga is drawn.
amas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.məz/
ipa: /ˈɑː.mɑz/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɑːməz
Senses: glosses: plural of ama
MOAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOABs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Mother of all Bombs.
glosses: Acronym of Mother of all Bombs.
GBU-43 (originally an acronym of Massive Ordnance Air Blast).
Derived terms: english: father of all bombs
translation: father of all bombs
word: FOAB
Related terms: english: massive ordnance penetrator
translation: massive ordnance penetrator
alt: GBU-57
word: MOP
word: daisycutter
INDY
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Acronym of I'm not dead yet (“a fruit-fly gene, mutant versions of which are said to have increased the organism's lifespan”).
LZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LZs
Senses: examples: text: Chief, Commander Keyes is counting on us to clear the LZ.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
glosses: Initialism of landing zone.
coordinate_terms: TZ
TLZ
glosses: Initialism of lead-zinc, a type of paint.
AON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AONs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of all-or-none order.
FCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The FCO also disputes Fernández's claim that Britain kicked out the island's original Argentinian inhabitants.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
F&E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fleeing and eluding.
R&O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of resisting and obstructing.
JAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JAGs
Senses: examples: text: Of the three JAGs who were dismissed, I know Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer and worked with him for more than three years.
ref: 2025 February 24, Frank Kendall, “America Has a Rogue President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
law
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of judge advocate general.
CSR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSRs
Senses: examples: text: He could never have developed GE’s reputation in that sector if he were still fighting the image of stonewalling on Hudson River cleanup efforts. “They've completely jujitsu-ed that,” notes PR executive Richard Edelman. “They've set a new standard. It's not just corporate social responsibility (CSR) as philanthropy. It's CSR that makes money.”
ref: 2008, “Go on the Offensive and Shape the Message”, in William J. Holstein, Manage the Media (Don't Let the Media Manage You), Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: While there appears to be something to this generalization about millennials and CSR appeals, much more needs to be learned about the nuances of what works and what does not.
ref: 2019 January 15, Charles Taylor, “Why Gillette's New Ad Campaign Is Toxic”, in Forbes:
text: The shackles of CSR have now been tightened by the concept of ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance).
ref: 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
glosses: Initialism of corporate social responsibility.
glosses: Initialism of customer service representative.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of certificate signature request.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of control and status register.
CompTIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Computing Technology Industry Association.
CSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of crime scene investigation (a term of forensic science).
examples: text: 'Damn cops,' said a CSI, who concentrated on the holes in the bark of a tree, the only holes not made by gun-happy rat killers.
ref: 2012, Carol O'Connell, The Chalk Girl: Kathy Mallory:
glosses: Initialism of crime scene investigator.
glosses: Initialism of Customer Satisfaction Index.
glosses: Initialism of Companion of the Order of the Star of India.
glosses: Initialism of consumer safety inspector.
Derived terms: CSI effect
CSI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)
glosses: Initialism of Computer Society of India.
ATO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Taxation Office.
ATO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATOs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of assisted take-off.
examples: text: Trains running through the Thameslink 'Core' in central London are using Automatic Train Operation (ATO) with European Train Control System (ETCS) in regular service. [...] Using ATO will enable GTR to reach the intended 24 trains per hour target between St Pancras International and Blackfriars.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Thameslink uses ATO in 'Core'”, in Rail, page 12:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of automatic train operation.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of anti-terrorist operation.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of abort to orbit.
examples: text: Interestingly, the nature of the available stolen data means the typical victim of an ATO attack varies slightly depending on whether a bank or a retailer is under attack.
ref: 2022, Gilit Saporta, Shoshana Maraney, Practical Fraud Prevention, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of account take over.
Coordinate terms: sense: assisted takeoff
word: CATO
sense: assisted takeoff
word: CATOBAR
sense: assisted takeoff
word: JATO
sense: assisted takeoff
word: RATO
sense: assisted takeoff
word: ZELL
sense: assisted takeoff
word: ZLL
sense: assisted takeoff
word: ZLTO
sense: automatic train operation
word: ATC
sense: automatic train operation
word: PTC