cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skewness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skewnesses
Etymology: From skew + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A very effective area where we can apply feature engineering is by looking at the skewness of data and then correcting the skewness through normalization of the data. Skewness can be visualized by plotting the data using histograms and density plots.
ref: 2020, Anthony So, Thomas V. Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare, The Data Science Workshop, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: The property of being skew.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle γ₁=(μ₃)/(σ³),! where μ₃ is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.
cnoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈknɔɪd(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈnɔɪd(ə)l/
Etymology: Coined by Diederik Korteweg and Gustav de Vries in their paper in Philosophical Magazine (1895, series 5, vol. 39, pp. 422-443) to describe a class of solutions to the KdV equation which involve a Jacobi elliptic function. The Jacobi elliptic function involved is commonly written as cn(x|m), and the term cnoidal was designed to be analogous to sinusoidal, the word describing waves which involve the sine function.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Describes a travelling wave whose amplitude is constricted; e.g. a wave in shallow water.
wikipedia: Diederik Korteweg
Gustav de Vries
Jacobi elliptic function
Related terms: dnoidal
snoidal
evirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/
Forms: form: evirates
form: evirating
form: evirated
form: evirated
Etymology: From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
text: The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!
ref: 1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor:
glosses: To castrate.
glosses: To render weak or unmanly.
conspiracist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conspiracists
Etymology: From conspiracy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [Kevin] Phillips's method is pretty conventional for conspiracists – he takes a single issue or set of data points and constructs an all-explaining story line to show how hidden cabals are controlling America.
ref: 2006 May 4, David Brooks, “The Paranoid Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: As this business model developed, InfoWars’ shows, hosted by an array of conspiracists alongside [Alex] Jones, such as British conspiracist Paul Joseph Watson, became increasingly punctuated by ad breaks and product placement, in a way that one journalist described as like “the QVC for racist uncles” (Lamoureux, 2017).
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
synonyms: conspiracy theorist
glosses: A person who puts forward a conspiracy theory.
conspiracist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conspiracist
form: most conspiracist
Etymology: From conspiracy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The conspiracist worldview that presumes a wholly designed universe is similar, and with a conspiracy theory, the holder of the belief in some ways imagines themselves as the detective or investigator, […]
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
glosses: Related to conspiracy theories.
counterpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊn.təˈpəʊz/
ipa: /ˌkaʊn.tɚˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: counterposes
form: counterposing
form: counterposed
form: counterposed
Etymology: From French contraposer, equivalent to counter- + pose.
Senses: glosses: To act as a counterweight; to counterbalance.
examples: text: Part II is a chapter on male socialization. One selection discusses the sex role pressures upon children, another is about ghetto males, and a third is on the influence of high school athletics. Much of it is dry reading, but counterposed are two painful personal accounts.
ref: 1976 December 25, John Kyper, “Un-becoming Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 12:
glosses: To create a contrast by juxtaposing.
counterpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.təˌpəʊz/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌpoʊz/
Forms: form: counterposes
Etymology: From French contraposer, equivalent to counter- + pose.
Senses: examples: text: Utkatasana (Figure 4-e) acts as a counterpose to the previous postures because it eases the stretch in the legs.
ref: 1986, Yoga Journal, number 71, page 49:
glosses: A pose taken in opposition to another.
crenelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenelles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crenel.
crenel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛnəl/
Forms: form: crenels
form: creneaux
Etymology: From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: embrasure (sometimes hypernymous technically)
text: They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing, […]
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 35:
related: word: crenelle
coordinate_terms: loophole
glosses: The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
Derived terms: crenellate
crenelled
Basra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balsara
form: Balsora
form: Bassora
form: Bussero
form: Bussora
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بصره (Basra) and Arabic البَصْرَة (al-Baṣra), from ال (al-, “the, land of the”) + بَصْرَة (baṣra, “overseer”).
Senses: glosses: A port city in southeastern Iraq.
Basra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Basras
form: Balsara
form: Balsora
form: Bassora
form: Bussero
form: Bussora
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਬਸਰਾ (basrā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
mortadelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortadella
Patagonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæ.təˈɡəʊ.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌpæ.təˈɡoʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˌpæ.təˈɡoʊn.jə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: From Portuguese patagão and Spanish patagón (“Patagonian”) + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: CHILI, a province of ſouth America, bounded by Peru on the north, by the province of La Plata on the eaſt, by Patagonia on the ſouth, and by the Pacific ocean on the weſt... But ſome comprehend Patagonia in Chili, extending it to cape Horn...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183
text: The pampas of Argentina and the chilly wastes of Patagonia, like the prairies and deserts of North America, were largely shunned by Spanish settlers until the 1870s.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: A geographical region in southern South America, including the southern parts of Chile and Argentina.
glosses: A town in Arizona.
Derived terms: Patagonian
Patagonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpætəˈɡəʊni.ən/
Forms: form: more Patagonian
form: most Patagonian
Etymology: From Patagonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Patagonia or its people, language or culture.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eumops patagonicus
word: Patagonian bonneted bat
taxonomic: Pseudasthenes patagonica
word: Patagonian canastero
taxonomic: Dolichotis patagonum
word: Patagonian cavy
taxonomic: Euneomys chinchilloides
word: Patagonian chinchilla mouse
taxonomic: Cyanoliseus patagonus
word: Patagonian conure
taxonomic: Lophonetta specularioides specularioides
word: Patagonian crested duck
taxonomic: Fitzroya cupressoides
word: Patagonian cypress
taxonomic: Upucerthia saturatior
word: Patagonian forest earthcreeper
taxonomic: Lycalopex culpaeus
word: Patagonian fox
taxonomic: Dolichotis patagonum
word: Patagonian hare
taxonomic: Phyllotis xanthopygus
word: Patagonian leaf-eared mouse
taxonomic: Dolichotis patagonum
word: Patagonian mara
taxonomic: Mimus patagonicus
word: Patagonian mockingbird
taxonomic: Lestodelphys halli
word: Patagonian opossum
taxonomic: Otaria flavescens
word: Patagonian sea lion
taxonomic: Phrygilus patagonicus
word: Patagonian sierra finch
taxonomic: Tinamotis ingoufi
word: Patagonian tinamou
taxonomic: Dissostichus eleginoides
word: Patagonian toothfish
taxonomic: Colorhamphus parvirostris
word: Patagonian tyrant
taxonomic: Lyncodon patagonicus
word: Patagonian weasel
taxonomic: Sicalis lebruni
word: Patagonian yellow finch
Patagonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpætəˈɡəʊni.ən/
Forms: form: Patagonians
Etymology: From Patagonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Patagonia
Zambians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zambian
so so
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of so-so.
paddling pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddling pools
Senses: glosses: A pool, often inflatable, only able to contain enough water to paddle as opposed to swim; a kiddie pool.
Synonyms: wading pool
Related terms: swimming pool
rasant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French rasant.
Senses: examples: rasant fire
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: sweeping; flanking
rasas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasa
lucky charms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucky charm
lucky charm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucky charms
Senses: glosses: An object kept for good luck.
Derived terms: Lucky Charms
urinant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).
Senses: examples: text: On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.
ref: 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84:
text: 2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
text: Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.
ref: 2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
antonyms: hauriant, haurient
glosses: Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving.
Coordinate terms: hauriant
naiant
Related terms: word: urinator
urines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urine
rabot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabots
Etymology: Borrowed from French rabot.
Senses: glosses: A rubber used in polishing marble.
isocost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocosts
Etymology: From iso- + cost.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A curve that represents a combination of various inputs that cost the same.
Related terms: isoquant
illuminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminants
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.
ref: 1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
glosses: Something that illuminates.
illuminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: That illuminates.
blabberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blabberers
Etymology: From blabber + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who blabbers.
pooer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more pooer
form: most pooer
Senses: glosses: poor
pooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pooers
Etymology: From poo + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If your babies are totally breastfed, they may poo anything from fifteen times a day to once a fortnight. If they are a frequent pooer, this will settle down within the first six weeks.
ref: 2013, Jan Murray, Twins & More, page 135:
glosses: Someone who poos.
noodler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodlers
Etymology: From noodle + -er.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A practitioner of noodling.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who improvises.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A fossicker, someone who scours mine dumps for valuables.
noodling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodlings
Senses: glosses: The practice and sport of fishing for catfish using the bare hands.
examples: text: Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings, Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.
ref: 1991, Gunther Schuller, The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930-1945:
glosses: Musical improvisation.
Derived terms: noodler
Related terms: noodle
catfisting
noodling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noodle
free diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of free-diving.
free diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free dive
free-diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-divers
Etymology: From free-dive + -er.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A practitioner of free-diving.
free diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free divers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free-diver.
freediver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of free-diver.
freediving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + diving.
Senses: examples: text: He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.
ref: 2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of free-diving.
freediving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From free + diving.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freedive
communiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of communiqués.
communiqués
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communiqué
violons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violon
distingué
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distingué
form: most distingué
Senses: examples: text: By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch, she charged one pound eight.
ref: 1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Alternative spelling of distingue.
sembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semble
conservant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conservant
form: most conservant
Etymology: From Latin conservans.
Senses: examples: text: Now, besides these laws, the body is subjected also to the laws of vitality, and the coexistence of these destructive and conservant forces can clearly be recognized.
ref: 1875, Theodore Juergensen, “Croupous Pneumonia”, in Hugo von Ziemssen, editor, Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine - Volume 5, page 147:
text: It is the procreant and conservant cause, but no material of our Sanctification .
ref: 1990, David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, page 102:
text: The problem which remains, however, is to discover whether the combinatorial system is acquired by the same process as the use of a bicycle or, to take a less crude example, whether a child learns to recognize the conservant and non-conservant transformations of a ball of clay in the same way as he learns to recognize colours, or the particular function of each of the switches in a complex electrical apparatus.
ref: 2014, Pierre Oléron, Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder, Experimental Psychology: Its Scope and Method: Volume VII:
glosses: Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
Derived terms: conservancy
conservant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservants
Etymology: From Latin conservans.
Senses: examples: text: This unusual combination of qualities renders the drug useful in two distinct ways at least: first, as a very desirable anaesthetic in the removal of foreign bodies from the cornea; second, as a conservant to the various solutions used by the eye surgeon.
ref: 1900, Ophthalmic record - Volume 9, page 136:
text: The total number of microorganisms was increased slightly in feces kept without conservant, mainly on account of the aerobic group.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nikolaevich Chernigovskiĭ, Operational Activity, Problems of Habitability and Biotechnology:
text: To ensure optimal penetration of the conservant, the wood was first moistened with pure solvent , and then a 5 % solution of PBMA was applied with a soft brush, gradually increasing the concentration.
ref: 2021, John Boardman, Sergei Solovyov, G.R. Tsetskhladze, Northern Pontic Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum, page 280:
glosses: A substance that is used for the purpose of conserving; a preservative.
amendes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amende
treater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treaters
Etymology: From treat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know why I do things like that except that sometimes I think that the principal difference between the treater and the treatee is that the treater is in possession of the keys, if only in a symbolic sense […]
ref: 2014, Martin Fleishman, The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, page 58:
glosses: One who or that which treats.
glosses: A vessel used to treat oil-water emulsions by any of several mechanisms so that the oil can be accepted by the pipeline or transport.
Related terms: heat treater
trick-or-treater
ISTM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of It seems to me.
spongey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spongier
form: spongiest
Senses: examples: text: Narrow boardwalks got us through some of the spongiest parts of the Swamp. […] As we moved in and out of fog through ferns (hapuʻu and uluhe lau nui), flowering evergreen trees (ōhiʻa), tropical sandalwood (iliahi), spongey mosses, and rotting wood, I was reminded of the film Jurassic Park, which was shot in a botanical garden on the south side of Kauai.
ref: 2021, Edward Struzik, “Tropical Peat”, in Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spongy.
chorus line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorus lines
Senses: glosses: A line of performers in a revue or other show, dancing in unison.
Synonyms: corps de ballet
tear-jerker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear-jerkers
Senses: examples: text: The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tearjerker.
jawline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jawlines
Etymology: Compound of jaw + line.
Senses: examples: text: Sandra swooned over Pierce's manly jawline.
glosses: The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone.
Derived terms: jawlined
party line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party lines
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households. Formerly common from the inception of telephony (1880s) through the mid-twentieth century.
examples: text: In a country where the party line controls the climate debate to the extent that a general apathy infuses the broader public, Howey and Zhao are the sudden, fresh young faces of environmental activism.
ref: 2019 September 18, Michael Standaert, “China's young climate heroes fight apathy – and the party line”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: On the evening of June 21, 1941, American Communists went to bed subject to one party line. At the sun set, Britain was fighting an imperialist war against Germany, about which the United States must remain neutral. American Communists awoke on June 22, 1941, to discover the party line abruptly changed. Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. Now the war was a struggle between democracy and fascism, one the United States must immediately join.
ref: 2020 March 19, David Frum, “No Empathy, Only Anger”, in The Atlantic:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The official policy of a political party or other organization.
telephone line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone lines
Senses: examples: text: We're going to have to get a second telephone line installed at our house, because the teenagers spend so much time talking to their friends.
glosses: The infrastructure which allows a single telephone to be connected to the network and conduct independent calls.
Synonyms: phone line
Related terms: telephone book
telephone call
telephone number
phone line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone lines
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of telephone line.
pick-up line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick-up lines
form: pick up line
form: pickup line
Senses: examples: text: Freddie has a new pick-up line for every girl he meets in the bar, but he always goes home alone.
text: Obviously, the real skill of the pickup line is to possess a moronic amount of self-belief[…] but it's worth persevering with. Rod Stewart, for example, puts his 30-year run of successful pickups down to a curious "What have you got in that handbag?", […]
ref: 2013 July 2, Stuart Heritage, “Pickup lines: tell us your best – and the worst you've ever heard”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: chat-up line
word: opener
glosses: A short introduction or comment intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger.
Related terms: pickup artist
tag line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tag lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tagline.
examples: text: The tag line is the part of the dialogue that indicates the “he said” or “she said.”
ref: 2003, Christine Boardman Moen, Sensational Sentences:
text: “That shade of green makes you look like a zucchini,” Alana said rudely (“said rudely” is the adverbial tag line).
ref: 2010, Ellen Potter with Anne Mazer, Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook:
text: The tag line tells who is speaking.
ref: 2012, Spectrum, Writing, Grade 6:
glosses: Synonym of dialogue tag.
synonyms: word: dialogue tag
ridgeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgelines
Etymology: From ridge + line.
Senses: examples: text: To either side there are beautiful views from the trail along the ridgeline.
text: a. 2007, Federal Aviation Administration, Rotorcraft Flying Handbook, →ISBN, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007, p. 10-8 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bk9fOM4zsKwC&pg=PT97&dq=ridgeline&sig=9rt5EdI_M39hmj7A4pxbJZ8PX-k
A ridgeline is a long area from which the surface drops away steeply on one or two sides, such as a bluff or precipice.
text: As the trail flattens out, it follows the draw up right to a saddle in the ridgeline.
ref: 1999, Stewart M. Green, Rock Climbing Arizona, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Surface runoff from ridgeline development can contaminate rivers and streams that supply drinking water downstream.
ref: 2003, John R. Nolon, Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources, Environmental Law Institute, →ISBN, page 29:
text: These ridgelines and hilltops are exceptional aesthetic and ecological resources, visible from many perspectives and distances.
ref: a. 2003, Zoning regulations of the Town of Clinton, New York, §2.5, cited in http://books.google.com/books?id=SYoFGy1C8_sC&pg=PA29&dq=ridgeline&sig=9jjYsFMKwaHt989-hGPuHVCl0Y4
text: Standing atop the ridgeline, King Edward watched the nightmare scenario he himself had predicted.
ref: 2005, Margaret Weis, chapter 34, in Master of Dragons, Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: The topmost edge along a mountain ridge.
topics: architecture
glosses: The topmost edge along a roof, where its sloping sides meet.
Derived terms: ridgeline plot
teef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toof
teef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: thief
teef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teefs
form: teefing
form: teefed
form: teefed
Senses: examples: text: You s'posed to be my homie an' you teefed my story
ref: 2013, Nick Barlay, Crumple Zone:
glosses: to steal
Beane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A river in Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Lea at Hertford.
API unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: API units
Etymology: From API (“American Petroleum Institute”).
Senses: examples: text: The radioactivity of a typical shale is 100 API units.
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A unit of radioactivity used for measuring natural gamma rays in the ground.
Jacuzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈku.zi/
Forms: form: Jacuzzis
Etymology: A trademark. Named after the Jacuzzi brothers. Obsolete variant of Italian Iacuzzi, as Italian has removed the letter J from native words.
Senses: examples: text: Itemised in his claim we even find £200 for ‘Jacuzzi repair’. I think that's a bit more information about their relationship than we required.
ref: 1999 April 19, Victoria Coren, “I don't love you. PS: you owe me £2.50”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2014:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jacuzzi
Jacuzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈku.zi/
Etymology: A trademark. Named after the Jacuzzi brothers. Obsolete variant of Italian Iacuzzi, as Italian has removed the letter J from native words.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Jacuzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈku.zi/
Forms: form: Jacuzzis
form: Jacuzziing
form: Jacuzzied
form: Jacuzzied
Etymology: A trademark. Named after the Jacuzzi brothers. Obsolete variant of Italian Iacuzzi, as Italian has removed the letter J from native words.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jacuzzi.
receiving line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receiving lines
Senses: glosses: A queue of guests waiting to greet or condole the guests of honor at a wedding or other ceremony.
almendro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almendros
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Indian almond.
synonyms: word: Indian almond
police line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police lines
Senses: glosses: A line, often marked with yellow tape, demarcating a crime or accident scene and which bystanders are not supposed to cross.
glosses: A line of police officers standing guard.
anchor line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor lines
Senses: examples: text: a foul anchor line
glosses: A very heavy rope or chain by which a ship's anchor is hoisted.
milk line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk lines
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of two parallel lines on the breast of a mammal along which the nipples are found.
supply line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply lines
Senses: examples: text: Having cracked the Germans' Enigma traffic, the Allies were able to devastate Rommel's supply lines across the Mediterranean.
text: Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies:
glosses: The chain of transportation mechanisms supplying food and materiel to an army in battle, or other field operation.
examples: text: John Barclay and [Stuart] McInally controlled the tackle area, denying England quick possession and fracturing the champions’ supply line, Simon Berghan anchored the scrum and behind Finn Russell, missing in action in the opening two rounds, fulfilled his captain Barclay’s prediction on the eve of the game that he would be the man of the match.
ref: 2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2018:
glosses: Any system in place to provide resources to a group.
Related terms: supply chain
transmission line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmission lines
Senses: glosses: A set of wires used for long-distance electric power transmission; a power transmission line.
glosses: A structure such as a waveguide or stripline constructed so as to pass electric signals with fidelity and little loss.
spring line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring lines
form: springing line
form: springline
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line stretched longways between a docked vessel and a cleat on the pier, or used during berthing to guide the vessel into its slip; a warp
topics: architecture
glosses: A line above which an arch starts curving inward.
battle line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle lines
form: battle-line
Senses: examples: text: "You say he is in Armstrong's rear, do you? Damn him! That's just where I have been trying to get him all day, and I'll be in his rear directly. Face your battle lines about! Armstrong, push your skirmishers forward -- crowd 'em both ways! I'm going to Starnes. You'll hear from me in about five minutes!"
ref: 1894, Dabney H. Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, section 17:
text: We did not catch them napping, but found a well-entrenched battle line confronting us.
ref: 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Through Carnage to Joy”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 310:
text: That is the reason why I have asked you to take out and spread before you a map of the whole earth, and to follow with me the references which I shall make to the world-encircling battle lines of this war.
ref: 1942 February 23, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat:
text: 1965, Hugh M. Cole, The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, Chapter XX: The XII Corps Attacks the Southern Shoulder,
The German intelligence staffs again agreed that there was no immediate threat to the Seventh Army, and that the westward advance by the Fifth Panzer Army would necessarily force the Americans to strengthen the battle line there and prohibit any thrust into the deep southern flank.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle.
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: A line of battle.
examples: text: There's battle lines being drawn / And nobody's right if everybody's wrong
ref: 1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:
text: Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.
ref: 2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
text: Especially that absolute territory peeking out from between her socks and skirt, like a battle line between innocence and temptation...
ref: 2018, Ichiro Sakaki, Sasha McGlynn, Outbreak Company, volume 4:
glosses: Any of those parts of a contest which, as a result of strategic decisions on both sides, are most closely fought and will likely determine the contest's course and outcome.
telegraph line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraph lines
Senses: synonyms: telegraph wire
glosses: A wire strung between two locations allowing telegraphic communication between them.
Interior Plains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large region of North America formed by the collision of cratons in the Paleoproterozoic.
Stutz Bearcat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Stutz Bearcat was first built in 1912 with a four-cylinder Wisconsin-built T-head ... The term “Roaring Twenties” is synonymous with Stutz Bearcat.
ref: 1977, Veteran Car Club of America, The Bulb Horn, page 9:
glosses: An American-made sports car, originally manufactured in the 1910s and 1920s.
Wigilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Wigilia. Doublet of vigil.
Senses: examples: text: Then two days before Wigilia, a German officer came to say that ‘Germans are humanitarians even towards criminals,’ so we could take part in the Christmas eve celebration.
ref: 1945 January 24, Brenda Ueland, quoting the Polish Review, “What Goes on Here”, in Minneapolis Daily Times, volume 78, number 210, Minneapolis, Minn., →OCLC, page 11, column 1:
text: The covered dishes brought by those attending show their home region in Poland with certain Wigilia specialties.
ref: 2016 December 8, Martha Saconchik-Pytel, “‘Wigilia’: Polish Heritage Society celebrates”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume 111, number 343, Tallahassee, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Chronicle” section, page 2E, column 1:
text: Most people don’t make their own herring for Wigilia, but they do buy it ready-made for their celebrations, Aleksandra Burzynski said.
ref: 2022 December 21, Joanne Kempinger Demski, “Polish tradition: 12 dishes of Christmas all in 1 day for Wigilia dinner”, in Herald Times Reporter, volume 52, number 310, Manitowoc, Wis., →OCLC, page 2B, column 1:
glosses: The traditional Christmas Eve vigil supper in Poland, held on December 24.
mountain ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain range
micropayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropayments
Etymology: From micro- + payment, attributed to by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A financial transaction for a very small amount of money
capital gain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital gains
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
antonyms: capital loss
glosses: An increase in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner exceed its cost to the owner.
capital loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital losses
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
antonyms: capital gain
glosses: A decrease in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner are less than its cost to the owner.
gooney bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooney birds
form: gooney
form: goonie
form: goony
Senses: glosses: Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
glosses: a foolish, silly, or awkward person or thing; a goon.
Related terms: goon
heeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: heebs
form: hebe
form: Hebe
form: Heeb
Etymology: Clipping of Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the famous and up-and-coming performers of the day […] were heebs, and the boys had the feeling that we should all stick together and not knock the big names of "our" race.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 49:
synonyms: word: Yid
english: not always pejorative
translation: not always pejorative
word: Hymie
word: kike
word: sheeny
word: shylock
glosses: A Jew.
Derived terms: heebish
dream factory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream factories
Senses: glosses: A film studio
hamfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhamfat/
Forms: form: hamfats
Etymology: From ham + fat.
Senses: glosses: A black person.
examples: text: Around the poolroom I defended the guys I felt were my real brothers, the colored musicians who made music that sent me, not a lot of beat-up old hamfats who sang and played a commercial excuse for the real thing.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 49:
qualifier: black slang
glosses: Something average; a mediocre thing or person, especially a jazz musician.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A low-grade actor; a ham or hamfatter.
plaide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaides
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plaid.
plaides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaide
etchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etchants
Etymology: From etch + -ant.
Senses: glosses: An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching.
Synonyms: mordant
dommy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒmi/
ipa: /ˈdɑmi/
Forms: form: more dommy
form: most dommy
Etymology: From dom (“a dominant”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Rita said she thought she’d be a sub, but found in the scene she was ‘getting a bit dommy’.
ref: 2010, Stephanie Clifford-Smith, “A Dynamic Duo”, in Kink: A Straight Girl's Investigation, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Crows Nest, →ISBN, page 88:
text: I don’t usually get that wet, but apparently, all I was missing before was a hot dommy man slapping my ass.
ref: 2022, Renee Rose, chapter 2, in The Cleaner (Chicago Bratva), →ISBN:
text: He anchors his hands on his hips, one of my favorite moves of his, because he looks all dommy.
ref: 2023, Jane Henry, chapter 16, in Adoration (Montavio Brotherhood), →ISBN:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: subby
glosses: Dominating, dominant.
dommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒmi/
ipa: /ˈdɑmi/
Forms: form: dommies
Etymology: Abbreviation of domicile, ultimately from Latin domus (“house, home”).
Senses: examples: text: Harry Shapiro was crazy about musicians so we headed straight for his dommy.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 50:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Someone's house or home.
goony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goonier
form: more goony
form: gooniest
form: most goony
Etymology: * From goon + -y. Also as a shortened form of gooney.
Senses: glosses: Of or like a goon; thuggish; brutal.
examples: text: After their prank was successful, the friends wore goony smiles on their faces for the rest of the day.
text: Sing a mumble-gumble song[…] Do a loony-goony dance / ’Cross the kitchen floor
ref: 1981, Shel Silverstein, “Put Something In”, in A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:
glosses: Silly, crazy, foolish, stupid, or awkward.
goony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goonies
Etymology: * From goon + -y. Also as a shortened form of gooney.
Senses: glosses: a goon; a foolish, stupid, silly, or awkward person.
glosses: Alternative form of gooney (gooney bird, the black-footed albatross).
Related terms: goon
goonie
gooney
gooney bird
pluriennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluriennial
form: most pluriennial
Etymology: From New Latin plūriennis + English -ial, after -ennial (compare plurennial).
Senses: glosses: Lasting a few years
ponderate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ponderates
form: ponderating
form: ponderated
form: ponderated
Etymology: From Latin ponderatus.
Senses: glosses: To have weight or influence.
glosses: To consider; to ponder.
ponderate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ponderatus.
Derived terms: equiponderate
white lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white ladies
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
glosses: A sour cocktail made with gin or crème de menthe, triple sec or Cointreau, and a citrus juice, sometimes with an egg white.
glosses: Methylated spirit.
synonyms: word: white girl
word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: Cocaine.
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, lady.
Related terms: black lady
taxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The detritivore, Peltoperla maria, was also present in this habitat, as were four taxons of Acroneura, all of which are carnivores.
ref: 1996, Ruth Patrick, Rivers of the United States, Volume III
glosses: plural of taxon
mâche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mache
Etymology: Borrowed from French mâche.
Senses: glosses: Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb.
eversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more eversive
form: most eversive
Etymology: From Latin ēversīvus, from ēvertō.
Senses: examples: text: a maxim eversive […] of all justice and morality
ref: 1800, Alexander Geddes, A Modest Apology for the Roman Catholics of Great Britain:
glosses: Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive.
gerberas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerbera
gerbera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerberas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The gerbera daisies come packed in what look like shirt boxes, their happy-face blossoms all looking outward, their stems dangling down like wires from the back of a computer.
ref: 2007 February 9, Charles Mcgrath, “The Romance of a Dozen Roses, the Gritty Reality of a Truckload”, in New York Times:
glosses: A daisy of the genus Gerbera.
chopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chope
API gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: API gravities
Etymology: From API (“American Petroleum Institute”).
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A specific gravity scale measuring the relative density of various petroleum liquids, expressed in degrees.
assemblé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblés
Etymology: French assemblé
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A jump that takes off from one foot and lands on both feet.
assemblés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assemblé
abhorrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of abhorrent.
doubtlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doubtless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being doubtless.
funest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈnɛst/
Forms: form: more funest
form: most funest
Etymology: From French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, from fūnus (“funeral; death”).
Senses: examples: text: I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.
ref: 1663 Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142
text: Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.
ref: 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 226
text: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
…excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.
text: Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
ref: 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, from collection Harmonium
text: Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.
ref: 1969Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Penguin, published 2011, page 264:
glosses: Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
whippador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whippadors
Etymology: Blend of whippet + Labrador
Senses: glosses: A dog that is a cross between a whippet and a Labrador retriever.