cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɒf/
enpr: trôf
ipa: /tɹɔf/
enpr: trŏf
ipa: /tɹɑf/
ipa: /tɹɒf/
enpr: trôth
ipa: /tɹɔθ/
ipa: /tɹɑθ/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: troughs
form: troughing
form: troughed
form: troughed
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
Senses: examples: text: He troughed his way through three meat pies.
glosses: To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
Related terms: crib
ditch
trench
symbolic speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An action that expresses an opinion without writing or speaking, such as marching in a political parade or burning a flag.
table cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table cloths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tablecloth (A cloth used to cover a table)
trigger guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigger guards
Senses: glosses: A thin loop surrounding the trigger of a weapon to keep it from accidental discharge.
terrace chant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrace chants
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A phrase or song chanted at a football match or other sports event.
toteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tote + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The #22 and #24 (toteless) smoothing planes are nice, as are the #35 and #36 (toted) smoothing planes. These are readily obtainable.
ref: 2001 January 3, “Peter”, “Re: Old Planes?”, in rec.woodworking (Usenet):
text: Steve mentioned that most of his scrub orders are toteless (traditional I guess you'd say). In purchasing the Jack I had always assumed I'd get it with the tote because I do like the additional control it gives me with the scrub when I'm planing around grain that's changing direction (knots and such) to avoid massive tearout you can get with a scrub.
ref: 2004 February 11, “Mike in Idaho”, “Knight-Toolworks plane question”, in rec.woodworking (Usenet):
glosses: Without a tote or totes (in any sense).
thrash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: thrashes
form: thrashing
form: thrashed
form: thrashed
Etymology: From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Senses: examples: text: But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
ref: 1979 November 30, Roger Waters, “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:
text: The rural Midland & Great Northern backwaters from Norfolk to Leicester closed in February 1959 before they could be used there, and thrashing them on the GN main line instead resulted in a memorably poor ride and rattling windows, caused by vibration from their engines and suspect suspension.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:
glosses: To beat mercilessly.
examples: text: Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.
ref: 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
glosses: To defeat utterly.
glosses: To thresh.
examples: text: I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
ref: c. 1690, Juvenal, “The Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, in John Dryden, transl., John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, published 1987, page 364:
text: As performers, we girls have our hair. That's the real thing guys want to see. They love to see the long hair move. They want you to thrash it.
ref: 2023, Britney Spears, The Woman in Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Derived terms: thrash about
thrashel
thrasher
thrash out
thrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: thrashes
Etymology: From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Senses: examples: text: Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
text: As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
ref: 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, “Queen of the Black Coast”, in Weird Tales:
text: Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.
ref: 2016, Clark Nida, The Titan Kiss:
glosses: A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of thrash metal.
Derived terms: neo-thrash
acroamatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acroamatic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
ref: 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
glosses: esoteric lectures.
Related terms: acroamatic
almighty dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the almighty dollar
Etymology: Most sources hold this to be a coinage of Washington Irving, alluding to "Almighty God", although a Philadelphia newspaper also used the phrase at approximately the same time and Ben Jonson had used "almighty gold" in 1616 in Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
Senses: examples: text: The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.
ref: 1836, Washington Irving, The Creole Village, in Knickerbocker Magazine (November 1836), later re-published in Wolfert's Roost's and Other Papers (1855)
glosses: The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.
wikipedia: Ben Jonson
Washington Irving
amicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.mɪ.kə.bəl/
Forms: form: more amicable
form: most amicable
Etymology: From Middle English amicable (“agreeable; pleasant”), from Late Latin amīcābilis (“friendly”). Doublet of amiable.
Senses: examples: text: They hoped to reach an amicable agreement.
text: He was an amicable fellow with an easy smile.
glosses: Showing friendliness or goodwill.
Derived terms: amicability
amicableness
amicable number
amicable suit
amicably
Related terms: amiable
amity
agricultural surplus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agricultural surpluses
Senses: glosses: An agricultural production that exceeds the needs of the society for which it is being produced, and may be exported or stored for future times.
ambient device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambient devices
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A simple wireless object that unobtrusively presents information.
apostolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostolates
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin apostolātus. By surface analysis, apostle + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). Doublet of apostolado.
Senses: glosses: The office, or responsibilities of an apostle.
glosses: A group of people that exists for the spreading of religious doctrine.
amniotic fluid embolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amniotic fluid embolisms
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A complication of pregnancy characterized by movement of amniotic fluid past the placenta.
menial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mē'nēəl
ipa: /ˈmiːni.əl/
Forms: form: more menial
form: most menial
Etymology: From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
Senses: examples: text: She hung round him, watching his every look as if she grudged the veriest menial offices from the servants; and she almost scolded him for not eating, when he had done justice enough to the good things set before him to have satisfied even the cook herself.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Arrived at Home”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: She was not proposing to go out again, so he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
examples: text: menial job
text: Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.
ref: 1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC:
text: I didn't see how sweeping and scrubbing a building was any preparation for the trade of electrician; but I did know that in the books all the boys started with the most menial tasks and by making good ultimately won to the ownership of the whole concern.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:
text: For instance, controlling for the above-mentioned variables, migrants to Tangerang or Samarinda (rather than Medan) have a significantly greater chance of getting a craft (as opposed to menial) job.
ref: 2011, Chris Manning, Sudarno Sumarto, Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to unskilled work.
examples: text: a menial wretch
glosses: Servile; low; mean.
Derived terms: menialism
meniality
menialize
menially
nonmenial
unmenial
menial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mē'nēəl
ipa: /ˈmiːni.əl/
Forms: form: menials
Etymology: From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
Senses: examples: text: “Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the lute for them when they please to listen; […]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
text: But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials.
ref: 1879, Henry James, Daisy Miller, London: Harper & Brothers:
text: Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
text: He told me that princes, jeds, and even jeddaks of the outer world, were among the menials who served the yellow race; […]
ref: 1913 December – 1914 March, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published September 1919, →OCLC:
text: The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A servant, especially a domestic servant.
glosses: A person who has a subservient nature.
Related terms: mansion
maison
maisonette
menage
apothem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpə-thĕm′
ipa: /ˈæp.ə.θɛm/
homophone: apothegm
homophone: apophthegm
Forms: form: apothems
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόθεμα (apóthema, “deposit”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away”) + θέμα (théma, “that which is laid down”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The distance from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above).
archdevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃˈdɛvəl/
ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃˈdɛvɪl/
Forms: form: archdevils
Etymology: From arch- + devil.
Senses: examples: text: From the context and other parts of the work, we are to understand that the demons here described are the personal friends of our sovereign, and that the archdevil was the mother of our sovereign.
ref: 1802, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Volume 12, Open Court Publishing Company, page 30:
text: In short, it is purely the work of the devil that they are doing, and especially that of the archdevil, who presides at Muhlhausen, and directs nothing but robbery, murder and bloodshed.
ref: 1841, George Waddington, A History of the Reformation on the Continent: In Three Volumes, Duncan and Malcolm, page 155:
text: A spirit of ultraism seems to pervade the whole community. The language of Milton's archdevil "Evil, be thou my good" is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words — anything for a change. What is to come of all this, I have not wisdom even to guess. It is an age of transition and whether you and I live to see the elements of the moral and political world at rest, is, I think, extretmely doubtful.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers: With Brief Notices of Passing Events, Facts, and Opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842, Lippincott, Grambo and Company, page 517:
text: The bishops in question were described as archdevils, priests of Baal, standard-bearers of the Balaamites, and children of perdition.
ref: 1896, Marvin Richardson Vincent, The Age of Hildebrand, Christian Literature Company, page 267:
text: They are archdevils. Partake not of anything from their hands. Now I shall sell myself and do this act if only I have thee at my back.
ref: 1940, United States Congress, The Madras Law Journal, page 813:
topics: fantasy
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
religion
science-fiction
theology
coordinate_terms: subdevil
underdevil
glosses: A chief or reigning devil.
Related terms: word: archidiabolical
word: archdemon
word: archfiend
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: daemon
beef Wellington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef Wellingtons
form: beef wellington
Etymology: Named after an unknown person. There is no definite connection to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Senses: examples: text: The charges against Ms. Patterson stemmed from a lunch party nearly two years ago in the rural town of Leongatha, at which she cooked and served beef Wellington.
ref: 2025 July 7, Victoria Kim, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025:
glosses: A fillet of beef tenderloin steak coated with pâté de foie gras and a duxelles of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
wikipedia: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Coordinate terms: chateaubriand
filet de bœuf en croûte
Derived terms: beet Wellington
chicken Wellington
lamb Wellington
pork Wellington
salmon Wellington
sausage Wellington
Related terms: Wellington
binnekill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binnekills
Etymology: From Dutch binnen (“inside”) + kil (“creek”).
Senses: qualifier: local to Catskill region of New York state
glosses: The backwater portion of a stream or remnant of an old stream bed.
CAVOK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /kævˌoʊˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: CAVOk
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of ceiling (or clouds) and visibility [are] OK, a weather term, specific to an airport, used when conditions at the airport include visibility of at least 6 statute miles, no clouds below 5000 feet or minimum sector altitude (whichever is higher), and no hazardous weather conditions (cumulonimbus clouds, thunderstorms, precipitation, shallow fog, or low drifting snow) near the airport.
Related terms: CAVU
chatterati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatteratis
Etymology: Blend of chatter + literati, attested since 1990.
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Annabelle Sreberny, “Trauma talk,” in Journalism After September 11, Barbara Zelizer and Stuart Allan edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0415287995&id=zHs5FsL2pAIC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&sig=xCPKCNE7rqbp3yj9eDEhIlq_94o
The newspaper the Guardian, together with its Sunday sister the Observer, are the liberal papers of choice among the middle-class chatterati.
text: Perhaps some Anatolian Leigh Fermor had a bestseller among the chatterati of Topkapi with his Travels in the Egripos.
ref: 2004, John Mole, It's All Greek to Me:
text: At last, after many years, the doctrine of multi-culturalism is being questioned. The chatterati have long held onto this as a core belief, a multi-cultural society where hundreds of different cultures exist side by side, and anyone criticising it has been labeled as a racist.
ref: 2004 January 20, Peter Simmons, “political incorrectness and the chatterati”, in One World Net, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023:
text: 2005 Christina Odone, in the Manchester Guardian, quoted in Credo by Ray Pritchard http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1581347197&id=uR7gKh4CWUIC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&sig=58JatuzqcghLCAd6Tazni_ntH2U
From when to die to when to give birth, from whom to have sex with, to how to spend their money, the chatteratis believe they should enjoy unlimited freedom.
glosses: People who chat, argue and debate.
Synonyms: chattering classes
chemoautotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemoautotrophic
form: most chemoautotrophic
form: chemautotrophic
form: chemo-autotrophic
Etymology: From chemo- + autotrophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: obtaining its nutrition through the oxidation of non-organic compounds (or other chemical processes); as opposed to the process of photosynthesis.
raw_tags: of an organism
Synonyms: chemolithoautotrophic
Derived terms: chemoautotrophically
Related terms: -troph
chemoautotrophy
chemoautotroph
chemotrophic
chemotrophy
chemotroph
autotrophic
autotrophy
autotroph
choke price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choke prices
Senses: glosses: The minimum price of a good or service that would result in zero quantity being demanded.
chronotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɒn.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌkɹɒn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌkɹɑn.əˈtɹɑp.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Etymology: From chrono- (“referring to time”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or affecting the rate of muscular contraction, especially of the heart.
claptrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæpˌtɹæp/
Forms: form: claptraps
form: clap trap
form: clap-trap
Etymology: Theater slang, c. 1730, from clap + trap, referring to theatrical techniques or gags used to incite applause.
Senses: examples: text: Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: hot air
word: palaver
word: waffle
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Empty verbiage or nonsense.
glosses: A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
examples: text: There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that."
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Milborough as Ambassador”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.
Derived terms: claptrappery
claptrappy
clean code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Non-redundant software code comprising of focused task-specific modules and functions, written in a systematic manner so that another coder can easily interpret or modify it.
Hypernyms: code
Related terms: clean coder
code smell
wahlau
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wah lau.
WWWWW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: W⁵
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of which was what we wanted.
Synonyms: alt: quod erat demonstrandum
word: QED
roman: quod erat demonstrandum
alt: quod erat demonstrandum
word: Q.E.D.
roman: quod erat demonstrandum
alt: quod erat demonstrandum
word: Q. E. D.
ichthyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪkθiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: word: fishlore
word: fish science
word: fish sciences
word: ichth.
word: ichthol.
glosses: A branch of zoology that studies fish.
Derived terms: ethnoichthyology
ichthyologic
ichthyological
ichthyologically
ichthyologist
palaeoichthyology
paleoichthyology
Related terms: word: ichthammol
word: ichthus
english: fish
translation: fish
alt: ἰχθύς (ikhthús; )
word: ichthys
word: ichthyic
word: ichthy-
word: ichthyo-
word: ichthyocentaur
word: ichthyofauna
word: ichthyofaunal
word: ichthyofaunally
word: ichthyoid
word: ichthyoidal
word: Ichthyol
word: ichthyolite
word: ichthyolitic
word: ichthyophagist
word: ichthyophagous
word: ichthyophagy
word: ichthyophthirius
word: ichthyophthirius disease
word: ichthyornis
english: fish bird
translation: fish bird
word: Ichthyornis ()
word: ichthyosarcotoxin
word: ichthyosaur
word: ichthyosaurian
word: ichthyosaurioid
word: ichthyosaurus
english: fish lizard
translation: fish lizard
word: Ichthyosaurus ()
word: ichthyosis
word: ichthyotic
word: -logy
word: -ology
ichthyic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪkθiːɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰχθυϊκός (ikhthuïkós). By surface analysis, ichthy- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or like fish; piscine.
Synonyms: fishlike
fishly
fishy
piscine
ichthyological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichthyologic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ichthyology.
Derived terms: ethnoichthyological
ichthyologically
palaeoichthyological
paleoichthyological
vircator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vircators
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: virtual cathode oscillator
triskaidekaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triskaidekaphobics
Etymology: From triskaideka- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia
triskaidekaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triskaidekaphobic
form: most triskaidekaphobic
Etymology: From triskaideka- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from triskaidekaphobia
clover clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clover clamps
Etymology: Perhaps likening the inside of the clamp, typically featuring four bumps, to a four-leafed clover.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A metal clamp, usually joined to another by a chain, meant to be worn on the nipples to cause pain.
Hypernyms: nipple clamp
college-ruled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being a notebook with 10½" × 8" paper size with thirty-two evenly spaced lines with enough space to write reasonably neatly.
Synonyms: college-rule
colourfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colourfast
form: most colourfast
Etymology: From colour + fast.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colorfast (Items with dyes or pigments that are capable of producing a stable colouring effect.)
Derived terms: noncolourfast
commercial off-the-shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a system: manufactured commercially and then tailored for specific uses.
comprimario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comprimarios
Etymology: From Italian comprimario.
Senses: glosses: A secondary singer, often in opera.
concrete noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun that denotes something tangible or material, such as a person or place.
Synonyms: nomen concretum
Hypernyms: noun
substantive
Hyponyms: alt: = nomen proprium
word: proper noun
alt: = nomen appellativum
word: common noun
condyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒndɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɒndaɪl/
Forms: form: condyles
Etymology: From French condyle, from Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).
Senses: examples: text: “It's the upper condyle of a human femur,” said I.
ref: 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, Norton, published 2005, page 1717:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
Derived terms: condylar
condylectomy
condylic
condylion
condyloid
ectocondyle
entocondyle
epicondyle
hemicondyle
zygocondyle
Related terms: condylo-
cost centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cost centres
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: Alternative form of cost center.
curtainwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtainwalls
Etymology: From curtain + wall.
Senses: glosses: Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
da kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of da kine.
da kind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of da kine.
darning mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darning mushrooms
Senses: glosses: A mushroom-shaped device to darn a sock on. The sock can be stretched over the top of the (curved) mushroom, and gathered tightly around the stalk.
deadweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadweights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dead weight.
declinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛklɪˈnɒmətə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: declinometers
Etymology: From decline + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring magnetic declination.
decubitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation caused by a reclined position of the body, especially the complications of bed-ridden patients, such as bedsores.
decubitis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A reclined position of the body.
Related terms: decubitum
deviation ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deviation ratios
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The ratio of maximum permitted frequency deviation, σₘₐₓ to the maximum permitted modulating frequency, fiₘₐₓ.
tragic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -ædʒɪk
Forms: form: more tragic
form: most tragic
form: tragick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Senses: examples: text: Her father's early death was tragic.
text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164:
synonyms: word: pitiful
word: rueful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Causing great sadness or suffering.
glosses: Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
examples: ref: 2008 February 14, “Search for tragic Madeleine McCann over”, in The Daily Telegraph, Australia:
ref: 2012 June 25, Gary Meneely, “Keano's tribute to tragic James”, in The Irish Sun:
glosses: Having been the victim of a tragedy.
raw_tags: in tabloid newspapers
examples: text: That dress is tragic.
text: He's pretty tragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.
glosses: Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.
Derived terms: tragic carpet
tragic flaw
tragic hero
tragic heroine
Related terms: tragicomic
tragical
tragically
tragic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -ædʒɪk
Forms: form: tragics
form: tragick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Senses: examples: text: Within the club itself, Crowe is regarded not only as a benefactor but as a fanatic -- a Rabbitohs tragic.
ref: 2011 March 31, James Macsmith, “General Russell Crowe and his Rabbitoh minions”, in Travel, CNN:
text: I'm a fan of rugby league. I'm a tragic of rugby league.
ref: 2013 March 13. Ricky Stuart, quoted in "Doping scandal is overwhelming league: Stuart"
text: Damian was/is a football tragic, the rest of us just like it to varying degrees.
ref: 2013 August 28, Kent Steedman, “The Knowledge: Rifled In”, in The Guardian:
text: 2015 March 29. Jermaine, Wharf Hotel website WE DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL - WE LOVE IT!
Footy's back and as I'm a footy tragic it means I'm one very happy man.
glosses: An obsessive fan, a superfan
glosses: A writer of tragedy.
glosses: A tragedy; a tragic drama.
revolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɒl.vɚ/
rhymes: -ɒlvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: revolvers
Etymology: From revolve + er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: wheelgun
smoke wagon
hypernyms: pistol[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] sense>
handgun
<
firearm
<
gun
<
ranged weapon
<
weapon
coordinate_terms: pistol[Appendix:Glossary#precise|precise]] sense>
rifle
glosses: A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
glosses: Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
examples: text: The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.
ref: 2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
synonyms: word: revolving line of credit
extra: a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money
glosses: Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
Derived terms: revolver flower
service revolver
snubnosed revolver
fester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: festers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English festre, festur, borrowed from Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fistula.
examples: text: The larger the Spider, the warmer the climate or season of the year, and the more susceptible the wounded individual, so much worse will the effects be; and it is no therefore no wonder that people who would have a fester from a simple prick with a needle, should feel more violent effects from the bite of a Spider.
ref: 1848, Samuel Maunder, “SPIDERS. (Arachnida.)”, in The Treasury of Natural History; or, A Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature: In which the Zoological Characteristics that Distinguish the Different Classes, Genera, and Species, are Combined with a Variety of Interesting Information Illustrative of the Habits, Instincts, and General Economy of the Animal Kingdom. To which are Added, a Syllabus of Practical Taxidermy, and a Glossarial Appendix. …, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 637, column 1:
text: While to the fingers and toes, which are frequently the seat of spontaneous festers, &c., irritation is kept up [if a hot poultice is applied], the skin is thickened, and rendered less liable to be permeated by matter; the heat is driven down the soft structures to the very bones and joints, and a portion of them may be lost in consequence.
ref: 1861, Benjamin Ridge, “Medical and Self Torture”, in Ourselves, Our Food, and Our Physic, London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 68:
text: He has been away so long and so often, there has been such mismanagement under a long minority, such changes and such misrule, such a hard hand and such a high hand, that the whole place is a fester.
ref: 1864 July, “The Rim. Part III.—Conclusion.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politcs, volume XIV, number LXXXI, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 135, Washington Street; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 68:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
glosses: The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
prizefighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prizefighters
Etymology: From prize + fighter or prizefight + -er (“person, agent”). See prizefight for sense development.
Senses: examples: text: “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
ref: 1977 December 16, Hilton Kramer, “Art: Requiem For a Heavyweight”, in The New York Times:
text: The Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, the Brooklyn gym that is the center of Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's wrenching documentary "On the Ropes," is much more than a neighborhood training facility for aspiring prizefighters.
ref: 1999 August 18, Stephen Holden, “FILM REVIEW; For Three Aspiring Prizefighters, the Prize Is Hope”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A professional boxer.
Related terms: word: prizefight
word: prizefighting
word: prizing
superorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superorders
Etymology: From super- + order.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category below subclass and above order.
cartoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹˈtuːn/
ipa: /kɑːˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: cartoons
Etymology: In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
examples: text: The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A drawing satirising current public figures.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist's preliminary sketch.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
examples: text: The children watched a funny cartoon on TV.
qualifier: animation
glosses: An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
examples: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
qualifier: animation
glosses: A cartoon series.
glosses: A diagram in a scientific concept.
Synonyms: sense: humorous drawing or strip
word: comic strip
sense: humorous drawing or strip
word: strip cartoon
sense: satire of public figures
word: caricature
sense: satire of public figures
word: political cartoon
sense: animated piece of film
word: animated cartoon
sense: animated piece of film
word: animation
Derived terms: animated cartoon
cartoon character
cartooner
cartoonery
cartoonesque
cartooney
cartoonish
cartoonist
cartoonistic
cartoonlike
cartoon physics
cartoony
editorial cartoon
pocket cartoon
political cartoon
Saturday-morning cartoon
spokestoon
strip cartoon
Related terms: cartoonist
comic book
funnies
funny pages
funny papers
strip cartoon
cartoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹˈtuːn/
ipa: /kɑːˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: cartoons
form: cartooning
form: cartooned
form: cartooned
Etymology: In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.
Senses: topics: art
arts
comics
literature
media
publishing
qualifier: animation
glosses: To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
topics: art
arts
glosses: To make a preliminary sketch.
no way Jose
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊ ˈweɪ həʊˌseɪ/
ipa: /- həʊˌzeɪ/
ipa: /noʊ ˈweɪ hoʊˌseɪ/
ipa: /- hoʊˌzeɪ/
Forms: form: no way José
form: no way, José
form: no way, Jose
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably invented for the rhyme. First attested in 1978.
Senses: glosses: No way; absolutely not.
Synonyms: I don't think so
never in a month of Sundays
not in a million years
not on your life
not on your nelly
when pigs fly
when Hell freezes over
toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toons
form: 'toon
Etymology: Abbreviation of cartoon.
Senses: examples: text: Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?
ref: 2005, Sara Bell, The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
examples: text: Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.
ref: 2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
examples: text: In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.
ref: 2025 June 25, Wikipedia:
glosses: An animated cartoon character.
Derived terms: toon shading
toon-shaded
toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toons
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).
Senses: examples: text: Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.
ref: 1973, Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick, Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:
glosses: A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
examples: text: After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.
ref: 1972, Roger G. Skolmen, Paintability of four woods in Hawaii, page 1:
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: Australian red cedar
sense: tree
word: tone
sense: tree
word: toona
sense: wood
word: toonwood
toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [tuːn]
Forms: form: toons
Etymology: Dialectal variant of town.
Senses: examples: text: Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.
ref: 1865, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2, page 244:
text: Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.
ref: 1881, B.C., “The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2, number 201:
text: It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.
ref: 2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A town.
Related terms: Toon
toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [tuːn]
Forms: form: toons
Senses: examples: text: But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?
ref: 1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556:
text: Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.
ref: 1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45:
text: “But toon up, and a song all round.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 39:
text: Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.
ref: 2013, Joseph Connolly, S.O.S., →ISBN:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of tune.
Derived terms: looney toon
loony toon
hangman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangmen
Etymology: From Middle English hangman, hongman, hangeman, equivalent to hang + -man.
Senses: examples: text: One cried, "God bless us!" and "Amen" the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
examples: text: I also asked some Royal Academicians to view it, viz. Northcote, Cosway, &c. who approved of it much: it is well composed, and beautifully coloured; but the hangmen at the Exhibition have not hung it in a conspicuous situation; it is placed in an ante-room, and pretty high […].
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 213:
glosses: Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.
topics: games
glosses: A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.
Derived terms: cheat the hangman
hangman paradox
hangman's fracture
hangmanship
hangman's jig
hangman's noose
hangman's wages
hangwoman
underhangman
Related terms: hangman's noose
hanging
no way, Jose
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no way Jose.