cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pressure-cooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure-cookers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pressure cooker.
interconnexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interconnexions
Etymology: From inter- + connexion.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of interconnection.
SSEES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
mythicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭth'ĭsīz
ipa: /ˈmɪθɪˌsaɪz/
Forms: form: mythicizes
form: mythicizing
form: mythicized
form: mythicized
Etymology: From mythic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make into a myth.
glosses: To interpret in terms of mythology.
Synonyms: mythify
Derived terms: mythicizer
giardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑɹdiə/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑːdɪə/
Forms: form: Giardia
Etymology: From the genus name Giardia.
Senses: examples: text: Some of those that have been found in swimming pools are viruses such as hepatitis A, bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can produce severe ear ache, and the parasite giardia, which can cause a nasty stomach upset.
ref: 1999 July 13, Jacqui Wise, “Murky waters”, in The Guardian:
text: As soon as the immune system has generated antibodies against one coat, giardia switches to another.
ref: 2008 December 16, Nicholas Wade, “A Coat of Many Proteins May Be This Parasite’s Downfall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: lamblia
glosses: The human intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Giardiasis, the disease caused by the parasite.
Derived terms: giardiasis
axiomatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: axiomatizes
form: axiomatizing
form: axiomatized
form: axiomatized
form: axiomatise
form: axiomize
Etymology: From axiomatic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: For toposes were invented by Grothendieck in the sixties for specific purposes in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. Later on, Lawvere and Tierney [11] axiomatized the notion of an elementary topos with the goal of providing an appropriate foundation for differential geometry.
ref: 1998, Jean-Pierre Marquis, “Book Review: Colin McLarty. Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes.”, in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, volume 39, number 3, page 441:
glosses: To establish a set of axioms that describe or govern certain phenomena
Derived terms: axiomatizability
axiomatizable
axiomatization
unaxiomatized
Related terms: axiom
axiomatic
axiomatic system
Babys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baby
deserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deserve
in the right
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I knew I was in the right about John being older than his wife, despite looking younger.
glosses: To be correct about what one says or thinks.
in the wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: See here what it says in the dictionary. So, you were in the wrong about the meaning of that word.
glosses: Incorrect; in error.
glosses: At fault, guilty.
'90s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While the clothes of the '80s were too flashy and fantastic for denim to gain much of a foothold in fashion, the ‘90s were ripe for a denim revival. The first wave of ‘90s fashion denim was dark and stiff, similar to the pristine denim of the '50s in all but its high price, which, for a pair of high-status jeans by a designer such as Helmut Lang, could be several hundred dollars.
ref: 2003, Nancy MacDonell Smith, The Classic Ten: the true story of the little black dress and nine other fashion favorites:
text: Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.
ref: 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 90s.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
Abaddons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abaddon
schnooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnook
speedcube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedcubes
Etymology: From speed + cube (to solve a Rubik's cube, verb).
Senses: glosses: A puzzle identical in form and function to a Rubik's Cube but often having a different internal mechanism, and designed for optimal speed of use.
speedcube
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speedcubes
form: speedcubing
form: speedcubed
form: speedcubed
Etymology: From speed + cube (to solve a Rubik's cube, verb).
Senses: examples: text: Then somebody, not much bigger than a tot, comes along and speedcubes it to perfection.
ref: 2005 July 27, Ray Marshall, “Squaring up to the Rubik challenge”, in Evening Register:
text: He said it took about eight hours for him to teach Will Smith how to speedcube, and, yes, "He really solves it in the movie."
ref: 2007 May 6, “Rubik's Cube challenges new generation”, in Orange County Register, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2009:
glosses: To engage in speedcubing, the sport of solving a Rubik's Cube at high speed
Related terms: speedcuber
speedcubing
speedcubes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speedcube
speedcubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedcube
speedcubing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * From Rubik's cube.
* speed + cubing
Senses: examples: text: There's a speedcubing tournament this weekend.
glosses: The activity of solving a Rubik's Cube as fast as possible
Related terms: speedcube
speedcuber
speedcubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: * From Rubik's cube.
* speed + cubing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speedcube
Rubik's Cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubik's Cubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Rubik's cube.
Rubik's cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubik's cube
speedcuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedcubers
Etymology: From speedcube + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Dan Harris, 22, is the fastest speedcuber in Britain, which means he can complete the Rubik's Cube in just over 10 seconds.
ref: 2007 October 4, Mike Peake, “Rubik's Cube: Quick-drawing sidewinder squares up for a cubic feat”, in Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A participant in the game of speedcubing, or solving a Rubik's cube as quickly as possible
speedcubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedcuber
Flieringa ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flieringa rings
form: Flieringa's ring
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stainless steel ring sutured to the sclera to support the globe during difficult eye operations.
womblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more womblike
form: most womblike
Etymology: From womb + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He drew a womblike shape in the sand.
glosses: Resembling a womb or uterus in shape or function
examples: text: Their infants were attracted to the womblike sound and warmth of the maternal heart.
ref: 1982, Charles W. Needham, The Principles of Cerebral Dominance, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Resembling an infant's experience of the womb
virtuosically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more virtuosically
form: most virtuosically
Etymology: From virtuosic + -ally.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the manner of a virtuoso; with virtuosity
Related terms: virtuosity
videophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videophile
unsummery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsummery
form: most unsummery
Etymology: From un- + summery.
Senses: examples: text: But it is very unsummery, and there is a howling wind.
ref: 1908, Maria Price LaTouche, Letters of a Noble Woman, page 120:
glosses: Not summery; unlike summer conditions
Related terms: wintry
autumnal
underperformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underperformers
Etymology: From underperform + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Any underperformer in this business is vulnerable as a takeover," Raiff said.
ref: 1986 June 24, Donna Stef Hansard, “Lord & Taylor Parent Firm Undecided About May Offer”, in Dallas News, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: Notable among them was the 41½-mile Manchester Piccadilly-Sheffield Victoria passenger service via Woodhead Tunnel (closed on January 5 1970). A financial underperformer since 1,500V DC electrification 16 years earlier, it was a line noted for its spectacular scenery but also for generating little revenue from intermediate stations.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was a risk”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: One who or that which underperforms, having performance that is below average or below expectations; often specifically a company or stock
Synonyms: underachiever
Related terms: underperformance
underperformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underperformer
videophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪd.i.əˌfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈvɪd.i.əʊˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: videophiles
Etymology: From video- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A connoisseur of video, particularly one who values high-definition and otherwise high-quality video
examples: text: We appreciate the response we have received from videophiles of the world who have made our games so popular.
ref: Atari advertisement, early 1980s, quoted in 2010, Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (page 280)
glosses: A fan of video games.
Related terms: arctophile
audiophile
bibliophile
conspirophile
museophile
vexillophile
videophilia
teeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tee
monetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monetisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of monetization.
Derived terms: demonetisation
remonetisation
monetisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monetisation
tenolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenolyses
Etymology: From teno- + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: I had to undergo flexor tenolysis on my hand.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure in which a tendon is separated from its sheath.
timbral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪm.brəl/
/ˈtæm.brəl/
Etymology: From timbre + -al.
Senses: examples: text: All trumpets have a timbral fingerprint […]
ref: 2006, Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the timbre of a sound.
Derived terms: monotimbral
multitimbral
polytimbral
timbrally
trypanosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trypanosome
unclimbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + climb + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Those cliffs are unclimbable.
text: The base of each [floodlight] tower forms an outdoor-type sub-station compound with a 7ft unclimbable fence which houses the extra high-voltage ring main switchgear, the transformer and the medium voltage switchgear.
ref: 1963 August, “The semi-automatic Tees Yard of the North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 123–124:
text: Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
ref: 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 118:
glosses: Not able to be climbed
Derived terms: unclimbability
personal trainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal trainers
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.
ref: 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:
glosses: Someone employed to help another with their fitness, especially by means of a personalised diet program and exercise regime.
Synonyms: sense: person employed to help with fitness
word: trainer
Related terms: personal training
railwaymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railwayman
re-enacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-enact
re-enacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-enact
re-enacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-enact
passagework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passageworks
Etymology: From passage + work.
Senses: examples: text: More octaves ensue, followed by chromatic passagework with filigree scales.
ref: 1987, Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ornamental passage in a musical work, often resembling a scale; or the performance of such a passage
potlatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potlatcher
reflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfleɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfleɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈfleɪt/
ipa: /ɹəˈfleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: reflates
form: reflating
form: reflated
form: reflated
Etymology: From re- + (in)flate, on the basis of deflate. Equivalent to Latin re- + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To reinflate, to inflate again.
examples: text: Bassetto […] shows that the central bank can disallow deflationary solutions by imposing negative nominal interest rates as a way to reflate the economy by creating arbitrage opportunities.
ref: 2020, Benigno, Pierpaolo, “A Central Bank Theory of Price Level Determination”, in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, volume 12, number 3, →DOI, page 261 of 258-283:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To restore the general level of prices to a previous or desirable level.
Synonyms: reinflate
Derived terms: reflation
reflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflate
reflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflate
reflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflate
revving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rev
glosses: present participle and gerund of revv
revving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revvings
Senses: examples: text: […] we finally arrived in El Obeid […] after doing the last sixty miles in third gear, with frequent revvings in neutral to keep the engine going.
ref: 1954, Anthony Mann, Where God Laughed: The Sudan Today, page 88:
glosses: The act by which an engine is revved.
glosses: A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.
regionalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionalism
potlatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potlatchers
Etymology: From potlatch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The potlatcher creates such obligations; he is making others render unto him in the future.
ref: 1965, Cyrus S. Belshaw, Traditional Exchange and Modern Markets, page 26:
glosses: One who holds a potlatch, a traditional giving-away ceremony among certain coastal peoples of the Pacific Northwest
reverberant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭvûrʹbərənt
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt/
enpr: rəvərʹbərənt
enpr: rēvərʹbərənt
ipa: /ɹəˈvɝbəɹənt/
ipa: /ɹiˈvɝbəɹənt/
Forms: form: more reverberant
form: most reverberant
Etymology: From Middle French reverberant (present participle of reverberer), or directly from Latin reverberāns (present participle of reverberō); compare French réverbérant, Italian riverberante, Portuguese reverberante, and Spanish reverberante.
Senses: examples: text: Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]
ref: 1597, John Bossewell, Works of Armorie: devided into 3 Bookes, intituled the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor and of lotes and creastes, page 42:
text: A Lion rampant regardant, the tail reverberant or beaten back, or reboundant, as having beaten it to his back, and it hath rebounded again from thence.
ref: 1688, Randle Holme, Academy of Armory:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.
raw_tags: of a lion’s tail
examples: text: His snoring was reverberant.
text: beneath the reverberant branches
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Tending to reverberate.
Derived terms: reverberantly
Related terms: reverberance
shootaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootarounds
form: shoot-around
Etymology: From shoot + around.
Senses: examples: text: The players came to the stadium for the morning shootaround.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An informal practice session
shootarounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shootaround
reseat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈsiːt/
Forms: form: reseats
form: reseating
form: reseated
form: reseated
Etymology: From re- + seat.
Senses: examples: text: We should reseat this cinema: the old seats are worn.
glosses: To provide (e.g. a room) with more, or new, seats.
examples: text: We have to reseat you, sir: this seat is reserved for the guest speaker.
glosses: To seat (someone) again, to give somebody a different seat.
examples: text: I reseated after standing up to applaud the prizewinner.
text: The justice watched his steady step and as he reseated, discovered that the girl was no longer among the spectators.
ref: 1904, “Over the Steins”, in The Harvard Illustrated Magazine, volume 6, page 107:
text: Startled at first, I rose from my seat to rush out, but suddenly remembering the evening and the occasion it occurred to me that my presence at that especial instant might not be desirable and I reseated.
ref: 1969, William Eleazar Barton, The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross:
text: Then she reseated at the table after refilling Kenner's cup as she gator-smiled.
ref: 2015, J.E. Corbine, Treasure Territory:
glosses: To sit down again.
examples: text: Try reseating your video adapter, and see if that fixes your computer's problems.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To plug (something) back into its socket.
examples: text: To ensure that there are no leaks, clean the surfaces before you reseat the valve.
text: In 1946, several of the heavy flagstones, which form the decking of the viaduct, were replaced or reseated, and manholes were provided in the decking, to facilitate access to the inner walls.
ref: 1949 May and June, “Notes and News: First Repairs in a Century”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fit (something, especially a valve) back into its place.
reseats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reseat
reseating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reseat
reseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reseat
rissole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪsəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɪsoʊl/
Forms: form: rissoles
Etymology: From French rissole. Australian slang noun, from phonetic similarity; Australian slang verb, euphemistic for arsehole (verb).
Senses: glosses: A ball of meat, some variants covered in pastry, which has been fried or barbecued.
glosses: An RSL club.
Related terms: meatball
mince
patty
rissole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪsəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɪsoʊl/
Forms: form: rissoles
form: rissoling
form: rissoled
form: rissoled
Etymology: From French rissole. Australian slang noun, from phonetic similarity; Australian slang verb, euphemistic for arsehole (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
ref: 1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To turn (meat) into a rissole or rissoles.
glosses: To reject or eject; to get rid of.
subrange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subranges
form: sub-range
Etymology: From sub- + range.
Senses: examples: text: His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska.
ref: 2008 December 16, Michael Brick, “At 85, More Peaks to Conquer and Adventures to Seek”, in New York Times:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A subdivision of a mountain range.
examples: text: We are concerned with the subrange of integers between a and b.
text: The program defines two subrange types.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A subset of a given range or numeric set.
rissoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rissole
subranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrange
ridded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rid
roadhog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadhogs
form: road hog
form: road-hog
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of road hog.
roadhogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadhog
Turing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɝɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtjʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtjɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
Etymology: (programming language): Named after Alan Turing.
Senses: glosses: A surname of Germanic origin.
glosses: Alan Turing (1912–1954), a British logician and early computer scientist.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language.
Derived terms: alternating Turing machine
nondeterministic Turing machine
Turing complete
Turing computable function
Turing degree
Turing equivalent
Turingery
Turing function
Turing instability
Turingismus
Turing jump
Turing machine
Turing pattern
Turing reduction
Turing switch
Turing tarpit
Turing test
turmite
universal Turing machine
rockeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockery
rondos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondo
Roquefort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roqueforts
form: roquefort
Etymology: From the name of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, a village in southern France where it originated.
Senses: glosses: A blue cheese made from sheep unpasteurized milk, produced in the south of France.
Related terms: Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
blue cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue cheese
stagflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagflation
notecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notecard
notecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnoʊt.kɑɹd/
Forms: form: notecards
form: note card
Etymology: From note + card.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: index card (often not differentiated)
text: Write your ideas down on notecards.
hypernyms: care#Noun
glosses: A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
Related terms: flashcard
flipcard
bafflectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bafflectomy
Bangladeshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bangladeshi
earthmovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthmover
duopolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duopoly
duologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duology
dutchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dutchman
durotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durotomy
eluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eluviation
certamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: faithful to Latin original
ipa: [kɛɹˈtɑːmɛn]
ipa: [kɚˈtɑmən]
Etymology: From Latin certāmen (“contest”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the semifinal round of Certamen, Latin for contest, the Junior Classical League's answer to “It's Academic.” Two teams of four-each sat across from a judge, and pressed buzzers that lighted up a bulb showing which team responded first.
ref: 1983 August 12, Susan Chira, Special To the New York Times, “A Roman Holiday Upstate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: There's the “certamen” or contest, similar, Mrs. Nicholls said, to a television quiz show. Students compete against other schools in mythology, history and trivia. Anyone can enter - all they have to know is some Latin.
ref: 1988 February 21, Tessa Melvin, “A Latin revival takes the stage at John Jay High School”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A team competition in which contestants answer questions about classical history, culture, and mythology, and the Latin language.
expressmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressman
groomsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groomsman
mishitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mishit
snubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnʌ.bɚ/
ipa: /ˈsnʌbə/
ipa: /ˈsnʊbə/
ipa: /ˈsnʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈsnʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snubbers
Etymology: From snub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ground teams have now begun instructing the primary mirror segments and secondary mirror to move from their stowed-for-launch configuration, off of snubbers that kept them snug and safe from rattling from vibration.
ref: 2022 January 12, Alise Fisher, “Webb Begins Its Months-Long Mirror Alignment”, in NASA Blogs:
glosses: A device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems.
glosses: One who snubs.
snubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snubber
dubstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbstɛp/
Etymology: From dub + 2-step garage.
Senses: examples: text: "Genres are so boring," said Scotsman Broon, one-half of the tech-house duo, as he scanned the cover of XLR8R magazine hyping "Dubstep" while shopping at Etherea record store.
ref: 2002 July 16, Tricia Romano, “Electro Trash”, in Village Voice:
text: ...of course, a lot of grime producers and dubstep producers freely admit to FL being their primary tool, and the software is increasingly being used...
ref: 2006, Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006:
text: ...reflect broader class strategies within English society, and the same can be said for more recent genre mutations such as dubstep and grime.
ref: 2007, Michael E Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae:
text: Acid house, hard-core, drum 'n' bass, UK garage, grime, and dubstep are just a handful of now worldwide underground movements that developed in this way.
ref: 2008, Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism:
text: But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A subgenre of electronic dance music descended from 2-step garage that was popular in the early 2010s, characterized by its dark mood, sparse half-step and two-step rhythms, and emphasis on sub-bass.
Hyponyms: brostep
color bass
deathstep
liquid dubstep
melodic dubstep
neurostep
riddim
tearout dubstep
UK dubstep
Derived terms: brostep
chillstep
drumstep
dubstepper
post-dubstep
prima donnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prima donna
primae donnae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a misunderstanding of prima donna as a Latin term rather than an Italian one.
Senses: glosses: plural of prima donna
newsfroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsfroup
piratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more piratically
form: most piratically
Etymology: From pirate + -ically; attested earlier than piratical; equivalent to piratical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...the mariners then navigating the said vessel upon the said voyage, maliciously, wilfully, feloniously, and piratically did make an assault...
ref: 1876, Great Britain Parliament, Parliamentary Papers:
glosses: In a piratical manner.
shoad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoads
form: shode
Etymology: From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded.
ref: 1915, Lionel Clive Ball, The Etheridge Mineral Field, page 37:
text: Eluvial wolfram was known from the Mount Carbine area 50 miles northwest from Cairns before 1895, but the black shoads were at first thought to be manganese (hence the name Manganese Creek for the little creek at the village).
ref: 1968, Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin - Issue 84, page 203:
text: Where the fynding of these affordeth a tempting likelihood, the tynners go to work casting up trenches before them, in depth 5 or 6 foote, more or lesse, as the loose ground went, and 3 or 4 in breadth, gathering up such shoad as this turning of the earth doth offer to their sight.
ref: 1978, Robert Hunt, A Historical Sketch of British Mining, page 63:
text: As mentioned above, many of the important tin streams are well away from any outcropping tin lodes, hence shoad, so Carew oversimplified his account.
ref: 1986, Roger David Penhallurick, Tin in Antiquity, page 164:
text: In search of alluvial shoad, the miners studied the landscape, the color and nature of earths, and embedded rocks beside streams and rivers.
ref: 2005, Warren Alexander Dym, Divining science, page 143:
text: Before developing a streamworks, the quality, depth and lateral extent of the shoad would have to be tested through strategically placed excavations.
ref: 2008, Peter C. Herring, Peter Rose, Nicholas Johnson, Bodmin Moor: An Archaeological Survey - Volume 2, page 31:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
shoad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoads
form: shoading
form: shoaded
form: shoaded
form: shode
Etymology: From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.
Senses: examples: text: In shoading it is necessary to distinguish between heavy and light ores, and between friable and hard materials.
ref: 1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 89:
text: It is manifest from the position of the neck that the great mass of material removed by denudation in forming the hollow in which it is seen exposed, must have been washed down the stream in question, and had diamonds occurred in that mass it is highly improbable that none should have been left in the bed and banks of the stream where their existence would certainly have been discovered by the old diamond seekers in former generations, who would have “shoaded” up the stream and have inevitably reached the neck.
ref: 1889, Records of the Geological Survey of India, page 41:
text: Until about 1875, the ancient methods of prospecting for a deposit whose presence was suspected from evidence such as the above were still in common use. they included shoading, trenching, and hushing.
ref: 1967, Charles Joseph Singer, A History of Technology - Volume 4, page 67:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
examples: text: Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate.
ref: 1941, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, page 307:
text: The discovery of davidite at Radium Hill was made in 1906, by Mr. A. J. Smith, who mistook the black shoaded mineral for tin ore.
ref: 1958, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Australian Atomic Energy Symposium, 1958, page 44:
text: Several outcrops were originally pegged in the hope that the shoaded black mineral would prove to be tin ore.
ref: 2013, Arthur John Gaskin, H. R. Samson, Ceramic and Refractory Clays of South Australia, page 7:
text: They are to be seen projecting in relief from the outcrops and shoaded on the surface.
ref: 1911, Sir Douglas Mawson, Walter Howchin, Chiastolites from Bimbowrie, South Australia, page 196:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To be distributed as shoads.
shode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊd
Forms: form: shodes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shoad.
shode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊd
Forms: form: shodes
form: shoding
form: shoded
form: shoded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shoad.
myletis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myelitis.
freemium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.miː.əm/
Etymology: Blend of free + premium
Senses: examples: text: When framing a business model within the consumer Internet space, we may hear about advertising-supported, freemium, subscription, or a hybrid model.
ref: 2008, Darren Herman, Coloring Outside the Lines:
text: Regarding premium services, both the "freemium" model (free basic service with a premium service offered on a subscription basis) and the free trial model...
ref: 2008, Scott Allen, The Emergence of the Relationship Economy:
text: Venture capitalist and blogger nonpareil Fred Wilson calls it the "freemium" business model: "Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers efficiently through word of mouth...
ref: 2008, Tom Hayes, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business:
glosses: Offering basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced or special features.
freemium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.miː.əm/
Forms: form: freemiums
Etymology: Blend of free + premium
Senses: examples: text: Most consumer-level cloud offerings would be labeled a freemium, which is a free version that is supported by a paid, premium version.
ref: 2010, Khaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Magued Iskander, Technological Developments in Networking, Education, and Automation, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A product that is offered free of charge and supported by sales of a premium version.
examples: text: So the only thing left would be using freemium as a means of gaining trial, with the potential to up-sell to a paid subscription.
ref: 2015, Robbie Kellman Baxter, The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: A business model that relies on offering a free version and charging for a premium version.
Synonyms: sense: business model
word: freeconomics
Zealandic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Zealand + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This "Danish" in fact reflected local dialects; a standard language did not yet exist. But a certain dominance of Zealandic forms is visible already in the late Middle Ages: the administrative, ecclesiastical and commercial center of Denmark lay on Zealand (Roskilde, Copenhagen), and a Zealandic chancery style (inspired by German and Latin syntax) was developing.
ref: 1993, Lars S. Vikør, The Nordic Languages: Their Status and Interrelations, page 44:
text: Here it seems natural to pay attention to some North-east Zealandic names ending in -rum, viz. Wigarum, AEsarum (and Niartherum ?).
ref: 2013, Gudmund Schutte, Our Forefathers - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 391:
text: ...the extent of the deflectional changes varies among the dialects, Jutish always having gone the furthest, Scanian always the most conservative, with Zealandic taking an intermediate position.
ref: 2009, Janet Duke, The development of gender as a grammatical category:
glosses: The dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea.
examples: text: In Zealandic Dutch ben- is the stem for the present tense for all persons except for 3SG (is).
ref: 1998, Philip Baker, Adrienne Bruyn, St. Kitts and the Atlantic Creoles, page 412:
text: Within Middle Dutch we can distinguish five large dialect groups: Flemish (including Zealandic), sometimes subdivided into West and East Flemish, was spoken in the modern region ofWest and East Flanders (Ghent, Bruges, Courtray); Brabantian was the language of the area covered by the modern Dutch province of North Brabant and the Belgian provinces of Brabant and Antwerp; Hollandic was mainly used in the present day provinces of North and South Holland and parts of Utrecht, while the people in Limburg (now a part of the Netherlands and Belgium) communicated in the Limburgish dialect.
ref: 2009, A. Th Bouwman, Bart Besamusca, Of Reynaert the Fox, →ISBN, page 257:
text: Zealandic has a southern lexicon and there is no trace of a partially southern lexicon in Afrikaans.
ref: 2012, Hans den Besten, Ton van der Wouden, Roots of Afrikaans: Selected Writings of Hans Den Besten, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Zeelandic, a language spoken in Zeeland, province of the Netherlands.
Zealandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zealandic
form: most Zealandic
Etymology: From Zealand + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time he was able — outside the Church— to captivate entirely different audiences by discovering and exploiting the kind of language they understood and the subjects that appealed to them: students, artisans and, at political meetings, sometimes sailors and sometimes Zealandic farmers.
ref: 1972, Kaj Thaning (David Hohnen, translater), N.F.S. Grundtvig, page 11:
text: But why had some Zealandic peasants suddenly become so involved in church discipline and more Gregorian than many Danish clerics of the time?
ref: 2002, Martin Schwarz Lausten, A Church History of Denmark, page 27:
text: Districts are mentioned in a royal charter from 1085 by which King Knud IV (r.1080–1086; later canonized) donated land in a number of Scanian and Zealandic districts to the cathedral chapter of Lund.
ref: 2016, Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt, The Danish Medieval Laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the Danish island of Zealand.
glosses: Pertaining to the central standard Danish dialect.
froups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of froup
froup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: froups
Etymology: Shortening of newsfroup.
Senses: glosses: A newsgroup.
cancellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancellable
form: most cancellable
Etymology: From cancel + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This commitment is not cancellable.
text: Originally a cab signal only, it had been modified to give a gradual brake application, cancellable by the driver.
ref: 1957 July 24, T. S. Lascelles, “British Signalling Developments since 1897”, in Railway Magazine, page 466:
glosses: Which can be cancelled.
Derived terms: uncancellable
puck bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puck bunny
schloopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃluːpi/
Forms: form: more schloopy
form: most schloopy
Etymology: From schloop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.
ref: 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories:
text: There was the schloopy sound of someone emerging from water.
ref: 2002, Jim Munroe, Everyone in Silico:
text: this one is too concept heavy and frankly crap - halle berry is almost as prominent as bond, the explosion behind them looks schloopy as if a lump of slime has made a splat and the ice makes it difficult to make out cars and so on.
ref: 2002, gonzo, “The real Final Poster now viewable”, in alt.fan.james-bond (Usenet):
glosses: Wet, gooey.
masked ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masked balls
Senses: glosses: A ball (formal dance) in which the dancers wear masks or fancy dress.
maca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.
Senses: examples: text: The overwhelming majority of maca roots are dried after harvest. In the cold, dry atmosphere of the puna the dried roots remain edible for several years. A minor proportion of the freshly harvested roots are roasted in huatias, earthen ovens […]
ref: 2009, M. Hermann, T. Bernet, The transition of maca from neglect to market prominence, page 18:
text: The gap between what the Internet promises and what it delivers is part of the reason that people[…] continue to turn to enhancers from caffeine to maca to virtual reality.
ref: 2007 March 18, G. Pascal Zachary, “Is the Key to Creativity in Your Pillbox, or in Your PC?”, in New York Times:
text: Dried macas are cooked in water or milk and used to prepare a kind of sweet and aromatic porridge, mazamorra. The small macas are preferred, since they are less fibrous.
ref: 2014, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, volume 9, page 802:
synonyms: Peruvian ginseng
glosses: Any of species Lepidium meyenii, an Andean medicinal herb, or an extract of the root of this plant.
bassline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsˌlaɪn/
homophone: baseline
Forms: form: basslines
Etymology: From bass + line.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The relatively low-pitched instrumental part of a piece of popular music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music genre, closely related to UK garage, that originated in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands in the early 2000s, having a four-on-the-floor rhythm and a strong emphasis on bass, with chopped-up vocal samples and a pop music aesthetic.
Derived terms: sub-bassline
basslines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsˌlaɪnz/
homophone: baselines
Senses: glosses: plural of bassline
Nazify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Nazifies
form: Nazifying
form: Nazified
form: Nazified
form: nazify
Etymology: From Nazi + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: It did more to de-nazify the Germans than to nazify the French.
ref: 1941, Abraham Wolf, Higher Education in German-occupied Countries:
text: The Ministry of Education expects the teachers of history to espouse National Socialism positively. Thus how to Nazify rather than whether to Nazify […]
ref: 1976, Howard Paul Becker, German Youth: Bond or Free:
glosses: To subject or convert to Nazism (National Socialism).
Derived terms: de-Nazify
Nazification
re-Nazify
Related terms: de-Nazification
de-Nazifier
National Socialist
re-Nazification
Nazification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazifications
Etymology: From Nazi + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of Nazifying.
Derived terms: denazification
de-Nazification
re-Nazification
Nazifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Nazify
Nazifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Nazify
Nazified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Nazify
non-convexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonconvexity.