cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fictitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: ficticious
form: fictious
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.
Senses: examples: text: Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces.
ref: 2015, Clifford Chafin, “The Absence of Stokes Drift in Waves”, in arXiv:
synonyms: imaginary
invented
contrived
fictive
glosses: Invented; contrived.
Derived terms: fictitious force
fictitiously
fictitiousness
unfictitious
Related terms: fictional
striptease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/
Forms: form: stripteases
Etymology: From strip + tease.
Senses: glosses: The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.
Synonyms: dance of the seven veils
fan dance
Derived terms: striptease bar
striptease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/
Forms: form: stripteases
form: stripteasing
form: stripteased
form: stripteased
Etymology: From strip + tease.
Senses: glosses: To perform a striptease.
Related terms: strip
stripper
detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛktə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: detectors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dētēctor. Equals detect + -or (agent noun forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.
glosses: A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
glosses: A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
glosses: A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.
Derived terms: autodetector
bat detector
biodetector
Canny edge detector
CO detector
cryodetector
currency detector
detector bar
detectorism
detectorist
detectorless
detector van
duct detector
electron capture detector
envelope detector
Everhart-Thornley detector
fluorodetector
geodetector
heat detector
junction detector
lie detector
lightning detector
lithium-drifted silicon detector
metal detector
microdetector
motion detector
multidetector
peak detector
photodetector
radar detector
radiodetector
sarcasm detector
smoke detector
subdetector
time detector
watchman's detector
watchman's time detector
window detector
headmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌmæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɛdˌmɑːstə/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: headmasters
Etymology: From head + master.
Senses: synonyms: principal
coordinate_terms: headmistress
headteacher
glosses: A male headteacher.
Derived terms: headmasterly
headmastership
enclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛŋkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑŋkleɪv/
rhymes: -ɛnkleɪv
rhymes: -ɛŋkleɪv
rhymes: -ɒnkleɪv
Forms: form: enclaves
Etymology: Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
Senses: examples: text: The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
text: The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
coordinate_terms: exclave#Noun
pene-enclave#Noun
pene-exclave#Noun
glosses: A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
examples: text: They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".
ref: 1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9:
text: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
text: Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore.
ref: 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
examples: text: When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
ref: 2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
Derived terms: counterenclave
disenclave
enclavism
enclavist
gay enclave
Related terms: conclave
enclave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛŋkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑŋkleɪv/
rhymes: -ɛnkleɪv
rhymes: -ɛŋkleɪv
rhymes: -ɒnkleɪv
Forms: form: enclaves
form: enclaving
form: enclaved
form: enclaved
Etymology: Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
Senses: glosses: To enclose within a foreign territory.
innocence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnəsn̩s/
Forms: form: innocences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English innocence, from Old French innocence, inocence, from Latin innocentia. Doublet of innocency. Displaced native Old English unsċyld.
Senses: examples: text: Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence.
synonyms: unguilt
antonyms: guilt
glosses: Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.
examples: text: In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs.
text: Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: naivety
glosses: Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
examples: text: Tests have demonstrated the innocence of this substance.
text: His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:
synonyms: harmlessness
antonyms: harmfulness
glosses: Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
glosses: Imbecility; mental deficiency.
Derived terms: lesser baby innocence
noninnocence
presumption of innocence
pseudoinnocence
Related terms: innocent
innocency
bonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: bonces
Etymology: Related to bonzer.
Senses: examples: text: Bonces, or very large stone marbles, made chiefly in Holland.
ref: c. 1837, The Book of Games; or, The Schoolboys' Manual of Amusement, Instruction and Health, page 33:
text: BONCE ABOUT is played with a big kind of marbles, called "bonces." The game does not require much skill. The first player puts down his bonce, and the second aims at it from a given distance. If he hits the bonce of the first player with his own, he wins a marble; if not, the first player aims at the bonce of the second, from the place where his own rests. Each time the bonces strike together, a marble is lost and won. […] The Dutch marbles of grey stone, sometimes stained with various colours, are the honest workable marbles for "shoot in the ring," and similar games.
ref: 1863, The Boy's Handy Book of Sports, Pastimes, Games and Amusements, Part I, page 22:
glosses: A large marble of grey stone used in various games, such as bonce about, bonce-eye, and French bonce.
examples: text: Bonce is played with very large marbles. One boy pitches his bonce, and another tries to strike it, each throwing by turns: if the bonce be struck, its owner pays a forfeit of one or more marbles, as agreed on.
ref: 1862, Young England, Volume 1, page 141:
synonyms: bonce about
glosses: A marble game played with bonces.
examples: text: Bonce (various), the head, called also "crust, chump." From bonce, a marble of larger size than ordinary, used by boys.
ref: 1889, Barrère and Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, page 158:
text: To see Nina herself Nick had to crane round the big white bonce of Norman Kent, who was as sensitive to music as he was to conservatives, and kept shifting in his seat.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: 2010, Skins, Season 4 Episode 8, "Everyone".
Cook: I don't think you know what I am, mate. ... I'm a fucking waste of space. I'm just a stupid kid. I got no sense. A criminal. I'm no fucking use, me. I am nothing. So, please... please... get it into, you know, into your bonce... that you killed my friend. And... I'm Cook. I'M COOK!
glosses: The human head.
New Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Men
form: new man
Senses: examples: text: When [Norman] Schwartzkopf shed a public tear for the Americans killed, wounded and captured in the 1990–91 Gulf War, he was roundly praised as a New Man.
ref: 1999, Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: A man who, rejecting sexist attitudes and traditional conceptions of masculinity, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine.
Derived terms: new lad
Related terms: word: New Woman
word: alta-male
word: novus homo
english: sensitive new age guy
translation: sensitive new age guy
word: snag
easternmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eastern + -most.
Senses: examples: text: Cyprus is currently the easternmost country in the European Union.
synonyms: eastmost
glosses: Farthest east.
Related terms: northernmost
southernmost
westernmost
northernmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ðənˌməʊst/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.ðɚnˌmoʊst/
Etymology: From northern + -most.
Senses: examples: text: Alaska is the northernmost American state.
text: Thailand’s northernmost province is the best place to see the famed (and infamous) Golden Triangle.
ref: 2017 July 30, Greg Jorgenson, “Thailand’s 77 provinces: 77 great places to go”, in CNN:
text: For those coming by rail from London and the South East, the only direct service each day (LNER's 'Highland Chieftain') takes approximately eight hours to reach the UK's northernmost city [Inverness].
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 47:
synonyms: word: northmost
word: northest
glosses: Farthest north.
Related terms: southernmost
westernmost
easternmost
southernmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From southern + -most.
Senses: examples: text: South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa.
text: Historically, the southernmost Scandinavian nation has tended to be Euroskeptic, Friis told CNN, never feeling European at heart.
ref: 2025 July 5, Sebastian Shukla, “Denmark has long been Euroskeptic. Donald Trump helped change that”, in CNN:
synonyms: southmost
glosses: Farthest south.
Related terms: northernmost
westernmost
easternmost
New World Order
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the New World Order
form: new world order
Etymology: Popularized by H. G. Wells in the book The New World Order in 1940.
Senses: examples: text: Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
glosses: A vision for the world in which greater peace and stability is achieved through a new political order.
examples: text: She [Urvashi Vaid] also called Supreme Court justices "unqualified, sexist henchmen of the new world order.
ref: 1992 May 8, John Zeh, Gay Community News, page 3:
synonyms: NWO
qualifier: conspiracy theories
glosses: A supposed planned rule of the world by a secret global elite.
Derived terms: Black New World Order
Jew World Order
Related terms: world order
new world order
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of New World Order.
westernmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From western + -most.
Senses: examples: text: Zeeland is the westernmost province of the Netherlands.
synonyms: westmost
glosses: Farthest west.
Related terms: northernmost
southernmost
easternmost
niche market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niche markets
Senses: glosses: A relatively small and specialist, yet profitable, market.
Derived terms: niche marketing
niche marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The finding and exploitation of niche markets.
restoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛstəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: restorations
form: restauration
Etymology: From Middle English restoracion, altered from restauracion (from Latin restaurātiō) by partly deriving from restoren + -acion. By surface analysis, restore + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: foreskin restoration
text: The restoration of this painting will take years.
text: The restoration of this medieval church involved undoing all the Victorian modifications.
text: There is all the difference between preservation and restoration.
ref: 1921, T.S. Eliot, “The Possibility of a Poetic Drama”, in The Sacred Wood:
text: As Sir Ronald Matthews said at the meeting of L.N.E.R. stockholders earlier this year, the public must realise "the inevitability of a certain amount of gradualness" in connection with the restoration of passenger train services and facilities.
ref: 1945 July and August, “Victory in Europe”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
text: Providing accommodation is a significant constraint, and an unexpected development from the restoration of services to Okehampton is demand from the Exeter student population to rent local properties.
ref: 2024 August 21, 'Industry Insider', “The value of rail reopenings”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 68:
synonyms: restitution
glosses: The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
examples: text: These restorations were especially impressive and were reported in a leading prosthodontics journal.
glosses: The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
examples: text: The restoration of the House of Stuart took place a few years after the death of Cromwell.
text: The restoration of the Kingdom of Spain took place immediately after the death of Franco.
text: Behold the differing Climes agree, / Rejoycing in thy Reſtauration.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:
text: But now here we are, faced with the prospect of a Trump restoration.
ref: 2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
examples: text: The restoration of capitalism in Russia gave rise to unemployment.
text: The restoration of capitalism in Eastern Europe made way for improvement in human rights.
glosses: The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
Derived terms: antirestoration
counterrestoration
ecorestoration
identity restoration
ID restoration
immunorestoration
invisible restoration
misrestoration
museum restoration
neurorestoration
overrestoration
prerestoration
restorational
restoration creationism
restoration ecology
restorationism
restorationist
ruin-restoration creationism
Related terms: restorable
restorative
restore
no-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In which aircraft are forbidden to fly.
raw_tags: of airspace
glosses: Who are forbidden to board an aircraft.
raw_tags: of people
Derived terms: no-fly list
no-fly zone
Related terms: no go
malice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măl'ĭs
ipa: /ˈmælɪs/
rhymes: -ælɪs
Forms: form: malices
Etymology: From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
ref: 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
examples: text: The question that would have been before the jury was whether Fox committed “actual malice” in airing the claims. That required Dominion to show whether key decision makers were aware the claims were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
ref: 2023 April 18, Sam Levine, Kira Lerner, “Fox and Dominion settle for US$787.5m in defamation lawsuit over election lies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
Synonyms: sense: intention to harm
word: evilness
sense: intention to harm
word: ill will
sense: intention to harm
word: wickedness
Derived terms: actual malice
constructive malice
malice aforethought
maliceful
malice in fact
malice in law
maliceless
malice murder
malice prepense
malicious
mute of malice
Related terms: malady
malice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măl'ĭs
ipa: /ˈmælɪs/
rhymes: -ælɪs
Forms: form: malices
form: malicing
form: maliced
form: maliced
Etymology: From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence.
ref: 1557, Henry Howard, “Complaint of a lover that defied Love and was by Love after the more tormented”, in Songes and Sonettes:
text: Who on the other ſide did ſeeme ſo farre / From malicing, or grudging his good houre, / That, all he could, he graced him with her, / Ne euer ſhewed ſigne of rancour or of iarre.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 477:
text: His paines, his pouertie, his ſharpe aſſayes, / Through which he paſt his miſerable dayes, / Offending none, and doing good to all, / Yet being maliſt both of great and ſmall.
ref: 1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32:
text: I am so far from malicing their states, / That I begin to pity 'em.
ref: 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 5, scene 2:
text: A feeble spirited king that governed, / Who ill could guide the sceptre he did use; / His enemies, that his worth maliced, / Who both the land and him did much abuse: / The peoples love; and his apparent right, May seem sufficient motives to incite.
ref: 1609, Samuel Daniel, The History of the Civil Wars, book 5, verse 48:
text: Here's a list of side effects / Practice tested / Covering every maliced angle / For example: / You will sleep forever / You will never sleep again
ref: 1995, Fugazi, “Fell, Destroyed”, in Red Medicine, performed by Guy Picciotto:
text: Robert Truswell may have been a belligerent and malicing man, a jury heard this morning during the trial of George Kieran Daunt.
ref: 2005 May 3, “'He was a mess,' woman says of accused”, in The Whitehorse Star:
text: I haven't maliced anybody, definitely not. I never used to have friends like that. I had a few who I thought were friends. Even if you have friends, things happen and friendship break up, but you move on. But I still talk to everybody.
ref: 2018 May 14, Kimberley Small, quoting Marion Hall, “Dancehall was contentious, says Marion Hall”, in The Jamaica Star:
glosses: To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.
Synonyms: word: envy
word: grudge
word: spite
no-fly zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-fly zones
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Zelensky said he had asked Mr. Scholz and Mr. Macron to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
ref: 2022 March 4, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, “Washington’s Newest Worry: The Dangers of Cornering Putin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: NFZ
glosses: An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.
Related terms: exclusion zone
no-go area
okta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktə/
Forms: form: oktas
form: okta
form: octa
Etymology: From octa-.
Senses: examples: text: ...64% of the low- and 50% of the high-cloud amount differences were within ± 1 okta, although many of these successes (71% in the low-cloud amount) were for cases of totally clear or totally cloudy skies.
ref: 1960, American Meteorological Society, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, American Meteorological Society, Page 480
text: ‘Fog is traditional for the season and cloud is anticipated at six to seven oktas, sir.’
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 426:
text: Mean cloud amount distributions are transformed to normal distributions. The accuracy of the method is indicated by the retrieval of the original distribution with a typical error of 14% in the frequency of each okta of cloud amount.
ref: 1985, University of East Anglia, Geo Abstracts, University of East Anglia, Page 29
text: For example, it has been estimated that a Landsat satellite, which revisits a particular location once every 16 days, will obtain a cloud-free scene of a particular location in Britain only once per year, and a scene with 1 okta of cloud (an okta is one eighth of the sky obscured by cloud) only twice per year.
ref: 2001, W.G. Rees, Physical Principles of Remote Sensing - Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, Page 100
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
infinitesimal calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Differential calculus and integral calculus considered together as a single subject.
Synonyms: calculus
no-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not functioning properly.
examples: text: They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.
text: The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.
text: Many of these areas have become no go for investment
ref: 2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK:
text: The key resisting areas have effectively become no go
ref: 2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent:
text: Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become "no-go" through being frequented by the gang.
ref: 2010 July 2, “Jail for drug network that supplied the Swansea Valley”, in BBC News:
text: The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Not to be entered.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: no-go gauge
text: This bore is no good: the no-go pin is flying right into the first half of it.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: That should not go (i.e., enter or engage) if the size of the part being measured is properly achieved.
raw_tags: of a gauge
no-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-gos
form: no-goes
Senses: examples: text: There's your problem right there. See how that no-go slips right into the hole? The whole thing is scrap, unfortunately.
topics: business
manufacturing
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: A no-go gauge.
glosses: Alternative form of no go.
Related terms: no dice
no-go pill
leat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /liːt/
Forms: form: leats
form: leet
Etymology: Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ġelǣte (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæterġelǣt (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *lētą, *galētą (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gilāz (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.
Senses: examples: text: His paws rested on a sunken branch. The water moved down, clouded with the mud-stirrings of the leat. He lay so still that the trout returned to their stances beside the stone sterlings.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
Derived terms: leatwright
mill-leat
I don't think
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ dəʊnt θɪŋk/
ipa: /aː doʊnt θɪŋk/
Senses: examples: text: There are lots of good things to watch on the telly tonight - I don't think!
glosses: used after a statement to indicate an emphatic or ironic negative
Synonyms: word: bender
word: not
word: over the left
word: over the left shoulder
not-for-profit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From not + for-profit.
Senses: examples: text: For-profit capitalism has created social and economic inequality; successful not-for-profit businesses including Mozilla and the Big Issue point to an alternative path[.]
ref: 2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Formerly ^([sic – meaning Formally]) known as the Rail Safety and Standards Board, the not-for-profit organisation's remit includes managing and developing Railway Group Standards on behalf of the rail industry, leading the development of long-term safety strategy, and supporting cross-industry groups that address major areas of safety risk.
ref: 2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: Providing goods or services, but not for the purpose of making a profit.
raw_tags: of a company or organization
Synonyms: non-profit
non-profit-making
not-for-profit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: not-for-profits
Etymology: From not + for-profit.
Senses: synonyms: NFP
NFPO
coordinate_terms: NPO
glosses: A not-for-profit company or organization.
central nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central nervous systems
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: neuraxis (sometimes synonymous)
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: CNS
cerebrospinal axis
systema nervosum centrale
glosses: In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.
Synonyms: word: central nervous system
Meronyms: word: brain
word: spinal cord
word: white matter
word: gray matter
Related terms: autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
October surprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: October surprises
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An occurrence that unexpectedly comes to public attention just prior to a November election, especially a presidential election, and that is likely to affect the outcome.
derived function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derived functions
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function, another function, the value of which for any value of the independent variable is the instantaneous rate of change of the given function at that value of the independent variable.
Synonyms: derivative
Of-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the first syllable of office.
Senses: glosses: A regulatory body for a specified industry.
Derived terms: Ofcom
Ofgas
Ofgem
Oflot
Ofrail
Ofsted
Oftel
Ofwat
studious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːdi.əs/
ipa: /ˈstjuːdi.əs/
rhymes: -uːdiəs
Forms: form: more studious
form: most studious
Etymology: From Latin studiōsus. First recorded in English c. 1350.
Senses: glosses: Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
examples: text: a studious scholar
glosses: Dedicated to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books
examples: text: be studious to please
text: She is studious to find new friends and allies
qualifier: usually followed by an infinitive or by "of"
glosses: Earnest in endeavors; attentive; diligent
glosses: Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
examples: text: the studious shade
glosses: Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation
Derived terms: studiously
Related terms: bookish
OMOV
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one man, one vote.
glosses: Initialism of one member, one vote.
OMOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Omo virus, a strain of the Qalyub virus.
open system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open systems
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system allowing hardware and software from different manufacturers to be used together seamlessly.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A system that can exchange both matter and energy with its surroundings.
opto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós, “of seeing”).
Senses: glosses: optical
opt-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opt + out.
Senses: examples: text: With opt-out forms, take care to uncheck all unwanted selections.
glosses: Requiring a person or organization to choose explicitly to avoid or forbid something; tending to include by default; used particularly with regard to mailing lists and advertising.
opt-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opt-outs
Etymology: From opt + out.
Senses: examples: text: It [Greenpeace] also says that tax exemptions should be phased out for airlines, including the opt-outs that low-cost carriers currently have from paying VAT or fuel duty on kerosene.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:
glosses: The act of opting out of something.
glosses: A school or hospital that has withdrawn from local control.
examples: text: National television channels (descendant network) with regional or local slots or opt-outs: […]
ref: 1995, Pierre Musso, Philippe Souêtre, Lionel Levasseur, The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe:
text: There is no limitation to the number of regional and local opt-outs that France 3 can operate; nor are there any guidelines in the channel's remit as to the length and content of such news programmes.
ref: 2003, Michael Scriven, Emily Roberts, Group Identities on French and British Television, page 27:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A regional broadcast that other stations in the network may elect not to include.
Related terms: opt out
arithmetic progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic progressions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: arithmetic sequence
coordinate_terms: geometric progression
glosses: A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by adding a constant value, known as the common difference of the arithmetic progression.
Orimulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally a trade name, from Orinoco and emulsion.
Senses: glosses: An emulsion of bitumen in water, used as an industrial fuel.
wikipedia: Orinoco
emulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emulsions
Etymology: Borrowed from French émulsion, from New Latin ēmulsiō, ēmulsiōnis, based on Latin ēmulgeō (“I milk out, extract”).
Senses: examples: text: Mayonnaise is an emulsion where egg is used to keep oil and water mixed.
text: When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.
ref: 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:
glosses: A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
Derived terms: asphalt emulsion
double emulsion
emulsify
emulsionize
emulsion paint
emulsion polymerization
emulsoid
macroemulsion
microemulsion
nanoemulsion
nonemulsion
photoemulsion
photographic emulsion
solid emulsion
Related terms: emulsifier
emulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emulsions
form: emulsioning
form: emulsioned
form: emulsioned
Etymology: Borrowed from French émulsion, from New Latin ēmulsiō, ēmulsiōnis, based on Latin ēmulgeō (“I milk out, extract”).
Senses: glosses: To paint with emulsion paint.
orzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːzəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔːtsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹzoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹtsoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian orzo (“barley”), from Latin hordeum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”). Doublet of orgeat and horchata.
Senses: synonyms: risoni
glosses: A form of pasta the size and shape of grains of rice or barley; often used in soups.
outplacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outplacements
Etymology: From out- + placement.
Senses: glosses: the process of helping to find new employment for redundant workers, especially executives
plus-minus sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plus-minus signs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the symbol ±, meaning "plus or minus", used to indicate the precision of an approximation (as in "The result is 10 ± 0.3", meaning the result is anywhere in the inclusive range from 9.7 to 10.3), or as a convenient shorthand for a quantity with two possible values of opposing sign and identical magnitude (as in "The roots of the equation x²-4=0 are ±2").
Related terms: minus-plus sign
colloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlɔɪd/
Forms: form: more colloid
form: most colloid
Etymology: From French colloïde, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -oid. Doublet of collage, collagen, and protocol.
Senses: examples: text: colloid tumours
glosses: Glue-like; gelatinous.
colloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlɔɪd/
Forms: form: colloids
Etymology: From French colloïde, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -oid. Doublet of collage, collagen, and protocol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
Derived terms: biocolloid
colloidal
colloidize
colloidochemical
colloidosome
emulsoid
eucolloid
hydrocolloid
isocolloid
nanocolloid
noncolloid
phycocolloid
radiocolloid
saccharocolloid
supracolloid
Related terms: solid sol solid in solid
sol solid in liquid
aerosol solid
liquid in gas
gel liquid in solid
emulsion liquid in liquid
foam gas in liquid
solid
aerogel gas in solid
minus-plus sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minus-plus signs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the symbol ∓, meaning "minus or plus", used alongside the plus-minus sign to show that a negative value is to be taken where the positive value is indicated by the plus-minus sign, and vice versa (as in (x ± 1) / (x ∓ 2), which means (x + 1) / (x - 2) and (x - 1) / (x + 2).
Related terms: plus-minus sign
cuneate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuneate
form: most cuneate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cuneātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: wedge-shaped.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.
Derived terms: cuneately
grandiloquently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grandiloquently
form: most grandiloquently
Etymology: From grandiloquent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: showing grandiloquence
Related terms: grandiloquence
grandiloquent
impairment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛəmənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛɹmənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeːmənt/
Forms: form: impairments
form: empairment
Etymology: From Middle English empeirement, empeyrement, emparement, from Anglo-Norman empairement, emperement, enpeirement, from Old French ampirement, anpirement, enperement, equivalent to impair + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The result of being impaired.
examples: text: We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: A deterioration or weakening.
examples: text: visual impairment
glosses: A disability or handicap.
glosses: An inefficient part or factor.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A downward revaluation, a write-down.
Derived terms: amnestic mild cognitive impairment
nonimpairment
preimpairment
specific language impairment
ligule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligules
Etymology: From Latin ligula.
Senses: glosses: A strap-shaped structure.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.
Derived terms: liguleless
brawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːn/
ipa: /bɹɔn/
ipa: /bɹɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: brawns
Etymology: From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, accusative form of *brādō (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), of uncertain further origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“to burn, heat”).
Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English brǣde, brǣd (“flesh, meat”), Old Norse bráð (“raw meat”).
Senses: glosses: Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
examples: text: The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.
text: The man was a bruiser, the sort who'd learned his science in tavern brawls. Given his size and lack of agility, he relied on his brawn to win. In any wrestling match, Crowley would triumph easily.
ref: 2000, Stephanie Laurens, A Secret Love, Avon Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 349:
text: The two men were husky, picked for their brawn by the little man who sauntered into the room.
ref: 2008, Michael Mandaville, Stealing Thunder, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 562:
text: The youth agreed to the scheme and used his brawn to begin moving pieces into place, starting by moving the planet Rann into the Thanagarian star system […]
ref: 2010, Martin Pasko, Robert Greenberger, The Essential Superman Encyclopedia, Del Ray, published 2010, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: Physical strength; muscularity.
examples: text: Now if your Majesty would have our bristles
To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons
With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,
In policy—ask else your royal Solons—
You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,
And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
text: It was brawn and shape for high tea.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 111:
glosses: Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
examples: text: And loud as brawns wer [they] snoring,
ref: 1821, John Stagg, The Cumbrian Minstrel: Being a Poetical Miscellany:
text: THE village of Brancepath, pleasantly situated at the distance of four miles and three- quarters south-west by west of Durham, is said to have derived its name (a corruption of Brawn's-path) from a brawn of vast size, [...]
ref: 1842, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History:
glosses: A boar.
Derived terms: brawny
Related terms: aspic
brawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːn/
ipa: /bɹɔn/
ipa: /bɹɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: brawns
form: brawning
form: brawned
form: brawned
Etymology: From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, accusative form of *brādō (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), of uncertain further origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“to burn, heat”).
Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English brǣde, brǣd (“flesh, meat”), Old Norse bráð (“raw meat”).
Senses: glosses: Make fat, especially of a boar.
glosses: Become fat, especially of a boar.
Derived terms: brawner
-rama
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: A libfix, a modification of -orama, influenced by diorama and panorama, and thus indirectly derived from Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “sight, spectacle”).
Senses: examples: camera → camerarama or
future → futurama (formed by eliding the e and merging the two rs into one)
glosses: Alteration of -orama, used in suffixing a word ending with an r or vowel sound.
Derived terms: Cinerama
futurama
Glamarama
as a nickname for Tamarama Beach
in NSW
Australia
Dollarama
rifferama
music characterized by heavy riffing
voterama
vote-a-rama
a kind of voting session in the US Senate
a voting registration event
petiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛti.əʊl/
ipa: /ˈpɛti.oʊl/
Forms: form: petioles
Etymology: Borrowed from French pétiole, and its source, Late Latin petiolus (“little foot”), diminutive form of Latin pēs (“foot”).
Senses: examples: text: Most insects consume tissue from the leaf blade were measured just past the twist on the side away only, leaving the leaf petioles unscathed.
ref: 1978, Harry T. Valentine, Estimating Defoliation of Hardwoods Using Blade-petiole Relations, Forest Service Research Paper NE 405, US Department of Agriculture, page 1:
text: By contrast, the petioles of large pinnate leaves, as well as stems, typically resist torsion by placing stiff materials with high elastic moduli (like sclerenchyma) toward the perimeters of their cross sections.
ref: 1992, Karl J. Niklas, Plant Biomechanics, University of Chicago Press, page 167:
text: An example of this is leaf petioles. Some species of trees have pinnate leaves which, when the leaves fall, shed pinnae from the petiole, which is then left as a tapering, somewhat flexible rod.
ref: 2000, Mike Hansell, Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, page 116:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pedicel
glosses: The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pedicel
qualifier: insect anatomy
glosses: A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
Derived terms: petiolar
petiolary
petiolated
petioled
petiolule
postpetiole
pseudopetiole
desport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: desports
form: desporting
form: desported
form: desported
Etymology: From Middle English disporten, from Anglo-Norman and Old French desporter, deporter (“to take pleasure”).
Senses: glosses: To disport.
glosses: To amuse oneself; to make a public display of oneself.
-orama
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -o-rama
form: -rama
Etymology: Back-formation from panorama and cyclorama (which are modern coinages, not Greek words), and thus from Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “sight”, “spectacle”), in turn evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *wer-, meaning to perceive or look out for.
Senses: glosses: Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.
Related terms: cyclorama
diorama
panorama