cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inimitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɪmɪtəbl̩/
Forms: form: more inimitable
form: most inimitable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inimitable, from Latin inimitabilis, corresponding to in- + imitable.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, a perfect Medal has its Profile and out-ſtroaks ſharp (Nummus aſper) and by no means rugged; the Figures clean and well poliſh'd; the Contours neatly trimm'd, and exactly round and carefully preſerv'd; that the Extancy and Relievos correſpond with the Ingraving, and have not ſuffer'd in Percuſſion; in all which, there is a certain Spirit of Antiquity and Excellency to be diſcern'd in Antient Medals almoſt inimitable.
ref: 1697, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Instructions How to Collect, and Procure such Medals as are Antique, and Rare; and to Distinguish the True from the False, for the Prevention of Frauds and Impostures”, in Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity. He had indeed that nice-Nelliness which is often characteristic of the Don Juan type.
ref: 1947, Miriam Allen deFord, “Laureate of Bohemia: George Sterlin”, in They Were San Franciscans, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., page 306:
text: Let's see you pay for your drink in your own inimitable fashion, huh? A song, Denton! How about it?
ref: 1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (1:34 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Dan Hotaling (Martin Landau):
antonyms: imitable
commonplace
glosses: Beyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.
Synonyms: word: incopiable
word: inimitable
word: uncopiable
word: unimitable
Derived terms: inimitability
inimitableness
inimitably
Related terms: illimitable
RTÉ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: RTE
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish RTÉ.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Raidió Telefís Éireann (literally “Irish Television and Radio”).
Related terms: Aertel
RTE1
RTE2
TG4
munchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchies
Etymology: From munch + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Another homemade mix treat that any youngster will love—a big jar filled with Country-style Granola. It can be eaten as a “munchie” or a cereal, or used in a recipe for cookies or apple crisp.
ref: 1978, Elise W. Manning, “To Cheer a Sick Friend”, in Farm Journal’s Friendly Food Gifts From Your Kitchen, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 38:
text: As the handler returns to his dog, have him raise his arm with a delicious munchie visible in his hand, so that the dog gets in the habit of looking up.
ref: 1984, Barbra Goodman, Pauline Czarnecki, Training Dogs with Common Sense, Galesburg, Ill.: H and S Publications, Inc., →LCCN, page 47:
text: This will gratify your longing for a tasty munchie.
ref: 1993, Jean Paré, Light Recipes (Company’s Coming), Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, published 1995, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Crunchers eat munchies. On one side of the river there are three munchies and three crunchers. All six have to cross the river. There is only one boat and it has room for two only. At no time must two crunchers be left with one munchie or the munchie gets eaten.
ref: 1998, Keith Twining, “Cognitive Psychology: How Do We Think?”, in Success in Psychology, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 205:
text: We “graze,” moving from one munchie to the next, stopping to chat when we come upon a fellow grazer.
ref: 2002, Terry Thompson-Anderson, Texas on the Plate, Fredericksburg, Tex.: Shearer Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:
text: If it’s true that you have to hit rock bottom before you can begin to climb back up again, then the nadir of my self-inflicted dining misadventures came about in the small hours of one munchie-ridden night.
ref: 2005, David Bennun, “Lost in the supermarket”, in British as a Second Language: Travels Among the English, London: Ebury Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Creamcheese can be substituted for Brie for an equally tasty munchie.
ref: 2006, More Good Thymes in the Kitchen: An Expanded Collection of Recipes from The Thyme Garden, Alsea, Ore.: The Thyme Garden Herb Company, page 30:
text: Eaten alone as a munchie, added to tonic teas, or in tincture, all these sweet berries are superb.
ref: 2022, Rachel Lord, “The Hepato-Biliary System”, in Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier, →ISBN, part IV (Case Histories: Therapeutics and Formulations), page 304, column 2:
related: word: munchy
glosses: A snack.
Derived terms: munchie box
munchies
munchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchies
Etymology: An anglicisation of Irish muintir na hAite (literally “people of the place”).
Senses: glosses: A person who lives in a Gaeltacht area of Ireland.
munchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchies
Senses: glosses: A person who exhibits Münchausen syndrome; a person who feigns a disorder.
Related terms: fakeclaim
patellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɛl.ɚ/
ipa: /pəˈtɛl.ə/
Etymology: From patella + -ar.
Senses: glosses: near or relating to the patella or kneecap
Derived terms: condylopatellar
femoropatellar
genitopatellar
infrapatellar
intrapatellar
mediopatellar
parapatellar
patellar ligament
patellar reflex
patellar tendinitis
peripatellar
postpatellar
prepatellar
retropatellar
subpatellar
suprapatellar
Clifford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪfəɹd/
Etymology: From Old English clif (“cliff”) + ford (“ford”), a dweller at the ford by the steep bank.
Senses: examples: text: Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland, / Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.
ref: ,Scene II
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO2445).
glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4244).
glosses: A community in the town of Minto, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Flat Rock Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Butler County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Burlington Township, Lapeer County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Polk County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Traill County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Amherst County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the towns of Somo, Lincoln County, Lynne, Oneida County and Knox, Price County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A rural locality in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Clifford algebra
Clifford module
Clifford semigroup
Related terms: Cliff
dee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: diz
form: deein
form: dyun
form: dyun
form: de
Etymology: Variant of do.
Senses: examples: text: What are ye deein man!
glosses: To do.
dee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: dees
form: de
Senses: examples: text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
text: IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
ref: 2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
examples: text: the pommel is furnished with dees.
glosses: Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
examples: text: the dees are about.
text: The second day he was beaten up by the cops / For telling a dee his house was not in order […].
ref: 1966, James K. Baxter, The Maori Jesus:
text: Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper
ref: 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:
glosses: A police detective.
Derived terms: deejay
ecks dee
Related terms: Tweedle-dee
whoop-dee-do
whoop-dee-doo
whoop dee doo
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
kneejerk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kneejerk
form: most kneejerk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knee-jerk.
kneejerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneejerks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knee-jerk.
ed.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: The Mighty Thor (ed. Fagles)
glosses: Abbreviation of edited or edited by.
glosses: Abbreviation of educated.
ed.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edd.
Senses: examples: phys ed
glosses: Abbreviation of education.
examples: Encyclopaedia Freedonica, 9th ed.
glosses: Abbreviation of edition.
examples: text: Bob Bobson, ed.
qualifier: plural eds.
glosses: Abbreviation of editor.
Derived terms: B.Ed.
EdB
D.Ed.
EdD
EdS
gen. ed.
M.Ed.
EdM
phys ed
phy ed
Related terms: english: Editor; titular
translation: Editor; titular
word: Ed.
word: e.d.l.
bordello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔː(ɹ)ˈdɛləʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: bordellos
form: bordelloes
Etymology: From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel.
Senses: examples: text: “You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
glosses: A brothel.
hilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ləs/
Forms: form: hili
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hīlus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hilum.
barbarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/
Forms: form: more barbarous
form: most barbarous
form: barbarouse
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Senses: examples: text: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
ref: 1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:
text: The original Turkish tongue was somewhat barbarous, but extremely forcible and concise when spoken.
ref: 1880, Charles Wells, “Introduction to the second edition”, in James Redhouse, Redhouse's Turkish Dictionary, page vii:
glosses: Not classical or pure.
raw_tags: said of language
examples: text: [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
ref: 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called in Latin Irio”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:
text: It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
text: I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: Uncivilized, uncultured.
examples: text: Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
examples: text: I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs / By the known rules of antient libertie, / When strait a barbarous noise environs me / Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs
ref: 1673, John Milton, I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs:
glosses: Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Derived terms: barbarously
barbarousness
hyperbarbarous
nonbarbarous
semibarbarous
unbarbarous
Related terms: barbarian
barbaric
euphemistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphemistic
form: most euphemistic
Etymology: From euphemism + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14:
antonyms: uneuphemistic
glosses: Of or pertaining to euphemism.
Derived terms: euphemistically
uneuphemistic
solicitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪsɪtɚ/
ipa: /səˈlɪsɪtə/
ipa: /səˈlɪstə/
Forms: form: solicitors
form: solicitour
Etymology: From Middle French soliciteur. By surface analysis, solicit + -or.
Senses: examples: text: “I beg, Mr Allworthy,” answered Sophia, “you will not insist on my reasons;—[…] Your nephew, sir, hath many virtues—he hath great virtues, Mr Allworthy. I question not but he will do you honour in the world, and make you happy.”—“I wish I could make him so, madam,” replied Allworthy; “but that I am convinced is only in your power. It is that conviction which hath made me so earnest a solicitor in his favour.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
text: […] sex workers are regarded as born to be punished; the solicitors of their services are not.
ref: 2014, K. Stanton, Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotics, Politics, and Poetics:
glosses: One who solicits.
glosses: In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
glosses: In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
glosses: In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
glosses: A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
Derived terms: duty solicitor
solicitor-client privilege
solicitor general
Related terms: advocate
attorney
barrister
counse
counselor
lawyer
ginkgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Forms: form: ginkgos
form: ginkgoes
form: gingko
Etymology: From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V … (1712) authored by Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species. In his way of transcription ginkyo would have been Ginkjo or Ginkio but was printed as Ginkgo. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.
Senses: examples: text: Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm. […] In fact, the tree was originally thought to be extinct in the wild until two populations were located in China. Such native ginkgos remain rare, with a preference for rich, streamside habitats.
ref: 2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
examples: text: I swear the gingko's working in reverse
ref: 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:
glosses: The seed of a ginkgo tree.
Synonyms: maidenhair tree
Derived terms: word: ginkgo nut
word: ginkgophyte
taxonomic: Mesoplodon ginkgodens
word: ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
word: ginkgotoxin
lekvar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lekvars
Etymology: From Hungarian lekvár. Compare with Slovak and Czech lektvar. Doublet of electuary.
Senses: glosses: A sweet spread made from apricots or prunes.
proteges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protege
bice blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A deep blue colour, like that of the sky on a clear day.
bice blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bice blue
form: most bice blue
Senses: glosses: Of a deep blue colour, like that of the sky on a clear day.
Related terms: bice
bice green
bice green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bright green colour, like that of a leaf.
bice green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bice green
form: most bice green
Senses: glosses: Of a bright green colour, like that of a leaf.
Related terms: bice
bice blue
bottle green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle greens
Senses: examples: text: He stopped to look at a shop selling ladies' wear, and stared for a long time at a bottle-green suit of corduroy slacks.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
text: Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
glosses: A dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.
bottle green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bottle green
form: most bottle green
Senses: glosses: Of a dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.
Galactic Ghoul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Galactic Ghoul
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Great Galactic Ghoul (relating to Mars probes)
synonyms: word: Great Galactic Ghoul
extra: relating to Mars probes
glosses: DR 6, a nebula in the Milky Way galaxy, resembling a human face.
data glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data gloves
form: dataglove
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment.
dataglove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datagloves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of data glove.
data warehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data warehouses
Etymology: Coined by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy in 1988.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: data lake
data room
glosses: A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.
Derived terms: data lakehouse
Related terms: data mart
OLAP
OLTP
death futures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Trading life assurance policies of terminally ill people, bought by a third party as an investment.
dependency culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependency cultures
Senses: glosses: a way of life characterized by a dependency on state benefits
dependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɛndənsi/
Forms: form: dependencies
Etymology: From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.
glosses: A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
examples: text: In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.
glosses: Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else
examples: text: In discussing this dependency, the Board said that there was clearly such a relationship. Charles Glassman, Donovan's attorney, said "Finnerty [worked] as deputy district attorney and Donovan lived off [Finnerty's] salary."
ref: 1983 December 31, Christine Guilfoy, “Gay Man in California Granted Survivor Benefits”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 1:
text: The rules for dependency require that the person claiming the dependency provide more than half of the children's support for the year. Length of time spent with the child is not a consideration. Since your parents probably paid more, they get to claim the dependencies.
ref: 1999 March 12, TexTax2, “child deductions”, in misc.taxes.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
examples: text: ‘I have a little theory which you Messieurs who go out there must help me to prove. This is my share in the advantages my country shall reap from the possession of such a magnificent dependency.’
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
synonyms: colony
protectorate
province
dominion
glosses: A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
synonyms: addiction
glosses: A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
examples: text: This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
examples: text: One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An external component whose functionality is relied on.
Derived terms: autodependency
British Crown dependency
chemical dependency
chemidependency
codependency
Crown dependency
crown dependency
dependency culture
dependency grammar
dependency hell
dependency injection
dependency inversion principle
dependency ratio
dependency theory
engineered dependency
environmental dependency syndrome
functional dependency
high dependency unit
interdependency
overdependency
partial dependency
path dependency
Ross Dependency
technodependency
thermodependency
transitive dependency
trivial functional dependency
Related terms: dependee
depender
dependence
detectorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detectorists
Etymology: From detector + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
ref: 2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: metal detectorist
glosses: A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
Related terms: metal detecting
metal detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metal detectors
Etymology: metal + detector
Senses: glosses: A hand-held device that uses electromagnetic induction to detect buried metal.
glosses: A metal-detecting device, incorporated into a full-body scanner structure, through which people pass, used to detect certain concealed weapons and certain contraband.
Derived terms: metal detectorist
Related terms: detectorist
metal detecting
metal detecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hobby of using a metal detector to hunt for buried coins or archaeological artifacts.
Related terms: detectorist
WebDAV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning.
sororicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sororicides
Etymology: From Latin sorōricīdium (“killing of one’s sister”), from soror (“sister”) + -cīdium (“killing”). Equivalent to Latin soror (“sister”) + -cide (“killing”).
Senses: examples: text: Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
ref: 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
glosses: The killing of one's sister.
Coordinate terms: sense: killing of brother
word: fratricide
Derived terms: sororicidal
sororicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sororicides
Etymology: From Latin sorōricīda (“one who kills his sister”), from soror (“sister”) + -cīda (“killer”). Equivalent to Latin soror (“sister”) + -cide (“killer”).
Senses: glosses: A person who kills his or her sister.
Coordinate terms: sense: brother killer
word: fratricide
word-processor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-processors
Senses: examples: text: It’s the faster, neater, cheaper features of these automatic word-processors along with “ability to change what is stored without redoing the whole job, that make these machines so valuable,” says [Allen F.] Rubin.
ref: 1973 January 16, Robert Wilson, “A machine instead of a secretary”, in The Montreal Star, 105th year, number 13, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page C-2, columns 4–5:
text: There are two activities at which I am quite proficient, and they are playing the piano, where both hands are used, and keyboarding what were initially typewriters but later word-processors and finally computers.
ref: 2021 April 1, Michael O’Neill, “Left-handed”, in Barry & District News, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Your letters…” section, page 16, column 5:
text: This idea is a new wrapper around a pack of more-or-less familiar products: the company’s longtime namesake and flagship design program CorelDraw (whose name isn’t changing), word-processor WordPerfect, emulator Parallels, visualizing tool MindManager, file compressor WinZip and an assortment of others.
ref: 2022 October 5, David Reevely, “New name, new boss, new pitch: Corel redux targets remote-work ease”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page FP3, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of word processor.
bathydemersal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathydemersals
Etymology: From bathy- + demersal.
Senses: glosses: A demersed fish living and/or feeding underwater below 200 meters (650 feet).
oceanodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ocean + -dromous.
Senses: glosses: that migrate within the seas only
raw_tags: of a migratory fish
Coordinate terms: amphidromous
anadromous
catadromous
diadromous
potamodromous
my bad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Pick-up basketball slang popularized (but not first coined) by Manute Bol, a basketball player of Sudanese origin playing with the Golden State Warriors, and subsequently adopted by teammates. Compare semantics with Russian оплошность (oplošnostʹ, “mistake, bad”), from о- (o-) + плох (plox, “bad”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.
text: DMV Tester: Watch out for the bike rid…!
Cher: [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Oops! My bad!
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless:
glosses: My fault; mea culpa.
wikipedia: Manute Bol
Synonyms: mea culpa
jod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yodh.
namesake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nāmʹsāk
ipa: /ˈneɪmseɪk/
Forms: form: namesakes
Etymology: Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Hebrew [Term?] idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
Senses: synonyms: eponym
glosses: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
examples: text: The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
text: Chris Evans, British DJ and media manipulator extraordinaire, is not to be confused with Chris Evans, Australia's shadow minister for family services, nor with Chris Evans, the late train robber of the wilds of west California, or indeed potentially hundreds of other namesakes. One unquestionable aspect of this Chris Evans is that he is unique.
ref: 2001 June 29, Deborah Schofield, “Chris Evans”, in The Guardian:
text: Look at our namesakes too. There's Tom, of course - a bit creepy now but he definitely had his moments. There's Davy Jones out of the Monkees. Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones preferred Jones to his birth name Baldwin. And he's quite cool. There's an American brokerage firm called Edward Jones which perhaps isn't so cool.
ref: 2006 October 28, Laura Jones, “Why I'm keeping up with the Joneses...”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: eponym
glosses: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
A person with the same name as another.
examples: text: Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
synonyms: eponym
glosses: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
A person with the same name as another.
One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.
examples: text: Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
text: It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 493:
synonyms: eponym
eponym
glosses: An entity that lends its name to another entity.
A person with the same name as another.
One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.
synonyms: eponym
glosses: Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
namesake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nāmʹsāk
ipa: /ˈneɪmseɪk/
Forms: form: namesakes
form: namesaking
form: namesaked
form: namesaked
Etymology: Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Hebrew [Term?] idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
Senses: glosses: To name (somebody) after somebody else.
Galen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪlən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Γαληνός (Galēnós), from γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm, tranquillity”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek physician.
examples: text: It was well known at Barchester, and very well known to Dr Fillgrave, […] the Barchester Galen, that the great railway contractor was ill.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter 12, in Doctor Thorne, London: Chapman and Hall:
glosses: A doctor
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly American usage.
Galen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪlən/
Forms: form: Galens
Etymology: Reduced form of Dutch van Galen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
theophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːˈɒfəni/
Forms: form: theophanies
Etymology: From Late Latin theophania, corresponding to theo- + -phany, from θεός (theós, “God”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 47:
coordinate_terms: apparition
glosses: A manifestation of a deity to a person.
Related terms: Christophany
epiphany
hierophany
Theophany
theosophy
jump the shark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps the shark
form: jumping the shark
form: jumped the shark
form: jumped the shark
Etymology: From Hollywood (Part 3), an episode in 1977 during the fifth season of the American television series Happy Days, in which the character Fonzie jumped over a shark on waterskis. The expression argues that it was at this point that the show bore no similarity to its original form.
Senses: examples: text: Happy Days infamously jumped the shark when Fonzie literally jumped a shark on water skis. I Love Lucy jumped the shark when Lucy and Ricky moved to the suburbs. The Brady Bunch jumped the shark when Cousin Oliver moved in.
ref: 2003, Jon Hein, Jump the Shark, book overview (revised edition; Plume; →ISBN, 9780452284104)
text: From that point on, Dallas was never the same. It hit its peak. It lost credibility. It jumped the shark.
ref: 2004, Ronn Owens, Voice of Reason: Why the Left and Right Are Wrong, John Wiley & Sons, published 2004, →ISBN, page 212:
text: Returning show everyone will say has jumped the shark: "House."
ref: 2010 September 16, Michael Hewitt, “The Watcher: Which new TV shows will take off?”, in Orange County Register:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: Of television program or other narrative, to undergo a storyline development which heralds a fundamental and generally disappointing change in direction.
examples: text: Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling?
Faye: Not really. Nighty night!
Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
ref: 2007, Jeph Jacques, “Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast”, in Questionable Content, number 951:
text: The Bangles were a fine all-woman band, starting with a lovely cover of Prince's "Manic Monday." "Walk Like an Egyptian" was cute, and the ladies rocked out an unlikely cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter." But they jumped the shark with the treacly "Eternal Flame," and the end of the road was in sight.
ref: 2008, Mark Fogarty, Went to See the Gypsy, Lulu.com, published 2008, →ISBN, page 150:
text: And I knew something was up when I started getting press releases about "tape labels." Maybe vinyl had finally jumped the shark, and magnetic tape was due for a return.
ref: 2008 October 11, Cortney Harding, “Tape echo”, in Billboard:
glosses: To experience a decline in quality, appeal, popularity, etc.
Derived terms: shark-jumping
Related terms: nuke the fridge
rivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.vəl.ɹi/
Forms: form: rivalries
Etymology: From rival + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
text: James and Polly have a bitter rivalry due to the latter's inclusion in the Tea Time Teaser.
glosses: An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
examples: text: Common goods are those which are rivalrous in consumption but non-excludable
ref: 2013 December 2 (last accessed), Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, at Johnstown, “Public Goods”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 05 May 2015:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
examples: text: Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye.
glosses: Any competition between two or more things or factors.
Derived terms: archrivalry
non-rivalry
sibling rivalry
capital stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital stocks
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
law
glosses: The total amount of common and preferred stock (shares) that a company can issue.
Synonyms: equity
share capital
Related terms: stock
share
jingoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡəʊɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: jingoisms
Etymology: From jingo + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Soviet reports today on the British victory in the Falkland Islands said a “new flare-up of jingoism” in Britain obscured the fact that the problem was far from solved.
ref: 1982 June 16, “Soviet Accuses British Of Jingoism in Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “When you see several dots on a page you begin to get a line of trajectory. These things mean something,” he said of the repeated displays of jingoism. “And I think what they mean is that China is back, it is powerful and it is not to be trifled with.”
ref: 2017 September 23, Tom Phillips, quoting Orville Schell, “China finds its own Top Gun and Rambo in wave of patriotic movies”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.
examples: text: Americans are now too overstimulated and spoiled by choices to be properly manipulated by the old rallies that used to boil nationalistic fervor—billowing flags, unctuous marching band music, and a white man in a dark suit speaking in comforting Judeo-Christian jingoisms.
ref: 2010, Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 20:
text: At a time when the leaders of the “free” world can run systems in an authoritarian manner, replete with their jingoisms and subtexts of internal colonialism, it is rather urgent that we demystify democratism, […]
ref: 2020, Jack Fong, “Preface”, in Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination, Lexington Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A jingoistic attitude, comment, etc.
glosses: Chauvinism.
Synonyms: chauvinism
flagwaving
Related terms: jingoist
jingoistic
jingoistically
by jingo
jingo
hawkism
ethnonationalism
ultranationalism
wrap in the flag
lighten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lightens up
form: lightening up
form: lightened up
form: lightened up
Senses: examples: text: I wish he'd lighten up a bit and realize that we were only joking.
text: The mood at work has been tense, so he's looking for ways to lighten it up.
text: Sondheim's sense of life — which is pretty pessimistic (I don't think that anyone ever ends happily ever after in a Sondheim musical) — is brought through without trying to lighten it up.
ref: 1983 August 6, Michael Bronski, “Gay Sensibility, Straight Imitation”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: you lighten up my heart when I start to cry
ref: 2008, Adele, First Love:
coordinate_terms: chill out
glosses: To make (something) or to become less serious and more cheerful or casual; to relax.
examples: text: Near-synonym: slim down
text: He can't get any more power out of it [his drag racer], so now he's looking for ways to lighten it up.
glosses: To lighten (something): to decrease its weight.
Related terms: enlighten
light up
PBR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Professional Bull Riders, a sport, circuit, and company for bull riding.
examples: text: As he drank the PBR, he tried to keep his hands from shaking.
ref: 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 46:
glosses: Initialism of Pabst Blue Ribbon, a brand of beer.
PBR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PBRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of patrol boat, rigid, a type of river patrol boat used by the US Navy during the Vietnam War.
glosses: Initialism of plastic baton round, a type of non-lethal projectile more commonly known as the plastic bullet.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Initialism of pebble-bed reactor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of policy-based routing.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of potential biological removal.
glosses: Initialism of point-blank range.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of physically based rendering.
glosses: Initialism of plant breeders' rights.
GMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Greater Manchester Radio.
GMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GMRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of giant magnetoresistance.
GMR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of giant magnetoresistive.
hankering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]"
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 24, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.
ref: 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, chapter 4, in Framley Parsonage. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1861, →OCLC:
text: [T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.
ref: 2008 May 23, James Graff, “Lost: Labour's Love for Brown”, in Time:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hanker
Derived terms: hankeringly
hankering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hankerings
Senses: examples: text: I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
ref: 1840, Washington Irving, The Knight of Malta:
text: Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Levitical”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: But there was one yet - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:
text: "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."
ref: 1904, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 2, in Dialstone Lane:
text: “It looks wrong to me. But I have a hankering to work the thing out on my own. […]”
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, chapter VII, in The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 138:
text: In other words, some species of human ancestor […] not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.
ref: 2010 August 12, Michael D. Lemonick, “Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat”, in Time, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2012:
synonyms: craving
glosses: A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
raw_tags: followed by for or after
empasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmpæzəm/
Forms: form: empasms
form: empasma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμπασμα (émpasma, “dusting powder”), ultimately from πάσσω (pássō). Compare catapasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A perfumed powder to be sprinkled on the body to mask the odor of sweat.
pull strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls strings
form: pulling strings
form: pulled strings
form: pulled strings
form: pull a few strings
form: pull some strings
form: pull a lot of strings
Etymology: Suggesting a puppet show, where characters are moved by pulling attached strings.
Senses: examples: text: He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss.
glosses: To manipulate a situation, especially by asking favours of others; to use one's influence with others to attain a desired goal.
examples: text: We know who pulls the strings around here.
text: Master of Puppets, I'm pulling your strings
ref: 1986, “Master of Puppets”, in Metallica (music), Master of Puppets:
text: Mr. Brown is touchy about accusations that he is a packaged candidate, and bristles at the suggestion that Mr. Caddell pulls his strings.
ref: 1992 April 3, Richard Berke, “The 1992 Campaign: Political Memo”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jul 2010:
text: "It may have begun that way," says a senior Pentagon official, "but as these attacks grow more numerous, you get the sense that there's someone pulling the strings at a higher level."
ref: 2003 July 7, Michael Elliott et al., “The War That Never Ends”, in Time:
text: But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
text: "The DfT is pulling all the strings. It is making every decision. It is telling companies what they can and cannot spend, right down to very small amounts of money. That's the reason they will declare the train operators to be under public control."
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Clifton, “Rail nationalisation moves a step closer”, in Rail, page 8:
qualifier: pull one's strings
glosses: To control a person, organization, or situation by operating behind the scenes, as a puppeteer controls a marionette.
raw_tags: with “the” or a possessive adjective (such as “his”) before “strings”
Related terms: english: shares a theme of control
translation: shares a theme of control
word: hold the purse strings
english: shares a theme of control
translation: shares a theme of control
word: no strings attached
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: pull the string
word: puppet master
muddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: muddies
Etymology: From mud (crab) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).
blurry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɜːɹi/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: blurrier
form: blurriest
Etymology: From blur + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.
glosses: Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
raw_tags: of an image
examples: text: It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.
text: when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.
Derived terms: blurrily
blurriness
nonblurry
unblurry