cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paines
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pain.
2CV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2CVs
Senses: glosses: deux chevaux (conventional French shortening of deux chevaux-vapeur "two horsepower") (a model of car by French manufacturer, Citroën)
Related terms: CV
Russian Federation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Russian Federation
Etymology: Calque of Russian Росси́йская Федера́ция (Rossíjskaja Federácija).
Senses: examples: text: The deepening strategic partnership between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests.
ref: 2022, NATO 2022 Strategic Concept, NATO, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022, page 5:
glosses: Official name of Russia: a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Synonyms: word: RF
perestroika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹ.ɪˈstɹɔi.kə/
Forms: form: perestroikas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka, “restructuring”).
Senses: examples: text: Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
glosses: The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.
qualifier: singularity theory
glosses: A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.
Derived terms: antiperestroika
Perestroikan
Salinastroika
Related terms: doi moi
glasnost
rectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrɛk.təl/
Etymology: From rectum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The customs inspector subjected him to a rectal exam.
text: Give a MC a rectal hysterectomy / Lecture on removal of the bowels, foul technically
ref: 2009, “THAT'S THAT”, in BORN LIKE THIS, performed by DOOM:
text: Colorectal cancer refers to colon cancer, which starts in the colon, and rectal cancer, which starts in the rectum.
ref: 2025 March 21, Katia Hetter, “Reduce your risk of colon and rectal cancer with these basic steps”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, via or related to the rectum.
Synonyms: anal
Derived terms: adrectal
anorectal
colorectal
dorsorectal
endorectal
gastrorectal
genitorectal
ileorectal
intrarectal
ischiorectal
mesorectal
neorectal
pararectal
penorectal
perirectal
per-rectal
postrectal
prerectal
puborectal
rectally
rectal sex
rectal varicosity
rectorectal
retrorectal
sacrorectal
transrectal
urethrorectal
urorectal
vaginorectal
rectal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrɛk.təl/
Forms: form: rectals
Etymology: From rectum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Most doctors feel a rectal examination is unnecessary following a full pelvic examination, so that rectals are not routinely performed on women.
ref: 1988, Judith Campbell, J. Golick, Sexuality: An Education Resource Book, page 53:
glosses: Ellipsis of rectal examination.
Derived terms: alt: DRE
word: digital rectal examination
politely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: more politely
form: most politely
Etymology: From polite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If pressed about a serious accusation like rape, you can politely reply that you can’t answer questions pertaining to such an allegation without legal representation and wish to remain silent.
text: It was night once more and Mary had got through another day without throwing herself politely from a top floor window or scrawling filthy words on the dining room walls.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: in a polite manner
proletariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/
enpr: prō'lĭ-târʹē-ət
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɚ.i.ət/
Forms: form: proletariats
form: proletariate
Etymology: From French prolétariat (“proletariats as a class; state of being a proletariat”), from Latin prōlētārius (“belonging to the lowest class of citizens, whose only contribution to the state was their offspring; member of this class”) + French -at (suffix denoting actions or the results of actions). Prōlētārius is derived from prōlēs (“offspring, posterity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, or forming nouns denoting agents of use from other nouns); prōlēs is from pro- (prefix meaning ‘bringing forth or into being; bringing into the open’) + *olēs (a variant of *oleō (“to grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”)).
Senses: synonyms: proletary
glosses: The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
examples: text: Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie to-day, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.
ref: 1848 February, Karl Marx; Frederick Engels [i.e., Friedrich Engels], “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, in Samuel Moore, transl., Manifesto of the Communist Party. […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party, published 1898, →OCLC, page 27:
synonyms: proletarian
proletary
prole
antonyms: bourgeoisie
coordinate_terms: salariat
glosses: Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
synonyms: proletarian
proletary
glosses: The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.
Derived terms: cognitariat
dictatorship of the proletariat
neo-proletariat
precariat
prole
semiproletariat
Related terms: word: proles
word: proletaire
word: proletairism
word: proletarian
word: proletarianisation
word: proletarianization
word: proletarianise
word: proletarianize
word: proletarianism
word: proletarianly
word: proletarisation
word: proletarization
word: proletarised
word: proletarized
word: proletarise
word: proletarize
word: proletary
word: proletkult
word: prolicidal
word: prolicide
proletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more proletarian
form: most proletarian
Etymology: From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
Senses: examples: text: While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
glosses: Of or relating to the proletariat.
Derived terms: non-proletarian
proletarian dictatorship
proletarian internationalism
proletarianise
proletarianize
proletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: proletarians
Etymology: From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the proletariat.
Synonyms: prole
pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃɚ]
ipa: /ˈpɪtʃ.ə/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃə]
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
homophone: picture stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: pitchers
Etymology: From pitch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A tent pitcher
text: A pitcher of ideas
text: A quoits pitcher
glosses: One who pitches (in any sense) anything
examples: text: A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
ref: 2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
examples: text: To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
ref: 2000, Michael Massing, The Fix, page 67:
glosses: A drug dealer.
examples: text: To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
ref: 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:
synonyms: snide pitcher
glosses: One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
synonyms: top
glosses: The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
glosses: A sort of crowbar for digging.
examples: text: The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
glosses: One who makes a pitch or proposal.
glosses: A person who sells anything in the streets.
Derived terms: fly-pitcher
nonpitcher
pitchered
pitcherlike
relief pitcher
starting pitcher
switch pitcher
pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃɚ]
ipa: /ˈpɪtʃ.ə/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃə]
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
homophone: picture stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: pitchers
Etymology: From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
Senses: examples: text: At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
Derived terms: Charley-pitcher
little pitcher
little pitchers have big ears
pitcher-bawd
pitcherful
pitcher plant
pitcher sage
rinse-pitcher
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
Related terms: flagon
pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃɚ]
ipa: /ˈpɪtʃ.ə/
ipa: [ˈpɪʔt͡ʃə]
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
homophone: picture stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: pitchers
Senses: examples: text: She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
ref: 1934, William Byron Mowery, Challenge of the North:
text: Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
ref: 2015, Stephen Gresham, Rockabye Baby:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.
Derived terms: moom pitcher
tetracycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˈsaɪ.kliːn/
Forms: form: tetracyclines
form: tet
Etymology: From tetracyclic + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ produced by streptomyces or synthetically.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a large group of antibiotics with the same general structure derived from tetracene with many hydroxyl and other groups.
Derived terms: english: antibiotic, protein synthesis inhibitor
translation: antibiotic, protein synthesis inhibitor
word: -cycline
word: chlortetracycline
word: oxytetracycline
word: rolitetracycline
microchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌt͡ʃɪp/
Forms: form: microchips
Etymology: From micro- + chip.
Senses: glosses: An integrated circuit.
examples: text: By the early 2020s, the strategic priority level of microchip fabrication prowess and capacity had only grown.
text: The base of the antenna contains a few microchips, whose purpose Hiro cannot divine by looking at them.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 360:
text: And so the microchip, say, reflects a certain electronically driven speed of society, just as the invention of a flint axe, reflected a society that was rhythmed fully by biological and environmental temporalities.
ref: 2017, Robert Hassan, The Age of Distraction:
text: Previous attempts at designing self-cooling microchips have largely relied on a two-pronged approach, involving designing the cooling elements separately from the electronic elements, and then combining after the initial fabrication process.
ref: 2024 February 20, Sarah Wells, “Self-cooling microchip provides a tiny solution to a giant problem”, in Inverse:
glosses: An integrated circuit.
A microprocessor.
Synonyms: chip
Derived terms: chip
microchippery
microchip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌt͡ʃɪp/
Forms: form: microchips
form: microchipping
form: microchipped
form: microchipped
Etymology: From micro- + chip.
Senses: examples: text: Still, doing something to protect your cat is better than doing nothing, so you should have your cat microchipped in the groin area with a registered ID.
ref: 1997, Paulette Cooper, Paul Noble, Jack Fleming, 277 Secrets Your Cat Wants You to Know:
text: In Britain, where the British BeeKeepers Association (BBKA) has been urging members to microchip their hives for some time, the continuing mystery and the belief that the crimes are inside jobs are taking their toll.
ref: 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:
text: In February, Skip Daly, a Democrat in the Nevada State Assembly, introduced a bill to make involuntary microchip implants illegal; he later amended it to include voluntary microchipping as well.
ref: 2019 May 21, Zoltan Istvan, “A Chip in My Hand Unlocks My House. Why Does That Scare People?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
Synonyms: chip
Derived terms: chip
integrated circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrated circuits
Senses: antonyms: discrete component
qualifier: semiconductors
glosses: A thin chip, usually of silicon, consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors.
Synonyms: IC
Hypernyms: semiconductor
Hyponyms: analog integrated circuit
digital integrated circuit
transistor array
Related terms: circuit
computer chip
microchip
microprocessor
interpunctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + punctuation.
Senses: glosses: any form of punctuation between words
Related terms: interpunct
vermiform appendix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermiform appendices
form: vermiform appendixes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: appendix
vermiformis
glosses: An organ consisting of a blind tube projecting from the caecum. Of disputed function (if any), it is known for sometimes causing inflammation (appendicitis) in humans.
Derived terms: appendectomy
appendicectomy
appendicitis
ballistic missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballistic missiles
Etymology: From ballistic + missile.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A missile that is initially guided, but then follows a ballistic (freely falling) trajectory.
Synonyms: BM
Hyponyms: english: ICBM
translation: ICBM
word: intercontinental ballistic missile
alt: IRBM
word: intermediate range ballistic missile
alt: LRBM
word: long range ballistic missile
alt: MRBM
word: medium range ballistic missile
alt: SLBM
word: submarine launched ballistic missile
alt: SRBM
word: short range ballistic missile
Derived terms: alt: ABM
word: anti-ballistic missile
Related terms: guided missile
cruise missile
Methuselah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.
Senses: glosses: The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Planet Methuselah
Methuselah Planet
Genesis
Planet Genesis
Genesis Planet
glosses: A planet in PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).
Derived terms: as old as Methuselah
Methuselaic
Methuselan
Methuselah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Methuselahs
Etymology: From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.
Senses: glosses: Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
glosses: Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).
ballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more ballistic
form: most ballistic
Etymology: From Latin ballista (“a military siege engine for throwing stones”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ballistics.
glosses: Of or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, aerodynamic drag, gravity, and sometimes rocket power, without significant lift.
examples: text: When he heard him lie about it, he went ballistic.
glosses: Very angry.
Synonyms: ballistical
Derived terms: aeroballistic
antiballistic
astroballistic
ballistical
ballistically
ballistic coefficient
ballistic gelatin
ballistician
ballisticity
ballistic knife
ballistic missile
ballistic parachute
ballistic pendulum
ballistic podiatry
ballistics
ballistic syllable
ballistic trauma
ballistic vest
ballochory
bioballistic
cardioballistic
electroballistic
go ballistic
microballistic
neuroballistic
nonballistic
quasiballistic
semiballistic
subballistic
superballistic
thermoballistic
go ballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes ballistic
form: going ballistic
form: went ballistic
form: gone ballistic
Etymology: The idiomatic usage derives from the second-generation of jet fighters, armed with guided missiles, in the late 1950s into the 1960s, with the informal military sense of fully-powered non-ballistic missiles going ballistic when losing control and assuming a free-fall trajectory, sense 3. But in subsequent usage the term has often become associated with the intentionally ballistic, suborbital trajectories of long-range, typically nuclear-armed missiles, sense 2.
Senses: examples: text: She'd go ballistic, possibly even fling a fireball or two, if she knew Selene had him in her apartment.
ref: 1964, Elle James and Pamela Kent, Enemy Lover
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hey, sorry for going ballistic back there. I think the whole Julie-being-alive thing affected me more than I thought.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened.
glosses: To become very angry and irrational.
examples: text: SRAM is a very flexible weapon. It has a ballistic trajectory. It can be launched and go ballistic into its target for a long range... and it can go short range at very low levels.
ref: 1978, United States Senate, Part 8 of Fiscal year 1978 authorization for military procurement, research and development, and active duty, selected reserve, and civilian personnel strengths: hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1210
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: for a usually rocket-powered, predominantly non-glide projectile or aerial vehicle, such as a ballistic missile, to travel to its target partly via unpowered ballistic or quasi-ballistic flight, usually following burnout of its rocket motor
examples: text: I... fired two AIM-7s in a ripple. One AIM-7 went ballistic. The other guided but passed behind the MIG and did not detonate. Knowing that I was then too close for further AIM-7 firing...
ref: 1976, Robert Frank Futrell, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia-- aces and aerial victories, 1965-1973
text: In the case of retarded bombs released at too high a speed, the retarding fins might tear away and allow the bomb to go ballistic.
ref: 1986, Alfred Price, Air Battle Central Europe
text: Putting something between you and the guidance radar will cause the missile to go ballistic.
ref: 1983, Michael Skinner, USAFE: A primer of modern air combat in Europe
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: for a powered, usually guided missile or other aerial vehicle to travel on an unguided or ballistic trajectory, having lost power, control or guidance
heparin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛp.ə.ɹɪn/
Forms: form: heparins
Etymology: From Latin hepar (“liver”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compound occurring in the liver and other tissues which inhibits blood coagulation. A sulfur-containing polysaccharide, it is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis.
Derived terms: dalteparin
heparinase
heparinate
heparinated
heparinemia
heparinise
heparinize
heparinized
heparinlike
heparinoid
nonheparin
-parin
Related terms: heparan
judgmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒˈmɛntl̩/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌd͡ʒˈmɛnt(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more judgmental
form: most judgmental
form: judgemental
Etymology: From judgment + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to judgment.
glosses: Inclined to rashly pass judgment, critical.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: hyperjudgmental
judgmentalism
judgmentally
nonjudgmental
unjudgmental
inquire after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inquires after
form: inquiring after
form: inquired after
form: inquired after
form: enquire after
Senses: glosses: To ask about the health of (someone).
lactation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lækˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lactations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lactātiō, lactātiōnis. Equivalent to lactate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The secretion of milk from the mammary gland of a female mammal.
glosses: The process of providing the milk to the young; breastfeeding.
glosses: The period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young; lactation period.
Derived terms: ablactation
hyperlactation
induced lactation
lactational
lactation consultant
lactation period
lactation station
lactivism
midlactation
overlactation
relactation
telelactation
Related terms: lactate
lactic
lactose
armless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English armlees; equivalent to arm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much.
ref: 1912, Edith Nesbit, The White Cat:
antonyms: armed#Etymology_2
glosses: Having no arms.
Derived terms: armlessly
armlessness
armless wonder
Related terms: unarmed
rock paper scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock-paper-scissors
Etymology: After the handshapes.
Senses: synonyms: paper scissors stone
scissors paper rock
scissors paper stone
janken
roshambo
qualifier: hand games
glosses: A popular children's game using three hand signs representing rock, paper and scissors, frequently used as a tiebreaker.
glosses: Any situation where strategies are not transitive, meaning each strategy is strong against some strategies and weak against others in a loop such that there is no universally best option.
Derived terms: rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock
equip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɪp/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛˈk(j)up/
rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology: From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Old Norse skipa (“to man (a ship)”), from Proto-Germanic *skipōną (“to ship, sail, embark”).
Compare with Middle High German schipfen, German schiffern, Icelandic skipa, Old English scipian. Doublet of ship.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Equipment (carried by a game character).
taxi driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi drivers
form: taxi-driver
form: taxidriver
Senses: glosses: A person who drives a taxicab.
Synonyms: word: cabbie
word: cabby
word: cabdriver
word: cab driver
taximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaksɪˌmiːtə/
ipa: /ˈtaksiˌmiːtə/
ipa: /ˈtæksiˌmitɚ/
ipa: /tækˈsɪmɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: taximeters
Etymology: Borrowed from French taximètre, from German Taxameter, coined from Medieval Latin taxa (“tax, charge”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch, handle”).
Senses: glosses: A device installed in a taxicab that calculates the fare based upon distance travelled and waiting time.
Derived terms: taxi
vise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
homophone: vice
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: vises
form: vice
Etymology: From Middle English vis, vys, vice (“screw”), from Anglo-Norman vyz, vice, from Old French vis (“screw”), from Latin vītis f (“vine”).
Probably akin to English withe.
Senses: examples: text: Clamp this loop in a strong vise and twist the two ends evenly into one piece. As the twisting progresses, move the wire along so as to keep the grip of the vise close to the hands.
ref: 1937 October, R. H. Jenkins, “Five attractive new designs you can work out from inexpensive materials”, in Popular Science, volume 131, number 4, Bonnier Corporation, page 96:
glosses: An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
examples: text: I'd like to know what would become of us in the next ten minutes. They've got us in a vise. We're done for, Gall.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:
glosses: A situation in which one's freedom of choice is constrained.
glosses: A screw.
glosses: A spiral staircase.
vise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
homophone: vice
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: vises
form: vising
form: vised
form: vised
form: vice
Etymology: From Middle English vis, vys, vice (“screw”), from Anglo-Norman vyz, vice, from Old French vis (“screw”), from Latin vītis f (“vine”).
Probably akin to English withe.
Senses: examples: text: He looked to see the secretary, vised and crackled in those arms, drop limp and senseless.
ref: 1904, The Cambrian - Volume 24, page 166:
text: Repeat this step to make the bend at the other 39-inch mark being careful that it is also at a 90° angle to the vised pipe, and also parallel to the first bend.
ref: 1981, Petersen's Photographic Magazine - Volume 10, Issues 7-12, page 51:
text: “There's my girl,” he whispered. He reached back to lift each of her legs to vise her knees under his arms.
ref: 2007, Catherine Anderson, Phantom Waltz, →ISBN, page 302:
text: I do clearly remember the last part of that conversation, because it involved Athena promising that the next time she saw me, she was going to vise my jaws open and shit down my throat.
ref: 2013, Geoff Berner, Festival Man: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: To clamp with or as with a vise.
vise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
homophone: vice
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: vises
form: viseing
form: vised
form: vised
form: vice
Senses: examples: text: It was the hour in which all who had affairs to arrange with the Austrian ambassador, passports to vise, contracts to sign,were allowed entrance, and it was the baron's duty to receive them.
ref: 1867, Luise Mühlbach, Frederick the Great and His Family, →ISBN:
text: Although the Department has no wish to remonstrate further than it has already done against the refusal of the Russian authorities to vise passports issued to naturalized citizens of Russian origin, its position is consistent and tenable that a passport issued by the Government of the United States to one of its citizens and intended for his protection in any and all foreign countries which he may choose to visit is not to be in effect destroyed or impaired in value by a Russian consular officer.
ref: 1897, United States. Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 518:
text: The latest published correspondence on the subject is in the case of Waix, an American citizen of the Jewish race, who applied to the Russian consul general in New York to vise his passport, in order that he might visit Russia.
ref: 1904, Frank Charles Smith, Lucien Brock Proctor, Heman Gerald Chapin, The American Lawyer - Volume 12, page 33:
text: At Manchouli, it was said, ViceConsul Ishida and Chancellor Teng requested the local Soviet Consulate to vise their passports, but the Soviet consulate authorities unreasonably declined to comply with the request.
ref: 1938, Manchuria: Semi-monthly Publication of the Manchuria Daily News:
glosses: Alternative form of visé.
taxicab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæk.siˌkæb/
Forms: form: taxicabs
form: taxi cab
Etymology: Shortened from taximeter cab, equivalent to taxi + cab.
Senses: examples: text: So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.
ref: 1921, Harvey Wickham, “Introducing the Garden of Eden”, in The Clue of the Primrose Petal, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 9:
text: After that, the CGV "denumbered" a total of sixty taxicabs, that is, it removed them from the register of stationing taxicabs. The end of the CGV experiment is controversial, but it is certain that the behavior of the drivers (who, as we saw, were not directly salaried by CGV) was an important incentive to the denumbering of cabs: because of the high moyenne, they refused to accept customers for short trips and only accepted orders by the day or half-day.
ref: 2013, Gijs Mom, The Electric Vehicle:
glosses: Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys, particularly one using a taximeter to automate fare calculation.
synonyms: word: taxi
extra: a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys, particularly one using a taximeter to automate fare calculation
Derived terms: maxicab
taxicab distance
taxicab geometry
taxicab number
taxicab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæk.siˌkæb/
Forms: form: taxicabs
form: taxicabbing
form: taxicabbed
form: taxicabbed
form: taxi cab
Etymology: Shortened from taximeter cab, equivalent to taxi + cab.
Senses: glosses: To travel by taxicab.
lender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lenders
Etymology: From Middle English lendare, leendare, variants of lenner, lenere, equivalent to lend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [Polonius]: Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.
Synonyms: word: borrowee
word: leaser
word: letter
word: lender
word: loaner
Hypernyms: word: giver
Hyponyms: word: creditor
word: microlender
word: mortgagee
word: mortgage lender
word: landlord
word: lessor
word: loan shark
word: Lombard
word: moneylender
word: pawnbroker
word: shylock
word: usurer
Derived terms: lender of last resort
microlender
moneylender
money lender
money-lender
mortgage lender
multilender
neither a borrower nor a lender be
nonlender
Related terms: word: creditor
word: debtor
word: lend
modified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑdɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɒdɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: more modified
form: most modified
Etymology: From modify + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: What happens to a protocol after it is prereviewed? Opin. After a protocol is prereviewed, the investigator submits a modified or unmodified protocol that must be processed for formal review by the IACUC.
ref: 2014, Jerald Silverman, Mark A. Suckow, Sreekant Murthy, The IACUC Handbook, Third Edition, page 143:
text: As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.'
ref: 2016 April 18, Cristina Alesci, “Monsanto CEO frustrated over 'polarized' GMO debate”, in CNN Business:
glosses: changed; altered
Derived terms: biomodified
comodified
gene-modified
genetically modified
hypermodified
hypomodified
modacrylic
modified American plan
modified aspect ratio
modified bitumen
modified chest thrust
modified Harvard architecture
modified Newtonian dynamics
modified push-up
modified starch
nanomodified
nonmodified
organomodified
silane-modified polymer
supermodified
undermodified
modified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑdɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɒdɪfaɪd/
Etymology: From modify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of modify
modified
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑdɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɒdɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: modifieds
Etymology: From modify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Any vehicle used in modified racing.
manually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From manual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: stimulate someone manually
text: manually operated machine
glosses: By hand.
examples: text: The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.
text: They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
ref: 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN:
text: Starbucks’ store leadership have advised their employees on how to work around the outage manually, and the company will make sure everyone gets paid for all hours worked, according to Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson.
ref: 2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Using a human, as opposed to a computer.
Derived terms: intermanually
nonmanually
taxi stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi stands
Senses: glosses: A designated place in a street, railway station, airport etc where taxicabs line up to wait for passengers.
Synonyms: cab stand
taxi rank
Related terms: bus stand
mobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /moʊˈbɪlɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɵbɨˈlɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɵˈbaɪlɪʈi/
Forms: form: mobilities
Etymology: From Middle French mobilité, and its source, Latin mōbilitās (“mobility”).
Senses: examples: text: I find the enduring existence of high heels both a frustrating mystery and a testament to the triumph of women’s neuroses over their mobility.
ref: 2015 June 15, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
text: In the late 19th and early 20th century, the festive season was also a period of great mobility before, during and after Christmas Day. But the railways kept working.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 32:
synonyms: mobileness
glosses: The ability to move; capacity for movement.
glosses: A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
examples: text: The difficulty of rising up the economic ladder is reflected in the decline in mobility in the United States. […] The frustration over the lack of mobility is particularly acute for those without college degrees.
ref: 2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The ability of people to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
Derived terms: automobility
dysmobility
economic mobility
electromobility
e-mobility
emobility
hypermobility
hypomobility
intermobility
macromobility
micromobility
mobicentric
mobility kill
mobility scooter
palaeomobility
paleomobility
personal mobility device
personal transportation mobility
popmobility
retromobility
social mobility
sustainable mobililty
thermomobility
upward mobility
urban mobility
Related terms: sense: terms related to mobility (noun)
word: mobile
sense: terms related to mobility (noun)
word: mobilization
sense: terms related to mobility (noun)
word: mobilize
sense: terms related to mobility (noun)
word: move
word: congestion
mandated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: required, mandatory
Derived terms: mandated reporter
nonmandated
unmandated
mandated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The precautions were mandated by a judge.
glosses: simple past and past participle of mandate
taxpayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxpayers
form: tax-payer
Etymology: From tax + payer.
Senses: examples: text: The bank was bailed out by the taxpayer.
text: 1945: I got into the bus full of taxpayers who were giving some money to a taxpayer who had on his taxpayer's stomach a little box which allowed the other taxpayers to continue their taxpayers' journeys. I noticed in this bus a taxpayer with a long taxpayer's neck and whose taxpayer's head bore a taxpayer's felt hat encircled by a plait the like of which no taxpayer ever wore before. Suddenly the said taxpayer peremptorily addressed a nearby taxpayer, complaining bitterly that he was purposely treading on his taxpayer's toes every time other taxpayers got on or off the taxpayers' bus. Then the angry taxpayer went and sat down in a seat for taxpayers which another taxpayer had just vacated. — Raymond Queneau, 'from Polyptotes' in Exercises in Style, 1945 (Eng. 1958)
text: The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
text: The pixels’ use in a taxpayer context resulted in the “reckless” sharing of legally protected data that could put taxpayers at risk, according to the report by Warren and her Democratic colleagues Sens. Ron Wyden; Richard Blumenthal; Tammy Duckworth; and Sheldon Whitehouse; Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats; and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter.
ref: 2023 July 12, Brian Fung, “Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax.
Related terms: word: OPM
raw_tags: of other people's money.
word: ratepayer
centuplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: centuplications
Senses: glosses: multiplication by one hundred
Related terms: centuple
challenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: challengers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour; equivalent to challenge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.
text: One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
text: Debates are often unpredictable, but it is especially hard to game out how this debate featuring a moderate standard-bearer and a liberal challenger will unfold and how people will process it. Hundreds of thousands of viewers, if not millions, will have been personally affected by Sunday, as public gathering spaces are shuttered, schools are closed and on Thursday the stock market plunged by the largest percentage in decades (it snapped back upward on Friday).
ref: 2020 March 14, Shane Goldmacher, “Throw Out the Debate Playbook: Biden and Sanders to Clash Amid Crisis”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
text: Candidates for a state senate seat race in South Florida in which a spoiler appeared to help Republican challenger Ileana Garcia unseat incumbent Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez.
ref: 2020 November 23, Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein, “A dark money mystery in Florida centers on the campaign of a spoiler candidate who appeared to help a Republican win by 32 votes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025:
glosses: One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.
Synonyms: sense: one who challenges
word: adversary
sense: one who challenges
word: combatant
sense: one who challenges
word: contender
sense: one who challenges
word: disputer
sense: one who challenges
word: opponent
Derived terms: challenger bank
multichallenger
nonchallenger
antenuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + nuptial.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the modern rule is that midnuptial agreements do not inherently violate public policy Courts no longer view antenuptial and midnuptial agreements as void per se, but such agreements still receive special treatment.
ref: 1999, Wiley Family Law Update, Wiley:
glosses: Occurring before marriage; prenuptial.
Synonyms: prenuptial
antenuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antenuptials
Etymology: From ante- + nuptial.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prenuptial (“a prenuptial agreement”).
synonyms: word: prenuptial
extra: a prenuptial agreement
prenuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹiˈnʌpʃəl/
Forms: form: pre-nuptial
Etymology: From pre- + nuptial.
Senses: examples: text: In California, for example, one of nine "community property" states, any property acquired during your marriage will be divided evenly between you and your spouse after a divorce, if you don't have a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement.
ref: 1997 February 23, Bruce Felton, “Fastening Your Seat Belt For a Bumpy Marriage”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before marriage; antenuptial.
Synonyms: premarital
antenuptial
Derived terms: prenuptial agreement
prenuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiˈnʌpʃəl/
Forms: form: prenuptials
form: pre-nuptial
Etymology: From pre- + nuptial.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the collaborative prenuptial is recommended.
ref: 2014, Marilyn J. Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia:
glosses: Synonym of prenuptial agreement.
synonyms: word: prenuptial agreement
tea service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea services
form: tea-service
Senses: glosses: A set of matching crockery for serving tea; normally a teapot, cups, saucers and small plates etc.; some of which may be silver.
Synonyms: tea set
Related terms: tea party
tea tray
teapoy
teapoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːpɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈtiˌpɔɪ/
rhymes: -iːpɔɪ
Forms: form: teapoys
form: tepoy
form: tea-poy
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Hindi तिपाई (tipāī), Urdu تپائی (tipāi, “teapoy”), from a merger of Sanskrit त्रिपाद (tripāda, “tripod”) + Classical Persian سه پای (sih-pāy, “tripod”), with the spelling of the first element influenced by association with tea. Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”), the first element of त्रिपाद (tripāda), is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”); while Classical Persian پای (pây, “foot”), the second element of سه پای, is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”), from *ped- (“to step; to walk; to fall; to stumble”). Doublet of tripod and tripus.
Senses: examples: text: “They're like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar — good material but not polished.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 15:
text: The teapoy, derived from the Hindi/Persian phrase denoting a three-footed table, supported a tea set or tea-related objects. Not all teapoys were tripod-like tables or sold singly. The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.
ref: 2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), pages 107–108:
glosses: Originally, a three-legged decorative stand or table; now, especially, one with recesses for holding tea caddies and/or a tea service.
wikipedia: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Related terms: charpoy