cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
misogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misogynous
form: most misogynous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.
Synonyms: misogynistic
misogynist
misogynic
Derived terms: misogynously
Related terms: misandrous
vulnific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulnific
form: most vulnific
Etymology: From Latin vulnus (“wound”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: glosses: Causing wounds.
Isabella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzəˈbɛlə/
Etymology: Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.
Senses: examples: text: [C]an you ſo ſteed me, / As bring me to the ſight of Iſabella, / A Nouice of this place, and the faire Siſter / To her vnhappie brother Claudio?
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 64, column 1:
text: A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.
ref: 1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I")
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Isabelline
Isabella County
Isabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzəˈbɛlə/
Forms: form: Isabellas
Etymology: Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.
Senses: glosses: A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca.
examples: text: If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]
ref: 1864, Sir William Crookes, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume 10, page 301:
text: The late Queen Victoria drove behind horses of a peculiar shade which nothing but Isabella color would describe. Now it is to appear in furs for the élite.
ref: 1901 August 18, “Women Here and There”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2025:
text: Mr. and Mrs. Moes left after the reception for New York and other places, the bride wearing Burgundy cloth with a chic grey hat and veil and Isabella fox furs.
ref: 1915 October 28, “Weddings”, in The Globe, volume LXXII, number 20,523, Toronto, Ont., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of isabella.
Isabelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.
Derived terms: word: Belle
word: Issy
word: Izzy
Related terms: Isabel
pluggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plug + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The system features a pluggable authentication module.
glosses: Capable of being plugged, or plugged in, especially in reference to optional components of software.
Derived terms: hot-pluggable
unpluggable
Ysabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Isabel.
Senses: examples: text: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
ref: 1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Isabel: a female given name.
latinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latinate
form: most latinate
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of Latinate.
Romance language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romance languages
Senses: glosses: Any language descended from Latin.
Synonyms: word: Romance language
Hypernyms: word: language
Related terms: word: Latin
word: Neo-Latin
word: Rhaeto-Romanic
word: The five most widely-spoken Romance languages
word: in order of decreasing number of speakers: Spanish
word: Portuguese
word: French
word: Italian
word: Romanian
word: English
Isabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪzəbɛl/
Etymology: From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth.
Senses: examples: text: Mariana. O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part:
Lend me your knees, and all my life to come,
I'll lend you all my life to do you service.
ref: Act V, Scene I
text: There is a silvery bell-like music in the name, which is exceedingly attractive, and which has made it a favorite with the poets. - - - Mary Howitt, in her Flower comparisons, has the following melodious lines:
Now for mad-cap Isabel: / What shall suit her, pr'y thee tell? / Isabel is brown and wild; /Will be evermore a child;
ref: 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 119:
text: I'm glad you spell your name like that. It's the best of all the ways to spell Isabel.
ref: 1994 Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell), No Night Is Too Long, page 110
text: How many poor girls, who would have been wild and raging and beautiful and free sex goddesses if only their parents had found it in their hearts to name them Isabel, instead had to stuff their poor psyches into the name Heather?
ref: 2002, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in Leyte province, Philippines.
glosses: A place name:
A province on the island of Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands.
glosses: A place name:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Embarrass Township, Edgar County, Illinois.
glosses: A place name:
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Barber County, Kansas.
glosses: A place name:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Benson County, North Dakota.
glosses: A place name:
A place in the United States:
A town in Dewey County, South Dakota.
Derived terms: Santa Isabel
Santa Isabel Ishuatán
Related terms: sense: given names
word: Isabell
word: Isabella
word: Isabelle
word: Ishbel
word: Isobel
word: Ysabel
sense: pet forms
word: Bel
word: Bell
word: Bella
word: Belle
word: Isa
word: Izzie
word: Izzy
word: Tibbie
word: Tibby
word: Bibbey
word: Bibbs
word: Bibby
word: Bible
word: Ebbetts
word: Hibberson
word: Hibbett
word: Hibbit
word: Hibbitt
word: Hibble
word: Hibbott
word: Hibbs
word: Hible
word: Hipperson
word: Ibberson
word: Ibbeson
word: Ibbetson
word: Ibbett
word: Ibbison
word: Ibbitson
word: Ibbitt
word: Ibbotson
word: Ibbott
word: Ibbs
word: Ibell
word: Ibeson
word: Ibison
word: Ibitson
word: Ibotson
word: Ibson
word: Isabell
word: Isbell
word: Isbill
word: Libby
word: Tibb
word: Tibbatts
word: Tibbets
word: Tibbett
word: Tibbey
word: Tibbits
word: Tibbitts
word: Tibbott
word: Tibbotts
word: Tibbs
word: Tibby
himbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪmbəʊ/
enpr: hĭm'bō
ipa: /ˈhɪmboʊ/
rhymes: -ɪmbəʊ
Forms: form: himbos
Etymology: Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]
ref: 1991 August 12, Stuart Emmrich, “‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads”, in Adweek, volume 41, page 16:
text: […] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.
ref: 2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo.
Synonyms: bimboy
hunk
jock
Related terms: dimbo
cinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more cinematic
form: most cinematic
Etymology: From cinema + -tic. Compare French cinématique.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the cinema.
examples: text: Despite being shot on tiny budget, the student film looked incredibly cinematic.
glosses: Resembling a professional motion picture.
Derived terms: absolutely cinematic
anticinematic
cinematically
cinematicity
ecocinematic
metacinematic
neurocinematic
noncinematic
postcinematic
precinematic
uncinematic
cinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: cinematics
Etymology: From cinema + -tic. Compare French cinématique.
Senses: examples: text: Is there a way to skip this long cinematic?
text: When you talk about writing in games, some designers think you're speaking only about cinematics. Of all the ways to evoke emotion, however, cinematics are the least game-like portion of any game.
ref: 2004, David Freeman, Creating Emotion in Games, New Riders, →ISBN, page 390:
topics: video-games
glosses: A cut scene.
topics: video-games
glosses: A short film promoting a video game or franchise, often featuring its characters or universe
cinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: cinematics
Etymology: Variant of kinematic.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Dated form of kinematic.
kitschy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: kitschier
form: kitschiest
Etymology: From kitsch + -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”).
Senses: examples: text: This is what his admirers go for: the gravelly grain of his film stock, the crowded monochrome of his compositions (the new film is mostly in black-and-white, with kitschy spasms of color), and the way in which light bounces and breathes from the faces of his players.
ref: 2004 May 10, The New Yorker:
text: Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.
ref: 2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Having the nature of kitsch: excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
Synonyms: corny
Derived terms: kitschily
kitschiness
unkitschy
fair dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌfeː ˈdɪŋ.kəm]
Etymology: see dinkum.
Senses: examples: text: Are you fair dinkum?
translation: Are you telling me the truth?; Do you really mean that?
english: Are you telling me the truth?; Do you really mean that?
text: I mean, if they were out at a concert or something, or if they were involved in some other out-of-school social activity and some fair dinkum Aussie bloke, with a fair dinkum Aussie accent, and a fair dinkum Aussie hat, preferably chewing on a fair dinkum gum leaf, and holding a koala bear in one hand and a kangaroo in the other stood up and delivered those Lawson poems in full bore Strine, the girls would probably have loved him.
ref: 2002, John Dutch, April and Anderson, page 63:
text: 2004, Susie Ashworth et al., Lonely Planet Australia,
When people think of Australia they commonly think of the outback; or koalas, kangaroos and ‘fair dinkum’ frontier types.
text: ‘You're not wrong there, Doc. Of course, you'd get more of a fair dinkum picture if you were able to interview members of the Wilson family but that would be darned near impossible.’
ref: 2007, Barbara Hartmann King, Coloured Sands, page 55:
text: 2008 Joe Hockey interviewed on 4 Corners, https://web.archive.org/web/20080413070720/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s2165787.htm,
He appreciated the honesty, he appreciated the fact that I rang him and was prepared to be fair dinkum with him, and he heard what I said.
glosses: Genuine, honest, fair and square.
Synonyms: sense: genuine
word: for real
sense: genuine
word: genuine
sense: genuine
word: honest
sense: genuine
word: straight dinkum
sense: genuine
word: true
Derived terms: word: fair dinks
fair dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌfeː ˈdɪŋ.kəm]
Etymology: see dinkum.
Senses: examples: text: She checked what he had produced against the diagram in her book, smiled and said, “Fair dinkum, you really do teach maths,” which took Daniel a little by surprise as he wasn’t sure what “fair dinkum” meant, but as it was accompanied by a smile he assumed it was some form of approval.
ref: 1991, Jeffrey Archer, As the Crow Flies, Pan Macmillan, published 2004, unnumbered page:
text: Fair dinkum, I'm being straight up with you now, I could have hit him.
ref: 1995, Edward Berridge, The Lives of the Saints, page 33:
text: Kevin, fair dinkum mate, you've got to put your boot into the ball, you're too slow to do all this finessin'.
ref: 2004, Sally Warhaft, Well May We Say: The Speeches That Made Australia, page 466:
text: 2011, Annabel Stafford, The Mob Can't Hurt You, University of Technology, Sydney, The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology, unnumbered page,
Well, then I've started fucken crying cause I'm fair dinkum scared the prick's gonna kill me. […] Fair dinkum, it sounds like the whole fucken town's out.
glosses: Truly, honestly.
Synonyms: sense: truly
word: for real
sense: truly
word: straight up
Derived terms: word: fair dinks
silkworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlkwɜːm/
Forms: form: silkworms
Etymology: From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.
Derived terms: Pernyi silkworm
silkworm moth
Related terms: bombic
bombycine
access time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaksɛsˌtʌɪm/
Forms: form: access times
Etymology: First attested in 1948.
Senses: examples: text: Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.
ref: 1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.
examples: text: It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]
ref: 2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
Derived terms: average access time
disk access time
rococo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: rococos
Etymology: Borrowed from French rococo.
Senses: examples: text: They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 384:
glosses: A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
examples: text: Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature.
ref: 1896, The American Stationer, volume 40, page 793:
text: The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A piece of ornamentation in this style.
rococo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: more rococo
form: most rococo
Etymology: Borrowed from French rococo.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the rococo style.
glosses: Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
glosses: Old-fashioned.
germline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germlines
Etymology: From germ + line.
Senses: examples: text: Germline gene therapy is a controversial, complex topic; only through many open discussions of this topic by a broad spectrum of our society will we gain the wisdom needed for proper evaluation of the factors that must be considered before we complete initiation of these protocols.
ref: 2000, Gregory Stock, John Campbell, Engineering the Human Germline, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes.
Derived terms: germlineless
nongermline
accessorial service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessorial services
Senses: glosses: A service, in addition to transportation, rendered by carriers and others.
Hyponyms: sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: crating
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: packing and handling
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: storage
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: switching
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: diversion
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: lighterage
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: wharfage
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: cartage
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: recoopering
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: loading
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: unloading
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: railroad cars
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: port loading and unloading
sense: service other than transportation by a carrier
word: processing
Germanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Germanization.
accessory equipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any nonexpendable equipment that has been fixed in place or attached to a craft, vehicle or other equipment, but which may be detached without impairing the item removed or affecting the basic function of the object to which it is fastened.
humanzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humanzees
Etymology: Blend of human + chimpanzee.
Senses: examples: text: The archetypal hybrid is the humanzee, as it has appeared in popular culture and in policy discussions. The being would be a humanzee (if the father is human) or chimphuman (if the mother is human).
ref: 2009, Andrea L. Bonnicksen, Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research: Politics and Policymaking, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
synonyms: manpanzee
coordinate_terms: chuman
chimphuman
glosses: A hypothetical hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee.
chuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuː.mən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: chumans
Etymology: Blend of chimpanzee or chimp + human.
Senses: examples: text: The chuman had been sheer fantasy. Oliver was an unusual chimp, yet a chimp just the same. But what really stands in the way of a chuman? Did chumans ever exist?
ref: 2016, Itai Yanai, Lercher Martin, The Society of Genes, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 151:
synonyms: chimphuman
coordinate_terms: humanzee
manpanzee
glosses: A hypothetical hybrid of a male chimpanzee and a female human.
TEH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Trans Europe Halles, a European cultural organization of venues that house the arts.
air traffic controller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air traffic controllers
Senses: glosses: A person who operates an air traffic control system, to expedite the safe flow of aircraft.
air-to-surface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from an aircraft at a target on land or water
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
ground-to-air
surface-to-air
air-to-air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: With the participants being two or more aircraft in flight.
raw_tags: of an act or action
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Fired from an aircraft in flight at another one.
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
surface-to-air
air-to-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from an aircraft at a target on the ground
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
surface-to-air
A/G
ground-to-air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from the ground at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ship-to-air
surface-to-air
surface-to-air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from the ground, or from a ship, at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
ship-to-ground
air terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air terminals
Senses: glosses: the facility on an airfield or airport where aircraft are loaded and unloaded of passengers or freight
Synonyms: airport terminal
air taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air taxis
form: airtaxi
Senses: glosses: A small aircraft that makes short passenger flights, especially to destinations not serviced by airlines.
Synonyms: commuterliner
air shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air sheds
form: airshed
Etymology: From air + watershed.
Senses: glosses: A region's air supply.
glosses: The region supplied by a source of air.
airshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airsheds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air shed.
air shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air shafts
Senses: examples: text: A doctor testified to the effect that the atmosphere on the Metropolitan was 'concentrated fog'. [...] Further air shafts were installed, but 'electrivisation' was coming, and everyone knew it.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of airshaft.
passers-by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passersby
Senses: glosses: plural of passer-by
passersby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passers-by
Senses: glosses: plural of passerby
slave trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave trades
Senses: examples: text: There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
glosses: Traffic in slaves.
Related terms: slave trader
orthopaedics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orthopedics.
nucleobase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleobases
Etymology: From nucleo- + base.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
Synonyms: word: nucleobase
word: base
Hyponyms: thymine
uracil
adenine
cytosine
guanine
Moctezuma's revenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge.
ref: 2010, George Ann Huck, Jann E. Freed, Women of Yucatán: Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18:
text: When we were together in Mexico in the early seventies, she came down with a bad case of Moctezuma's revenge, complaining that she'd never been sick to her stomach before.
ref: 2014, M. I. Lastman, “Answers”, in Rocky Mountain Locust: Opus I, Trio: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, part 1 (Jim), page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of Montezuma's revenge.
great-aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-aunts
form: great aunt
Etymology: From great- + aunt.
Senses: glosses: An aunt of one's parent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent).
Synonyms: word: grandaunt
word: grauntie
journalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)nəˈlɪstɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Etymology: From journal + -istic (“adjective”). Also parsed directly as journalist + -ic (“adjective”), also used in sense of related journalism (having to do with journalism).
Senses: examples: text: Substituting "[expletive]" for swear words in an article's text is a journalistic practice of sensibility.
text: In September 1981, I was appointed Assistant Editor of Steam World (edited by David Wilcock), so was lucky to be trained in the same journalistic approach which both David and Peter had already deployed in transforming the sector.
ref: 2023 January 25, Nigel Harris, “A Life Remembered: Peter Kelly”, in RAIL, number 975, page 48:
glosses: Related to journalism or journalists.
Derived terms: journalistically
nonjournalistic
parajournalistic
photojournalistic
prejournalistic
pseudojournalistic
telejournalistic
unjournalistic
Related terms: journal
journalism
journalist
journalistical
short-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-cuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shortcut.
short-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-cuts
form: short-cutting
form: short-cut
form: short-cut
Senses: examples: text: Boats, too, could be dragged overland, short-cutting the voyage from the Clyde to the Western Isles.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 372, about Tarbert, Kintyre:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shortcut.
short-cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-cut
short-cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short-cut
revolutionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/
ipa: /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/
ipa: /ˌɹev.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnɑɪz/
Forms: form: revolutionizes
form: revolutionizing
form: revolutionized
form: revolutionized
form: revolutionise
Etymology: From revolution + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
ref: 1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page 177:
text: For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
ref: 2010 January 22, Stephen Mihm, “Capitalist Chameleon”, in The New York Times:
text: Another kind of machine learning, called neural networks, is also “revolutionizing” AI, the report said.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
text: ChatGPT and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) have revolutionized the AI landscape, providing an accessible and reliable platform for AI-enabled applications.
ref: 2023, Mohak Agarwal, Generative AI for Entrepreneurs in a Hurry, Notion Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.
push-button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌbʌtn̩/
Senses: examples: text: push-button warfare
text: a push-button automatic [transmission]
text: The push-button, entrance-exit signalling console incorporated in the operating floor of the yard control tower governs entry to and egress from the yard, [...]
ref: 1963 September, “The new Tyne and Healey Mills yards of the North Eastern”, in Modern Railways, page 171:
related: word: pushbutton#Adjective
glosses: Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
Related terms: button pusher
hit the button
nuclear button
push someone's buttons
push the right buttons
push-button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌbʌtn̩/
Forms: form: push-buttons
Senses: examples: text: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
ref: 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
text: The cab equipment of the automatic control system is illustrated. It consists of a rotary switch graduated from 0 to 120 km.p.h. at 5 km.p.h. intervals, and four push-buttons.
ref: 1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 335:
related: word: pushbutton#Noun
word: push button#Noun
glosses: An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.
taikonaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪkəˌnɔːt/
Forms: form: taikonauts
Etymology: From Mandarin 太空 (tàikōng, “space”) + -naut, modelled after astronaut, cosmonaut, spationaut, etc. The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (趙里昱 (Zhào Lǐyù)) from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media.
Senses: examples: text: The past decade has seen remarkable events and changes: […] The Columbia disaster and a Chinese taikonaut in orbit
ref: 2003, Peter Schwartz, Inevitable Surprises, page x:
coordinate_terms: astronaut
cosmonaut
spationaut
glosses: A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese astronaut.
gauzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːzi
Forms: form: gauzier
form: gauziest
Etymology: From gauze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
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 194:
text: Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
synonyms: gauzelike
glosses: Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
glosses: light; giving the effect of haze
examples: text: Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?
ref: 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:
glosses: vague or elusive
examples: 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003
glosses: tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
Derived terms: gauzily
gauziness
short-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-term
form: shorter-term
form: most short-term
form: shortest-term
form: short term
form: short‐term
form: shortterm
Etymology: From short + term.
Senses: examples: text: This short-term plan deals with the next few days.
text: Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.
examples: short-term exposure
glosses: Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.
Synonyms: short-run
Derived terms: short-termism
short-termist
short-termness
short-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more short-term
form: shorter-term
form: most short-term
form: shortest-term
form: short term
form: short‐term
form: shortterm
Etymology: From short + term.
Senses: antonyms: long-term
glosses: Over a relatively short period of time.
bedevil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɪˈdɛvəɫ]
ipa: /bɪˈdɛvəl/
ipa: /biˈdɛvəl/
Forms: form: bedevils
form: bedeviling
form: bedevilling
form: bedeviled
form: bedeviled
form: bedevilled
form: bedevilled
Etymology: From be- + devil.
Senses: examples: text: Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.
text: Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.
ref: 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Michael De Santa (Ned Luke): You know, Devin [Devin Winston], the way I see it, and hey, I'm no intelligent businessman like you, but the way I see it, there's two great evils that bedevil American capitalism of the type that you practice.
ref: 2013, Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, scene: The Third Way:
synonyms: word: disturb
word: molest
word: pester
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
synonyms: word: befuddle
word: bemuse
word: addle
word: baffle
word: lose
word: stick
word: stump
word: baffound
word: bamboozle
word: bedevil
word: befuddle
word: throw
word: bemuse
word: bewilder
word: bumfuzzle
word: complicate
word: confound
word: confuddle
word: confuse
word: confuzzle
word: dazzle
word: discombobulate
word: disconcert
word: dumbfound
word: ferhoodle
word: flabagast
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergaster
word: flurry
word: fluster
word: flummox
word: fuddle
word: jumble
word: knot
word: mix up
word: perplex
word: puzzle
glosses: To perplex or bewilder.
synonyms: bodyjack
qualifier: originally
glosses: To possess (someone's mind).
Derived terms: bedeviller
bedevilment
unbedeviled
unbedevilled
chancellorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancellorships
Etymology: From chancellor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The status of being a chancellor.
detainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪteɪˈniː/
Forms: form: detainees
Etymology: From detain + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In his statement, Miliband said the two flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia. Each one had a single detainee on board who did not leave the aircraft.
ref: 2008 February 22, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger, “Embarrassed Miliband admits two US rendition flights refuelled on British soil”, in The Guardian:
text: Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
ref: 2013, Anthony Gregory, The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror, page 74:
text: More than 3,000 people have been arrested since Jan. 9. The police have even released images of some detainees stripped down to their underwear, recalling images from Mr. Bukele's infamous megaprisons.
ref: 2024 January 25, Iván Ulchur-Rota, “When Chaos Erupted in Ecuador, Disinformation Followed”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2024:
glosses: Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
Derived terms: ghost detainee
carioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cariocas
Etymology: From Portuguese carioca.
Senses: examples: text: In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps.
ref: 1982, Arthur J. Helfet, Disorders of the knee, page 388:
text: These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).
ref: 2006, Michael L. Voight, Barbara J. Hoogenboom, William E. Prentice, Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, →ISBN:
text: Leg press, squat, circle running, figure eights, single-leg hops, vertical jumps, lateral bounds, one-legged long jumps, and carioca (crossover walking) are some examples.
ref: 2007, Walter R. Frontera, Clinical Sports Medicine: Medical Management and Rehabilitation, →ISBN:
glosses: A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
examples: text: But, for someone looking at it objectively, the relationship is a deceptive one – because at the same time as cariocas can't be seen working (shut up as they are in offices, government institutions and commercial establishments), everyone can see cariocas not working.
ref: 2010, Ruy Castro, Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire, →ISBN:
text: Or he might go to Rio. Rio with its white sand. He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.
ref: 2011, Robert Minhinnick, The Keys of Babylon, →ISBN:
text: Even though cariocas are very professional they tend to be more laid back and easy going than business people from Sao Paulo. You can notice this as soon as you talk to a carioca.
ref: 2012, Ade Asefeso, CEO Guide to Doing Business in Brazil, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Carioca.
stop codon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop codon
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences have been given names: "UAG" is amber, "UGA" is opal, and "UAA" is ochre.
Synonyms: termination codon
Hypernyms: codon
cantata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɑːtə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: cantatas
form: cantate
Etymology: From Italian cantata. Doublet of chanty.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
Related terms: sonata
account code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: account codes
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An account designator, especially one that is not purely numeric.
Synonyms: sense: account designator
word: account number
Related terms: sort code
disposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈspəʊzəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈspoʊzəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈspəʉzəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈspɐʉzəɫ]
rhymes: -əʊzəl
Forms: form: disposals
form: disposall
Etymology: From dispose + -al.
Senses: examples: text: at your disposal
coordinate_terms: dispensation
glosses: A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things.
synonyms: consignment
glosses: A disposing of or getting rid of something.
examples: 2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round eight? Australian Football League, 7 May 2019. Accessed 8 May 2019.
Lewy Taylor was quiet against the Swans with just seven disposals but hit the mark with a couple of kicks inside 50 during the crucial last quarter.
synonyms: consignment
glosses: A disposing of or getting rid of something.
A kick or a handball of the ball during a game.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The power to use something or someone.
examples: text: 2 bedroom apt nicely done. Dishwasher, disposal and many closets. Heat incl $290 mo + security.
ref: 1978 April 8, “Boston So. End (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: A garbage disposal
Derived terms: at someone's disposal
at the disposal of
diaper disposal
garbage disposal
garbage disposal unit
nondisposal
predisposal
waste disposal
waste disposal unit
Related terms: disposition
venerealee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪə.ɹɪ.əl.iː/
ipa: /vɪ-/
ipa: /vəˈnɪ.ɹi.əl.i/
Forms: form: venerealees
Etymology: From venereal + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he heavy-lipp'd slave is invited … the venerealee is invited, / There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
ref: 1855 July 4, Walt Whitman, “[Song of Myself]”, in Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: [James and Andrew Rome], →OCLC, stanza 19, page 25:
glosses: One who has a venereal disease.
come to a head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to a head
form: coming to a head
form: came to a head
form: come to a head
form: bring to a head
Senses: examples: text: The escalating crisis between England and her American colonies came to a head when fighting broke out in 1775.
text: In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: To rapidly reach a turning point or climax.
examples: text: His festering anger came to a head after the incident.
glosses: To suddenly reveal itself, having lain latent for a time.
glosses: To suddenly become mature or perfected, having been inchoate or imperfectly formed.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To reach its final stage.
raw_tags: of an abscess
accountable depot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accountable depots
Senses: glosses: A depot maintaining a formal set of accountable records.
accountable disbursing officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accountable disbursing officers
Etymology: Replacement for finance officer.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any commissioned military officer who receives and disburses public money in his own name for purposes specified by law.
accountable mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accountable mails
Senses: glosses: A category of mail in the US Postal Service including registered, numbered, insured, and certified mail.
buzzcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzˌkʌt/
Forms: form: buzzcuts
form: buzz cut
Etymology: From buzz + cut.
Senses: glosses: A closely-cropped military-style haircut.
Derived terms: english: a male nickname for men with a buzzcut
translation: a male nickname for men with a buzzcut
word: Buzz
word: buzz-cutted
confinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaɪnmənt/
rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: confinements
Etymology: Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN:
glosses: The act of confining or the state of being confined.
examples: text: In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
ref: 1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629:
text: At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers:
synonyms: labour
birthing
glosses: Lying-in, time of giving birth.
glosses: lockdown
Derived terms: anticonfinement
bioconfinement
confinement loaf
confinement time
deconfinement
energy confinement time
expected date of confinement
nanoconfinement
nonconfinement
postconfinement
preconfinement
reconfinement
self-confinement
solitary confinement
unconfinement