cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
au fait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊˈfeɪ/
ipa: /ˌoʊˈfeɪ/
Forms: form: more au fait
form: most au fait
Etymology: Borrowed from French au fait (literally “at the fact”).
Senses: examples: text: Are you au fait with the rules of the game?
text: The Chevalier was, as usual, au fait at all the anecdotes of the court, which had been exceedingly gay, owing to the visit of Madame de Savoie and her daughter, the Princess Marguerite.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 175:
text: Now there is father; he is au fait in all these matters; has a theory for every case of whooping-cough, – and a mission school.
ref: 1871, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, “The Silent Partner”, in Popular American Literature of the 19th Century, →ISBN, page 857:
text: In that case, it would help to have a benevolent deity who is au fait with those complexities — but that there is such a deity is a feature of Stoic theology.
ref: 1999, R.J. Hankinson, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, →ISBN, page 535:
text: This may sound needless to the professional who is au fait with the history and direction of the investigation.
ref: 2003, D R J Laming, Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?, →ISBN, page 4:
synonyms: acquainted
at home
conversant
familiar
glosses: Being familiar with or informed about something.
barbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹˌbɛl/
Forms: form: barbells
Etymology: Blend of bar + dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.
Senses: synonyms: weight bar
glosses: A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
glosses: A piece of jewellery composed of a straight bar with a bead on each end, used as a piercing.
Derived terms: barbell bar pad
barbell cushion
barbell pad
barbell rack
nanobarbell
Related terms: dumbbell
kettlebell
braked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brake
braked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: examples: text: On most aircraft, the mainwheels are braked, but the nosewheel or tailwheel is not.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Equipped with brakes (the vehicle-stopping devices).
raw_tags: of a wheel
Derived terms: air-braked
airbraked
continuous-braked
dual-braked
non-braked
unbraked
Jessika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of rare, modern usage, variant of Jessica
concept album
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concept albums
Etymology: First applied to the albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Their Satanic Majesties Request, both released in 1967.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than merely a collection of unrelated songs, their new LP (which was nine months in the making) is a concept album, “an integrated and ethereal experience with a cosmic quality.”
ref: 1967 December 9, “New Stones LP ‘Landmark’”, in Record World, →ISSN, page 22:
text: […] while the consistent use of lengthy forms such as the programmatic song cycle of the concept album and the multimovement suite underscores the hippies' new, drug-induced conception of time.
ref: 1996, Edward Macan, Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, page 13:
text: Moore relates the concept album to the ideals of progressive rock in the 1970s, building on Sgt. Pepper 's appeal to unity at the album level (through packaging, characters, and a simulated stage performance) and articulating a "desire to establish a degree of aesthetic [that is, musical] unity greater than that of the individual song,"[…]
ref: 2010, Marianne Tatom Letts, Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album, page 19:
text: They gave the Beatles' ‘Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ as an example of a concept album.
ref: 2023, Eric Wolfson, Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From The Beatles to Beyoncé, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: An album of music where the content follows an overall theme or narrative.
wikipedia: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Related terms: concept video
McCarthyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɑː.θi.ɪzəm/
ipa: /məˈkɑɹ.θi.ɪzəm/
Forms: form: McCarthyisms
Etymology: From McCarthy + -ism, named after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. Originates from a 1950 Washington Post political cartoon by Herbert Block.
Senses: examples: text: This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids, political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. It’s the dawn of a new age of political witch-hunts, where burning at the stake meets data harvesting and online mobs.
ref: 2024 November 17, Carole Cadwalladr, “How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2024:
glosses: The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism.
McCarthyism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɑː.θi.ɪzəm/
ipa: /məˈkɑɹ.θi.ɪzəm/
Etymology: From McCarthy + -ism, named after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. Originates from a 1950 Washington Post political cartoon by Herbert Block.
Senses: examples: text: An important symptom of the difference between McCarthyism and Birchism is the shift in the geographical center of gravity.
ref: 1964, Daniel Bell, The Radical Right, page 234:
hypernyms: anticommunism
glosses: The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.
Derived terms: McMuskism
Related terms: McCarthyist
McCarthyistic
McCarthyite
McCarthyesque
witch-hunt
bathrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːθ.ɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/
Forms: form: bathrobes
Etymology: From bath + robe.
Senses: glosses: A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully.
Derived terms: bathrobed
Related terms: bath kimono
dressing gown
nightgown
towel
Incredible Hulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɹɛdəbəl hʌlk/
Forms: form: Incredible Hulks
Etymology: Named after the Incredible Hulk, a Marvel Comics Universe character with green skin.
Senses: glosses: A green-colored cocktail made with equal parts of the fruit liqueur Hpnotiq and Hennessy brand cognac poured over ice.
wikipedia: Incredible Hulk
Marvel Comics Universe
Related terms: Hulk
science centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science centres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of science center.
ayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
homophone: eyes
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of aye
ayes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
homophone: eyes
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aye
hugeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːd͡ʒ.nəs/
ipa: [çu̟ːd͡ʒ.nɨs]
Forms: form: hugenesses
Etymology: From Middle English hugenesse, equivalent to huge + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You little trollop, my husband took you in, on a low rent, out of the hugeness of his heart.’
ref: 1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, Virago Press (2012), page 104:
glosses: the quality of being huge; immensity.
capsaicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpˈseɪəsən/
ipa: /kæpˈseɪsən/
Forms: form: capsaicins
Etymology: Arbitrary alteration of earlier capsicine, capsicin (“material extracted from cayenne pepper”), presumably to prevent confusion, from German Capsicin, from New Latin capsicum + German -in. Name introduced by John Clough Thresh (1850–1932) in “Capsaicin, the Active Principle of Capsicum Fruits”.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound found in chilli peppers, which is responsible for their piquancy.
Derived terms: capsaicinoid
dihydrocapsaicin
homocapsaicin
homodihydrocapsaicin
Related terms: capsicum
piss and moan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses and moans
form: pissing and moaning
form: pissed and moaned
form: pissed and moaned
Senses: examples: text: Are you going to do something about it, or are you just going to piss and moan?
glosses: To complain, especially needlessly and loudly.
in one's cups
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: in one’s cups
Senses: examples: text: [T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 6, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
text: They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses.
ref: 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Blithedale Romance:
text: [H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved.
ref: 1906, E. W. Hornung, chapter 1, in The Shadow of the Rope:
text: The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.
ref: 2006 November 17, Margaret Hawkins, “Home Alone: Blackmon photos find solitude among domestic chaos”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page NC50:
glosses: Drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally.
Synonyms: drunk
soy sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soy sauces
form: soya sauce
Senses: synonyms: word: soy
word: toyo
glosses: A condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.
pulverize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulverizes
form: pulverizing
form: pulverized
form: pulverized
form: pulverise
Etymology: From French pulvériser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pulverise.
Derived terms: pulverized sugar
soybean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪˌbin/
Forms: form: soybeans
form: soya bean
form: soyabean
form: soy bean
Etymology: From soy + bean.
Senses: glosses: A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.
examples: text: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref: 2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:
text: During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over flames. A feature of royal court cuisine during the Joseon dynasty (1392 to 1910), neobiani is considered a predecessor to today’s beloved bulgogi.
ref: 2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food:
text: It’s been nearly four years since China put tariffs on American-grown soybeans during a tit-for-tat trade war with then-President Donald Trump – and they remain in place despite the change in administrations.
ref: 2022 May 8, Katie Lobosco, “Trump’s trade war looms over soybean farmers 4 years later”, in CNN:
glosses: The edible seed of this plant.
Synonyms: soy
soya
Derived terms: field soybean
green soybean
IOM soybeans
soybean oil
soybean rust
nitrogen-fixing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter.
ref: 1943, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (contributor), The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volumes 151-152, page 384:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.
Related terms: nitrogen fixation
ground cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground covers
form: groundcover
Senses: glosses: Something, particularly plants, which overlays an area of land. May refer to plants specifically grown to prevent erosion of an area.
Related terms: cover crop
underbrush
understory
catalytic converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: catalytic converters
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: Cadillac converter
word: cat
word: catalyser
glosses: A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.
Derived terms: cat
hopping mad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.
text: "And you hit him? dear old Father Bhaer?" […]
"I was hopping mad at the time, and thought I shouldn't mind a bit, rather like it perhaps. But when I'd hit uncle one good crack […] I couldn't go on. […] I felt so mean."
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Dora wouldn't help me make pies 'cause she was afraid of messing her clo'es and that made me hopping mad.
ref: 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Marilla Adopts Twins”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 84:
text: The biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" — the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President — was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed it in.
ref: 1941 September 15, “The Press: End of a White House Friendship”, in Time, retrieved 05 Dec 2018:
text: Rhonda L. Gaynier, a New York lawyer, is hopping mad because, she says, getting on an airplane these days means being groped by a stranger.
ref: 2004 November 2, Joe Sharkey, “When a Pat-Down Seems Like Groping”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Dec 2018:
glosses: Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.
crisscross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsʹ-krŏs'
ipa: /ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs/
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɔs]
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs]
rhymes: -ɪskɹɒs
Forms: form: crisscrosses
form: crisscrossing
form: crisscrossed
form: crisscrossed
form: criss-cross
Etymology: From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
Senses: examples: text: As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:
text: He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
ref: 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
text: Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To move back and forth over or through.
glosses: To mark with crossed lines.
crisscross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsʹ-krŏs'
ipa: /ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs/
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɔs]
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs]
rhymes: -ɪskɹɒs
Forms: form: crisscrosses
form: criss-cross
Etymology: From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
Senses: examples: text: We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop.
ref: 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Shopping”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: A pattern of crossed lines.
glosses: A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
examples: text: A definite advantage of the fact that no fill-in-the-blank sentences are used is that it's very easy for kids to enter their own words and see them instantly transformed into crisscrosses, word searches, and other fun games.
ref: 1992, Judy Salpeter, Kids and Computers: A Parent's Handbook, page 213:
text: Welcome to the Ultimate Puzzle Challenge — a brand-new series of books for children who love word searches, crisscrosses, mazes, crosswords, and variety puzzles.
ref: 2010, Helene Hovanec, Ultimate Puzzle Challenge: Mind Mashers, page 3:
glosses: A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
glosses: A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
crisscross
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsʹ-krŏs'
ipa: /ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs/
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɔs]
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs]
rhymes: -ɪskɹɒs
Forms: form: criss-cross
Etymology: From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
Senses: glosses: Marked with crossed lines; crisscrossed.
Derived terms: crisscross-row
crisscross
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsʹ-krŏs'
ipa: /ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs/
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɔs]
other: [ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs]
rhymes: -ɪskɹɒs
Forms: form: criss-cross
Etymology: From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
Senses: glosses: Crossing one another.
hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: hoppings
Etymology: Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
Senses: examples: Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
glosses: hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
glosses: The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hop
hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: hoppings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: more hopping
form: most hopping
Senses: glosses: That uses hopping for locomotion.
glosses: Of a location, crowded with people.
Derived terms: b-hopping
bunnyhopping
cafe-hopping
channel-hopping
club-hopping
Darling Downs hopping mouse
distro-hopping
dry hopping
flag-hopping
freighthopping
freight hopping
groundhopping
hopping Dick
hoppingly
hopping mad
hopping mouse
hopping vampire
job-hopping
lead hopping
lindy-hopping
lindy hopping
Mitchell's hopping mouse
quota-hopping
scaffold hopping
spy-hopping
spy hopping
swan hopping
time-hopping
train hopping
matte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæt/
homophone: mat
homophone: Matt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: mattes
Etymology: Borrowed from French mat.
Senses: examples: text: The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).
topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: mat
matting
passe-partout
glosses: A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
examples: text: Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A background, often painted or created with computers
glosses: The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
glosses: An instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface.
Derived terms: closed matte
hard matte
open matte
soft matte
matte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæt/
homophone: mat
homophone: Matt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more matte
form: most matte
Etymology: Borrowed from French mat.
Senses: examples: text: Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.
text: a matte lipstick
synonyms: word: matt
word: flat
word: bland
word: colourless
word: dim
word: dingy
word: dull
word: faint
word: lackluster
word: leaden
word: muddy
word: sad
word: sober
word: uncolorful
word: unholiday
word: wan
antonyms: glossy
glosses: Dull; not reflective of light.
Derived terms: demi-matte
matte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæt/
homophone: mat
homophone: Matt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: mattes
form: matting
form: matted
form: matted
Etymology: Borrowed from French mat.
Senses: glosses: To produce a dull, lustreless surface on (metal).
capriciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more capriciously
form: most capriciously
Etymology: From capricious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Where are we going?" she asked, jibbing capriciously in the descent.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: In a capricious manner; without caution or concern.
unfeelingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfeelingly
form: most unfeelingly
Etymology: From unfeeling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfeeling manner; without concern or regard for feelings.
run the gamut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs the gamut
form: running the gamut
form: ran the gamut
form: run the gamut
Etymology: From gamut (“complete range”).
Senses: examples: text: His tastes in music run the gamut from classical to heavy metal.
text: Palestinians often feel that the police do very little to stop settler violence, which runs the gamut from physical assault, arson, cutting or burning down olive trees, stone throwing at random Palestinian cars, and property damage.
ref: 2018, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine:
glosses: To encompass the full range or variety possible.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: run the gauntlet
nitrogen fixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia and organic derivatives, by natural means, especially such conversion, by microorganisms in the soil, into a form that can be assimilated by plants.
Related terms: nitrogen fixer
nitrogen-fixing
sophomore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒfəmɔː/
ipa: /ˈsɑfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɒfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɔfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɒf(ə)mɔɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɔfᵒmoːʳ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsoːf-/
note: Indic
ipa: /-mɔːʳ/
Etymology: From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.
Senses: examples: text: The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.
text: “Blonde,” which is spelled “Blond” on the album cover and “Blonde” on Apple and elsewhere, hews more closely to what was expected from a sophomore release by one of the most lauded and enigmatic young singers in pop music.
ref: 2016 August 21, Joe Coscarelli, “Frank Ocean Finally Delivers His Album, and a Pop-Up Surprise”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
text: I pledged for DKA my sophomore year and went through a rigorous process of weekly meetings and projects, each designed to build fraternal bonds and to teach values such as honesty, reliability and generosity.
ref: 2020 June 30, Spencer Wright, “My fraternity taught me the secret to surviving a pandemic”, in CNN:
text: Spike Lee’s sophomore film, after his micro-budgeted and critically acclaimed debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” was this big, bold ensemble musical set on the campus of a Historically Black College over a busy homecoming weekend.
ref: 2021 March 5, Jason Bailey, “Watch These 13 Titles on Netflix Before They Leave This Month”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2021:
coordinate_terms: debut
glosses: The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.
glosses: Sophomoric.
sophomore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒfəmɔː/
ipa: /ˈsɑfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɒfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɔfmɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɒf(ə)mɔɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɔfᵒmoːʳ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsoːf-/
note: Indic
ipa: /-mɔːʳ/
Forms: form: sophomores
Etymology: From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.
Senses: examples: text: She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.
glosses: A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
examples: text: The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A three-year-old horse.
Derived terms: sophomoric
sophomore slump
Related terms: moron
morosoph
oxymoron
sophy
-sophy
combinatorial chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of a large number of structurally related compounds, especially in the pharmaceutical industry in an attempt to produce improved drugs.
cosmochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmo- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: The branch of chemistry that deals with the creation of the elements, and their isotopic distribution, in the universe; also with the synthesis and reactions of simple molecules in interstellar space.
Related terms: cosmochemist
astrochemistry
chemistry
xenochemistry
isotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isotope + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of, or relating to isotopes
Derived terms: anisotopic
heteroisotopic
isotopically
isotopic chemistry
isotopic dilution
isotopic labelling
isotopic signature
isotopic spin
isotopism
monoisotopic
nonisotopic
polyisotopic
radioisotopic
isotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + -topic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two presemifields 𝕊 and 𝕊' of characteristic p, when there exists three linear maps g_1, g_2, and g_3 from 𝕊 to 𝕊' such that g_1(x·y)=g_2(x)∘g_3(y) for all x,y∈𝕊.
desiccated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desiccate
desiccated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/
Forms: form: more desiccated
form: most desiccated
Senses: examples: text: The Learned have Diſtinguiſh’d fire into three Species, 1. Light, that is fire in its proper matter, 2. Flame, that is fire is moiſt Air, 3. Cole, that is fire in a burnt Stick or other Deſiccated matter[…]
ref: 1691, John Dunton, editor, The Athenian Mercury, volume II, number 23:
text: Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: dried
Derived terms: cryodesiccated
desiccatedly
nondesiccated
desiccated coconut
desiccated coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiccated coconuts
Senses: glosses: The dried, finely shredded flesh of the coconut, sometimes sweetened.
effervescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛfə(ɹ)ˈvɛsəns/
Forms: form: effervescences
Etymology: Borrowed from French effervescence.
Senses: glosses: The escape of gas from solution in a liquid, especially the escape of carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink.
glosses: Vivacity.
examples: text: We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Foment.
Derived terms: ineffervescence
Related terms: effervesce
effervescent
effervesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf.əɹˈvɛs/
Forms: form: effervesces
form: effervescing
form: effervesced
form: effervesced
Etymology: From Latin effervescere (“to boil up”).
Senses: examples: text: After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle, but is frightened by the sudden explosion of the cork, and drops it upon the floor. There the untasted liquor effervesces.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
raw_tags: of a liquid
glosses: To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
raw_tags: of a gas
glosses: To show high spirits.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: effervescible
effervescingly
effervescive
Related terms: effervescence
effervescent
high spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Apart from yachting and the cross-Channel steamer it was her first experience of being at sea and she was in high spirits.
ref: 2000, Mary S. Lovell, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 415:
synonyms: word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
antonyms: word: low spirits
word: happiness
glosses: Joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness.
Related terms: high-spirited
good spirits
electrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophiles
Etymology: From electro- + -phile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
Related terms: electrophilic
Lewis acid
nucleophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleophiles
Etymology: From nucleo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an electrophile to form a bond.
Derived terms: binucleophile
bionucleophile
carbonucleophile
dinucleophile
heteronucleophile
nucleophilic
pronucleophile
Related terms: Lewis base
squish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: squishes
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze, squelch.
Senses: examples: text: Alex reached the bottom and Grant heard a squish as she landed in the mud on the bottom of the river.
ref: 2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, page 207:
glosses: The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
examples: text: Some conservatives think that in the long run, the party will be better off without squishes like Specter […]
ref: 2009, Time, volume 173, numbers 17–26, page 236:
text: “Josh Mandel: Another failed career politician squish,” a new ad from a super PAC supporting Mr. Vance blared on Ohio television sets on Friday, calling Mr. Mandel, who is mounting his third Senate run, a “two-time loser” and “a moderate for the moderates.”
ref: 2022 April 30, Jonathan Weisman, Trip Gabriel, “Once Soft-Spoken, Ohio Conservatives Embrace the Bombast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political moderate.
examples: text: Where they are loaves and joints melt as snow in the sunshine; bowls of cream are of no more account than acorn-cups filled with dew; and the 'squish'—as they call the mother's home-made marmalade—has to be renewed daily; […]
ref: 1880, Belgravia, volume 40, page 63:
text: There was a time when the “squish” manufactured by Mr. Frank Cooper at Oxford was not known very extensively outside the world of undergraduates. With the march of events though the fame of Cooper's Oxford marmalade has become world-wide, and the natural consequence is that a new factory has had to be built to cope with the increased business.
ref: 1905, The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, page VIII:
glosses: Marmalade.
squish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: squishes
form: squishing
form: squished
form: squished
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze, squelch.
Senses: examples: text: The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.
text: Rather than squishing everything into a tiny window, I have shown only part of my app.
ref: 2012, Adam Freeman, Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using XAML and C#, page 74:
text: It hadn't rained for a few days, and the water in the ditch had been stagnant long enough for insect larvae to hatch. One landed on her nose, and she squished it before flicking it away from her finger.
ref: 2016, Robert Muchamore, The Sleepwalker, page 100:
glosses: To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
examples: text: I kicked off my shoes and wiggled my toes on the soft moss. It felt amazing as it squished between my toes, […]
ref: 2013, Julia Crane, Talia Jager, Broken Promise:
glosses: To be compressed or squeezed.
Synonyms: sense: to squeeze, compress
word: condense
word: squash
word: compress
Derived terms: squish mitten
squishable
squisher
squishy
squish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: squishes
Etymology: Formed by analogy with crush and possibly smash, both of which have senses as types of compression as well as types of attraction.
Possibly first attested in 1999 (see Citations:squish) and then later coined or recoined in 2007 by the user Raisin on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as "a milder synonym for the word 'crush'".
The term was also used with a similar meaning in a 1997 episode of the TV show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, though the 2007 (re)coining was apparently independent.
Senses: glosses: A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
shoot 'em up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoot 'em ups
form: shoot-em-up
form: shoot-'em-up
form: shoot them up
Senses: examples: text: My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.
text: The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.
ref: 1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:
text: An unmissable shoot 'em up.
ref: 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
video-games
glosses: A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.
examples: text: Bullet Hell: DoDonPachi exemplifies the term better than any other shoot 'em up, providing a snowstorm of fiery pixels to both simultaneously dodge and eliminate.
ref: 2011 December 5, Tony Mott, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die: You Must Play Before You Die, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: In a shoot'em up, the player usually looks from above on her player character (most commonly in the form of a spaceship). The spaceship is constantly moving forward, but since the perspective is relatively fixed on it, the traversed space is actually moving from top to bottom or left to right, and the player has no ability to influence that movement.
ref: 2013 August 28, Sebastian Domsch, Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 65:
text: It is surprising nowadays to see so much silicon dedicated to a "niche" feature [starfield rendering], but the extreme popularity of shoot em ups like R-Type, Gradius, or Darius at the time made a good case for it.
ref: 2022 November 5, Fabien Sanglard, The Book of CP-System, Sanglard Publishing, page 88:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
video-games
glosses: A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.
A video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in an autoscrolling two-dimensional world, with emphasis on dodging bullets and predicting enemy movement patterns.
synonyms: shmup
hyponyms: bullet hell
cute-'em-up
Derived terms: cute-'em-up
Related terms: beat 'em up
electrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrophilic
form: most electrophilic
Etymology: From electro- + -philic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, or relating to an electrophile; electron deficient
Derived terms: biselectrophilic
dielectrophilic
electrophilically
electrophilicity
electrophilic substitution
nonelectrophilic
goodie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʊdi
Etymology: From good + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goody.
goodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊdi
Forms: form: goodies
Etymology: From good + -ie (nominal suffix)
Senses: examples: text: What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 127:
related: word: goody
antonyms: baddie
glosses: A good character in a story, often a hero.
glosses: Alternative spelling of goody.
Derived terms: goodie bag
oldie but goodie
Related terms: goodie-goodie
goodie two shoes
nucleophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: electrophilic
glosses: of, or relating to a nucleophile
Derived terms: nonnucleophilic
nucleophilically
nucleophilicity
nucleophilic substitution
Related terms: substitution reaction
SN1
SN2
goodie bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodie bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goody bag.
substitution reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitution reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a reaction in which one functional group is replaced with another
Related terms: nucleophilic substitution
electrophilic substitution
nucleophilic substitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleophilic substitutions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: in aliphatic organic chemistry, a form of substitution reaction in which the leaving functional group is replaced with a nucleophile
Related terms: SN1
SN2
electrophilic substitution
electrophilic substitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophilic substitutions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: in aromatic organic chemistry, a form of substitution reaction in which the leaving functional group (normally hydrogen) is replaced with an electrophile
Related terms: nucleophilic substitution
SN1 reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SN1 reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a unimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction
Related terms: SN2 reaction
SN2 reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SN2 reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction
Related terms: SN1 reaction
femtochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From femto- + chemistry, since it deals with time scales of femtoseconds.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
time scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time scales
form: timescale
Senses: glosses: A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: time factor
glosses: The ratio of the duration of time of an event as simulated by an analog computer to the actual duration of time of the event in the physical system under study.
Hypernyms: scale
Hyponyms: geologic time scale
Derived terms: time scale calculus
time-scale factor
timescale number
flame test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flame tests
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: in qualitative inorganic analysis, a simple test for the presence of a range of metallic elements based on the colour imparted to a flame by a sample
Related terms: borax bead test
charcoal block test
borax bead test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borax bead tests
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: in qualitative inorganic analysis, a test for the presence of certain metallic elements by observing the colours given to a bead of borax in a loop of platinum wire held in the oxidizing and reducing parts of a Bunsen burner flame
Related terms: flame test
charcoal block test
Zuchon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zuchons
Etymology: Blend of Tzu + bichon
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog, a cross between a bichon and a Shih Tzu.
puri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpʊɹi/
rhymes: -ʊəɹi
ipa: /ˈpʊəɹiː/
ipa: /ˈpʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpʊɹi/
rhymes: -ʊəɹi
Forms: form: puris
form: poori
form: puree
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit पूर (pūra)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀽𑀭 (pūra)
Hindi पूरी (pūrī)bor.
English puri
From Hindi पूरी (pūrī), a kind of fried flatbread.
Senses: examples: text: No. 17 PURI. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.)
ref: 1831, Sandford Arnot (translator), “Indian Cookery, as Practised and Described by the Natives of the East”, in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages, volume I, London: J.L. Cox, retrieved 03 Jul 2016, page 28:
glosses: A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
Related terms: bhelpuri
puri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpʊɹi/
rhymes: -ʊəɹi
ipa: /ˈpʊəɹiː/
Forms: form: puris
Etymology: From Balinese ᬧᬸᬭᬷ (puri), from Old Javanese purī (“palace, royal residence”), from Sanskrit पुरी (purī), पुर् (pur, “stronghold, fortress”), from ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(t)pĺ̥H (“city, fortress, stronghold”). Compare to English polis (“a Greek city-state”).
Senses: glosses: In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class.
poori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooris
form: poories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puri (“type of unleavened bread”).
Puri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Odia ପୁରୀ (puri).
Senses: glosses: A holy city in Odisha, India.
protestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒtɪsˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊtɪsˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: protestations
Etymology: From Old French protestacion, from Latin prōtestātiō.
Senses: examples: text: October 28, 1552, Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Gospel for St Simon and St Jude's Day
The protestation of our faith.
text: “These are but words, young man,” answered Glendinning, “large protestations are often used to supply the place of effectual service.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 335:
text: Mechanically he retained the hand that trembled in his own—but Isabella needed no protestations—one word from his mouth had been enough, and she sat in silent "measureless content."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: A formal solemn objection or other declaration.
topics: law
glosses: A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
Related terms: protest