cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
upfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further upfield
form: farther upfield
form: furthest upfield
form: farthest upfield
Etymology: From up- + field.
Senses: glosses: Towards the upper part of a field.
examples: text: Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Away from the defending team's end of the playing field.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an NMR resonance at a lower frequency to that of a reference signal.
upfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further upfield
form: farther upfield
form: furthest upfield
form: farthest upfield
Etymology: From up- + field.
Senses: glosses: Towards the upper part of a field.
examples: text: The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Away from the defending team's end of the playing field.
downwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: downwashes
Etymology: From down- + wash.
Senses: glosses: downward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet, but especially by helicopter blades
examples: text: There is significant upwash ahead of the wing and even more downwash behind the wing.
ref: 2008, John S. Denker, How It Flies:
glosses: The downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc.
Related terms: backwash
dyotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyotropic
form: most dyotropic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a rearrangement reaction in which two single bonds simultaneously migrate intramolecularly.
clemming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clem
clemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clem
arsonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arson + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Arson.
caser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casers
Etymology: Possibly from Yiddish כּתר (keser, “crown”), from Hebrew כֶּתֶר (keter)
Senses: glosses: A crown, a five-shilling coin.
Derived terms: case
case quarter
jol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəʊl/
Forms: form: jols
Etymology: Shortened from jolly?
Senses: examples: text: —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249:
text: I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.
ref: 2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times:
glosses: A party.
jol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəʊl/
Forms: form: jols
form: jolling
form: jolled
form: jolled
Etymology: Shortened from jolly?
Senses: glosses: To party.
jol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəʊl/
Forms: form: jols
Senses: examples: text: The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding recent deposits, are the Eocene limestones of the jol, the succession seeming more complete in the north.
ref: 1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI:
text: An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali.
ref: 2006, Masaa Al Jumaily, David P. Mallon, Abdul Karim Nasher, Nagi Thowabeh, “Status Report on Arabian Leopard in Yemen”, in Cat News, volume Special Volume 1, →ISSN, page 23:
synonyms: desert
plateau
flatland
glosses: A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.
Related terms: JO1
JOI
by turns
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I am by turns angry and amused. I am the butchest of the three roommates; obviously she thought I was the most likely to get over my “bisexual phase.”
ref: 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: One after the other; successively; alternating.
examples: text: [They] feel by turns the bitter change.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: At intervals; from time to time.
Related terms: in turn
in turns
yeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yard.
yeard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heard.
sans-culottide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɒŋkjuːlɒˈtiːd/
Forms: form: sans-culottides
form: Sans-culottide
form: Sansculottide
Etymology: Borrowed from French sans-culottide, equivalent to English sans-culotte + -ide.
Senses: glosses: Any of the five (six in leap years) extra days added at the end of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar.
glosses: The holidays that took place during these days.
Related terms: leap day
Sansculottide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sansculottides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sans-culottide.
Sans-culottide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sans-culottides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sans-culottide.
yell silently
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yells silently
form: yelling silently
form: yelled silently
form: yelled silently
Senses: examples: text: He yelled silently at R. Daneel: Machine!
ref: 1964. Isaac Asimov, The Rest of the Robots, Doubleday, page 341
text: Shut up, he yelled silently as the woman cried out in pain and terror in the cabin behind him.
ref: 1988. Craig Thomas, Winter Hawk, Morrow, page 373
text: Hurry, he yelled silently to the pilot. Hurry!
ref: 2002. Elizabeth Lowell, Eden Burning, HarperCollins, page 365
glosses: To think very strong thoughts that one wishes to yell out loud but does not.
sweven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswɛvən/
Forms: form: swevens
Etymology: From Middle English sweven, from Old English swefn (“sleep, dream, vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *swefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefną, *swefnaz (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *supnós (“dream”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”).
Cognate with Dutch suf (“drowsy”), Middle High German swēb (“sleep”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål søvn (“sleep”), Faroese svøvnur (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn, svöfn (“sleep; dream”), Norwegian Nynorsk svebn, svemn, svevn, svøbn, svømn, sømn, søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”), Latin somnus (“sleep, slumber, drowsiness”), Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna, “sleep; dream”), Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: The kynge with the honderd knyghtes mette a wonder dreme two nyghtes a fore the bataille / that ther blewe a grete wynde & blewe doun her castels and her townes / and after that cam a water and bare hit all awey / Alle that herd of the sweuen said / it was a token of grete batayll
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
text: [The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
glosses: A dream.
examples: The Golden Legend
And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?
glosses: A vision.
Related terms: sweb
thumb knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb knots
Senses: glosses: An overhand knot.
republisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republishers
Etymology: From republish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of republish; one who republishes.
republishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republisher
dogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogans
form: Dogan
form: dogun
Etymology: First used in the 19th century, exact origin uncertain. Possibly from Dugan.
Senses: examples: text: I turned, expecting to see some skirted, leering priest with a crucifix in his hands summoning us into his dogan den.
ref: 2006, Terrence Rundle West, Run of the Town, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.
mother ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməðər ʃɪp/
Forms: form: mother ships
form: mothership
Senses: glosses: A vessel, aircraft or spacecraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.
examples: text: “Tragically the mothership of terrorism is a country in India’s neighbourhood,” Modi told a gathering in India of the heads of governments of the Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
ref: 2016 October 16, Jon Boone, “Narendra Modi labels Pakistan 'mothership of terrorism'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The main source or supporter of something.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The largest vessel, especially a spaceship, in a fleet, from which the fleet is commanded; a flagship.
examples: text: SDCC is the mothership of all cons. It's enormous. It has the best stars.
ref: 2015 May 12, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 114:
text: These vices all feed the mothership of hubris, however, which several of the key characters demonstrate in ample measure.
ref: 2021 July 22, Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Kristian Bjørkdahl, Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Sephora is the “mothership of the modern-day beauty industry”, claims Greg Silverman, global director of brand economics at the marketing consultancy Interbrand.
ref: 2024 March 4, Zoe Wood, “Sephora: ‘mothership of modern-day beauty industry’ revels in a retail makeover”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The largest and most fearsome example of something.
pitch and putt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At this resort there's an 9-hole golf course, a small putting green and an 18-hole pitch and putt course.
glosses: An amateur sport derived from golf, but on a smaller scale.
FLDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon denomination.
Synonyms: FLDS Church
Hypernyms: Mormonism
LDS Movement
Christianity
Related terms: sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: LDS
sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: LDS Church
sense: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: LDS Movement
tai chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tīchē
ipa: /ˌtaɪˈtʃiː/
enpr: tīʹjēʹ
Forms: form: tai chis
form: taichi
form: tai-chi
form: taiji
Etymology: From Mandarin 太極／太极 (tàijí), Wade–Giles romanization: tʻai⁴-chi². Doublet of taegeuk.
Senses: examples: text: Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.
ref: 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2016:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A soft form of martial art developed in China.
Synonyms: topics: martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: tai chi chuan
topics: martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: taijiquan
tai chi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīchē
ipa: /ˌtaɪˈtʃiː/
enpr: tīʹjēʹ
Forms: form: tai chis
form: tai chiing
form: tai chi-ing
form: tai chied
form: tai chied
form: taichi
form: tai-chi
form: taiji
Etymology: From Mandarin 太極／太极 (tàijí), Wade–Giles romanization: tʻai⁴-chi². Doublet of taegeuk.
Senses: glosses: To practise tai chi.
examples: text: From this poll, one respondent mentioned that an essential workplace skill is the ability to “taiji” (the art of passing one’s responsibilities to someone else), while another mentioned “how to bootlick your boss”.
ref: 2019 April 23, Grace Yeoh, “Many People Say They Miss School, But the Best Part of Work is Being Able to Learn Whatever We Want”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: To push a task or responsibility to someone else.
taichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tai chi.
tai-chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tai chi.
Sampson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmp.sən/
ipa: /ˈsæm.sən/
rhymes: -æmpsən
rhymes: -æmsən
Etymology: A variant of Samson.
Senses: examples: text: And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
ref: 1844, Lancelot C. L. Brenton, The Septuagint version of the Old Testament, Judges 16, i:
text: 2007, Travis Mashburn, Living Christianity, Xulon Press (publ.), page 82.
She agreed and then went to Sampson, asking for the secret of his great strength.
text: 2016, William E. Blanchard, Preparing You for the Return of Jesus, RoseDog Books (publ.), page 21.
And Sampson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, one in his right hand and the other in his left.
glosses: Samson (semi-legendary Biblical judge).
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Sampson County
Related terms: St Sampson
Saint Sampson
Simson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sim, the short form of Simon + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic, "son of Sim", variant of Simpson.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Simson line
Justus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Name of several early saints, from Latin iustus (“just”), from iūs + -tus.
Senses: examples: text: And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:23:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Prisca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin feminine form of the cognomen Prīscus, from prīscus (“former, ancient, old-fashioned”).
Senses: examples: text: Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:19:
glosses: An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian.
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Drusilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹuˈsɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: Drucilla
Etymology: Latin Drūsilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drūsus.
Senses: examples: text: And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Dru
ascribed status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascribed statuses
Senses: examples: text: Older societies built their hierarchies on ascribed status, where individuals received their social ranking based on predetermined criteria, such as age, ethnic group, occupation, and gender.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: achieved status
glosses: The social status that a person is given from birth or assumes involuntarily later in life.
achieved status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achieved statuses
Senses: examples: text: The modern ideal is to organize society as a system of achieved status, where a higher position is based on personal achievements rather than immutable characteristics.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: ascribed status
glosses: A person's social status that is acquired, such as being an Olympic athlete, being a criminal, or being a college professor.
master status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master statuses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The social status that is a person’s primary socially identifying characteristic, such as being the queen.
Damaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from Ancient Greek as a variation of δάμαλις (dámalis, “calf”).
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:34:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin, in occasional use.
redesigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redesigners
Etymology: From redesign + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of redesign; one who redesigns.
redesigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redesigner
swapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swappers
Etymology: From swap + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who swaps.
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who swaps.
A group member responsible for acquiring and distributing new software releases.
Derived terms: cum swapper
swappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swapper
raffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raffle
raffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raffle
raffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raffle
raffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raffle
raffled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the edge finely notched.
redeploys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redeploy
redeploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeploy
social mobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The degree to which, in a given society, an individual's, family's, or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification.
Related terms: economic mobility
social climber
social ladder
upwardly mobile
upward mobility
corporate ladder
redeployed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeploy
readmitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readmit
reconvenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvene
economic mobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic mobilities
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The ability of a person or group of people to improve their income and social status, whether in an individual lifetime or between generations.
Related terms: social mobility
upwardly mobile
upward mobility
corporate ladder
social climber
social ladder
reconvening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvene
reconvened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvene
rematches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rematch
rematches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rematch
power wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power walls
Senses: examples: text: The small outlet has to adopt such marketing strategems as a "power wall" displaying goods most in demand as customers enter, or positioned at the back of the store so that they are led past other goods that may catch their eye.
ref: 1996 March 15, “SMALL BUSINESS: How to fight back when competition gets tough”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, page C9:
text: 2007, Jennifer Marks, "Wal-Mart Adds Home Brand Exclusives," Home Textiles Today, High Point, vol. 28, no. 27 (29 Oct), p. 1,
The new layout features a "room solutions" orientation, navigational signage, lower-profile fixtures and "power walls" for key categories like towels.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: In retail selling, a large, visually appealing display of products intended to attract the interest of customers.
examples: text: They're called "power walls"—those highly visible shelves behind convenience store cashiers. Tobacco companies pay big bucks to use them ($100 million in Canada in 2005), admitting the walls are their single most effective advertising tool.
ref: 2006 October 9, Jacqueline Nunes, “Can't find the smokes?”, in Maclean's, volume 119, number 40, page 26:
text: 2008, "Tobacco "power wall" displays banned," at www.toronto.ca, (retrieved 2 June 2008),
When you go into your local convenience or grocery store after May 31, 2008, you'll notice the "power wall" displays of tobacco products behind the counter are gone.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Behind retail sales counters in jurisdictions where tobacco advertising has been banned or heavily restricted, a prominent, enticing display of tobacco products.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rapidly increasing loss of efficiency due to overheating as the power/speed of a CPU increases.
rematching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rematch
rematching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rematchings
Senses: glosses: The process of matching something again or differently.
American option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American options
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: an option that can be exercised at any date between the issue date and the expiry date.
Hypernyms: American derivative
Hyponyms: American binary
American call
American callable bond
American chooser
American cliquet
American forward
American lookback
American Parisian
American put
American putable bond
American puttable bond
American quanto
American rainbow
American swaption
Coordinate terms: Bermudan option
European option
Bermudan option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermudan options
Etymology: Play on words due to the cultural, geographic, and political similarities between Bermuda alongside both the Americas and Europe and the fact that this financial option has elements of both American and European styles.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An option that can be exercised at specific dates between issue date and expiry date. Sometimes known as a mid-Atlantic option.
Coordinate terms: American option
European option
European option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European options
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An option that can be exercised only at expiry date.
Coordinate terms: American option
Bermudan option
afaik
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of AFAIK (“as far as I know”).
deprioritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌpɹaɪˈɒɹɪtaɪz/
Forms: form: deprioritizes
form: deprioritizing
form: deprioritized
form: deprioritized
form: deprioritise
Etymology: From de- + prioritize.
Senses: examples: text: Do you want me to deprioritize my current report to get this done?
glosses: To reduce the level of priority of.
Derived terms: deprioritization
smush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌʃ/
ipa: /smʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: smushes
form: smoosh
Etymology: Possibly blend of smash + mush.
Senses: examples: text: The steamroller left her pie an unrecognizable smush.
glosses: A beaten or pulverized mass.
examples: text: Some carriers are taking the smush to new heights. Spirit Airlines, for instance, uses seats on some flights with the backrest permanently set back three inches. Call it, as Spirit does, “prereclined.”
ref: 2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013:
glosses: An act of crushing or squeezing.
Derived terms: smush name
smush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌʃ/
ipa: /smʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: smushes
form: smushing
form: smushed
form: smushed
form: smoosh
Etymology: Possibly blend of smash + mush.
Senses: examples: text: His favorite part of making preserves with his mother was when he got to smush the raw fruit with the pestle.
text: That pulled pork meat was smushed in BBQ sauce.
glosses: To mash or push down or in; compress
examples: text: Exercising can take your smushing to a whole new level. WORK OUT I am not shitting you: experts say exercise can make sex mind-blowing.
ref: 2011, Jenni Farley, The Rules According to JWOWW:
glosses: To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.
Synonyms: sense: compress
word: press
word: squash
word: squeeze
word: compress
sense: engage in intimate contact
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: smash
word: copulate with
Ashvamedha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashwamedha
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अश्वमेध (áśva-medhá, “horse-sacrifice”), an oxytonic tatpuruṣa compound of अश्व (áśva, “horse”) and मेध (médha, “animal sacrifice”).
Senses: examples: text: A peculiar verse in the Yajurvedic Ashvamedha tells us that in the sacrifices that were performed by the devas, Agni was the horse, and he conquered the earth (23/17). The idea of using the Ashvamedha horse for extending the rule to the neighbouring territories arose from this.
ref: 1996, Jayant Gadkari, Society and Religion: From Rugveda to Puranas, page 32:
glosses: One of the most important Vedic sacrificial rituals related to kings, and name of the Rigvedic hymns 1.162-163 which deal with horse sacrifice.
paradoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradoxal
form: most paradoxal
Etymology: From paradox + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paradoxical.
Derived terms: paradoxally
shootist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootists
Etymology: From shoot + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Not being a "shootist," I cannot lay the bird before you.
ref: 1895, O. Widmann, “An Hour with Baird's and Leconte's Sparrows near St. Louis, Missouri”, in The Auk, volume 12, number 3, page 94:
text: Such terminations in -ist were very common at one time; my collection includes swimmist, sparrist, ballist, walkist, shootist, saloonist, and several others.
ref: 1947, Charles J. Lovell, “The Background of Mark Twain's Vocabulary”, in American Speech, volume 22, number 2, page 94:
glosses: A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a sharpshooter or a gunslinger in the Old West.
smoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smush.
smoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smooshes
form: smooshing
form: smooshed
form: smooshed
Senses: examples: text: Then she smooshed cake into his mouth and onto his face, leaving cream everywhere, even getting it on his gray tuxedo.
ref: 2018, Victoria Pinder, Secret Date:
glosses: Alternative spelling of smush.
peeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: plural of peeve
peeves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peeve
close-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more close-minded
form: most close-minded
form: closed-minded
Senses: glosses: Unreceptive to new ideas or information; stubbornly set in one's ways.
Synonyms: doctrinaire
dogmatic
hidebound
illiberal
inflexible
intolerant
narrow-minded
partisan
pigheaded
rigid
stubborn
unpersuadable
Derived terms: close-mindedly
close-mindedness
Related terms: close one's mind
ballooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈluːnɚ/
rhymes: -uːnɚ
Forms: form: ballooners
Etymology: From balloon + -er.
Senses: glosses: A balloonist.
glosses: A balloon sail.
shit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits off
form: shitting off
form: shat off
form: shat off
form: shit off
form: shit off
Senses: examples: text: 'Oh, shit off!' she shouted.
ref: 1966, William Sansom, Goodbye: A Novel, page 162:
text: One girl was incensed at finding herself in the support unit one day because she was reported to have told a teacher to ' shit off ' when she claimed she had 'only' responded 'shut up.'
ref: 1984, Lynn Davies, Pupil Power: Deviance and Gender in School, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Well, bloody well take 'em and shit off.
ref: 2006, Keith Blackburn, Grandma's Garden, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of fuck off.
synonyms: word: fuck off
examples: text: Old lady'd be shat off if she knew I was just around the corner.
text: The three of them decided they would go camping at the Cotter reserve and, just to shit them off, Eric and I said we would go too.
ref: 1998, Rod McLean, Eric and Ian Get a Life, →ISBN, page 22:
text: There was no English on it. It was all Hebrew script and I remember it shat me off that I couldn't read it.
ref: 2005, Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe, page 252:
text: It's not hosing blood that shits me off – it's Angelus itself; I'm going nuts here.
ref: 2006, Tim Winton, Big World: The Turning: Stories, page 2:
glosses: to annoy
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: piss off
motherfuckin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of motherfucking.
manboob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manboobs
Etymology: From man + boob.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of man boob.
Related terms: mahboob
manboobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manboob
ballsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballsuckers
Etymology: From ball + sucker.
Senses: examples: text: Charlie, you ballsucker!
glosses: An objectionable person.
glosses: One who sucks the testicles of another person.
Dena'ina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəˈnaː.inə/
Forms: form: Dena'inas
form: Dena'ina
form: Tanaina
Etymology: Borrowed from Dena'ina Denaʼina (literally “the people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Dena'ina people, a Native American tribe of the region surrounding Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska.
Synonyms: Kinayskiy
Dena'ina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dəˈnaː.inə/
Forms: form: Tanaina
Etymology: Borrowed from Dena'ina Denaʼina (literally “the people”).
Senses: glosses: The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.
Kore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːriː/
Forms: form: Core
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden, daughter”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Jupiter.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Corina
Corinna
Corinne
Corrinne
Kore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːriː/
Senses: glosses: A people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenyan coast.
cunicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cunicular
form: most cunicular
Etymology: From Latin cuniculus (“rabbit, burrow”). See cony.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't see Albacore until I arrived in the lecture theatre a few minutes before nine and saw his cunicular nose twitch with relief.
ref: 2002, Reginald Hill, Death's Jest-Book, page 79:
synonyms: see rabbitlike
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a rabbit.
Related terms: cuniculus
Windies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnd.iːz/
Etymology: Blend of West + Indies
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The West Indies cricket team.
diprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + protic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tending to donate or accept two hydrogen ions (H⁺) in solution.
raw_tags: of an acid or base
Hypernyms: polyprotic
Related terms: protic
give way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives way
form: giving way
form: gave way
form: given way
Senses: examples: text: The mother gave way to her crying child.
text: Whether in consequence of this or not, the Liverpool company eventually gave way, and proceeded to build its portion of the work with some ill grace.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 649:
glosses: To yield to persistent persuasion.
examples: text: After years of neglect, the rusty old bridge could give way at any time.
text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
text: 'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down
ref: 1997, “Ænema”, performed by Tool:
glosses: To collapse or break under physical stresses.
examples: text: Winter gave way to spring.
glosses: To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
examples: text: At the crossing, cars must give way to pedestrians.
glosses: To give precedence to other road users.
examples: text: "Yes, I will give way."
glosses: To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
examples: text: Seeing my eye fixed upon him, he went outside to give way to his grief in the passage.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
glosses: To begin rowing.
raw_tags: as command to the crew
Synonyms: sense: yield to persistent persuasion
word: accede
word: come around
word: concede
Derived terms: give way sign
Related terms: make way
gives way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give way
gave way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give way
given way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give way
Appenzeller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Appenzellers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Appenzeller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
theirselves
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: himself
form: hisself
form: herself
Etymology: From their + -selves, patterned on ourselves and similar terms.
Senses: examples: text: Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
ref: 1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress, London: Thomas Cadell, page 121:
text: Horace: "Look, Jasper! Do you supposed they disguised theirselves?"
ref: 1961, Bill Peet, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Walt Disney Productions:
glosses: Alternative form of themselves.
Balt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏlt
enpr: bôlt
ipa: /bɒlt/
ipa: /bɔːlt/
enpr: bôlt
ipa: /bɔlt/
enpr: bält
ipa: /bɑlt/
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Forms: form: Balts
Etymology: From Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic.
Senses: glosses: An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
glosses: A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
glosses: An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
Derived terms: Baltic
Baltica
Balto-Slavic
long, long lost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of long-lost: more long-lost
palsgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palsgraves
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pfalzgraf (“count palatinate”).
Senses: examples: text: When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
glosses: A count palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, possessing near-royal powers within his county.
Synonyms: word: count palatine
word: pfalzgraf
educt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educts
Etymology: Compare educe, induct, Latin eductor (“tutor”).
Senses: glosses: That which is educed.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reactant.
educt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: educts
form: educting
form: educted
form: educted
Etymology: Compare educe, induct, Latin eductor (“tutor”).
Senses: examples: 1878, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, Morton's Jet Condenser, John Bourne (author & editor), Examples of Steam, Air, & Gas Engines of the Most Recent Approved Types, Longmans, Green and Co., Appendix, page xlix,
In my 'Hand Book of the Steam Engine,' published in 1865, I pointed out that a feat more difficult than that of forcing the waste water out of the condenser might be performed by the educted steam, whether proceeding to the atmosphere or the condenser.
1960, Engineering Extension Series, Issue 145, Purdue University, Department of Engineering Extension, page 260,
From this tank the carbon is educted with high pressure water to the dewatering screw above the regeneration furnace.
1980, Marshall Sittig, Metal and Inorganic Waste Reclaiming Encyclopedia, Noyes Data Corporation, page 271,
To accomplish this, a preferred means is to provide an eductor 27 which has the line 28 communicating therewith and the educting fluid preferably is the vaporized hydrocarbon discharged […] .
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To educe, to extract.
Related terms: educe
eductor
induce
induct
product
electrocapillarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + capillarity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the effect of electric charge on surface tension
electrocapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrocapillary
form: most electrocapillary
Etymology: From electro- + capillary.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of or pertaining to electrocapillarity
electrodecantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodecantations
Etymology: From electro- + decantation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a technique for the separation of the constituents of colloids (sols) using a combination of electrodialysis and gravity
Related terms: electrodecanter
electrodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodialyses
form: electro-dialysis
Etymology: From electro- + dialysis.
Senses: glosses: a form of dialysis in which the rate is increased by the presence of an electric potential across the membrane, especially one using an ion-selective membrane
Derived terms: reverse electrodialysis
electrofuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrofuges
Etymology: From electro- + -fuge.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A leaving group that does not carry away the bonding electron pair
Related terms: nucleofuge
leaving group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaving groups
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom or group that is detached from the rest of a molecule during a reaction.
electrographite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrographites
Etymology: From electro- + graphite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a synthetic form of graphite made by the electrical heating of some other form of carbon
electrokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any of several phenomena in which electric charge causes movement
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the heating effect of an electric current
Derived terms: electrokinetically
Related terms: electrokinetics
electromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electromeric
form: most electromeric
Etymology: From electromer + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of resonance in which a molecule becomes polarized as a result of intramolecular electron displacement
Related terms: mesomeric
electromigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromigrations
Etymology: From electro- + migration.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge; the separation of ions of isotopes by this method
Related terms: electromigratory
electronation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronations
Etymology: From electron + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transfer of an electron to a neutral molecule to form an anion
walk in the snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈwɒ(ː)k ɪn ðə ˈsno(ʊ̯)]
Forms: form: walks in the snow
Etymology: From a remark by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Eliott Trudeau (1919-2000) on February 29, 1984, describing how he made his decision to retire.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Trudeau told reporters yesterday he made the decision to put an end to almost 16 years in office after a long, solitary walk Tuesday night through a blinding Ottawa blizzard. . . . "It was a great walk in the snow."
ref: 1984 March 1, Charlotte Montgomery, Thomas Walkom, “Pierre Trudeau steps down. New leader likely by end of June”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, page 1:
text: "I went for a walk in the snow last night—and I'm staying." So said Jean Chretien on January 15th, varying the phrase with which Pierre Trudeau announced his sudden resignation as Canada's prime minister in 1984.
ref: 2002, “Shuffle in the snow; Politics in Canada”, in The Economist, volume 362, number 8256, page 49:
text: Even in defeat, Ignatieff could not shake even one more Trudeau comparison. Trudeau's historic long walk in the snow came in February 1984.
ref: 2006 December 4, Mike Blanchfield, Norma Greenaway, “Ignatieff takes his own walk in the snow”, in Calgary Herald, Alberta, page A9:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An occasion when a momentous career decision is made, especially a decision to resign or retire.
skulllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skulllike
form: most skulllike
Etymology: From skull + -like.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:skulllike.
glosses: Uncommon spelling of skull-like.
kene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kener
form: more kene
form: kenest
form: most kene
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of keen.
Napier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See napery
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house.
glosses: John Napier, Scottish mathematician etc.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A locality in the Riverina district, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An unincorporated place in the township of Adelaide Metcalfe, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A city in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A village in Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa.
glosses: A ghost town in Holt County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Naperian logarithm
Napier grass
Napierian
Napierian logarithm
Napierite
Napier's bones
Napier's rods
Napierville
for the lose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Contrived antithesis of for the win.
Senses: synonyms: FTL
antonyms: for the win
glosses: Something undesirable; an exclamation suggesting an unwanted result or condition.
shizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of German Scheiße (“shit”). Doublet of shit.
Senses: examples: text: But they don’t have shizer porn in heaven, and some things are just way too good to not have in your VCR.
ref: 2001: Stanley J. Crebshaw, Horklezorp DOTCOM Is..., Horklezorp DOTCOM (blog)
text: 2004: Aaron Bronsteter, To all you virgins out there: the unsex supplement, Brock Press
German shizer films are like the Insane Clown Posse of porn; it's shitty, has odd novelty value and strangely, a select group of people actually enjoy it.
text: 2008: Ian Fortey, The 6 Most Innovative Brothels From Around the World, Cracked.com
One floor is for low-cost fun, another is for transsexuals and we assume one is for shizer video production.
glosses: Scatological-type pornography, especially if it is produced in Germany.
incavo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incavi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian incavo.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The incised part in an intaglio.
incavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incavo