cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
BB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BBs
form: B.B.
form: B. B.
form: bb
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of baseband.
glosses: Initialism of BlackBerry.
glosses: Initialism of basketball.
glosses: Initialism of baseball.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bulletin board.
glosses: A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
examples: text: Radiopaque catheters, wires, or small metal ball bearings (BBs) are taped to the patient's skin to help in identifying any anatomic landmark, diseased tissue, or scar on the skin.
ref: 2010, Richard Hoppe, Theodore L. Phillips, Mack Roach, Leibel and Phillips Textbook of Radiation Oncology, page 203:
glosses: Initialism of ball bearing.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: AA
FX
UB
VT
glosses: Abbreviation of balance beam.
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of battleship.
Derived terms: BBCode
BB gun
beebee
Related terms: BBN
BBS
BB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: B.B.
form: B. B.
form: bb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Big Brother.
glosses: Initialism of Big Bang.
glosses: Initialism of the Bangka Belitung Islands: a province of Indonesia.
BB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: B.B.
form: B. B.
form: bb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bye bye.
BB
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: B.B.
form: B. B.
form: bb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bareback (“without a condom”).
Synonyms: sense: without a condom
word: condomless
BB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: B.B.
form: B. B.
form: bb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of best before.
Fenian Cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Fionn Cycle
Fianna Cycle
Feinné Cycle
Fianaigecht
Ossianic Cycle
glosses: A body of prose and verse focusing on the exploits of the mythological hero Fionn mac Cumhail and his warriors the Fianna Éireann.
Fianna Éireann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Meaning "Soldiery of Ireland", named after the mythological Fianna
Senses: glosses: An Irish republican youth movement, founded by Constance Markievicz and Bulmer Hobson in 1909.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Fianna.
SAPOL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For example, the SAPOL Police Security Services Division (a service designed to act in competition with private providers) mentions, in its Strategic Plan 1998-2003, its similarity with SAPOL as an advantage.
ref: 2003, Canberra Law Review, volumes 7-8, page 112:
text: When information is provided to SAPOL and it is considered by the officer receiving the information that it is necessary that the identity of the informant and the information be kept confidential, it is the practice of SAPOL officers to give an assurance of confidentiality.
ref: 2003, South Australian Supreme Court, The South Australian State Reports, volume 87, page 482:
text: The data were acquired from sworn serving SAPOL police officers. To collect data for this study a submission was made to SAPOL′s Officer in Charge of Policy and Project Services.
ref: 2005, Laurence J. Alison, The Forensic Psychologist′s Casebook, page 126:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Abbreviation of South Australia Police.
VOIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of VoIP.
comm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comms
form: comm.
Senses: examples: text: comms line
text: I didn’t appreciate it yet, but the bike I’d bought was a little too big for me and I wasn’t sitting in the optimal position. One day, a few weeks in, I posted a sitrep: ‘Frustrating day with delays, crazy truck drivers, no room at the inn, comms playing up — but covered over 110km!’
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Clipping of communication.
glosses: Clipping of commission.
glosses: Clipping of committee.
glosses: Clipping of commandant.
examples: text: My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.
ref: 2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of commlink.
synonyms: word: commlink
Derived terms: commlink
pers. comm.
Quad comm
Related terms: com
commo
comms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comm
comms.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comm.
comm.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comm.
EFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The EFF asked Legere about the issue on Twitter. After partially answering the question in a video, Legere said, "Who the f— are you anyway EFF? Why are you stirring up so much trouble, and who pays you?"
ref: 2016 January 11, Heather Kelly, “T-Mobile CEO apologizes for EFF F-bomb”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
glosses: Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
examples: text: Once all the votes are counted, if the ANC remains below 50% it will be forced to enter a coalition with one or more parties. Depending on how low its support dips, it may need to form a deal with one of the larger opposition parties such as the DA or EFF to remain in power.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: NP
DA
ANC
IFP
ASA
ACDP
glosses: Initialism of Economic Freedom Fighters.
MIPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Music Industry Piracy Investigations.
CMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: road
transport
qualifier: international law
glosses: The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road.
CMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cargo management re-engineering.
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: Clipping of general.
Senses: examples: text: Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.
ref: 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero:
glosses: Information.
examples: text: I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Information about the location of a bird.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
Synonyms: sense: fan fiction
word: genfic
Related terms: genned in
gen up
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
form: genning
form: genned
form: genned
Etymology: Shortened from generate and generator.
Senses: examples: text: Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.
ref: 1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:
text: The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.
ref: 1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100:
text: As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.
ref: 2010, Donald K. Burleson, Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference, →ISBN, page 1109:
text: The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.
ref: 2012, Robert Charles Wilson, Bios, →ISBN:
glosses: To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
Etymology: Shortened from generate and generator.
Senses: synonyms: genny
glosses: A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
form: genning
form: genned
form: genned
Etymology: Shortened from genetic engineering
Senses: examples: text: Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.
ref: 2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.
ref: 2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To genetically engineer.
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
Etymology: Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:
* Clipping of argent
* Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.
Senses: examples: text: The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 17:
text: "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."
ref: 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:
glosses: A shilling.
gen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Jen
homophone: Gen
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: gens
Etymology: Clipping of generation.
Senses: examples: text: "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."
ref: 2022 June 28, “Wimbledon tennis: Fans react to Kristina Mladenovic's eye-catching outfit”, in The New Zealand Herald:
text: It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.
ref: 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
examples: text: For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.
ref: 2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:
text: […] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.
ref: 2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part 2 (Teaching), page 102:
text: The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.
ref: 2017, Temple Fennell, “SCIE: Sustainable Cycle of Investing Engagement”, in Kirby Rosplock, The Complete Direct Investing Handbook: A Guide for Family Offices, Qualified Purchasers, and Accredited Investors (Bloomberg Financial Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
Derived terms: gen AI
Gen Alpha
Gen X
Gen Z
iGen
newgen
next-gen
proc-gen
gen.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of gender.
glosses: Abbreviation of generation.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of genitive.
glosses: Abbreviation of genus.
glosses: Abbreviation of general.
Derived terms: maj. gen.
gen. et sp. nov.
gen.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of general.
Derived terms: gen. ed.
gen.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of generally.
BI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of business interruption.
topics: business
computing
engineering
informatics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of business informatics.
topics: business
computing
engineering
informatics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of business intelligence.
glosses: Initialism of bad influence.
glosses: Initialism of burning index.
BI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Immigration.
peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of pea
Graces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Etymology: From Latin Gratiae, from gratia (“grace”), from Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρῐς (khắrĭs, “grace, charity”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Three sister goddesses in Greek mythology (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia), in whom beauty was deified.
Synonyms: Charites
Related terms: Fates
Graces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of Grace
graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of grace
graces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grace
fireworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ̯.ɚ.wɝks/
Etymology: From fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “fireworks”, is hardly coincidental. Since the word was apparently first attested in English circa 1575, probably from the Dutch (1540), from the German (sense early 16th c.), from Middle High German viurwerc (14th c. as “fuel, firewood”). A spread from the south northwards is also in line with the fact that the first European fireworks were produced in Italy in the late 14th century.
Senses: glosses: plural of firework.
aerose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: [ˈiˌɹəʊz]
Forms: form: ærose
Etymology: From Latin aerōsus (“full of copper”), from aes (“copper, brass”) + -ōsus.
Senses: glosses: Of, or like copper or brass; brassy.
Emirates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪɹɪts/
Etymology: From emirates.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of United Arab Emirates.
raw_tags: with the
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the two flag carrier airlines of the United Arab Emirates
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Emirates Stadium, a football stadium in London that is the home ground of Arsenal F.C.
raw_tags: with the
speech bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech bubbles
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: balloon
dialog balloon
dialogue balloon
speech balloon
word balloon
word bubble
fumetto
coordinate_terms: phylactery
thought bubble
glosses: A rounded outline, containing words, representing speech in a comic.
Related terms: english: historical analog
translation: historical analog
word: phylactery
patka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patkas
Etymology: From Punjabi ਪਟਕਾ (paṭkā).
Senses: glosses: A head covering worn by Sikh boys, and by Sikh men either alone or as an under-turban.
fumetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumetti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fumetto. Doublet of fumet.
Senses: glosses: Speech bubble.
Synonyms: balloon
speech bubble
Rzhevsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A Romanization of the Russian surname Ржевский.
Senses: glosses: A fictional young cavalry officer who appears in numerous popular Russian jokes that poke fun at social sophistication and decorum while interacting with various characters from the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Buda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buddha
Etymology: From Hungarian Buda, probably borrowed from a Slavic personal name, though an alternative theory deriving the term from Proto-Slavic *voda (“water”) as a translation of Latin Aquincum, via aqua (“water”), is also popular. The folk etymology connecting the word to Bleda, the brother of Attila the Hun, is historically implausible.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Pest
Óbuda
glosses: The historical capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, and one of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
examples: text: On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: Pest
glosses: The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the western side of the Danube.
Buda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buddha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Buda
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
glosses: A neighborhood and island of Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium.
glosses: A commune and village in Călărași district, Moldova.
glosses: A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania.
glosses: a large number of villages in Romania.
glosses: A left tributary of the Argeș River, Romania.
glosses: A tributary of the Șoimeni River, Cluj County, Romania.
glosses: A tributary of the Cernu River, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Novoselytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
Buda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buddha
ipa: /ˈbjuːdə/
ipa: /ˈbuːdə/
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buddha
Etymology: From Spanish viuda (“widow”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Hays County, Texas, United States.
Related terms: Buda-Kashalyova
Seredyna-Buda
aes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪz/
Senses: examples: text: Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, Deep-chested music.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Epic:
text: These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.
ref: 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:
glosses: plural of a, the name of the letter A.
cyclophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclophanes
Etymology: By surface analysis, cyclo- + -phane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon consisting an aromatic unit (typically a benzene ring) and an aliphatic chain that forms a bridge between two positions of the aromatic ring; more complex derivatives (the superphanes) with multiple aromatic units and bridges forming cagelike structures are known.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic structure used as a base phane in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds
Derived terms: azacyclophane
crownophane
cyclobutaphane
cycloheptaphane
cyclohexaphane
cyclopentaphane
cyclopropaphane
metacyclophane
paracyclophane
SLORC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of State Law and Order Restoration Council: the junta which overthrew the democratically elected government of Burma (Myanmar) in 1988.
cytochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytochemistries
Etymology: From cyto- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biochemistry of cells, especially that of the macromolecules responsible for cell structure and function.
Derived terms: histocytochemistry
immunocytochemistry
scop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒp/
ipa: /ʃoʊp/
ipa: /skɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
rhymes: -oʊp
Forms: form: scops
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English sċop.
Senses: examples: text: 1900, Reuben Post Halleck, History of English Literature, quoted in 1927, Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, Essentials in Music History, 2011, Facsimile Edition, page 42,
The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop, or maker of verses. […] The banquet was not complete without the songs of the scop. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the scop, standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.
text: Jealous and full of anger, they leered as the soft song of the scop praised the All-Powerful.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20:
text: The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith which means a great traveller. The scop was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.[…]The Lament of Deor tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.
ref: 1991, R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature, India, page 1:
text: During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.
ref: 2004, Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader, page 273:
text: The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop:[…].
ref: 2011, Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 43:
glosses: A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
Related terms: scops owl
Katar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Between Katar and the nearest limits of the province of Sharja, namely, the village of Aboo-Debee, the desert comes right down to the sea
ref: 1864, W.G. Palgrave, “Observations in Central, Eastern and Southern Arabia”, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume 34, page 145:
text: Katar, the pearl-fishery coast east of Hasa. Its inhabitants, said to be 135,000 in number, find an almost exclusive occupation in the pearl trade.
ref: 1875, Day Otis Kellogg, “Arabia”, in Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, volume 2, page 222:
glosses: Alternative form of Qatar.
HKSAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: PRC, China
Meronyms: HK (“Hong Kong Island”), Kln (“Kowloon”), NT (“New Territories”)
synonyms: HK
glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Related terms: english: Macao Special Administrative Region
translation: Macao Special Administrative Region
word: MSAR
english: special administrative region
translation: special administrative region
word: SAR
english: special economic zone
translation: special economic zone
word: SEZ
Kln
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: HKSAR, HK (region)
related: word: HK[Hong Kong Island#English:_Q19483|Hong Kong Island]]>
word: NT[New Territories#English:_Q596660|New Territories]]>
glosses: Abbreviation of Kowloon, a region of Hong Kong.
Dalton's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From John Dalton, English scientist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The total pressure of a mixture or gases is the sum of the partial pressures of each gas in the mixture; it is only true for ideal gases.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: When two elements can combine to form more than one compound then the amounts of one which combines with a fixed amount of the other will have a simple multiple relationship.
Synonyms: sense: The total pressure of a mixture or gases is the sum of the partial pressures of each gas in the mixture; it is only true for ideal gases.
word: the law of partial pressures
sense: When two elements can combine to form more than one compound then the amounts of one which combines with a fixed amount of the other will have a simple multiple relationship.
word: the law of multiple proportions
PSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Public Security Bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: IBM
glosses: Initialism of program specification block.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
glosses: Initialism of public service broadcasting.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of program station basis.
PSB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Adult love, loss, triumph and decline is catalogued by PSB's words, rhythms, clothes and politics. The Pet Shop Boys have staying power.
ref: 2008, Tara Brabazon, Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing, page 155:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Pet Shop Boys.
PSB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of please see below.
HSBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, chaired a symposium with representatives from foreign companies, including JP Morgan, Tesla (TSLA), HSBC (HSBC), Deutsche Bank (DB), BNP Paribas, Japan’s MUFG Bank, German chemical producer BASF, commodities trader Trafigura and Schneider Electric, according to a statement posted on the websites of the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
ref: 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A British multinational universal bank and financial services company.
glosses: Initialism of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, a subsidiary of HSBC.
LWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of London Weekend Television.
LWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LWTs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of lightweight torpedo.
LWT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lwt.
form: lwt
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lightweight.
de Broglie wavelength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de Broglie wavelengths
Etymology: From de Broglie + wavelength. Named for Louis de Broglie.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the wavelength, λ=h/p, associated with a beam of particles of momentum p. (h being Planck's constant.) The same formula gives the momentum of a photon or wavelength λ.
wikipedia: en:Louis de Broglie
Related terms: de Broglie wave
HKMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
ICAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Independent Commission Against Corruption.
kamila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kamala (“dyestuff”).
trabeculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trabecula
eoten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eotens
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English eoten. Doublet of ettin.
Senses: examples: text: The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
ref: 1834, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:
text: In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves[.]
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 3:
glosses: A giant from Old English literature and mythology.
CSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Correctional Services Department (Hong Kong).
CSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of conventional suburban development.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of circuit switched data.
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of criteria for speedy deletion
LegCo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.kəʊ/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Legislative Council, the unicameral legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
auberge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auberges
Etymology: Borrowed from French auberge. The term is attested in the fifteenth century as auberge, a loan from a term attested in eleventh century Old Occitan alberga (“camp, hut”), derived from albergar (“to host”). The term originated in Frankish *harjabergu, composed of the elements *harjaz (“army”) (compare German Heer) and *berganą (“to shelter, to protect”), whence German bergen. Doublet of albergo and harbor.
Senses: glosses: An inn or hostel.
contretemps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹə.tɑ̃ŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːn.tɹə.tɑ̃/
Forms: form: contretemps
Etymology: Borrowed from French contretemps.
Senses: examples: text: ...and said "she had been the most efficient friend of the charity;" and whether a whisper that had gone forth respecting her contretemps with the strange man was spread, or it had fortunately been so well managed by the Count as to have escaped observation...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: "I see that you are a born American citizen--and an earlier knowledge of that fact would have prevented this little contretemps. You are aware, Mr. Hoffman, that your name is German?"
ref: 1896, Bret Harte, The Indiscretion of Elsbeth:
text: What a strange contretemps! Its suddenness left me temporarily speechless; the embarrassment of Duare was only too obvious. Yet it was that unusual paradox, a happy contretemps--for me at least.
ref: 1932, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XII, in Pirates of Venus, published 1934:
text: Mrs. Post was the center of a notable contretemps when she spilled a spoonful of berries at a dinner of the Gourmet Society here in 1938.
ref: 1960 June 13, “Emily Post Is Dead Here at 86; Writer was Arbiter of Etiquette”, in New York Times:
text: The small flap over the pronunciation of her name was but the first, and the least, of the contretemps of the succeeding session.
ref: 1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 37:
text: It won't rank with the doping scandals in track and field and baseball's steroid controversy but the Rose Cup race had its own little contretemps last year.
ref: 2004 June 13, Sunday Oregonian:
text: It is worth considering what the misperceptions about him might be if the whole “contretemps with Oprah,” as he calls it, hadn’t happened.
ref: 2018 June 26, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The spat was just the latest in a series of contretemps between the RN and the AfD.
ref: 2024 May 4, Guy Chazan, Leila Abboud, “Le Pen strains ties with German far-right”, in FT Weekend, page 2:
synonyms: hitch
mishap
glosses: An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An ill-timed pass.
EEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing queueing arrangements”.
ref: 2020 October 23, Daniel Boffey, “UK presses for use of faster passport gates at EU airports post-Brexit”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of European Economic Area, the area consisting of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
glosses: Initialism of European Environment Agency, EU agency which provides independent information on the environment in biodiversity conservation, climate policy etc.
EEA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of equal environment assumption.
GBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation.
GBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GBCs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Game Boy Color.
SFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFCs
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of shop floor control.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Sergeant First Class.
SFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of System File Checker.
glosses: Initialism of Securities and Futures Commission.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Super Famicom.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Southampton Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Sunderland Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Sydney Football Club.
examples: text: While the SFC Bill had proposed significant phase-outs of the clean electricity tax credits (IRC §§ 45Y and 48E) for wind and solar projects that start construction in 2026 and later years, the Senate Bill instead eliminates the ability to claim such credits for wind and solar projects that start construction after the date of enactment of the BBB and that are placed in service after December 31, 2027.
ref: 2025 June 28, Don Lonczak, Elina Teplinsky, David McCullough, M.C. Hammond, Baylee Beeman, “Senate Votes to Advance the Big, Beautiful Bill – Latest on Renewable Energy Tax Credits”, in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Senate Finance Committee.
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: glosses: The sound made by something solid landing.
glosses: The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: plonks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: examples: text: I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
glosses: The sound of something solid landing.
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: plonks
form: plonking
form: plonked
form: plonked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: examples: text: When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
text: We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
examples: text: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
ref: 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
glosses: To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
examples: text: I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
synonyms: kill file
glosses: To automatically ignore a particular poster.
Derived terms: plonkable
plonkee
plonker
unplonk
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: examples: text: He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
glosses: Precisely and forcefully.
raw_tags: followed by a location
Synonyms: bang
slap bang
Derived terms: plonker
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
Senses: examples: text: The third category of wines is highly unattractive as these may only be sold as generic wines (white, red or rosé), without reference to any geographical location. Only surplus plonk and cooking wine would aspire to fall in this segment, which can be blended with any other wine - to any extent.
ref: 1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, page 95:
text: Diesel took a large swallow out of the glass of red wine. He spluttered, choked, and spilled wine down one leg of his fawn colored pants. “My God,” he gasped, when he could speak. “What is that crap?”
“Why cheap red wine,” Ford displayed the label. “You know. Plonk.”
ref: 2003, Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel, page 201:
text: 2011, Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, Heston Blumenthal, Chapter 11: ‘Sound Bites’: Auditory Contributions to the Perceeption and Consumption of Food and Drink, Francesca Bacci, David Melcher (editors), Art and the Senses, page 229,
Given the results reported in this chapter, one obvious solution to the ‘plonk paradox’ (why cheap wine tastes good on holiday but terrible at home) would be to try and recapture some of these sensory impressions in one′s own living room, in order to enhance the flavour/pleasantness of the wine-drinking experience (and turn that horrible tasting wine into something that tastes really rather nice), and to elucidate the respective contributions of contextual effects on hedonic ratings.
glosses: Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: AC Plonk
Derived terms: Europlonk
plonko
plonky
plonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒŋk/
enpr: plänk
ipa: /plɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: plonks
Etymology: Probably a shortening of plonker.
Senses: examples: text: Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A female police constable.
China cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China caps
Etymology: From its resemblance to the conical hats of Chinese peasants.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A conical metal strainer.
star anise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star anises
Senses: glosses: A plant, Illicium verum, used primarily for its star-shaped seed which resembles anise in scent and flavor, and which is used as a spice.
synonyms: star aniseed
glosses: The star-shaped seed used as a spice.
Synonyms: sense: Illicium verum
word: Chinese star anise
sense: Illicium verum
word: true star anise
Derived terms: taxonomic: Illicium anisatum
word: Japanese star anise
taxonomic: Illicium parviflorum
word: swamp star anise
Kyoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjoʊtoʊ/
ipa: /kiˈjoʊtoʊ/
Forms: form: Kioto
form: Kyōto
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 京(きょう)都(と) (Kyōto, literally “capital city”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital (of a country)”).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
examples: text: The aversion to public displays of eating persists today not only in Kyoto but also throughout the higher levels of Japanese society.
ref: 1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2017:
glosses: The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital.
examples: text: The merits and limitations of Kyoto have been subject to great discussion. Some criticize the regime for being too top-down, wasteful and infective as a means of tacking climate change (Prins and Rayner 2007; Victor 2001).
ref: 2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:
qualifier: international law
glosses: The Kyoto Protocol.
Lisboa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Lisboa.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Lisbon.
Honshu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑnʃu/
Forms: form: Honshū
Etymology: From Japanese 本(ほん)州(しゅう) (Honshū, “main island”), from Middle Chinese 本 (pwón, “main”) + 州 (t͡ʃjuw, “province”).
Senses: examples: text: A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.
ref: 1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC:
text: In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century, […]
ref: 2009, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea:
glosses: The main island of the archipelago of Japan.
Synonyms: word: Niphon
Coordinate terms: Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
Derived terms: Honshu wolf
spammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spammers
Etymology: From spam + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone who sends spam.
Related terms: chickenboner
spammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spammers
Etymology: Blend of space + hammer
Senses: glosses: A spring-loaded mechanical hammer specially adapted to be used in microgravity.
Tamiflu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From oseltamivir and flu (“influenza”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A trade name for oseltamivir, an antiviral drug used to treat influenza.
Dili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːli/
Forms: form: Dilli
form: Dilly
Senses: glosses: The capital city of East Timor.
oseltamivir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.sɛlˈtæm.ɪˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From oselt- (of unknown origin) + -amivir (“neuraminidase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiviral drug that is taken orally in the form of its phosphate C₁₆H₂₈N₂O₄·H₃PO₄ and is a neuraminidase inhibitor used in the treatment and prevention of influenza. It is a derivative of shikimic acid, and is marketed as Tamiflu.
Derived terms: Tamiflu
shikimic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally occurring organic compound, 3,4,5-trihydroxy-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, extracted commercially from star anise; it is the base of very many natural products and is used in the production of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.