cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coenzyme A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A coenzyme, formed from pantothenic acid and adenosine triphosphate, that is necessary for fatty acid synthesis and metabolism.
Related terms: citric acid cycle
feature creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our sales division promised our client a feature in our software that is currently not feasible for us to implement, which will certainly lead to feature creep.
glosses: The tendency of a design project or product cycle to accumulate more and more features or details, rather than to be completed and released at a more basic level.
Synonyms: creeping featurism
featuritis
Related terms: creeping elegance
kitchen-sinky
mission creep
scope creep
creeping elegance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the expense of other requirements such as functionality, shipping schedule, and usability.
Related terms: feature creep
coenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenzymes
Etymology: From co- + enzyme.
Senses: examples: text: A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any small molecule that is necessary for the functioning of an enzyme.
Derived terms: coenzyme A
coenzyme I
coenzyme II
coenzyme Q
revolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊltɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The feudal subjects decided to revolt.
glosses: present participle and gerund of revolt
revolting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊltɪŋ
Forms: form: revoltings
Senses: examples: text: Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
ref: 1837, The American Biblical Repository, volume 9, page 316:
glosses: revolution; revolt
revolting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊltɪŋ
Forms: form: more revolting
form: most revolting
Senses: examples: text: The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
text: Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: repulsive, disgusting
pantothenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A water-soluble antioxidant vitamin, 3-[(2R)-2,4-dihydroxy-3,3-dimethylbutanamido]propanoic acid needed for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins; it is found in cereals, legumes, meat and other foods
Synonyms: vitamin B5
Derived terms: homopantothenic acid
pantothenate
Related terms: pantothenamide
adenosine triphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: ATP
glosses: A nucleotide that is used as a source of energy in cellular reactions, in the synthesis of nucleic acids, and as a neurotransmitter recognized by purinergic receptors.
Hypernyms: adenylic acid
adenosine phosphate
phosphorylated adenosine
Related terms: alt: A
word: adenosine
word: phosphate
word: adenosine phosphate
english: AMP
translation: AMP
word: adenosine monophosphate
alt: ADP
word: adenosine diphosphate
phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒsfeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɑsfeɪt/
Forms: form: phosphates
form: phosphating
form: phosphated
form: phosphated
Etymology: From phosphoric acid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.
folding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, fold + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair
antonyms: non-folding
glosses: Designed to fold
folding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
Forms: form: foldings
Etymology: By surface analysis, fold + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.
ref: a. 1719, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, pages 63–64:
text: Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
ref: 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:
glosses: The action of folding; a fold.
glosses: The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
examples: text: He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 123:
glosses: Paper money, as opposed to coins.
folding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, fold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fold
Derived terms: antifolding
bifolding
case folding
code folding
cofolding
downfolding
e-folding
folding bone
folding-bone
folding chair
folding knife
folding money
folding rooftop
folding screen
folding-stick
folding stick
folding stuff
malfolding
microfolding
non-folding
paperfolding
postfolding
superfolding
teabag folding
wavefolding
Related terms: folding bicycle
phosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless, odourless solid, H₃PO₄, often in solution as a syrupy liquid, used in the manufacture of fertilizers, detergents and pharmaceuticals and as an additive in cola drinks.
Synonyms: E338 when used as an antioxidant
orthophosphoric acid
Derived terms: creatine-phosphoric acid
diphosphoric acid
glycerophosphoric acid
metaphosphoric acid
polyphosphoric acid
thiophosphoric acid
Related terms: phosphate
polyphosphate
pyrophosphoric acid
folding stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪŋ ˌstʌf/
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪŋ ˌstʌf/
Senses: examples: text: Look at the money they drop in the sand. Halves, quarters, dimes, even the folding stuff. I've found two hundred dollars already this winter.
ref: 1944, The New Yorker, volume 20, part 1, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61, column 1:
text: Since North Americans are among the better-heeled portion of the world's population, it's only to be expected that they're pretty well supplied with folding stuff when they come to Mexico.
ref: 1964, In Mexico, It’s the Custom, Señor!, [Mexico]: Comité Norteamericano Pro México, →OCLC, page 13:
text: Folks around here 18 or 20 years ago who belonged to the writers' and poetry clubs and listened to a handsome, virile, teller of tales named Louis L'Amour, may be glad to know Louie seems to have caught up in Hollywood with some of that green, folding stuff he started reaching for long ago.
ref: 1968, Roy P. Stewart, Country Boy Hornbook, Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: Banknotes, paper money.
Synonyms: folding money
paper money
hold the phone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.
glosses: stop; wait; whoa.
hold the phone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds the phone
form: holding the phone
form: held the phone
form: held the phone
Senses: examples: text: They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.
glosses: To hold; to wait for someone at the other end of a telephone connection.
Related terms: hold the line
cack-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cack-handed
form: most cack-handed
form: cackhanded
form: keck-handed
Etymology: From cag (“knob, stump”) + handed; cf. also cack (“excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: Constance endeavoured to get eight little boys to dance also; but the little lads were to shy, what an old woman, speaking of her grandson, calls “too daffish and keck-handed to learn such aunty-praunty antics,” and all that Constance could get in the way of male support was to induce eight little lads to look on, bend their knees, and bow at intervals, whilst the maidens sang and danced.
ref: 1905, Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell, chapter 4, in Spring in a Shropshire Abbey, London: Smith, Elder & Co., pages 177–178:
text: There is the chairperson who will introduce you by saying that you need no introduction, and who will bring the session to a close with some cack-handed joke based on a phrase plucked from your talk.
ref: 2001, Terry Eagleton, chapter 4, in The Gatekeeper: A Memoir, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 99:
text: ‘Just bend your arms and cradle him on them,’ I told her. She was so cack-handed I could hardly watch. I was short with her when I said, ‘Have you never held a baby before?’
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 58, in Small Island, London: Review, page 516:
glosses: Clumsy; inept.
examples: text: A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use. In some parts of England left-handers are called “cack-handed” […]
ref: 1922, Edmund J. Sullivan, chapter 8, in Line: An Art Study, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88:
glosses: Left-handed.
glosses: Back-handed.
Derived terms: cack-handedly
cack-handedness
transact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trăn-zăkt'
ipa: /ˌtɹænˈzækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: transacts
form: transacting
form: transacted
form: transacted
Etymology: Back-formation from transaction, or else from Latin trānsāctus, past participle of trānsigere.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out on His Third Voyage; is taken by Pyrates. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 3–4:
glosses: To do, carry through, conduct or perform.
glosses: To carry over, hand over or transfer something.
glosses: To conduct business.
glosses: To exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
Related terms: transaction
transactional
transactive
cuboctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuboctahedrons
form: cuboctahedra
Etymology: Blend of cube + octahedron, reflecting the fact that it can be regarded both as a rectified cube and a rectified octahedron.
Senses: examples: text: There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3).
ref: 1976, Hugh Kenner, Geodesic Math and how to Use it, page 21:
text: In the case of perfect, symmetric L1₀ cuboctahedra, two of the (001)-surfaces have to be terminated completely with either iron or platinum.
ref: 2008, M. E. Gruner, Georg Rollmann, Alfred Hucht, Peter Entel, “Structural and Magnetic Proprties of Transition Metal Nanoparticles from First Principles”, in Rolf Haug, editor, Advances in Solid State Physics 47, page 124:
text: Octahedra are also needed to make the packing of square-sharing cuboctahedra space filling (Fig. 2.4(c)).
ref: 2009, Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures, page 54:
text: 2015, Ke Jiang, Antoliy O. Pinchuk, Chapter Two: Noble Metal Nanomaterials: Synthetic Routes, Fundamental Properties, and Promising Applications, Robert E. Camley, Robert L. Stamps (editors), Solid State Physics, Volume 66, Elsevier, page 151,
Yang and coworkers have prepared Pt cuboctahedrons and cubes by reducing K₂PtCl₄ with H₂ generated in situ from the hydrolysis of NaBH₄ in the presence of tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide as a surfactant [157,158].
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.
Synonyms: heptaparallelohedron
Derived terms: great rhombicuboctahedron
rhombicuboctahedron
snub cuboctahedron
truncated cuboctahedron
Related terms: cuboctahedral
cubohemioctahedron
octahemioctahedron
Down's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Down syndrome.
transaminase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈæmɪneɪz/
Forms: form: transaminases
Etymology: From transamination + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination.
Synonyms: aminotransferase
Derived terms: aspartate transaminase
serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
clumsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmzi/
Forms: form: clumsier
form: clumsiest
Etymology: Possibly from an alteration of clumsed (“benumbed”) or from clumse (“a stupid fellow; lout”) + -y. More at clumse.
Senses: examples: text: He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.
glosses: Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
examples: text: It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.
text: What a clumsy joke
text: The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
glosses: Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
glosses: Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
Derived terms: beclumpse
clumsily
clumsiness
clumsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmzi/
Forms: form: clumsies
Etymology: Possibly from an alteration of clumsed (“benumbed”) or from clumse (“a stupid fellow; lout”) + -y. More at clumse.
Senses: examples: text: On the stairs he met Ellen, the housemaid, and as he passed her he knocked the hot-water jug out of her hand. “Well, you are a clumsy,” said Ellen, as she bent down to mop up the water.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Bad Tuesday”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 82:
qualifier: fairly rare
glosses: A clumsy person.
Synonyms: butterfingers
galoot
klutz
Related terms: clumsies
transamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transaminations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the transfer of an amino group from an amino acid to another molecule
Related terms: transaminase
triangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈaɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lɚ/
Forms: form: more triangular
form: most triangular
Etymology: From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris.
Senses: examples: text: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Shaped like a triangle.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
glosses: Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
glosses: Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
Synonyms: threeside
trigonal
Derived terms: obtriangular
triangular colon
triangular division
triangular harp
triangular hebesphenorotunda
triangular matrix
triangular number
triangular prism
triangular pyramid
triangular trade
triangulo-triangular
bus lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus lanes
Senses: topics: automotive
road
transport
vehicles
synonyms: reserved bus lane
glosses: A traffic lane designated for the use of buses.
transannular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + annular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Across a ring, or between different parts of a ring.
Related terms: transannular strain
transannular strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transannular strains
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In medium-sized ring compounds, the strain due to repulsive interactions between substituents attached to non-adjacent ring atoms.
transat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transats
Etymology: Clipping of transatlantic, from their use on transatlantic liners.
Senses: glosses: A type of large deck chair with a footrest that can slide under the seat when not in use.
footrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌɹɛst/
Forms: form: footrests
Etymology: From foot + rest.
Senses: glosses: A support on which to rest the feet.
deck chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deck chairs
form: deck-chair
form: deckchair
Senses: glosses: A folding chair in which a wooden frame supports a length of canvas; traditionally used on the beach or onboard a liner.
Related terms: lawn chair
patio chair
abaissé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪˌseɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French abaissé (“to lower”).
Senses: examples: text: Or, a bend sable, on a chief of the first a pomeis charged with a cross gold; the whole abaissé under another chief of the arms of the Order of St. John, Gules a cross argent.
ref: 1896, John Woodward, A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign, W. & A.K. Johnston, page 129:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: abased
glosses: Of a charge, especially a fess: borne lower than usual.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the ends (tips) of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield (of an eagle, etc).
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
Etymology: From ben(zedrine) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: I've pitched pennies and downed bennies
ref: 1973, “Sport”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod:
text: “Whatchu got, man?” / “Reds, bennies, dexies, yellow jackets, demmies.” / “Yeah, demmies're good shit, man. I pay you. Fuck. I got money. I'm hurting inside. Got beat up. Where my money?”
ref: 1998, Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer, New York, NY: Pocket Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 285:
synonyms: bean
coordinate_terms: dexy
glosses: An amphetamine tablet.
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
form: bennying
form: bennied
form: bennied
Etymology: From ben(zedrine) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Bulldog's habit of "bennying up" for the ball games had become a humorous item among the players.
ref: 1963, Joe Grosscup, Fourth and One: By Lee Grosscup, page 268:
text: He had been on the road that long and so bennied up.
ref: 1980, Commercial motor carrier safety: hearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation:
text: "If you guys got any brains," the tired and bennied driver said, "you'll keep your sweet fannies t'hell out of it.
ref: 2003, Jack Cady, Ghosts of Yesterday, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: To take amphetamines.
raw_tags: with "up"
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
Etymology: From Benny.
Senses: examples: text: BTW, you might like to see what happens to CM00-01 when one of your sticks of memory decides to have a benny:
ref: 2001, Neil Davey, “Sacked Referees”, in alt.games.champ-man (Usenet):
text: 'Like I told the police, I think she's just having a benny.'
ref: 2010, Ian Sansom, The Bad Book Affair:
text: "Stop having a benny, Liam." Gwen was getting agitated. Liam was failing miserably at his attempts to get Casey to back down.
ref: 2011, Kate Morgan, Wicked Games, page 34:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“tantrum”).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“one-hundred-dollar bill”).
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
form: bennie
Etymology: Abbreviation of benefit.
Senses: examples: text: Life in the bush was generally a bummer, an adverse experience, which was only rarely broken by the bennies, benefits like warm beer and letters from the World, the United States.
ref: 1984, Charles Robert Anderson, The Grunts, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page xviii:
text: A benny of using an older modem is that it usually includes a good manual on the AT command set.
ref: 2001, Scott Edwards, Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp Computer, page 158:
text: A "benny" of being curious and continuing to learn and grow is that you […]
ref: 2004, Mary Foley, Bodac!ous woman: outrageously in charge of your life and lovin' it!, page 100:
text: After depositing the larger items at the post office for the free ride home (a benny of being overseas: free mail), we headed back to the plane.
ref: 2000, Approach, volume 45, number 5, page 22:
glosses: A benefit.
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
Etymology: Unknown or disputed. Attested from the late 19th century. Possibly from benjamin, slang from the early 19th century for a type of greatcoat. Possibly in reference to Uncle Benny or Uncle Ben (“a pawnbroker”), who might accept coats during the warm summer months, though the latter slang term does not appear to be attested before 1920.
Senses: examples: text: […] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]
ref: 1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales, page 32:
text: Horse-hide coats are common, but real "honest t' God" fur bennies are very, very scarce.
ref: 1931, The Tomahawk of Alpha Sigma Phi, volume 28, number 1, page 12:
glosses: An overcoat.
examples: text: If lil ole Souttland is goin’ to keep her dome up in the golf department, an’ I tip my benny to her right now, she must put the kibosh on gin-hoisting an’ lay a stymie to every saloon.
ref: 1923, Owen Seaman, editor, Punch, volume 165, page 514:
glosses: A straw hat.
benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: bennies
Etymology: Clipping of eggs Benedict.
Senses: examples: text: Buffet fans can brunch until your heart's content at Westin Bayshore’s H2 Rotisserie & Bar, where the daily breakfast buffet features free-range eggs cooked to order, bennies, pancakes, waffles, smoked bacon, sausage links, seasonal fruit, freshly made pastries, and much more.
ref: 2019 June 26, Amy Watkins, “Top 15 Brunch Spots in Vancouver, BC”, in Trip Savvy:
glosses: Synonym of eggs Benedict.
synonyms: word: eggs Benedict
Derived terms: eggs benny
crib death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crib deaths
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The unexplained death of a baby usually while sleeping.
Synonyms: word: cot death
word: sudden infant death syndrome
cot death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cot deaths
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The unexplained death of a baby, usually while sleeping.
Synonyms: word: crib death
word: sudden infant death syndrome
signora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signoras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian signora.
Senses: examples: text: I waited, half thinking that they would walk toward me on the waters, until the spell was broken by a knock upon my door. "Would the signoras of their good pleasure like to behold the dance of the tarantella?"
ref: 1896, Louise Chandler Moulton, Lazy tours in Spain and elsewhere:
glosses: Mrs; madam; title of address or respect for women in Italy.
glosses: An Italian woman.
signore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /siːnˈjɔreɪ/
Forms: form: signores
form: signor
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian signore. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: When you walk in a dream
but you know you're not dreaming,
Signore,
scuzza me
but you see,
back in old Napoli,
that's amore!
ref: 1953, Jack Brooks, That's Amore:
glosses: A courtesy title for Italian men.
Related terms: monsignor
signorina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signorinas
form: signorine
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian signorina.
Senses: glosses: A courtesy title for an unmarried woman of Italian origin.
examples: text: Signorina Mushroom is an alternative name for Grifola Frondosa, the Maitake Mushroom, which is popular among Italian-Americans in the northeastern United States.
ref: 2013, Mary Curtis, Book Of Calories and Phytosterols In Foods, page 318:
glosses: maitake, hen of the woods (mushroom)
isometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isometries
Etymology: From New Latin isometria, from Ancient Greek ἰσομετρία (isometría), from ἰσο- (iso-) + -μετρία (-metría), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and μέτρον (métron, “measurement”) + -ια (-ia, “-y”). Equivalent to iso- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.
Derived terms: anisometry
quasiisometry
Related terms: isometric
isometer
isometrograph
extrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɹuːd
ipa: ɛk-/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: extrudes
form: extruding
form: extruded
form: extruded
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extrūdere.
Senses: examples: text: It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."
ref: 1967, M.R. Calton, Welding of Dispersion-Strengthened Alloys, US Patent 3477117, page 6:
text: Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6:
text: When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.
ref: 2015, Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron, 3D Printing with MatterControl, page 153:
text: Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph.
ref: 2017, Richard Horne, 3D Printing For Dummies:
glosses: To push or thrust out.
glosses: To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
glosses: To expel; to drive off.
Derived terms: coextrude
extrudability
extrudable
extrudate
extrudite
pultrude
unextruded
Related terms: extruder
extrusion
extrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːʒən
Forms: form: extrusions
Etymology: Mid-16th century from Latin extrūdere, from ex- (“out”) + trūdere (“to thrust”).
Senses: glosses: A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
glosses: An item formed by the process of extrusion.
Derived terms: coextrusion
hydroextrusion
microextrusion
pultrusion
Related terms: extrude
moratorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒ.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
ipa: /ˌmɔː.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
ipa: /ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/
Forms: form: moratoriums
form: moratoria
Etymology: New Latin from Late Latin morātōrium, noun use of the neuter of morātōrius (“moratory, delaying”), from Latin moror (“I delay”), from mora (“delay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”). See also moratory.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
examples: text: Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
text: It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.
ref: 1990, Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes, McFarland:
text: If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute:
text: Proponents of an AI moratorium had argued that a patchwork of state and local AI laws is hindering progress in the AI industry and the ability of U.S. firms to compete with China.
ref: 2025 July 1, Matt Brown and Matt O'Brien, “Senate strikes AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after uproar from the states”, in AP News:
glosses: A suspension of an ongoing activity.
Synonyms: sense: suspension of an ongoing activity
word: hiatus
word: interruption
word: recess
word: pause
Derived terms: postmoratorium
Related terms: moratory
flavouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavourings
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of flavoring.
flavouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flavour
sambuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /samˈbʊkə/
ipa: /sæmˈbukə/
rhymes: -uːkə
rhymes: -ʊkə
Forms: form: sambucas
Etymology: ]
Borrowed from Italian sambuca, from Latin sambūcus (“elder tree”), considered to be from the instrument name sambūca for its being made of elderwood.
Senses: glosses: An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).
elderberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛldə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/
Forms: form: elderberries
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English eldre
English elder
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
English elderberry
Compound of elder + berry.
Senses: synonyms: elder
glosses: Any shrub or tree of the genus Sambucus;
glosses: The small, edible, purplish-black fruit of this plant, used in cooking and to flavour drinks etc.
Derived terms: elderberrying
Related terms: sambuca
mentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛntəli/
Forms: form: more mentally
form: most mentally
Etymology: From mental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: mentally capable
text: mentally ill
text: This is a problem that needs to be solved mentally, not with brute force.
text: The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
ref: 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:
glosses: In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
Derived terms: mentally challenged
mentally disordered
mentally handicapped
mentally ill
mentally retarded
to the tune of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The lyrics were written to the tune of "Amazing Grace".
text: She wasn’t the only one pondering that question; it was a sentiment that would be echoed in a post by the TikTok musician Boy Jr in August, who – to the tune of Video Killed the Radio Star – told her 300,000 followers that the very platform she was posting from had, along with streaming services and algorithms, “killed the bridge in pop songs”.
ref: 2022 December 9, Hannah J. Davies, “Is TikTok killing off the pop music bridge?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Fitting the melody of.
examples: text: The damage that he did to his car was to the tune of two grand.
text: It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
ref: 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston:
text: The traditional physician in Astoria who overtreated me for a case of syphilis six and a half years ago to the tune of twelve penicillin shots plus three weeks' worth of penicillin pills.
ref: 1977 February 12, Bruce Michael Gelbert, “Some New York Alternatives”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 5:
text: It boasts Hollywood royalty such as Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, was backed to the tune of $200m by tech behemoth Apple and has earned the kind of reviews that generate Oscar buzz.
ref: 2023 November 3, David Smith, “‘Hollywood doesn’t change overnight’: Indigenous viewers on Killers of the Flower Moon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Roughly; about; to the approximate sum or extent of.
shimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪ.mi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: shimmies
Etymology: A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).
Senses: glosses: A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
examples: text: The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
ref: 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
glosses: A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
glosses: An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
glosses: A sleeveless chemise.
Derived terms: shimmy shake
shimmy-shammy
shimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪ.mi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: shimmies
form: shimmying
form: shimmied
form: shimmied
Etymology: A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).
Senses: examples: text: She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 13, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
examples: text: He shimmied up the flagpole.
text: The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.
glosses: To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
examples: text: They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
glosses: To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
examples: text: Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.
ref: 2009, Allison Schubert, Lunabean.com's Videogame Guides of 2008: Adventure 3-Pack:
text: Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.
ref: 1999, Prima Development, The Big PlayStation Book:
topics: video-games
glosses: To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
Synonyms: sense: climb a pole
word: shinny
sense: climb a pole
word: shin
Derived terms: shimmy on down
ope
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: Representing oh pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /oʊp/, [oʊp̚]) (excrescent /p/). Compare yep, yup, nope, and welp.
Senses: examples: text: Ope! Sorry about that.
text: Ope, let me just squeeze past ya there.
text: We're Midwesterners. We like long walks through frozen cornfields. Ope! Watch out!
ref: 2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners:
glosses: An exclamation of surprise; oops.
ope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: more ope
form: most ope
Etymology: From Middle English ope (“open”), shortened form of open, from Old English open (“open”). More at open.
Senses: examples: text: Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
text: We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
I will to bed! — To-morrow —
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act 5, scene 5, verses 191-192:
text: On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.
ref: [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: Open.
ope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: opes
form: oping
form: oped
form: oped
Etymology: From Middle English ope (“open”), shortened form of open, from Old English open (“open”). More at open.
Senses: examples: text: Ere I ope his letter, / I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: There came into many a burgher's pate / A text which says that heaven's gate / Opes to the rich at as easy rate / As the needle's eye takes a camel in!
ref: 1842, Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin:
text: An order asserted itself, and the hoods on the furnaces were oped wide, and a final march was organized. The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604:
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: To open.
ope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: opes
Etymology: From Middle English ope (“open”), shortened form of open, from Old English open (“open”). More at open.
Senses: examples: text: Tonkin's Ope
text: It formed part of the extensive network of opes across the city which used to carry dock workers down to the quay for work on the boats in the bustling Port of Truro.
ref: 2018 October 4, Lee Trewhela, “The secrets of Truro’s hidden Carne’s Ope unveiled for the first time in 60 years”, in Cornwall Live:
text: Opes / A characteristic that Truro shares with other Cornish towns are the narrow passageways which often form shortcuts between streets. […] These include Roberts Ope, Tippet's Backlet (Tippet was the owner of a fulling mill), Coombe's Lane, Pearson's Ope, Tonkin's Ope, Swifty's Ope, Nalder's Court, Job's Court and Carne's Ope, although this last has now been blocked off by building extensions. Perhaps the most memorable is Squeeze Guts Alley (see separate entry).
ref: 2021 June 15, John Husband, A-Z of Truro: Places-People-History, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: An alley or narrow passage (an opening between houses, buildings, etc).
Derived terms: opelet
opetide
ope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
ipa: /ope/
ipa: /ʔope/
enpr: ōp
ipa: /oʊp/
ipa: /əʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Senses: glosses: Clipping of operations, in terms of an organization.
play hooky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays hooky
form: playing hooky
form: played hooky
form: played hooky
form: play hookey
form: play hookie
Etymology: See hooky for its origin; the construction of the phrase is in the same vein as play truant.
Senses: examples: text: Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.
glosses: To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);
Synonyms: play truant
Related terms: truant
play truant
mitch
wag
bug out
play hookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays hookie
form: playing hookie
form: played hookie
form: played hookie
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of play hooky.
bone of contention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊn əv kənˈtɛnʃən/
ipa: /ˈboʊn əv kənˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: bones of contention
Etymology: A reference to two dogs fighting over the same bone.
Senses: examples: text: It is still a bone of contention whether to go ahead with the original plan in light of the new evidence.
text: England's "Football Coming Home" anthem became a serious bone of contention at the World Cup - with Croatia using it as a sign of arrogance from their opponents in the build up to the semi-final.
ref: 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Something that continues to be disputed; something on which no agreement can be reached.
Related terms: apple of discord
sticking point
stumbling block
spur of the moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurs of the moment
form: spur-of-the-moment
Senses: examples: 1852 January 26, Henry David Thoreau
Obey the spur of the moment. These accumulated it is that make the impulse and the impetus of the life of genius.
glosses: Impulse; short notice; a lack of planning.
Derived terms: spur-of-the-moment
Related terms: at the drop of a hat
in the heat of the moment
spur-of-the-moment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See spur of the moment.
Senses: examples: text: It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy the car.
glosses: Spontaneous; impromptu.
bushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊʃ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊʃɪŋ
Forms: form: bushings
Etymology: From bush (“metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun”) + -ing.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
glosses: An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
bushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊʃ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊʃɪŋ
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bush