cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
newline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newlines
Etymology: From new + line, Coined by Bell Laboratories during development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system.
Senses: examples: text: Microsoft Windows uses CRLF to represent a newline.
text: The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character.
ref: 1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library), page 599:
text: The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline.
ref: 1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers, page 13:
text: Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline; Perl will keep track of that for you.
ref: 2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, page 69:
text: It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)
ref: 2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python:
text: The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.
ref: 2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 111:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: line break
carriage return
end-of-line
mul:\n
glosses: The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
wikipedia: C (programming language)
UNIX
Related terms: control character
control code
escape character
escape sequence
boxer shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxer-short
form: boxer short
form: boxer short
Etymology: Named after the shorts worn by those who engage in boxing, as their elasticity is comparable to that of what boxers must wear for unhindered leg movement.
Senses: examples: text: The average man's wardrobe holds eight pairs of boxer shorts or briefs; the average woman's, twice as many undies.
ref: 1985 April 29, New York Magazine, page 28:
text: Bosun grabbed the car key on the bookshelf in his bedroom and ran to the door, only to realize at the door that he should not go to the state police headquarters in boxer shorts, socks, and this white V-neck shirt.
ref: 2020, Feyisayo Anjorin, One Week in the Life of a Hypocrite, page 59:
glosses: Shorts worn as underwear by men.
Coordinate terms: athletic supporter
bikini briefs
briefs
jockeys
jockstrap
longjohns
scants
underpants
undershorts
underwear
Y-fronts
Derived terms: boxers
boxer briefs
Sycorax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkəræks/
Etymology: Named after Caliban's mother in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Senses: glosses: A natural satellite of the planet Uranus
wikipedia: The Tempest
William Shakespeare
line feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line feeds
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
examples: text: It appears that Director Chalmers was the only one who, while reading the final draft, noticed that the wording of one clause required the Post Office to provide a line feed to each station.
ref: 1964, Ian K. Mackay, Broadcasting in Nigeria, page 30:
text: Playing a “gig” in Toronto at the time, Lombardo and his boys arrived at RB to do a live line feed to New York for their regular dance-band series on CBS, just at a mement when Baker's one and only amplifier was in full use on CFRB's own air, broadcasting a lucrative locally-sponsored program of recorded music.
ref: 2003, Gil Murray, Nothing On But the Radio, page 33:
text: The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed."
ref: 2017, Ivan Cury, Directing and Producing for Television, page 281:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
line feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: line feeds
form: line feeding
form: line fed
form: line fed
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.
Hypernyms: control character
control code
Coordinate terms: carriage return
Related terms: double-spaced
EOL
one-and-a-half-spaced
printer
single-space
typewriter
word processing
sans-serif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sans serif.
pacifists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacifist
quant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: quants
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: We believe there is a role for both qual and quant in professional services.
ref: 2015, Nigel Clark, Professional Services Marketing Handbook: How to Build Relationships, Grow Your Firm and Become a Client Champion, London: Kogan Page Publishers, page 70:
glosses: Quantitative analysis or research.
examples: text: Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data.
Simon: Excuse me?
Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired a quant.
ref: 2014 January 30, Simon Roberts Was Here (The Crazy Ones), episode 15:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A quantitative analyst.
glosses: Clipping of quantity.
glosses: Clipping of quantifier.
quant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of quantifiable.
examples: text: Finally, in the school of education, I found coursework that included qual and quant methodology.
ref: 2012, Judith M. Meloy, Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, page 24:
glosses: Clipping of quantitative.
Derived terms: quant fund
quant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: quants
Etymology: Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.
Senses: glosses: A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
glosses: A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.
Derived terms: quant pole
quant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: quants
form: quanting
form: quanted
form: quanted
Etymology: Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.
Senses: glosses: To propel using a quant.
Derived terms: quanter
Related terms: quant suff
CRLF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː ɑː(ɹ)ɛl ˈɛf/
other: /ˈkər ləf/
Forms: form: CRLFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The two-character sequence carriage return, line feed.
carriage return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage returns
Senses: glosses: On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
examples: text: […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.
ref: 1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mul:\r
glosses: The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).
glosses: The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).
Related terms: enter
EOL
line feed
return
contour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɒntɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɒntʊə(ɹ)/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɑntɔɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɑntʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑntʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɔntʉːə/
ipa: /ˈkɒntʉːə/
homophone: kontor
Forms: form: contours
Etymology: Borrowed from French contour, from contourner, equivalent to con- + tour.
Senses: examples: text: the low drag contour of a modern automobile
text: The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: Great Western Parcels Railcar”, in Railway Magazine, page 474:
glosses: An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
synonyms: contour line
glosses: A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
examples: text: Contours of a deal with conservative holdouts who had been blocking McCarthy’s rise had emerged the night before, and took hold after four dismal days and 14 failed votes in an intraparty standoff unseen in modern times.
ref: January 7 2023, Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, “McCarthy elected House speaker in rowdy post-midnight vote”, in AP News:
glosses: A general description giving the most important points.
Derived terms: contourable
contour chase
contour diaper
contour feather
contour integral
contour interval
contourite
contourless
contourlet
contour map
executive contour
isocontour
recontour
contour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɒntɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɒntʊə(ɹ)/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɑntɔɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkɑntʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑntʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɔntʉːə/
ipa: /ˈkɒntʉːə/
homophone: kontor
Forms: form: contours
form: contouring
form: contoured
form: contoured
Etymology: Borrowed from French contour, from contourner, equivalent to con- + tour.
Senses: glosses: To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
glosses: To mark with contour lines.
examples: text: What is the French-preferred method to add dimension to the skin, if not to contour?
ref: 2015 April 29, Kathleen Hou, “Why French Women Don’t Contour”, in The Cut, New York, U.S.A.: Vox Media, retrieved 02 Jul 2020:
glosses: To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
examples: text: But the bill will exact a heavy cost — one that will complicate its prospects even if it passes the full House this week and will contour the political climate ahead of 2026 midterm elections.
ref: 2025 May 19, Stephen Collinson, “A double challenge is putting Trump’s credibility on the line”, in CNN Politics, CNN:
glosses: To shape conditions regarding salient points.
Messing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
Derived terms: Messing-cum-Inworth
Messing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Messings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Metzger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Metzger (“butcher”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sotto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɒtəʊ/
ipa: [ˈsotːo]
rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəʊ
rhymes: (UK) -ɒtəʊ
Etymology: Ellipsis of sotto voce.
Senses: examples: text: Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
ref: 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104
text: Wolowitz: Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
Penny: Hi. Penny.
Wolowitz: You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
Penny: It’s called b.o.
Wolowitz: Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
Sheldon: (SOTTO, TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.
ref: 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27)
glosses: Ellipsis of sotto voce.
sotto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɒtəʊ/
ipa: [ˈsotːo]
rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəʊ
rhymes: (UK) -ɒtəʊ
Etymology: Ellipsis of sotto voce.
Senses: examples: text: Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
ref: 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237
text: ‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto,[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:
text: The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.
ref: 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:
glosses: Ellipsis of sotto voce.
scants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: plural of scant
scants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: A type of underwear worn by men.
hot-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-dips
Senses: glosses: A method of galvanizing iron or steel by passing it through a bath of molten zinc.
hot-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-dips
form: hot-dipping
form: hot-dipped
form: hot-dipped
Senses: hypernyms: galvanize#Verb
electrogalvanize#Verb
zinc#Verb
<
electroplate#Verb
plate#Verb
<
rustproof#Verb
glosses: To galvanize (metal objects, especially steel ones) by using this method.
hot-dipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Galvanized by use of the hot-dip process.
hot-dipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot-dip
hot dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot dippings
Senses: glosses: galvanising by means of the hot-dip process
hot favourite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot favorite.
Ober
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Obers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ober.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Starke County, Indiana, United States.
hot favorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot favorites
Senses: glosses: The one of a group that is favored greatly above any of the others.
Coordinate terms: warm favorite
hot flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot flashes
form: hotflash
form: hot-flash
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hot flush.
synonyms: word: hot flush
hot flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot flushes
Senses: glosses: A sudden, but brief, sensation of heat over the entire body; a common symptom of the menopause.
Synonyms: word: hot flash
word: vasomotor symptoms
Coordinate terms: night sweats
hotfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotfoots
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
Senses: glosses: The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
hotfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
Senses: examples: text: Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
ref: 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems, page 137:
glosses: Moving with haste or zeal.
hotfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
Senses: glosses: Hastily; without delay.
hotfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotfoots
form: hotfooting
form: hotfooted
form: hotfooted
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
Senses: examples: text: He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
ref: 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...:
text: The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.
ref: 2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign, page 55:
glosses: To run (a distance).
Derived terms: hotfoot it
hotfoot spell
hotfoot it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotfoots it
form: hotfooting it
form: hotfooted it
form: hotfooted it
Senses: examples: text: My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.
ref: 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
glosses: to hasten; to move rapidly
hot off the press
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In hot-metal printing, newly printed material is warm
Senses: glosses: freshly printed
glosses: so interesting or sensational that its publication cannot be delayed
raw_tags: of news
hot from the press
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hot off the press
hot gospeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot gospeller.
hot gospeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot gospellers
Senses: glosses: A person who proclaims religious faith in a loud or dynamic manner
hot gospeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot gospelling.
hot gospelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activities of a hot gospeller.
hot hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot hatches
form: hot hatchback
Etymology: Clipping of hot hatchback, from hot + hatchback. From being a hatchback-configuration small car, compact, subcompact that has some zip.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A high-performance hatchback small motor car.
Related terms: warm hatch
Universal Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A measure of time that conforms, within a close approximation, to the mean diurnal rotation of the Earth and serves as the basis of civil timekeeping.
Related terms: Greenwich Mean Time
UTC
Zulu time
Pfeil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pfeils
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pfeil.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːtiz/
rhymes: -uːtiz
Senses: glosses: plural of cootie
Pfingsten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pfingstens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pfingsten.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Universal Postal Union
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A worldwide postal organization, part of the United Nations.
Synonyms: UPU
Four-Corner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A method of encoding Chinese characters using four numerical digits per character (in some situations, an additional digit is used).
time out
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To call for a time-out.
glosses: To call for a suspension of activity or conversation.
qualifier: live action roleplaying games
glosses: Used to announce the end of time in and the beginning of time out.
time out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time-out.
qualifier: live action roleplaying games
glosses: The period of a live action roleplaying event when players are out of character.
qualifier: live action roleplaying games
glosses: The point at which such a period begins.
time out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: times out
form: timing out
form: timed out
form: timed out
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
examples: text: The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
topics: business
qualifier: human resources
glosses: To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
Hawthorne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːθɔːn/
Etymology: Variant of Hawthorn.
Senses: glosses: A topographic or habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge or in a place with such a name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Alachua County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in White County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An eastern neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A northern neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place, the county seat of Mineral County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Passaic County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A district of Portland, Oregon, named after James C. Hawthorne.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in south Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-west Washington, D.C..
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Cicero, Illinois.
glosses: An eastern suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Hawthornean
Hawthornian
Hawthorne effect
hawthorneite
easy does it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Easy does it on the salt. I'm trying to cut down.
text: Easy does it! That thing is heavy and fragile.
text: “Nothing is bugging me, and nobody gave me any big pitch.” “Maybe that's what's bugging you, nobody give you the pitch. Did I strike oil there, June?” “Easy does it there, Rich,” said Wigman. “Don't get personal.”
ref: 2013, John O'Hara, The New York Stories, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Relax; do something gently, lightly or carefully; slow down; calm down.
Dante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdænti/
ipa: /ˈdænteɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɑnteɪ/
rhymes: -ænti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Dante, a reduced form of Durante.
Senses: examples: text: Scattered around the contemporary city are thirty other plaques with passages from the Comedy , evoking a range of places Dante had known and moments and persons he had known or heard about in his thirty-five years of Florentine life:
ref: 2001 July 29, R. W. B. Lewis, “'Dante'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:
glosses: A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.
Derived terms: Dantean
Dantesque
immobilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immobilizes
form: immobilizing
form: immobilized
form: immobilized
form: immobilise
Etymology: From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It is best to immobilize the injury until a doctor can examine it.
text: […]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).
ref: 2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:
text: This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes.
ref: 2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:
text: Fully autonomous vehicles have raised safety concerns. California enacted a law this year that will, among other things, require manufacturers to continuously monitor every autonomous vehicle on the road and designate a remote human operator to immobilize a vehicle if necessary.
ref: 2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
examples: text: It's clear from these [budget] cuts that the MCAD is virtually immobilized as an effective organization for at least the next year.
ref: 1975 December 27, “Editorial”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 4:
glosses: To render incapable of action.
glosses: To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
examples: text: Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
Synonyms: sense: render motionless
word: freeze
word: halt
word: stop
word: arrest
word: draw up
word: immobilize
Hypernyms: word: cause to desist
word: decelerate
word: hinder
Hyponyms: word: pull over
Derived terms: reimmobilize
Related terms: word: immobilization
word: immobilizer
word: photoimmobilize
word: desist
par for the course
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː fə ðə ˈkɔːs/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ fɚ ðə ˈkɔɹs/
ipa: /-ˈkɔəɹs/
Forms: form: more par for the course
form: most par for the course
form: course par
Etymology: Originally a phrase used in golf. Ironically, completing a golf course in par (or even net par) is actually unusually good for most golfers and is not a typical result.
Senses: examples: text: It took a long time to finish, but that's par for the course on a project like this.
text: […] Nigella Lawson and Ralph Fiennes, we were told, might pop by later. The Gopniks smiled calmly: this was all par for the course for them.
ref: 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.
ref: 2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: To be expected; normal; common.
wikipedia: Handicap_(golf)#Scoring
Synonyms: predictable
typical
usual
briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːfs/
rhymes: -iːfs
Senses: glosses: plural of brief
briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːfs/
rhymes: -iːfs
Senses: examples: text: [S]he learned not to iron my footy briefs and leave creases in them - the blokes bagged my creases for weeks[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124:
text: Briefs for men and women were not popular in America until the 1930s.
ref: 2008, Dan Peek, Why Do They Dress That Way?: People’s Place Book No. 7, page 80:
text: A white tiger sat at the entrance, showing its white fangs in a wide-open bloody mouth. The sinister decorum would make you wet your briefs.
ref: 2010, Robert Trando, Letters Of A Vietnamese Émigré, page 83:
text: Yes, Gentlemen’s Quarterly wrote that Archie wears briefs, like it was something everyone wanted to know.
ref: 2012, Dan Stephenson, The Underwater Widow:
glosses: A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
examples: text: I fetched my briefs, pulled them on, and we left the changing room.
ref: 2012, Luis Algorri, You’ll Hear From Me: A Gay Story about Passion and Love:
glosses: Swim briefs.
examples: text: Galvanised, I jumped--the clatter of keys rang clear as I thrust the knife, handle down, into the back of my briefs.
ref: 2012, Joe Tog, Aussie Prison Breaks: Not All Escapees Are Desperados:
glosses: Male underpant bikini briefs.
glosses: An adult diaper.
Synonyms: underwear
Derived terms: bikini briefs
boxer briefs
control brief
diaper briefs
incontinence briefs
jockey briefs
midway briefs
protective briefs
racing briefs
swim briefs
swimming briefs
tanga briefs
trunk briefs
briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːfs/
rhymes: -iːfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brief
switch off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches off
form: switching off
form: switched off
form: switched off
Senses: examples: text: To switch off the instrument when the clockwork is not wound up, and to remind the subscriber of doing so, there is provided an indicator, x, which is worked in the following manner.
ref: 1893, The Electrical Review, volume 32, page 554:
text: We have found that a patrolman in the central section of the city can switch on, and later switch off, 100 signs with ease.
ref: 1906, National Electric Light Association, National Electric Light Association Twenty-Ninth Convention, page 420:
text: He began shutting down the flight controls, switching off all the things he'd switched on before, switching on all the things he'd switched off.
ref: 2001, David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon, page 208:
glosses: To stop or disable a device by turning a switch or a lever.
examples: text: Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.
ref: 2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0 - 5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: While you are pregnant with the desire for the car, the house or anything, try to switch off your mind to avoid brainstorming any solutions.
ref: 2013, Ashbel Vudzijena, Success is a CALLING!, page 82:
text: In short, the Bible is used by many, believers and atheists alike, as a book best handled only after switching off your brain.
ref: 2015, Simon Taylor, How To Read The Bible (without switching off your brain):
glosses: To lose interest, and start thinking about something else.
examples: text: Do you eat all your peas and then all your potatoes, or do you switch off between them as you go?
text: "We haven't a musket, and Tommy's crowd are well armed. They have the inside track" "Then we can switch off." "Switch off?" "Yes, and take the inside track."
ref: 1869, Oliver Optic, Switch Off; or, the War of the Students:
text: Besides Crow belting out "Bitch," the concert featured several artists switching off on lead vocals
ref: 1997 February 1, Billboard, volume 109, number 5, page 84:
text: Freddie gave me a quick five-minute lesson on handling Cherry Pie and we switched off between sleeping and driving.
ref: 2014, Samantha Verant, King of the Mutants:
glosses: To alternate between; to trade.
Synonyms: sense: stop, disable
word: turn off
sense: stop, disable
word: power down
desmond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.mənd/
homophone: Desmond
Forms: form: desmonds
Etymology: From Desmond (“given name”); abbreviation of Desmond Tutu (South African archbishop); from Tutu (“surname”) which sounds like 2.2 (two-two).
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree.
wikipedia: en:Desmond Tutu
Ásatrú
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑ.sɑ.tɹu/
Senses: examples: text: That so widely known and highly diverse an issue has escaped the notice of Christian ACMs speaks volumes for the quality of research—and the degree of attention—which the Ásatrú/Odinist community has drawn in these circles.
ref: 1993, Kenneth Bolton Jr., Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, volume 2, page 285:
text: Neopagan Odinism, a belief system centered on the reconstruction of the pre-Christian Norse/Germanic pantheon, has in recent years taken on an increasingly important role in the wilderness of the radical right as well; the existence of a nonracialist counterpart, Ásatrú, provides an interesting contrast.
ref: 1997, Jeffrey Kaplan, Radical Religion in America, page xviii:
text: Since 1973 Ásatrú has been one of the legally recognised religions of Iceland which has legalised its marriages, child naming and other ceremonies and provided benefits for tax purposes.
ref: 1997, Graham Harvey, Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of Asatru.
miscellanea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/
Forms: form: miscellanea
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin miscellānea, neuter plural of miscellāneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“I mix”).
Senses: examples: text: Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls.
ref: 1897, George Egerton, Symphonies, page 238:
text: Long tables of statistics from the Census Reports, extracts from books, and sometimes whole books reappear in the Record, jumbled into a miscellanea that includes a flamboyant discourse on “The Outlook for Prosperity,” […]
ref: 1917, Herbert David Croly, editor, The New Republic, volume 9, page 89:
text: Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts
ref: 1989, Thomas G. Pavel, Fictional Worlds, page 70:
synonyms: miscellany
glosses: A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
Related terms: miscellaneous
miscellany
miscellanea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of miscellaneum
Æsir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪsɪə/
ipa: /ˈiːsə/
note: '
enpr: āʹsîr
enpr: āʹsē(')ər
note: '
enpr: āʹzîr
enpr: āʹzē(')ər
ipa: /ˈeɪ(ˌ)sɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ(ˌ)siɚ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ(ˌ)zɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ(ˌ)ziɚ/
rhymes: -iːsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Áss
form: Aes
form: Aesir
form: aesir
form: æsir
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse æsir (nominative plural of áss), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énsus, from *h₂ens- (“to engender, beget”); cf. Old English ēse, Sanskrit असुर (ásura).
Senses: glosses: The principal group of benevolent deities in the Norse pantheon, representing power and war; opponents of the Vanir.
Related terms: Odin
Frigga
Frigg
Thor
Balder
Tyr
Vanir
Frey
Freyja
Sif
Ullr
Vanir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse vanir. Doublet of Wanes.
Senses: glosses: The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
glosses: Members of the Swedish royal family whose ancestry is traditionally traced to one of the Vanir deities.
Related terms: Vanaheimr
switch on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches on
form: switching on
form: switched on
form: switched on
Senses: synonyms: start up
turn on
antonyms: shut off
switch off
turn off
glosses: To start or enable a device by turning a switch or a lever.
glosses: To change one's expression or appearance as if by turning a switch.
synonyms: switch up
turn on
antonyms: turn off
glosses: To arouse, to excite (sexually).
Coordinate terms: keep on
leave on
Derived terms: switch on the afterburners
posilutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: posolutely
Etymology: Blend of positively + absolutely
Senses: examples: text: “Anyway, we're not trespassing now,” Hunt put in. “Posilutely not,” I said.
ref: 1922 June, Percy K. Fitzhugh, “Roy Blakely's Bee-Line Hike”, in Boys' Life, volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, page 19:
text: “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”
ref: 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
text: "No way, madam, it's posilutely confidential," I chuckled.
ref: 1998, Lewis Kornfeld, The Pheromone Factor: Twenty-Five Short Stories:
glosses: Positively and absolutely.
Related terms: absitively
absotively
absitively posolutely
absotively posilutely
hot-house
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house
ref: 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Alternative spelling of hothouse.
hothouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hothouses
form: hothousing
form: hothoused
form: hothoused
form: hot-house
Etymology: From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.
Senses: examples: text: she had such an exceptional grasp of maths in her first two years at the school theyʼd been hothousing her to sit her GCSE Maths two years early
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 245:
glosses: To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
Related terms: forcing house
hot iron test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot iron tests
Senses: glosses: A supposed test for witchcraft in which a hot iron was applied to the skin or the tongue: the skin of a witch would be unharmed.
hot key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot keys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotkey.
hotkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒtkiː/
Forms: form: hotkeys
form: hot key
Etymology: From hot + key.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A keyboard shortcut.
hotkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒtkiː/
Forms: form: hotkeys
form: hotkeying
form: hotkeyed
form: hotkeyed
form: hot key
Etymology: From hot + key.
Senses: examples: text: All of the sales talk about hotkeying between 3270 sessions and DOS applications sounds great until you try to squeeze the DOS applications into the PC while it's emulating a terminal.
ref: 1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 21, page 183:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut.
keyboard shortcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard shortcuts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A key, or more usually a combination of keys, on the keyboard of a personal computer that activates a specific, predefined function.
Synonyms: accelerator key
hotkey
hot key
key combo
shortcut key
shortcut
keybinding
key binding
keybind
hot laboratory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot laboratories
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A laboratory designed for use with radioactive substances.
Synonyms: word: hot lab
hotly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hotly
form: most hotly
Etymology: From Middle English *hotly, *hatliche, from Old English hātlīċe (“ardently, fervently”); equivalent to hot + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With great amounts of heat.
examples: text: In my excitement I had not been taking notice of other things, and I looked up to see the lord of the harem charging down upon me. Again I fled to the boat, hotly pursued; but this time Maud made no suggestion of turning back.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: "You are really intolerable!" said I, hotly.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: It is interesting that this argument should have come up at this moment," Mr. Smith adds, "when the subject is being debated so hotly in the field of the petrol-driven internal combustion engine."
ref: 1951 September, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 621:
text: The prospective staff redundancy that would ensue from adoption of the plan is, of course, one of the hotly controversial aspects of the proposals and the chief issue on which a three-day N.U.R. strike was threatened for May 14-16, a few days after this issue went to press.
ref: 1963 June, “News and Comment: The redundancy problem”, in Modern Railways, pages 362–363:
glosses: In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently.
hot melt adhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot melt adhesives
Senses: glosses: A solvent-free, solid adhesive that is melted by heating for use.
Synonyms: hot glue
hot melt glue
hot melt glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot melt glues
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hot melt adhesive.
synonyms: word: hot melt adhesive
hot property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot properties
Etymology: From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).
Senses: glosses: Stolen goods.
examples: text: There was Nimmi (pronounced Neemi), a honey-coloured, nymph-like beauty. She had done a lascivious mating dance in an Indian technicolour epic called Aan, and she was hot property at the box office.
ref: 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 169:
glosses: Something that is highly sought after.
Synonyms: sense: stolen goods
word: booty
Related terms: hot check
hotplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotplates
form: hot-plate
form: hot plate
Etymology: From hot + plate.
Senses: glosses: A semiportable stove.
synonyms: ring
burner
glosses: The element of a stove.
glosses: A low-powered heating device for keeping food warm.
Synonyms: boiling plate
cooking plate
hottest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Aside from the Turfan depression in Hsin-chiang (Sinkiang) province, the hottest part of China lies in the middle and lower Yangtze Valley. Maximum temperatures of 43°–44°C (110°–112°F) have been recorded in Ch'ang-sha and Nan-ching.
ref: 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
glosses: superlative form of hot: most hot
hot bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot beds
form: hotbed
Senses: glosses: A mass of organic matter decomposing and giving off heat from microbial metabolic action.
glosses: A garden bed using such a heat-generating mass; a hotbox.
glosses: A central point of activity, relating to a specific task.
glosses: A bed shared by workers, sailors, or soldiers operating in shifts or watches (named for the idea that it is still warm when the next occupant gets into it).
qualifier: 3D printing
glosses: A heated print bed, so as to help the lower levels of extruded filament stick together.
hot bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot beds
form: hot bedding
form: hot bedded
form: hot bedded
form: hotbed
Senses: examples: text: The crew of the submarine quickly got used to hot bedding.
synonyms: hot bunk
hot rack
glosses: To share sleeping accommodations with one or two others serially (in shifts), as on ship or a submarine or other operation with round-the-clock staffing.
glosses: To farm using hotbeds for season extension.
hot-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot-tempered
form: most hot-tempered
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: quick-tempered, short-tempered
synonyms: choleric
hotheaded
irascible
antonyms: cool-headed
even-tempered
hypernyms: emotional
moody
temperamental
mercurial
glosses: Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Etymology: From Avar аварал (awaral)
Senses: glosses: A North Caucasian language spoken mainly in Avaria (Republic of Daghestan) as its official language, and in parts of Azerbaijan.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Forms: form: Avars
Etymology: From Avar аварал (awaral)
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to this people of Caucasus, mainly of Daghestan, in which they are the predominant group.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Etymology: From Avar аварал (awaral)
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Avar language or people.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Senses: glosses: The extinct language of the Eurasian Avars, probably belonging to the Oghur branch of the Turkic language family.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Forms: form: Avars
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of equestrian nomads who established an empire spanning considerable areas of Central and Eastern Europe from the late 6th to the early 9th century; also called Eurasian Avars or Pannonian Avars, to distinguish them from the Avars of the Caucasus.
Avar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɑɹ/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Eurasian Avar language or people.
hot-wired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Stolen by the hot-wire technique.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
hot-wired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot-wire