cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cut one's losses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts one's losses
form: cutting one's losses
form: cut one's losses
form: cut one's losses
Senses: examples: text: But our culture has reinforced the belief that a good marriage just happens, and if it doesn't, you should simply cut your losses and move on to the next partner. After all, that's what we see in the movies.
ref: 2007, Catherine Weber, A Woman's Guide to Overcoming Depression, Baker Books, →ISBN, page 47:
text: I mentioned already in this chapter that you need to cut your losses before they drag you down. No matter how much it hurts and no matter how much you believe that you are right, you need to close out a losing position and move on.
ref: 2011, Ann C. Logue, Day Trading For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Sometimes when things are not going as you expected, it's better to cut your losses and move on than to hang on and deal with the stress, financial drain, emotional drag, and loss of time.
ref: 2017, Meera Lester, Rituals for Life: Find Meaning in Your Everyday Moments, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 174:
coordinate_terms: throw good money after bad
glosses: To discontinue something to put a stop to continued losses after facing that it is unlikely it will ever bear fruit.
Related terms: sunk cost
extravagancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extravagancies
form: extravagance
Etymology: From extravagant + -cy or extravagance + -y.
Senses: qualifier: 17-19th centuries
glosses: The characteristic of being extravagant.
qualifier: 17-19th centuries
glosses: A thing that is extravagant.
compactify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compactifies
form: compactifying
form: compactified
form: compactified
Etymology: From compact + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To become compact or more compact.
glosses: To render (a thing) compact or more compact.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To enlarge (a topological space) in order to render it compact.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension).
Derived terms: compactifiable
decompactify
paracompactifying
uncompactified
wildernesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wilderness
glosses: plural of wildernesse
ecclesiastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecclesiastic
ecclesiastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The field of study of the church.
embarrassments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embarrassment
booksellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookseller
shopkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopkeeper
solicitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solicitation
slaveholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaveholder
oppressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppression
illuminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illumination
temperaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temperament
door to door
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: D2D
Senses: examples: text: He carried the petition door to door, collecting signatures.
text: He sold magazine subscriptions at inflated prices door to door.
text: Selling door to door is the best training - and test - for a new salesman.
glosses: From one household or business to the next.
examples: text: The trip takes sixteen hours door to door.
glosses: From ultimate origin to ultimate destination.
examples: The express company could only handle shipments door to door on the West Coast, needing others to reach the rest of the country.
glosses: From ultimate origin to ultimate destination.
From shipper to recipient.
qualifier: by further extension
examples: It was purely a CIA operation, door to door.
glosses: From ultimate origin to ultimate destination.
From inception to final completion.
qualifier: by further extension
door to door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: D2D
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of door-to-door.
disclosures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disclosure
conspiracy theorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈspɪɹ.ə.si ˌθɪəɹɪst/
ipa: /kənˈspɪɹ.ə.si ˌθi.ɚ.əst/
ipa: /- ˌθɪɚ.əst/
ipa: /- ˌθɪɚ.ɪst/
ipa: /kənˈspɪɹ.ə.siː ˌθɪə.ɹəst/
ipa: /- ˌθiː.ə.ɹəst/
ipa: /kɘnˈspɘɹ.ɘ.siː ˌθiə.ɹɘst/
ipa: /- ˌθiː.ɘ.ɹɘst/
Forms: form: conspiracy theorists
Senses: examples: text: Mike's a conspiracy theorist; he thinks NASA faked the moon landings.
text: And you may have noticed that those who are too quick to shout 'conspiracy theorist' are equally swift, when consequences for authority and consensus impend, to look serious and say 'It's more complicated than that.' These have become standard damage-control reflexes.
ref: 1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument:
text: “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is not an environmentalist. He is a dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier whose agenda would be a disaster for our communities and the planet,” the letter reads.
ref: 2024 April 19, Aaron Pellish, “RFK Jr.’s onetime allies in environmental advocacy call for him to drop out”, in CNN:
text: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the most notorious conspiracy theorists and MAGA diehards in Congress, told The New York Times that the DOJ’s memo is “a full reversal on what was all said beforehand, and people are just not willing to accept it.”
ref: 2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: One who believes in, follows, or advances a conspiracy theory.
Synonyms: word: conspiratard
word: conspiracist
word: conspirophile
word: tinfoil hatter
word: truther
alt: nonpejorative
word: conspiracy analyst
Related terms: word: crackpot
word: crank
true believer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true believers
Senses: examples: text: When he had repoſed four years and four months in the boſom of care, rocked in the cradle of proſperity, he was brought forth, according to the cuſtom of true believers, and committed to the charge of moralifts of high fame, poliſhers of noble manners, and ſearchers of true knowledge, that they might cultivate his heaven-born genius, and teach him with dignity to rule that world which he was born to command[.]
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 4:
glosses: A strict follower of a doctrine.
glosses: One who believes dogmatically in something regardless of evidence or even conclusive proof that the thing is false or was staged; one who has true-believer syndrome.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see true, believer.
Derived terms: true-believer syndrome
Related terms: doctrinaire
hypoglycaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoglycaemias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hypoglycemia.
hypocalcaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocalcaemias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hypocalcemia.
geofence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiːəʊfɛns/
ipa: /ˈdʒiːə-/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒioʊfɛns/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːə-/
Forms: form: geofences
form: geo-fence
Etymology: From geo- + fence.
Senses: examples: text: To make the location data more useful to its customers, uLocate has developed some enhancements. For instance, users can set up "geofences" around specific locations; when a phone enters or leaves that area, an alert is triggered. This could be used to let parents know, by e-mail or SMS, when a child reaches school.
ref: 1986, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 23, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2:
text: A company like PetsMobility produces the "PetsCell," a "revolutionary waterproof A-GPS CDMA cell phone for your Pet" (as the company puts it). PetsMobility declares that / there's no hiding with the PetsCell™. […] Establish a remote programmable geofence around a yard or campus, and use handy notification features that alert your cell phone when a breach occurs.
ref: 2009, Mark J. Lacy, “Designing Security: Control Society and MoMA’s SAFE: Design Takes on Risk”, in François Debrix, Mark J. Lacy, editors, The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy (PRIO New Security Studies), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:
text: A geofence could be a mile or more around a store or it could be fifty feet from the front door, whatever the business decides.
ref: 2011, Chuck Martin, The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile, Boston, Mass.: Nicholas Brealey, →ISBN, page 144:
text: In the event that the secured lot and locking systems emplaced fail to keep a load from being stolen, by emplacing a geofence (or electronic boundary) around the stationary load, the user or a control center can be notified immediately when the load begins to move and crosses the electronic boundary, which allows for an immediate response protocol, which can enhance the chances for recovery exponentially.
ref: 2013, Dan Burges, “In-transit Security”, in Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention, and Supply Chain Security, Waltham, Mass.; Kidlington, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 207:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".
Derived terms: word: geofencing
geofence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiːəʊfɛns/
ipa: /ˈdʒiːə-/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒioʊfɛns/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːə-/
Forms: form: geofences
form: geofencing
form: geofenced
form: geofenced
Etymology: From geo- + fence.
Senses: examples: text: In this adventure you have built the hardware and software for a fully functional passenger lift, just like the lifts inside real buildings. By doing this, you have used many of the skills you learnt by working through all of the adventures in this book, including sensing the players' position, geo-fencing the lift shaft, moving the player, building blocks automatically, sensing when a block has been hit, interfacing with electronic circuits, using Python lists, developing and testing a program one step at a time, and many more amazing things!
ref: 2015, Martin O'Hanlon, David Whale, “Adventure 10: The Minecraft Lift”, in Adventures in Minecraft, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page BC20:
text: The practice, called fingerprinting, is prohibited by Apple. To prevent the company from discovering the practice, Uber geofenced Apple headquarters in Cupertino, changing its code so that it would be hidden from Apple Employees.
ref: 2017 April 23, Andrew Liptak, “Uber tried to fool Apple and got caught: Uber geofenced Apple’s Cupertino headquarters to hide that it was tracking iPhones”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2018:
text: In this case, you could use the GPS to "geo-fence" the area, and implement access control measures that track where devices are located within the facility, alerting you when mobile devices enter unapproved areas.
ref: 2018, Dawn Dunkerley, CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-501 (Mike Meyers’ Certification Passport), 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 414:
text: Two of them said this was because Mr. Musk had “geofenced” the service so that it was available only in certain areas.
ref: 2022 October 26, Cade Metz, Adam Satariano, Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To provide a geofence around (an area).
woolly-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʊliˈhɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈwʊliˌhɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˌwʊliˈhɛdɪd/
Forms: form: more woolly-headed
form: most woolly-headed
form: wooly-headed
form: wool-headed
Senses: examples: text: The Blacks in Guinea are Woolly-headed.
ref: 1708 Feb 25, The British Apollo
glosses: Synonym of nappy: having tightly curled and frizzy hair.
synonyms: word: nappy
extra: having tightly curled and frizzy hair
glosses: Synonym of fuzzy-headed: characterized by vague or confused thinking, dull-witted.
synonyms: word: fuzzy-headed
extra: characterized by vague or confused thinking, dull-witted
Synonyms: sense: vague or confused thinking
word: foolish & Thesaurus:stupid
Derived terms: woolly-headedness
autotelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The belief that an entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose.
topics: art
arts
glosses: In literature or art, the belief that a work, having been created, is a justification in and of itself. Poems with a unified rhetorical device to frame the poem in a singular idea.
Related terms: autotelic
esophageal cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophageal cancers
form: oesophageal cancer
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: (oncology) A malignancy in the esophagus.
Bent Spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bent Spears
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A significant incident with a nuclear weapon, nuclear components, or nuclear-bearing vehicle.
Related terms: Broken Arrow
Empty Quiver
Faded Giant
Broken Arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broken Arrows
Senses: examples: text: In the US, the code name for a serious nuclear weapons incident is "Broken Arrow". It is US policy neither to confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons at any specific location; this also applies to Broken Arrow incidents.
ref: 2004, Roland Everett Langford, Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, Chemical, and Biological, page 97:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war.
Broken Arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The FAC urgently sends over his radio a cry for help: "Broken Arrow! Broken Arrow!' His message unleashes all available close air support in South Vietnam on a priority basis.
ref: 2003, Jacques-François de Chaunac, The American Cavalry in Vietnam: "First Cav", →ISBN, page 48:
text: Before Caras could respond, the General threw down the mike, turned to his second and said, "Get them all the air support we have, everything. This is Broken Arrow"
ref: 2008, Terry Ryan, Bring Out Your Dead, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Broken Arrow refers to the U.S. military's code word used during the Vietnam War. This call was used only in the direst of tactical situations, when a ground unit was overrun by enemy forces. When "Broken Arrow" was heard on the radio nets, all available aircraft were diverted to provide close air support for the endangered command.
ref: 2010, Danny W. Davis, The Phinehas Priesthood, →ISBN:
text: All Pulse elements, this is Home Plate. Broken Arrow. I repeat, Broken Arrow. Forward command of close air-support operations is Rebel Four One.
ref: 2017, Kevin Ikenberry, Vendetta Protocol, page 155:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A code phrase indicating that a ground unit is facing imminent destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately.
Related terms: Bent Spear
Empty Quiver
Faded Giant
dawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: dawks
form: dawking
form: dawked
form: dawked
Etymology: Ultimately from Old English dalc (“pin”). More at dalk.
Senses: glosses: To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
glosses: To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
glosses: To dig up weeds.
dawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: dawks
Etymology: Ultimately from Old English dalc (“pin”). More at dalk.
Senses: examples: text: THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould
ref: 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:
glosses: A hollow or crack in timber.
dawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: dawks
Etymology: Blend of dove + hawk. Coined by American author Donald S. Zagoria in 1967 (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: In the analysis that follows, I shall explore the foreign policy views of three distinct factions within the Chinese elite: “hawks, doves, and dawks.” In my view, the “dawks,” “centrists,” or more precisely, Maoists, have won.
ref: 1967, Donald S. Zagoria, “Peking’s Hawks, Doves, and Dawks” (chapter 3), in Vietnam Triangle: Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, →LCCN, page 67:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: dove
hawk
glosses: A person who advocates neither an aggressive nor a conciliatory political attitude (especially in foreign policy).
dawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: dawks
Senses: examples: text: During the mutiny of 1857–58, when several young surgeons had arrived in India, whose services were urgently needed at the front, it is said that the Head of the Department to which they had reported themselves, directed them immediately to 'lay a dawk.' One of them turned back from the door, saying: 'Would you explain, Sir; for you might just as well tell me to lay an egg!'
ref: 1903, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "DAWK, To lay a"
glosses: Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”).
dawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: dawks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).
dismountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dismount + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being dismounted
Minié ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minié balls
Etymology: Named after one of its developers, Claude-Étienne Minié.
Senses: examples: text: So intense was the firing that at one point just behind the southern lines an oak tree nearly two feet thick was cut down by minié balls.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 730:
text: Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 112:
glosses: A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century.
wikipedia: Claude-Étienne Minié
Related terms: Minié rifle
lower esophageal sphincter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lower esophageal sphincters
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sphincter situated at the lower part of the esophagus.
Synonyms: cardiac sphincter
gastroesophageal sphincter
esophageal sphincter
Related terms: upper esophageal sphincter
cardia
upper esophageal sphincter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper esophageal sphincters
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sphincter situated at the upper part of the esophagus.
Related terms: lower esophageal sphincter
Nernst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜːnst/
rhymes: -ɜːnst
Senses: glosses: Used attributively to designate theories or equipment devised by or arising from the work of Walther Hermann Nernst (1864-1941), German chemist.
Derived terms: Nernst effect
Nernst equation
Nernst glower
Nernst heat theorem
Nernstian
Nernst lamp
Nernst potential
Nernst lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nernst lamps
Etymology: Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University.
Senses: examples: text: Chick Counterfly had already brought out of its storage locker a peculiar-looking optical contraption of prisms, lenses, Nernst lamps, and adjustment screws, into an appropriate receptacle of which he now carefully placed the pearl.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 127:
glosses: A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
Iceland spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iceland spars
Senses: examples: text: portions of the original aragonite—which make up the nacreous layers of the pearl—had, through “induced paramorphism,” as it was known to the artful sons of Nippon, been selectively changed here and there to a different form of calcium carbonate—namely, to microscopic crystals of the doubly refracting calcite known as Iceland spar.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 127:
synonyms: Iceland crystal
glosses: A transparent form of calcite, used to demonstrate the polarization of light.
candent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more candent
form: most candent
Etymology: From Latin candentem, from candere.
Senses: examples: text: beneath them also flowered, like some immense coloured crystal, a semicircle of lake water, candent and faithful as a magic lantern to the startled images of fish scattering and reforming with movements of surprise, curiosity, perhaps even pleasure.
ref: 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
glosses: Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
fauchon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauchons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of falchion.
kipande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipandes
Senses: glosses: An identity document compulsorily worn by African men in Kenya during British rule.
arks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ark
arkars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkars
Senses: examples: text: Above us we can see flocks of arkars (wild sheep), which gaze down upon us. Our presence surprises but does not apparently alarm them.
ref: 1889, Gabriel Bonvalot, Through the Heart of Asia: Over the Pamïr to India:
text: Among the other animals of the Pamirian fauna appeared wolves and foxes, and flocks of those large wild sheep with gnarled and gracefully curved horns, which are known to the natives as arkars. High in the sky flew the vultures, bearded and unbearded, and amid the clouds of white vapor we left behind us were many crows and pigeons and turtledoves and wagtails.
ref: 1894, Jules Verne, A Special Correspondent:
text: When lying down arkars nearly always keep the head erect, as if on the lookout, and when sleeping they lie with the neck outstretched.
ref: 1898, Richard Lydekker, Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct, page 195:
glosses: The urial (subspecies of sheep).
baronessa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baronessas
Etymology: From Italian baronessa.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.
ref: 1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391:
text: By five o’clock, contessas, baronessas, ministers, ambassadors, fashionistas, and local goddesses of Cinecittà began streaming across the huge piazza in front of the Farnese.
ref: 1998, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 243:
text: “Oh, these Italian mothers,” replied Ciceri distractedly. “They’re all the same, baronessas or not. Their first concern is that their son eats enough for three people. Everything else is of lesser importance.”
ref: 2014, Marco Malvaldi, translated by Howard Curtis, The Art of Killing Well, MacLehose Press, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: An Italian baroness.
toe tapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe tappers
Senses: glosses: An energetic song that one is compelled to dance to.
Litwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German, from Polish Litwin (“Lithuanian”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish German.
built like a brick shithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the figurative extension of the idea that an outhouse is overbuilt if one builds it with bricks.
Senses: examples: text: With a nickname that aptly translates to "Tree Stump" in Portugese,^([sic]) Palhares is built like a brick shit-house.
ref: 2012 January 13, Dallas Winston, “UFC 142 RIO: Rousimar Palhares Vs. Mike Massenzio Dissection”, in Bloody Elbow:
synonyms: word: built like a brick outhouse
word: built like a brick shipyard
word: able-bodied
word: athletic
word: Atlantean
word: beefy
word: beefed out
word: brawny
word: brolic
word: buff
word: built
word: built like a brick shithouse
word: built like a tank
word: buirdly
word: burly
word: Cyclopean
word: deep-rooted
word: dench
word: diced
word: fit
word: gigantic
word: Herculean
word: hale
word: hearty
word: hench
word: husky
word: in shape
word: jacked
word: lusty
word: like a giant refreshed
word: made of iron
word: muscular
word: muscled
word: muscleful
word: ripped
word: rugged
word: sculpted
word: sinewy
word: strapping
word: strong as a lion
word: strong as a horse
word: strong as an ox
word: strong as brandy
word: swole
word: toned
word: virile
word: well-built
word: well-fed
word: well-knit
word: wiry
qualifier: simile
glosses: (Of a man) Having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
examples: text: Sonia is a hot young blonde who is built like a brick shithouse! She is stacked and well put together.
ref: 2005 March 18, Hot Azz Sonia, “SONIA'S BUILT LIKE A BRICK SHITHOUSE!”, in alt.sex.phone.ads (Usenet):
qualifier: simile
glosses: (Of a woman) Having an athletic or muscular body; often implying also having large breasts or an attractive body.
qualifier: simile
glosses: (Of an object) Exceptionally well constructed; strong or tough; overbuilt or overengineered.
noncommissioned officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncommissioned officers
form: non-commissioned officer
Senses: examples: text: A platoon sergeant may only be a noncommissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.
text: “Our ability as a warfighting nation to pivot at speed, to stay ahead of these emerging technologies, is going to be really important in the future,” Caine said. “There’s a whole bunch of things that we need to do better as a joint force and as a Department of Defense along the lines of acquisition reform so that we can make sure that those young (privates first class) and E-1s and E-2s and (noncommissioned officers) have the kit and capability that they need.”
ref: 2025 February 23, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, “How retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine became Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman”, in CNN:
glosses: A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.
brick shithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick shithouses
Senses: glosses: An article built more robustly than its function requires; implying an element of indestructibility.
examples: text: Part Polynesian, part Melanesian, part brick shithouse. He crossed the gym with the proprietary waddle of a troll in its lair, […]
ref: 2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, page 75:
text: He felt like he'd just slammed a brick shithouse.
ref: 2001, J. R. Parker, Winter Kill, page 9:
text: She looked really fine, a bonafide brick shithouse.
ref: 2002, Joseph Geren, Chastity's Virtue: A Michael Marcus Mystery, page 50:
glosses: A person with a well-developed body.
Derived terms: built like a brick shithouse
brick shithouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Webster and I are brick shithouses, top to bottom. The wind doesn't even touch the smell of us."
ref: 1987, Howard Fast, The Dinner Party, page 228:
text: Seventeen and nineteen, they were, built like brick shithouses, one of them already with a baby.
ref: 1993, Frances Hegarty, Half Light, page 174:
text: Two razor-scalped brick shithouses in suits, who looked like bouncers at a Hell's Angels dance, started staring at us.
ref: 2004, Perry Brass, The Substance of God: A Spiritual Thriller, page 84:
glosses: plural of brick shithouse
Barrett's esophagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barrett's oesophagus
Etymology: Named after the Australian-born British thoracic surgeon Norman Barrett (1903–1979), who described it in 1950.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal change (metaplasia) in the cells of the lower end of the esophagus thought to be caused by damage from chronic acid exposure, or reflux esophagitis.
shithouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shithouse
shithouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shithouse
gastroesophageal reflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastro-esophageal reflux
form: gastro-œsophageal reflux
form: gastro-oesophageal reflux
form: gastrooesophageal reflux
form: gastroœsophageal reflux
Senses: synonyms: gastric reflux
acid reflux
glosses: The reflux of gastric juices into the esophagus.
glosses: Ellipsis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (“chronic symptoms or mucosal damage produced by the abnormal reflux in the esophagus”).
glosses: Synonym of heartburn: pain from influx of gastric juices into the esophagus.
synonyms: word: heartburn
extra: pain from influx of gastric juices into the esophagus
regression to the mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regressions to the mean
form: regression toward the mean
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The phenomenon by which extreme examples from any set of data are likely to be followed by examples which are less extreme; a tendency towards the average of any sample. For example, the offspring of two very tall individuals tend to be tall, but closer to the average (mean) than either of their parents.
Related terms: regression fallacy
linear regression
regression line
cynghanedd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəŋˈhænɛð/
Forms: form: cynganeddion
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh cynghanedd (“harmony”).
Senses: examples: text: Only certain epithets and metaphors were authorized; themes were similarly restricted, metres fixed, and Cynghanedd, the repetitive use of consonantal sequences with variation of vowels, became a burdensome obsession.
ref: 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 14
text: 1998, editors (names unknown), "cynghanedd" in Britannica Online Encyclopedia
There are four fundamental types of cynghanedd, but within these there are a number of refinements and variations. When skillfully used, cynghanedd is capable of conveying an almost unlimited variety of subtle effects.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry.
gleeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːmən/
Forms: form: gleemen
Etymology: From Middle English gleman, gleoman, from Old English glēomann, glīġman, corresponding to glee (“music; minstrelsy; entertainment”) + man. Cognate with Scots gle-man, gleman (“gleeman, minstrel”).
Senses: examples: text: The ancient Celts carefully distinguished the poet, who was originally a priest and judge as well and whose person was sacrosanct, from the mere gleeman.
ref: 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 17
text: “One truth would I set high above all others,” repeated the gleeman.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 19:
synonyms: songman
glosses: A professional singer, bard, or other entertainer.
Related terms: glee club
ollave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ollaves
Senses: examples: text: In ancient Ireland the ollave, or master-poet, sat next to the king at table and was privileged, as none else but the queen was, to wear six different colours in his clothes.
ref: 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18
glosses: Alternative spelling of ollamh.
Orange GGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An orange azo dye, 1-(m-sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid, used as a food colouring
Synonyms: alpha-naphthol orange
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merengue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/
Forms: form: merengues
Etymology: From American Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.
Senses: examples: text: The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.
ref: 2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
glosses: A song performed in this style.
examples: text: If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: A dance to this style of music.
merengue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/
Forms: form: merengues
form: merenguing
form: merengued
form: merengued
Etymology: From American Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.
Senses: glosses: To dance to merengue music.
venin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venins
Etymology: From French venin (“venom”), from Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venene and venom.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of venom.
synonyms: word: venom
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic substance found in the venom of poisonous snakes.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposedly identical toxic substance obtained by cleavage of an albumose.
Derived terms: antivenin
ESB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESBs
Senses: topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of extra special bitter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of enterprise service bus.
ESB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Electricity Supply Board.
top of the morning
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A working-class phrase once popular throughout the British Isles, possibly in reference to cream rising in milk. It has been revived into popular consciousness, and is associated with Irishmen, by the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959).
Senses: glosses: A generic, cheerful greeting said to someone in the morning.
wikipedia: British Isles
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Related terms: top of the hour
criss-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criss-crosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crisscross.
criss-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criss-cross
form: most criss-cross
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crisscross.
criss-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more criss-cross
form: most criss-cross
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crisscross.
Derived terms: criss-cross applesauce
criss-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: criss-crosses
form: criss-crossing
form: criss-crossed
form: criss-crossed
Senses: examples: text: The Borinage coalfield around Mons is another attractive area for the railway enthusiast; it is rather like South Lancashire, with its gently undulating landscape studded with slag heaps and pithead gear and criss-crossed by railway lines and tramways.
ref: 1960 February, J. N. Faulkner, “The Belgian Railways today”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crisscross.
sublimer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sublime + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sublime: more sublime
sublimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublimers
Etymology: From sublime + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device for heating a substance to yield a sublimate.
dead and buried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.
glosses: Of a project or plan, wholly dispensed with; never to be completed or revived.
Synonyms: sense: moot, passed
word: water under the bridge
sense: moot, passed
word: bygones
sense: moot, passed
word: history
sense: moot, passed
word: ancient history
ameer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ameers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of emir.
Derived terms: ameerate
partyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of partier.
partyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partyer (people who like to party or attend a party)
HOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hall of shame.
glosses: Initialism of head of state.
glosses: Initialism of hours of service.
glosses: Initialism of Holt-Oram syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of higher-order statistics.
glosses: Initialism of Health Online Service.
glosses: Initialism of Health Organization Studies.
HOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
glosses: Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
glosses: Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
glosses: Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
glosses: Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
glosses: Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
glosses: Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
glosses: Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
glosses: Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
glosses: Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
PWA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PWAs
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Initialism of partial-wave analysis.
examples: text: PWA functions
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of piecewise affine.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of printed wire assembly.
examples: text: Throughout this book, we focused on the core capabilities of the browser, and we handcrafted the manifest files and code that make a PWA a PWA.
ref: 2020, John M. Wargo, Learning Progressive Web Apps, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of progressive web application.
examples: text: There are Countless PWAs in prisons around the country. I say 'Countless' because many are unaware that they are infected.
ref: 1988 May 2, Ron Meola, “'Together' being the key word”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Initialism of person with AIDS.
PWA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Pacific Western Airlines.
glosses: Initialism of Philippine Web Awards.
glosses: Initialism of Pirates with Attitudes.
coordinate_terms: PEA
glosses: Initialism of Portuguese West Africa.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Initialism of Pro Wrestling America.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Initialism of Professional Windsurfers Association.
glosses: Initialism of Progressive Writers' Association.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Public Works Administration.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Initialism of Pro Wrestling Alliance.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Initialism of Pure Wrestling Association.
glosses: Initialism of Professional Women's Association.
glosses: Initialism of Pratt & Whitney Aerospace.
glosses: Initialism of Portfolio of Water Actions.
basalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basales
Senses: glosses: The basal portion of the endometrium
neuromodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromodulations
Etymology: From neuro- + modulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The regulation of neurons by neurotransmitters.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The relief of pain by stimulation of a nerve.
Related terms: neuromodulate
neuromodulator
neuromodulatory
neuromodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + modulatory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuromodulation.
Related terms: neuromodulate
neuromodulator
optogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑptoʊd͡ʒɪˈnɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌɒptəʊd͡ʒɪˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From opto- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: generated by light
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing any of several techniques in which optical technology is used to form images of genetically targeted proteins or neurons
Derived terms: optogenetically
pulsational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulsational
form: most pulsational
Etymology: From pulsation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pulsations
quorum sensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An early case of quorum sensing to be uncovered involves—appropriately for this book—the sea and a cephalopod.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 18:
glosses: A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.
diffusible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diffusible
form: most diffusible
form: diffusable
Etymology: From diffuse + -ible.
Senses: glosses: That can be diffused.
Derived terms: diffusibleness
nondiffusible
undiffusible
Related terms: diffusate
diffuser
diffusibility
informationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informationists
Etymology: From information + -ist. Informationist and informationism are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.
Senses: glosses: One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
glosses: One who practices informationism.
glossohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossohyals
Etymology: From glosso- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The tongue bone, specifically the lingual plate, which is a dermal toothed bone that covers or fuses with the basihyal.
reodorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reodorant
ringbarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Circumcised.
ringbarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ringbark
ringbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ringbark
rug munchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rug muncher
ring-barked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ring-bark
ring-barks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring-bark
octothorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octothorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octothorpe, the symbol #.
turnsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnsoles
form: turnsol
form: tournsol
Etymology: French tournesol
Senses: glosses: A heliotrope; so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
glosses: A sunflower.
glosses: A sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia).
glosses: The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
synonyms: folium
glosses: A purple dye obtained from Chrozophora tinctoria.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: litmus
scaturience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaturiences
Senses: examples: text: This play is the shimmering scaturience of an intelligence and a sensibility of the very first disctinction […]
ref: 1985, Edmund Wilson, Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s:
glosses: The flowing or moving outward in abundance.
Related terms: scaturient
shad
turn loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to turn loose
form: turns loose
form: turning loose
form: turned loose
form: turned loose
Senses: examples: text: Don't turn the dog loose in the yard before you check whether the gate is closed.
text: He's so creative, and I'd love to turn him loose in my garden sometime and see what he dreams up.
text: Phil - we're turning you loose on this hospital project. Please start right away.
glosses: To release or let go; to permit (someone or something) to roam freely or to act freely.
Synonyms: let loose
set free
set loose
pelmeni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelmen
form: pelmeny
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian пельме́ни (pelʹméni, singular пельме́нь (pelʹménʹ)), which in turn is borrowed from Permic (Komi/Udmurt) пельнянь (peľňaň).
Senses: examples: text: The dish most closely associated with Siberia is pelmeni, meat-filled dumplings. In Siberia, pelmeni are traditionally filled with horse meat and are served with vinegar.
ref: 2000, Sydney Schultze, Culture and Customs of Russia, page 66:
text: My favorite dish was a wonderful broth with pelmeni, Siberian dumplings filled with seasoned chopped meat.
ref: 2005, Adam Hochschild, Half The Way Home: A Memoir Of Father And Son, page 59:
text: "This is pelmeni — Siberian dumplings," he said, "And you better get used to it, because you're going to be eating a lot of it while you're here."
ref: 2006, Jim Moore, Going the Distance: A Story of Faith in Action, page 52:
glosses: Russian dumplings resembling ravioli.
Related terms: gyoza
jiaozi
Holy Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English holy boke, holi boc, haly boke, haliȝ boc, from Old English hāliġ bōc, equivalent to holy + book.
Senses: glosses: The Bible, or by extension the scripture of another religion.
wedge-tailed eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge-tailed eagles
Senses: examples: text: In the front paddock a wedge-tailed eagle was skimming down the line of the fence-posts.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 85:
text: A wedge-tailed eagle that was part of a birds of prey show at Alice Springs Desert Park flew at a young boy and latched on to his head with its talons instead of flying over to a perch as it had been trained to.
ref: 2016 July 12, Melissa Davey, The Guardian:
glosses: A large Australian bird of prey, Aquila audax; the eaglehawk.
Visby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish Visby.
Senses: glosses: A city on the west coast of Gotland, Sweden.
wikipedia: Visby City Wall