cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
linings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lining
fook
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːk/
ipa: /ˈfʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology: Eye dialect of fuck.
Senses: examples: text: I thought, Who the fook is Faulkner? And how's he related to us Windsors?
ref: 2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Spare, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Fuck.
fook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːk/
ipa: /ˈfʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: fooks
form: fooking
form: fooked
form: fooked
Etymology: Eye dialect of fuck.
Senses: glosses: To fuck.
fooking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fooking
form: most fooking
Senses: glosses: fucking; a strong intensifier.
fooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fook
aqualung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aqualungs
Etymology: Aqualung was the original name for the first open-circuit SCUBA diving equipment by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau in 1943. From aqua- + lung.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater.
Derived terms: aqualunger
aqualungist
aqualung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aqualungs
form: aqualunging
form: aqualunged
form: aqualunged
Etymology: Aqualung was the original name for the first open-circuit SCUBA diving equipment by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau in 1943. From aqua- + lung.
Senses: glosses: To scuba dive.
colliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collide
colliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: collidings
Senses: glosses: A collision.
mass burial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass burials
Senses: glosses: The burial of multiple bodies in a mass grave.
Siberian crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberian cranes
Senses: examples: text: Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.
Synonyms: sense: Grus leucogeranus
word: Siberian white crane
sense: Grus leucogeranus
word: snow crane
fresnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fresnels
Etymology: For Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of frequency equal to 10¹² hertz, or one terahertz.
glosses: A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens
Stopp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stopps
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stopp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
brick-a-brack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bric-a-brac.
amino sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amino sugar
ranchero sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchero sauces
Senses: glosses: A piquant tomato-based sauce that includes onions, green chilis, such as serranos or jalapenos, and seasonings.
Related terms: huevos rancheros
seminude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-nude
Etymology: From semi- + nude.
Senses: examples: text: The folder is full of photographs of nude and seminude women.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 333:
glosses: Scantily dressed; partially naked.
glosses: Partially exposed.
raw_tags: of a seed
Related terms: nude
seminude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminudes
form: semi-nude
Etymology: From semi- + nude.
Senses: examples: text: Hanover's pictures rarely show the sexual act; his nudes and semi-nudes are sensual rather than frankly sexual.
ref: 1976 February 14, Rose Flower, “Shooting That Same Face For Seven Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 15:
glosses: An artwork depicting a partially naked person.
gluonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gluonic
form: most gluonic
Etymology: From gluon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The two steps in the gluing of matter—quarks into nucleons, and nucleons into nuclei—remain mysterious, and both will be investigated at cebaf. A series of experiments on hadronic excitations will probe the consistent quark model; others will look for gluonic states or for strange quarks inside the proton or neutron.
ref: 1993 August 24, Madhusree Mukerjee, “CEBAF readies its electron beam for studies of nucleons and nuclei”, in Physics Today, volume 46, number 8, →DOI, page 19:
text: GlueX is an experiment located at the Jefferson Lab, whose purpose is to study nuclear confinement by mapping the spectrum of exotic mesons generated by the excitation of the gluonic field binding the quarks.
ref: 2014 March 25, Leo Williams, “Titan Project explores the smallest building blocks of matter”, in Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
text: A hybrid meson is one with that strong gluonic field being excited. We hope to show that this ‘excited’ gluonic field is an important constituent of matter.
ref: 2017 May 3, Cheyenne MacDonald, quoting Curtis Meyer, “Department of Energy's Virginia accelerator reveals breakthrough in detecting potential new form of matter”, in Daily Mail:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
Derived terms: multigluonic
semi-nude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seminude.
moer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moers
form: moering
form: moered
form: moered
Etymology: From Afrikaans moer.
Senses: glosses: To beat; to thrash.
moer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moers
Etymology: From Afrikaans moer.
Senses: examples: text: Lying dead on the surface of the Monument dam was a moer of a big carp.
ref: 2003, Justin Nurse, Chris Verrijdt, Laugh it Off Annual: South African Youth Culture, volume 1, page 71:
text: “Some of the teams are coming in,” he said. “They had a moer of a contact. Get your cameras and let's go.”
ref: 2013, Jim Hooper, Koevoet: Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War, page 239:
glosses: Something big or powerful; a whopper; a hell of a thing.
gravitino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitinos
Etymology: From graviton + -ino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A subatomic particle, related to the graviton, predicted by supersymmetry
Derived terms: antigravitino
gravitinoless
spindrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪndɹɪft/
ipa: /ˈspɪnˌdɹɪft/
Forms: form: spindrifts
form: speendrift
form: spoondrift
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots spindrift; further etymology uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift (archaic), apparently due to the pronunciation of this word in southwestern Scotland, which is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”); spoon is a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”). However, this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary because spoondrift is attested later than spindrift and it seems unlikely that the Scots spelling would have superseded the English one, and because the early use of the Scots word in the form spenedrift by James Melville (1556–1614) is unlikely to have derived from spoondrift.
The word was popularized in English from the late 19th century by its use in the novels of the Scottish-born author William Black (1841–1898): see, for example, the 1878 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: There was no snow as yet up here at Dare; but wild tempests shaking the house to its foundations; and brief gleams of stormy sunlight lighting up the grey spindrift as it was whirled shorewards from the breaking seas; […]
ref: 1878, William Black, “First Impressions”, in Macleod of Dare. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 252:
text: The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm-wrack and spin-drift of the tempest-tossed sea.
ref: 1900, John E[dward] Marr, “Production of Dominant Forms”, in The Scientific Study of Scenery, New York, N.Y.: New Amsterdam Book Co.; London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 22:
text: [T]ogether they watched the bobbing black specks as they crawled out of the estuary into the grey spindrift which marked the harbour mouth.
ref: 1921 August–September, John Buchan, “The Gorbals Die-hards Go into Action”, in Huntingtower, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, published July 1924, →OCLC, page 271:
text: The tide rocks were spouting spray and the wind drove the spindrift in their faces, and they scrambled awkwardly over and round the rock masses tumbled from the cliff face on the flat ledge at sea-level.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XXI, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 225:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
glosses: Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.
isobare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobares
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Dated form of isobar.
perfect storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect storms
Etymology: Popularized by the book (1997) and movie (2000) The Perfect Storm.
Senses: examples: text: 1796, William Fordyce Mavor, Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries ..., p. 161,
But on the 24th of April, the wind again blew a perfect storm, and our other ships of the squadron separated, nor did any of them rejoin the commodore.
text: 1914, Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Edward Lind Morse, Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals, p. 190,
Ten o'clock. Beginning to blow hard; taking in sails one after another. — Three o'clock. A perfect storm; the gale a few days ago but a gentle breeze to it.
text: Hung my head as I lost the war
And the sky turned black like a perfect storm
ref: 2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A powerful hurricane or other major weather disturbance, especially as produced by a combination of meteorological conditions.
examples: text: 1862, Frank Moore, Edward Everett, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, p. 149,
They sent a perfect storm of bullets, over, under, and into our men.
text: Tory said he was worried that "a perfect storm" of economic factors could put tourist operators and their communities in peril.
ref: 2008 June 30, Jim Coyle, “Stormy weather for tourism season”, in Toronto Star, page AA8:
glosses: A situation in which several problems converge and make everything worse.
wobulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wobulators
Etymology: Blend of wobble + oscillator
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wobbulator.
coffin nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffin nail
stoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoat
shopping mall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopping malls
Senses: glosses: A collection of retail stores, usually one with an indoor common area joining the stores, that is usually anchored by department stores.
Coordinate terms: english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: shopping center
10BASE5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 10Base5
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early form of Ethernet cable
Synonyms: thicknet
Related terms: 10BASE2
bija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The origin or cause of things.
mesoxerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoxerophytes
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + xero- + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant whose tolerance to moisture is intermediate between that of a mesophyte and a xerophyte
acidophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidophytes
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that thrives in an acidic environment
Related terms: acidophytic
acrophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrophytes
Etymology: From acro- (“sharp; peak”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant, such as an Alpine, that grows at a high altitude
10BASE2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early thin form of Ethernet cable
Synonyms: thinnet
Related terms: 10BASE5
aerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛː.ɹə(ʊ).fʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛ.ɹoʊˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛ.ɹəˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: aerophytes
Etymology: From aero- (“air”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: epiphyte
Derived terms: subaerophytic
Related terms: aerophytic
agrophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrophytes
Etymology: From agro- (“agriculture”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant used as an agricultural crop
citrus fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citrus fruits
Senses: glosses: Any of the fruits in the common genus Citrus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae.
Synonyms: word: citrus
word: citrus fruit
word: orange
Hypernyms: word: fruit
Hyponyms: word: citrange
word: clementine
word: lemon
word: lime
word: mandarin
word: mikan
word: satsuma
word: tangerine
Related terms: citrus
aletophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aletophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλήτης (alḗtēs, “wanderer, vagrant”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: examples: text: In the present treatment they have been divided according to biological characteristics into hylophytes or forest plants, poophytes or meadow plants, and aletophytes, ruderal or waste plants.
ref: 1900, Roscoe Pound, Frederic E. Clements, The Phytogeography of Nebraska, second edition, page 172:
text: dry mesophytes over shallow soil in an otherwise mesic habitat, pyrophytes around an old campsite fireplace, aletophytes on trails through the community, etc.
ref: 1977, Classification, Inventory, and Analysis of Fish and Wildlife Habitat, page 252:
text: Based on the locations of species in coordinate space (Fig. 3b), the first DCA ordination axis represented a gradient shifting from SG1 and SG2, which were mainly composed of climbing (Rhynchosia volubilis and Lonicera japonica) and woody plants (Frangula crenata and Rhododendron reticulatum), through SG3 and SG5, which were composed of aletophytes and hygrophytes (R. chinensis), to SG7, which was composed of hygrophytes of oligotrophic marshes (Platanthera tipuloides var. nipponica) comprising dense low growth of small sedges and other plants.
ref: 2013 January, Takashi Nishimoto and Yoshio Hada, "Twelve years of vegetation change in an artificial marsh after the transfer of plants and hydrological restoration", Landscape and Ecological Engineering, page 136
glosses: Any plant that grows by the wayside or where the natural vegetation has been disrupted.
amphiphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphiphytes
Etymology: From amphi- (“near”) + -phyte (“flower”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that grows on the edges of water or wetlands, and is sometimes submerged.
Related terms: amphiphytic
hydrophyte
anemophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemophytes
Etymology: From anemo- (“wind”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: A type of plant found growing in hollows created by wind in sand dunes, a blow-out plant.
anthophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthophytes
Etymology: From antho- (“flower”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any flowering plant, or extinct close relative of the flowering plants.
anthropophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropophytes
Etymology: From anthropo- (“human”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant introduced into a new habitat by humans
apophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophytes
Etymology: From apo- (“away from; lacking”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any native plant growing in disturbed land, such as in an abandoned field
Derived terms: apophytic
apophytically
Related terms: apophysis
agriophyte
anthropochore
arthrophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrophytes
Etymology: From arthro- (“joint”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant belonging to the former class Arthrophyta (now Equisetopsida); the horsetails
autophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autophytes
Etymology: From auto- (“self”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances.
Related terms: holophyte
saprophyte
Sandras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandra
blobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: blobbier
form: blobbiest
Etymology: From Late Middle English blobby, equivalent to blob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot high to stately figures taller than men. […] There were long, pointed noses, and long, soft noses like small trunks, and great blobby noses.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
text: The magnitude of the attraction force of blobby elements is usually defined by their volume […] In an animation, blobby surfaces are dynamic and constantly regenerate as they move in and out […]
ref: 2004, Isaac V. Kerlow, The Art of 3D: Computer Animation and Effects, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:
text: The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous and rounded in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.
Derived terms: blobbily
blobbiness
Blobbygate
Blobbymania
throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw the baby out with the bathwater
threw the baby out with the bathwater
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw the baby out with the bathwater
bathwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːθwɔːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbæθwɔtɚ/
Forms: form: bathwaters
form: bath water
Etymology: From bath + water. Compare Dutch badwater (“bathwater”), German Badewasser (“bathwater”), Swedish badvatten (“bathwater”).
Senses: glosses: The water used in a bath (bathtub).
Derived terms: baby and bathwater
bathwatery
throw the baby out with the bathwater
fall over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls over
form: falling over
form: fell over
form: fallen over
Senses: glosses: To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
glosses: Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a computer program or system, to crash.
examples: text: We'll have to walk; my car has fallen over.
glosses: To break down; to become inoperable.
glosses: To revolt or change allegiance.
Synonyms: sense: fall to a horizontal position
word: topple
sense: fall to a horizontal position
word: topple over
Derived terms: fall over backward
fall over backwards
fall over oneself
fall over one's feet
darest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dar'st
form: darst
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dare
dareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dare + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dare
match fixing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was handed a ban for one year for match fixing in cricket.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of losing, or playing to a pre-determined result, in sports matches after betting against oneself.
Related terms: game fixing
race fixing
jump on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps on
form: jumping on
form: jumped on
form: jumped on
Senses: examples: text: Jump on a nº9 bus, and it will take you more or less to the door.
glosses: To board a vehicle.
examples: text: I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake.
glosses: To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.
examples: text: Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.
ref: 2003 October 28, “Banking Giant”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jun 2011:
text: So later in life, when the Z's — and even onetime Z's who became A's through marriage — see an item they really like for sale or are offered a deal, they jump on it.
ref: 2011 January 28, “How Your Name May Cost You at the Mall”, in Time:
synonyms: seize
glosses: To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.
Derived terms: jump on the bandwagon
Related terms: get a jump on
jump at the chance
erogenous zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erogenous zones
Etymology: From erogenous + zone.
Senses: examples: text: The parts of the body significant in giving sexual pleasure we call "erogenous zones."
ref: 1910, Sigmund Freud, “The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 21, number 2, page 209:
text: His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 254:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A part of the human body that is particularly responsive to sexual stimulation.
Synonyms: word: erogenous zone
word: hot spot
word: sweet spot
Hyponyms: word: breasts
word: clitoris
word: G-spot
word: penis
Related terms: word: arouse
word: aroused
word: genitalia
word: orgasm
word: weak spot
isospin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isospins
Etymology: From iso- + spin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum number or symmetry related to the strong interaction.
Synonyms: isotopic spin
isobaric spin
Related terms: weak isospin
sturdier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sturdy: more sturdy
help oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helps oneself
form: helping oneself
form: helped oneself
form: helped oneself
Senses: examples: text: If you want to take a shower, help yourself to towels; they're in the linen closet.
text: Is it all right if I get some water? —Oh, of course, help yourself!
glosses: To serve oneself, especially to take food or other supplies, rather than wait to be served by another; used to indicate friendly permission or invitation.
examples: text: He said I could help myself to the chocolates.
text: He didn't even ask; he just helped himself to the special tea I was saving.
text: Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: To take something freely; to serve oneself without restraint.
examples: text: Sorry for eating all the chocolates - I couldn't help myself.
synonyms: contain oneself
glosses: To exhibit self-control.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: God helps those who help themselves.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see help.
Related terms: do it yourself
self-help
self-serve
darkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more darkish
form: most darkish
Etymology: From Middle English derkish, derkissh, derkyss; equivalent to dark + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 13:38-39:
text: […] if […] the lead be blown off from the silver by bellowes, that which would else have gone away in the form of unheeded steams will in great part be collected not far from the silver, in the form of a darkish powder or calx; which, because it is blown off from silver, they call litharge of silver.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent, published 1911, Part I, p. 41:
text: We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.
ref: 1666 September 2, Samuel Pepys, Diary:
text: The village was darkish under the shade of broad leaves.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days:
glosses: Somewhat dark.
Derived terms: darkishly
darkishness
almanack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almanacks
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of almanac.
shopmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopman
schoolmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolman
unfelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: more unfelt
form: most unfelt
Etymology: From un- + felt.
Senses: examples: 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 104.
I felt a spirit of love begin to stir
Within my heart, long time unfelt till then;
glosses: Not felt or experienced; without feeling or sensing.
glosses: Insincere.
Related terms: feel
unfeeling
unreason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unreasons
Etymology: From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644,
Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason.
text: […] it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated;—the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic—the rochet of the reformed bishop—and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine—were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of Fools, the Boy-Bishop, and the Abbot of Unreason.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 14, in The Abbot:
text: What is called the great popular heart was awakened, that indefinable something which may be, according to circumstances, the highest reason or the most brutish unreason.
ref: 1864, James Russell Lowell, “Abraham Lincoln”, in My Study Windows, 4th edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, published 1871, page 120:
text: 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Shiraz, 18 February,”
Of all the foreigners I have met in this country, diplomats, business men, and archaeologists of many nationalities and varying terms of residence, Christopher is the only one who likes its inhabitants, sympathizes with their nationalist growing-pains, and consistently upholds their virtues, sometimes to the point of unreason.
text: Traditionally, black American dance students have been consistently steered away from classical ballet and toward the supposedly more “suitable” fields of modern, ethnic or Broadway-chorus dancing. The Harlem Dance Theater performances showed beyond doubt that the practice was based not on rhyme but on prejudiced unreason.
ref: 1971 March 22, John T. Elson, “Doing the Thing You Do Best”, in Time:
text: The best preservative for unreason is to make a religion of it.
ref: 2014 April 22, Garry Wills, “Obamacare: The Hate Can’t Be Cured”, in New York Review of Books:
text: Kelly, who specialised in implacable unreason about climate change before his conversion to stubborn contrarianism about various Covid remedies [...] speaks to a constituency the Coalition wants to court: a group of voters tempted to vote for rightwing protest parties rather than the Liberals and the Nationals.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
glosses: Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.
glosses: Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
unreason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreasons
form: unreasoning
form: unreasoned
form: unreasoned
Etymology: From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
Senses: examples: text: The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! "
ref: 1796, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Tobias George Smollett: translator), The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote:
text: The elenchus enables him to overturn the formerly secure reasoning of his interlocutors about the subjects they discourse on so confidently—until the Socratic elenchus gradually unreasons them (see especially Meno, 80A—B).
ref: 2013, Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey, Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Being a father can “unreason” your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights.
ref: 2017, Adams Media, DAD: Hundreds of Awesome Quotes about the Guy Who Does It All, →ISBN:
glosses: To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
examples: text: After some trouble I have got the Programme, and now send it on to you ; I beg you to transcribe the first ten pages, in which he reasons, or rather unreasons, about homeopathy, and then send the Programme back to me, as I do not know how to procure another copy.
ref: 1889, The Homoeopathic World - Volume 24, page 251:
text: In other, happier times, the mind could unreason freely, as if it belonged to no age, emancipated as it was...
ref: 1985, Reginald Gibbons, Susan Hahn, TQ 20: Twenty Years of the Best Contemporary Writing and Graphics from TriQuarterly Magazine, page 89:
text: Just as Heidegger's reflections on the imagination led him to think "The nothing nothings," so Foucault's reflections on madness led him, in effect, to think "Unreason unreasons."
ref: 2005, Andrew Cutrofello, Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: To apply false logic or think without logic.
examples: text: Unbelief unreasons a man: so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith.
ref: 1646, Thomas Case, Deliverance-obstruction, page 12:
text: My pathetic collapse provoked them. My unreasonableness unreasoned them.
ref: 2010, Tim Roux -, Shade+shadows: And Suddenly, Silently, They Simply Disappeared, →ISBN:
glosses: To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.
tone scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone scales
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A subjective appraisal of a person's spiritual aliveness, usually given by an auditor, ranging from 'total failure' to 'serenity of beingness'.
Greek Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Greek Orthodox Church
Senses: hypernyms: Eastern Orthodox Church
<
Orthodox Church
<
Church
church
coordinate_terms: Russian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
glosses: A group of Eastern Orthodox churches comprising the churches of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Greece.
Related terms: Orthodox Christianity
autocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɔːtəˈsɛfəli/
Forms: form: autocephalies
Etymology: From autocephalous + -y.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.
Derived terms: autocephalous
educamate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: educamates
form: educamating
form: educamated
form: educamated
Senses: examples: text: Since I only have a shoddy understanding of the internet, obviously I need to be educated, eh? Educamate me Mr. Man.
ref: 1996 October 21, "Phase" <I1700004@VM.SC.EDU>, “Re: What is MUD?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):
text: This is not spam, btw. Go to: http://www.spark.org . Educamate yourself.
ref: 1998 August 14, "!Frank" <mrpuniverse@yahoo.com>, “Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE COSBY KIDS?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
text: Well, after the storm in a teacup Susan, I see no reason why a 'password' is not as effective as a 'passphrase'.
maybe you could educamate me.
ref: 2005 February 5, SuperGumby [SBS MVP], “Re: Resolution was Re: RWW Security was compromised.”, in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs (Usenet):
text: 2006 December 17, Sancho Panza <otterpower@xhotmail.com>, "Re: Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport", alt.abortion, et al., Usenet,
You're the one calling people stupid. Educamate us.
text: "My, my, how little you know about politics."
Why not educamate us? I can't wait.
ref: 2007 August 15, What Me Worry?, “Re: Bad day for rightwingers and it'll get worse, much worse”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: But see, ya 'ave to be educamated to un'erston' such poetry!
ref: 2007 October 22, Ophelia <O@nix.co.uk>, “Re: Violet [SNUK]”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet):
glosses: Mistaken form of educate
Related terms: educamation
stag night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag nights
Senses: glosses: bachelor party
Synonyms: bachelor party
Related terms: hen night
asides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aside
imperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperialist
shadow plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow play
shadowplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadowplay
self-deprivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-deprivation
haplotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haplotype
bay windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay window
blanches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blanch
rebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebook
rebooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebook
recoupments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoupment
reframes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reframe
reframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reframe
reframing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reframe
reframing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reframings
Senses: glosses: Framing anew or again.
Derived terms: reframing time
reframed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reframe
re-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-frames
form: re-framing
form: re-framed
form: re-framed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reframe.
re-framed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-frame
re-framing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-frame
re-frames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-frame
all day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: There hasn't been a breath of air all day.
text: So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
They cannot see the sun on high:
The wind hath blown a gale all day;
At evening it hath died away.
ref: 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
coordinate_terms: all night
glosses: For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.
examples: text: Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.
glosses: Easily; handily; in spades; by far.
Derived terms: can do this all day
Related terms: as the day is long
daylong
dayslong
for days
livelong
all night
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: There hasn't been a breath of air all night.
text: I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.
coordinate_terms: all day
glosses: For the period of an entire night.
Related terms: word: all-night
difficulter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of difficult: more difficult
canette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canettes
Etymology: From French canette.
Senses: glosses: A kind of stoneware vessel.
stemmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemmers
Etymology: From stem + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
hippophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippophagists
Senses: glosses: A person that eats horse meat.
Related terms: hippophagism
hippophagous
hippophagy
Maitreya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɹaɪ.ə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit मैत्रेय (maitreya, “friendly, benevolent”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bodhisattva who is considered to be a future Buddha.
glosses: A sage of ancient India.
Related terms: Maitreyan
positioning time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Random-access time: the time required to move the hard disk arm to the desired cylinder (seek time) and for the desired sector to rotate under the disk head (rotational latency).
neutralino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutralinos
Etymology: From neutral + -ino?
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several hypothetical particles, predicted by supersymmetry, related to neutrinos.
Derived terms: antineutralino
mandolinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandolinists
Etymology: From mandolin + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: mandoliner
glosses: someone who plays a mandolin
Related terms: mandocellist
Stolen Generation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: stolen generation
Senses: examples: text: This loss of trust probably extends to welfare agencies tarnished by paternalism, patriarchalism and association with the Stolen Generation.
ref: 2006, Gary Bouma, Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century, page 116:
text: Marge Tucker′s 1970 autobiography, If Everybody Cared, was the first by one of the Stolen Generation.
ref: 2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 198:
text: 2009, Michelle Pieper, Chapter 16: Sharing My Strengths and Winning against Obesity, Catherine A. Marshall, Elizabeth Kendall, Reva Mariah S. Gover, Disabilities: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World, page 211,
I remember the stories grandma used to tell us around the fire or when it was bedtime of how she was a part of the stolen generation and how she made her way back home again.
text: Around 100,000 children comprised the stolen generation, who were separated from their mothers and fathers in this way, causing untold stress and damage to the nation′s indigenous community.
ref: 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 24:
text: While most of the children reacted with sympathy for the Stolen Generation, they also appreciated the significance of the event, with comments such as “I′m glad that they made a sorry day and are saying sorry like good people and not protenting (sic) it never happened.”
ref: 2010, Jennifer Master, Nicola Yelland, “Changing Learning Ecologies: Social Media for Cyber-citizens”, in Shaheen Shariff, Andrew H. Churchill, editors, Truths and Myths of Cyber-Bullying, page 237:
glosses: Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969.
Stolen Generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stolen Generations
form: stolen generation
Senses: examples: text: On one level, this image of the reunification of three generations of Aboriginal women offers a satisfying resolution to the story, effectively assuaging social anxieties about past race relations, in particular the issue of the Stolen Generations.
ref: 2004, Felicity Collins, Therese Davis, Australian Cinema After Mabo, page 145:
text: Ken′s mother is not the only member of the Stolen Generations to see the need to look back before looking forward.
ref: 2005, Ken Isaacson, Stephanie Ford, “19: Looking forward—looking back: shaping a future”, in Claire Smith, H. Martin Wobst, editors, Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice, page 333:
text: In many places, radio stations invite Stolen Generations people in the neighbourhood to tell their stories.[…]Some of the Stolen Generations sought redress through the courts.
ref: 2010, John Bond, “21: Saying Sorry to the Aborigines: How the media played such a crucial role”, in Richard L Keeble, editor, Media Values, page 151:
glosses: Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were removed from their families as children, within some given generation (nominal period of time over which children grow up, before having children of their own).
korsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: korsis
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian کرسی (korsi).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Iranian low table with a heater underneath it and blankets thrown over the top.
ant bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant bears
Senses: glosses: aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
glosses: giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
ant bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ant bear
monofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monofilaments
Etymology: From mono- + filament.
Senses: examples: text: In the twentieth century, the gill net became almost invisible when hemp twine was replaced first by nylon and then by monofilament. Since monofilament is fairly indestructible, it is estimated that a modern "ghost net" may continue to fish on its own for as long as five years.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 124:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A single strand of man-made fiber
Synonyms: monofil
Related terms: monofilamental
gaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑːdʒi/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒi
Forms: form: gaji
form: gajis
Senses: examples: text: Gaji is the nonpoint-card of November or Willow suit cards. It has no value in points, but can be used like a joker in English cards and may take any of the card^([sic]) in the deck. When a player uses Gaji and takes any cards of a suit the remaining odd card, too, will be his.
ref: c. 1960s, A Japanese HANA FUDA (Flower Cards) Game, Paradise Factors:
text: If the gaji card is part of a player’s hand he can use it like a wild card to capture any card in the field regardless of its suit.
ref: c. 2009, Hanafuda Hawaii, “How to Play Hanafuda Hawaii Style”, in hanafudahawaii.com, archived from the original on 08 May 2011:
text: If a player draws the Gaji card, it is a wild card and they must play it right away on the Field.
ref: 2025, “Sakura: How to Play Guide”, in hanafooda.com:
glosses: In the game of sakura, the name of the 0-point card of the willow/November suit, which acts as a wild card.
aliasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alias
aliasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aliasings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
qualifier: graphics; sound recording; graphics; sound recording
glosses: Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, such as a moiré effect or jaggies.
Derived terms: antialiasing
guinea-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guinea-worms
form: Guinea worm
form: Guinea-worm
form: guinea worm
Senses: examples: text: the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 889:
synonyms: dragon worm
glosses: A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.