cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
up for grabs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.
ref: 1998 April 13, Salman Rushdie, “Mohandas Gandhi”, in Time:
text: The Senate is up for grabs in November's election.
ref: 2006 November 5, Robert Hicks, “Opinion: Separate but Equal”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:
text: "In the transformation of clean technology, it's up for grabs whether the giants will be American or Chinese or from other countries," says Salzman.
ref: 2009 November 18, Julie Schmit, “China pushes solar, wind power development”, in USA Today, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:
glosses: Available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win.
cosmonaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏz'mənôt
ipa: /ˈkɒz.məˌnɔːt/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.məˌnɔt/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.məˌnɑt/
Forms: form: cosmonauts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”), may be decomposed as cosmo- + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.
ref: 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN:
text: Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
ref: 2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN:
glosses: An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
Derived terms: cosmonautic
cosmonautical
cosmonautics
cosmonette
dogmonaut
Related terms: aeronaut
astronaut
cosmos
spationaut
taikonaut
hostelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒstəlɹi/
ipa: /ˈhɑstəlɹi/
Forms: form: hostelries
form: hostelrie
Etymology: From Middle English hostelerie, from Middle French hostellerie, from Old French hostelerie, ostelerie; by surface analysis, hostel + -ry.
Senses: glosses: An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses).
examples: the hostelry trade
a degree in hostelry and tourism
glosses: The art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel.
Related terms: hostler
hostler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/
ipa: /ˈ(h)ɑs.lɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒslə
Forms: form: hostlers
form: ostler
Etymology: From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius, hospitālārius, from hospitāle "inn", from hospitālis "hospitable", from hospes "host, guest". Both hostler and its alternative form ostler originally meant simply "innkeeper", and acquired a specific association with horses in the second half of the 14th century. Doublet of hosteler and hotelier.
Senses: examples: text: As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: groom
glosses: A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
synonyms: switcher
shunter
glosses: A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
Derived terms: hostlership
Related terms: hostelry
hosteler
ostler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒslə/
ipa: /ˈɑːslɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒslə
Forms: form: ostlers
form: hostler
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of hostler, from late 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: [A]s the London coaches drove up, which in those early days used to set off from the George, Mr. Foker flung the coffee-room window open, and called the guards and coachmen by their Christian names, too, asking about their respective families, and imitating with great liveliness and accuracy the tooting of the horns as Jem the ostler whipped the horses’ cloths off, and the carriages drove gaily away.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Followed by the sun, I left the grounds of the mansion and entered the deserted park, an ostler leading a large and passive work-horse out to the day's labour.
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 21:
glosses: A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom
Synonyms: groom
Derived terms: ostleress
ensnare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈsnɛə/
ipa: /ɪn-/
ipa: /ɛnˈsnɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ɪn-/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ensnares
form: ensnaring
form: ensnared
form: ensnared
form: insnare
Etymology: From en- + snare.
Senses: examples: text: Let theſe / Inſnare the vvretched in the toils of lavv, / Fomenting diſcord, and perplexing right, / An iron race!
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 160, lines 1289–1292:
text: The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A birdcatcher came to ensnare them in his nets.
ref: 1887, Æsop, translated by George Fyler Townsend, Three Hundred Æsop's Fables:
text: When we were asked to what one should apply the name “what is not”, we were ensnared in total paradox. Remember?
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown and 250d-e, Sophist:
text: When he spurns her, Julia is outraged to hear it is because she did not measure up to his secret list of 10 bullet-pointed attributes for an ideal bride. To get her own back, she invites her best friend, penniless clergyman’s daughter Selina Dalton (Freida Pinto), up to town to ensnare Malcolm, by faking the 10 comely attributes from his list.
ref: 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
examples: text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: The gamble proved devastating for millions of people, beyond public figures ensnared in the leak and subsequent media frenzy, including the reality TV star Josh Duggar, the Real Housewives Of New York star Kristen Taekman’s husband and, in an earlier scandal, the politician Eliot Spitzer.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: ensnarl
glosses: To entangle; to enmesh.
Derived terms: ensnarement
ensnarer
unensnared
Related terms: snare
hypnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪpˈnoʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: hypnoses
Etymology: From modern scholarly Ancient Greek ὕπνωσις (húpnōsis), which formation closes the derivational gap between the ancient words ὑπνόω (hupnóō, “I put to sleep”) and ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós, “sleep-inducing, soporific”). Ultimately traces back to ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: clinical hypnosis
text: under hypnosis
text: self-hypnosis
text: She entered a state of deep hypnosis.
text: The therapy used hypnosis to treat anxiety.
glosses: A trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced.
glosses: Any of various sleep-like conditions.
glosses: The art or skill of hypnotism.
Derived terms: autohypnosis
clipnosis
highway hypnosis
hopenosis
line hypnosis
narcohypnosis
parahypnosis
posthypnosis
prehypnosis
rehypnosis
road hypnosis
Related terms: hypnotic
hypnotise
hypnotism
hypnotist
hypnotize
mesmerism
somnolism
you and whose army
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: you and what army
form: you and which army
Senses: examples: text: –I’m going to stop you from going out with that girl! —Yeah? You and whose army?
text: Come on, come on / You think you'll drive me crazy? / Well, come on, come on / You and whose army? / You and your cronies
ref: 2001, “You and whose army?”, in Amnesiac, performed by Radiohead:
glosses: Used in response to someone’s threat suggesting that the person in question cannot do what they say alone.
Related terms: one-man army
ménage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈnɑːʒ/
ipa: /meɪˈnɑːʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: ménages
form: menage
form: menâge
Etymology: Borrowed from French ménage; compare Middle English menage, a parallel borrowing from an earlier form of the French word.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh," cried her ladyship, "I see the whole ménage; they will take a first floor over a baker's shop, to save fire, and live upon red herrings during the week, with a mutton chop by way of meat on a Sunday."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 167:
text: It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 39:
glosses: A household; a domestic situation.
hypernyms: ROSCA
glosses: A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments.
glosses: A group of people in a sexual relationship; especially, such a group that live together; the relationship itself.
ménage à trois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /ˌmɛnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /məˌnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /ˌmeɪnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /ˌmɛnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /məˌnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
ipa: /məˌnɑːʒeɪ ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ménages à trois
form: menage a trois
form: ménage-à-trois
form: menage-a-trois
Etymology: Borrowed from French ménage à trois (literally “household of three”).
Senses: examples: text: Old men frequently marry young girls, but then the portion is high and the ménage à trois common.
ref: 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 105:
text: "We are certainly going to be happy—we three—in this innocent ménage à trois," she said. "I don't know what more you two men could ask for—or I, either—or the children or Eileen.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter 1, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: […]if she frowned—and there could be no doubt that she was frowning now—what lay before him, before them? A scamped and mean ménage à trois, existence eked out with the aid of Mrs. Knyvett’s scanty resources, and soured by her laments!
ref: 1920, Anthony Hope, Lucinda:
text: For a while, he lived in a ménage à trois with the poet Paul Eluard and his wife, Gala Diakonova (who would later marry Salvador Dali).
ref: 2001, Sheila Isenberg, A Hero of Our Own, page 134:
text: I'm not a prude and I wasn't a prude then, but I couldn't see living in a ménage à trois unless the third member were a girl.
ref: 2006, Gene Lees, Portrait of Johnny, page 56:
glosses: A household or relationship whereby three people live together as lovers.
examples: text: David and Angela and I had a ménage à trois for about five minutes, but then I made her leave because David and I were gonna play.
ref: 1996, Cyrinda Foxe, in McNeil & McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, page 134
text: No, the two guys don't go for each other; the triad tried a ménage à trois once but stopped because Chris thought it was icky.
ref: 1999 November 15, John Cloud, “Henry & Mary & Janet &…”, in Time:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: three-way
glosses: A sexual act or experience involving three people; a threesome.
Hypernyms: sense: both senses
word: ménage
Coordinate terms: sense: both senses
word: ménage à quatre
sense: both senses
word: ménage à moi
Related terms: eternal triangle
love triangle
throuple
securely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkjʊɹli/
ipa: /səˈkjɝli/
ipa: /səˈkjʊəli/
ipa: /səˈkjɔːli/
Forms: form: more securely
form: most securely
Etymology: From secure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Check all personal items are securely stowed in the overhead lockers.
text: A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.
ref: 1919, Ellen N. La Motte, Peking Dust:
text: Only 5% of securely attached male subjects showed subsequent psychopathology compared to 40% of the insecurer attached males.
ref: 2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment, page 15:
topics: manner
synonyms: safely
glosses: In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger.
disjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʌŋk(t)ʃən/
ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʊŋk(t)ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: disjunctions
Etymology: From Old French disjunction, from Latin disjunctio.
Senses: glosses: The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
examples: text: the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
text: The disjunction between the despotism the British had been practising in India and the liberal, secular, democratic trends of their domestic politics was too embarrassing to endure indefinitely.
ref: 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:
glosses: The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Synonyms: disjuncture
Hypernyms: sense: in mathematics
word: logical connective
Hyponyms: sense: in logic
word: inclusive disjunction
sense: in logic
word: exclusive disjunction
Coordinate terms: word: in mathematics
Meronyms: sense: in logic
word: disjunct
Derived terms: disjunctional
nondisjunction
Related terms: junction
conjunction
wet t-shirt contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet t-shirt contests
Senses: glosses: A contest in which women wear t-shirts that are wet to make them slightly translucent so their breasts are visible, and others judge the women on appearance.
Synonyms: wet t-shirt competition
hypnotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpnətɪzəm/
Forms: form: hypnotisms
Etymology: From hypnotise + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The art of inducing hypnosis.
Derived terms: autohypnotism
road hypnotism
Related terms: hypnotist
hypnotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpnətɪst/
Forms: form: hypnotists
Etymology: From hypnotise + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Following their modelling of Perls and Satir, Bandler and Grinder went on to model Milton H. Erickson, the world’s foremost medical hypnotist. The result was a different set of language patterns, the Milton Model, and the publication of the second NLP book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson MD.
ref: 2010, Steve Bavister and Amanda Vickers, Essential NLP (Teach Yourself^®), Great Britain: Hodder Education < Hachette UK Co., published 2014, page 7:
glosses: A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.
Synonyms: hypnotizer
predicate calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.
Hypernyms: logical calculus
Meronyms: existential quantifier
universal quantifier
Derived terms: monadic predicate calculus
Related terms: predicate logic
squiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: squiggles
Etymology: Probably a blend of squirm + wiggle.
Senses: examples: text: Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?
ref: 1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise:
glosses: A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.
glosses: Synonym of tilde.
synonyms: word: tilde
glosses: An illegible scrawl.
squiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: squiggles
form: squiggling
form: squiggled
form: squiggled
Etymology: Probably a blend of squirm + wiggle.
Senses: examples: text: When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.
ref: 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
glosses: To wriggle or squirm.
glosses: To make a squiggle.
glosses: To write illegibly.
Derived terms: squiggly
squirl
uriniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more uriniferous
form: most uriniferous
Etymology: From urine + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Conveying urine.
urinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urinous
form: most urinous
Etymology: From Latin ūrīnōsus. By surface analysis, urine + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to urine.
urochord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urochords
form: urocord
Etymology: From uro- + chord.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A notochord that is limited to the caudal region; especially in the Urochordata
glosses: Any marine organism of the Urochordata.
uro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊəɹə(ʊ)-/
/jʊəˈɹɒ-/
/ˌjʊəɹə(ʊ)-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron).
Senses: glosses: urine; relating to urine and the urinary system.
Derived terms: sense: urine
word: uroammoniac
sense: urine
word: uroanthelone
sense: urine
word: urobilin
sense: urine
word: urobilinaemia
sense: urine
word: urobilinemia
sense: urine
word: urobilinogen
sense: urine
word: urobilinogenuria
sense: urine
word: urobilinuria
sense: urine
word: urocanase
sense: urine
word: urocanate
sense: urine
word: urocanate hydratase
sense: urine
word: urocanic acid
sense: urine
word: urocanicase
sense: urine
word: urocele
sense: urine
word: urochloralic acid
sense: urine
word: urochrome
sense: urine
word: urochromogen
sense: urine
word: urocrisis
sense: urine
word: urocyanin
sense: urine
word: urocyanogen
sense: urine
word: urocyanosis
sense: urine
word: urocyst
sense: urine
word: urocystic
sense: urine
word: urocystitis
sense: urine
word: urodynia
sense: urine
word: uroedema
sense: urine
word: uroenterone
sense: urine
word: uroepithelial
sense: urine
word: uroerythrin
sense: urine
word: uroflavin
sense: urine
word: uroflowmetry
sense: urine
word: urofollitropin
sense: urine
word: urofuscohematin
sense: urine
word: urogastric
sense: urine
word: urogastrone
sense: urine
word: urogenital
sense: urine
word: urogenital apparatus
sense: urine
word: urogenital canal
sense: urine
word: urogenital cleft
sense: urine
word: urogenital diaphragm
sense: urine
word: urogenous
sense: urine
word: uroglaucin
sense: urine
word: urogonadotropin
sense: urine
word: urograffin
sense: urine
word: urogram
sense: urine
word: urographic
sense: urine
word: urography
sense: urine
word: urogravimeter
sense: urine
word: urogynecologist
sense: urine
word: urogynecology
sense: urine
word: urohaematin
sense: urine
word: urohematin
sense: urine
word: urohematoporphyrin
sense: urine
word: uroheparin
sense: urine
word: urohypertensin
sense: urine
word: urokinase
sense: urine
word: urolagnia
sense: urine
word: urolith
sense: urine
word: urolithiasis
sense: urine
word: urolithic
sense: urine
word: urolithology
sense: urine
word: uroliths
sense: urine
word: urologic
sense: urine
word: urological
sense: urine
word: urologist
sense: urine
word: urology
sense: urine
word: urolutein
sense: urine
word: uromancy
sense: urine
word: uromelanin
sense: urine
word: urometer
sense: urine
word: uromodulin
sense: urine
word: uronephrosis
sense: urine
word: uronic acid
sense: urine
word: uronology
sense: urine
word: uronoscopy
sense: urine
word: uropathogenic
sense: urine
word: uropathy
sense: urine
word: uropepsin
sense: urine
word: uroporphyrin
sense: urine
word: uroporphyrinogen
sense: urine
word: urorectal
sense: urine
word: uroscopic
sense: urine
word: uroscopist
sense: urine
word: uroscopy
sense: urine
word: urosepsin
sense: urine
word: urosepsis
sense: urine
word: urospectrin
sense: urine
word: urostomy
sense: urine
word: uroxin
uro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊəɹə(ʊ)-/
/jʊəˈɹɒ-/
/ˌjʊəɹə(ʊ)-/
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: Tail.
glosses: urochord (organ) or the Urochordata; having a tail.
Derived terms: uroboros
urochord
Urochordata
urocyon
urod
urodela
urodele
uropod
uropsilus
urosome
ahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑ.hi/
Forms: form: ahis
form: ahi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻahi (“yellowfin tuna”).
Senses: glosses: yellowfin tuna
yellowfin tuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowfin tunas
Senses: examples: text: The experiment in the first period targeted skipjack tuna and the second, yellowfin tuna.
ref: 1996, Gary T. Sakagawa, “Western Pacific Yellowfin Tuna Research Group Findings on Tuna Fisheries Interactions”, in Richard S. Shomura, Jacek Majkowski, Robert F. Harman, editors, Status of Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries in 1995, page 310:
text: 2009, Kurt M. Schaefer, Daniel W. Fuller, Barbara A. Block, Vertical Movements and Habitat Utilization of Skipjack (Katsuwonis pelamis), Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), and Bigeye (Thunnus obesus) Tunas in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ascertained through Archival Tag Data,
During the daytime, skipjack and yellowfin tunas occasionally exhibited repetitive bounce-dive foraging behavior well below the thermocline to depths of the deep scattering layer, between 225 and 400 m.
text: Ohta and Kakuma (2005) reported that adult yellowfin tuna showed a similar diurnal vertical swimming pattern and dived to depths over 200 m.
ref: 2011, Yasushi Mitsunaga, Ricardo Barbaran, C. Endo, Kazuhiko Anraku, “Swimming Behavior of Juvenile Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) Around Fish Aggragate^([sic]) Devices (F.A.D.S.) in the Philippines”, in Hubert J. Ceccaldi, editor, Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions, page 123:
glosses: An edible species of tuna, Thunnus albacares, found especially in tropical seas.
Synonyms: sense: Thunnus albacares
word: ahi
comice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: comices
Etymology: French (Doyenne du) Comice, (Dean of the) Show, from comice (agricole), (agricultural) show, from Old French, convention, from Latin comitia.
Senses: glosses: A cultivated variety of pear with yellowish-green and reddish skin, and having juicy flesh.
scomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scumber.
scomber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scombers
form: scombering
form: scombered
form: scombered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scumber.
CAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CATs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight.
glosses: Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
glosses: Acronym of common admission test.
glosses: Acronym of civil air transport.
glosses: Acronym of clear-air turbulence.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of computed axial tomography.
glosses: Acronym of career aptitude test.
glosses: Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
glosses: Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
glosses: Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
glosses: Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
glosses: Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
glosses: Acronym of coital alignment technique.
glosses: Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
glosses: Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
glosses: Acronym of crisis assessment team.
glosses: Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
Synonyms: sense: computed axial tomography
word: CT
sense: computed axial tomography
word: computed tomography
sense: computed axial tomography
word: computed axial tomography
Derived terms: sense: computed axial tomography
word: CAT scan
CAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Centre for Alternative Technology
glosses: Counter Assault Team
glosses: Citizens Area Transit
glosses: Canadian Achievement Tests
glosses: Cambridge Antibody Technology
examples: text: Caterpillar (CAT)and Boston Consulting Group said their top executives would go but the companies are monitoring the situation closely.
ref: 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Abbreviation of Caterpillar Inc..
have one's hands full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's hands full
form: having one's hands full
form: had one's hands full
form: had one's hands full
form: have one's handful
Senses: examples: text: He already has his hands full with two kids and a full-time job, yet he still makes time to volunteer.
text: They had their hands full to defend themselves from firing.
ref: c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana:
glosses: To be busy or thoroughly preoccupied.
Related terms: handful
have one's hands tied
tie one's hands
thingamajig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋəməˌd͡ʒɪɡ/
Forms: form: thingamajigs
form: thingamejig
form: thingumajig
form: thingummyjig
Etymology: From thingum or thingummy + jig, metrically patterned like gobbledygook, rigamarole. Compare thingamabob, etc.
Senses: examples: text: He used this, this... this thingamajig you saw him with the other day to fix the problem.
text: "– – Engeneerin' is a cinch – All y' gotta do is shove one thingamajigg an' pull 'nother – –"
ref: 1924, Hal Roach, H. M. Walker, Our Gang: The Sun Down Limited, retrieved 30 Mar 2023:
text: STORAGE boxes -- catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs -- are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.
ref: 1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2024:
glosses: Something that one does not know the name of.
Synonyms: thingy
comitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comitia
Etymology: From Latin comitium (“assembly”).
Senses: glosses: A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome.
whatdoyoucallit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatdoyoucallits
Etymology: From the phrase "what do you call it".
Senses: glosses: Something one does not know the name of.
Synonyms: thingy
thingummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋəmi/
Forms: form: thingummies
Etymology: From thingum + -y. Compare thingamabob and thingamajig.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thingy: something one cannot remember the name of, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
synonyms: word: thingy
extra: something one cannot remember the name of, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely
examples: text: Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was so clever, […]
‘It’s memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses . . . at least that’s what thingummy said.’
‘Who?’
‘You know, what’s his name, Greek poet chap. Wrote the Theogony . . . what was he called? Begins with an “H”.’
‘Homer?’
‘No, dear. Not Homer, the other one. No, it’s gone. Anyway. Memory, that’s the key.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 7–8:
glosses: Synonym of whatshisname: someone one cannot remember the name of.
synonyms: word: whatshisname
extra: someone one cannot remember the name of
Synonyms: thingy
gummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭmʹi
ipa: /ˈɡʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: gummier
form: gummiest
Etymology: From gum (“flesh around teeth”) + -y.
Senses: examples: a gummy grin
glosses: Showing the gums.
Derived terms: gummily
gumminess
gummy weed
ungummy
gummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭmʹi
ipa: /ˈɡʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: gummies
Etymology: From gum (“flesh around teeth”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Over there [the UK], gummies are called smooth hound and a six kilo fish would stop the nation.
ref: 2000, Paul Worsteling, Fishing Western Port, page 12:
text: 2007, Bill Classon, Fishing Guide to Victoria′s Coastline, Australian Fishing Network, page 60,
Western Port is a great location to find gummies. […] Gummy sharks are one of the favoured species in Western Port and for good reason: they put up a strong fight and feed of fresh flake is pretty hard to beat.
text: This area of vast mudflats is right at the top of the port is home to some of the best gummy shark fishing around.[…]As the water drops, the feeding gummies drop off the banks and wait in the channels for food.
ref: 2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 44:
glosses: Clipping of gummy shark.
glosses: A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.
gummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭmʹi
ipa: /ˈɡʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: gummier
form: gummiest
Etymology: From gum (“(substance)”) + -y. The noun was influenced by gummi (from German).
Senses: glosses: Resembling gum (the substance).
examples: text: the gummie bark of Firr or Pine
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Then rubs his gummy eyes.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
examples: text: Probably, in times gone by, when flowing gowns were seldom worn in England, some fashionable dame of high degree, having splay feet, or gummy ankles, might have put them under cover.
ref: 1857, Charles Waterton, Essays on Natural History: 3d Series, page 202:
glosses: Thick; fat.
Synonyms: sense: resembling gum, the substance
word: gluey
sense: resembling gum, the substance
word: gooey
sense: resembling gum, the substance
word: sticky
sense: resembling gum, the substance
word: tacky
Derived terms: gumminess
gummy bear
gummy tumor
gummy tumour
gummy up
ungummy
Related terms: chewing-gummy
gummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭmʹi
ipa: /ˈɡʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: gummies
Etymology: From gum (“(substance)”) + -y. The noun was influenced by gummi (from German).
Senses: examples: text: I opened the fridge to take out my lunch and gave her a gummy. She licked my hand gratefully as I placed the food into the microwave and when it was heated up, she watched me eat and when I was done, she licked my plate happily.
ref: c''' 2011, Gabrielle Tan, Different Colour Can Mix True or False?:
text: Cristina hands him a gummy but holds tight to her cupcake, for she's still working on it, and doesn't want to set it free yet.
ref: 2010, Linda A. Dixon, Cupcakes for Cristina!:
glosses: A gummi candy.
Derived terms: garden gummy
gummy bear
gummy worm
Related terms: by gummy
gooey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuː.i/
homophone: GUI
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: gooier
form: gooiest
Etymology: From goo + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to goo.
examples: text: gooey liquid
glosses: Soft, sticky and viscous.
glosses: Sentimental.
Synonyms: gummy
icky
sticky
Derived terms: gooey butter cake
gooeyness
gooiness
gooily
ooey-gooey
finicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɪki/
Forms: form: finickier
form: more finicky
form: finickiest
form: most finicky
Etymology: From finick (“to work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details”) + -y. Compare finicking, finical, and dated finikin. Perhaps suggested by obsolete Dutch fijnkens (“accurately, neatly, prettily”) (modern Dutch fijntjes). Compare also Sicilian finicchiu.
Senses: examples: text: My editor is very finicky about punctuation. Every dot and comma has to be just right.
text: She has a finicky baby that's hard to feed.
synonyms: word: fastidious
word: fussy
word: anal-retentive
word: choosy
word: conscientious
word: dainty
word: exacting
word: fastidious
word: finical
word: finicking
word: finickity
word: finicky
word: finikin
word: fussy
word: hypercritical
word: lily-handed
word: meticulous
word: niggly
word: nitpickish
word: nit-picky
word: nitty
word: overcritical
word: overscrupulous
word: particular
word: pedantic
word: pernickety
word: persnickety
word: picky
glosses: Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.
text: Instead of Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cream Cheese Pie Crust from her addictingly finicky The Pie and Pastry Bible, I decided to make her Sour Cream Crust.
ref: 2009 July 13, Evan Kleiman, “Pie-a-Day #20 & #21: Cherry Pie and Sour Cream Ice Cream Pie”, in KCRW:
glosses: Demanding; requiring above-normal care.
Synonyms: exacting
fastidious
fussy
meticulous
particular
picky
Derived terms: finickily
finickiness
finickity
unfinicky
icky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: ickier
form: ickiest
Etymology: 1935, American English; from icky-boo (circa 1920): sickly, nauseated; baby talk corruption of sick; from a sentimental term for jazz music.
Senses: examples: text: I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.
text: Crew member Sachin Sharma of India said workers had no problems with being thrust into the icky job of handling the red bags filled with human waste.
ref: 2013 February 15, Wayne Drash, “On crippled cruise ship, icky jobs fell to ‘amazing’ crew”, in CNN:
glosses: Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
glosses: Excessively sentimental.
examples: text: I'm not going to work today. I just feel icky.
glosses: Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.
Derived terms: ickily
ickiness
icky-poo
sticky-icky
Related terms: ick
sentimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/
ipa: /ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/
ipa: /ˌsɛniˈmɛnl̩/
Forms: form: more sentimental
form: most sentimental
Etymology: From sentiment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
Wish I was old and a little sentimental
glosses: Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
glosses: Derived from emotion rather than logical reason.
glosses: Romantic.
Derived terms: antisentimental
hypersentimental
nonsentimental
oversentimental
semisentimental
sentimental comedy
sentimentalisation
sentimentalism
sentimentalist
sentimentalistic
sentimentality
sentimentalization
sentimentalize
sentimentally
sentimental value
supersentimental
ultrasentimental
snowplough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowploughs
form: snow plough
Etymology: From snow + plough.
Senses: examples: text: A "J36" 0-6-0 with the normal snowplough had to give up at Lumphanan and returned home, whereupon a Stanier Class "5" with a large snowplough and two coaches of workmen with shovels, went up and eventually drove a path through to Ballater.
ref: 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
text: In another initiative, NR [Network Rail] is to fund snowploughs for fitting to NYMR's [North Yorkshire Moors Railway's] Class 25 diesel loco, facilitating the clearance of snow from the line as far west as Battersby under a track access agreement.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of snowplow.
Derived terms: snowplough parenting
snowplough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snowploughs
form: snowploughing
form: snowploughed
form: snowploughed
form: snow plough
Etymology: From snow + plough.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowplow.
playpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playpipes
Etymology: From play + pipe.
Senses: glosses: A rigid extension to a fire hose that provides a gripping surface for fire fighting personnel. Typically a pipe with handles that attaches to the end of a fire hose and has a nozzle attached to it.
JP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Justice of the Peace, as a postnominal.
glosses: Initialism of junior programmer.
JP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Janata Party.
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Justice Party (India).
Related terms: JP-7
B-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-girls
form: b-girl
form: BGirl
form: bgirl
Etymology: Abbreviation of bargirl.
Senses: examples: text: Clearing his throat, Patrolman Mancuso stood before his sergeant and said, “I got a lead on a place where they got B-girls.”
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:
text: The bar was a rough, tough frontier place with B-girls drinking colored water at premium whiskey prices, bought by horny guys who thought they were going to get laid but were only going to get screwed.
ref: 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread:
text: What’s really sick, if you ask me, is the B-girl shit where you pay all that money for just looking and thinking about it, but not really doing it.
ref: 1997, Dan Wakefield, Sara Davidson, Going All the Way:
synonyms: B-drinker
glosses: A bargirl.
B-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-girls
form: b-girl
form: BGirl
form: bgirl
Etymology: b(reak) + girl, formed by analogy with B-boy.
Senses: examples: text: The younger b-boys and b-girls at Hip Opsession tend to ignore those spectators who do not seem to know or express the accepted codes and conventions of the scene.
ref: 2018, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 421:
glosses: A woman who performs breakdance; a female breaker.
glosses: A female member of the hip-hop subculture.
Coordinate terms: B-boy
NLRB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Retaliation against organizing unions is illegal under US federal law, and complaints with the NLRB can lead to fired workers being reinstated with backpay, Bloomberg notes.
ref: 2023 February 16, Jon Porter, “Tesla fired dozens of Gigafactory workers after Tuesday’s union announcement: NLRB complaint”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:
glosses: Initialism of National Labor Relations Board.
SDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛs diː aɪ/
Forms: form: SDIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of single-document interface.
SDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛs diː aɪ/
Senses: examples: text: The new sales pitch for S.D.I. runs smack up against the recommendations of Mr. Reagan's own Commission on Strategic Forces, the panel that so effectively closed the window of vulnerability back in 1983.
ref: 1987 August 31, Howard Ris, “Don't Buy the S.D.I. Soap”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2022:
synonyms: word: Star Wars
glosses: Initialism of Strategic Defense Initiative.
glosses: Initialism of Steel Deck Institute.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of Scuba Diving International.
TBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Temple-Baraitser syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of Townes-Brocks syndrome.
TBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Turner Broadcasting System.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Tokyo Broadcasting System.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of The Basic School.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of The Bethesda system.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of the True Buddha School.
TGIF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: T.G.I.F.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thank God it's Friday.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of Twitter, Google, iPhone/iPad or Instagram, Facebook.
Related terms: TGIAF
TGIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TGIFs
form: T.G.I.F.
Senses: qualifier: college
glosses: A Friday afternoon beer party.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of transforming growth interacting factor.
Related terms: POETS day
TVA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Trump said in the Cabinet Room that he was removing TVA board chairman James “Skip” Thompson – who the President nominated to the TVA board in 2017 – and another board member, Richard Howorth, from their positions.
ref: 2020 August 3, Maegan Vazquez, “Trump removes board chairman and calls for firing of Tennessee Valley Authority CEO over use of foreign workers”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Tennessee Valley Authority.
WORM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WORMs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of write once, read many.
Related terms: ROM
RAM
write once
inopportune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inopportune
form: most inopportune
Etymology: From Latin inopportūnus. By surface analysis, in- + opportune.
Senses: examples: text: That was a most inopportune spot for a picnic.
text: "It appears I come at an inopportune time, madam," said he, "when my friend, Mr. Rochester, is from home; but I arrive from a very long journey, and I think I may presume so far on old and intimate acquaintance as to install myself here till he returns."
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter III, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Unsuitable for some particular purpose.
examples: text: The inopportune arrival of the bus cut short the interesting conversation.
text: The object is to keep the yard operators apprised of main-line movements, so that they do not plan to occupy the main lines with activity into or out of the yard at an inopportune juncture.
ref: 1962 October, G[eoffrey] Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 170:
glosses: Happening/occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time.
Synonyms: sense: unsuitable for some particular purpose
word: inappropriate
word: unfit
word: unsuitable
sense: at an inconvenient or inappropriate time
word: ill-timed
word: untimely
Derived terms: inopportunely
inopportuneness
WWE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: His father booked us tickets for the upcoming WWE event.
synonyms: word: WWF
alt: formerly
qualifier: pro-wrestling
glosses: Initialism of World Wrestling Entertainment: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
WW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WWs
form: W.W.
form: w.w.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of world war.
glosses: Initialism of worldwide.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of wild woman, i.e. prostitute.
WW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: W.W.
form: w.w.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Weight Watchers.
glosses: Abbreviation of Wicklow.
AWD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AWDs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of all-wheel drive.
Related terms: english: two-wheel drive; often coordinate
translation: two-wheel drive; often coordinate
word: 2WD
english: four-wheel drive; often coordinate
translation: four-wheel drive; often coordinate
word: 4WD
english: front-wheel drive; often coordinate
translation: front-wheel drive; often coordinate
word: FWD
english: four-wheel drive; often coordinate
translation: four-wheel drive; often coordinate
word: FWD
english: rear-wheel drive; often coordinate
translation: rear-wheel drive; often coordinate
word: RWD
word: 4x4
VCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VCDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of video CD.
glosses: Initialism of visual communication and design.
glosses: Initialism of vocal cord dysfunction.
glosses: Initialism of vibrational circular dichroism.
glosses: Initialism of value change dump.
glosses: Initialism of voice command device.
glosses: Initialism of vinyl cyclohexene diepoxide.
glosses: Initialism of video display controller.
Derived terms: sense: video compact disc
word: SVCD
Related terms: sense: video compact disc
word: DVD
sense: video compact disc
word: LD
sense: video compact disc
word: CDDV
sense: video compact disc
word: HD-DVD
sense: video compact disc
word: BD
action star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action stars
Senses: examples: text: Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jackie Chan are all famous action stars.
glosses: An actor or actress who plays the leading role or a major role in an action movie.
ASMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Science and Mathematics School.
glosses: Initialism of Alabama School of Math and Science.
dept.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of department.
glosses: Abbreviation of deputy.