cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skateboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateboards
Etymology: From skate + board.
Senses: examples: text: In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
ref: 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN:
text: “Maybe it’s a video to talk about the situation. They use the skateboard as their weapons to (educate) the generation around Europe and the world,” Tutenges said. “It’s a good way to keep talking about Ukraine.”
ref: 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: recreation
glosses: A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A vehicle chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (ie. batteries), forming the vehicular base.
Derived terms: electric skateboard
e-skateboard
skateboard deck
skateboarding
skateboard rail
skateboard truck
skateboard wheel
skateboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skateboards
form: skateboarding
form: skateboarded
form: skateboarded
Etymology: From skate + board.
Senses: examples: text: “Mentally, it’s hard to live here,” a teenage skateboarder named Konstantino told him. “So we skateboard to free ourselves and heal ourselves. We go out into the street every day, as if it were our medicine.”
ref: 2016 May 27, David G. Allan, “Get on board: The new four-wheeled sport for everyone”, in CNN:
text: He explained how the race was initially his idea, but it was Gay – a Bend resident ranked fourth in the world for the most miles skateboarded in 24 hours – who had to “sell the whole idea to the city” while seeking permission to host the race.
ref: 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN:
glosses: To use a skateboard.
over rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over rates
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The average number of overs completed per hour.
pitch count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch counts
Senses: examples: text: His pitch count is up to 110; he will probably be pinch-hit for next inning.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of throws that a pitcher has delivered in a game.
cup of coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cups of coffee
Etymology: Based on the idea that the player was only there long enough to have a cup of coffee.
Senses: examples: text: I was up for a cup of coffee once; those were the best six days of my career.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
examples: text: Since social anthropology is not my cup of coffee, I leave it to the research scholars to discover the true significance of this transformation.
ref: 1963, Southern Economist, volume 2, page 137:
glosses: One’s personal preference.
glosses: An invitation to have sex.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
Synonyms: sense: preference
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: predilection
misguided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
Forms: form: more misguided
form: most misguided
Senses: examples: text: I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided. Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: Ill-conceived or not thought through.
glosses: Misled or mistaken.
examples: text: You're just a poor misguided fool
Who thinks they know what I should do
A line for me and a line for you
I lose my right to a point of view.
ref: 2001, “Poor Misguided Fool”, in Love Is Here, performed by Starsailor:
text: Martin Luther King Jr's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on the need for moral intervention should be taped to every tech CEO's wall: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”
ref: 2024 May 11, John Thornhill, quoting Martin Luther King Jr, “More than human?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
glosses: Lacking proper guidance.
Synonyms: sense: lacking proper guidance
word: stray
sense: lacking proper guidance
word: straying
sense: lacking proper guidance
word: erring
sense: lacking proper guidance
word: errant
sense: lacking proper guidance
word: confused
sense: lacking proper guidance
word: off course
Derived terms: misguidedly
misguidedness
unmisguided
misguided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misguide
tiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: teal
Forms: form: tiels
Etymology: Shortened from cockatiel.
Senses: glosses: cockatiel
Paradesi Jew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paradesi Jews
Etymology: The first element, which represents a word meaning "foreigner, wanderer" in many South Asian languages, is ultimately from Sanskrit परदेशिन् (paradeśin, “foreigner”).
Senses: glosses: One of the descendants of the Sephardic immigrants to South Asia (where they mostly settled in Cochin and Madras) fleeing persecution in Spain.
cayuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪuːs/
Forms: form: cayuses
Etymology: Named after the Cayuse tribe of the Pacific Northwest. However, the etymology of this tribe name is unknown; it may be an exonym, and may in fact come from Spanish caballo (“horse”), which is the source of the word for horse in many Native American languages of western North America.
Senses: glosses: A small Indian horse or pony.
Yehudi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈhuːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Etymology: From Hebrew יְהוּדִי (yehudí, “Jew”). Related to Judah. An endonym for and doublet of Jew.
Senses: examples: text: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of Jewish usage.
Derived terms: Yehudi lights
Related terms: Yehudit
Yehudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈhuːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: Yehudis
Etymology: From Hebrew יְהוּדִי (yehudí, “Jew”). Related to Judah. An endonym for and doublet of Jew.
Senses: glosses: A Jew.
jes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Up thoo de lawn an' 'twixt de trees, jes' like a spring-time rivah breeze, dat youngster comes a-troopin' - I think he had de boldes' step a tired infant evah kep', an' nary bit er droopin'.
ref: 1885, William Lightfoot Visscher, Black Mammy: A Song of the Sunny South in Three Cantos; and My Village Home, page 35:
text: "We's gwing ter get thoo dis jes fine. De lawd woan gives you mo' dan you kin tek. Jes trust in him, chile, an eve'thing bes awright."
ref: 2021 July 10, Judith Ann McDowell, Fated Memories:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English
Maoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊɪzəm/
Forms: form: Maoisms
Etymology: From Mao (surname of Mao Zedong) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said.
ref: 1973 March 4, “Starving farmers given jail terms”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.
wikipedia: Mao Zedong
Derived terms: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Related terms: Maoist
Mao Zedong Thought
defensive indifference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The play was scored as defensive indifference.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An official scoring judgement in which a runner is not credited with a stolen base because the team playing the field did not try to stop the steal. This typically occurs late in a game when the fielding team is winning by at least two runs.
hight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /haɪt/
homophone: height
Forms: form: hights
form: highting
form: hight
form: hight
form: highte
Etymology: From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
Senses: examples: text: King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.
text: He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene, page 209:
text: Childe Harold was he hight.
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza III:
text: “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”
ref: 1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:
glosses: To call, name.
examples: text: I hight Sir Galahad.
text: Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
ref: c. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart:
text: In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight
ref: 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:
text: There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine […] which as I remember, hight Coſtard […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To be called or named.
raw_tags: with a name as complement
examples: text: Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.
ref: 1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands:
glosses: To command; to enjoin.
Derived terms: behight
hight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /haɪt/
homophone: height
Forms: form: highte
Etymology: From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
Senses: examples: text: […]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 514”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
synonyms: yclept
glosses: Called, named.
hight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /haɪt/
homophone: height
Forms: form: hights
form: highte
Etymology: See height
Senses: examples: text: High thron'd above all hights
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, 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:
glosses: Obsolete form of height.
Barbar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barbars
Etymology: From the Arabic surname of unexplained origin; this surname is mainly found in Syria and Lebanon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
psychotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīkōthĕr'əpē
ipa: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
Forms: form: psychotherapies
Etymology: From psycho- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
ref: 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:
text: Literally hundreds of studies have shown that on average psychotherapy works as well for these conditions as do medications.
ref: 2014 January 24, Dr. Charles Raison, “Here’s what to do about your anxiety”, in CNN:
glosses: The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
Hyponyms: psychoanalysis
Derived terms: activity group psychotherapy
Related terms: psychotherapeutic
psychotherapist
Cayuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Adapted from French cailloux, a pre-existing French word. The reason this word came to be used for the tribe is unknown; see the Wikipedia article for theories.
Senses: glosses: A Native American tribe of Oregon.
can of corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cans of corn
Etymology: The phrase, first attested in 1896, refers to the practice of a grocer using a long stick to push a can of goods off a high shelf. (See Seattle Post Intelligencer - Sports Answer Guy article)
Senses: examples: text: He hits a can of corn to left.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An easily caught fly ball.
Richter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɹɪxt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ɚ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Richter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Richter scale
Richter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɹɪxt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ɚ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Richter.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
synonyms: magnitude
glosses: (Followed by a decimal number): A Richter scale magnitude to indicate the severity of an earthquake. "Richter" is prefixed to the magnitude value. This has generally been superseded by the Moment-Magnitude Scale
extra innings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra-innings
Senses: examples: text: And we go to extra innings.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Additional innings needed to break a tie.
Richter scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ɚ skeɪl/
Forms: form: the Richter scale
Etymology: Named after American seismologist Charles Richter (1900–1985), whose name derives from German Richter (“judge”).
Senses: examples: text: “The Richter scale is an old scale developed for California. It is only good for smaller quakes, and is not very good at differentiating the sizes of bigger shocks,” said McGuire.
ref: 2025 March 28, Nicola Davis, quoting Bill McGuire, “What caused Myanmar and Thailand earthquake and how big was it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: A logarithmic scale used to express the energy released by an earthquake, each increase of 1 representing a 31-fold increase in energy, and a 10-fold increase in the measured wave amplitude.
Richter scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkt.ɚ skeɪl/
Forms: form: Richter scales
Etymology: Named after American seismologist Charles Richter (1900–1985), whose name derives from German Richter (“judge”).
Senses: examples: text: The students also faced and experienced earthquakes at various Richter scales.
glosses: A value on the Richter scale.
Related terms: Fujita scale
Torino scale
moment magnitude scale
early innings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We have an early innings deficit to make up.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first, second, and third innings.
glosses: The early stages of any project or extended event.
Synonyms: sense: early stages of project
word: early days
logarithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒɡəˈɹɪðmɪk/
Etymology: From logarithm + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to logarithms.
Derived terms: antilogarithmic
bilogarithmic
hyperlogarithmic
linearithmic
logamediate
logarithmically
logarithmic decrement
logarithmic derivative
logarithmic function
logarithmic integral
logarithmic spiral
logarithmic trigonometric function
midlogarithmic
monologarithmic
nonlogarithmic
polylogarithmic
pseudologarithmic
semilogarithmic
sublogarithmic
superlogarithmic
translogarithmic
-morph
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)f
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”).
Senses: glosses: shape, form, structure
glosses: morpheme
Related terms: morph-
-morphic
-morphism
morpho-
-morphous
-morphy
pillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlə/
ipa: /ˈpɪlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɪllə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pillars
Etymology: From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
examples: text: a pillar of smoke
glosses: Something resembling such a structure.
examples: text: He's a pillar of the community.
text: In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:
text: Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
ref: 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by CJ (Christian Mallen):
glosses: An essential part of something that provides support.
examples: text: two laye-men secular
eache of theym holdynge a pillar
In their hondes, steade of a mace
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, a poem:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
glosses: The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
Synonyms: column
sile
Derived terms: A-pillar
B-pillar
C-pillar
D-pillar
bepillared
bundle pillar
depillar
earth pillar
pillar to post
post to pillar
hydropillar
ice pillar
interpillar
intrapillar
light pillar
micropillar
nanopillar
pilaster
pillar and stall
pillar-biter
pillar block
pillar box
pillar-box red
pillar candle
pillar dollar
pillar drill
pillaret
pillar harp
pillarisation
pillarist
pillarize
pillarless
pillarlet
pillarlike
pillar of fire
pillar of flame
pillar of society
pillar of strength
pillar of the community
pillar telephone
pillarwise
pillary
room and pillar
sand pillar
solar pillar
sun pillar
triangulation pillar
trig pillar
water pillar
pillar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlə/
ipa: /ˈpɪlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɪllə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pillars
form: pillaring
form: pillared
form: pillared
Etymology: From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Senses: examples: text: Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
ref: 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:
text: We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
ref: 1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:
text: In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
ref: 1998, Zhong Lin Wang with Zhen Chuan Kang, Functional and smart materials, page 226:
text: It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.
ref: 2004, Scott M. Auerbach with Kathleen A. Carrado and Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:
glosses: To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
Related terms: caterpillar
pungent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭnjənt
ipa: /ˈpʌnd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more pungent
form: most pungent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pungens (stem pungent-), present participle of pungo (“to sting”). Doublet of poignant.
Senses: examples: text: I accidentally dropped the bottle of ammonia and after few seconds, a very pungent stench could be detected.
text: Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
ref: 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
text: I can almost smell the fir scent... resinous, pungent.
ref: 1991, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: American Christmas, Dark Horse Books:
synonyms: poignant
assertive
glosses: Having a strong odor that stings the nose; said especially of acidic or spicy substances.
synonyms: poignant
assertive
glosses: Having a strong taste that stings the tongue; said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste.
examples: text: The critic gave a pungent review.
glosses: Stinging; acerbic.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a sharp and stiff point.
Derived terms: pungence
pungency
pungently
stanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstænzə/
rhymes: -ænzə
Forms: form: stanzas
Etymology: From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
topics: architecture
glosses: An apartment or division in a building.
examples: text: Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
ref: 2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core:
text: Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]
ref: 2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software:
text: Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.
ref: 2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
examples: text: Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.
ref: 1957 December 30, “NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 45, page 5:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
examples: text: The game's prime moment wasn't the decisive and popular eighth-inning, two-run homer by Mark Bellhorn, which ticked off the friendly Fenway right-field foul pole, but a sensational play by Boston's Manny Ramirez in the top of that same stanza.
ref: 2004 November 22, Roger Angell, “Long Voyage Home”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 36, page 50:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.
Derived terms: Burns stanza
interstanza
Monk's Tale stanza
Spenserian stanza
stanzaed
stanzaic
stanzalike
Related terms: stance
stand
strophe
perfect game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect games
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game in which every batter on one team is retired without reaching base.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game in which the highest score possible is achieved, entailing a strike in every frame.
Related terms: no-hitter
no-hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-hitters
Senses: examples: text: Not many pitchers can say they threw two no-hitters in their career.
text: A record three of the no-hitters have come against Cleveland, with Zach Plesac having started all three games for the Indians.
ref: 2021 August 10, Benjamin Hoffman, “Brewers’ Combined No-Hitter Breaks Record for the Most in a Season”, in The New York Times:
text: It was the 18th no-hitter in franchise history, the 10th since the team moved to San Francisco and first since Chris Heston no-hit the New York Mets in 2015.
ref: 2024 March 8, C. Trent Rosecrans and Andrew Baggarly, “Giants’ Blake Snell throws first no-hitter of career in win over Reds”, in The New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game in which no batter on one of the teams got a hit.
Related terms: no-no
perfect game
uns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of un
playboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪbɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈpleɪˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: playboys
Etymology: From play + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society / I don't hang around playboy millionaires / I'm just an ordinary guy you left behind
ref: 1969, Joe Bataan, “Ordinary Guy”:
glosses: A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
Synonyms: hedonist
Coordinate terms: playgirl
Derived terms: playboyish
playboyism
playboylike
propellant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propellants
form: propellent
Etymology: From propel + -ant.
Senses: glosses: anything that propels
fuel, oxidizer, reaction mass or mixture for one or more engines (especially internal combustion engines or jet engines) that is carried within a vehicle prior to use
examples: text: Then they backed the membrane with a gel matrix containing a perfluorocarbon (PFC) propellant and fluorescent "nanobullets" about a micron wide, and hit it with ultrasound.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
glosses: anything that propels
the compressed gas in a pressurised container (especially an aerosol can) that is used to expel its content
glosses: anything that propels
the explosive (cordite, gunpowder, etc) found in ammunition cartridges
Synonyms: sense: fuel, oxidizer
word: prop
Derived terms: word: monopropellant
word: bipropellant
sense: fuel, oxidizer
word: prop
word: jet propellant
word: rocket propellant 1
propellant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: propellent
Etymology: From propel + -ant.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of propellent.
Hispanicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈspænɪsɪzm̩/
Forms: form: Hispanicisms
Etymology: From Hispanic + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Hispanism
Castilianism
glosses: A Spanish-language item as it appears in another language.
examples: text: More recently there has burst forth an enthusiastic Hispanicism, no longer the Hispanicism of Columbus Day with its odes to the great navigator, nor the Hispanicism of the bull fighters and the cabaret singers, but a historical Hispanicism […]
ref: 1959, Lewis Hanke, Modern Latin America: Continent in Ferment, Van Nostrand, page 131:
text: One French writer argued that Hispanicism was a proper response to U.S. expansionism, provided Spain could assure its sister Latin states in Europe (France and Italy) that their interests were not endangered.
ref: 1994, James W. Cortada, Spain in the Nineteenth-century World, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Support for hegemony of Spain.
nevermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English nevermore, from the Old English phrase nǣfre mā. Equivalent to never + -more.
Senses: examples: text: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
 Shall be lifted—nevermore!
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: for evermore
forevermore
evermore
glosses: Never again.
wikipedia: Old English
overloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overload
overloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overloaded
form: most overloaded
Senses: examples: text: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
glosses: loaded too heavily
glosses: of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context
Derived terms: nonoverloaded
overloadedness
unoverloaded
reestablish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reestablishes
form: reestablishing
form: reestablished
form: reestablished
form: re-establish
form: reëstablish
Etymology: From re- + establish.
Senses: examples: text: Zionism is a religious and political movement that brought Jews to their ancient homeland and reestablished Israel as the central location for Jewish identity.
ref: 2025 April 15, “Zionism”, in History.com:
glosses: To establish again.
examples: text: NASA has reestablished contact with its interstellar spacecraft Voyager 2 after an incorrect command pointed the spacecraft away from Earth, cutting off data for about two weeks.
ref: 2023 August 6, Emilee Speck, FOX Weather:
glosses: To restore to a previously operational state.
Bulverism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by British writer, lay theologian, and scholar C. S. Lewis in 1941.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it Bulverism. Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father—who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third—'Oh you say that because you are a man.'
ref: [1944, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “'Bulverism': or, the Foundation of 20th Century Thought”, in Walter Hooper, editor, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, Grand Rapids, M.I.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, published 1970, →ISBN, page 273:
glosses: A rhetorical fallacy in which a speaker assumes that their opponent's argument is wrong, and instead of disproving it, condescendingly explains why their opponent would have come to that conclusion.
Related terms: Bulverist
Bulverize
PN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of part number.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of practical nurse.
glosses: Initialism of proportional navigation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of proper noun.
PN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PNe
form: PNs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of planetary nebula.
Coordinate terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: LαB
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: LAB
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: LαE
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: LAE
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: SNR
Derived terms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: LPN
Related terms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: LPN
topics: medicine
sciences
word: LVN
topics: medicine
sciences
word: MN
topics: medicine
sciences
word: NP
topics: medicine
sciences
word: RN
topics: medicine
sciences
word: VN
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: SN
PN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: initialism of Perikatan Nasional (“National Alliance”)
dep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deps
Etymology: Clipping of department, originally slang from Imperial College, first attested c. 1930.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of department.
dep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deps
form: dep.
form: dép
form: dép.
Etymology: *Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
*Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"
Senses: glosses: Clipping of deposit.
glosses: Clipping of departure.
examples: text: Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.
topics: law
glosses: A deposition.
examples: text: [A]s soon as the door opened we could see it was the deputy governor coming through. […] We watched as the dep crossed the football field towards us.
ref: 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
glosses: A deputy.
glosses: A dépanneur.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dependency.
Related terms: sensory dep
sleep dep
dep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deps
form: depping
form: depped
form: depped
form: dep.
form: dép
form: dép.
Etymology: *Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
*Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"
Senses: examples: text: Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).
ref: 2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition, page 212:
glosses: To deputize.
dep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dep.
form: dép
form: dép.
Etymology: *Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
*Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"
Senses: glosses: depart or departs
glosses: deposed
dep.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deps.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of department.
glosses: Abbreviation of deputy.
glosses: Abbreviation of deposit.
dir.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dir.
dir.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dir.
dir.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dir.
EB
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of exabyte.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: EiB
glosses: Abbreviation of exbibyte.
EB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: NB
WB
SB
glosses: Initialism of eastbound.
EB
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: coordinate_terms: NB
WB
SB
glosses: Initialism of eastbound.
EB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EBs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of elementary body.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of Epstein-Barr virus.
glosses: Initialism of epidermolysis bullosa.
MPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: MPAA
glosses: Initialism of Motion Picture Association.
MPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of marine protected area.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of medroxyprogesterone acetate.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of microscopic polyangiitis.
qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of master of public administration.
SKG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: SKG DreamWorks LLC, an entertainment company formed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
ITIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of IT Infrastructure Library, a set of practices for IT management in business.
Hyponyms: ITIL1
ITIL2
ITIL3
ITIL4
WPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPM
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wpm.
CPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of character(s) per minute.
glosses: Initialism of counts per minute (Rate at which radioactive decays are detected.)
glosses: Initialism of certified property manager.
glosses: Initialism of charged particle microscope.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of cost per mille (“the cost of showing an advertisement one thousand times”).
qualifier: project management
glosses: Initialism of critical path method.
CPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: CPI
alt: M
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Communist Party of India (Marxist), a political party.
cig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: sig
Forms: form: cigs
Etymology: Clipping of cigarette.
Senses: examples: text: "You working with Fisheye?" Ng says, lighting up cig. The smoke swirls in the air ostentatiously.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 366:
text: "You can have my food," Brenda managed, "but at least leave me a pack of cigs, alright?"
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: Cigarette.
Derived terms: cigalike
ciggie
e-cig
pk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pack.
dinglehopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinglehoppers
Senses: examples: text: You press this, this... dinglehopper to get the motor started.
text: Scuttle: Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see. (Picks up fork.) Look at this. Wow – this is special – this is very, very unusual.
 Ariel: What? What is it?
 Scuttle: It's a dinglehopper! Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See, just a little twirl here and a yank there and voilà! You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!
 Ariel: A dinglehopper!
ref: 1989, The Little Mermaid, spoken by Ariel and Scuttle (Jodi Benson and Buddy Hackett):
glosses: Something that one does not readily recall the name of.
essayist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.seɪ.ɪst/
Forms: form: essayists
Etymology: From essay + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: She was an essayist whose frequent contributions to the editorial pages of major newspapers had a loyal following.
glosses: One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.
Coordinate terms: author
novelist
Derived terms: essayistic
video essayist
trapezoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more trapezoidal
form: most trapezoidal
Etymology: From trapezoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61:
glosses: In the shape of a trapezoid, or having some faces which have one pair of parallel sides.
Derived terms: trapezoidal rule
Related terms: trapezoid
spill the beans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɪl ðə ˈbiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Forms: form: spills the beans
form: spilling the beans
form: spilled the beans
form: spilled the beans
form: spilt the beans
form: spilt the beans
Etymology: First attested in 20th century American English. One possible origin for the phrase is from an Ancient Greek practice of using different-coloured beans for voting, where spilling the jar containing them would unwantedly reveal the results, though this might be folk etymology.
Senses: examples: text: They had planned it as a surprise party, but somebody spilled the beans.
text: I guarantee you, someone's going to spill the beans and next thing this shit's all over the news.
ref: 2008, Patricia Cornwell, Point Of Origin:
text: He accepted a contract to kill you and Frank DePalma. You because she couldn't be sure what Wennington had told you, and Frank because he got cold feet and was about to spill the beans.
ref: 2017, Wade Fowler, The Honey Trap:
text: More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
text: Shall we meet up for a meal and I think I can be persuaded to spill the beans if I drink enough wine.
ref: 2022, Spencer Coleman, Facade:
synonyms: let the cat out of the bag
spill one's guts
spill the tea
glosses: To reveal a secret; to disclose information.
beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of bean
beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: examples: text: popping beans
qualifier: urban
glosses: Pills; drugs in pill form.
synonyms: word: testicles
word: testes
word: acorns
word: agates
word: apples
word: apricots
word: bags
word: ballocks
word: balls
word: bangers
word: bannocks
word: baws
word: beans
word: bean bags
word: berries
word: bollocks
word: bolls
word: boys
word: bubbles
word: cherries
word: chicken nuggets
word: chuckles
word: clockweights
word: cobblers
word: cods
word: coin purse
word: cojones
word: crown jewels
word: cubes
word: cullions
word: eggs
word: family jewels
word: giggle berries
word: gonads
word: goolies
word: gooseberries
word: huevos
word: Jacobs
word: Jatz crackers
word: jawbreakers
word: klackers
word: knackers
word: lamb fries
word: loins
word: love spuds
word: marbles
word: nadgers
word: nads (UK
raw_tags: from gonads
word: US)
raw_tags: from gonads
word: nards
word: nuts
word: orchis
word: pebbles
word: plums
word: potatoes
word: pods
word: profiteroles
word: rocks
word: spuds
word: stepchildren
word: stones
word: store
word: sweetmeats
word: swingers
word: taters
word: teabags
word: tests
word: twins
word: watermelons
word: yams
word: yarbles
glosses: The testicles.
examples: text: I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet. I live with a lover now who is a well paid academic, but I make beans as a writer.
ref: 1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:
text: In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.
ref: 1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:
text: But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.
ref: 2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 62:
synonyms: hill of beans
row of pins
glosses: An insignificant value or amount.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: An animal's pawpads.
examples: text: He told me he reached beans. I hope he’ll be okay.
qualifier: self-harm
glosses: The hypodermis.
glosses: Money.
beans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bean