cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ
Forms: form: dubbings
Senses: glosses: The conferral of knighthood; investment with a title.
examples: text: New genres are thus emerging as a consequence of foreign text dubbings (and subtitlings). Some original cartoons and films are also based on dubbings of foreign cartoons and films.
ref: 2013, Carmen Millan-Varela, Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The process in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The transfer of recorded music from one medium to another.
Related terms: dub over
dub
voice-over
ADR
revoice
seiyuu
voice actor
dubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dub
dubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dubbin.
pimped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmpt/
rhymes: -ɪmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pimp
Hokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hokies
Senses: glosses: A student, alumnus, or supporter of Virginia Tech/V.P.I. (University), Blacksburg, Virginia.
glosses: The mascot of Virginia Tech/V.P.I. (University), Blacksburg, Virginia.
vestiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛstɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɛs.tiˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: vestiaries
Etymology: From Old French vestiarie, from Latin vestiarium, from vestis (“clothing”). Doublet of vestry.
Senses: examples: text: Here a novice appeared from the vestiary of the chapel at his call, and received commands to enquire at the hamlet whether Philipson's bales, with the horse which transported them, had been left there, or ferried over along with his son.
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
text: They often had her return to the vestiary for different items two or three times before they were satisfied with what she brought them.
ref: 1998, Catherine M. Odell, Faustina, page 75:
synonyms: sacristy
vestry
glosses: A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
glosses: Clothing; garments.
vestiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛstɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɛs.tiˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: more vestiary
form: most vestiary
Etymology: From Latin vestiarius, from vestis as Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: In 1964 she initiated ‘vestiary’ sculpture made of soft materials and designed to be worn by the spectators […].
ref: 1981, Harold Osborne, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art:
text: The Professor was left to stare into the depths of his ancient hat, as if it were a vestiary expression of his present situation.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Or the time, later that year, that she turned up to a presidential debate wearing a bright pink pussy-bow blouse just two days after audio had been released of her husband boasting how he likes to “grab ’em by the pussy”? The vestiary reference was, reportedly, “not intentional”.
ref: 2024 July 20, Jemima Kelly, “Melania Trump really doesn't care, do u?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
synonyms: sartorial
glosses: Pertaining to clothes or clothing.
comber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊmə/
enpr: kōʹmər
ipa: /ˈkoʊmɚ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə
rhymes: (US) -oʊmə(ɹ)
homophone: coma (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: combers
Etymology: From Middle English comber, camber, equivalent to comb + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who combs wool, etc.
glosses: A machine that combs wool, etc.
examples: text: The mighty combers crashed down with long echoing reverberations like the roar of great cannons, followed by the ominous swish of broken water rushing across the reef in mad clouds of foam and spray.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118:
glosses: A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
Synonyms: sense: long curving wave
word: breaker
Derived terms: beachcomber
grass-comber
wool comber
woolcomber
comber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊmə/
enpr: kōʹmər
ipa: /ˈkoʊmɚ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə
rhymes: (US) -oʊmə(ɹ)
homophone: coma (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ˈkɒmbə/
enpr: kämʹbər
ipa: /ˈkɑmbɚ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒmbə
rhymes: (US) -ɑmbə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈkəʊmə/
enpr: kōʹmər
ipa: /ˈkoʊmɚ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə
rhymes: (US) -oʊmə(ɹ)
homophone: coma (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: combers
Senses: glosses: Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Serranus hepatus
word: brown comber
taxonomic: Serranus picta
word: painted comber
alt: comb wrasse, Labrus bergylta, syn. Labrus comber
word: comber wrasse
compeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɒmˈpɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: compeers
Etymology: From Middle English comper, from Middle French comper, from Latin compater, compatrem. Doublet of compere as well as compadre and goombah. Influenced by folk-etymological analysis as com- + peer.
Senses: examples: text: And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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: She had fallen into the common error of supposing that the author must personify his works, and that his conversation must be copy and compeer of his writings.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 155–156:
glosses: The equal or peer of someone else; a close companion or associate.
compeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɒmˈpɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: compeers
form: compeering
form: compeered
form: compeered
Etymology: From Middle English comper, from Middle French comper, from Latin compater, compatrem. Doublet of compere as well as compadre and goombah. Influenced by folk-etymological analysis as com- + peer.
Senses: examples: text: In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To be equal with; to match.
litmus test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litmus tests
Etymology: From litmus + test.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple, binary test for the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, using litmus paper.
examples: text: Exams, not interviews, have become the litmus test for entry to university.
text: Temple, under its new coach, Ray Morrison, formerly of Vanderbilt, will be put to the blue litmus test Friday night when it takes on Georgetown.
ref: 1940 October 2, Allison Danzig, “Leading Elevens Face Stern Threats in Saturday's Games”, in New York Times, page 27:
text: For good reasons or bad, early membership of the currency union has become the litmus test of being a "good European."
ref: 1998 February 16, “Baby-Boomer Bonding”, in Newsweek:
text: He opposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage—a litmus test for many social conservatives
ref: 2004 November 15, Matthew Cooper, “Candidates In the Wings”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2013:
text: For years, quoting lines from “Manhattan” or another film by Mr. Allen on a date could be a romantic litmus test, a way to find out if a potential partner also loved E. E. Cummings, Paris, 1930s jazz and the sophisticated, cultured world the films often came to represent.
ref: 2018 March 1, Steven Kurutz, quoting Lisa Schwarzbaum, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Manhattan’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "[…] I don't know National Rail numbers, but I do know that after the pandemic I used to go round a lot of the London stations, and they had far more locations shut than I did at St Pancras. That was very much my litmus test."
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:
coordinate_terms: acid test#English:_rigorous test, figuratively
glosses: Any test which produces a binary, decisive result (for example, determining whether to appoint someone to a job) by measuring a single indicator.
psychobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to both the mind and the body.
psychobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychobiotics
Etymology: From psycho- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: A drug that affects both the mind and the body.
cocotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔˈkɔt/
rhymes: -ɔt
Forms: form: cocottes
Etymology: Borrowed from French cocotte.
Senses: glosses: small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
examples: text: This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.
ref: 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC:
text: […] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: demimonde, courtesan
Related terms: oeuf en cocotte
bon-bon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bon-bons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bonbon.
destrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛstɹɪə/
/ˈdɛstɹiːeɪ/
Forms: form: destriers
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman destrer, destrier.
Senses: examples: text: I am resolved to share or avert the danger; which, that I may the better do, I would crave of thee the use of some palfrey whose pace may be softer than that of my destrier.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 236:
text: Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken, And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.
ref: 1855, Al-Mutanabbi, translated by Richard Francis Burton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
glosses: A steed.
Related terms: charger
garron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɹən/
Forms: form: garrons
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic gearran, Irish gearrán.
Senses: examples: text: To the west Ollo Lophand and Tim Stone were moving through the horselines, feeding and watering the remaining garrons.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Samwell [Tarly]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 368:
text: For transport they might keep short, sturdy garrons: and the chief went nowhere on foot.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 37:
glosses: A small and usually disdained type of horse, typically bred in Scotland and Ireland.
weanling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weanlings
Etymology: From wean + -ling.
Senses: glosses: Any young mammal that has been recently weaned.
examples: text: In developing countries, weanlings are most at risk of malnutrition.
glosses: Specifically, a human child that has been recently weaned.
examples: text: The weanling was sold to the local horse dealer.
glosses: Specifically, a young horse that has been weaned from its mother, but is less than one year old (usually 5-12 months old).
strepitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strepitous
form: most strepitous
Senses: glosses: boisterous; noisy
Derived terms: strepitously
pressure gradient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure gradients
Senses: glosses: The rate of decrease (gradient) of pressure in space at a fixed time. The term is sometimes used to denote simply the magnitude of the gradient of the pressure field.
radiosonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiosondes
Etymology: From radio + sonde.
Senses: examples: text: 1980, National Research Council (U.S.) Select Committee on the National Weather Service, Technological and Scientific Opportunities for Improved Weather and Hydrological Services in the Coming Decade, page 44,
The ultimate limitation of radiosonde networks is the impracticality of global deployment. […] Although, in principle, satellite soundings should be able to match radiosonde accuracies, in practice, they have errors of at least twice those of radiosondes.
text: Thus, the performance characteristics of radiosondes and the relative accuracy of radiosonde winds have been the subject of a great deal of scrutiny over the last few decades.
ref: 2000, Desmond T. Bailey, Meteorological Monitoring Guidance for Regulatory Modeling Applications, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pages 9–17:
text: Sounding balloons carry a payload, usually a radiosonde, to heights of 30 km or more.
ref: 2001, Fred V. Brock, Scott J. Richardson, Meteorological Measurement Systems, page 225:
glosses: A miniature radio carried aloft (e.g. by an uncrewed balloon, an airdrop from a crewed aircraft, or a sounding rocket) to automatically transmit measurements of the upper air such as the wind speed, pressure, temperature, and relative humidity to a receiving station on the ground.
Derived terms: endoradiosonde
RAOB
Related terms: rawin
St Andrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Fife council area, Scotland, named after St. Andrew the Apostle. It is the home of golf.
Related terms: Saint Andrew
surface boundary layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface boundary layers
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The portion of the atmosphere lying next to the surface of the earth and extending up to between 50 and 100 meters.
sublimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublimations
Etymology: From Middle English sublimacioun, sublimacion, from Medieval Latin sublīmātiō, from Latin sublīmō (“I raise, I elevate”, verb).
Synchronically, sublimate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: It uses dry ice pellets (capsules of frozen carbon dioxide), blown at supersonic speed onto the railhead through a small nozzle. Any leaf contamination on the line is frozen, becoming brittle. The pellets then change instantly from solid to gas without going through a liquid stage (a process known as sublimation).
ref: 2023 September 20, Tom Ingall, “Freezing the leaves off the line”, in RAIL, number 992, page 46:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive.
glosses: Elevation; exaltation; a making sublime.
Derived terms: desublimation
sublimation energy
Related terms: sublimate
sublimative
DTT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital terrestrial television.
stratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪ.təs/
ipa: /ˈstɹæt.əs/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: strati
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós
Proto-Italic *strātos
Latin stratuslbor.
English stratus
Borrowed from Latin stratus. Doublet of strath.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.
Derived terms: stratus fractus
gravity wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity winds
Senses: glosses: A katabatic wind.
Domain Name System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical, distributed database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data used by Internet applications.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The distributed database, sometimes including all the supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet uses to translate hostnames into IP addresses and provide other domain-related information.
Synonyms: DNS
Related terms: domain name
domain name server
fire storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire storms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firestorm.
foehn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːn/
ipa: /feɪn/
ipa: /fɝn/
ipa: /feɪn/
rhymes: -ɜːn
rhymes: -eɪn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
homophone: feign
homophone: fern
homophone: fane (archaic)
homophone: fain
Forms: form: foehns
form: foen
form: föhn
form: fohn
Etymology: Borrowed from German Föhn, from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin faōnius, an alteration of Latin favōnius (“west wind”), from Favōnius (“Roman wind god”).
Senses: examples: text: The foehn and the sun must have awakened the spirits of spring way up in the heights.
ref: 1971, WW Kibler, translating Gian Fontana, ‘The Mayor of Valdei’, in Bezzola (ed.), The Curly-Horned Cow, Peter Owen 1971, p. 71
text: The foehns of the northern Alps are world-renowned for the formation of thermal belts on the alp terraces above the deep, U-shaped, glaciated valleys. Here the foehn phenomenon was first identified and the German word for "fall" or "descent" applied to it.
ref: 1985, Paul E. Lydolph, The Climate of the Earth, Rowman & Littlefield, page 161:
glosses: A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
examples: text: The foehn, I learned, was first recorded in the Alps but is found all over the world. The Santa Anas contain the occasional foehn, nicknamed “murder winds” and immortalized in Joan Didion's 1965 essay “Los Angeles Notebook"
ref: 2011, Claire Dederer, Poser: A Mother's Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, Bloomsbury, page 261:
text: This is particularly noticeable in Foehn winds—warm winds that descend from mountainous areas down to areas of lower elevation.
Wind patterns considered Foehn include the dry southerly wind blowing through the Alps, Switzerland and across southern Germany. The Sharav or Hamsin winds blowing through the desert in the Middle East are also Foehn winds. The Sirocco winds that blow through Italy and the Mistral winds that blow through southern France are both considered Foehns.
ref: 2013, Case Adams Naturopath, Asthma Solved Naturally, Logical Books, page 111:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
Derived terms: foehnlike
Related terms: chinook
fine print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fineprint
Senses: examples: text: Before signing up for such an offer, be sure to read the fine print carefully.
text: One of the biggest problems many investors face is that it can be hard to figure out what's important in the fine print. Even pros who are experienced at reading the footnotes face this problem.
ref: 2003, Michelle Leder, Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Did I read the fine print? Of course not. Do I wish I would have? Well, maybe. Who knows, potentially the fine print would have touched on issues like refunds for rude, late or inconsiderate dates.
ref: 2011, Megan Carson, A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One", Revell, →ISBN:
synonyms: mouseprint
small print
glosses: The details, restrictions, terms, or conditions, especially of a contract, often printed in very small type.
second-level domain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-level domains
Senses: examples: Wiktionary.org is a second-level domain, part of the org top-level domain.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A domain that is immediately subordinate to a top-level domain (whose name appears after it, with a period separating the two).
focus group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focus groups
Etymology: Coined by psychologist and marketing expert Ernest Dichter.
Senses: glosses: A group of people, sampled from a larger population, interviewed in open session for market research or political analysis.
franker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frank + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frank: more frank
franker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frankers
Etymology: From frank + -er.
Senses: glosses: Somebody or something which franks.
filature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filatures
Senses: glosses: The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.
glosses: A spool or bobbin used for the above.
examples: text: Weavers, reelers, wadders and those working in the filature refused to move, and when forced, produced inferior quality goods or ran away at the earliest opportunity, partly because they were separated from their families […]
ref: 2011, Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History, page 55:
glosses: A place where silk is reeled onto spools.
burnout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/
Forms: form: burnouts
form: burn-out
Etymology: Deverbal from burn out.
Senses: examples: text: High on the list of proposals educators said they support to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey.
ref: 2023 May 31, Annette Choi, “Teachers are calling it quits amid rising school violence, burnout and stagnating salaries”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: flameout
glosses: The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
examples: text: Ten years of this soul-sucking job would turn any ambitious young person into a burnout.
glosses: A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
examples: text: There’s no way we can hire that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work.
text: Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not.
ref: 2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: flameout
glosses: The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
glosses: The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
Derived terms: boreout
magnesium lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A lamp, containing a coil of magnesium ribbon fed into a burner by clockwork, that produced an intense light.
magnesium light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a magnesium lamp
glosses: the intense light from such a lamp
magnesium ribbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnesium ribbons
Senses: glosses: A thin ribbon of magnesium metal used in laboratory demonstrations and in the magnesium lamp.
magnesium sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of magnesium sulfate.
Turan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Persian توران (tūrān), originally meaning "the Land of Tur".
Senses: examples: text: Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25:
glosses: A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians.
glosses: Any of the languages of these people.
glosses: A surname from Turkish.
Derived terms: Turan tiger
Turan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Classical Persian توران (tūrān), originally meaning "the Land of Tur".
Senses: glosses: A nomadic people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
magnesium wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnesium wires
Senses: glosses: A thin magnesium ribbon.
glosses: Wire made from an alloy of magnesium and other metals.
magnalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mæɡˈneɪ.li.əm/
Forms: form: magnaliums
Etymology: From magn(esium) + al(umin)ium.
Senses: examples: text: The hanging man's face was partly covered by a hinged mask of magnalium, connected to the oven by gutta-percha hoses.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 686:
glosses: An alloy of 75% aluminium with about 25% magnesium.
magnelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magnalium.
myalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪˈæld͡ʒɪk/
Etymology: From myalgia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to myalgia.
Derived terms: arthromyalgic
myalgic encephalomyelitis
cladistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /kləˈdɪstɪkəli/
Etymology: From cladistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Regarding or in terms of cladistics.
nephology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈfɒləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”) + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: His head's always in the clouds, so he must want to study nephology.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of meteorology that studies clouds.
Derived terms: nephological
nephologist
chaudron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaudrons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of chawdron.
Birkenhead drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named from HMS Birkenhead, which struck a rock and sank in 1852.
Senses: glosses: The concept or practice of taking women and children first in an evacuation or rescue.
magnox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of magnesium and aluminium used, with a non-oxidizing cover, as cladding for fuel rods in Magnox nuclear power stations.
Magnox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magnoxes
Etymology: Abbreviation of magnesium non-oxidising.
Senses: glosses: an early type of nuclear power station also used for the production of weapons-grade plutonium
weapons-grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
glosses: Of a purity suitable for the manufacture of weapons.
raw_tags: of a radioactive or other substance
examples: text: The idea that texts or facts speak for themselves —interpret me no interpretations—is weapons-grade stupidity.
ref: 2007, Tad Waddington, Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work, Agate Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Three or four women sat on their own, each with a thick layer of make-up and weapons-grade hairspray.
ref: 2013, Andy McNab, Silencer, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 111:
text: “Ryan is hot by the way, and by hot I am talking weapons-grade sex appeal. […]
ref: 2015, Sarah Morgan, First Time in Forever, HQN, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Extreme.
mag wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag wheels
Etymology: Clipping of magnesium wheel.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: mag
hypernyms: alloy wheel
glosses: A wheel for a motor vehicle, made from an alloy of magnesium, typically lighter and offering better heat conduction than steel wheels; often styled in a five-point star pattern; (sometimes also) a wheel made to look like such wheels but not truly of magnesium.
alumium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈm.i.əm/
ipa: /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈm.jəm/
ipa: /ˌæl.(j)uˈm.i.əm/
ipa: /ˌæl.(j)uˈm.jəm/
Etymology: From alum + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aluminium and aluminum (element).
aluminum foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminum foils
Senses: glosses: US standard form of aluminium foil.
alundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlʌn.dəm/
Etymology: Blend of alumina + corundum
Senses: glosses: alumina, especially an abrasive product made from fused alumina
dialuminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two aluminium atoms in a molecule.
Derived terms: dialuminium chloride
dialuminium dioxide
dialuminium hexabromide
dialuminium monosulfide
dialuminium monoxide
dialuminium selenide
dialuminium sulphate
dialuminium telluride
dialuminium tetraphosphate
hexamethyl dialuminium
dialuminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + aluminum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dialuminium.
duralumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duralumins
Etymology: From a trademark of Dürener Metallwerke. Düren is a city in Germany.
Senses: examples: text: Each Talgo unit for R.E.N.F.E. consists of five sections, the bodies of which are made of duralumin and are carried on two resilient wheels, running in roller bearings and situated under the rear end of each section.
ref: 1962 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Talgo trains of Spain”, in Modern Railways, page 177:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy of over 90% aluminium, 4% copper and traces of manganese, magnesium, iron and silicon, widely used in the aircraft industry.
Synonyms: dural
duralum
duralium
duraluminum
duraluminium
eka-aluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to gallium prior to its discovery; from the fact that it lies below aluminium in the periodic table.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: gallium
ekaaluminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + aluminum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eka-aluminium.
pulaski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pʊˈlæski/
Forms: form: pulaskis
Etymology: Named from Edward C. Pulaski (1866-1931), the American ranger who designed it.
Senses: glosses: A double-ended fire-fighting tool, usually long-handled, and having an ax-blade on one side and a mattock-blade on the other.
comast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comasts
form: komast
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κωμαστής (kōmastḗs, “reveler”), from κῶμος (kômos, “merrymaking”).
Senses: examples: 1996: Festivals of Dionysus were often characterized by ritual license and revelry, including reversal of social roles, cross-dressing by boys and men . . ., drunken comasts in the streets, as well as widespread boisterousness and obscenity. — The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, p. 481.
glosses: A reveler, usually drunken or riotous.
Synonyms: sense: a reveler
word: reveler
FCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Farm Credit Administration.
glosses: Initialism of Federal Court of Appeal.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of Financial Conduct Authority.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, an Italian&American automaker.
FCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FCAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fellow Chartered Accountant (“a senior member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka or certain other Commonwealth countries”).
glosses: Acronym of Free Carrier.
comasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comast
ekaboron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekabor
Etymology: From eka- + boron.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the predicted element (scandium) lying below boron in the periodic table
ekamanganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + manganese.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the predicted element (technetium) lying below manganese in the periodic table
ekasilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + silicon. The name was given by Dmitri Mendeleev.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: element
glosses: The predicted element lying below silicon in the periodic table — later named germanium.
wist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Etymology: Past indicative of wit: from Old English witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin videō (“I see”). Compare guide.
Senses: examples: text: a'''1796, Robert Burns, "Bonie Jean: A Ballad", in Poems and Songs, P.F. Collier & Son (1909–14), Bartleby.com (2001), http://www.bartleby.com/6/419.html,
And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!
text: Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire? Were wise who wist!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: simple past and past participle of wit.
wist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: wists
form: wisting
form: wisted
form: wisted
Etymology: A misunderstanding, or a joking use of the past indicative of wit; see Etymology 1.
Senses: qualifier: pseudo-archaic
glosses: To know, be aware of.
aluminum chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of aluminium chloride.
aluminum hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminum hydroxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of aluminium hydroxide.
lithium aluminum hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lithium aluminium hydride.
monoaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: one aluminium atom in a molecule
Derived terms: monoaluminium phosphate
monoaluminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + aluminum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of monoaluminium.
komast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komasts
form: comast
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κωμαστής (kōmastḗs, “reveller”), from κῶμος (kômos, “merrymaking”).
Senses: examples: text: The triple repetition of the god's name has a hymnic effect and so in form as well as function these lines are a modification of the standard appeal of the komast to a divinity for help.
ref: 1979, David West, Tony Woodman, Creative Imitation and Latin Literature, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, page 55:
text: In later versions of this theme on vases, a komast is occasionally found instead of the protosatyr here.
ref: 1994, Eric Csapo, Judith Barringer, The Context of Ancient Drama, University of Michigan Press, published 2005, page 96:
glosses: A drunken reveller, especially as depicted in Ancient Greek art.
cashpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashpoints
form: cash point
Etymology: A genericization of Cashpoint, originally a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank introduced in 1972, from cash + point.
Senses: examples: text: Gordon Brown today urged police across England and Wales to offer to walk the last mile home with people who feel unsafe after they visit the cashpoint.
ref: 2009 May 12, Alan Travis, “Gordon Brown urges police to walk people home from cashpoint”, in The Guardian:
topics: banking
business
glosses: An automated teller machine.
wikipedia: Lloyds Bank
Related terms: cash machine
chargepoint
algraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈælɡɹəfi/
Etymology: From aluminium + -graphy by analogy with lithography or zincography.
Senses: examples: text: "Process" is well to the fore, a design in colours from line blocks adorns the front cover, there are no less than seven examples of trichromotypography, various samples of half-tone with additional workings, three fine specimens of photogravure, a multi-colour subject, a collotype, a chromolithograph, examples respectively of algraphy, "granotype," Sprague's ink photo process, some twelve specimens of Johnstonia steel engraving and Johnston die press work, a very practical series of Linotype work—newspaper setting, book, magazine and jobbing work—an exeedingly interesting set, one or two type displays of little note, and some O.S. type specimens.
ref: 1901, The British Printer, volume 14, page 193:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
Derived terms: algraphic
perioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perioscopes
Etymology: From perio- + -scope.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of endoscope used to explore and visualize the periodontal pocket, producing an image of a diseased tooth's root.
Related terms: perioscopy
broadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːd.li/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔd.li/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑd.li/
ipa: /ˈbɹoːd.li/
Forms: form: more broadly
form: most broadly
Etymology: From broad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen he caught sight of her running towards him like that, he smiled broadly.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 16:
glosses: Widely and openly.
examples: text: All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
text: While companies are bravely talking about their efforts to redress the gender pay gap (large employers will be compelled to report details of how they pay their male and female staff in April), we know that women are, on average, much worse paid than men throughout the City. Broadly, power remains in men’s hands.
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
text: That’s broadly consistent with the Real Clear Politics average of all general election matchups between the two; RCP shows Biden with an average of a 6-point lead over Sanders.
ref: 2020 April 8, Chris Cillizza, “Why Joe Biden starts as the general election front-runner”, in CNN:
glosses: Broadly speaking; in a wide manner; liberally; in a loose sense.
patternmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patternmakers
Etymology: From pattern + maker.
Senses: examples: text: One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: Someone whose occupation is to make patterns, which are used as a guide in the manufacture of something else.
A tradesperson who makes wooden patterns from which sand molds for sand casting are made.
hypernyms: maker#Noun
;
tradesman#Noun
tradesperson#Noun
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worker#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: diemaker#Noun
toolmaker#Noun
mouldmaker#Noun
modelmaker#Noun
glosses: Someone whose occupation is to make patterns, which are used as a guide in the manufacture of something else.
Someone who makes other kinds of patterns, such dress patterns.
hypernyms: maker#Noun
<
worker#Noun
<
person#Noun
Related terms: patternmaking
solved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a solution, having been explained or answered.
solved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solve
isles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isle
tabulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tabulate
tabulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tabulated
form: most tabulated
Senses: glosses: Having been counted or summed.
glosses: Formatted as a table.
glosses: Flattened.
automated teller machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtəmeɪtɪd ˈtɛlə(ɹ)məˈʃiːn/
Forms: form: automated teller machines
Senses: topics: banking
business
synonyms: ATM
ABM
autobank
automatic teller machine
autoteller
bank machine
cash machine
cashpoint
cash dispenser
hole-in-the-wall>>
money machine
bankomat
hypernyms: device
machine
glosses: A device that provides bank customers with cash withdrawal and other services without the need for a human teller.
bank machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank machines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
automatic teller machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatic teller machines
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
autoteller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotellers
Etymology: From auto- + teller.
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
blepharospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblɛfəɹəʊˌspæzəm/
Forms: form: blepharospasms
Etymology: From blepharo- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physiological condition characterized by recurring involuntary twitches or closing of the eyelids.
blepharospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharospasm
look forward to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks forward to
form: looking forward to
form: looked forward to
form: looked forward to
Senses: examples: text: He was not looking forward to having to repair the downed power lines after the wind storm.
text: 1794 November 19, George Washington, speech, George Washington's Sixth State of the Union Address,
When we call to mind the gracious indulgence of Heaven by which the American people became a nation; when we survey the general prosperity of our country, and look forward to the riches, power, and happiness to which it seems destined, with the deepest regret do I announce to you that during your recess some of the citizens of the United States have been found capable of insurrection.
text: I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 106:
text: Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.
ref: 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act III]:
text: To such verification, however, we may look forward with reasonable confidence, for Einstein has deduced from the principle of relativity, together with the electromagnetic theory, a number of striking consequences which are remarkably self-consistent.
ref: 1909 May 18, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Richard Chace Tolman, “The Principle of Relativity, and Non-Newtonian Mechanics”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 44: 709-726:
text: 1961 January 17, Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, Eisenhower's farewell address,
Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.
text: I look forward to seeing 3417 running under its own power on the main line, and carrying passengers too. That needs central door locking, which will be no mean feat on a 4-VEP with 60 passenger doors.
ref: 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:
glosses: To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
Related terms: alt: Interjection
word: roll on
deipnosophist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪpˈnɒsəfɪst/
Forms: form: deipnosophists
form: dipnosophist
Etymology: From the 3rd-century Ancient Greek Δειπνοσοφισταί (Deipnosophistaí) by Athenaeus, derived from δειπνο- (deipno-, “deipno-, dinner-”) + σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “one knowledgeable in the arts of ~”). Sometimes misunderstood owing to confusion with pejorative senses of sophist.
Senses: glosses: A master of the art of dining, particularly learned conversation in the manner of Athenaeus's characters.
Hypernyms: diner
conversationalist
Derived terms: deipnosophistry
Related terms: deipnosophy
Hauses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haus
wuz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəz/
homophone: was (unstressed)
Senses: examples: text: She wuz robbed!
text: ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 64:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of was.