cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cerata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceras
Derived terms: ceratal
cerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerates
Etymology: From Middle English cerate, cerote, from Latin cērātum, from cēra (“wax”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unctuous preparation for external application — mainly wax (or resin or spermaceti) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients — of a consistency between ointment and plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion CeO₃²⁻ of cerium.
certi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more certi
form: most certi
form: certy
Etymology: Clipping of certified.
Senses: examples: text: These shoes were acc certi back in the day I can't lie
ref: 2019 June 18, @_Danyehh, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
text: Bside certi but m17 are acc falling apart and they deffo been losing the beef. z2 arent as certi as bside but are deffo more oj then^([sic]) m17
ref: 2020 April 26, “why do b side and zone 2 beef?”, in Reddit, r/ukdrill, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
text: finally finished watching Yuu Yuu Hakusho it's an absolute masterpiece I highly recommend the anime to anyone it's so certi definitely in my top 10 favourite animes
ref: 2021 August 28, @Keion_____, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
text: That's for Deborazy and all the kids who aren't certy. As for the rest of the Vern he's tripping till he on range with the dawgs
ref: 2023 September 16, u/Constant-Pop-4230, “100 OTD speaks says alot^([sic]) of fake claimers ridin a wave”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
glosses: Fashionable, cool.
chete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛ.ti/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: chetes
form: shetty
form: chet
form: chetter
Etymology: Clipping of machete
Senses: examples: text: Loo, known to go skits, skits
Big long chete, tryna fling it at melons
If I stab kids, kids
Then who the fuck did it on Teron
ref: 2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze, “Anti”, 2:50–57:
text: Niggas like talk like they getting this chetter
Get caught, getting bust, do better!
ref: 2021 September 13, Kage X Spooks X NoToss X Tragic, “The Race”, 1:10–1:13:
text: I was 15 with the longest shetty
Back then I was called youngest shetty
Back then your favourite rapper on telly
Was at home just watchin telly
ref: 2022 January 8, “Moroccan Tea” (0:18 from the start), 8 OLANNA (lyrics):
synonyms: jook
jooker
ching
ying
rambo
poker
pokey
bassy
shank
nank
splash
splasher
cheffer
cutter
glosses: knife, especially one used as a weapon.
swing the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings the lead
form: swinging the lead
form: swung the lead
form: swung the lead
Senses: examples: text: Though he was by no means inclined to help carry a gas-cylinder on a pole, while watching the working party fall in on the road that night, Bourne felt rather out of it; he felt as though he were swinging the lead.
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 93:
text: I said, ‘Well, how d'you like having to do some work for a change, instead of swinging the lead at Fort Hommet?’
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 129:
glosses: To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger.
Related terms: dodge the column
nonexistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexistences
form: non-existence
Etymology: From non- + existence.
Senses: examples: The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock.
glosses: The state of not existing.
Synonyms: inexistence
presumably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/
ipa: /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/
ipa: /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/
ipa: /pɹɪˈʒuːməbli/
Forms: form: more presumably
form: most presumably
form: præsumably
Etymology: From presume + -ably, presumable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Presumably, he will attend the opening.
text: Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
text: Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: presumptively
presumedly
glosses: Able to be sensibly presumed.
Related terms: presumedly
presumingly
sympathising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sympathise
sympathising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathisings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sympathizing.
sympathizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sympathize
sympathizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathizings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who sympathizes; the offering of sympathy.
goller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gollers
form: gollering
form: gollered
form: gollered
Senses: examples: text: If all this were studied and practised, there would be fewer Preachers, and shorter Preachings, and fewer and shorter Prayers amongst Professors; they would not sleep and wake People, gasping and gollering, and few understanding what they are saying, […]
ref: 1837, Patrick Walker, Biographia Presbyteriana, volume 2, page 33:
glosses: To gurgle.
framer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪmɚ/
Forms: form: framers
Etymology: From frame + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes frames for paintings.
glosses: A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
glosses: A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
glosses: A person who writes a new law.
examples: text: the Framers of the Constitution
text: In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.
ref: 2025 February 7, David Smith, quoting Lawrence R. Jacobs, “‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who writes a new law.
Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
glosses: A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
examples: text: The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.
ref: 2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116:
glosses: A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
Coordinate terms: framee
frame-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frame-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from frame up.
Senses: examples: text: Then he burst into a stream of horrible profanity. "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of frameup.
frameup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frameups
form: frame-up
Etymology: Deverbal from frame up.
Senses: examples: text: "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what? You've chose the wrong man for a try-on of that sort."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: In the provincial communications machinery repair factory, the cadres, workers and veteran models who had once been persecuted and falsely charged began to play an active role in production after the cadre policy was carried out.[…]In Hsinping County as many as 22,000 people were involved in these political frameups. Among these people there were leading cadres at the county, commune and brigade levels, ordinary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants. Some were disabled or even beaten to death.
ref: 1978 August 4 [1978 July 23], “Yunnan Reverses Verditcs on Large Number of Unjust Cases, Rehabilitates Many Cadres Persecuted and Falsely Charged by the 'Gang of four'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 151, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page E 10:
synonyms: setup
hypernyms: put-up
put-up job
glosses: A false incrimination of an innocent person; a scheme to frame an innocent person for a crime.
incrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incriminations
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin incriminatus ( + -ion), from incrimino, from Latin crimino. Equivalent to incriminate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of incriminating someone.
Derived terms: self-incrimination
Related terms: crimination
incriminate
accusation
fraternizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraternizers
Etymology: From fraternize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who fraternizes.
freakout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freakouts
form: freak-out
Etymology: From freak + out, as a deverbal from freak out.
Senses: glosses: A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
glosses: An occurrence of unrestrained or irrational behaviour.
freebase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freebases
form: free base
Etymology: From free + base.
Senses: examples: text: The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes.
ref: 1987, Richard Seymour, David Elvin Smith, The Physician's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, page 75:
text: On June 9, 1980, national attention was brought to cocaine freebasing when comedian Richard Pryor suffered third degree burns allegedly while using a butane torch to heat cocaine freebase he had prepared with ether.
ref: 2002, Edith Fairman Cooper, The Emergence of Crack Cocaine Abuse, page 18:
text: 2007, Jared Ledgard, A Laboratory History of Narcotics, Volume 1: Amphetamines and Derivatives, page 108,
Note: this freebase methedrine will actually be a mixture of the DL and L-forms, from which the L-form is the most common used in the preparation of methamphetamine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.
examples: text: That day, I gave a class on making and using freebase. This was one thing that was to be done perfectly, or you could end up with glass and freebase all over you.
ref: 2011, Manuel Suarez, To Be Or Not to Be a Real Cop, page 72:
glosses: The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.
freebase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freebases
form: freebasing
form: freebased
form: freebased
form: free base
Etymology: From free + base.
Senses: glosses: To purify a drug by crystallization.
examples: text: Richard, one of my friends in L.A., claimed to have invented freebasing— smoking cocaine in its base form—though it's likely that what he meant was that he introduced a whole bunch of people to the process.
ref: 2009, Mackenzie Phillips, High On Arrival, page 82:
text: With his nostrils ravaged, Crosby turned to drinking Cocaine mixed in glasses of wine, then took to smoking it by the novel technique of freebasing, where the drug is distilled down to its purest form through a process of filtration using ammonia and ether.
ref: 2010, George Case, Out of Our Heads: Rock 'n' Roll Before the Drugs Wore Off, page 169:
text: Roger Ebert pretty much agrees with Siskel's dismissive attitude toward the film, saying he only watched it because it was about freebasing cocaine and he wanted to see that, since he had heard so much about it.
ref: 2013, John Markert, Hooked in Film: Substance Abuse on the Big Screen, page 159:
glosses: To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.
Derived terms: basehead
freebaser
Related terms: crack cocaine
based
freeborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiːˈbɔːn/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌbɔ(ə)n/
Etymology: From free + born.
Senses: glosses: Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave
free-form
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹi.foɹm/
Forms: form: more free-form
form: most free-form
form: freeform
form: free form
Etymology: free + form
Senses: examples: text: This annual March gathering of the digital elite, held at a resort near Tucson, is a combination of a three-day free-form think tank and schmooze-athon where the latest trends are dissected and, in the corridors or on the golf course, deals are hatched.
ref: 1996 April 15, Amy Cortese, Amy Barrett, Paul Eng, and Linda Himelstein, “The Online World of Steve Case”, in BusinessWeek:
glosses: Having an unconventional, variable or asymmetric form.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Referring to a roleplaying game which does not use a formal system of rules.
free-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹi.foɹm/
Forms: form: free-forms
form: freeform
form: free form
Etymology: free + form
Senses: examples: text: The background shapes are also called 'negative' shapes and are found between the positive shapes – in this case, the rectangles, triangles, circles and freeforms.
ref: 2014, Laura Reiter, Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art:
glosses: A free-form shape or artwork.
venene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venenes
Etymology: From Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venin and venom.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of venom.
synonyms: word: venom
Derived terms: antivenene
venene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venin and venom.
Senses: examples: text: […] As first, if the Humor is malign, venene, or pestilential, wherein if Nature protudes the Morbick-matter outwards, we ought not to drive it back again to the internal parts; […]
ref: 1699, William Salmon, Ars chirurgica, page 506:
text: a most salubrious Remedy, which Effects it demonstrates by powerfully provoking Sweat in all pestilential and venene, or malign Disaffections.
ref: 1720, George Bate, Pharmacopœia Bateana: or, Bate's dispensatory […] , page 339:
text: […] and imparting aliture [nourishment] to myriads of venene and umbelliferous […] plants.
ref: 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 53:
glosses: Venenose, venenous, venomous, poisonous.
Portia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.ʃə/
homophone: Porsche stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃə
Etymology: From Latin Porcia, a feminine form of the gens name Porcius (the gens of the Cato the Elder and his famous descendants), from porcus (“pig”). The moon is named for the character in The Merchant of Venice.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The seventh satellite of the planet Uranus.
ypsilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ypsilons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upsilon.
wall clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock mounted on a wall.
examples: text: In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.
ref: 1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, →ISBN, pages 19–20:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.
Derived terms: wall-clock time
convertite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convertites
Etymology: Compare Italian convertito, past participle of convertire (“to convert”).
Senses: glosses: A reformed or former prostitute.
examples: text: He thence departs a heavy convertite; / She remains a hopeless castaway
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 743-744:
text: Bar. Oh earth-mettall'd villaines, and no Hebrews born!
And will you basely thus submit your selves
To leave your goods to their arbitrament?
Gov. Why Barabas wilt thou be christned?
Bar. No, Governour, I will be no convertite.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Up then arose that grim convertite,
Homeward he hied him when ended the rite
ref: 1817, [Walter Scott], “(please specify the page)”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A convert.
cornute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈnjuːt/
Forms: form: cornutes
form: cornuting
form: cornuted
form: cornuted
Senses: examples: text: ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!’
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357:
glosses: To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
cornute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈnjuːt/
Senses: glosses: Bearing horns or shaped like a horn; cornuted.
Derived terms: tricornute
cornute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈnjuːt/
Forms: form: cornutes
Senses: examples: text: Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover plates do not open widely.
ref: 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:
glosses: A member of the order Cornuta.
antecede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antecedes
form: anteceding
form: anteceded
form: anteceded
Senses: glosses: To go before; to precede.
glosses: To predate or antedate.
Synonyms: sense: go before
word: forego
word: precede
silver plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silver plate
silver plates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silver plate
silver plating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of silver plate
lochia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒ.kɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ki.ə/
enpr: lō'kē-ə
enpr: lŏk'ē-ə
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).
Senses: examples: text: In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]
ref: 1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:
text: Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.
ref: 1866, Fleetwood Churchill, On the theory and practice of midwifery:
text: In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]
ref: 1884, William Smoult Playfair, A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, volume II (fifth edition), part III, chapter IX:
text: 1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …
text: 1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...
text: 1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …
text: 1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.
text: For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]
ref: 1998, Giovanni Maciocia, Obstetrics & Gynecology in Chinese Medicine, page 609:
glosses: Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.
Related terms: lochia alba
lochial
lochia rubra
lochia serosa
lochiorrhea
lochiorrhoea
lochioschesis
lochiostasis
curiosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjʊə.ɹɪˈəʊ.sə/
ipa: /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈoʊ.sə/
rhymes: -əʊsə
Etymology: Late 19th century: from Latin, neuter plural of curiosus (see curious).
Senses: glosses: Curiosities, especially erotic or pornographic books or articles.
misset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missets
form: missetting
form: misset
form: misset
form: mis-set
Etymology: From mis- + set.
Senses: glosses: To set, adjust or calibrate incorrectly.
glosses: To place in the wrong location.
misset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mis-set
Etymology: From mis- + set.
Senses: glosses: Incorrectly set.
glosses: In a bad temper; out of sorts.
dosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dose
dosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosings
Senses: glosses: The administration of a dose
Derived terms: interdosing
postdosing
redosing
decuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/
ipa: /dɛˈkjʊp(ə)l/
Etymology: From Middle English decuple, from Middle French décuple, from Late Latin decuplus (“tenfold”), from Latin decem (“ten”), and plicō (“fold”).
Senses: glosses: Tenfold.
Derived terms: decuply
subdecuple
Related terms: decemplex
dectuple
undecuple
duodecuple
tredecuple
quattuordecuple
decuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/
ipa: /dɛˈkjʊp(ə)l/
Forms: form: decuples
Etymology: From Middle English decuple, from Middle French décuple, from Late Latin decuplus (“tenfold”), from Latin decem (“ten”), and plicō (“fold”).
Senses: examples: text: The gold coin of the law of 1818 is of four denominations; the decuple of 30 ducats, the half-decuple, ...
ref: 1842, Jacob Reese Eckfeldt with William Ewing Du Bois, A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within ..., page 89:
glosses: An amount multiplied by ten.
Cassie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæsi/
Etymology: From Cass + -ie. A diminutive of Cassandra or Cassidy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Cassie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæsi/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Cassie-Baxter equation
Cassie-Baxter state
Cassie equation
Cassie's law
heuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hjʊəˈɹɛ.tɪk/
Forms: form: heuretics
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to discovery or invention
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of logic concerned with discovery or invention
Related terms: eureka
heuristic
delicata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delicatas
Etymology: So named because of its delicate skin that does not need to be peeled before cooking and can be eaten.
Senses: examples: text: But once you've tasted the sweet flesh of a delicata or slipped the strands of a spaghetti squash out of its shell, you'll never again regard winter squash as merely an agricultural art piece.
ref: 1992 October 24, Nanette Blanchard, “Autumn's Glory”, in Vegetarian Times, page 67:
text: You will need one medium butternut or two or three delicatas.
ref: 2004, Jack Bishop, Richard G. Jung, “Winter Squash Risotto with Sage and Parmesan”, in A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, →ISBN, page 354:
text: The best winter squashes (delicata, for example) have edible skins and are amazing just chunked and roasted with a little oil[…].
ref: 2009 January 17, Mark Bittman, “Stale spices, canned beans are no-nos for new year”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes
detector van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detector vans
Senses: glosses: A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver
Synonyms: television detector van
TV detector van
cuckoo clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoo clocks
Senses: examples: text: In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance… In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?… The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly.
ref: 1949, Graham Greene, The Third Man, spoken by Harry Lime (Orson Welles):
glosses: A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
dolorose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏʹlərōs
ipa: /ˈdɒləɹəʊs/
Forms: form: more dolorose
form: most dolorose
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dolōrōsus (“painful, sorrowful”); compare doloroso and dolorous.
Senses: examples: text: Herre followythe a lamyntabill tragedye, ful of concytete myrthe, yclepede, a Mirroure fore magystrattis, baylyes, councylloures, and crafftessmenne: Conteynynge the ryghte dolorose, tragycalle, and deinge speeches offe somme herretoeforre famose rueleres; as alsoe, shoeinge yow cawyse of grette myrthe, howe dystresse makythe the dummbe speke wythe a wyse tonge, moche semblable untoe Balaame his asse; whyche nottede personne was the patryarche ande anncystorre offe more rueleres, magystrattis, ande the lykke, than onneste menne will thynke. Impryntede atte the costes ande chargys offe mi moste woorthye patronne, his worchyppe Aldyrmanne Thornne.
ref: Middle English?: Alexander Jamieson (?), Herre followythe a lamyntabill tragedye, ful of concytete myrthe, yclepede, a Mirroure fore magystrattis, baylyes, councylloures, and crafftessmenne, main title (1819 republication)
text: I hope he’s not quite so dolorose to-day as he was a month ago.
ref: 1833, Alexander John Ellis, editor, The Kaleidoscope; A Periodical Conducted by Eton Boys, page 192:
text: The comedy of “Minna von Barnhelm,” completed about 1761, is the most celebrated of that era. It is a most spirited and impressive production, no less characteristic than national, and at its first appearance on the German stage, was reckoned, upon the whole, a perfect phenomenon. By its dolorose scenes, which excel the comic ones, it ought, perhaps, rather to be classed with the tragic drama than with comedy.
ref: 1844, Franz J. L. Thimm, edited by William Henry Farn, The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed, pages 37–38:
glosses: Grievous and sorrowful.
neva
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular; Yankee dialect; African-American Vernacular; Yankee dialect
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of never.
spalting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaltings
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Any coloration of wood, either living or dead, by fungi, which is considered visually or texturally appealing. Biochemical responses by the tree are not included within the scope of spalting.
Related terms: spalted
hegemonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hegemonists
Etymology: From hegemony + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person, organisation or country that practices hegemony.
Derived terms: antihegemonist
hegemonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈmɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /hɛɡ.ɪˈmɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈmɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɛɡ.ɪˈmɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /hed͡ʒ.ɪˈmɔn.ɪk/
ipa: /heɡ.ɪˈmɔn.ɪk/
Forms: form: more hegemonic
form: most hegemonic
Etymology: From hegemony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hegemony.
Derived terms: antihegemonic
counterhegemonic
hegemonically
hegemonic masculinity
nonhegemonic
posthegemonic
unhegemonic
abrogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrogation
abstentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstention
catch-phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-phrases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catchphrase.
catch phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch phrases
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I informed Julie for the fiftieth time. The words always coming out during a subway rush or after a slight shove from an^([sic]) scurrying pedestrian. […] “I mean, damn, I just don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I repeat in disbelief. It was my catch phrase for the entire trip.
ref: 2008, lb briggs, “In”, in It’s Alright: A Truckface Anthology, volume 2, Tacoma, Wash.: Mend My Dress Press, published 2013, →ISBN, issue 12, page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of catchphrase
catch phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch phrase
catch-phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-phrase
debris field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debris fields
Senses: glosses: Any area, non-dependent of locale, space, or contour, that contains the debris of wreckage, impact, sinking, or other material that once constituted a complete object. Debris fields can be found at the site of air crashes, water vessel sinking, explosions of buildings, collapses, and other events that render a whole entity into components, pieces, or other non-whole items.
give or take
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: First use appears c. 1958. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: He was six feet tall, give or take.
text: Estimate Lakenheath twelve thirty hours. Give or take a few minutes, natch.
ref: 1958, Peter Bryant, Red Alert:
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.
examples: text: six months, give or take a few days
text: Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Approximately; within a certain margin of error.
Related terms: give and take
ropeloft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropelofts
Etymology: From rope + loft.
Senses: glosses: A building for storing and repairing of nets, ropes, and ships' rigging.
saddening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sadden
saddening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saddening
form: most saddening
Senses: synonyms: word: depressing
word: heartbreaking
word: upsetting
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Causing feelings of sadness.
Derived terms: saddeningly
saddening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddenings
Senses: glosses: The darkening of a colour during dyeing.
professional class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professional classes
Senses: synonyms: upper middle class
glosses: A social and economic demographic, commonly identified as part of the upper middle class.
glosses: The groups in society composed of highly educated professionals.
Related terms: middle class
CalTech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caltech.
crutches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crutch
woops
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of whoops.
pyrolizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrolizers
Etymology: From pyrolize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrolyser.
tophaikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tophaike
equines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equine
equids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equid
dosings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dosing
dosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dose
Derived terms: undosed
data flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data flow
dataflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dataflows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of data flow.
dataflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataflow
prevaricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevaricate
prevaricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevaricate
newsstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsstand
end-of-life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end of life
Senses: examples: text: That operating system version is approaching end-of-life.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Termination of the sale of or support for goods and services.
examples: text: end-of-life palliative care
text: This is but one example of the hard decisions that must be made near end of life.
text: Hospice provides end-of-life care for a period usually lasting a few days or a few weeks; occasionally patients recover unexpectedly.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The time near death; (attributively) concerning medical care options for patients who are considered critically ill with prognosis of approaching death.
Related terms: system pull
end-of-life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: end-of-lifes
form: end-of-lifing
form: end-of-lifed
form: end-of-lifed
form: end of life
Senses: glosses: To terminate the sale of or support for (a product or service).
incomplete sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incomplete sentences
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of words that appear to convey only part of a complete thought, lacking some component which is grammatically necessary to complete the thought.
incomplete sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incomplete sentence
installed base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: installed bases
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The number of units of a system or product that are currently in use.
frolicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frolickers
Etymology: From frolic + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who frolics; a reveler.
frolickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frolicker
shack up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shacks up
form: shacking up
form: shacked up
form: shacked up
Senses: examples: text: The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173:
text: So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up
ref: 1980, “Shack Up”, performed by A Certain Ratio:
text: The other rumor flying around thicker 'n flies on a three-day-old carcass is that new redheaded cook, Rory, is shacked up with you.
ref: 2011, Pamela Toth, The Mail-Order Mix-Up:
glosses: To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
Related terms: cohabit
elope
POSSLQ
hard-pressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-pressed
form: most hard-pressed
form: hard pressed
form: hardpressed
Senses: examples: text: Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice.
text: From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
text: These units will replace the 2,800 h.p. motor coaches on the fast and heavy Zurich-Berne-Lausanne-Geneva push-and-pull expresses, which in their turn have been relieving the hard-pressed 2,520 h.p. Bo-Bo locomotives of the Re 4/4 type.
ref: 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 417:
glosses: Barely able. Having difficulty doing something.
raw_tags: with to-infinitive
examples: text: The earthquake left the residents hard-pressed.
text: Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.
ref: 2022 April 6, “Network News: Spring Statement: Sunak accused of making rail less competitive”, in RAIL, number 954, page 8:
glosses: Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving.
Synonyms: sense: barely able
word: hard put
sense: barely able
word: hard pushed
sense: in financial or survival difficulty
word: in dire straits
wastebasket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastebaskets
Etymology: From waste + basket.
Senses: glosses: A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
examples: text: The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
ref: 2017, Russell Tuttle, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 122:
text: For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]
ref: 2008, Harald Burger, Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij, Peter Kühn, Phraseologie / Phraseology, volume 2, page 819:
glosses: Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
Derived terms: wastebasket taxon
wastebasket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wastebaskets
form: wastebasketing
form: wastebasketed
form: wastebasketed
Etymology: From waste + basket.
Senses: examples: text: I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
ref: 1924, Mark Twain, Autobiography:
glosses: To discard in a wastebasket.
Related terms: wastepaper basket
wastebaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastebasket
emerse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emerses
form: emersing
form: emersed
form: emersed
Senses: examples: text: Nothing further is required but to emerse the bottle in hot water for a few moments, take out the stopper and put on the nipple.
ref: 1893, Eugene F. Starke, Wilson A. Smith, Wesley A. Dunn, The Medical Current (volume 9, page 458)
glosses: Obsolete form of immerse.
Related terms: emersed
crustaceology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌsˌteɪʃiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From crustacea + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
Hyponyms: carcinology
Derived terms: crustaceological
crustaceologist
deadpanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadpan
bobblehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobbleheads
form: bobble head
Etymology: From bobble + head. Sense 3 derives from a common gesture found in South Asian cultures, most notably in India.
Senses: glosses: A collectible doll with a bobbing head.
examples: text: Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:
text: Will Trump and his G.O.P. bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.
ref: 2025 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A thoughtless person.
glosses: An Indian.
Derived terms: bobble-head doll syndrome
bobbleheaded
nabk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnæb(ə)k/
Forms: form: nabks
form: nabak
form: nabq
form: nubk
form: nebeck
form: nebbuk
form: nebak
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic نَبْق (nabq).
Senses: examples: text: Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]
ref: 1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61:
glosses: Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
glosses: The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.
gloriosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloriosas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the lilies of the genus Gloriosa.
Derived terms: gloriosa daisy
grasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasses
Senses: examples: text: Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
ref: 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
glosses: Obsolete form of grass.
freehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From free + hand.
Senses: glosses: Drawn using the hand without any helping device.
freehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From free + hand.
Senses: examples: text: The grafts were cut freehand with a large knife, which made it difficult to standardize the thickness, in spite of instruments created especially for the purpose.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 149:
glosses: Using the hand without any helping device.
freehand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freehands
form: freehanding
form: freehanded
form: freehanded
Etymology: From free + hand.
Senses: glosses: To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide.
freeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeholders
Etymology: From Middle English free holder, freholdere, equivalent to freehold + -er. Compare Old Northern French fraunc tenaunt.
Senses: glosses: A person who holds tenure by freehold
Derived terms: freeholdership
free-living
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an organism: living independently of other organisms rather than as part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship, either as a life stage (for example, in some parasites) or for the organism's entire lifespan.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, living.
freeload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːloʊd/
Forms: form: freeloads
form: freeloading
form: freeloaded
form: freeloaded
Etymology: Back-formation from freeloader.
Senses: glosses: To exploit the generosity of others without giving anything in return.
Derived terms: contrafreeload
contrafreeloader
contrafreeloading
freeloading
Related terms: free
freeloader
load
deadbeat
feed on
free ride
ignote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈnəʊt/
Forms: form: more ignote
form: most ignote
Etymology: From Latin ignotus; prefix in- (“not”) + gnotus, notus (“known”), past participle of gnocere, nocere (“to learn, to know”).
Senses: examples: text: a. 1697, John Aubrey, letter
I am an ignote fellow and but of little learning.
text: A traveller passing through the confines of ignote countries.
ref: 1634, Miles Sandys, Essays:
glosses: unknown
ignote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈnəʊt/
Forms: form: ignotes
Etymology: From Latin ignotus; prefix in- (“not”) + gnotus, notus (“known”), past participle of gnocere, nocere (“to learn, to know”).
Senses: examples: text: More light is opened to this in a Letter that an Ignote Wrote to K. Jumes
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
glosses: One who is unknown.