cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
retooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/
Forms: form: retoolings
Etymology: From retool + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the Physiocrats' emphasis on breaking the shackles under which the economy was labouring appealed to the duke, whose retooling of the state presupposed a reinvigoration of the economy which would allow the government to go to war without bringing the country to penury.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 258:
glosses: The fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something.
retooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retool
Scyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scyths
Etymology: From Latin Scytha, from Ancient Greek Σκύθης (Skúthēs). Doublet of Saca, Saka, and Shaka.
Senses: glosses: A Scythian.
rhubarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhubarb.
rhubarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhubarb
ducted fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducted fans
Senses: glosses: A propeller which is housed inside a duct to improve engine performance of aircraft.
Related terms: turbofan
retrospectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrospective
retreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retread
retreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retread
retreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retread
retreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retread
retrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrench
collarino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collarinos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colarino.
propfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propfans
Etymology: From prop + fan.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A modified turbofan jet engine with the propeller outside the engine duct of an aircraft.
Synonyms: UDF
UHB
unducted fan
Hypernyms: jet engine
Coordinate terms: fanjet
propjet
turbofan
turbojet
turboprop
unducted fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unducted fans
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A modified turbofan jet engine with the fan disc outside the engine duct of an aircraft.
Synonyms: open fan
open rotor
propfan
UDF
UHB
Hypernyms: jet engine
Coordinate terms: fanjet
turbofan
turbojet
turboprop
Derived terms: UDF
unducted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ducted.
Senses: glosses: Not inside a duct.
Derived terms: unducted fan
sing from the same hymnal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings from the same hymnal
form: singing from the same hymnal
form: sang from the same hymnal
form: sung from the same hymnal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sing from the same hymnbook.
mézair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪˈzɛː/
Forms: form: mézairs
form: mezair
Etymology: From French mezzair, later mézair, from Italian mezz'aria, from mezzo (“middle”) + aria (“air”) (because it was originally a movement at height halfway between terre-à-terre and curvet).
Senses: examples: text: With a mezair and a cut to the left and a pair of caprioles, Zelikman danced the horse through the tangle of men.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 28:
qualifier: horse riding
glosses: In manège, a movement comprising a series of levades with small steps between.
mezair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mézair.
rebirths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebirth
sharab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrab
Etymology: From Persian شراب (šarâb, “wine”), from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “wine, beverage”), from شَرَبَ (šaraba, “to drink”).
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, the black giant had begun his own survey of the campground, where three nights earlier Hanukkah and his fellows had shared a roast goat and a looted cask of sharab […]
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 49:
glosses: Wine, or other alcoholic drinks.
flamenco guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamenco guitars
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of acoustic guitar with reduced internal bracing and thinner tops. It is used mainly in the performance of toques, the guitar part of flamenco music.
library hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it was taught in library-science schools for use on catalogue cards.
Senses: glosses: A particular handwriting style.
preferred creditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferred creditors
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A creditor who will have, in the event of the debtor's bankruptcy, greater rights of collecting than other creditors.
cucumber fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumber fishes
form: cucumber fish
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.
glosses: Any Australian grayling (Prototroctes maraena).
glosses: Any New Zealand smelt (Retropinna retropinna).
glosses: Any bivalve pearlfish (Onuxodon margaritiferae).
housemaid's knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housemaid's knees
Etymology: So called because it used to be prevalent among housemaids, who spent time kneeling on floors to clean them.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: prepatellar bursitis
glosses: swelling of the bursa before the kneecap.
stock certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock certificates
Senses: glosses: A paper certifying its bearer's ownership of shares (in a certain quantity) in a corporation.
center of curvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of curvature
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of centre of curvature.
Empire State Building
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Empire State + building
Senses: glosses: A skyscraper in New York City, the tallest in the world from 1931–72.
graft-versus-host
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of graft-versus-host disease.
Empire State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Empire State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for New York: a state of the United States.
examples: text: My friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State.
ref: 2011, Fun, We Are Young:
glosses: Ellipsis of Empire State Building.
Synonyms: New York
New York State
State of New York
Derived terms: word: Empire State Building
word: Empire State of the South
english: Missouri
translation: Missouri
word: Empire State of the West
rBST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bovine growth hormone produced using recombinant DNA.
Synonyms: rBGH
rBGH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of recombinant bovine growth hormone.
Senses: glosses: Bovine growth hormone produced using recombinant DNA.
Synonyms: rBST
Hypernyms: GH
growth hormone
somatotropin
Related terms: alt: BGH/bGH
word: bovine growth hormone
word: rhGH
neutropenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having neutropenia
Derived terms: nonneutropenic
neutropenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutropenics
Senses: glosses: A person who has neutropenia
neutropenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutropenias
Etymology: Blend of neutrophil + -penia
Senses: glosses: A hematological disorder characterized by an abnormally low neutrophil count.
Coordinate terms: pseudoneutropenia
Derived terms: leukoneutropenia
leukopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leukopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having leukopenia.
glosses: Characterized by, or concerning, leukopenia.
Derived terms: nonleukopenic
panleukopenic
lymphopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lymphopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having lymphopenia.
glosses: Characterized by, or concerning, lymphopenia.
Derived terms: nonlymphopenic
seventysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: seventy-something
Etymology: From seventy + -something.
Senses: coordinate_terms: twentysomething
thirtysomething
fortysomething
fiftysomething
sixtysomething
eightysomething
ninetysomething
hundredsomething
glosses: An indeterminate value between 70 (inclusive) and 80 (exclusive).
seventysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventysomethings
form: seventy-something
Etymology: From seventy + -something.
Senses: examples: text: She was a sprightly seventysomething.
glosses: A person between 70 and 79 years old.
Synonyms: septuagenarian
septuagenary
Coordinate terms: teen
teenager (13–19)
vicenarian (20–29)
twentysomething (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
thirtysomething (30–39)
quadragenarian (40–49)
fortysomething (40–49)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
semicentenarian (50–59)
fiftysomething (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
sixtysomething (60–69)
octogenarian (80–89)
eightysomething (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
ninetysomething (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
semisupercentenarian (105–109)
supercentenarian (110+)
monocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monocyte + -o- + -penia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of too few monocytes in the blood.
Derived terms: monocytopenic
monocytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monocytopenic
form: most monocytopenic
Etymology: From monocytopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having monocytopenia.
glosses: Characterized by, or concerning, monocytopenia.
Saskabush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsæskəbʊʃ/
Etymology: Blend of Saskatoon + bush.
Senses: glosses: The city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Saskabusher
saskatoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsæskəˈtuːn/
Forms: form: saskatoons
Etymology: From Cree ᒥᓵᐢᑿᑑᒥᐣ (misaaskwatoomin, “saskatoon berry”), from ᒥᓵᐢᑿᐟ (misaaskwat, “saskatoon shrub”) + ᒥᐣ (min, “berry”).
Senses: glosses: A shrub inhabiting western North America (Amelanchier alnifolia).
glosses: The edible berry of this shrub.
Synonyms: sense: berry
word: saskatoon berry
sense: berry
word: juneberry
sense: berry
word: serviceberry
Derived terms: Saskatoon
saskatoon blueberry
Fettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fette
Pfeils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pfeil
compandors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compandor
reflet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈfleɪ/
Forms: form: reflets
Etymology: From French reflet.
Senses: examples: silver reflet; gold reflet
glosses: lustre; brilliancy of a surface; used especially in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustred pottery such as majolica
Derived terms: reflet tile
genouillère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʒə.nu(l).jɛəɹ/
Forms: form: genouillères
Etymology: From French genouillère, from Old French genoilliere, which was also borrowed earlier as Middle English genulere.
Senses: synonyms: kneepiece
glosses: A metal plate used as armour for the knee.
glosses: Part of a parapet lying between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.
genouillères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genouillère
coudière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coudières
Senses: examples: text: At the point of the elbow is a circular metal plate forming a kind of coudière and called the Hiji-gane.
ref: 1881, Josiah Conder, “The History of Japanese Costume: II—Armour”, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume IX, Yokohama: R. Meiklejohn and Company, page 273:
text: The shoulders are protected by épaulières, which usually consist of three plates, but only two are shown here, whilst the arms are guarded by vambraces and brassarts, connected at the elbows by a hinge; to cover the hinge a coudière is added; on this figure it is rounded off.
ref: 1884 November 25, Cecil T. Davis, “The Monumental Brasses of Herefordshire and Worcestershire”, in Transactions, Excursions and Reports. 1884-85., Birmingham, published 1887, page 70:
text: The brassards, including the large butterfly-shaped coudière, appear from beneath the widely open sleeves of mail.
ref: 1898, J[ohn] Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 31:
text: The mode of fastening the coudière of the right arm is distinctly visible: (57) a staple from the under armour comes through the coudière and by means of a spring-pin, which is thrust through the staple, this extra defence was fixed.
ref: 1899, Cecil T[udor] Davis, The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire, London: Phillimore & Co., page 63:
text: Otherwise mail entirely disappears, except sometimes at the joint of the elbow, which is further protected by a fan-shaped coudière or a roundel, and roundels or oblong palettes are placed before the armpits.
ref: 1907, Herbert W[alter] Macklin, The Brasses of England, page 150:
text: The half-noble of the same date has a rough indication of a coudière, with mail brassarts or hauberk sleeve, and a gauntlet.
ref: 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, page 163:
text: To the blue cords fastening the bent coudière around his elbow were added knotty strings of dark red.
ref: 1991, Geraldine McCaughrean, “Out of the Pit”, in Vainglory, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of coudiere.
coudières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coudière
kamancheh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamanchehs
form: kamencheh
form: kamānche
form: kamāncha
form: kamancha
form: kemancha
form: kemenche
form: kyamancha
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian کمانچه (kamânče).
Senses: examples: text: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).
ref: 2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A long-necked stringed instrument (a spike fiddle) with a bowl-shaped body, traditionally featuring three silk strings but now more often four metal ones, played with a bow, common among the peoples of the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Near East.
kamencheh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamenchehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
kamānche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamānches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
kamāncha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamānchas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
ballpark estimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballpark estimate
ballparking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballpark
ballparked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballpark
compandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companding
concrements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrement
crapaudines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapaudine
creepages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creepage
cyclophilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclophilin
chaconnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaconne
diachronicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diachronicity
condops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condop
talking-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talking-points
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of talking point.
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Reportedly coined by zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919).
Senses: examples: text: With reference to seedling stages the statement that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny must be made with great reserve.
ref: 1905, J. A. Harris, "The Importance of Investigations of Seedling Stages," Science, New Series, vol. 22, no. 554, p. 186
text: Haeckel maintained that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and this idea was incorporated by Lombroso into his parallelism between the criminal and the child.
ref: 1961, M. E. Wolfgang, “Pioneers in Criminology: Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)”, in The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, volume 52, number 4, page 367:
text: For even if we accept that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," those responsible for the drafting of ancient legal documents were not children, and are hardly to be endowed with some form of infantile mentality.
ref: 2002, B. S. Jackson, “Models in Legal History: The Case of Biblical Law”, in Journal of Law and Religion, volume 18, number 1, page 11:
topics: art
arts
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The physical, cultural, moral, or intellectual development of each individual passes through stages similar to the developmental stages of that individual's species, society, or civilization. Not taken literally since the late 19th century.
Related terms: recapitulationism
fair off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fairs off
form: fairing off
form: faired off
form: faired off
form: fair up
Senses: examples: text: They said it was going to fair off later on, but it didn't.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of weather: to clear.
fair up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fairs up
form: fairing up
form: faired up
form: faired up
form: fair off
Senses: examples: text: They said it was going to fair up later on, but it didn't.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: To clear
fair to middling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fair-to-middling
form: fair to middlin'
form: fair to meddling
Etymology: From the practice of classifying agricultural commodities as fair or middling. The earliest attested instance of these descriptions being combined into the phrase fair to middling was in a British publication of 1822 but the first instance of this usage being generalised is from an American publication of 1837
Senses: examples: text: "O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind" is pretty good, quite fair to middling—the whole seven of the stanzas—but repetition would be certain to take the excitement out of it in the course of time.
ref: 1907, Mark Twain, chapter 7, in Christian Science:
text: Not a heluva good one, but fair to middlin’.
ref: 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 29, in Captain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates:
text: For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players and fair-to-middling pros attempt to be respectable.
ref: 2009 November 20, William C. Rhoden, “Sports of The Times: Iverson Isn’t the Answer for Knicks”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Dec 2011:
synonyms: adequate
OK
tolerable
qualifier: usually hyphenated when placed before noun
glosses: Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.
makes fun of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make fun of
making fun of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make fun of
made fun of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make fun of
alternate generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternate generations
Senses: examples: text: If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre-existing form, the process would be called one of alternate generation.
ref: 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication:
text: On the female side, the alternate generation is a small collection of cells, called an embryo sac, that is hidden away deep inside the reproductive parts of the maple tree.
ref: 2011, David Krough, Biology: A Guide to the Natural World, 5th edition, page 472:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.
Related terms: alternation of generations
spontaneous generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spontaneous generations
Senses: synonyms: autogenesis
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The fancied production of live organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.
Derived terms: spontaneous generationist
Related terms: abiogenesis
Jumu'ah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jumma
form: jum'ah
form: jummah
form: Jumu'a
form: Jumuah
Etymology: From Arabic جمعة (jumuʕa), as in الجمعة (al-jumuʕa).
Senses: examples: text: [T]here was a reasonably priced foot of land from which the raindbow could be seen at night every third jum'a in the month of Rabbi-ul-aker.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 195:
text: Then, […] the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel-dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier-muezzin calling his saddle-weary brothers to a belated Jumuah.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 57:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
I think, therefore I am
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I think; therefore, I am
form: I think; therefore I am
form: I think therefore I am
Etymology: Calque of French je pense, donc je suis or perhaps of Latin cōgitō, ergō sum. First written in French by René Descartes, a 17th century French philosopher, in Discourse on the Method (1637) as je pense donc je suis, which he later expressed in Latin in Principles of Philosophy (1644).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: I am able to think, therefore I exist. A philosophical proof of existence based on the fact that someone capable of any form of thought necessarily exists.
wikipedia: French language
René Descartes
I think; therefore I am
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I think
form: therefore I am
Senses: examples: text: From verse 20 to verse 25 are mentioned a series of Signs or Miracles, which should awaken our souls and lead us to true Reality if we try to understand God. (1) There is our own origin and destiny, which must necessarily be our subjective starting-point: “I think; therefore I am”: no particular exertion of our being is here necessary (xxx. 20).
ref: 1938, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur-an: Text, Translation & Commentary, 3rd edition, Lahore: Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf […], footnote 3529, page 1057:
text: Could it be, we humans, our entire civilization, are the result of a preconceived strategy, plotted by evanescent aliens, about how a conscientious species of living beings should be allowed to discover themselves and to embrace the ability, arriving to the reasonable conclusion: “I think; therefore I am.”
ref: 2015, Mark Simkins, “Atlantis 4”, in What the Doormouse Said: Some Tales of a Space Anthropologist, Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 218:
text: Only the ones blaring their stereos were not saying, “I think; therefore I am”; rather, according to the priest, “They think they are because they hear.”
ref: 2019, Peggy Weber, “Quiet Enough”, in Enough as You Are: Overcoming Self-Doubt and Appreciating the Gift of You, Chicago, Ill.: Loyola Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of I think, therefore I am.
pointwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From point + -wise.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Occurring or true for each point of a given set.
Derived terms: pointwise convergence
Related terms: punctual
pointwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From point + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a pointwise manner
Synonyms: pointwisely
get to the point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets to the point
form: getting to the point
form: got to the point
form: got to the point
form: gotten to the point
Senses: examples: text: I don't have much time, so could you please get to the point.
text: Unlike Shakespeare, though, the dialogue is stripped to the bare minimum by the apes' rudimentary language, which is rather refreshing since everyone gets to the point.
ref: 2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: cut to the chase
get on with
come to the point
antonyms: beat around the bush
glosses: To state (something) directly; as opposed to in a long-winded way.
examples: text: We got to the point where we don't know how to continue.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, to, the, point.
longwinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longwinded
form: most longwinded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long-winded.
three-point turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-point turns
Senses: examples: text: The vehicles resemble something out of Thunderbirds. They have to be squat, long and narrow to fit through the body of the TBM. They also have a cab at each end, as there's no getting away with a three-point turn in a tunnel!
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
synonyms: K-turn
qualifier: driving
glosses: An act of turning around a car, involving one forward turn and two backward turns (or vice-versa).
fiftysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: fifty-something
Etymology: From fifty + -something.
Senses: coordinate_terms: twentysomething
thirtysomething
fortysomething
sixtysomething
seventysomething
eightysomething
ninetysomething
hundredsomething
glosses: An indeterminate value between 50 (inclusive) and 60 (exclusive).
fiftysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiftysomethings
form: fifty-something
Etymology: From fifty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: She was a sprightly fiftysomething.
glosses: A person between 50 and 59 years old.
Synonyms: quinquagenarian
semicentenarian
quinquagenary
Coordinate terms: teen (13–19)
vicenarian (20–29)
twentysomething (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
thirtysomething (30–39)
quadragenarian (40–49)
fortysomething (40–49)
sexagenarian (60–69)
sixtysomething (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
seventysomething (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
eightysomething (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
ninetysomething (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
semisupercentenarian (105–109)
supercentenarian (110+)
Kossack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kossacks
Etymology: From Daily Kos (derived in turn from Kos, nickname of the blog's founder Markos Moulitsas) and cossack.
Senses: examples: text: Opined one Kossack: "His blood is also on Bush's hands."
ref: 2005 March 2, Dean Barnett, “Kos Party”, in The Weekly Standard:
text: The Kingpin had instructed his Kossack cultists to support Brown's Democratic primary rival, Paul Hackett.
ref: 2006 June 25, David Brooks, “Respect Must Be Paid”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the leftist US blogging community Daily Kos.
wikipedia: Daily Kos
Markos Moulitsas
Related terms: Freeper
Kossacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kossack
whatsit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatsits
Etymology: From what is it.
Senses: examples: text: Pass me one of those whatsits, will you?
related: word: whatzit
word: wotsit
word: wossit
synonyms: word: whatsitsname
word: ;
word: see also Category:English placeholder terms
word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say)
Related terms: whatnot
Whateverville
alete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -lete.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming single spores or pollen grains, and therefore lacking laesurae
Related terms: monolete
bilete
trilete
Aletes
aletic
actuopalynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actuo- (“active, lively, living”) + palynology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of palynology concerned with the study of modern-day pollens and spores, rather than with fossils.
Coordinate terms: paleopalynology
Derived terms: actuopalynological
actuopalynologist
aletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aletic
form: most aletic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alethic.
concessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more concessive
form: most concessive
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a concession; conceding.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: disjunctive
glosses: Joining clauses while conceding some notion.
raw_tags: of a conjunction
Derived terms: concessively
concessiveness
concessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: concessives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phrase or clause that acts as a concession, such as "even if" or "although".
repugnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənsi/
Forms: form: repugnancies
Etymology: From repugnant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: […] howsoever nature dictates, that government is necessary for the safety of the society, yet every singular person, by corruption and selfe-love, hath a naturall aversenesse and repugnancie to submit to any; every man would be a King himselfe […]
ref: 1644, Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex, London: John Field, Quest. VIII, page 49:
text: If you be carved with any thing […] which you do not like, conceal (as much as in you lieth) your repugnancies, and receive it however: And though your disgust many times is invincible, and it would be insufferable tyranny to require you should eat what your stomach nauseates; yet it will shew your civility to accept it, though you let it lye on your plate, pretending to eat, till you meet with a fit opportunity of changing your plate, without any palpable discovery of your disgust.
ref: 1673, Hannah Woolley, “Some choice Observations for a Gentlewomans Behaviour at Table”, in The Gentlewomans Companion, London: Dorman Newman, page 70:
text: Even Pennant, with all his repugnancy to the toad, could not be induced to favour the popular belief in its poisonous character.
ref: 1893, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, “The Common Toad”, in Our Reptiles and Batrachians, London: W.H. Allen, page 118:
glosses: The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.
examples: text: For if the paralleles be of this nature, that howe muche the nearer we are th’equinoctiall, so muche the greater is the heate: and howe muche the furder remoued from th’equinoctiall, so muche the colder the qualitie of the aire is: there must seme a manifest repugnancie, betwixt Auicenne, & the Geographers.
ref: 1559, William Cuningham, The Cosmographical Glasse, Book 2:
text: 1710, George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, Dublin: Jeremy Pepyat, pp. 175-176,
[…] this Notion is the Source from whence do spring, all those Amusing Geometrical Paradoxes, which have such a direct Repugnancy to the plain, common Sense of Mankind, and are admitted with so much Reluctance, into a Mind not yet debauched by Learning […]
text: The first man, Adam, experienced no kind of repugnancy between the divine justice and the divine mercy.
ref: 1773, William Hazlitt, An Essay on the Justice of God, London: J. Johnson, page 16:
glosses: The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.
examples: text: Why do fond men expose themselves to battle,
And not endure all threats? sleep upon’t,
And let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy?
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Resistance, fighting back.
lochia rubra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vaginal discharge, occurring immediately after parturition, that consists almost entirely of blood.
kigurumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪ.ɡuːˈɹuː.mi/
ipa: /kɪ.ɡuˈɹu.mi/
ipa: /ˌkiː-/
rhymes: -uːmi
Forms: form: kigurumi
form: kigurumis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 着ぐるみ (kigurumi).
Senses: glosses: A full-body costume of a cartoon character (typically a mascot of cartoonish proportions) originating in Japan.
synonyms: animegao
glosses: A full-body cosplay of a human cartoon character (with realistic proportions) originating in Japan, paired with an anime-style mask.
synonyms: animegao
glosses: The anime-style mask used in these costumes.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
related: word: kigu
glosses: A themed onesie, typically in the style of a cartoon animal.
Derived terms: kig
kigu
Related terms: doller
toiseach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toiseachs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taoiseach
newsfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsfeeds
form: news feed
Etymology: From news + feed.
Senses: examples: text: Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.
ref: 2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It:
glosses: A feed, especially one providing news content.
cake-walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake-walks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cake walk.
derviche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derviches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dervish.
zabuyelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Zabuye Salt Lake, Tibet, where it was discovered, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The natural mineral form of lithium carbonate, forming colourless vitreous monoclinic crystals.
zaccagnaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaccagnaites
Etymology: Domenico Zaccagna (1851-1940), Italian mineralogist, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic zinc and aluminium carbonate
illite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illites
Etymology: Illinois, USA, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A micaceous phyllosilicate clay mineral with aggregates of grey or white monoclinic crystals.
Synonyms: hydromica
hydromuscovite
Derived terms: illitic
illitization
hydromica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromicas
Etymology: From hydro- + mica.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of illite.
synonyms: word: illite
hydromuscovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromuscovites
Etymology: From hydro- + muscovite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: illite.
idrialine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idrialines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of idrialite.
synonyms: word: idrialite
idrialite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idrialites
Etymology: From Idrija + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, orthorhombic hydrocarbon mineral, usually greenish-yellow to light brown in colour with bluish fluorescence.
Synonyms: idrialine
fluoresceine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoresceines
Etymology: From fluoresce + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
inyoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inyoites
Etymology: Inyo County, California, where it was discovered, and + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless monoclinic mineral with the chemical formula Ca(H₄B₃O₇)(OH)·4H₂O.
zharchikhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Zharchinskoya Deposit, Russia, where it was discovered, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy fluoride mineral of aluminium that forms colourless, transparent crystals.
zakharovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: E E Zakharov (1902-1980), geologist, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silicate mineral of sodium and manganese, yellow in colour with a pearly lustre.
superluminality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superluminal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being superluminal.
Synonyms: english: from superluminary + -ity
translation: from superluminary + -ity
word: superluminarity
xanthoxenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthoxenites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dull brown or yellow triclinic mineral.
zincobotryogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zinco- + botryogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft hydrous sulfate mineral that forms bright orange-red monoclinic prismatic crystals with a vitreous to greasy lustre.
sansei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanseis
form: sansei
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 三世 (“three generations”).
Senses: examples: text: Born and brought tip mostly in South America, the United States (particularly Hawaii) and Canada, the nisei and sansei have Japanese features but often speak the language imperfectly, if at all. “If you don't speak Japanese well,” one sansei said ruefully, “it's better to he white.”
ref: 1973 October 4, Robert Trumbull, “Offspring of Japanese Settlers in U.S. Find Japan Frustrating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Under these circumstances it may not be unexpected to have the "assimilationist Sansei" protest that he is not a Japanese-Canadian; he is a Canadian, period. None of this hyphenated stuff.
ref: 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience”, in Harold Coward, Leslie S. Kawamura, editors, Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 66:
text: While hundreds of nisei and sansei are employed by Japanese giants like Sony, Mitsubishi and Honda, many more work with Brazilians as agronomists, artists, doctors, businessmen and engineers. Colleagues [c]all them “modest and respectful.”
ref: 1988 May 8, Marlise Simons, “Japanese Gone Brazilian: Unhurried Workaholics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: issei
nisei
yonsei
glosses: A grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to the Americas.
possessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin possessorius; compare French possessoire.
Senses: examples: text: a possessory interest; a possessory lord
glosses: Of, pertaining to, having or arising from possession.
Derived terms: nonpossessory
possessoriness
codename
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codenames
Etymology: From code + name.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of code name.
Hypernyms: name
codename
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codenames
form: codenaming
form: codenamed
form: codenamed
Etymology: From code + name.
Senses: glosses: To give a codename to.
subsector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsectors
Etymology: From sub- + sector.
Senses: glosses: A sector (section, zone) of a larger sector.
unwearying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwearying
form: most unwearying
Etymology: From un- + wearying.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 15, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: As a child that has fallen happily asleep in its nurse's arms, and wakes to find itself alone and laid in a strange place, and searches corners and cupboards, and runs from room to room, despair growing silently in its heart, even so Portly searched the island and searched, dogged and unwearying, till at last the black moment came for giving it up, and sitting down and crying bitterly.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 7, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: Night and day are given over to pleasure
And they think it will last a thousand autumns,
Unwearying autumns.
ref: 1915, Ezra Pound, Cathay, London: Elkin Mathews, Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin, page 15:
synonyms: inexhaustible
tireless
untiring
unflagging
indefatigable
glosses: Untiring; not becoming tired.
subsegment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsegments
Etymology: From sub- + segment.
Senses: glosses: A segment wholly contained in another.
digipak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdʒiːpæk/
Forms: form: digipaks
Etymology: From the trademark Digipak, presumably from digi- + pack.
Senses: glosses: A form of jewel case for holding one or more CDs or DVDs whose outer cover is made of card rather than plastic.
subtree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtrees
Etymology: From sub- + tree.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A tree wholly contained in another.
portioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: preportioned
unportioned
portioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of portion
trended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trend
featurette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featurettes
Etymology: From feature + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.
ref: 1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A relatively short feature film.
examples: text: With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?
ref: 2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.
hasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hastings
Senses: glosses: singular of hastings
hasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hastings
Senses: glosses: An act of urging onward.
glosses: A hastened movement.
hasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haste
feature film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feature films
Senses: glosses: The main, full-length film in a cinema program that also included a short film and often a newsreel. As of now, it plays after the trailers.
glosses: Any film produced to be shown in cinemas before being released for home viewing.
Related terms: short film
theatrical film
feature-length
climbdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbdowns
form: climb-down
Etymology: From climb + down.
Senses: examples: text: Thursday's court appearance as he waited for his case to be heard was a humiliating climbdown for the flamboyant Texan, who sports the clipped mustache and Saville Row style of English aristocracy.
ref: 2009 June 26, Kate Murphy, “Texas cricket mogul pleads not guilty to fraud”, in The Age:
text: There will be “a cost” to the government’s climbdown on welfare changes at the budget, one of Keir Starmer’s senior ministers has said, as a leading fiscal thinktank said new tax rises appeared increasingly likely.
ref: 2025 July 2, Peter Walker, “Welfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says senior minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
excrements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excrement
gyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪmz/
rhymes: -ɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of gym
gyms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪmz/
rhymes: -ɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gym