cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polygenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Forms: form: polygeneses
Etymology: From poly- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: After polygenesis was soundly rejected by theologians, it was taken up with enthusiasm by many scientists. Thomas Henry Huxley published Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature in 1863, applying Darwin's evolutionary theory to human origins. […] Evolutionary polygenesis, of course, did away with belief in Adam and Eve, and instead asserted that humans arose as a population.
ref: 2019, S. Joshua Swamidass, The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: The genesis of a species from more than one ancestor.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis.
examples: text: The alternative to monogenesis for the origin of language is polygenesis, i.e. that language originated in human evolution at a number of distinct points. If polygenesis is assumed, then the different protolanguages would have developed independently and lead over millennia to the diversity of the descendant languages found at the present day.
ref: 1994, Jan Wind, Abraham Jonker, Robin Allott, Leonard Rolfe, editors, Studies in Language Origins, volume 3, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source.
examples: text: The contrasting theory of polygenesis assumes that resemblances among tales can be attributed to independent invention in places unconnected by trade routes or travel.
ref: 2003, Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: The emergence from multiple causes or origins.
Related terms: polygenetic
practicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From practical + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of government where all major policy decisions are voted upon directly by the people, or where the experts in the field concerning the policy meet and decide how to best carry out the idea.
res nullius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rēs nūllīus (“nobody's thing”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Something that has no owner and is not subject to the jurisdiction of any state, but is susceptible to national appropriation.
Coordinate terms: terra nullius
streak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: streaks
form: streaking
form: streaked
form: streaked
Etymology: From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).
Senses: examples: If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
glosses: To have or obtain streaks.
examples: text: "As it was I came a hell of a crack against a Dam' rustic arbour in the garden. Dam' near stunned me. But I never stopped a second. Up and over the back fence and streaked for the common."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: To run quickly.
examples: text: It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
text: The fad began with a lone male running naked across the Florida State University campus several weeks ago. Students on other campuses began streaking in pairs, then groups, and were joined by some coeds.
ref: 1974 March 4, Hendrick O'Neil, “Streaking runs its course”, in UPIs 20th Century Top Stories (wire feed):
coordinate_terms: flash
glosses: To run naked in public.
examples: text: But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice.
ref: 1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 365:
glosses: To move very swiftly.
examples: text: You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
text: Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship’s hull, called the “bright waist,” that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: To create streaks upon.
glosses: To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Related terms: losing streak
streaker
winning streak
talk a blue streak
spark spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spark spreads
Senses: glosses: The difference between the cost of the fuel required to produce a unit of electricity, and the price of that same unit of electricity.
spiritual awakening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritual awakenings
Senses: glosses: A realization or inspiration about the connection with an entity or entities beyond the immediate and physical world, of "God" or other intangible, sacred spirit.
SSIA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of subject says it all.
Related terms: NNTO
n/t
TSIA
slap-back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slap-back
form: most slap-back
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
slap-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slap-backs
Senses: topics: aerial-freestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: a faulty landing, whereby the skier rotates backwards around the knee-joint and hits the snow of the landing slope with their back and head, before rising off the snow back into position with their skis underneath them.
Coordinate terms: sense: aerials
word: punch front
Related terms: sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: rudy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: randy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: daffy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: double-full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: triple-full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: lay
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: back
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: hurricane
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: stretch
sheading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiːdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃidɪŋ/
Forms: form: sheadings
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from the Norse word skeid, "ship assembly", with each sheading providing men for a warship. Perhaps from a Celtic word meaning "sixth part". Perhaps from the Middle English word, scheding, for an administrative division.
Senses: glosses: Any of the six administrative districts into which the Isle of Man is divided.
Related terms: alt: the six sheadings
word: Ayre
word: Garff
word: Glenfaba
word: Michael
word: Middle
word: Rushen
word: coroner
word: deemster
setlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtˌlɪst/
Forms: form: setlists
form: set list
Etymology: From set + list.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A list of the songs to be played by a particular band or musical act for a particular show or tour.
stepping razor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepping razors
Senses: examples: text: I'm like a stepping razor / Don't you watch my size / I'm dangerous, dangerous
ref: 1967, Joe Higgs, “Stepping Razor”, in Equal Rights, performed by Peter Tosh, published 1977:
glosses: A dangerous person, who is not to be messed with.
sophocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sopho- + -cracy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Political rule by philosophers.
sock link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sock links
Senses: glosses: A string with clips on each end to hold socks together as a pair before placing them in the wash.
slanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæŋˌɡwɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æŋɡwɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: slanguages
Etymology: Blend of slang + (lang)uage.
Senses: examples: text: Slanguage words tend to lead mayfly lives, counting their duration by days instead of decades. For every one that survives there are dozens of crib deaths.
ref: 1994, Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: A particular vernacular or vocabulary of slang; the jargon or lingo of a particular group.
reject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭjĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: rēʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: rejects
form: rejecting
form: rejected
form: rejected
Etymology: From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
Senses: examples: text: She even rejected my improved offer.
text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To refuse to accept; to forswear.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
examples: text: I've been rejected three times this week.
text: It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit
ref: 2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:
glosses: To refuse a romantic advance.
Synonyms: abjure
abnegate
decline
deny
disown
refuse
repudiate
say no
turn down
dismiss
discount
Derived terms: rejected landing
rejected takeoff
rejectee
rejecter
rejector
rejection
rejectionism
rejectionist
rereject
reject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭjĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: rēʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: rejects
Etymology: From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
Senses: examples: text: Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
ref: 1996, Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page 127:
glosses: Something that is rejected.
glosses: An unpopular person.
examples: text: In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: A rejected defective product in a production line.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rejected takeoff.
Synonyms: sense: something that is rejected
word: castaway
sense: an unpopular person
word: outcast
sense: an unpopular person
word: castaway
sense: an unpopular person
word: alien
sense: rejected takeoff
word: RTO
Derived terms: initial reject
shyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaɪs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃaɪs.tɚ/
Forms: form: shysters
form: schister
form: scheister
form: sheister
form: schyster
form: shister
form: shaista
form: shiester
form: schiester
Etymology: US origin, 19th century. The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin," possibly deriving from a historical sense of shy meaning "disreputable", equivalent to shy + -ster. Other sources suggest the word derives from the German Scheißer (“incompetent worthless person”), from scheißen (“to defecate”), probably influenced by -ster. Not related to shylock.
Senses: examples: text: True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: The network canceled—nonco-operation their legal shysters said. Suing me, for, for ten million clams, damages to sponsors, agencies. Internal Revenue-Uncle Whiskers says I owe them a mint.
ref: 1973, Lucas Webb, Stribling, page 188:
text: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
ref: 1981, Blake Edwards, S.O.B. (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Irving Finegarten (Robert Preston):
synonyms: pettifogger
glosses: Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
Derived terms: sheisty
shysterism
shyster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaɪs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃaɪs.tɚ/
Forms: form: shysters
form: shystering
form: shystered
form: shystered
form: schister
form: scheister
form: sheister
form: schyster
form: shister
form: shaista
form: shiester
form: schiester
Etymology: US origin, 19th century. The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin," possibly deriving from a historical sense of shy meaning "disreputable", equivalent to shy + -ster. Other sources suggest the word derives from the German Scheißer (“incompetent worthless person”), from scheißen (“to defecate”), probably influenced by -ster. Not related to shylock.
Senses: glosses: To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
glosses: To exploit (someone or something) in this way.
salad year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad years
Etymology: From salad days.
Senses: examples: text: The author’s novels from her salad years lacked the sophistication and depth of her later works.
glosses: The inexperienced, youthful prime of a person, group, organization, or entity.
sexual complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual complexes
Etymology: From the work of Sigmund Freud.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological complex involving fixations of a sexual nature; a fetish.
wikipedia: Sigmund Freud
relapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlæps/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌlæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: relapses
form: relapsing
form: relapsed
form: relapsed
Etymology: From Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi (“to slide back, fall back”), from re- (“back”) + labi (“to slip, slide, fall”).
Senses: examples: text: He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.
text: to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism
text: to relapse into slumber after being disturbed
text: Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
raw_tags: of a disease
examples: text: relapsed after 5 months of being clean
glosses: To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
examples: text: You slip your hold and change your side,
Relapsing from a necessary guide.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Hind and the Panther”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
Hyponyms: sense: to fall back into a former state or practice
word: fall off the wagon
Derived terms: relapsing fever
relapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlæps/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌlæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: relapses
Etymology: From Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi (“to slide back, fall back”), from re- (“back”) + labi (“to slip, slide, fall”).
Senses: examples: text: a drug relapse
text: Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen!
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act or situation of relapsing.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
glosses: One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
Related terms: remission
self-tapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + tapping.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to advance when turned, while creating its own thread.
Derived terms: self-tapping screw
ruptured membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruptured membranes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: During pregnancy, a premature rupture in which amniotic fluid is discharged from the uterus and vagina putting encumbent infant at risk for infection.
sabaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæb.əˌtɒn/
ipa: /ˈsæb.əˌtɑn/
Forms: form: sabatons
form: sabbaton
Etymology: From Middle English sabatoun, from Medieval Latin sabatum, sabbatum. Compare sabatine and Old Provençal sabato.
Senses: synonyms: solleret
sabatine
glosses: A medieval armour covering for the foot, typically made of steel; a flexible armour shoe.
rules lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rules lawyers
Senses: glosses: Someone who attempts to take advantage of a given set of rules, usually by using an overly-literal interpretation that is contrary to their intent, or by selectively choosing which rules take precedence in a given situation.
rules lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules lawyers
form: rules lawyering
form: rules lawyered
form: rules lawyered
form: rules-lawyer
Senses: glosses: To behave as a rules lawyer.
Related terms: barracks lawyer
sea lawyer
roadwarrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadwarriors
Etymology: From road + warrior.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of road warrior.
VPN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VPNs
Senses: examples: text: The disadvantages to roll-your-own are that the company is responsible for managing VPN configurations, and because traffic is transversing the Internet, there are no performance guarantees. Moreover, it typically is difficult to support latency-sensitive traffic, such as voice. However, a roll-your-own approach lets corporations establish a VPN to any site that has access to the Internet.
ref: 2002 April 8, Irwin Lazar, “Variations on a VPN theme”, in Network World, page 45:
text: Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.
ref: 2018 June 25, Lily Kuo, “China blocks HBO after John Oliver parody of Xi Jinping”, in The Guardian:
text: When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.
ref: 2025 April 17, “Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and EVPN Integration Overview”, in Juniper Networks, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual private network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual page number.
Related terms: PPTP
L2TP
VPN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: HQNDVN
coordinate_terms: HQVNCH
RVNN
glosses: Initialism of Vietnam People's Navy.
submerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈmɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /səbˈmɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: submerges
form: submerging
form: submerged
form: submerged
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin submergere, from sub (“under”) + mergere (“to plunge”). By surface analysis, sub- + merge.
Senses: examples: text: The submarine submerged in the water.
glosses: To sink out of sight.
examples: text: In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.
synonyms: immerse
glosses: To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
examples: text: On the day of RAIL 's site visit, in heavy weather, the scaffolding and decking that engineers stand on were submerged deep under choppy water, with work suspended. "We have to work around the tides," explained Project Director Alan Venables. "The wind pushes the tide up and the waves get larger. That causes some problems with the scaffold."
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line to reopen to Ryde Pier in June... possibly”, in RAIL, number 979, page 24:
qualifier: often in the passive voice
glosses: To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
examples: text: Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
qualifier: often in the passive voice
glosses: To engulf or overwhelm.
examples: text: Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
glosses: To drown or suppress.
Synonyms: submerse
Derived terms: submergence
submerger
Related terms: submersion
encryption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɹɪpʃən/
ipa: /ɛnˈkɹɪpʃən/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹɪpʃən/
Forms: form: encryptions
Etymology: From encrypt + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a new encryption technique that enables computing on data blindly, without decrypting it.
ref: 2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
examples: text: As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.
ref: 2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And Verifiable Solution To The Millionaire Problem:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
Derived terms: homomorphic encryption
on-the-fly encryption
reencryption
superencryption
unencryption
Related terms: encrypt
decrypt
PKI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Public Key Infrastructure, a computerised form of message encryption using two keys (small files); one is public and used by the sender to encrypt the message; the other is private and used by the recipient to decrypt it.
PGP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PGPs
Senses: examples: text: My PGPs are he and him.
glosses: Initialism of preferred gender pronoun.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of pelvic girdle pain.
PGP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
encryption
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Pretty Good Privacy, a program using public key encryption popularly used with email.
public key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public keys
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: private key
glosses: One of the two keys used in asymmetric cryptography, which is published to others.
Derived terms: public-key cryptography
decryption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹɪpʃən/
Forms: form: decryptions
Etymology: Verbal noun of decrypt, from de- + crypt (only attested in compounds, such as cryptogram) from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”).
Senses: glosses: The process reversing an encryption, i.e. the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.
Synonyms: codebreaking
Related terms: decrypt
to decipher
UI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of unemployment insurance.
examples: text: Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.
ref: 2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of user interface.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of urinary incontinence.
Hyponyms: sense: user interface
word: CHUI
sense: user interface
word: CUI
sense: user interface
word: GUI
sense: user interface
word: MUI
sense: user interface
word: YUI
Coordinate terms: sense: user interface
word: UI/UX
sense: user interface
word: WIMP
sense: unemployment insurance
word: SIN
sense: unemployment insurance
word: SSN
Related terms: sense: user interface
word: UX
sense: unemployment insurance
word: EI
UI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Iowa
coordinate_terms: Iowa State
ISU
glosses: Initialism of University of Iowa.
prognosticator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: prognosticators
Etymology: From prognosticate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Plenty of prognosticators try to forecast the ups and downs of the market.
text: Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 47:13:
text: When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
text: On Long Bets, a website where prognosticators test their mettle by playing for real (or at least proceeds-donated-to-charity) stakes, there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism.
ref: 2021 May 29, Ross Douthat, “Why the Lab Leak Theory Matters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: prognosticant
glosses: One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses.
pseudoephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjuː.dəʊˈɛf.ə.dɹiːn/
ipa: /su.doʊ.ɪˈfɛ.dɹɪn/
Forms: form: pseudoephedrines
Etymology: From pseudo- + ephedrine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sympathomimetic alkaloid commonly used as a decongestant; a chemical compound, an isomer of ephedrine, with the formula C₁₀H₁₅NO.
Related terms: phenylephedrine
phenylephrine
on the rag
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From rag as a slang term for a menstrual pad. First use appears c. 1967. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: She herself had begun menstruation shortly after her eleventh birthday and had gone to the head of the stairs to yell down excitedly: "Hey, Mum, I'm on the rag!"
ref: 1974, Stephen King, Carrie, page 14:
text: Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
ref: 1983, The Big Chill:
synonyms: on one's period
glosses: Menstruating.
examples: text: On the rag, in a bad mood.—College males, Arizona. I had a lousy time last night because she was on the rag.
ref: 1967, University of South Dakota, English Dept, Current Slang, Volumes 2-5, page 5:
glosses: In a bad mood; angry or irritable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, rag.
cut the cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts the cheese
form: cutting the cheese
form: cut the cheese
form: cut the cheese
Etymology: This idiom references the foul smell emitted by some cheeses, many of which have a rind that keeps the odor in. Once the rind is pierced, as in the case of slicing it, the smell is released.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot believe that you cut the cheese at the dinner table!
text: You know, did you cut some cheese? Did you fart?
ref: 1991, Hal Shymkus, Nightcrawlers, Bait, and Beer to Go, page 82:
glosses: To fart loudly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, cheese.
Synonyms: break wind
fart
flatulate
pass gas
trump
Related terms: he who smelt it dealt it
cheeser
menarche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈnɑː.ki/
ipa: /ˈmɛˌnɑɹ.ki/
ipa: /məˈnɑɹ.ki/
Forms: form: menarches
Etymology: First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche.
Senses: examples: text: How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
text: The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.
ref: 1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 252:
text: Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:
synonyms: menophania
antonyms: menopause
coordinate_terms: spermarche
thelarche
glosses: The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.
Derived terms: menarchal
menarcheal
menarched
menarchial
menarchic
postmenarche
laissez-faire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laissez-faire
form: most laissez-faire
Senses: examples: text: As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality.
ref: 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Francis is saying that the environmental crisis is really a crisis in laissez-faire capitalism.
ref: 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of laissez faire.
laissez-faire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘How about we all try a policy of non-involvement for once? A little laissez-faire?’
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 436:
glosses: Alternative form of laissez faire.
Derived terms: laissez-faireism
fed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feed up
fed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fed up
form: most fed up
Senses: examples: text: After two days, I am fed up with this nonsense.
text: I am fed up watching football on TV.
text: We are all fed up with the seemingly endless rounds of industrial action on our railways.
ref: 2022 December 28, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A war of attrition”, in RAIL, number 973, page 3:
info_templates: extra_data: words: with
(British
English)
of
expansion: [with with or (British English) of]
glosses: Frustrated, annoyed, or tired, to the limit of one's endurance, especially by something that one has experienced for too long.
Related terms: fed up to the back teeth
fed up to the teeth
fill up
have had it
have had it up to here
sick and tired
fed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feds up
form: fedding up
form: fedded up
form: fedded up
Senses: examples: text: She was fedding up with the boy's hijinks.
text: His behavior fed her up.
glosses: To annoy; to be annoyed by something; to reach one's limits of annoyance.
go in one ear and out the other
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes in one ear and out the other
form: going in one ear and out the other
form: went in one ear and out the other
form: gone in one ear and out the other
form: go in at one ear and at out the other
Senses: examples: text: He told me who he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other.
glosses: To be heard but not attended to, when a person fails to pay attention.
Related terms: fall on deaf ears
preach to deaf ears
villes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ville
up in the air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up in the air
form: most up in the air
Senses: examples: text: I think I can do it quickly, but the exact schedule is still up in the air.
glosses: Not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain.
up in the air
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He threw the ball high up in the air.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, in, the, air.
air one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airs one's dirty laundry in public
form: airing one's dirty laundry in public
form: aired one's dirty laundry in public
form: aired one's dirty laundry in public
Senses: synonyms: air one's dirty linen in public
wash one's dirty laundry in public
wash one's dirty linen in public
glosses: To reveal one's secrets to the public.
Related terms: wear one's heart on one's sleeve
pull off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls off
form: pulling off
form: pulled off
form: pulled off
Senses: examples: text: Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
text: As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.
glosses: To remove by pulling.
examples: text: to pull off a heist
text: Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?
text: "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
ref: 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122:
text: ‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
text: The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).
ref: 2001 November 18, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
text: In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
coordinate_terms: get away with
glosses: To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
examples: text: (transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.
text: (intransitive) I think the car is overheating – we'd better pull off .
glosses: To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
examples: text: As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.
glosses: To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
synonyms: word: jerk off
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate manually.
raw_tags: of a male
Steve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: steeve
Forms: form: Steves
Etymology: Shortening of various names ultimately derived from Latin Stephanus m, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος m (Stéphanos) from στέφανος m (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”)
Senses: examples: text: His first name was probably Steve or Ed. No, there were no more Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.
ref: 1989, Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, Random House, →ISBN, page 67:
text: White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.
ref: 2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.
examples: text: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace.
"Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."
ref: 1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Three, Chapter 13:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
Steve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: steeve
Forms: form: Steves
Etymology: See STEVE [from 2016]
The atmospheric phenomenon was named for a scene in the film Over the Hedge, in which something unknown (a hedge) is given the name Steve. In late 2016, the backronym "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement" was adopted.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of STEVE (an atmospheric optical phenomenon, appearing as a ribbon of light in the sky)
Jackson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæksən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: Jacksons
form: Jaxon
form: Jaxson
form: Jaxxon
Etymology: From Jack + -son.
Senses: examples: text: She looked at me with that familiar desire
Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,
So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
ref: 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks:
synonyms: Andrew Jackson
glosses: A U.S. 20-dollar banknote USD (from the portrait of President Andrew Jackson on the bill).
glosses: A member of The Jackson 5.
Related terms: sense: U.S. currency bills
word: Benjamin
sense: U.S. currency bills
word: dead president
sense: U.S. currency bills
word: Franklin
sense: U.S. currency bills
word: Hamilton
sense: U.S. currency bills
word: Lincoln
sense: U.S. currency bills
word: Washington
pullover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊləʊvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pullovers
Etymology: Deverbal from pull over.
Senses: glosses: A sweater that must be put on by pulling it over the head; a sweater without buttons or a zipper in front.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed lying on the back in which the arms are extended behind the head and exertion lifts the weight above the head.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: horizontal bar
glosses: An exercise in which the gymnast pulls up from a hang lifting the legs up and over the bar thus rolling into a support position.
examples: text: I followed my training in the academy regarding vehicle pullovers.
ref: 2010, D. E. Gray, The Warrior in Me, page 23:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.
Related terms: cardigan
jumper
pushover
sweater
sweatshirt
fanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fan
fanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: more fanned
form: most fanned
Senses: examples: text: Its head was rounder and larger, its tail more fanned.
ref: 2006, Jan Deblieu, Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars:
text: The result is sometimes a very fanned, rough cutting surface [ 7 ] .
ref: 2023, Peter Niemz, Alfred Teischinger, Dick Sandberg, Springer Handbook of Wood Science and Technology, page 606:
glosses: Having a fan-line appearance.
examples: text: While high-status punishments have slowly driven out low-status treatment in Europe, harsh punishment became the ideal during the American Revolution that was more fanned by populism and puritan Christianity.
ref: 2013, Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, Bill Hebenton, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology:
text: But anger on the contrary is much more fanned by what angry persons do.
ref: 2021, Plutarch's Morals:
text: In my early childhood I had been seized by the passion for reading and learning; through my intercourse with Elvira, poetess and daughter of a savant, it was still more fanned into flame, and never, under any circumstances, has it left me.
ref: 2023, Bertha Von Suttner, Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner, page 187:
glosses: Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated.
Derived terms: outfanned
unfanned
fanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fan
fanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Forms: form: fannings
Senses: examples: text: Each shrub of shade, each tree of spreading root, / That woo the first glad fannings of the breeze.
ref: 1764, James Grainger, The Sugar Cane:
glosses: The act by which something is fanned.
examples: text: Generally orthodox teas have four grades, namely whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust.
ref: 2013, Victor R. Preedy, Tea in Health and Disease Prevention:
glosses: A very small fragment of tea leaf.
examples: text: […] he found himself facing these four grim coves, big as bull-beef, demanders by trade and ready to give him a fanning, which they did, advising him to keep out of the Professor's way in future and never to speak with any from Idle Jack's family again. Within fifteen minutes, Carmichael had three broken ribs, a broken arm, a cracked cheekbone, a badly swollen eye, and was minus five teeth.
ref: 2013, John Gardner, Moriarty:
glosses: A beating.
Derived terms: fanning mill
produces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prədyo͞oʹsĭz
ipa: /pɹəˈdjuːsɪz/
enpr: prədo͞oʹsĭz
ipa: /pɹəˈdusɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of produce
stickup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickups
form: stick-up
Etymology: Deverbal from stick up.
Senses: examples: text: He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.
ref: 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22
text: One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.
ref: 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:
synonyms: hold-up
armed robbery
glosses: A robbery at gunpoint.
glosses: A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
glosses: A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.
Related terms: stick up
stuck up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuck up
form: most stuck up
form: stuck-up
Senses: examples: text: The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all.
glosses: snobbish, conceited; believing oneself to be better than others, usually because of abundant success; haughty; arrogant or egotistical.
examples: text: The type of battery and the battery power level may cause the lens to be stuck up.
text: We were stuck up here for three hours!.
glosses: jammed; stuck and unable to move.
stuck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuck-up
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stick up
Related terms: stick up
stick up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks up
form: sticking up
form: stuck up
form: stuck up
Senses: examples: text: Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.
examples: text: I think they intend to stick up the bank.
text: What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects.
ref: 2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:
glosses: To rob at gunpoint.
examples: text: No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.
glosses: To be prominent; to point upwards.
examples: text: Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.
glosses: To speak or act in defence (of).
raw_tags: with for
glosses: To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
raw_tags: with to
glosses: To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
raw_tags: with to
Related terms: stick 'em up!
stick up for
stickup
stuck up
slapstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slapsticks
form: slap-stick
Etymology: From slap + stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.
Senses: topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
glosses: A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.
Synonyms: physical comedy
Derived terms: slapsticker
slapstickery