cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Limpopo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: . The province was named after the river.
Senses: examples: text: Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.
ref: 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
glosses: A river in Southern Africa whose source is at the border of South Africa and Botswana near Johannesburg and which flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) through South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
glosses: A province of South Africa which was originally part of Transvaal.
aileron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪləɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈeɪləɹɑn/
Forms: form: ailerons
Etymology: Borrowed from French aileron, diminutive of aile (“wing”), also refers to the extremities of a bird's wings used to control their flight. It first appeared in print in the 7th edition of Cassell's French-English Dictionary of 1877, with its lead meaning of "small wing". In the context of powered airplanes it appears in print about 1908, in the French aviation journal L'Aérophile.
Senses: glosses: The hinged part on the trailing edge of an airplane wing, used to control longitudinal turns.
topics: architecture
glosses: A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.
Coordinate terms: sense: hinged part
word: elevator
sense: hinged part
word: fin
sense: hinged part
word: flap
sense: hinged part
word: rudder
sense: hinged part
word: sharklet
sense: hinged part
word: slat
sense: hinged part
word: spoiler
sense: hinged part
word: strake
sense: hinged part
word: variable sweep
sense: hinged part
word: vortex generator
sense: hinged part
word: wing
sense: hinged part
word: wing fence
sense: hinged part
word: winglet
sense: hinged part
word: wing warping
Derived terms: aileron authority
aileron roll
ailevator
deceleron
elevon
flaperon
Frise aileron
rolleron
rudderon
spoileron
taileron
Related terms: spoiler
Mekong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmikɔŋ/
ipa: /mɛˈkɔːŋ/
ipa: /ˈmikɔŋ/
enpr: měʹkôngʹ
enpr: māʹkôngʹ
Etymology: c. 19th c., from Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong, literally “Mother river”), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong).
Senses: examples: text: The Mekong River’s lower basin is vast, encompassing parts of Myanmar and Thailand, virtually all of Laos and Cambodia and parts of southern Vietnam, where, after a 3,000-mile journey across five national borders, the mother of rivers divaricates into a complex delta network and drains into the South China Sea. Tonle Sap Lake sits roughly in the middle of this lush expanse. On a map, it appears as a crooked blue finger extending from the Mekong near Phnom Penh. But it is more often described as Cambodia’s heart, both for its rhythmic flood pulse and the sustaining role it plays in the country’s economy and food supply.
ref: 2018 March 28, Ben Mauk, “A People in Limbo, Many Living Entirely on the Water”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018:
text: The Mekong is one of the largest rivers in the world, beginning in China and flowing through Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Nearly 70 million people in Asia are dependent on its waters for fishing or to irrigate their rice fields.
ref: 2022 June 1, “Mekong River in jeopardy: Sand-pumping operations ravage ecosystem”, in France 24, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2022, Focus:
text: In the isolated villages, some of which are only accessible by boat, most Laotians live off the land. There are huge rice paddies on the fertile banks on the Mekong; rice is the Laotians’ main staple, eaten three times a day here.
ref: 2023 September 1, “On the Mekong Through Laos”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023, Nature and Environment:
text: Unsustainable development threatens the health and diverse fish populations of the Mekong river, with one-fifth of fish species in Southeast Asia's main artery facing extinction, a report by conservation groups said on Monday.
The Mekong, stretching nearly 5,000 km (3,000 miles) from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, is a farming and fishing lifeline for tens of millions of people in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
ref: 2024 March 4, Juarawee Kittisilpa, Panu Wongcha-um, “One-fifth of Mekong river fish species face extinction, report says”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024:
glosses: A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
Synonyms: Mekong River
Related terms: Mekong Bobtail
ski wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski waxes
Senses: glosses: A material applied to the bottom of skis or snowboards, in order to improve their gliding and gripping properties.
reformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɛfɚˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reformations
Etymology: From Middle English reformacioun, reformation, from Middle French reformation and Latin refōrmātiō, refōrmātiōnis (“reform, change”), from refōrmō (“transform, reshape”), from re- + fōrmō (“shape, form”). By surface analysis, reform + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: […] olde men long nusled in corruption, scorning them that would seeke reformation […]
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Innovation”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: […] satire lashes vice into reformation, and humour represents folly so as to render it ridiculous.
ref: 1674 (date written), John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
examples: text: All sorts of legal instruments may be reformed by equity, when the errors, which have been committed in the execution of them, are mutual mistakes or a mistake of one party combined with the fraud of the other. Thus, reformation has been decreed of all kinds of deeds of conveyance, including leases, mortgages, deeds of trust, marriage and family settlements. Likewise, bonds of all kinds, policies of insurance, assignments or release of mortgages, executory contracts for the sale of lands, the indorsement of a note, agreements for the establishment of a highway, military orders. So may, also, judgments and other records be corrected or be reformed.
ref: 1893, Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman, “Chapter XXIX”, in A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, §507 (footnotes omitted):
topics: law
glosses: Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
reformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɛfɚˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɹiːfɔːˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹifɔɹˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɛfɚˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reformations
Etymology: Originally a variant of Etymology 1. In later use also independently from re- + formation, after re-form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of re-formation.
Rubicon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
ipa: /-k(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈɹubəˌkɑn/
Forms: form: the Rubicon
Etymology: From Latin Rubicō, Rubicōn (“the Rubicon”), possibly from rubeus (“red, reddish”), from rubeō (“to be red”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), an allusion to the colour of the river caused by mud deposits.
Senses: glosses: A small river in northeastern Italy which flowed into the Adriatic Sea marking the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E. began a civil war.
glosses: The same river in the present day, identified with a river previously named Fiumicino.
Derived terms: cross the Rubicon
rubicon
prominence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.mɪ.nəns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.mɪ.nəns/
Forms: form: prominences
Etymology: From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.
Senses: examples: text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
 Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
 “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
glosses: Relative importance.
glosses: A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
topography
glosses: Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
Derived terms: laryngeal prominence
solar prominence
ain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayin (“Semitic letter”).
ain
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: /eːn/
Etymology: From (Scots) Middle English aȝen.
Senses: examples: text: Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair,
Combing down his yellow hair,
He's my ain for evermair,
Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 86:
glosses: Own; belonging to one.
Ain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ain.
Senses: glosses: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Bourg-en-Bresse (INSEE code 01).
glosses: A river in the Jura and Ain departments, in eastern France, flowing from the Jura Mountains into the Rhône River.
Related terms: Ain Sokhna
vision thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vision things
Etymology: First said by George H. W. Bush in 1987 regarding his prospective presidency.
Senses: glosses: A political view that encompasses the longer-term as distinct from short-term objectives.
wikipedia: George H. W. Bush
voice mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice mails
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of voicemail.
voicemail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voicemails
Etymology: From voice + mail, genericized trademark.
Senses: synonyms: voice mailbox
glosses: A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
synonyms: voice message
glosses: An individual message on such a system.
Derived terms: visual voicemail
voicemail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voicemails
form: voicemailing
form: voicemailed
form: voicemailed
Etymology: From voice + mail, genericized trademark.
Senses: glosses: To leave a message on voicemail.
voxel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒk.səl/
ipa: /ˈvɑk.səl/
ipa: /ˈvɔk.səl/
rhymes: -ɒksəl
Forms: form: voxels
Etymology: Blend of volumetric + pixel.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (especially scientific and medical) data.
Derived terms: voxelscape
Related terms: lignel
pixel
pointel
surfel
texel
triangle
warehouse club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehouse clubs
Senses: glosses: A large retail store holding a wide selection of goods for sale at discounted prices to members of the club.
glosses: The club itself.
boat trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat trips
Senses: glosses: A trip made by boat or ship.
Related terms: cruise
voyage
grandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandparent
grandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grandparent
fitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪt.nəs/
rhymes: -ɪtnəs
Forms: form: fitnesses
Etymology: From fit + -ness. First attested in the 16th century, with the physical sense from 1935.
Senses: examples: text: Having introduced my two characters separately, let me present them together. Why not? He, young, wealthy, honorable; she also young, also intelligent — why not bring them together? There is an eternal fitness in all things, and nothing more so than in the case of man and woman.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 5:
antonyms: unfitness
glosses: The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
examples: text: Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
synonyms: suitability
capability
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
glosses: The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
Derived terms: aquafitness
aquatic fitness
biofitness
fitfluencer
fitness ball
fitness center
fitness centre
fitness club
fitness landscape
fitness model
fitnesswear
fitnessy
health and fitness age
hyperfitness
inclusive fitness
pole fitness
warrant of fitness
water fitness
domesticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesticities
Etymology: From domestic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:
glosses: Life at home; homelife.
examples: text: Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
glosses: Domestic chores; housework.
examples: text: As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.
ref: 2017, Susan Fraiman, Extreme Domesticity:
glosses: Affection for the home and its material comforts.
Synonyms: comfort
family
materialism
frogmarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frogmarches
form: frogmarching
form: frogmarched
form: frogmarched
form: frog march
form: frog-march
form: frog's march
Etymology: From frog + march. Originated circa 1871, from the resemblance of the target to a splayed-out frog.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe it happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when no one could work and soldiers frog-marched curfew-breakers through the township streets like criminals.
ref: 2024 May 29, Ryan Lenora Brown, “South Africans head to polls. After 30 years, has Mandela’s party lost its luster?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.
examples: text: The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.
ref: 1940, Thomas Firbank, I Bought a Mountain:
glosses: To force a person forward against their will.
glosses: To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
glosses: To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.
Synonyms: sense: to march a person as a prisoner
word: frog-walk
frogmarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogmarches
form: frog march
form: frog-march
form: frog's march
Etymology: From frog + march. Originated circa 1871, from the resemblance of the target to a splayed-out frog.
Senses: glosses: The process of frogmarching a person.
hlaford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)lɑːvəd/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈ(h)lafɔːd/
ipa: /ˈ(h)lɑvɚd/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈ(h)læfɔɹd/
Forms: form: hlafords
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English hlāford. Doublet of lord and laird.
Senses: examples: text: The King was considered as the hlaford of the nation; and in consequence of that supposition, the security given to inferior hlafords against their particular retainers was in his case extended to all his subjects.
ref: 1830, John Allen, “Tardy Growth of Many of the Royal Prerogatives”, in Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 44:
text: The Eorls constituted the nobility of the land, and were subdivided into two orders, the Hlafords or land-owners, and the Sithcundmen, who were nobles by birth, but less wealthy than the hlafords. To this class, too, belonged the Thanes, who originally were those to whom land was granted, as a feudal tenure; this title, however, in due time became equivalent to Earl, the King’s thane ranking with the hlafords, and the lesser thane with the sithcundmen.
ref: 1866, William C. Pearce, Samuel Hague, “Saxon and Danish Period”, in Analysis of English History. A Text-Book for Colleges and Schools., London: Thos. Murby, […], pages 18–19:
text: In the light of these ecclesiastical donations, the assignment of hides to secular thanes mentioned in the enactments of Ine almost looks like the institution of hlafords over districts rated at a certain number of hides: these hlafords were answerable for a certain proportion of actual settlers on the land they had received, and there is nothing to show that only new colonists were meant:[…]
ref: 1905, Paul Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor, page 240:
glosses: An Anglo-Saxon lord.
prognosticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: prognosticates
form: prognosticating
form: prognosticated
form: prognosticated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.
Senses: examples: text: Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
text: But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And constant stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.'
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: All old people and many sick people were drawn, were it only for a foot or two, into the open air, and prognosticated pleasant things about the course of the world.
ref: 1915 – Virginia Woolf, Voyage Out ch. 2
synonyms: foretell
prophesy
glosses: To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
examples: text: The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
synonyms: foretoken
foreshadow
portend
glosses: To presage, betoken.
Related terms: prognosis
prognostic
prognostication
prognostize
tiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪdɪŋ/
Forms: form: tidings
form: tidind
form: tidinde
Etymology: From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?
And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
ref: c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Against Venemous Tongues […]; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC:
text: […] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 1:42:
text: Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 302:
text: But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin.
ref: 19th century, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”:
text: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:
glosses: News; new information.
tiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪdɪŋ/
Forms: form: tidind
form: tidinde
Etymology: From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tide
blood test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood tests
form: blood-test
Senses: examples: text: HIV-positive persons may test falsely on the standard syphilis blood tests because they may not be able to mount the "normal" immunological response required of such tests.
ref: 1988 April 16, Mike Smith, “AIDS and Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: blood work
glosses: A laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample that is usually extracted from a vein in the arm using a hypodermic needle, or by fingerprick.
topics: biology
genetics
law
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An analysis of blood performed on two subjects to determine whether they are biologically related, such as a paternity test.
blood test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blood tests
form: blood testing
form: blood tested
form: blood tested
Senses: glosses: To administer or conduct a blood test (on someone).
blood sample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood samples
Senses: glosses: A sample of blood.
Related terms: blood test
water birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water births
form: waterbirth
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A form of childbirth in which the mother is supported in a birthing pool so that the child is delivered into the warm water.
birthing pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthing pools
Senses: glosses: A specially designed pool, filled with warm water, in which water births take place.
culminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.məˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkal.mɪ.næɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌlmɪnət/
ipa: /ˈkəlmənət/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.məˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkal.mɪ.næɪt/
Etymology: First attested in 1846; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the culmen.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing upward, as opposed to lateral growth.
Derived terms: preculminate
wazzock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwazək/
Forms: form: wazzocks
Etymology: Possibly from wiseacre, influenced by pillock, or possibly wazz + -ock. First attested in the 1984 novel When the Martians Land in Huddersfield by Mike Harding. Harding (born 1944) later claimed that he "used it when I was a kid,” it being “fairly common in the north, in Lancashire and Yorkshire”, and suggested that the term came from the instrument used to fling a monarch's excrement out the window.
Senses: examples: text: I turn, as I must, to Mr Trump. His comments about Muslims are wrong. His policy to close borders, if he is elected as President, is bonkers. If he met one or two of my constituents in one of the many excellent pubs in my constituency, they may well tell him that he is a wazzock for dealing with the issue in that way.
ref: 2016 18 January, Victoria Atkins MP, House of Commons debate concerning Donald Trump
glosses: A stupid or annoying person.
weight training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
synonyms: strength training
resistance training
weightlifting
glosses: A form of physical exercise using weights to increase the strength and size of muscles by using exercises specific for each muscle group.
Derived terms: weight-train
Related terms: weight training on Wikiversity
weight-train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weight-trains
form: weight-training
form: weight-trained
form: weight-trained
Etymology: Back-formation from weight training.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: To take part in weight training
West Lothian question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the West Lothian question
Etymology: Coined by Enoch Powell MP in 1977 after series of similar questions originally raised by Tam Dalyell, MP for West Lothian.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The anomaly whereby Scottish MPs can vote on issues affecting England, but English MPs cannot vote on Scottish issues.
wikipedia: Tam Dalyell
wolf dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf dogs
form: wolfdog
form: wolf-dog
Senses: examples: text: One grisly old wolf-dog alone, with the liberty of an indulged favourite, had planted himself close by the chair of state, and occasionally ventured to solicit notice by putting his large hairy head upon his master’s knee, or pushing his nose into his hand.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Bayan was a dog, a tall gray wolf-dog. He could jump over the table with a single bound.
ref: 1916, Arthur Ransome, “The Hut in the Forest”, in Old Peter's Russian Tales:
text: The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dog trained to hunt wolves.
examples: text: At the man’s heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, grey-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf.
ref: 1908, Jack London, “To Build a Fire”, in Lost Face:
text: That night the starved wolf dogs gorged themselves till they could not rise from the snow.
ref: 1908, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in The Last of the Plainsmen:
glosses: A hybrid between a wolf and a dog.
Derived terms: Saarloos wolfdog
Related terms: wolfhound
wolfdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfdogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wolf dog.
workgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəːkɡɹuːp/
Forms: form: workgroups
form: work group
Etymology: From work + group.
Senses: synonyms: working group
coordinate_terms: committee
squad
team
task force
glosses: A group of workers engaged in a series of collaborative tasks who usually work together.
examples: text: When you set up a network, Windows creates a workgroup and gives it a name automatically[…]
ref: 2008, Chris Fehily, Microsoft Windows Vista:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer network created for use by such groups.
Derived terms: workgrouping
Related terms: workflow
work product
workstream
work shadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of accompanying and observing someone at work in order to train or to obtain insight.
Related terms: apprentice
buddy
mentor
trainee
Bogdan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bohdan
Etymology: From Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ, a calque of Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros, “Theodore”, literally “gift of God”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
arch enemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch enemies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archenemy.
stick and carrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticks and carrots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carrot and stick.
FURPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of functionality, usability, reliability, performance, supportability; used to help remember the major requirements of software.
write once
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.
Related terms: WORM
PROM
programmable read-only memory
yardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yardie.
yardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardies
Etymology: From yard + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A yard of ale.
mapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæpɪŋ/
Forms: form: mappings
Senses: glosses: The process of making maps.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: object-relational mapping
Derived terms: automapping
biomapping
bump mapping
conformal mapping
countermapping
crossmapping
cube mapping
displacement mapping
environment mapping
heatmapping
imagemapping
immunomapping
karyomapping
keymapping
lightmapping
mapping class group
mapping reduction
micromapping
multimapping
phosphomapping
photon mapping
reflection mapping
Schwarz-Christoffel mapping
shadow mapping
shear mapping
skymapping
time-one mapping
tone mapping
mapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of map
disclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: disclaims
form: disclaiming
form: disclaimed
form: disclaimed
Etymology: From Middle English disclaimen, from Anglo-Norman disclaimer, from Old French desclamer (French déclamer), des- + clamer.
Senses: examples: text: He calls the Gods to witness their offence, / Disclaims the War, asserts his Innocence.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 424, lines 817–818:
text: He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
ref: 1755, Hugh Farmer, Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament:
text: By heavens if ever you do it again. If ever you dare to show yourself in my house; or give my name at a gambling-house or at any other house, by Jove—at any other house—or give any reference at all to me, or speak to me in the street, by Gad, or any where else until I speak to you—I disclaim you altogether—I won’t give you another shilling.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter V, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 49:
text: "I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
ref: 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
synonyms: disown
disavow
reject
glosses: To completely renounce claims to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for
examples: text: The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: To deny (e.g. claim); to refuse.
glosses: (law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
examples: text: I disclaim that there will be a lot of inside humor. If you don't read a.r.s often, or are a newbie, you won't get some of the gags.
ref: 2000 December 4, Michael Reuss, “Clambytes 2000 ”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: To make an admission or warning.
Synonyms: sense: renounce all claim to
word: disavow
word: disown
word: repudiate
word: renounce
sense: deny as a claim
word: refuse
Derived terms: disclaimer
undisclaimed
disclaims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disclaim
disclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disclaim
disclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disclaim
search box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search boxes
form: searchbox
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.
Synonyms: search bar
search field
videos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video
videos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of video
brodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊdi/
ipa: /bɹəʊdi/
rhymes: -oʊdi
rhymes: -əʊdi
Forms: form: brodies
form: brody
Etymology: From bro or broski, shortening of brother.
Senses: glosses: A close male friend, or a man deserving of respect; a bro.
Derived terms: crodie
brodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊdi/
ipa: /bɹəʊdi/
rhymes: -oʊdi
rhymes: -əʊdi
Forms: form: brodies
form: brody
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brody (“automobile stunt”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of Brodie (“a suicidal leap, or risky chance taken”).
footstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtstɛp/
Forms: form: footsteps
Etymology: From Middle English fotstep, fotstappe, from Old English *fōtstepe, *fōtstæpe (attested only in derivative fōtstappel (“footstep”)), equivalent to foot + step. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutstappe (“footstep”), West Frisian fuotstap (“footstep”), Dutch voetstap (“footstep”).
Senses: examples: text: The child watched as his footsteps in the sand were washed away by the waves.
synonyms: footprint
step
track
glosses: The mark or impression left by a foot; a track.
examples: text: To walk the footsteps of greatness requires that you start at the bottom of a long stair.
text: follow in someone's footsteps
synonyms: point
path
step
trail
glosses: The indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken.
examples: text: The footsteps of the students echoed in the empty hall.
text: Hear footsteps creak the floor / The shadows give away / Someone outside the door / Won't let 'em in
ref: 2009, “A Looking In View”, in Jerry Cantrell (lyrics), Black Gives Way To Blue, performed by Alice in Chains, Track 5:
synonyms: footfall
plod
step
tread
glosses: The sound made by walking, running etc.
examples: text: The garden path had a small footstep down to the main walkway.
synonyms: riser
step
glosses: A step, as in a stair.
examples: text: Mere footsteps away from the victim lay the murder weapon.
synonyms: pace
step
stride
glosses: The distance between one foot and the next when walking; a pace.
examples: text: Take one more footstep towards me, and I'll make you sorry!
text: God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
ref: 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] , 4th edition, page 252:
synonyms: pace
plod
step
stride
tread
glosses: The act of taking a step.
glosses: An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Derived terms: devil's footstep
Related terms: footer
footsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtstɛps/
Senses: glosses: plural of footstep
desex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desexes
form: desexing
form: desexed
form: desexed
Etymology: From de- + sex.
Senses: glosses: To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often via physical sterilization.
examples: text: The Bronski Beat doesn't hint and flirt; it delivers. There's no artsy and safe vagueness behind "Need a Man Blues": […] The group hasn't desexed itself even to make a video.
ref: 1985 August 10, Walta Borawski, “Sex, Liberation and Rock n' Roll”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 6:
glosses: To desexualize.
Related terms: unsex
destitute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtuːt/
Forms: form: more destitute
form: most destitute
Etymology: From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin dēstitūtus.
Senses: examples: text: Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatly destitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.
ref: 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 9, in The Prairie:
text: In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 141:8:
glosses: Lacking something; devoid.
raw_tags: followed by the preposition "of"
examples: text: Near-synonym: penniless
text: ‘Do you know how pinched and destitute I am?’ she retorted. ‘I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me.[…]’
In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 45.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: according to the most careful estimates, 3,950,000 destitute peoples, mostly women and children who had been driven many of them as far as one thousand miles from home, turn their pitiful faces toward America for help in the reconstructive period in which we are now living.
ref: 1918, Aurora Mardiganian, translated by Henry Leyford Gates, Ravished Armenia:
text: He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
text: May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag
glosses: Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
Derived terms: destitutely
destituteness
destitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/
ipa: /ˈdɛstɪtuːt/
Forms: form: destitutes
form: destituting
form: destituted
form: destituted
Etymology: From Middle English destituten, from the adjective (see above).
Senses: glosses: To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.
cacique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: caciques
form: cazic
form: cazique
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cacique, from Taíno *kasike or Lokono kassequa, cazaqah (“chieftain; power”).
Senses: examples: text: Mexico has loved a strong leader since before Moctezuma. Indigenous tribes were ruled by caciques, or chieftans^([sic]), and in some rural communities caciques are still unchallenged.
ref: 1993 December 5, Anthony Depalma, “Why Mexico Has Only One Big Hat In the Ring”, in New York Times:
synonyms: chieftain
glosses: A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.
coordinate_terms: caudillo
glosses: A local political leader in Latin America, Spain, or the Philippines.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any of a number of tropical birds from Central America and South America in the genera Cacicus, Cassiculus, and Amblycercus.
Derived terms: caciquism
limeade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmeɪd/
Forms: form: limeades
Etymology: From lime + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A (variety of) citrus drink made from water, sugar, and the juice of limes.
glosses: A serving of this drink.
Related terms: lemonade
pick corners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks corners
form: picking corners
form: picked corners
form: picked corners
Senses: glosses: To choose a preference (as in predicting which boxer will win a match).
corner tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner teeth
Senses: glosses: One of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.
haidingerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Haidinger + -ite, named in honor of Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime, its formula is Ca(AsO₃OH)·H₂O
wikipedia: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
haiduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haiducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
hayduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
heiduc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heiducs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
heiduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heiducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
heyduk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heyduks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
hail-fellow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And there were ministers of many creeds,—pastors of great, gilt-edged congregations, at the seaside for a rest, with shepherds of the regular work,—from the priests of the Church on the Hill to bush-bearded ex-sailor Lutherans, hail-fellow with the men of a score of boats.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: Synonym of hail-fellow-well-met.
synonyms: word: hail-fellow-well-met
hail-fellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail-fellows
Senses: examples: text: that being forbidden to be bold thou shouldst grow impudent, or being suffered to be familiar thou shouldst wax hail-fellow?.
ref: 1580, John Lyly, Euphues and His England:
text: Losing money every time he sold a beast, wasting stamps galore on letters to endless auctioneers, frequently remaining in town half a week at a stretch, and being hail-fellow to all the spongers to be found on the trail of such as he, quickly left him on the verge of bankruptcy. Some of his contemporaries say it was grog that did it all.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, Chapter 4:
glosses: A close acquaintance.
Derived terms: hail fellow well met
hailfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hailfellows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hail-fellow.
drop a bollock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a bollock
form: dropping a bollock
form: dropped a bollock
form: dropped a bollock
Senses: glosses: To make a mistake.
Hudson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌd.sən/
Forms: form: Hudsons
Etymology: From Hudd + -son. Doublet of Hutson.
Senses: glosses: An automobile manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.
examples: text: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A steam locomotive of the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement.