cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phone tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: phone + tag (children's game)
Senses: examples: text: "What frequently results is a game of phone tag. One party tries to reach another, is unable to, and leaves voice-mail indicating an interest in finding a time to meet. The other party returns the call, more often than not fails to reach the original caller, and leaves voice-mail in response."
ref: 2000, Sharon MacDonald, Gilbert Cockton, People and Computers XIV - Usability Or Else!: Proceedings of HCI 2000:
text: "Avoid phone tag, which results when two parties go back and forth trying to reach each other by phone."
ref: 2005, Dorothy A. Maxwell, Phone Skills for the Information Age:
text: "To reduce the time you spend playing phone tag, ask what time the client will be in and call back then."
ref: 2006, Steven Fishman, Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants:
glosses: A situation in which two individuals attempting to contact each other by telephone repeatedly do not get a live person and instead trade messages, such as by voice mail.
Synonyms: telephone tag
monodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monodists
Etymology: From monody + -ist.
Senses: glosses: The writer of a monody.
Derived terms: monodic
monodical
threnodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Perhaps I ought not to use the word 'trifle' in connection with a composition of a threnodial and dirge-like character," he continued deprecatingly.
ref: 1887, Bret Harte, chapter 7, in The Crusade of the Excelsior:
glosses: Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
Synonyms: elegiac
threnodic
Related terms: threnodist
threnodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From threnody + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: There is a definite poetic impulse here, too: possibly threnodic in character (the work is dedicated to the memory of her mother), but certainly with some elements of darkness and poignancy underlying it.
ref: 1964, Stanley Sadie, “Cheltenham Festival”, in The Musical Times, volume 105, number 1459, page 673:
glosses: Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
Synonyms: elegiac
threnodial
threnodian
Related terms: threnodist
threnodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threnodists
Etymology: From threnody + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who writes or says a threnody.
Derived terms: threnodic
threnodial
virelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virelays
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of virelai.
Lü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Lü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tai-Kadai language spoken in Yunnan province of China, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
Lü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lu
form: Lv
form: Lyu
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 呂 /吕 (Lǚ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
visual poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual poems
Senses: synonyms: shape poem
hypernyms: visual text
hyponyms: concrete poem
typestract
glosses: A poem written in such a way that the lines form a pattern, usually related to the subject-matter of the poem.
matrix decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrix decompositions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A process by which a matrix (a rectangular table of numbers or abstract quantities that can be added and multiplied) is broken down into simpler numerical building blocks.
chebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheb
Synonyms: breasts
altar poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altar poems
Etymology: altar + poem
Senses: glosses: a visual poem in the shape of an altar or a cross
carmen figuratum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carmina figurata
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin carmen figuratum.
Senses: synonyms: figure poem
glosses: A visual poem in the shape of an object.
figure poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figure poems
Senses: glosses: A visual poem in the shape of an object.
Synonyms: carmen figuratum
shape poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shape poems
Senses: glosses: A poem written in such a way that the lines form a pattern, usually related to the subject-matter of the poem.
Synonyms: visual poem
autocomplete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocompletes
form: autocompleting
form: autocompleted
form: autocompleted
Etymology: From auto- + complete.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To complete automatically.
Related terms: autocompletion
autocomplete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + complete.
Senses: examples: text: Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.
ref: 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
Hyponyms: find as you type
predictive text
search as you type
Related terms: autocorrect
emails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of email
emails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of email
cordovans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordovan
overdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdressed
form: most overdressed
form: over-dressed
Etymology: From over- + dressed.
Senses: examples: text: Almost all babies get heat rash during hot weather. However, heat rash can occur even in cold weather if your child is overdressed either during the daytime or the nighttime.
ref: 1994, Ira J. Chasnoff, “Heat Rash”, in Your Child: A Medical Guide, page 297:
glosses: Wearing too many clothes for the weather or the occasion.
examples: text: Not, a thousand times not, that she should be overdressed. An overdressed Angel is a contradiction in terms. We associate not angelic attributes with the gorgeous attire and plenipotent jewellery of a Houndsditch Hebrewess. Just as the man who is got up in the loudest of loud costumes, and hangs out as a sort of Christmas tree, with incongruous braveries and charms and nicknacks pendent all over, we are apt to deem not a gentleman, but a gent.
ref: 1870 October, Perceval Picard, “House Angel in Trim Array”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 147, number 598, page 387:
text: "I was worried you might think I am overdressed," Sheinna replied in a small voice.
ref: 2012, Barbara Cartland, Love and the Clans (The Pink Collection; 89), →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing clothes too formal or too elaborate for the occasion.
Synonyms: overclothed
overdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-dressed
Etymology: From overdress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdress
tourney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɝni/
ipa: /ˈtʊɚni/
ipa: /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/
ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)ni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)ni
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: tourneys
form: tournies
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Senses: examples: text: By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
I sumon’d am to Tourney.
ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
roman: mee thinke it is noe iourney.
text: And let the recreant traitors seek
 My tourney court.
ref: 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
 And there is scantly time for half the work.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A tournament.
tourney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɝni/
ipa: /ˈtʊɚni/
ipa: /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/
ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)ni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)ni
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: tourneys
form: tourneying
form: tourneyed
form: tourneyed
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Senses: examples: text: Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: To take part in a tournament.
enduement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enduements
Etymology: From endue + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Enduing.
glosses: A thing endued.
soixante-neuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.
Senses: examples: text: When he wanted to bury his face in my crotch, or do soixante-neuf, I laughed. He was offended.
ref: 2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: sixty-nine (sex position)
soixante-neuf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soixante-neufs
form: soixante-neufing
form: soixante-neufed
form: soixante-neufed
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.
Senses: glosses: Sixty-nine.(sex position)
scurried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scurry
click beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of various beetles of the family Elateridae, generally less than 20 mm long, which, if turned upside down, flip themselves into the air with a clicking sound.
Synonyms: snap bug
snap beetle
snapper
snapping beetle
skipjack
ipsissimosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Ipsissimosität, coined in 1886 by Friedrich Nietzsche from the Latin ipsissima (“very own”).
Senses: examples: text: who has not been sick to death of everything subjective and its accursed ipsissimosity!
ref: 1907, Helen Zimmern (translator) of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
glosses: Self-referentiality.
wikipedia: Friedrich Nietzsche
Arunim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अरुणिमन् (aruṇiman, “redness, red color”), referring to the reddish glow of the sun, which could be easily seen on the early morning sky.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hindi used in India.
epikeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epieikeia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιείκεια (epieíkeia, “reasonableness”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: The principle in ethics that a law can be broken to achieve a greater good.
MSTID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Multiple Spanning Tree IDentifier.
glosses: Initialism of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances.
polar cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar cones
Senses: examples: Since a is in S and b is in Sᵒ — the polar cone of S — we know that aᵀ b ≤ 0.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relative to a set S in Rⁿ, the set of points y such that the inner product of x and y is not positive for any point x in S.
Related terms: sense: set of points
word: dual cone
polyphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphons
Senses: glosses: A wooden-cased music box of a kind typically manufactured in Germany.
breezier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of breezy: more breezy
breeziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of breezy: most breezy
noontime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noontimes
Etymology: From noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).
Senses: synonyms: high noon
glosses: Noon.
examples: the noontime hours
glosses: Approximately noon.
examples: text: We should so organize our rank and mobilize our forces that our influence may not be dissipated before the advancing hosts of quackery and ignorance. This we can do effectively if only the wise and successful ones among our leaders can be induced to forgo the dolce far niente of the noontime of their lives.
ref: 1890, J.W. Collins, “Society proceedings of the Colorado State Medical Society”, in The Omaha Clinic, volume 3, number 5, retrieved 20 Mar 2021, page 131:
glosses: The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).
Synonyms: midday
nones
sext
hazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hazy: more hazy
haziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hazy: most hazy
icier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of icy: more icy
iciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of icy: most icy
noisier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of noisy: more noisy
noisiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of noisy: most noisy
luckiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lucky: most lucky
luckier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lucky: more lucky
boiled eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boiled egg
kotlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotlety
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish kotlet, from French côtelette. Doublet of cutlet, kotleta, and partly katsu.
Senses: glosses: A type of Polish meat patty.
Related terms: kotlet schabowy
kotlet mielony
kotlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotlets
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian کتلت, from French côtelette.
Senses: glosses: A type of Persian meat patty.
kofta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒftə/
ipa: /ˈkɑːftə/
ipa: /ˈkɔːftə/
Forms: form: koftas
form: kafta
form: kofte
form: koufta
form: kufta
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian کوفْتَه (kōfta, “ground meat”), from کوفْتَن (kōftan, “to grind, break, beat”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various spicy meatball or meatloaf dishes of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia, and the Balkans.
Related terms: english: also a food, probably etymologically unrelated
translation: also a food, probably etymologically unrelated
word: malai kofta
kran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qiran.
lost sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost sheep
Etymology: From the parable of the Lost Sheep.
Senses: glosses: A disadvantaged or marginalized person who can be "brought back into the fold" with a little effort.
wikipedia: parable of the Lost Sheep
pole building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole buildings
Senses: glosses: A building constructed around a frame of timbers.
glosses: A similar building in which metal poles are used instead of timbers.
deflator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfleɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deflators
Etymology: From deflate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The balloons will have to have an altitude deflator. When a balloon reaches a certain predetermined altitude, the deflator will begin to let out the helium gas to the point of restricting the ultimate ascension of the balloon.
ref: 2017, Daniel Perkins, Ted Baker in Terrorist Gold, page 161:
glosses: That which deflates.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
hooky-playing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That plays hooky.
salt-and-pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salt-and-pepper
form: most salt-and-pepper
form: pepper-and-salt
form: pepper and salt
Senses: examples: text: salt-and-pepper hair
text: fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern
text: In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 277:
text: A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.
ref: 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253:
text: He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.
ref: 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330:
glosses: Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
tattersall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattersalls
Etymology: From an English place name.
Senses: glosses: A fabric pattern containing squares of dark lines on a light background.
Tattersall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tattersalls
Etymology: Habitational surname from Tattershall, in Lincolnshire, named from the Old English personal name Tathere + healh (“corner, nook”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
wikipedia: Tattershall
Related terms: Tattershall
Tattersalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tattersalls
Etymology: From the name of a famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races.
Senses: examples: text: […] the professional betting-man, who has no other occupation, and never misses a race-meeting, or a Tattersall's […]
ref: 1857, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 328:
text: Tattersalls, adjacent to the County Stand, has no seating but stepped terracing and a large tarmac area down to the rails.
ref: 2004, Sports Ticket:
text: In Manchester the Post Office Hotel was its equivalent to Tattersalls, with entry likewise by subscription but a distinct absence of gentry and aristocratic members […]
ref: 2006, J. A. Mangan, A sport-loving society: Victorian and Edwardian middle-class England at play:
text: For three pounds you get a badge — a brown, green, yellow and white shield — that admits you to the grand stand, Tattersalls and the paddock, […]
ref: 2006, Robert Lynd, The Sporting Life And Other Trifles:
glosses: A rendezvous at most British racecourses, provided by a company of auctioneers
knackery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knackery
form: most knackery
Senses: examples: text: The house was very knackery looking.
glosses: Something to do with knackers.
examples: text: The young boys were behaving very knackery in the park.
glosses: Scummy (behaviour).
knackery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knackeries
Senses: synonyms: knacker's yard
schindery
glosses: The workplace of a knacker; a knacker's yard.
Related terms: knickknackery
nonperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonperformances
Etymology: From non- + performance.
Senses: glosses: A failure to perform a task, especially a task that one was legally bound to do.
Related terms: noncompliance
nonperforming
double-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double talk.
revving up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rev up
rev up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revs up
form: revving up
form: revved up
form: revved up
Senses: examples: text: The huge Rolls-Royce engine revved up. Then the back wheels spun furiously, and clouds of smoke filled the air.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To increase the speed of an engine, especially that of a stationary motor car.
examples: text: Blast out of the gate on Monday by listening to up-tempo music before your workout. Israeli scientists say this can raise your heart rate, rev you up for an intense exercise session, and temporarily boost muscle power by 10 percent.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:
glosses: To make (someone or something) more active.
examples: text: I didn't much want to leave again, but, though I'm not sure I exactly understand why, I just knew I had to rev up again to play this thing out.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 225:
glosses: To become more active.
Synonyms: sense: to increase the speed of an engine
word: give it the gun
sense: to increase the speed of an engine
word: tach up
low key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A restrained or subdued situation.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A dark area of a photograph with little contrast.
Derived terms: low-key
low-keyed
low key
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more low key
form: most low key
Senses: examples: text: “When I started sleeping on the floor, I thought, ‘Whatever, it’s a mattress, I’ll be fine, I did it when I was a teen,’ but eventually, it actually became a real problem that was low key fucking my life,” Smith told me.
ref: 2019 February 5, Maria Yagoda, “Why Do So Many Adult Men Keep Their Mattresses On The Floor?”, in Vice:
text: In terms of the overall story of the finale, it’s smart how much emphasis the episode puts on the juice in the portal gun, as that’s going to be a major factor in “Rickmurai Jack;” the portal gun is low key the most important invention in Rick’s arsenal, and the episode does a good job of underlining that without belaboring the point.
ref: 2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club:
glosses: Alternative spelling of low-key.
year-to-year
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more year-to-year
form: most year-to-year
Senses: glosses: Being compared with those of a previous year; interannual.
disintermediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disintermediations
Etymology: From dis- + intermediation.
Senses: examples: text: Any disintermediation crisis, such as has occurred three times since 1966, causes mortgage money to dry up and slow down new housing construction which the country desperately needs.
ref: 1974 July 18, “Disintermediation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: banking
business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: The removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.
examples: text: The news industry is undergoing a massive disintermediation due to the ubiquitous low-cost communication made possible by the internet.
text: New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
text: The logic of disintermediation seems self-evident: By putting factories directly in contact with stores, by helping customers order directly from manufacturers, by letting riders coordinate with drivers, you cut out a needless source of waste and inefficiency.
ref: 2017 August 15, Charles Duhigg, “The Rise of the Fidget Spinner and the Fall of the Well-Managed Fad”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
glosses: The removal of an intermediary from a commercial transaction.
Related terms: disintermediate
cut out the middleman
disintermediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disintermediates
form: disintermediating
form: disintermediated
form: disintermediated
Etymology: Back-formation from disintermediation.
Senses: examples: text: High-profile ventures like Amazon.com, Dell, and E*Trade helped to hype the Internet as the means to disintermediate, or cut out the middlemen. The theory was that these indirect channels weren't necessary anymore.
ref: 2001, Business Week, page 76:
text: The rise of the Internet has allowed individuals in the dating market to disintermediate their friends, i.e. to meet romantic partners without the personal intermediation of their friends and family.
ref: 2019 August 20, Michael Rosenfeld, Reuben J. Thomas, Sonia Hausen, “Disintermediating your friends: How Online Dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 116, number 36, →DOI:
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: To carry out disintermediation, to remove another from intermediation.
reviewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reviewers
Etymology: From review + -er.
Senses: examples: text: AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. [...] Such a disappointing work is embarrassing to the reviewer and unworthy of the great House of Cassell.
ref: 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
synonyms: critic
glosses: A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.
glosses: A person who reviews songs, movies, games, or other forms of artistic works.
examples: text: The cost of initial site evaluation visits will vary with the cost of travel from the USDA reviewer's duty station to the applicant's place of business.
ref: 2007, Mary Choate, Organic Lies:
glosses: An inspector.
glosses: Any comprehensive study material used to review for an examination; study guide.
electorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electorships
Etymology: From elector + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or term of an elector.
ross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rough, scaly surface on the bark of trees.
ross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rosses
form: rossing
form: rossed
form: rossed
Senses: examples: to ross bark
glosses: To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.
ross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosses
Senses: glosses: A swamp.
Electorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Electorships
Senses: glosses: The position or rule of an Elector.
glosses: The realm of an Elector.
acromegalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin acromegalia, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “tip, extremity”) and μέγας (mégas, “large”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of acromegaly.
acromegalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acromegaly
acromegalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækɹoʊmɪˈɡælɪk/
ipa: /ˌakɹə(ʊ)mɪˈɡalɪk/
Forms: form: more acromegalic
form: most acromegalic
Etymology: From acromegal(y) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: At that moment a match flared on the far side of the room and illuminated the ruddy acromegalic features of Smirke […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 133:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of acromegaly.
acromegalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækɹoʊmɪˈɡælɪk/
ipa: /ˌakɹə(ʊ)mɪˈɡalɪk/
Forms: form: acromegalics
Etymology: From acromegal(y) + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A person affected by acromegaly.
Marie's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pierre Marie who described the diseases below.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease acromegaly.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.
Synonyms: sense: acromegaly
word: acromegaly
sense: acromegaly
word: acromegalia
word: Bamberger-Marie disease
acromegalics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acromegalic
bambini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bambino
vortice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔː.tɪ.siː/
ipa: /ˈvɔː.tɪs/
ipa: /ˈvɔɹ.tɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈvɔɹ.tɪs/
Forms: form: vortices
Etymology: Back-formation from vortices.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vortex.
epazote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpəˈzoʊteɪ/
Forms: form: epazotes
Etymology: From Spanish epazote, from Classical Nahuatl epazōtl.
Senses: glosses: A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides.
Synonyms: sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: wormseed
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: Jesuit's tea
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: Mexican tea
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
alt: paico
word: payqu
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: herba sancti Mariae
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: Jerusalem oak
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: drug wormseed
neurolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurolysins
Etymology: From neuro- + lysin.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A neurotoxin.
neurolysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurolysin
Rhonda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑndə/
ipa: /ˈɹɒndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
Etymology: Modern coinage explained as Welsh rhon (“pike, lance”) + da (“good”)
Senses: examples: text: Well, Rhonda, you caught my eye / And I can give you lots of reasons why / You gotta help me, Rhonda
ref: 1965, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, “Help Me, Rhonda”, performed by The Beach Boys:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Rhondda
Robyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Robin.
glosses: A male given name.
synapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synapse
synapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synapse
neurosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
Derived terms: endoneurosurgical
microneurosurgical
neurosurgically
postneurosurgical
sympathectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathectomy
neurosurgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosurgery
batrachotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batrachotoxins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + toxin.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
neurotoxicology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: An extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in poison dart frogs.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Any one of a group of extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloids found in poison dart frogs, Melyridae beetles, and certain birds.
Derived terms: batrachotoxinin
homobatrachotoxin
Shelby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛlbi/
Etymology: From a medieval name, of obscure origin, yet likely an alteration of Middle English Selby, Salibi (“dweller of the willow place”), from salwe (“willow, sallow”) + -by (“settlement, farm”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
examples: text: As they walked, Shelby reached down and gently took Alan's hand to hold. They warmly exchanged a smile with each other just before Shelby looked down and Alan blushed. Whenever she was with Alan he made her feel like an innocent girl again.
ref: 2008, Raymond Smith II, An American Odyssey, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Toole County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Shelby Township.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Shelby County.
Synonyms: sense: female given name
word: Shelbi
Derived terms: Shelby County
Shelby knot
Shelbyville
Related terms: Shelbina
memorial park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorial parks
Senses: glosses: A cemetery.
Cheri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Cherie
Etymology: A variant of Sherry or coined from French chéri, chérie (“darling”), not used as a given name in France.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
batrachotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batrachotoxin
studiolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studioli
Etymology: From Italian studiolo.
Senses: glosses: A study (room).
dominos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domino
dominos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dominoes.
Tonya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Phonetic rendering of Russian То́ня (Tónja), an informal pet form of Антони́на (Antonína, “Antonina”).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Antonina or Antonia, from Russian
Derived terms: Tonya Finosu
Antonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtəʊni.ə/
ipa: /ænˈtəʊnjə/
text: Audio
Etymology: From Spanish Antonia. The feminine equivalent of Anthony.
Senses: examples: text: Mom, I ask, will you call me Ant.
"Oh, Antonia," my mother sighs. Her face looks pained. She is quiet for a few moments and then she says, "Antonia is such a lovely name. When I named you, you were the sweetest, most perfect little baby. - - - "
ref: 2001, Gennifer Choldenko, Notes from a Liar and her Dog, Scholastic, published 2002, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Related terms: word: Antoinette
sense: pet forms
word: Toni
sense: pet forms
word: Tonia
sense: pet forms
word: Tonya
dianetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dianetics.
Tracy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsi/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: Tracys
form: Tracies
form: Tracey
form: Traci
form: Tracie
Etymology: A Norman baronial surname from places in France, derived from a Gallo-Roman given name Thracius which referred to Thrace + the Celtic suffix *-āko (place, property). As a female given name, it is also known as a diminutive of Theresa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 19th century and later usage.
examples: text: "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."
ref: 1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 130:
text: Her name was Theresa (often Tracy) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.
ref: 1993, Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns, Caxton Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.
ref: 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
glosses: A village in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.
examples: text: A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.
ref: 2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A sizable city in San Joaquin County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood in the town of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Platte County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Dickless Tracy
Tracyton
Traci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Tracy.
Pacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacers
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144.
Related terms: Sprinter
Pacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacer
trouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troupe
concurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈkʌɹənsi/
Forms: form: concurrencies
Senses: glosses: The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
road
transport
synonyms: road concurrency
glosses: A stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes.
Hyponyms: topics: science
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: optimistic concurrency
topics: science
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: pessimistic concurrency
Derived terms: autoconcurrency
concurrency pattern
nonconcurrency
timestamp-based concurrency control
wrong-way concurrency
Labonte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: LaBonte
form: laBonte
form: La Bonte
form: la Bonte
form: Labonté
form: LaBonté
form: laBonté
form: La Bonté
form: la Bonté
form: Labontee
form: LaBontee
form: laBontee
form: La Bontee
form: la Bontee
form: Labontey
form: LaBontey
form: laBontey
form: La Bontey
form: la Bontey
form: Labontie
form: LaBontie
form: laBontie
form: La Bontie
form: la Bontie
form: Labonti
form: LaBonti
form: laBonti
form: La Bonti
form: la Bonti
form: Labonty
form: LaBonty
form: laBonty
form: La Bonty
form: la Bonty
form: Bonte
form: Bonté
form: Bontee
form: Bontey
form: Bonti
form: Bontie
form: Bonty
Etymology: From French Labonté. From French la bonté, meaning "kindness, benevolence".
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Coordinate terms: english: equivalent surname of Anglo-Norman origin
translation: equivalent surname of Anglo-Norman origin
word: Labounte
lustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lʌsˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: lustrations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lustratio.
Senses: examples: text: It will be remembered, that this beautiful Island was sacred to the ancient Greeks, from having been the birth-place of Apollo and Diana. None were born or died there—the mothers and the dying were carried to the neighbouring islet of Rhane. Solemn expeditions, with much priestly pomp, were frequently made from Athens to enforce this ordinance, particularly to propitiate the Gods in time of public calamity. Our era refers to the celebrated lustration, at the time of the Peloponnesian war, during the plague of Athens.
ref: 1830, Felicia Hemans, A Song of Delos, footnote, from The Winter's Wreath, 1831, page 49:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A rite of purification, especially washing.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
Derived terms: lustral
lustrical
lustrational
Related terms: lustrate
corvee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːveɪ/
ipa: /kɔːɹˈveɪ/
Forms: form: corvees
form: corvée
Etymology: From French corvée, from Late Latin conrogāta, derived from Latin conrogāre (“call together by entreaty”).
Senses: glosses: Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
glosses: Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.
Invisible Pink Unicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Invisible Pink Unicorn
support groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of support group
corporate censorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of corporate influence to limit freedom of expression, achieved through refusal to sell a product, or refusal to advertise or allow airtime.
bijou problemette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijou problemettes
form: bijoux problemettes
Etymology: bijou (“small, little”) + problem + -ette
Senses: examples: text: A bijou problemette then arose. The conference finished too late for me to catch the northbound Eurostar Connection Waterloo-Edinburgh train.
ref: 1995 November 29, Nick Thompson, “Re: Eurostar”, in misc.transport.rail.europe (Usenet):
text: There is also the "bijou problemette" (as my old chemistry teacher would say) that members of this consortium can't legitimately enter the quiz, since they wrote some of the questions.
ref: 1999 February 11, Simon Nickerson, “Re: Trivia Quiz -- an announcement”, in alt.fan.eddings (Usenet):
text: I have a 'bijou problemette' with my PC. It only works after a period of being switched off.
ref: 2001 April 6, Peter Bartley, “The PC that runs once a day...”, in uk.comp.peripherals.misc (Usenet):
text: So Italy had a couple of bijoux problemettes; Mussolini had more, once he’d been dismissed as leader of the Fascist Party, and from leading the government of the country, he was arrested and gaoled by the Italians…
ref: 2013 October 2nd, “ppint. at pplay” (username), “Re: the balfour declaration” in alt.fan.pratchett, Usenet
glosses: A little fault or problem.
dive in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dives in
form: diving in
form: dived in
form: dove in
form: dived in
Senses: examples: text: Don't just get a toe wet; dive in and create your first entry.
text: The new project at work is so exciting - I want to dive right in.
glosses: To start a new endeavor enthusiastically and wholeheartedly.
Synonyms: plunge in
unchallenging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchallenging
form: most unchallenging
Etymology: From un- + challenging.
Senses: glosses: Not challenging; easy to do.
Synonyms: simple
trivial
Related terms: challenge
romantic friendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romantic friendships
Senses: glosses: An intensely emotional love relationship between two people, in which sexuality is unimportant and typically absent, but there is greater physical affection or emotional communication than is typical for friendship.
Related terms: passionate friendship
affectionate friendship
friend with benefits
heterosociality
conjugial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʒuːɡɪəl/
ipa: /kənˈdʒuːdʒɪəl/
Etymology: From Latin coniugiālis, from coniugium (“connection, marriage”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]n common scortation, or simple adultery, there is not a love analogous to conjugial love, for it is only a heat of the flesh, which instantly defervesces, and sometimes does not leave any trace of love behind it towards it's object; […] It is otherwise in the case of polygamical scortation; herein there is a love analogous to conjugial love, for it doth not defervesce, is not dissipated, nor doth it pass off into nothing after effervescence, as the foregoing, but it remains, renews, and strengthens itself, and so far takes away from love to the wife, and in the place thereof induces cold towards the wife; […]
ref: 1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of Concubinage”, in [anonymous], transl., The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: […] R. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, paragraph 466, page 431:
text: When this conjunction, which is of the interiors, descends into the inferiors, which are of the body, it is perceived and felt as love; that love is conjugial love.
ref: 1875, Emanuel Swedenborg (tr. unknown), Heaven and its wonders and Hell, page 246:
text: Claiming that he had ‘new information from heaven’, Swedenborg revealed that pre-marital sex with prostitutes or a mistress is not sinful, as long as the man maintains a belief in true conjugial love.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of conjugal used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.
cross-referencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-reference
ridicules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ridicule
parried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parry
brinjal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪnd͡ʒəl/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪnd͡ʒɒl/
Forms: form: brinjals
form: bringal
form: bringall
form: bringaul
form: brinjall
form: brinjaul
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder.
Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor.
Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān)bor.
Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)bor.
Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha
Portuguese beringelabor.
English brinjal
Borrowed from Portuguese beringela, from Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha, borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), borrowed from Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān), borrowed from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV.
 Doublet of aubergine.
Senses: examples: text: Hindustan produces abundance of wheat, and throughout India the natives are plentifully supplied with vegetables and fruit; the brinjal, tomato, yam, carrot, radish, onion, garlic, spinach cabbage, nowkohl, cucumbers, and other gourds, may be mentioned among the former
ref: 1858, George Trevor, India, an historical sketch, page 14:
glosses: An aubergine or eggplant.
Synonyms: the list at eggplant
Related terms: brown jolly
producer-only market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: producer-only markets
Senses: glosses: A market at which vendors may only sell items which they or their employees produce.
off licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off licences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-licence.
paper boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper board