cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
book-burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-burnings
Senses: glosses: The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
examples: text: […] only a month after 75 students there held a public bookburning of their student handbok for its gay content.
ref: 1981 February 14, Joanne Brown, “Feminist Starts Uproar By Putting Up Sticker”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 3:
glosses: An event where books are burned.
Derived terms: book-burner
Related terms: auto da fe
book-burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-burners
Senses: glosses: A person who practises book-burning.
book-learned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English bok-lerned, boke-lornut, equivalent to book + learned.
Senses: examples: text: Whate'er these book-learn'd block-heads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
qualifier: often pejortative
glosses: Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books, as opposed to from practical knowledge.
Derived terms: book-learnedness
book-learning
booky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊki/
homophone: bookie
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: bookier
form: bookiest
Etymology: From book + -y.
Senses: glosses: Bookish.
Derived terms: bookiness
booky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊki/
homophone: bookie
rhymes: -ʊki
ipa: /ˈbyːki/
rhymes: -uːki
ipa: /ˈbʊki/
homophone: bookie
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: bookier
form: bookiest
form: Buki
form: bookey
form: bookie
Senses: examples: text: Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
ref: 2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
glosses: Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.
examples: text: Everyone knows that feeling of walking into a room and the atmosphere being bare bookie but also calm. In this LA Beats produced track the boys reminisce on those rooms where you’re greeted by a combination of “bare weed smoke” and “wavy settings”.
ref: 2017 March 25, Trudy Barry, “1st Listen Review: Section Boyz' 'Soundcheck' mixtape”, in GRM Daily:
text: I didn't want to verbalise my fears about a polar bear in the woods, because I would sound like a fruitloop. / Then Flora spoke up. ‘Selkirk's got a point.’ / ‘Yeah,’ agreed Turk of all people, ‘that jungle is bare booky, fam.’
ref: 2018, M. A. Bennett, The Island, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: Strange, scary, suspicious.
circular segment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular segments
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: circle segment
glosses: A region of a circle bounded by an arc and the chord connecting the endpoints of the arc.
Related terms: circular sector
circular arc
Space Shuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Space Shuttle
Qur'ans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qur'an
Sertoli cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sertoli cell
Welshwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welshwoman
Arubans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aruban
Cypriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cypriot
Costa Ricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Costa Rican
farcicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From farcical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being farcical.
Synonyms: farcicality
farcicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farcicalities
Etymology: From farcical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Being farcical.
Synonyms: farcicalness
farls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farl
fasciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fasciate
fasciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fasciate
fasciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fasciate
fasciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fasciate
Derived terms: fasciated antshrike
fasciated wren
semifasciated
trifasciated
unfasciated
fastenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fastenable
form: most fastenable
Etymology: From fasten + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being fastened.
Derived terms: unfastenable
fibrinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrinogens
Etymology: From fibrin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: A protein that in humans plays a role in the formation of clots.
Derived terms: dysfibrinogenemia
-fiban
fibrinogenase
fibrinogenemia
fibrinogenolysis
lipoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid 5-[(3R)-dithiolan-3-yl]pentanoic acid, one enantiomer of which is an essential cofactor for many enzyme complexes.
Derived terms: lipoyl
fibroin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibroins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tough elastic protein that is the main component of silk and of spider's webs
figurately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more figurately
form: most figurately
Etymology: From figurate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is as when we seek for the signification of any particular word in a language; we may find that it bears many different meanings, and some which seem to be contradictory to each other; yet upon further search we may perhaps discover that there is a common idea, which is the source of them all, and that they differ only because the word is taken in one sense literally, in another figurately, and in a third with some special application.
ref: 1849, William Nind, Lecture-Sermons preached in a Country Parish Church, pages 115–116:
text: He stood in the centre of that great pile, figurately speaking, the cynosure of all eyes from Maine to California, and his fame was noised abroad in Europe.
ref: 1887, Henry Clews, Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, page 233:
glosses: figuratively, in a figurative manner.
examples: text: As was observed before in Figuration of Surds; so here it may be remembred that any Species simply Irrational, multiplied figurately, produceth a Rational: But Compound Irrational Species may be squared, cubed, etc. by multiplying them figurately as other Figural Numbers are multiplied; but the Unciae to the Parodical Degrees here, will be the Squares of them in Rational Species.
ref: 1701, Samuel Jeake, A Compleat Body of Arithmetic:
text: In the regulations for Trnava school, which Nicolaus Olahus issued in 1554, we find "The sublector should support a school succentor, who would teach the boys to sing figurately, as well as Gregorian chant."
ref: 1977, Slovenské národné múzeum, Ivan Mačák, Sources of Slovak Music, page 108:
glosses: In a figurate manner; Using or forming a figure.
flavones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavone
fleshiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshinesses
Etymology: From Middle English fleshinesse, fleschynes, equivalent to fleshy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fleshiness of the chin, and the jovial redundancy of the cheeks, were, in their turn, utterly at variance with the character of the pale, noble forehead, and the expression of the quick, intelligent eyes.
ref: 1850, Wilkie Collins, chapter 2, in Antonina:
text: The truth is, the Frenchman is rather inclined to fleshiness; yet the soup-meagre theory still prevails amongst the mass of Englishmen.
ref: 1862, Dickens, One Grand Tour Deserves Another:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being fleshy.
Synonyms: pudginess
fletches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fletch
fletches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fletch
fletched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fletch
fletched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: examples: text: Fletched darts have the power to kill even when propelled from a great distance and are a highly sophisticated technology.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 215:
glosses: Of an arrow or dart, fitted with fletches.
Derived terms: unfletched
monopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopathy
counter-countermeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-countermeasures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countercountermeasure.
D.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D.O.s
Senses: examples: text: The number of doctors of osteopathic medicine, or D.O.s, has grown 70 percent in the last decade and is expected to continue expanding.
ref: 2025 July 13, “So Your Doctor Is a D.O. Does That Matter?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Abbreviation of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
positive reinforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mother did not realize that giving her son candy every time he cried was positive reinforcement.
text: With positive reinforcement, by adding something the animal desires, the likelihood that the behavior will occur again is increased.
ref: 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 46:
coordinate_terms: negative reinforcement
glosses: The giving of encouragement to a person who exhibits a particular behaviour with the result that such behaviour is repeated.
negative reinforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With negative reinforcement, by removing something aversive, the likelihood that the behavior will occur again is increased.
ref: 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 46:
coordinate_terms: positive reinforcement
glosses: The removal of a discouraging stimulus associated with a particular behaviour with the result that it is more likely to be repeated.
punctum delens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puncta delentia
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin pūnctum dēlēns.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: A dot placed above a letter to indicate that it is a copying error and should be ignored.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: A dot placed above a consonant in Irish, when it is written in Gaelic script, to indicate that the consonant is lenited.
hot-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot-headed
form: hotter-headed
form: most hot-headed
form: hottest-headed
Senses: examples: text: Bat who will the next Democratic President be? Harry A. Wise? The eloquent Virginian is hotter-headed than we are. We have no objection to him, however. A radical lawyer very often makes a conservative judge, and the peace of nations is never securer than when a great soldier bears his hand upon the helm of State.
ref: 1856 April, S[pencer] W[allace] C[one], “The Next President”, in Spencer W. Cone, editor, The United States Democratic Review, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Lloyd & Company, […], page 321:
text: They were hard now with frost, sodden with autumn rains, and looked black, mourning, and desolate, as the unhappy fate which had befallen one of the best and noblest hearted, yet hottest-headed men that ever loved the sunlight, and at all times, unless under great excitement, God’s dumb creatures.
ref: 1883 December, J. P. Wheeldon, “‘Uncle John’”, in Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XLI, number 286, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], published 1884, page 327:
text: He told me how he compelled Capt. Anderson and the Secretary of the Interior to yield to his imperious demands for the privilege of bearing arms in the Park and going where he pleased. (Capt. Anderson’s account of this is a shade different. I haven’t heard from the Secretary of the Interior.) Young Wittich was hotter-headed than his father, who held the same beliefs, but was temperate in them. Young Wittich said the soldiers ought to be abolished and was of the belief that the Cooke City road must be built through the Park peaceably if it could, by force if it must.
ref: 1894 May 19, E. Hough, “[‘Forest and Stream’s’ Yellowstone Park Game Exploration. No. 2. Actual Interviews on Segregation.] Mr. Wittich, of Livingston.”, in Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. […], volume XLII, number 20, New York, N.Y.: […] [T]he Forest and Stream Publishing Company, page 420, column 2:
text: Mercedes Armitage befriended me when I was younger and hotter-headed than I am now.
ref: 1905, Henry M. Ross, “A Curious Situation”, in “That Man’s Daughter”, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: Benziger Brothers, […], page 136:
text: He [Robert Chilton] added, however, that “some of the hottest-headed guys I’ve seen have been docs. They don’t like to lose.” That may be attributable to the inner drive physicians need to get through college, medical school, internships, and residencies.
ref: 1996 June, Larry BeSaw, “[Do fit physicians practice as what they preach I do] The shootist: Robert Chilton, MD”, in Texas Medicine, volume 92, number 6, Austin, Tex.: Texas Medical Association, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:
text: John counseled that I proceed cautiously, hear Hy out before making any judgments. This coming from my brother, who had once been the hottest-headed bar fighter in San Diego County.
ref: 2007, Marcia Muller, The Ever-Running Man, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hotheaded.
camo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.moʊ/
Forms: form: camos
Etymology: From camouflage, by shortening.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
glosses: Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
glosses: Clipping of camouflage.
camo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.moʊ/
Forms: form: camos
form: camoing
form: camoed
form: camoed
Etymology: From camouflage, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: To camouflage.
glosses: To put on camouflage clothing.
Derived terms: camo up
chin-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chin-up
push-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-up
push-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push-up
push-up bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-up bra
sticks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stick up
sticking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stick up
puts in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put in
puts on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put on
puts up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put up
putting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put in
putting on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put on
putting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put up
put-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of put-on
yells at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yell at
yelling at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yell at
yelled at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yell at
scrapes together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrape together
scraping together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrape together
scraped together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrape together
mirmillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirmillos
form: mirmillones
form: myrmillo
Etymology: From Latin mirmillō, from Ancient Greek μόρμυλος (mórmulos).
Senses: glosses: A kind of gladiator, known for wearing a Gallic helmet with the image of a fish.
fucks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck off
fucking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck off
gangs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gang up
ganging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gang up
illy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illy
form: most illy
Etymology: From ill + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The domestic presence of Lucy had begun to produce a remarkable effect upon Pierre. Sometimes, to the covertly watchful eye of Isabel, he would seem to look upon Lucy with an expression illy befitting their singular and so-supposed merely cousinly relation; […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers—that the illy garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
glosses: Badly; poorly.
illy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illy
form: most illy
Etymology: From ill + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A few more duets with Ghostface would have been illy, and even ONE track with RZA would have been the icing on a top notch cake. Regardless though to any who thought that Raekwon the Chef couldn't cook it up any more, "The Lex Diamond Story" proves that with or without RZA, he's still got it locked.
ref: 2023 December 16, Steve 'Flash' Juon, Raekwon :: The Lex Diamond Story :: Universal Records:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sick
dope
ill
glosses: cool, fresh
Related terms: whack the illy
unicursal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being composed entirely of a single continuous path or line.
glosses: On one path of a moving element.
unicursal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicursals
Senses: glosses: An object or figure composed entirely of a single continuous path or line (e.g. a turf maze)
Related terms: multicursal
unicursally
cut a caper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a caper
form: cutting a caper
form: cut a caper
form: cut a caper
Senses: examples: text: Sir Andrew: Faith, I can cut a caper.
Sir Toby Belch: And I can cut the mutton to't.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: I thought he intended to cut a caper round the bed; but suddenly composing himself, he fell on his knees.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To frolic or romp; to dance about in a frantic or ridiculous manner.
Related terms: caper-cutting
caper cutting
cut capers
toxicosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒksɪˈkəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: toxicoses
Etymology: From toxic + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: illness due to poisoning
Derived terms: brevetoxicosis
Related terms: toxic
toxicity
toxicotic
cut the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts the rug
form: cutting the rug
form: cut the rug
form: cut the rug
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cut a rug.
typonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From typo + -n- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The writing of language with typographical errors, as though that were a language in its own right.
constitutional monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutional monarchy
limited monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limited monarchy
ballet dad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballet dads
Senses: glosses: A man with school-age children, most likely girls, especially one who spends time transporting them between after-school activities.
Coordinate terms: word: hockey mom
word: soccer mom
Related terms: ballet mom
smackheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smackhead
metropolitan area network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metropolitan area networks
Senses: glosses: a network that covers a large geographical area such as a city.
stigmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stigmates
form: stigmata
Senses: examples: text: […] an ovarium borne on a short stipes within the base of the tube, with a long thread-like style and a beared stigmate; […]
ref: 1838, George Bentham, “On the Structure and Affinities of Arachis and Voandzeia”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society, page 155:
glosses: Synonym of stigma.
synonyms: word: stigma
silvana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvanas
Senses: glosses: A Filipino dessert, a frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs.
Lolitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lolita
taverne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavernes
Senses: examples: text: Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
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], page 49, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of tavern.
ANPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of automatic number plate recognition.
Synonyms: sense: automatic number plate recognition
word: ALPR
tortuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tortuose
form: most tortuose
Etymology: See tortuous.
Senses: examples: text: Crust tartareous or leprose uneven pulverulent, Apothecia roundish dissimilar waved plaited tortuose and variously expanded in the disk
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
glosses: wreathed; twisted; winding
BOMDAS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An acronym for arithmetic order of operations, with B first and AS last: Brackets, then order or 'of' in some curricula, then multiplication and division, then addition and subtraction.
Synonyms: PEDMAS
BEDMAS
BODMAS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An acronym for the arithmetic order of precedence, with the highest precedence first: Brackets, order, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
Synonyms: PEMDAS
BOMDAS
BEDMAS
shrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shram
shrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrammed
form: most shrammed
Senses: examples: text: There was a bitter wind and she looked shrammed in her thin dress.
glosses: Of a person, cold (in temperature); shrivelled with cold.
BEDMAS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛd.mæs/
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An acronym for arithmetic order of precedence, with B first and AS last: Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
Synonyms: please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
BODMAS
BOMDAS
PEDMAS
PEMDAS
treebank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: treebanks
form: tree bank
Etymology: From tree + bank.
Senses: examples: text: If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […]
ref: 2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use” in Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, eds. Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, p. 152
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
treebank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: treebanks
form: treebanking
form: treebanked
form: treebanked
form: tree bank
Etymology: From tree + bank.
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.
Agne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agnes
Etymology: Variant of Agnes.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Federico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Federico (through immigration). Doublet of Frederick.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
foister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: foisters
Etymology: From foist + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who foists; a falsifier.
foldboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldboats
form: folboat
form: folbot
form: fold boat
Etymology: From fold + boat.
Senses: qualifier: kayaking
glosses: A type of collapsible canoe.
Derived terms: foldboater
foldboat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foldboats
form: foldboating
form: foldboated
form: foldboated
form: folboat
form: folbot
form: fold boat
Etymology: From fold + boat.
Senses: glosses: To travel by foldboat.
folboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folboats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foldboat.
fold boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fold boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foldboat.
folbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folbots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foldboat.
fontange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒnˈtɒ̃nʒ/
ipa: /fɔnˈtɑnʒ/
Forms: form: fontanges
Etymology: From Angélique de Fontanges, one of French king Louis XIV's mistresses, who sported the headdress.
Senses: glosses: A headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made with pleated layers of starched lace and ribbon.
aerious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aerious
form: most aerious
Senses: examples: text: For our aerious Spirits not only receive the Quality of the Air we breathe, but alſo follow its Temper and Morion, as is ſeen by the Head-ach, ſeizing thoſe that are beaten by Winds in the Country;[…].
ref: 1728, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, 3rd edition, volume IV, page 413:
text: Singing can do more than the sound of an instrument, in as much as it arising from an harmonical consent, from the conceit of the mind and imperious affection of the phantasy^([imagination]) and heart, easily penetrateth by motion, with the refracted and well tempered air, the aerious spirit of the hearer, which is the bond of soul and body; and transferring the affection and mind of the singer with it, it moveth the affection of the hearer by his affection, and the hearer's phantasy by his phantasy, and mind by his mind, and striketh the mind, and striketh the heart, and pierceth even to the inwards of the soul, and by little and little, infuseth even dispositions: moreover it moveth and stoppeth the members and humours of the body.
ref: 1993, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, translated by James Freake, edited by Donald Tyson, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, page 336:
glosses: Pertaining to air, airy.
Heegaard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Introduced by Poul Heegaard in 1898.
Senses: glosses: Related to a closed three-dimensional manifold's being the identification of two handlebodies along their respective boundaries.
wikipedia: Poul Heegaard
Related terms: Heegaard splitting
worn off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wear off
acridology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.kɹɪˈdɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæ.kɹəˈdɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæ.kɹɪˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæ.kɹəˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of grasshoppers and locusts (of the infraorder Acrididea).
Related terms: acridologist
tonogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tono- + -genesis; coined by American linguist James Matisoff in 1970 in his paper Glottal dissimilation and the Lahu high-rising tone: A tonogenetic case-study.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A process in which a language develops tones.
broadus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broaduses
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of brotus.
fire box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire boxes
Senses: glosses: The hearth of a metal-forging shop; the forge of a smithy.
examples: text: The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.
glosses: An enclosed hearth with hatch for refueling that is attached to or built into a boiler that supplies steam for mechanical power.
glosses: The internal hearth of a furnace, stove, or heater.
examples: text: When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire.
glosses: The hearth of an outdoor grill.
palæ-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪ/
ipa: /ˈpeɪlɪ/
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of paleo-.
Derived terms: palæbotany
Palæeskimo
palæography
palæontology
palæophytology
palæozoology
palæozoölogy
inbetweener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbetweeners
Etymology: From in between + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who specializes in tweening in an animation studio.
examples: text: More than an outsider he was an in-betweener; caught between two cultures all the while shunning his own.
ref: 2011, Wayne Purdy, A Juniper Through The Cracks, page 86:
text: But having two bikes works well for me—so well that I'm daydreaming about getting a third, an in-betweener, light and strong enough to carry me over mountains with a sleeping bag and tent on the back.
ref: 2014, Elly Blue, Everyday Bicycling, page 47:
text: Now, Barney was what some voices referred to as an “inbetweener.” It met that he was never located in a permanent grade level. Back in those days when a student was found unfit of advancing to a higher level, he was held back for only half of the year and then advanced for the other half.
ref: 2016, George Boldt, Once a Man—Twice a Boy:
glosses: A person who or thing that falls between different groups or characteristics.
minigame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪniˌɡeɪm/
Forms: form: minigames
form: mini-game
Etymology: From mini- + game.
Senses: examples: text: If you collect 100 coins, you get to play a balloon-popping minigame.
text: I promise to enter next time, if you keep the compo like it is now ;-) Or... why not alternating between a minigame compo and a minidemo comp ?
ref: 2002, Fabrice Frances, “2002 MiniGame Compo - download and vote!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet):
text: ... servers exist online where hundreds or even thousands of users play the game , all sharing space and resources along with other creatures in Minecraft. These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), ...
ref: 2015, Mark Cheverton, The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine: Book Two: A Gameknight999 Adventure: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Dreams’ creative range is astonishing, and it’s possible to make any style of game in minutes, whether it’s a marble run, a city sim, or a rhythm-action minigame within another game. Ettouney hopes this may encourage jaded gamedevs to experiment more: […]
ref: 2018 March 24, Edge, number 316, page 73:
text: Through many of the most iconic RPGs of our time, we’ve seen a range of popular minigames come into focus. […] As you may have figured out by now, Wheels is the unique minigame found throughout Sea of Stars.
ref: 2023 August 28, Brad Norton, “Sea of Stars – Wheels minigame guide: How to play, best Heroes, more”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
glosses: A small and simple game, especially an incidental game within a larger video game.
Synonyms: sense: incidental game
word: microgame
sense: incidental game
word: subgame
respawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɔːn/
ipa: /ɹiˈspɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: respawns
form: respawning
form: respawned
form: respawned
Etymology: From re- + spawn.
Senses: examples: text: This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.
ref: 1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To spawn again.
topics: video-games
qualifier: weapon or other pickup; or enemy; weapon or other pickup; or enemy
glosses: To reappear at its spawn point.
raw_tags: of a collected item
examples: text: Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]
ref: 2009 September 17, Pinsent Masons, “Hidden Flash cookies track even opt-out users on web's biggest sites”, in Out-law, retrieved 24 Apr 2014:
text: How and why he gets stuck in this constant respawn cycle is a bit unclear, […]
ref: 2014 March 25, Angela Watercutter, “Tom Cruise Respawns Into Alien War in New Edge of Tomorrow Trailer”, in Wired, retrieved 24 Apr 2014:
text: “Everything in this cult of personality is fragile,” Borkowski said, but added that Musk had proven before that he can “re-spawn” when he encountered difficulties.
ref: 2024 April 3, Dan Milmo, quoting Mark Borkowski, “How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: video-games
glosses: To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.
raw_tags: of a character
respawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɔːn/
ipa: /ɹiˈspɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: respawns
Etymology: From re- + spawn.
Senses: examples: text: The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.
ref: 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339:
topics: video-games
glosses: The reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.
preaccelerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preaccelerators
Etymology: From pre- + accelerator.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any accelerator that accelerates particles and feeds them to a larger accelerator for further acceleration
your wish is my command
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Your Highness's wish is my command," says Sir Joshua suavely, for he is intensely curious as to the contents of the document.
ref: 1900 March 31, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, NSW, page 6, column 4:
glosses: Whatever you say you wish for I will treat as a command and do straight away.
Related terms: one's word is law
shrieker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shriekers
Etymology: From shriek + -er.
Senses: examples: text: From Nine Inch Nails to Korn, shriekers earned a place in overground rock 'n' roll, and the tradition continues today.
ref: 2004 December 13, Kelefa Sanneh, “Once Upon a Time, There Was This Really Loud Band”, in The New York Times:
text: But, he insisted, he was neither a “Union Saver” nor a “freedom shrieker.” He rejected all high-flown rationalizations for the war effort — “to hell with the devilish twaddle about freedom.”
ref: 2014 October 17, Daniel W. Crofts, “What Union Soldiers Thought About the Civil War”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who shrieks.
archdruid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdruids
Etymology: From arch- + druid.
Senses: qualifier: Celtic paganism
glosses: A chief druid.
clairaudience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairaudiences
Etymology: Modelled on clairvoyance; from French clair (“clear”) + French audience (“hearing”).
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The power to perceive auditory stimuli beyond the realm of normal hearing.
Derived terms: clairaudient
clairaudient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Modelled on clairvoyant; from French clair (“clear”) + English audient, or, Latin audient(em) (“hearing”).
Senses: examples: text: "No, sir, no. They always think I know them. I know none of them. They come and I describe them." "How do you get the message?" "Clairaudient. I hear it. I hear them all the time."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Pertaining to or involving clairaudience.
Derived terms: clairaudiently
clairaudient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairaudients
Etymology: Modelled on clairvoyant; from French clair (“clear”) + English audient, or, Latin audient(em) (“hearing”).
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: One who has the power of clairaudience.
archdruids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archdruid
huggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɡ.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more huggable
form: most huggable
form: hugable
Etymology: From hug + -able.
Senses: examples: text: How high? Real high 'cause I'm just so fly / A young lovable, huggable type of guy
ref: 1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:
text: Claud was glad to oblige, since Gabbie is an extremely huggable girl.
ref: 1995, Ann M. Martin, Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook, page 78:
text: Moreover, this need often manifests itself in the young child's selection of a cuddly or huggable doll or stuffed animal, called a transitional object by child psychologists.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey S. Turner, Families in America, page 147:
text: He was exactly how she remembered him. Where Tyrell was cuddly and huggable, Mohammad was hard and sinewy.
ref: 2005, Desiree Day, Crazy Love, page 183:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being hugged.
Synonyms: cuddly
Derived terms: huggability
huggableness
huggably
unhuggable
Related terms: hug
tommyrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tommyrots
form: tommy-rot
Senses: examples: text: My brothers, on the other hand, considered that my talents were overrated. Putting it plainly, they told me that what I wrote was tommy-rot.
ref: 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century, Faber and Faber, published 1967, page 154:
glosses: Nonsense, rot.
websafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Web + safe.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of colours used in the design of a web page: not liable to be dithered on any system, thus appearing the same to all visitors to the website.
respondee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪspɒnˈdiː/
Forms: form: respondees
Etymology: From respond + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is asked to respond.
heat stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat strokes
form: heatstroke
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: condition
coordinate_terms: heat exhaustion
glosses: An illness caused by overheating a person or animal beyond its body's capacity to regulate internal temperature.
Related terms: sunstroke
æquivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æquivalent
form: most æquivalent
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of equivalent.
æquivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquivalents
Senses: examples: text: Ther ware 3 commiſſions farder, viz, One to call all the Burrows of Scotland to ane account for ther common‐good, which is the power of the old Hy‐Chamberlayne; but finding that office was annexed to the family of Lennox, ſo that he could not aſſume its name with its badge, the golden key, he does the æquivalent by this commiſſion.
ref: 1848, John Lauder and David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, page 633
glosses: Obsolete spelling of equivalent.
equ-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːkw/
ipa: /ɛkw/
ipa: /ɪkw/
Forms: form: æqu-
form: aequ-
form: equi-
Etymology: From Latin aequus (“equal”).
Senses: qualifier: rarely productive
glosses: Equal; balanced; identical.
lung power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lung-power
form: lungpower
Senses: glosses: The ability to breathe, especially to exhale, and therefore to speak, sing, blow, and so on, either loudly or at length.
lungpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lung power.
lung-power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With dogged determination, sucking air through a contraption like a restricted drinking-straw, he built up his lung-power — a few seconds, then minutes, now he can go hours without the ventilator.
ref: 1997 March 16, Barry Wigmore, “I Work or I Die”, in Sunday Mirror, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of lung power.
blow one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows one's nose
form: blowing one's nose
form: blew one's nose
form: blown one's nose
Senses: examples: text: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kaniggets [sic].
ref: 1975, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (motion picture), spoken by French Taunter (John Cleese):
glosses: To expel mucus or other matter from one's nasal passages, via one's nostril, by force of lung power.
Related terms: pick one's nose
wipe one's nose
lauan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlu(w)ɑn/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: lauans
form: lawaan
form: luan
Etymology: From Tagalog lawaan.
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia.
cee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sē
ipa: /ˈsiː/
homophone: C
homophone: sea
homophone: see
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: cees
form: see
Etymology: From Middle English cee.
Senses: examples: text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
glosses: Something shaped like the letter C, such as a cee spring.
Derived terms: emcee
Jaycee
PeeCee
Related terms: cee-lo
cees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cee, the name of the letter C.
dees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of dee, the name of the letter D.
examples: text: The pommel is furnished with dees.
glosses: Something shaped like the letter D.
examples: text: The dees are about.
glosses: Police detectives.
born in a barn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. "It was like they had been born in a barn," she says.
ref: 2006 October 20, Heather Murphy, “The More the Merrier?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 15 Sep 2008:
glosses: In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered.
examples: text: His aunt said angrily: "Fritz, were you born in a barn? Don't you have any manners?"
ref: 1971, Joyce Carol Oates, Wonderland: A Novel, Vanguard Press, page 76:
text: Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals.
ref: 2002 June 19, Ruth Ann Baker, “Even wolves behave in the pack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 15 Sep 2008, page N4:
glosses: In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed as lacking a sense of etiquette or being ill-mannered.
Synonyms: sense: lacking etiquette
word: raised by wolves
sense: lacking etiquette
word: raised in a barn
gees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gee
gees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gee
efs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfs/
rhymes: -ɛfs
homophone: effs
Senses: glosses: plural of ef
kays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of kay
esses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of es
examples: 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Esses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
a digraph suffices / and there sit / the esses
glosses: plural of ess
glosses: plural of esse
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A sequence of winding turns.
esses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛsəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ess
fall off the turnip truck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls off the turnip truck
form: falling off the turnip truck
form: fell off the turnip truck
form: fallen off the turnip truck
Senses: examples: text: Look sharp, and try not to seem like you just fell off the turnip truck.
text: No shit, Sherlock. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, you know.
text: Doesn't it strike you as funny that this city, which prides itself on its erudition and sophistication, can oftimes get suckered like a bumpkin who just fell off the turnip truck?
ref: 2006 February 14, “Opinion: The Picture of Stupidity”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 16 Sep 2008:
glosses: To be naive, uninformed, or unsophisticated, in the manner of a rustic person.
Related terms: be born yesterday
fall off a truck
not one's first rodeo
fell off the turnip truck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall off the turnip truck
homoskedasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homoscedasticity.