cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trial by fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trials by fire
Senses: examples: text: “[I]t seems to me Fra Francesco is the greater hero, for he offers to enter the fire for the truth, though he is sure the fire will burn him.” . . .
“It is true, Messer Segretario,” said the shopkeeper, with subdued impatience. “But will you favour us by interpreting the Latin?”
“Assuredly,” said Tito. “It does but express the conclusions or doctrines which the Frate specially teaches, and which the trial by fire is to prove true or false.”
ref: 1863, George Eliot, chapter 63, in Romola:
text: And he pointed with his little assegai, the assegai handled with the royal wood, to where the fire glowed reddest—ay, he pointed and laughed. Then, my father, I grew cold indeed—yes, I grew cold who soon should be hot, for I saw the purpose of Chaka. He would put me to the trial by fire.
ref: 1892, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 10, in Nada the Lily:
text: [T]he final test, the trial by fire, which took place in a subterranean chamber of the great temple, resulted in a candidate whose courage failed him being precipitated into that lake of flame which I have already described.
ref: 1922, Sax Rohmer, chapter 34, in Fire-Tongue:
glosses: A test in which a person is exposed to flames in order to assess their truthfulness, commitment, courage etc.
examples: text: French troops, submitting to a trial by fire, drew toward the German forts, capturing and holding some machine-gun nests.
ref: 1939 September 8, “Swiss Hear Heavy Guns”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 15 Jul 2012, page 8:
text: Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone . . . has produced a nerve-shattering study of how the American infantryman met his trial by fire in Korea.
ref: 1959 June 22, “Cinema”, in Time:
glosses: A situation in which a soldier or other combatant faces the discharge of opposing weapons, as a test of their fortitude.
examples: text: But take it all in all, the overland trail was a trial by fire. One gets a notion of its deadliness from the fact that over five thousand people died of cholera alone.
ref: 1918, Stewart Edward White, chapter 5, in The Forty-Niners:
text: Now, residents' legendary 100+-hour workweek may be on its way out. . . . Some doctors insist the long hours are a necessary trial by fire that produces highly skilled, virtually unflappable physicians.
ref: 2001 June 18, Jessica Reaves, “Will Your Doctor Get More Reasonable Hours?”, in Time:
glosses: Any ordeal which tests one's strength, endurance or resolve.
Related terms: baptism by fire
trial by combat
crucible
drop shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop shot
kasuari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kasuaris
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cassowary.
sub-rectangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sub-rectangular
form: most sub-rectangular
Etymology: From sub- + rectangular.
Senses: examples: The domestic architecture within settlements conformed to no particular plan, and could consist of free-standing circular to subrectangular houses with one or two rooms...
glosses: Having an overall rectangular shape, but with rounded edges.
European Stability Mechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A proposed international organisation that would provide financial assistance to members of the Eurozone in financial difficulty.
favourise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favourises
form: favourising
form: favourised
form: favourised
Etymology: From favour + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of favorize.
favourize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favourizes
form: favourizing
form: favourized
form: favourized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of favorize.
masterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastering
audio mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio masterings
Senses: qualifier: sound
glosses: A form of audio post-production, where the recorded audio is prepared and transferred from a source containing the final mix to a data-storage device called the "master".
audio masterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio mastering
bus mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate transactions.
horse dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse dicks
form: horsedick
Senses: glosses: A very large penis.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, dick.
tentwallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentwallahs
Etymology: From tent + wallah.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells or hires out tents, mostly for weddings and parties.
MCRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Initialism of Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
IPMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
qualifier: project management
glosses: Initialism of International Project Management Association.
Scrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SCRUM
form: scrum
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: An iterative and incremental agile software development method for managing software projects and product or application development.
Derived terms: Scrumban
Scrum master
VSAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Storage Access Method.
ISAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Indexed Sequential Access Method.
Web spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web spiders
form: web spider
Senses: examples: text: More precisely, the typical workflow of a vulnerability scanners consists of the following steps: – First, a web spider crawls the site to find valid injection points
ref: 2008, Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, Ari Trachtenberg, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, page 194:
glosses: A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.
Synonyms: ant
automatic indexer
bot
Web crawler
Web robot
Web scutter
Web spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Web spider
Web crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web crawlers
form: web crawler
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Web spider.
synonyms: word: Web spider
Web crawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Web crawler
Web robot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web robots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Web spider.
synonyms: word: Web spider
Web scutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web scutters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Web spider.
synonyms: word: Web spider
Web scutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Web scutter
Web robots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Web robot
friend of a friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends of friends
Senses: glosses: An acquaintance known vaguely through a mutual friend; someone that one does not know well.
Synonyms: foaf
FoaF
FOAF
Derived terms: foaf
FoaF
FOAF
JSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While it's simple to access a Web service directly on a JSP page, doing so has the following problems: […]
ref: 2002, Casey Kochmer, Erica Frandsen, JSP and XML: Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP Application, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 245:
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Jakarta/JavaServer Pages, a collection of Java web technologies.
JSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JSPs
Senses: examples: text: Like servlets, JSPs (the software entities) generate HTML pages with dynamic content.
ref: 2006, Jan Graba, An Introduction to Network Programming with Java, Springer, →ISBN, page 278:
qualifier: Java programming language; file format; Java programming language; file format
glosses: An individual web page implemented with JSP.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
coordinate_terms: FMJ
JHP
SP
glosses: Initialism of jacketed soft point.
belaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belaughs
form: belaughing
form: belaughed
form: belaughed
Etymology: From Middle English belahhen, beliȝen, from Old English behlehhan, behliehhan (“to deride, exult over”), equivalent to be- + laugh. Cognate with German belachen (“to laugh at”).
Senses: examples: text: One step out of, one step into, our homes, our hearts, and accepted truth falls before the laughter and questing of positively revolting women belaughing our way through the wilderness of women's wildness, through the curiosity of Sarasvati, into the answers we need, the answers we know, the daughter-right of our births.
ref: 2000, Laughing Womyn Ashonosheni, Whispers of Our Knowings:
glosses: To laugh about; laugh over; laugh at.
wanderstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanderstar
hypoconulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoconulid
ECSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of European Cooperation for Space Standardization.
emitter-coupled logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emitter-coupled logics
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic family that achieves high speed by using an overdriven BJT differential amplifier with single-ended input.
RUP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Rational Unified Process.
Hypernyms: UP
acid-base indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid-base indicator
brown hyenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown hyena
overcomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcoming
subefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From sub- + efficient.
Senses: glosses: Not efficient, inefficient
check up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks up
form: checking up
form: checked up
form: checked up
Senses: examples: text: I dropped by to check up on my friend.
text: Before when he just gave her money and checked up on her his visits where few and far between unless she called and asked for something, which she didn't like doing too much.
ref: 2006, Marvlous, By Any Means, page 28:
text: So instead she checked up on them and discovered that they were very respectable, which made her much happier.
ref: 2014, Jean Trumpington, Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir:
text: Every three months, I checked up with Dr. Ma and took a blood sample test to check on my diabetic HGBA1c, glucose fasting data range, and my lipid data for my blood test results.
ref: 2015, Susaik Chu, My Search:
qualifier: most often in phrasal verb "check up on"
glosses: To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assurance that there are no problems.
examples: text: He's checking up the figures.
text: The impression of her familiarity was misty and dreamlike. He might have dreamed he thought of such a girl as she. But no! His sober, cool-headed sense checked him up sharply.
ref: 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:
text: I hated myself, but I called up the almanac, and for the very first time ever, I checked up on something Perry had told me.
ref: 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black:
glosses: To verify something's accuracy.
examples: text: The numbers she provided check up with my own data.
glosses: To seem correct or plausible; to comport with known facts; to check out (with other facts).
Related terms: checkup
check-up
absorptiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌsɔɹp.ʃi.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
ipa: /əbˌsɔɹp.ʃi.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
ipa: /əbˌsɔɹp.ti.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
ipa: /æbˌzɔɹp.ʃi.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
ipa: /əbˌzɔɹp.ʃi.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
ipa: /əbˌzɔɹp.ti.oʊˈmɛ.tɹɪk/
Forms: form: more absorptiometric
form: most absorptiometric
Etymology: From absorption + -metric. First attested in the early 20ᵗʰ century.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the measurement of absorption.
Derived terms: absorptiometrically
osteoabsorptiometric
absorption cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ sɜl/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ sɜl/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ sɜl/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ sɜl/
Forms: form: absorption cells
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A container, that allows light to pass through, used to store and study liquids and their optical absorption rate.
absorption cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption cell
absorption coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption coefficient
absorption dynamometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˌdaɪ.nəˈmɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˌdaɪ.nəˈmɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˌdaɪ.nəˈmɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˌdaɪ.nəˈmɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: absorption dynamometers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument used to measure force, by measuring the energy absorbed via friction or electrical resistance.
absorption dynamometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption dynamometer
absorption edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: absorption edges
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The boundary of a dark band in an x-ray spectrum.
absorption edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption edge
absorption factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈfæk.tɚ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈfæk.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈfæk.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈfæk.tɚ/
Forms: form: absorption factors
form: absorption coefficient
Senses: glosses: The measurement of a specific substance's ability to absorb radiant energy; absorptivity.
absorption factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption factor
absorption hygrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ haɪˈɡɹɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ haɪˈɡɹɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ haɪˈɡɹɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ haɪˈɡɹɑm.ɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: absorption hygrometers
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument using organic material to measure the atmospheric moisture level.
absorption hygrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption hygrometer
absorption pipette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩/
ipa: /paɪˈpɜt/
ipa: /pɪˈpɜt/
Forms: form: absorption pipettes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass apparatus used in the absorption of gases.
absorption pipettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption pipette
absorption system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈsɪs.tm̩/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈsɪs.tm̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈsɪs.tm̩/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈsɪs.tm̩/
Forms: form: absorption systems
Senses: glosses: Synonym of absorption refrigerator.
synonyms: word: absorption refrigerator
absorption systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption system
jettage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Certain charges levied upon incoming vessels at a port.
Related terms: jetty
jetsam
jettison
absque impetitione vasti
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbs.kwi ˌɪm.pəˌtɪ.ʃiˈoʊ.ni ˈvæsˌti/
Etymology: From New Latin.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Without impeachment of waste, i.e. without accountability for waste, without legal liability for waste.
abstinence syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩s ˈsɪn.dɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩ts ˈsɪn.dɹoʊm/
Forms: form: abstinence syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The physical symptoms of an addict who is withdrawing; withdrawal.
Synonyms: withdrawal syndrome
Derived terms: neonatal abstinence syndrome
abstinence syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstinence syndrome
abstinence theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩s/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩ts/
ipa: /ˈθi.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈθɪ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈθɪ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈθɪɹ.ɹi/
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A theory that abstinence in business will bring beneficial interest.
axin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Llaveia axin, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.
skinny-dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinny-dipper
sun bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun bear
homœoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A third product, more or less resembling the latter in its fibrous constituents, but exhibiting the presence of cells, doubtful in character, sometimes perhaps due merely to inflammatory action, while it excites suspicion as to its tendency, cannot be altogether removed from the homœoplastic group, and, as before said, is provisionally termed ‘transitional.’
ref: 1884, Henry Thompson, Lectures on some Important Points Connected with the Surgery of the Urinary Organs, page 57:
glosses: Obsolete form of homeoplastic.
homoeoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeoplastic.
homeoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homoeoplastic
form: homœoplastic
Etymology: From homeo- + plastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Resembling the tissue from or in which the thing to which the term is applied is formed.
homœopathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At other times, by gently acting upon the local disease (perhaps yet recent), by a kind of improper, superficial homœopathism, he would thus drive away from its site that local symptom, set up by nature on the skin for the relief of the inner more dangerous evil; but he thereby increased the latter, and induced the vital powers to institute a more serious metaschematism towards other and more vital parts.
ref: 1904, Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of the Art of Healing, page 31:
glosses: Obsolete form of homeopathism.
homœothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 4. The temperature curve of diurnal birds is essentially similar to that of man and other homœothermal mammals, except that the maxima occur earlier in the after noon and the minima earlier in the morning.
ref: 1906, J. J. Galbraith, The Journal of Physiology, page 238:
glosses: Obsolete form of homoiothermal.
buck's party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck's parties
form: bucks' party
Senses: examples: text: Like the time he went to a buck's party and didn't come home all night.
ref: 1991, Antonio Casella, The Sensualist, Hodder & Stoughton, published 1991, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Danny Ottley was getting married on the following Saturday night and the town's men were attending a buck's party.
ref: 1994, Chris Harkness, New Guinea: The Wahgi Impact, Robert Brown & Associates, published 1994, →ISBN, page 116:
text: We attended a buck's party one night. It was booked into a hall, with several of our friends employed as the strippers.
ref: 2007, Sally Graham, As Black from White, Seaview Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A party held for a man who is about to be married.
homœosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the last part of his paper Przibram calls attention to the characteristic, striking tendency to homœosis in certain genera of Crustacea and insects.
ref: 1915, H. O. Schmit‐Jensen, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 526:
glosses: Obsolete typography of homoeosis.
homoeosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeosis.
homoiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeosis.
truth drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truth drugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of truth serum.
synonyms: word: truth serum
buck's night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck's nights
Senses: examples: text: The bride's mother fanned her perspiring face with a serviette and the best man, who had been drinking solidly since the buck's night, threw up noisily behind a clump of lantana in the backyard.
ref: 1994, Amanda Midlam, Muriel's Wedding, Penguin, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Fort Arnott, it was a big week. He was soon to be married and a buck's night was held in his honour.
ref: 2006, Murray Engleheart, AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band, Harper Entertainment, published 2008, →ISBN, page 257:
text: My best man, Joe, had to be held up by his wife during the ceremony because he was still smashed after our buck's night the evening before.
ref: 2011, Mark A. Bruhwiller, From Seven Hills to the Seven Seas: A Memoir of a Boy Adrift, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: A party held for a man who is about to be married.
crapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of crap + capitalism
Senses: examples: text: Handouts to Solyndra and special deals for Goldman Sachs and GM are not capitalism. That’s “crapitalism.”
ref: 2012 March 7, John Stossel, “Greed, capitalism and Romney”, in Fox News:
glosses: Corrupt or inauthentic capitalism.
examples: text: All you have to do is look around and see that the solution is here; there are better ways to handle the resources of the globe, there are better ways to do things than "crapitalism."
ref: 1983, Walli F. Leff, Marilyn G. Haft, Time Without Work: People Who Are Not Working Tell Their Stories, How They Feel, What They Do, How They Survive, South End Press, →ISBN, page 346:
text: Whereas the barren, soulless toxic-waste dumps of contemporary crapitalism propelled him into the grasp of fame and fortune (not to mention those free big-legged piggyback rides), spreading his anti-wholesome influence far and wide.
ref: 2005 May 3, Howard Hampton, “Naked Lunchbox”, in Village Voice:
text: Rather, the mercenary aspect of crapitalism is at fault, as it allows the almighty dollar to set the programming agenda.
ref: 2007 April 11, Kam Williams, “Imus Wouldn’t Insult Jews”, in Black Star News:
glosses: Capitalism viewed as an inherently flawed or unjust system.
Derived terms: crapitalist
turf out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turfs out
form: turfing out
form: turfed out
form: turfed out
Senses: examples: text: I'm feeling a bit pipped this morning—got turfed out of bed at seven o'clock and all that.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Jill the Reckless:
text: Mr. Gergen was supposed to give the White House a communications strategy. He did apply a few Band-Aids before longtime Clinton aides turfed him out of the inner circle.
ref: 1994 June 28, “Opinion: Now, Focus the President”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2012:
text: Malaysia's drive to turf out illegal foreign workers turns disastrous.
ref: 2002 September 9, “Malaysia Gives Illegals the Boot”, in Time:
text: Then when the BBC this week reminded the world of a picture taken in the garden of Royal Lodge, the Windsor home Andrew is being turfed out of, which featured not only Epstein and Maxwell, both convicted child sex offenders, but also the convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, it cannot have been difficult to decide to deliver the final blow.
ref: 2025 October 30, Robert Booth, “Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To remove or eject from a place.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: expel
kick out
throw out
twelvepenny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelvepenny nails
form: twelve penny nail
form: twelve-penny nail
Senses: glosses: A relatively large nail, three and one-quarter inches (8.25 centimeters) in length.
Related terms: fourpenny nail
sixpenny nail
eightpenny nail
tenpenny nail
sixteenpenny nail
twelve penny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelve penny nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twelvepenny nail.
twelve-penny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelve-penny nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twelvepenny nail.
probly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbli/
ipa: /ˈprɑbli/
rhymes: -ɒbli
Forms: form: more probly
form: most probly
Etymology: Clipping of probably by haplology.
Senses: examples: text: I should probly keep my eyes on the road.
text: La Bruyere, a late celebrated writer among them, makes use of many new terms, which are not to be found in any of the common dictionaries before his time. But the English tongue is not arrived to such a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay; and if it were once refined to a certain standard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at least till we were invaded and made a conquest by some other state; and even then our best writings might probly be preserved with care, and grow into esteem, and the authors have a chance for immortality.
ref: 1712, Jonathan Swift, “A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue” (also titled “A letter to the Lord High Treasurer”), in The Works, Volume IV (of VIII), A. Donaldson (1761), page 349
text: A Bill was brought in there for the Purpose mentioned in the Title of this Bill; that Bill which was first brought in, (I think I may mention it, because it was printed) was even there acknowledged to be wrong, and therefore in the Committee they amended it in such a Manner as to make it, in a great Measure, a new Bill; this Hurry occasioned even that new Bill, which is the Bill we now have before us, to be extremely defective, and if we proceed in the same Manner, we may probly fall into the same Error; for I think it impossible to make a proper Bill of that we have now before us, without altering the whole, which, according to our Methods of Proceeding, cannot be done in the Committee; […]
ref: 1737, “Debates and Proceedings in the House of Lords, on the Tithe-Bill”, in The Historical Register, Volume XX, Number 86, J. Meres (1737), page 269
text: “Cawmniss! Ooo-woo. If I call a po-lice a cawmniss, my ass be in Angola right now for sure. […] They probly let you go,” the sunglasses said. “Me, they probly gimma a little talk think it scare me, even though they know I ain got them cashews. They probly try to prove I got them nuts. They probly buy a bag, slip it in my pocket. Woolsworth probly try to send me up for life.”
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 1, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 13:
text: ― You come in when I point the baton right at you, and you come in playing the Rhinegold motif. Now what was that you think you just played?
― The Call to the Colors, anybody knows that. Besides I don’t even know this here Rhinegold thing and my father said I probly should play this anyway because it’s the best thing I can play.
ref: 1975, William Gaddis, J R, Knopf, page 33:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of probably.
Synonyms: prob'ly
prolly
pentiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentiments
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pentimento.
synonyms: word: pentimento
in the abstract
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: With reference to theoretical, not practical, considerations.
abstract music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹækt ˈmjuː.zɪk/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˈmjuː.zɪk/
ipa: /æbˈstɹækt ˈmju.zɪk/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˈmju.zɪk/
Senses: glosses: Music created with a focus on structure as opposed to title, text, or program; absolute music.
abstract universal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹækt ˌjuː.nɪˈvɝ.sl̩/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˌjuː.nɪˈvɝ.sl̩/
ipa: /æbˈstɹækt ˌju.nəˈvɝ.sl̩/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˌju.nəˈvɝ.sl̩/
Forms: form: abstract universals
Senses: glosses: A universal proposition in logic.
abstract universals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract universal
yermulke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yermulkes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yarmulke.
bless someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A conventional shortening of a wish May God bless (your/her/his/etc) heart.
Senses: glosses: Used to express gratitude. (Compare bless you, God bless you.)
examples: text: Bless his innocent heart, he looks too sweet for anything in his little short dresses, with his dear feet sticking out.
ref: 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams:
glosses: Used to express affection.
examples: text: My dog can't fit in her puppy bed anymore, but she still tries, bless her heart.
text: They're having a hard time getting used to the food down here. They don't like grits — bless their hearts, they don't even like sweet tea.
text: We just moved my dad to a senior community, and I need to make sure he changed his gas service over to his new address. Bless his heart—he doesn't remember things the way he used to!
ref: 2002, Hack Proofing Your Identity In The Information Age, →ISBN, page 9:
text: “Bob had my permission to travel with Mister Jackson. Mister Jackson asked for his help, and I agreed.”
“They must have tricked you, bless your heart. How could you know what they were plotting,” Mistress Dean said in her most sympathetic tone.
ref: 2004, Larry Michael Ellis, The Life and Legend of Robert "Black Bob" Renfro, →ISBN:
text: "Bless her heart, she doesn't have the fashion sense God gave a billygoat."
ref: 2008, Jerry Deriso, Save Me A Place In Heaven, →ISBN:
glosses: Used to soften criticism or express pity. (Compare the British usage of bless (expression of endearment or belittlement).)
glosses: Used sarcastically to express contempt.
Synonyms: word: bless
sense: expression of gratitude
word: bless you
sense: criticism or pity
word: bless someone's cotton socks
word: God love someone
rondelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rondelays
Senses: glosses: roundelay
recapitulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recapitulative
form: most recapitulative
Etymology: From recapitulate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by recapitulation.
sybaritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sybaritical
form: most sybaritical
Senses: examples: text: "A fair, fat, spruce monk;" as he saith: methinks, he should rather have hoped to match him in their Sybaritical Cloisters, where they abound with meat, and drink, and ease, than in our laborious Clergy.
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
synonyms: word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: Babylonian
word: decadent
word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicureous
word: epicurish
word: hedonic
word: hedonistic
word: intemperate
word: lotus-eating
word: luxurious
word: self-indulgent
word: sensualistic
word: sinful
word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: sybaritic
Koschei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kashchei
form: Kashchey
form: Kashey
form: Kastchei
form: Koshchei
form: Koshchey
form: Koshey
Etymology: From Russian Коще́й (Koščéj), related to кость (kostʹ, “bone”).
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: An archetypal male antagonist, described mainly as abducting the hero's wife, and sometimes represented as a skeleton.
Related terms: english: considered as Koschei's home in some Russian legends
translation: considered as Koschei's home in some Russian legends
word: Buyan
deplorables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deplorable
enterobacteriologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterobacteriologists
Etymology: From entero- + bacteriologist.
Senses: glosses: An expert on enterobacteria.
bariatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛɹi.əˈtɹɪʃən/
ipa: /bæɹi.əˈtɹɪʃən/
Forms: form: bariatricians
Etymology: From bariatric + -ian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A specialist in bariatrics.
rich Internet application
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rich Internet applications
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, like domain logic.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: An applet or Web Start application.
rich Internet applications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rich Internet application
JavaFX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Java + FX.
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: A software platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications that can run across a wide variety of connected devices.
Related terms: FXML
JavaFX Script
road races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road race
Winter Olympian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winter Olympians
Senses: glosses: Someone who competes in the Winter Olympics
perinatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perinatologists
Etymology: From perinatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An obstetrician specializing in the care of the mother and fetus at higher than normal risk for complications.
Related terms: perinatological
perinatology
QR codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QR code
sixteenpenny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteenpenny nails
form: sixteen penny nail
form: sixteen-penny nail
Senses: glosses: A relatively large nail, three and one-half inches (9 centimeters) in length.
Related terms: fourpenny nail
sixpenny nail
eightpenny nail
tenpenny nail
twelvepenny nail
sixteen penny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteen penny nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixteenpenny nail.
sixteen-penny nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteen-penny nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixteenpenny nail.
perinatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perinatologist
cyclosportive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclosportives
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sportif
sportive
glosses: An organised, mass-participation cycling event, often held annually.
cyclosportives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclosportive
cane rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane rat
truel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truels
Etymology: Blend of tri- + duel
Senses: examples: text: To effect a yet more complex and challenging truel, we can void the simplification that each player knows his order of firing ab initio.
ref: 2014, Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 324:
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A duel fought between three people.
glosses: A conflict between three contending groups or ideas.
Related terms: duel
Lower Mainland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lower Mainland
Senses: examples: text: The only other swingspans in the Lower Mainland straddle the Pitt River, the Fraser River at Annacis Island, and the middle arm of the Fraser River in Richmond.
ref: 1999, Louisa Gradnitzer, Todd Pittson, X Marks The Spot: On Location With The X-Files, Arsenal Pulp Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 169:
text: The economy of the Lower Mainland, like other urban areas in Canada, is service-driven and the IT sector has done well.
ref: 2008, Patrick Twomey, Working and Living in Canada, Cadogan Guides, published 2008, →ISBN, page 37:
text: In 1860, two years after Victoria Brewery had become the first brewery west of what is now Ontario, the Lower Mainland's first brewery opened in New Westminster.
ref: 2011, Jon C. Stott, Beer Quest West: The Craft Brewers of Alberta and British Columbia, Touch Wood Editions, published 2011, →ISBN, page 113:
coordinate_terms: Coast
Interior
glosses: A region in southwest British Columbia, Canada, including Vancouver and its outlying municipalities.
Queen Charlotte Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by George Dixon, who surveyed the archipelago in 1787, after one of his ships, the Queen Charlotte, which itself was named in honour of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III of the United Kingdom.
Senses: glosses: Haida Gwaii.
compound bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound bow
flatbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatbows
Etymology: flat + bow
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: a bow with non-recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are approximately rectangular in cross-section.
dysgraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dysgraphia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dysgraphia.
Derived terms: dysgraphically
dysgraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysgraphics
Etymology: From dysgraphia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has dysgraphia.
flatbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatbow
composite bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite bows
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
hyponyms: Turkish bow
glosses: A bow made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together.
Australian crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Everybody crowded around very excitedly and talked about the Australian crawl, a stroke I cannot do because there is something wrong with my flutter kick.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 48:
glosses: The front crawl swimming stroke.
Haida Gwaii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern coinage used by the Haida people since the 1970s, from the Haida language, meaning "Islands of the People." The archipelago, which had previously been known as the Queen Charlotte Islands (being first identified on maps with this name in 1790), was officially renamed Haida Gwaii by the British Columbia government on June 3, 2010.
Senses: glosses: An archipelago off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: word: Queen Charlotte Islands
Hecate Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by English explorer George Henry Richards after his surveying vessel, HMS Hecate, in 1861 or 1862.
Senses: glosses: A strait that runs between Haida Gwaii and mainland British Columbia.
round trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round trip
Strait of Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named the "Gulphe of Georgia" in honour of George III by English explorer George Vancouver in 1792. This was changed to "Strait of Georgia" in 1865, a more accurate description of the feature.
Senses: examples: text: A cruise liner bound for Alaska was passing through the Strait of Georgia, all lit up like a birthday cake, covered with candles.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 186:
glosses: A strait that runs between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.
Synonyms: word: Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An alternative name for the Strait of Georgia.
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹeɪt əv ˌ(h)wɑːn də ˈfuːkə/
Forms: form: Straits of Juan de Fuca
Etymology: Named by English explorer Charles William Barkley in 1787, in honour of Juan de Fuca, a Greek explorer who probably sailed the strait in 1592.
Senses: glosses: A strait that runs between the southern end of Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.
Synonyms: word: Juan de Fuca Strait
Juan de Fuca Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Olympic Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large peninsula on the coast of Washington, United States.
about page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: about pages
Senses: glosses: a type of web page commonly seen on websites,containing general information about the person or organization that is responsible for the website in question, usually a description of the site's history and mission or purpose.
Related terms: home page
aftersale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aftersales
Etymology: From after- + sale.
Senses: examples: text: Aftersale services are services, such as repairs, offered to a customer after the customer's purchase of a product.
topics: business
glosses: After the sale of a product.
nail-file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-files
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nail file.
eccentric hypertrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccentric hypertrophies
Senses: glosses: A type of hypertrophy where the walls and chamber of a hollow organ undergo growth in which the overall size and volume are increased.
redeco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redecos
Etymology: Shortening of redecorate.
Senses: glosses: A toy which is cast from the same mould as a previously-released toy but is given a different paint scheme or paint application scheme to make it a limited edition variant of the old toy, or to make it a new toy (new character).
turkey shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey shoots
form: turkey-shoot
Senses: examples: text: Behind his barricade of barrels, Sam heard and shivered like a gun-shy collie at a turkey shoot.
ref: 1913, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Uphill Climb:
text: [H]e had seen a thirteen-year-old boy named Jim Clanton win a turkey shoot against the best marksmen of the hill country.
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Man Four-Square:
text: Debbie Houk said Jordan, a hunter, knew a lot about guns and was a good shot. On Valentine's Day, he beat out many older and more experienced hunters at a turkey shoot. "I'll never cook that turkey. It's the same gun that killed my daughter," she said.
ref: 2009 February 25, “Boy held in Pa. killing to go to juvenile facility”, in USA Today, retrieved 16 Jul 2012:
glosses: A hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.
examples: text: In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called "the turkey shoot," they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record bag of the war.
ref: 1960 July 11, “Aviation: The Embattled Farmer”, in Time:
text: Almost everyone argued that it would be inhumane for Americans to engage in a turkey shoot against fleeing Iraqi soldiers.
ref: 1991 April 14, Leslie H. Gelb, “Foreign Affairs: White House Guilt?”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2012:
text: The U-boats, for instance, had a stranglehold on the merchant shipping supplying Britain, and it was thought that a convoy system would turn into a turkey shoot.
ref: 2009 Nov. 15, Mike Higgins, "Andrew Marr: The Making of Modern Britain, BBC2 (TV review)," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 16 July 2012)
glosses: A situation in which numerous weapons are discharged against prey, opponents, or victims who have little ability to protect or defend themselves.
examples: text: The University of Delaware Blue Hens had themselves a turkey shoot here Saturday at Delaware Stadium as they humbled Boston University, 41-13, before 10,350.
ref: 1968 November 17, Bob Monahan, “Delaware Thrashes B.U. 41-13”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 16 Jul 2012, page 71:
text: Their exit from the tournament, without a set between them yesterday, at least demonstrated that the women's game is not quite the turkey shoot it might have seemed.
ref: 2011 June 28, Chris McGrath, Tennis: ‘Devastated’ Williams sisters rue double loss," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 16 July 2012)
glosses: An unequal competitive situation in which one party easily defeats the other(s).
Related terms: like shooting fish in a barrel
turkey-shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey-shoots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turkey shoot.
ranchos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rancho
setæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Branches erect, three or four feet high, pale green, covered all over with small, weak, nearly equal setæ, except at the extremities, which are unarmed, like the very numerous, slender branchlets.
ref: 1820, John Lindley, Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical History of Roses, page 42:
glosses: plural of seta
tauonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /taʊˈɑnɪk/
Etymology: From tauon + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to, or composed of, tauons.
Derived terms: semitauonic
kuiperoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪpəɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: kuiperoids
form: Kuiperoid
Etymology: Blend of Kuiper belt + asteroid, a name suggested by Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto.
Senses: examples: text: I'm fascinated by the relatively small "ice balls" in the very outer part of the solar system. I have often wondered what bodies lay out there fainter than 17th magnitude, the limit of the plates I took at Lowell Observatory. May I suggest we call this new class of objects "Kuiperoids"?
ref: 1994 December, Clyde Tombaugh, “The Last Word”, Letters to the Editor, in Sky & Telescope, page 8:
text: As of mid-1995, more than 20 objects, dubbed Kuiperoids, had been discovered within the Kuiper belt. The first one (other than Pluto) was spotted in 1992.
ref: 1995, Terence Dickinson, Other worlds: a beginner's guide to planets and moons:
text: Complementary mechanisms of dust release from kuiperoids and Centaurs between Jupiter and Neptune can include impacts of large grains and the solar wind. Without discussing here the dust production by the above mechanisms ... we simply refer to observational data that indicate, for a number of kuiperoids and Centaurs, a steady cometary activity lasting for years
ref: 2000 June 29, Gorkavyi, Ozernoy, Taidakova, Mather, “Distribution of dust from Kuiper belt objects”, in arXiv.org, arXiv:astro-ph/0006435v1:
text: We would not begin to guess how many more objects like Pluto (and Charon) could exist in the outskirts of our Solar System until the discovery of the first kuiperoid (1992 QB1) by David Jewitt and Jane Luu
ref: 2012, Robert Tuttle, The Fourth Source, page 178:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A Kuiper belt object, such as Pluto
Synonyms: alt: KBO
word: Kuiper belt object
Derived terms: kuiperoidal
Related terms: asteroid