cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
individualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individualists
Etymology: From individual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
glosses: Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
examples: text: However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.
ref: 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
Synonyms: sense: someone who does as they wish
word: free spirit
word: heteroclite
word: nonconformist
word: maverick
Related terms: anarcho-individualist
individualist anarchism
individualist anarchist
individualistic
infrequently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɹiːkwənt.li/
Forms: form: more infrequently
form: most infrequently
form: unfrequently
Etymology: From infrequent + -ly or in- + frequently.
Senses: examples: text: “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
ref: 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: seldom
word: rarely
word: seldom
word: infrequently
word: scarcely
word: seldomly
word: uncommonly
word: unoften
glosses: Not frequently.
infuriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infuriated
form: most infuriated
Senses: glosses: Extremely angry; furious.
Derived terms: infuriatedly
uninfuriated
infuriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infuriate
infuriating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more infuriating
form: most infuriating
Etymology: From infuriate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Extremely annoying, frustrating or irritating
Derived terms: infuriatingly
infuriatingness
infuriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: From infuriate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infuriate
inhaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhalers
Etymology: From inhale + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.
ref: 1963, Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, volume 28, page 277:
glosses: One who inhales.
examples: text: Gay peep shows -- adult magazines, movies, locker room, inhalers.
ref: 1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Derived terms: autohaler
clickhaler
dry powder inhaler
metered-dose inhaler
noninhaler
Related terms: antasthmatic
antiemphysemic
bronchodilatory
sneezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sneeze
sneezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sneeze
sneezing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːzɪŋ
Forms: form: sneezings
Senses: examples: text: He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
ref: 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin:
glosses: The act of producing a sneeze.
Derived terms: sun sneezing
moonlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnˌlɪt/
Forms: form: more moonlit
form: most moonlit
form: moon-lit
Etymology: From moon + lit. Compare Saterland Frisian mouneljoacht (“moonlit”), West Frisian moanneljocht (“moonlit”), Dutch maanverlicht (“moonlit”), Danish månelys (“moonlit”), Swedish månljus (“moonlit”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: moonful
text: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: People dispersed under a moonlit sky, with many saying they would return when the legislature resumes next week.
ref: 2024 May 24, Ann Scott Tyson, “Taiwan protesters meet China’s intimidation with defiance”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: moonlighted
moonlight
moonshiny
antonyms: moonless
coordinate_terms: starlit
sunlit
;
candlelit
firelit
glosses: Lit by moonlight.
sunlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnlɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌnˌlɪt/
Forms: form: more sunlit
form: most sunlit
Etymology: From sun + lit.
Senses: examples: text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. [James Abbott McNeill] Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 282:
glosses: Illuminated by sunlight.
Synonyms: sunlighted
Coordinate terms: candlelit
lamplit
moonlit
starlit
Derived terms: sunlit uplands
starlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪt
Forms: form: more starlit
form: most starlit
Etymology: From star + lit.
Senses: examples: text: BEHIND him lay the gray Azores,/ Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
ref: 1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus
text: The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into the fell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.
ref: 1948 March and April, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
glosses: Illuminated by starlight.
Related terms: candlelit
moonlit
sunlit
have a clue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a clue
form: having a clue
form: had a clue
form: had a clue
Senses: examples: text: I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: To be knowledgeable about a topic or situation.
Related terms: clueful
clueless
has a clue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a clue
initiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initiators
Etymology: From initiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who initiates.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
examples: text: ‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman. ‘An initiator, you see, is what sets off a nuke.’
ref: 1984, Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 301:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to start the chain reaction.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.
Derived terms: coinitiator
macroinitiator
photoinitiator
preinitiator
pyrotechnic initiator
reinitiator
thermoinitiator
had a clue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a clue
in-laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of in-law; the family of one's spouse
innovator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: innovators
form: innovatour
Etymology: From Late Latin innovātor, from innovō; equivalent to innovate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations.
ref: 2011 March 25, Maria Winckler, “Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards”, in The Guardian:
text: Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.
ref: 2011 July 4, Simon Reynolds, “Is Björk the last great pop innovator?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
ref: 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An early adopter.
Derived terms: innovator's dilemma
innoventor
Related terms: ideator
innovating
insularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.sjuːˈlæ.ɹɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪn.sjəˈlæ.ɹɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪn.sjəˈlæ.ɹɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪn.səˈlæ.ɹɪ.ti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: insularities
Etymology: From insular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or property of being insular.
Derived terms: microinsularity
interconnect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚ.kəˈnɛkt/
ipa: [ˌɪɾ̃ɚ.kəˈnɛkt]
ipa: [ˌɪn.(ɾ)ɚ.kəˈnɛkt]
Forms: form: interconnects
form: interconnecting
form: interconnected
form: interconnected
Etymology: From inter- + connect.
Senses: examples: text: The Internet interconnects a set of networks.
synonyms: anastomose
glosses: To connect to one another.
Synonyms: interlink
Derived terms: interconnectable
Related terms: interconnectedness
interconnection
intermingle
interrelate
interconnect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚ.kəˈnɛkt/
ipa: [ˌɪɾ̃ɚ.kəˈnɛkt]
ipa: [ˌɪn.(ɾ)ɚ.kəˈnɛkt]
Forms: form: interconnects
Etymology: From inter- + connect.
Senses: examples: text: These interconnects are suitable for any kind of point-to-point on-chip communication, such as in a SoC to connect nearby or far away system blocks and in a NoC between two routers.
ref: 2011, Ethiopia Enideg Nigussie, Variation Tolerant On-Chip Interconnects, page 118:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interconnection.
intermezzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈmɛtsəʊ/
ipa: /ɪntɚˈmɛtsoʊ/
note: Italian-like
ipa: /ɪntɛɹˈmɛdzoʊ/
Forms: form: intermezzos
form: intermezzi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian intermezzo. Doublet of intermede and intermedium
Senses: examples: text: She had ample time, too, to change for the next scene, which started with a longish intermezzo staged by a ballet company whose services Scotty had engaged [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 8:
topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A palate cleanser; a small snack with a bright light neutral taste; a fruit; a fresh sparkling wine; or a fruity or milky cocktail; that is served between courses in a meal.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.
Derived terms: intermezzo-like
Related terms: interlude
zwischenzug
tenuki
interracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈɹeɪʃəl/
Forms: form: more interracial
form: most interracial
form: inter-racial
Etymology: From inter- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: Interracial struggle against Europid people is a para-Marxist notion.
text: In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.
ref: 1991 June 24, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic:
text: Like their American counterparts, German officials frowned on interracial sexual fraternization.
ref: 2005, Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, page 64:
glosses: Between or among two or more different races.
Derived terms: interracialism
interracialist
interraciality
interracialize
interracially
mummify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mummifies
form: mummifying
form: mummified
form: mummified
Etymology: From mummy + -ify. Compare later French momifier.
Senses: synonyms: mummy#Verb
hypernyms: embalm
glosses: To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body.
glosses: To become a mummy.
Derived terms: mummification
mummifier
unmummify
stonewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneworts
Etymology: From stone + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of various complex algae of the family Characeae, known for being branched and having enclosed egg cells.
Related terms: alga
Charophyta
stoneworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonewort
mummification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummifications
Etymology: From mummify + -ication, after French momification.
Senses: examples: text: Mummification is not reserved exclusively for humans. Cats, dogs, and even crocodiles often get the same treatment—complete with animal-shaped coffins and painted faces.
ref: 1999, Sally Tagholm, “Mummification”, in Ancient Egypt: A Guide to Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs (Sightseers: Essential Travel Guides to the Past), New York, N.Y.: Kingfisher, →ISBN, page 21:
hypernyms: embalming
glosses: The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The practice of wrapping a person's arms, torso, and legs in order to restrict their movement.
mummified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Preserved, for a dead body, by mummification.
Derived terms: unmummified
mummified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mummify
multiracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltiˈɹeɪʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more multiracial
form: most multiracial
Etymology: From multi- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: Coined by Taiye Selasi (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2007), the term refers to an Afrocosmopolitan ethos of transcending national differences to forge multiracial communities. Fostered by recent histories of migration and globalization as[…]
ref: 2018 July 27, Gerard Delanty, Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies: 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: “When you say that multiculturalism is ‘not who America is’ and ‘distorts our glorious founding’ you unwittingly confirm the argument of the 1619 Project: That though we were … a multiracial nation from our founding, our founders set forth a government of white rule. Cool,” she wrote on Twitter, also pointing out that the Trump administration tried to censor The 1619 Project.
ref: 2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN:
glosses: Composed of, or having a mixture of, multiple races.
Derived terms: multiracialism
multiracialist
multiracialize
multiracially
multiracial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltiˈɹeɪʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: multiracials
Etymology: From multi- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: Hawaii, Obama’s childhood home, is the most diverse state in the Union: 21 percent of residents identified as “Hapa,” a Hawaiian word meaning “half” that has gone from being a slur against mixed-race Asians to a point of pride — and has increasingly been adopted by multiracials of all kinds on the Mainland.
ref: 2008 March 23, Peggy Orenstein, “Mixed Messenger”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An individual of more than one race.
mouth-to-mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Press on her chest or give her mouth-to-mouth first? Since she'd been strangled, I decided to give her mouth-to-mouth.
ref: 2014, William Stadler, Seize the Soul: Confessions of a Summoner, page 160:
glosses: Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
examples: text: “Welllllllllllll, maybe a little mouth-to mouth^([sic]) is in order,” as she flung her arms around Quirk's neck, pressed her firm, yet supple body against his and gave him a long, open mouthed kiss.
ref: 2005, Chase Walker, Robert D. Russell, Bayou Savage, the Ghost Wars - Book 2, →ISBN, page 192:
text: “Looking forward to a little mouth-to-mouth action?” Sonnet asks me. “Maybe reignite your lost love.” ¶ “Yeah, because resuscitation is so romantic.”
ref: 2010, Sydney Salter, Swoon at Your Own Risk, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Kissing, particularly French kissing.
Related terms: CPR
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouth-to-mouth resuscitations
Senses: synonyms: rescue breathing
kiss of life
glosses: A first-aid technique to return an unconscious person's respiration by pressing the rescuer's mouth against the mouth of the patient and blowing air into his/her lungs.
Related terms: cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPR
marksmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹksmənʃɪp/
Forms: form: marksmanships
Etymology: From marksman + -ship or marks + -manship.
Senses: examples: text: One evening when it was barely even dusk a sentry let fly at me from a distance of twenty yards; but he missed me by a yard—goodness knows how many times the Spanish standard of marksmanship has saved my life.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: After a fine night on the grog, with bladder pressures reaching an estimated 4,000,000 psi (estimated by drunken scientists), the comparatively short range marksmanship required of an in-sink micturator is a significantly more approachable challenge than the tricky long yellow of the traditional method.
ref: 2007, Amanda Astill, Tom Bromley, Michael Moran, Simon Trewin, Shopping While Drunk: Confessions from Modern Life, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 157:
text: City's multi-talented squad can cover almost all eventualities, but this was a game in which they sorely missed the marksmanship of the injured Sergio Aguero, and also Kevin de Bruyne's creation.
ref: 2018 December 8, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The ability to shoot accurately at a target.
megawatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megawatts
form: mega-watt
Etymology: From mega- + watt.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
text: Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt
text: Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […]
ref: 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:
text: SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.
ref: 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times:
text: In theory, the GERD could boost the region's economy [Horn of Africa and eastern North Africa]. At full capacity, it could generate close to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, double Ethiopia's entire output before the dam was built. Currently, just over 22% of the country's 122m people are connected to the grid. The dam could supply millions more with power, both in Ethiopia and through power deals with neighbouring countries. […] That will happen only if Ethiopia builds better transmission lines to connect more people to the grid and to send more power to its neighbours. At the moment the main beneficiaries of the power surplus generated by the dam are miners of cryptocurrencies. […] Their data centres, which have their own power lines, are expected to consume nearly a third of the country's electricity this year. Meanwhile, most electricity-deprived Ethiopians will probably have to wait years for their grid connection. At the current pace of expansion, the national power company expects just 27% of households to be connected by 2030, far off the national target of 96%.
ref: 2025 September 8, “The promise and peril of Ethiopia's new mega-dam: It could power the region or plunge it into another conflict”, in The Economist:
related: word: mul:MW
glosses: One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)
Derived terms: megawattage
megawatt-hour
megawatt-year
multimegawatt
Related terms: english: a unit of energy saved
translation: a unit of energy saved
word: negawatt
megaampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaamperes
Etymology: From mega- + ampere.
Senses: glosses: One million amperes
Synonyms: MA
meganewton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meganewtons
Etymology: From mega- + newton.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: giganewton < teranewton < petanewton < exanewton < zettanewton < yottanewton
Meronyms: piconewton < nanonewton < micronewton < millinewton < newton < kilonewton
related: word: mul:MN
glosses: One million newtons.
megavolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megavolts
form: mega-volt
Etymology: From mega- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One million (10⁶) volts. Symbol: MV.
Derived terms: megavoltage
picometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picometres
Senses: examples: Holonyms: nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre < exametre < zettametre < yottametre < ronnametre < quettametre
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:pm
word: picometer
glosses: An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹² metres. Symbol: pm
femtometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtometres
Etymology: From femto- + metre.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre < exametre < zettametre < yottametre < ronnametre < quettametre
text: Meronyms: yoctometre < zeptometre < attometre
text: The speed of light is about 0.3 femtometres per yoctosecond.
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:fm
word: femtometer
glosses: An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁵ metres. Symbol: fm
Derived terms: femtometric
milliampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliamperes
Etymology: From milli- + ampere.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of an ampere.
Synonyms: mA
㎃
milliamp
Related terms: milliammeter
milliamperage
nine to five
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: 9 to 5
form: nine while five
Etymology: Typical office work hours in many countries.
Senses: examples: text: Nine to five, what a way to make a living; barely getting by, it's all taking and no giving.
ref: 1980, Dolly Parton, “9 to 5”:
glosses: From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
nine to five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nine to fives
form: 9 to 5
form: nine while five
Etymology: Typical office work hours in many countries.
Senses: examples: text: Going back to the nine to five after the weekend can be depressing.
text: He done quit his nine to five, he drink full-time / And now he’s living in a bottle
ref: 1974, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, “The Bottle”, in Winter in America:
text: "It's always an early or late shift here - there's never a nine-to-five. I wouldn't like a cosy nine-to-five anyway.
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 42:
glosses: A typical working day.
Synonyms: workday
Derived terms: nine-to-fiver
Related terms: word: bankers' hours
roman: jiǔjiǔliù
english: literally 996; 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek
translation: literally 996; 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek
word: 九九六
call it a night
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls it a night
form: calling it a night
form: called it a night
form: called it a night
Senses: glosses: To go to bed to sleep.
glosses: To cease what one has been doing for the night.
Related terms: call it an early night
call it a day
hic et nunc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hic et nunc
form: most hic et nunc
form: hic-et-nunc
Etymology: From Latin hic et nunc (“here and now”).
Senses: examples: text: Such sentences explicitly state that something both has taken place and will take place; they are silent about what Bruce and Wayne are doing hic-et-nunc.
ref: 1995, Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin:
text: Perhaps, then, it is wiser, more "realistic," and more fruitful first to examine religion not in relation to a group of individuals but in relation to each one of those individuals, hic et nunc, not on a collective level but on a concrete, personal, and above all psychological level.
ref: 2000, Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West, →ISBN, page 51:
text: “We need a Marshall Plan hic et nunc” proffered a man who, to camera and in profile, looked like a sole.
ref: 2012, Alain Mabanckou, Black Bazaar, →ISBN:
text: But what, more precisely, distinguishes such an actual perception from a solely possible perception if not its accomplishment hic et nunc?
ref: 2015, Burt Hopkins, Steven Crowell, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, →ISBN:
glosses: Here and now, in the immediate present.
hic et nunc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hic-et-nunc
Etymology: From Latin hic et nunc (“here and now”).
Senses: examples: text: Alice IS WRITING a letter, The tenor IS STRANGLING the soprano, Leigh IS TAKING a shower are examples of genuine hic-et-nunc events.
ref: 1995, Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin:
text: Psychology is the study of behavior which transcends (goes beyond) the given, the initially hic et nunc.
ref: 2012, A. Fried, Joseph Agassi, Psychiatry as Medicine: Contemporary Psychotherapies, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Happening here and now, occurring in the immediate present.
hic et nunc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hic-et-nunc
Etymology: From Latin hic et nunc (“here and now”).
Senses: examples: text: 1980, Alexandre Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phemenology of Spirit
The hic et nunc, represented by a point on this line, is determined, fixed, and defined by the past which, through it, determines the future as well.
text: "I draw every day, mostly what is around me -- not just the places and the people, but the sounds of them...the light on them," he explains. “Something about the hic et nunc (here and now)—by that, I mean I have the feeling that drawing is helping me to understand the unique world around me, always changing. “I design posters for people whose work I admire,” he continues.
ref: 2012, John Foster, New Masters of Poster Design, Volume 2, →ISBN:
glosses: The here and now, the immediate present.
Related terms: here and now
shanties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shanty
shanties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shanty
craned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crane
satchels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satchel
jolting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊltɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊltɪŋ/
Forms: form: more jolting
form: most jolting
Etymology: From jolt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: One day while working at an ad agency in Greenville, South Carolina, Jay got this joltin' notion to do a novelty number around the then-hot CB (citizen's band radio) craze.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 327:
glosses: Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements.
glosses: Synonym of shocking.
synonyms: word: shocking
Derived terms: joltingly
jolting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊltɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊltɪŋ/
Forms: form: joltings
Etymology: From jolt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
glosses: gerund of jolt: an action or movement that jolts.
jolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊltɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊltɪŋ/
Etymology: From jolt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jolt
cem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛm
Forms: form: cems
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.
glosses: cemetery
Related terms: crem
flag cem
emissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emission
reflexively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reflexive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reflexive manner.
examples: text: Reflexively he opened his mouth to breathe, forgetting he was underwater.
glosses: By reflex, automatically, without conscious thought.
popularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of popularise
patrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patrol
patrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/
Forms: form: patrollings
Senses: examples: text: The remainder of our patrollings simply consisted of journeying up and down the enemy coast looking for anything that may appear.
ref: 1916, William Buchan, The Log of H. M. S. "Bristol," Commission 13th May, 1914, Till December 17th, 1915:
glosses: The act of going on patrol.
logomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logomancies
Etymology: From logo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: He mimed and mocked me. His allusions were definitely highbrow. He was well-read. He knew French. He was versed in logodaedaly and logomancy.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 23, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, pages 251–252:
glosses: Divination with words.
staging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, stage + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stage
staged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staged
form: most staged
Senses: examples: text: The conman staged the car accident so he could collect the insurance money.
glosses: Planned, prepared.
examples: text: The staged performance was good, but I liked the book better.
glosses: Intended for the stage as in a theater.
staged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stage
undergoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undergo
tuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tjuːnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tune
tuned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tjuːnd/
Senses: examples: text: The tuned wind chimes sounded almost like they were playing a melody.
glosses: Adjusted in pitch or resonance.
Derived terms: nontuned
stay tuned
tuned in
tuned mass damper
uncommonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncommonly
form: most uncommonly
Etymology: From uncommon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For a gentleman, he was uncommonly rude, but she supposed wearing silk and jade gave him that privilege.
ref: 2012, Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine, page 12:
glosses: To an uncommon degree; unusually or extremely.
examples: text: Not uncommonly, I find that I have arrived too late to catch my train.
glosses: Not often; on rare occasions.
Synonyms: sense: to an uncommon degree
word: atypically
word: unwontedly
word: unusually
sense: not often
word: sometimes
word: sporadically
word: occasionally and Thesaurus:rarely
unmixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmixed
form: most unmixed
Etymology: From un- + mixed.
Senses: examples: text: When necessary two six-car sets are coupled together throughout from Ore, but at Hastings this arrangement is not an unmixed blessing as the rear lead from one platform line to the other is fouled when a 12-coach train is standing at the platform.
ref: 1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 388:
glosses: Pure, not mixed or combined.
qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: Such that its height is equal to the height of every associated prime of the quotient R/I as a module over R.
raw_tags: of an ideal I in a noetherian ring R
branched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From branch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having branches, or specific kinds of branches.
Derived terms: hyperbranched
monobranched
multibranched
nanobranched
nonbranched
overbranched
unbranched
branched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From branch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of branch
Crimean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: krī-mēʹən
ipa: /kɹaɪˈmi.ən/
Etymology: From Crimea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.
Derived terms: Crimean flannel
Crimean Goth
Crimean Gothic
Crimean Khanate
Crimean People's Republic
Crimean Republic
Crimean shirt
Crimean Tatar
Crimean War
Crimean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krī-mēʹən
ipa: /kɹaɪˈmi.ən/
Forms: form: Crimeans
Etymology: From Crimea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Native or inhabitant of the Crimea.
Crimean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: krī-mēʹən
ipa: /kɹaɪˈmi.ən/
Etymology: From Crimea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Crimea (the Crimean peninsula)
customarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more customarily
form: most customarily
Etymology: From customary + -ly.
Senses: topics: manner
glosses: In the customary manner; as is custom
qualifier: frequency
glosses: Under normal circumstances, normally.
Synonyms: sense: in the customary way
word: habitually
word: routinely
word: wontly
word: typically
word: ordinarily
word: as a matter of course
word: normally
sense: under normal circumstances
word: usually
word: habitually
word: regularly
word: as a rule
word: usually
grossly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊsli/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊsli/
Etymology: From gross + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: grossly inflated expectations
text: grossly enlarged hepatic lobes, evident on palpation
text: Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:
text: Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
glosses: Greatly; to a large degree, especially one large enough to be frankly appreciable.
examples: text: grossly misjudged
text: grossly inflamed
text: A draft deal to cut global fossil fuel production is “grossly insufficient” and “incoherent” and will not stop the world from facing dangerous climate breakdown, according to delegates at the UN’s Cop28 summit.
ref: 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: gravely
flagrantly
glosses: To a serious, severe, or offensive degree.
examples: text: The men were talking grossly about their sexual conquests.
synonyms: disgustingly
coordinate_terms: grotesquely
glosses: In a gross (disgusting) manner; without delicacy.
glosses: Roughly; approximately; inexactly; sketchily.
favoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of favor
Derived terms: favoringly
favoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favorings
Senses: examples: text: Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.
ref: 2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The act or state by which one favors something; preference.
clarified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæɹɪfaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clarify
clarified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæɹɪfaɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Clarified butter is made by removing water and impurities from butter.
glosses: Made clear.
Derived terms: clarified butter
nonclarified
preclarified
unclarified
ballpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballpoints
Etymology: From ball + point.
Senses: examples: text: Have you seen my ballpoint? I need to sign this form, and a felt-tip won't make carbons.
synonyms: ball pen
ballpen
biro
hypernyms: pen
<
implement#Noun
glosses: Ellipsis of ballpoint pen; the nib thereof, containing the ball.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A kind of needle with a rounded tip.
announcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnaʊnsə/
ipa: /əˈnaʊnsɚ/
rhymes: -aʊnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: announcers
Etymology: From announce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: radio announcer
text: Even TV announcers at the last Winter Olympics were spotted with a swoosh on their jackets.
ref: 2000, Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin, The Power of Simplicity, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
ref: 2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:
text: There were passing moments when it threatened to be a difficult night and, with the game goalless at half-time, the stadium announcer sounded almost apologetic when he relayed the news that Ukraine, kicking off an hour earlier, had gone to the top of the group by beating Poland.
ref: 2013 October 11, Daniel Taylor, “Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who makes announcements.
Derived terms: color announcer
colour announcer
continuity announcer
antitheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antithesis
astir
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɜː/
ipa: /əˈstɝ/
ipa: /əˈstɪr/
ipa: /əˈstøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈsteː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈstɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈstɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: Astaire (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more astir
form: most astir
Etymology: From a- + stir.
Senses: examples: text: Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished her mind with pictures.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Two Lives”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 265:
text: For in quick spring the sap is all astir.
ref: 1863, Christina Rossetti, “L. E. L.”, in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1866, page 205:
text: Wilson, who was acting as cook, was up and astir at his duties in the cook-house.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 7, in The Land That Time Forgot, New York: Del Rey, published 1992, page 103:
text: Soon, the whole town would be astir with the cracking of whips, the beating of gongs, cryings to prayer, lashing of mules, and rattle of brass-bound wheels,
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: Outside, the evening woods stood in quietude and the vast patches like maps of color were captured motionless, no leaf astir, in the light of the setting sun.
ref: 1979, William Styron, chapter 11, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House, page 332:
synonyms: word: dynamic
word: mobile
word: afoot
word: animate
word: astir
word: cursory
word: dynamic
word: in motion
word: mobile
word: moving
word: on the move
word: on the wing
word: under sail
word: unstill
glosses: In motion; characterized by motion.
examples: text: I had but a broken sleep the night before, in anticipation of the pleasure of a whole day with Em’ly. We were all astir betimes in the morning;
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, pages 104-105:
text: ‘It is early to be astir this Sabbath morn,’ he said cheerfully.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the second (Maiden No More), page 154:
text: Ezinma was still sleeping when everyone else was astir,
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 12, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, part 1, page 115:
glosses: Out of bed; up and about.
assayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assayers
form: assayor
Etymology: From Middle English assaier, assaiour, from Anglo-Norman assaiour; equivalent to assay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who assays, or performs chemical tests on metals.
antiquate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪˌkweɪt/
Forms: form: antiquates
form: antiquating
form: antiquated
form: antiquated
Etymology: From Latin antiquātus, perfect passive participle of antiquō (“to make old, restore to a pristine state”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: word: age
word: obsolete
word: age
word: antiquate
word: eld
word: mature
word: obsolete
glosses: To cause to become old or obsolete.
Related terms: antiquated
antiquation
antilabor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilabor
form: most antilabor
form: anti-labor
form: anti-labour
form: antilabour
Etymology: From anti- + labor.
Senses: glosses: In opposition to labor unions.
glosses: In opposition to the labor party.
antipodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪpədl̩/
Etymology: From antipode + -al.
Senses: glosses: On opposite sides of the globe; pertaining to antipodes
glosses: diametrically opposite
Synonyms: diametrical
Derived terms: antipodally
antipodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪpədl̩/
Forms: form: antipodals
Etymology: From antipode + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the cells at the chalazal pole of an embryo sac.
aplenty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplɛnti/
Forms: form: a-plenty
Etymology: From earlier a-plenty, equivalent to a- + plenty.
Senses: examples: text: We have helpers aplenty but lack the skilled support.
text: There are apples aplenty for all of us.
text: But Fallout’s almost inexhaustible supply of sticky situations provides suspense aplenty: This may be the closest this peerless series has ever come to making us believe that the mission may actually be impossible.
ref: 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:
synonyms: galore
glosses: In a generous or overlarge quantity.